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lovesyarnandnancydrew · 2 days

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I'm right now deep into ER (Established Relationship) tag, and one of my favorite tropes here is what I call an "out-of-the-blue proposal".

When two characters are doing simple domestic things like eating dinner or getting ready for bed. Or something more specific like Character A on their way home bought a particular brand of ice cream just because Character B was stressed lately and it'll cheer them up. Maybe Character B washed the dishes even though it wasn't their turn because Character A had an exhausting day at work and didn't have the energy left to do chores.

They just stare at this person in front of them with a starstruck expression, ready to burst from all the love and adoration they feel towards their partner that they cannot help but blur out "Marry me!"

#fanfic prompt #fanfic ideas #fanfic tropes #fanfic inspo #my hero academia #mha #bakudeku #haikyuu #sakuatsu

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live-from-flaturn · 1 year

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"But you already wrote that trope."

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanfics #fanfic culture #tropes #fanfic tropes #its my blorbo and he'll suffer how I want him to #blorbo disc horse #fanfic meme #fanfic author shitpost #writing meme

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justcuriouspolls · 3 months

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#fanfiction #fanfic tropes #ao3 #wattpad #fanfic #polls #my polls

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azuremist · 11 months

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I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

#hanahaki #hanahaki disease #fanfic tropes #fanfiction #ao3 #azure does a thing

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furiousdinosaurdestiny · 7 months

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They aren’t wrong

#michael sheen #good omens #aziraphale #good omemes #crowley #david tennant #good omens season two #good omens 2 #crowly x aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffible husbands #ineffable husbands #ineffable lovers #good ineffable omens #fanfic #fanfic tropes

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dasloddl · 2 years

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your desire to write the same trope over and over again

🤝

my desire to read the same trope over and over again

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hoperays-song · 10 months

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Found family shows what love truly is. That it isn’t a transaction or a complusion of any sorts. It’s a choice. A choice to make a home, a life, with the people you care about most. A choice to stay through it all and to trust others with your heart, and for them to trust you with theirs.

It shows how love is perfect because it’s chosen, not forced, not required, not limited.

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ao3-shenanigans · 5 months

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Not fake dating or fake married but a secret other thing: otp has been married for years but no one can find out because if HR hears about it….

(Or whatever other reason they don’t think anyone should know)

#ao3 shenanigans #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic tropes #secret marriage #fake dating #archive of our own #writing

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thisiswhereikeepdcthings · 7 months

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Fic things I will never have enough of/get over:

“Oh no, they’re hot.”

“Great, now there’s two of them.”

See above but with more swearing and feelings of dread and impending doom

BAMFs with swords

Old wise person causing 90% of the chaos

“They’ve never met in canon.” “Actually, they’re dating.”

“They’re mortal enemies.” “Actually, they’re married.”

The keeper of the braincell

Sharing one braincell but they lost it

The cinnamon roll goes feral

Tiny feral child and their supportive, enabling, non-parental background adults

“I’m your problem now”

“Welp, guess I’m a parent now”

Accidental world domination

Competence

Competence kink

Calmly sipping tea while everything behind them is on fire

Trying to be a good, supportive adult but you have no point of reference so you end up giving a sword to a ten-year-old

Time travel

Person A and person B start dating and when they tell everyone persons C-Q are confused because haven’t they been dating for like three years now and persons R-Z thought they were already married

*does something previously thought to be impossible* “What, like it’s hard?”

Platonic besties that will help hide the bodies

Fake dating

Accidental baby acquisition

Accidental baby acquisition but they’re a middle-aged to senior adult with like five thirty-something-year-olds that are now their children

Crossovers that shouldn’t work but do

“I need help” “I’ll grab the shovel” “Not that kind of help”

“I didn’t know where else to go.”

Well-written non-canon pairings for characters that have other firmly established canon pairings. Like, fully alters the entire story line non-canon pairings. But done in a way that feels like a reasonable possible outcome.

A protagonist with a million problems to solve still taking the time to be kind

Forehead kisses

Time traveller going apeshit and fixing everything preferably in as Mary-Sue a way as possible

OP character who is oblivious to the fact that they are indeed OP

Character who spouts off increasingly concerning details of their life while not realizing everyone else’s growing concern or the fact that they’re probably about to be mother-henned for the next decade

Character who chooses a parental figure and informs said parental figure of this new development with little to no forewarning

Strong, stoic character is actually the most chaotic one there

Everything in the chaotic portion of the alignment chart

Getting back at a bad guy in as petty a way as possible

Time travel with two or more time travellers who don’t realize they’re not the only time traveller

The guy everyone thinks is going to beat up all the bad guys sitting back and watching the person previously believed to be as strong as an uncooked noodle absolutely demolish them

Any situation where characters play hot potato with a position of great power. “Congrats, you’re king now.” “Not if you can’t catch me, I’m not.”

Unexpected language skills

Unexpected skills in general, particularly if they’re as niche as hell

Two extremely competent individuals who lose all brain cells when within a close proximity of each other

Fixing problems on accident

Fixing problems on accident while actively trying to cause problems on purpose

Surviving primarily due to spite

#a non comprehensive list #fics #fanfic tropes #ao3 #batman #batfam #and all the other fandoms I end up in #several of which I wake up in not sure how I got there #but then I stay for a little while #and then suddenly I’m invested #I think there are only two or three fandoms I’ve ever purposefully sought out #the other couple dozen just kinda happened

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murasaki-cha · 11 months

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You've heard of

Oh.

