trope_bingo card!

[selenay]

The last of the bingos I've crazily signed up for and my favourite - trope_bingo! And I love, love this card:

kidfic	food porn	au: historical	indecent proposal	au: fantasy
au: supernatural	amnesia	bodyswap	bets / wagers	fuck or die
au: apocalypse	au: crossover	FREE ★ SPACE	first time / last time	marriage
matchmaker	language and translation	celebratory kiss	sharing a bed	au: college / highschool
time travel	transformations	au: mundane	au: fusion	road trip

I've got the beginning of a high school AU already written, so now I have a push to finish it. Pretty sure my android!Clint fic idea would work for first times/last times.

I scored kidfic again, which means I may be returning to the verse I created for the last kidfic. Language/translation could get me writing that deaf!Clint fic I've been promising I'll tackle one day.

Mikey and I were discussing the sadness that neither of us had written amnesia before, and look! I have amnesia on one square!

And yes, Fahre, laugh it up. I got fuck or die AGAIN. Wonder how I can subvert the trope this time?

Comments

[selenay]

Bingos are awesome :-D Totally different from other challenges because you have so much freedom and at the same time, you've got prompts to spark ideas from.

And if you only do one bingo, you should totally do trope_bingo because it's the best and the prompts are amazing. Particularly if your love for tropes is as strong as mine :-D

WRITE ALL THE TROPES. ALL OF THEM.

[gonergone]

I actually completely adore tropes and have already signed up. One of the things I love about fanfic is that I find it very comforting. I stay away from deathfic and that sort of thing unless I'm in the mood for it because when I read fic I want to know where it's going, and that in the end, even if things are horrible and angsty through 2/3 of the story, we are going to a good (and familiar) place. Tropes are the best for this, because they are incredibly familiar and mostly predictable and so they feel safe. Does that make sense? I feel like it marks me a coward and a bad reader because I don't want to be hugely surprised by fic; I like to generally know - not every plot twist, obviously, but the general trajectory. I'm not like this in my reading habits for anything else. I don't read book summaries before I pick them up at the library because I want to come into a book without any idea where it's going. Fic is just different.

And this is way more information than you wanted, omg.

[selenay]

Tropes are the best for this, because they are incredibly familiar and mostly predictable and so they feel safe. Does that make sense?

It makes total sense and it definitely doesn't make you a bad reader :-D While I don't want to know the details of the plot or get spoiled for the ending of a fic, one of the things I like about reading fic is that I can choose to read or not read specific types of plot. I stay away from certain things (character death, self-harm, rape) in fic because I don't want those things in my head. What I'll read in fic and what I'll read in books on my shelf are quite different.

As you said, one of the great things about tropes is knowing the general shape of what I'm reading. I've got certain tropes that I will seriously jump on every damn time someone writes it because it's a solid gold, 100% love it trope. When I'm in the mood for a certain kind of story, it's usually a trope fic of some particular type and I love the ability to just zero in on the kind of fic I want to read and take my pick.

I've also got a love for people subverting/inverting/folding/spindling etc. the tropes because it's amazing to see what people can do with the basic structure. My terrible love for sex pollen fics is beaten only by my love for subverting the sex pollen trope into something new and amazing :-D

I don't read book summaries before I pick them up at the library because I want to come into a book without any idea where it's going.

You are so much braver than me :-D I always read the summaries just to see whether the book is something I'm likely to be interested in. I've got a bad habit of being pulled in by beautiful and unusual book covers, which has led me to some amazing books and some total stinkers so I do at least take a quick look at the summary before taking it home.

A lot of my book reading comes from recs people have made, though, so there isn't as much casual browsing at the library/bookstore for me.