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kingstoken) wrote2021-01-19 07:45 pm
kingstoken) wrote2021-01-19 07:45 pm
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Snowflake Challenge Day 10
Challenge #10
In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to
To start, I hate writing letters to concepts, or ideas, etc. I'm not sure why, maybe because it reminds of all those writing assignments, or journal entries, they made us write in school, those were rarely fun. So instead I just thought I'd write about some of my favourite tropes:
1. Enemies to Lovers: There was a Tumblr post that was floating around that said something to the effect of "enemies to reluctant allies to respecting each other to friends to the possibility of something more to lovers", that is the dynamic I love, it is not easily found, but when it is done well it is the chef's kiss.
2. Pining/Yearning: There is something so delicious about one character pining for another, the tension, the yearning, and the doubt. It lets you really dig deep into one character's feelings for another. That being said, I have to have it happily resolved by the end of the story, there is nothing worse than reading 10,000 words of pining only to have it end with the pining character being miserable and alone.
3. New Love Later in Life: I used to put in my info that I loved mature pairings, and always shipped the parents on any teen show, because I did. I don't know what draws me to them, I could say that it is because I am close to middle age myself, but I don't think that is the only reason, because I remember doing the same thing when I was younger. I just think there is something so lovely about two people finding love later in life, it is especially nice if their first relationships didn't work out, and they maybe thought love had passed them by, and then they find that unexpected someone, sigh.
There are many other tropes I love, but these are some of my top ones, if your story has one or more of these, than I will probably give it a try.