Now get ready for

#fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic tropes #ao3 #archive of our own

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coolpointsetta · 1 year

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things i see in steddie fics that i absolutely adore

1. tommy/other jocks having a crush on steve and being super protective as a result but steve thinks they’re just being good friends

2. eddie flirting shamelessly until steve starts flirting back and then he shuts down because steve is supposed to be straight

3. steve’s big empty house and his asshole parents

4. dustin and the rest of the party calling them mom and dad unironically

5. dustin being the favorite son

6. robin tearing out her hair trying to push them together

7. eddie walking into a pole when he sees steve in his scoops uniform

8. hopper/joyce immediately connecting the dots

9. “i like eddie, but he’s a guy” “okay, you can like boys and girls. it’s called being bisexual” *steve.exe shuts down*

10. wayne: did you ask him out yet? no?? fine. gimme five minutes to talk to him, i’ll have you two married by this afternoon

11. also wayne, rolling up his sleeves: time to bring this harrington boy into the family

12. argyle, high as a kite: you mean they’re not together?

13. vampire eddie trusting steve before anyone else

#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic tropes #own post #1k notes #2k notes #3k notes #4k notes #5k notes #6k notes

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princessdave · 11 months

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I don’t have a catchy name for my favorite steddie trope, but it’s essentially “dammit now I’m in love with you”

Eddie thinks Steve is hot, because duh, he has eyes. But but it’s a superficial thing until The Incident. Steve does one thing, or Eddie discovers something about Steve, and suddenly his entire understanding of him is blown up and Eddie realizes Steve is his perfect man.

Example:

Eddie, to himself: wow, I’d sure love a guy who’s sensitive, good with kids, a big dork, and can slam me down big style. but where am I gonna find a guy like that?

Steve: hey Robin, I’ll be over later to talk about our feelings and be a really good friend to you after I’m done going out of my way for the kids and being a loving older brother figure. I’m endearingly supportive of their interests and secretly like nerdy stuff more than people would think

Robin: no problem Steve! I’m really excited to talk about your bisexual awakening and how you’re looking for genuine love and also to slam someone down big style

Eddie, feeling feral love goblin mode activating: oh no….

Steve: haha, yep! I sure am a real romantic looking to treat someone of any gender right and slam them down big style, in a very loving way. now I’ve gotta take off my shirt real quick for plot purposes and make a dorky joke

Eddie, brain rewired forever: dammit, now I’m in love with you

#steddie #stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #incorrect stranger things quotes #robin buckley #platonic stobin #slam down big style #steddie tropes #fanfic tropes

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logicallyblind · 5 months

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my absolute favourite favourite favourite trope in fanfic is when thorin is outwardly a grouchy, ill tempered scowling dwarf whom bilbo just silently watches from afar lamenting the fact that someone like That would never give someone like Him the time of day-

and then the perspective shifts to thorin and we get to just listen to this smitten fool plan out their wedding in extreme detail all while waxing poetry about the sunlight shining through bilbo’s curls in his mind i just,,

#I EAT THAT SHIT UP EVERY TIME #THORIN CALLING BILBO PET NAMES IN THE PRIVACY OF HIS OWN MIND??? HELL YES #THORIN ACCIDENTALLY SLIPPING UP AND SPEAKING ONE OF THEM ALOUD EITHER IN TIMES OF DURESS OR WHEN BILBO JUST LOOKED TOO PRETTY??? HAND IT OVE #I WOULD DIE FOR IT #idk what that trope is even called #but i love it dearly #the hobbit #lotr #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #bilbo baggins #lord of the rings #thilbo #fanfic tropes

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lost-in-beacon-hills · 8 months

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#fanfic #fanfic tropes #soulmate au #kid fic #enemies to lovers #coffee shop #hanahaki #fake dating #friends to lovers #one bed #ao3 #poll #ao3 poll #fanfic poll #sterek #everlark #marichat #steddie #reddie

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scealaiscoite · 1 year

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forced proximity prompts ˗ˏˋ꒰ 🐚 ꒱

— “is now a bad time to tell you i’m claustrophobic?”

— “i never noticed your [insert feature/trait] before. it’s cute.”

— “this might be a bad time to mention it, but i really like your cologne/perfume.”

— “god, here- just hold my hand.”

— “what if y- “¹ “if you seriously propose that i sit on your lap, i will kill you.”²

— “i’m scared.”¹ “i know. but i need you to stay calm, okay? breathe with me.”²

— “i won’t let anything happen to you, i swear.”

— “not that i’m not enjoying this, but could you move your hands?”

— “we never speak of this again, do you hear?”

— “never figured you for this much of a cuddler.”

— “i know you don’t like being touched, but there’s not that can be done about that now.”

— “your eyes are really pretty up close.”

— “you’re not okay, you’re shaking. what can i do? please, just let me help you.”

— “i never noticed how good of a hugger you are before.”

— “your heart’s beating really fast, i can hear it.”

#prompts #i’m a sucker for this trope it’s easily one of my favs #forced proximity #forced proximity prompts #dialogue prompts #trope prompts #fanfic tropes #hurt/comfort prompts #rp meme #whump prompts #otp prompts #imagine your otp

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hoperays-song · 9 months

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The bond between found family. The bond. They’ve all been hurt before. Rejected, cast away, and abandoned. All that hurt. And yet they chose to love each other.

They understand the pain of not having anyone and are going out of their way to make sure others don’t have to suffer by supporting each other. They bond over knowing the others chose them and they are special and loved because of it.

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