Snowflake Day 14

[prisca]

Challenge #14
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) What makes it particularly appealing for you? What do you like in fanworks featuring that trope?

I guess all of you who know the one or the other story of mine will have already noticed the obvious. I am hopelessly romantic, and I love, love, love a happy end. Which doesn't mean that I don't enjoy some H/C or angst now and then.

I like to write fix-it stories, especially when a movie or series strikes a path I just can't stand. Remember: happy end; I hate it when my favorite pairing decides to go separate ways or if the oh so cute guy dies much too early. So good to know that in fanfiction, we can fix everything.

I do enjoy well-written sex scenes, including (moderated) kinky variants and BDSM, as long as everything happens in mutual agreement. But I also don't mind if an author decides to leave most to the phantasy of the readers what might go on between two (or more) people. Awkwardly written sex scenes can ruin every story.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Fix-its and happy endings FTW! ♥

[prisca]

:)

[vaysh]

Sometimes I think fix-it stories is the reason why there is fanfic. ;) We really can fic everything. Glares at Endgame.

Awkwardly written sex – or sex that is only cliché – can indeed ruin an otherwise great fic.

[prisca]

:)

[silveradept]

Fix-its and happy ends seem like a really good way of fighting back against the grimdark reality that we have.

[prisca]

Oh yes, writing fanfiction did already help me through some hard times in RL.

[runicmagitek]

Awkwardly written sex scenes can ruin every story.

It really can. I love me some smut, but if it reads more like IKEA instructions, I'm kinda all :\ about it.

*fistbumps for well-written kinky/BDSM bits* ;D

[prisca]

The IKEA instructions made me laugh out loud. :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

happy endings are the best endings. sometimes i like an ambiguous ending, but mostly, happy endings all the way.

[prisca]

Well, I do write a sad ending now and then - but often enough it happens that I feel the urge to write a sequel soon enough to fix things ;)