winterswanderlust  asked:

Oh oh oh coffee shop au ☕️☕️

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I think I rather missed the boat on this somehow. It’s an absolute classic, it’s the cliche fanfic that everyone uses as the example but I have to be honest I think I’ve only read one!

Got to be honest it’s one of the ‘bucket list’ fanfic things I’d love to do one day. I haven’t decided on the pairing. I’m thinking possibly Haylexis would work well. Maybe I’ll have that as the backstory for my ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ story that I want to do for them one day. After all people have to meet somewhere!

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Trope rating: mentor AU

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The power dynamics make me go mmm not sure because obviously it could be a situation ripe for abuse BUT done respectfully then yeah I love it! I mean I really like the concept of two people, very passionate about learning a subject, falling in love.

It starts off with the mentor as more the teacher but then through the usual conceit of youth a new perspective and brightness is brought, reinvigorating love for subject. They then both learn from each other (I always want a partnership of equals).

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Trope rating: sports AU

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I know zero about sports. I don’t like watching and I don’t play. So I’m just a bit ambivalent. Sorry! Short answer this time because /shrug n/a hehe 🙂

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Trope rating: con artist

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One of my favourite tropes is the “I love you, and I never lied about that, but I might have lied about other stuff – like my name” I think it comes from liking the espionage genre so much. You can lie about details but you can’t lie about feelings. I mean obviously that’s wrong as lying is bad and once everything was over they’d need to do a lot of talking to get their relationship to a good place.

Anyway I also super love the heist genre. I’ve watched Hustle so many times it’s lost it’s charm a little (why did they only make 48 episodes!). I’ve watched Leverage just as much but I find that super comforting and don’t mind how familiar it is.

So yeah anyway basically this is a trope I can get behind as it combines a genre that I love with another trope that I think is cool 🙂

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Trope rating: Lovers to friends (think side characters)

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Sure why not? In fact absolutely!

The fact that they stay friends sounds so nice to me, so amiable because I like relationships that are based on friendship – that is what I ship basically! So if the romance doesn’t work out, I think it’s great that they can just scale back to friends. I think that’s really healthy and sweet.

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Trope rating: teacher AU

Awesome! I love these, they are so much fun, thank you 🙂

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This is a split one because I’m not sure what you mean. If it’s teacher/student then hard no, unless possibly it’s college-age. There is still obviously dubious power dynamics which can make it icky, it depends how respectfully that’s done I guess. I would be very wary of any teacher AU where it meant student/teacher.

Now alternatively it could mean that they are both teachers. In which case it would be more like an office romance. I would still be very dubious because I wouldn’t want anything inappropriate to happen in the school environment. A tiny bit of flirting in the staff room over coffee maybe but that’s it.

If only one of them is a teacher then mmm maybe, again it would depend how respectfully it was done. I actually have an AU in mind which says something like “You are the parent of the sweetest kid in the class and you just asked me if I’m ok as I look stressed/overworked” or something along those lines. I thought single parent!Belle and teacher!Gold would be perfect for that. With Gold looking harried and Belle being concerned. However, the teacher AU bit is minimal as while Gold is a teacher, and Nadia (Belle’s daughter) a student in his class, that’s the extent of it. They become friends long before it turns into romance and it all happens safely away from school. I mean it’s just, you have to meet people somewhere I guess.

This trope is just … how to word? I’m wary of it I guess.

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Send me a Trope and I’ll rate it: Bedsharing?

Wheee more of these how cool! 🙂

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It’s a classic. It’s always awkward with the “we are two adults we can do this” the night before, and a barrier of pillows is made, which is then breached with epic snuggling and then if there’s a guy awkward boner which is sometimes noticed for extreme embarrassment, and sometimes he thinks he’s got away with it (but he never has haha).

I mean there are certain fic genres/archetypes whatever the word is, which just wouldn’t be complete without bedsharing. Like I said it’s an absolute classic.

winterswanderlust  asked:

Trope rating if you’re still doing it: secret lovers/dating

Hey! My inbox is always open, I love questions 🙂 Thanks so much!

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This is a good one! I mean I’m not sure I approve of the deception generally because I would think if it’s something they need to hide, then is it really a good thing? BUT that is very situation dependant.

I have a completely planned (but naturally unwritten) fic where Gold and Lacey hide their relationship/secretly date because Gold doesn’t want the press to find out (he’s rich). It’s actually the prequel/proper fic to the oneshot fic ‘Happy Anniversary’ as I seem to have a thing for writing oneshots in verses I’ve not written *rolls eyes at self*

timelordthirteen  asked:

Time Themed Fic Questions: tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff? yesterday: favourite way to write angst?

*hugs* thank you so much for the asks! I love questions 🙂

Tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff?
I’m not sure if this means I’m supposed to write ‘write’ in a different way, or if it’s how I tell the story? *thoughtful face* weeeell I only write one way so I’m going to have to go for the latter.

I think I like to have something driving it. Just fluff isn’t substance enough, there needs to be some kind of precipitating incident or something fun that is the point of the fic. At the height of my rumbelle obsession I was rumbelling everything Idid so crazy golf? Wondered how Rumbelle would play. So that’s sort of super fluff but there’s a point. I like there to be a point.

Yesterday: favourite ways to write angst?
I’m not a fan of angst. I get really bad secondhand anxiety (I know it’s ridiculous) but anyway I can’t read it because I get physical symptoms and don’t feel well. However, I was told that PLL is angst. I’ve never thought of it like that but I guess they are right – and hey I don’t feel well writing it a lot of the time! So yeah makes sense.

Anyway, I’m guessing if I write angst then there has to be a fundamental point to it. The characters have to grow, there has to be a journey, I don’t like pain for its own sake. I also very much prefer external angst generally. So it’s a bit like watching a cop show “oh how will they stop the bad guy this week?” Because the fact that they WILL stop the bad guy is never in doubt.

I’m explaining this really badly. I guess it’s like I want it to be character vs. Situation, not character vs character when it comes to the couples. That way the couple can support one another. They might get it wrong sometimes but they always care and always mean well.

I can’t take sheer unrelenting misery or chronic misunderstandings. I’d rather the couple work together against the bad thing, not work against one another.