mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Trope rating: teacher AU

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No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

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?

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No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

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

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No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

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?

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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.

timelordthirteen  asked:

Trope rating: Hate sex

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

I feel like there should be some options further to the left of NO because I’m thinking Siberia. I really don’t like it.

Are we supposed to say why? Yeah I can say why. Sex sounds to me like its being very vulnerable (because you know naked) and therefore requires great trust – hate is like the opposite of that. So yeah not for me. Won’t read.

jackabelle73  asked:

For the time-themed asks… Thursday, September, ancient.

Wheee thank you for the ask! 🙂

Thursday: have you ever written a high fantasy concept?
*googles high fantasy for definition* ok google says that its fantasy that is set in a different world, rather than being part of Earth.

Erm I guess maybe my pure Enchanted Forest stuff might count? I don’t have very much of that written. I have a lot in my head (I like to tell myself stories when I can’t sleep).

I’m going to say maybe?

september: share a comment or review which still warms your heart?
Hmm well what touched me most recently was @mariequitecontrarie comment on my Timeless fic. It wasn’t anything they said, it was the fact that they read and commented at all! Because I happen to know Marie doesn’t watch Timeless so they read the fic just for me, because they like my writing (I hope?) and because we are friends. I just thought that was an incredibly kind thing to do. It really meant a lot.

ancient: the first fic you ever posted online?
I think I’ve answered this one. Yup found it!

Link

Basically TLDR it was getting on for two decades ago, I was 11 and it was embarrassing.

mariequitecontrarie  asked:

For the Fanfic Asks: F and G.

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“You’re supposed to be dead.”

“I’m supposed to be a lot of things.”

from Between Two Fires and this original novel that I have rewritten half a dozen times now and just can’t make work. I think I will hang on to these two lines until I can get them into a novel somewhere, I love them to pieces.

Why? I don’t know it just sounds awesome in my head. Maybe it’s because dead is dead but they are walking around and so there’s an immediate mystery, maybe then it’s the cryptic leading smirk of the second comment (because there’s definitely a smirk there). It’s sort of like a shrug, self-deprecating yup, I’m supposed to be a lot of things – there is just such a world in those two lines, layers of meaning and heartbreak because it’s a betrayal, not just of love but of everything the betrayed (Gold in this case) believes in.

It’s a starting point, and it’s also a middle point, the old ‘in media res’ aka starting the story in the middle, so we’re right there and these two lines bring up questions and well I’m biased because they are my lines, but I feel an immediate investment because it’s not just questions – I have the feeling. I can hear the pain (or maybe I’ve just visualised the scene too many times I don’t know) but ugh bury me with these two lines. I just love them.

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

Start to finish. I’ve wished on many occasion to mix it up but my brain just won’t do it, it’s like it knows it’s not done and so it won’t move on. I guess I’m just very linear, my brain just won’t accept anything else.