Fandom Meme 27

[osprey_archer]

27. 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!

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[asakiyume]

I also dislike it when canonical badasses become weeping incompetent messes. Make them a competent weeping mess who can still kick ass as required!
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Love the railroad trestle bridge as the alternative.

[osprey_archer]

Haha, I definitely had a friend ask "Are you a Megan or a Sarah?" I was all, "Have you even READ my fanfic?" But actually there is a lot of weeping so I can see how someone could get confused.

[anna_wing]

It was always easy to tell Harry Potter fic written by non-Commonwealth writers, because people had long, deep, meaningful conversations about their innermost and most intimate feelings about each other, without either alcohol or the Imperius curse being involved....

[osprey_archer]

I always enjoy it when the characters have a long, deep, meaningful conversation about their feelings... which at least one character barely remembers the next morning, because they were so drunk at the time.