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Fandom Meme 27
Aug. 12th, 2021 08:25 am27. A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
Man, at this point I just don’t read fics with tropes I usually dislike, because there’s just not enough time in the day. Why would I willingly subject myself to Major Character Death on the off chance that THIS time I might like it? Or a shipfic in which one member of the pairing is dying of a long, slow, degenerative illness? Clearly some people enjoy reading these (there seems to be at least one fic of this kind highly recced in every megafandom) but I personally would rather cross a railroad trestle bridge at night with naught but the faltering light of a lantern to guide my halting steps.
I also dislike it when canonical badasses become weeping incompetent messes. Make them a competent weeping mess who can still kick ass as required!
Man, at this point I just don’t read fics with tropes I usually dislike, because there’s just not enough time in the day. Why would I willingly subject myself to Major Character Death on the off chance that THIS time I might like it? Or a shipfic in which one member of the pairing is dying of a long, slow, degenerative illness? Clearly some people enjoy reading these (there seems to be at least one fic of this kind highly recced in every megafandom) but I personally would rather cross a railroad trestle bridge at night with naught but the faltering light of a lantern to guide my halting steps.
I also dislike it when canonical badasses become weeping incompetent messes. Make them a competent weeping mess who can still kick ass as required!
