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wyntir_knight
Day 10
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I adore friendship fics. Just quiet gen friendship fics. It's so easy to write pure PWP (and I do love some good PWP) or have a long and epic stories that don't take time to have those quiet moments. Sometimes the best part of a story are those quiet little moments when two friends just talk about something that has nothing to do with the plot.
As mentioned above I also love a good PWP, especially when it involves people discover their previously unknown kinks. Either their introduced to them or they discover them for themselves - I just love those moments of realization that lead to really good intimate moments.
My last one is a little harder to describe and I think I've rewritten this paragraph three times already. I like stories that deal with the darker aspects of relationships. Stockholm/Lima. Co-dependence. Mutual abusers. Stories that delve into how dark a character will go and how many sacrifices they will make for a cause or a friend. The problem with all of this is that it is very hard to write, and I have tried several times. It can be so easy to fall into the "rape=love" and "Draco in leather pants" tropes. It can be so easy to justify the actions of a character without making it clear that they aren't necessarily right (i.e. no one ever calls them out *cough*50 Shades*cough*). I think this all ties in with my desire for subtle villains rather than mustache twirlers. What I really want is a case of "There but for the grace of god go I". It's a story that lets you know that the situation or character or relationship is wrong or broken, and yet, you as the reader can still sympathize and see where they are coming from. And maybe see a bit of themselves in there too.