Snowflake Challenge Day 10

[kingstoken]

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.

Comments

[goddess47]

Those are great tropes and glad you shared them!

I also look to the adults in many fandoms. While there's a lot I love about canon, it's always fun to play with the adults... sometimes, letting them be the adults gives a fascinating twist on the story.

Thanks for sharing! Hope to see you again in Snowflake!

[kingstoken]

Your welcome, and it is always nice to find others that also like adult characters

[sjh2009]

What an awesome answer, these really are great tropes.

I remember once reading a long Hawaii Five-0 story, it was a real pining/yearning Steve/Danny story where Danny had moved back with his ex-wife as the baby she was expecting was his, even though he didn't really love her. I really enjoyed the story but it was totally unresolved in the end, they never got back together and I was so sad! In my mind I wrote a sequel where Grace came back to Hawaii to work with dolphins and Steve and Danny finally got back together, just to make myself feel better, lol.

I love the idea of bringing single parents together, they really do deserve happiness!

Thank you for sharing and for taking part in the challenge.

[kingstoken]

That fic sounds frustrating, that is why pining has to be resolved for me, I don't want my fave characters to suffer forever.

[spikedluv]

I love tropes! Especially your 3. I tended to write whoever the main pairing was in a fandom and it didn't matter the age, but as I'm growing older myself I'm tending to want to not read about kids in HS as much. Give me the 40 year old that just fell in love with his mortal enemy. *g*

[kingstoken]

Give me the 40 year old that just fell in love with his mortal enemy

Eek! I love it!

[corvidology]

Ah, pining how I love thee, let me count the ways...

[kingstoken]

It is a delightful trope

[jedi_of_urth]

I'm not so into enemies to lovers, or maybe I just haven't found very many that interest me. I'm more of a friends to lovers sort; which is part of why I completely agree with you on the later choices. Although I'm not sure I agree with you on a long road that still ends up alone; pining snapshots I'm down for, all the uncertainty and doubt is something I gobble up. But I'm too much a sucker for a happy ending.

Like you I was often drawn to the older ships when I was younger, though I probably would say it had a lot to do with the fact I didn't watch a lot of serious media focused on younger character. It was either family comedies where I was at least as drawn to the older ships as younger ones; or media about older characters so naturally the ships were also older. But the last few years of my shipping focus has been on an older couple (May/Coulson from Agents of SHIELD); so much pining, so much friends to lovers, so much HAPPY ENDING NEEDED.

[kingstoken]

I love friends to lovers too.

I never watched Agents of SHIELD, I'm not much for superhero tv series, but a lot of my tumblr mutuals did, and so I enjoyed the May/Coulson gif sets.