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Snowflake Challenge #9

 

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

 
This list is a jumble of tropes and themes.

- Found Family, in both media and transformative works.

- AUs that play with how the changed context changes the characters and/or setting(s) in turn. 

- Likewise, Body Swaps - both fic and in the media - that really show how the swapped characters learn about each other. 

- I don't know what the term for this trope or motif is, but basically a HUGE number of fics that explore a major canon event, whether something only alluded to in backstory,  or an extension of a canon event.  It's basically a trope exclusive TO that fandom, since it's that specific canon event or backstory   people keep writing about. 

Two forms this can take are AUs (as previously mentioned) and fix-its (which I also love). 

- I don't think there's a trope name for this, but I appreciate storylines where conflict isn't about miscommunications, but instead the simple fact that one conversation can't resolve the issue. I enjoy the complexity.

- Don't think there's a name for this either, but I've appreciated the rise in supportive female exes and former love interests (sometimes one-sided) in M/M fiction. Thinking specifically of Our Flag Means Death, Schitt's Creek, Heartstopper and Heated Rivalry.

Comments

[thatjustwontbreak]

Ongoing communication, rather than one conversation to resolve an issue, is EXCELLENT. We need a trope name for that.

[keplers_angels]

Those are good ones!

[kitarella_imagines]

I love Found Family, it's like the antidote to the lonely life so many people live today.

And the supportive females in M/M fiction, I've seen it too. I think it's like a way to add women to a very male dominated genre, like balancing it out. Which I think is great. I sometimes feel guilty, as a woman, for exclusively writing M/M full of men and excluding my own gender of characters. So adding supportive females is a great way round that.

[soricel]

I don't think there's a trope name for this, but I appreciate storylines where conflict isn't about miscommunications, but instead the simple fact that one conversation can't resolve the issue. I enjoy the complexity.

Yes, definitely. I like hard conversations and unresolved tension. In real life, not so much. :D

And yeah, re: your last point, I'm thinking about how much I love Stevie and David's dynamic in Schitt's Creek, especially later in the series.

[hamsterwoman]

I've appreciated the rise in supportive female exes and former love interests (sometimes one-sided) in M/M fiction.

That has been really nice to see!

I'm a also a fan of Found Family and context-change AUs (for the same reasons you mention) -- and Body Swaps are great for that too. (Some of my favorite Buffy episodes, e.g., are the Faith and Buffy bodyswap ones :)