#various tropes

[blmpff]

✨ Various Tropes: Straddling (1/?) ✨

TITLES IN ORDER: 1. History 3: Make Our Days Count (2019) 2: Where Your Eyes Linger (2020) 3: Be Loved In House: I Do (2021) 4: Ghost Host Ghost House (2022) 5: Big Dragon (2022) 6: My Tooth Your Love (2022) 7: Chains of Heart (2023) 8: Bed Friend (2023) 9: Kiseki: Dear To Me (2023) 10. Love Class 2 (2023) 11. Playboyy (2023) 12: Time The Series (2024)

#history 3: make our days count #modc #where your eyes linger 2020 #be loved in house: i do #ghost host ghost house #big dragon the series #my tooth your love #chains of heart the series #bed friend the series #kiseki: dear to me #love class 2 #playboyy the series #time the series #wyel counts bc i said so xo #various tropes #straddling #part one #blmpff

[phoenixyfriend]

I initially had an "other" option but didn't feel like getting rid of anything to add in the car. So

#polls #Phoenix Polls #tropes #mad science #this is about #Anakin Skywalker #but also #gilgamesh wulfenbach #star wars #girl genius #and various others

[atopvisenyashill]

i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-

Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.

Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.

I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.

#valyrianscrolls #ned stark #sansa stark #getting on my soap box #there’s something here too about romanticism. like shelley and coleridge and whitman. the need to return to nature to undo society’s harm. #especially with the way various romance movements and romantic tropes are played with by their characters. #i can’t even remember who said it which just shows u how shitty an english major i am aksjd but about how. #like society is necessary but just as necessary is the ability to escape into nature. i *think* it was coleridge i’m probably wrong. #the gender war makes corpses of us all #gender politics in asoiaf #obviously you can point to several moments for both of them. sansa calling petyr father. ned’s relationship with theon. wherein they both #are clearly performing something for an audience. #there’s like 12 other branches of this in my head. jaime’s romanticism. being knighted bloody & the sacrilegious nature of the sept sex. #and his inability to escape his gender performance the way ned & sansa do. ned being willing to cry in front of others but robb only ever #crying in the dark with his baby brother after he loses ned. cat’s tower stuff & finding solace in sewing. #i’m gonna try to write up something about loras & renly here too. tomorrow. #also i wrote this at the train station after work so if there’s errors or it makes no sense just pretend u never saw it skskdj

[explodingstarlight]

you would not believe your eyes

if three little guys

somehow became a family 🎶

when you and your buddies create a wholesome AU as an apology for the pain and suffering you put your lil guys thru 🤝💜 /aff

anywhizzle- the younger STEM trio hanging out and generally being a lil found family (Nova turtle tot real omg)

Sagittarius (the secretary bird OC) belongs to @west-brooke , Xor (the lil sentient AI/robot who's currently occupying a phone) belongs to @snailsnaps , and Nova (the lil bog turtle mutant) belongs to ✨ moi ✨

#found family trope go brrrrrr #they're all so important to me actually #plus it was genuinely really fun to consider what they would look like a bit younger and in another universe #wow imagine them having peace (as much peace as a trio this chaotic can have lmao /aff) #posting this while i work on various doodles while my hair dye sets #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise oc #tmnt oc #turtle tots #turtle tot nova #rottmnt AU #turtlesona #rise nova #rise sagittarius #rise xor #cyberspace duo #my art #explodingstar art #doodles #unpause rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

[mizzyislost]

flowers were no rarity around these parts, they grew out of the tracheae of a crushed dream.

emo bretta art???? more likely than youd think

also have several color variations because i couldnt decide which one i liked best

#anyways not so subtle plug for my fanfic. you should read it if you like overdone tropes and also bretta!! #sorry ive been hit with the bug yuri insanity beam today so you get this #also i wanted to mess with gradient maps so #here we are!! #bretta #brettanet #which you will only understand. if you read the thing :) #hollow knight #various meanderings #hk bretta

[thatonebipotato]

some of my favorite klarion interactions/scenes/panels are of him acting immature/like a child, so behold, my own iteration of klarion: literally just a child

#klarion the witch boy #stomps him into putty and also blows him up. with my mind #he is basically just an amalgamation of various traits i like from different forms of klarion #and also actual child #you know how kids seem to have this weird fascination with killing/hurting things? yeah thats him #that trope of kids burning ants and other things under a magnifying glass? he does that but with people #absolute menace he is

[ace-s-fav-dp-posts]

If you're sick of the current popular trope/story prompt in the Phandom or DPxDC fandom you just need to ignore it

I feel like the fans in the Phandom and DPxDC minifandom that's popped up, who are really grossed/creeped out by the genre of fic popular right now.

Where the set up is some variation of Outsider POV and the plot is based around the assumption that Vlad SAed Danny in order to create Dan and Danielle, are people who haven't been around that long.

Especially when they try to whine about none of it being based in canon. And how they don't like the shipping of Vlad and Danny (even though the people who write these kinds of fics are very obviously not shipping Vlad and Danny in them).

Because the Phandom has historically gone through phases much more gruesome and horrifying than that.

Especially when in this current micro-genre, all of the SA and grooming and other kinds of abuse are implied only, and within the fics themselves the assumed abuse never actually happened. As the plot is based on over heard or misinterpreted fragments of information that doesn't give the POV character the full picture of the situation that's actually going on.

There's the infamous vivisection fics, in which the child main character is brutally cut open and tortured by his own parents in the name of their biased views of science. Who in canon, both happily accept him no matter what every time a reveal is happens and never so much as rejects Danny emotionally.

Then there's the variation on the traditional vivisection fic in which Danny isn't emotionally rejected and stripped of his humanity by his own parents. But instead captured and stripped of his human rights by the government, either by his parents unknowing actions which they stay oblivious to. Or in spite of his parent's acceptance of him, and with them helpless to rescue or protect him from the government's torturous "research".

There's the already existing variation of grooming and SA fics, where Vlad grooms and or assaults Danny. Which have been popping up for years now, but in which all of this type of horrible abuse actually happens in the story, instead of it being an Outside POV misunderstanding what's happen like the current micro genre of fic.

There's the fics where the Fentons have just been abusive or just negligent parents Danny and Jazz's entire lives. And them hurting Danny, emotionally or physically, intentionally or accidentally, is just an extension of their already unacceptable parenting habits.

There's the edritch/body horror genre of fics where becoming half-ghost (or sometimes something else) involves at the very least the partial loss of Danny (or Vlad)'s humanity.

Hell there's one fic that's stuck with me for ages, that I read years ago, back in my teens, written from the POV of a Maddie who murdered Danny to prevent him from becoming Dan. Which is stated in that fic to be inevitable.

It's also heavily implied that Maddie had incestuous feelings for Danny the entire fic. And that she also possibly raped him in the midst of her extremely violent* vivisection murder of him. But that if she didn't rape him, at the very least, ripping him open to see his insides while he was awake and struggling got her off anyways.

So yeah, I don't know what other explanation there is to all these people who seem confused and freaked out by the various fics popping up where there's assumed SA/grooming, but actually nothing outside of canon actually happened to Danny, and the whole thing is just a misunderstanding.

Other than them being extremely new to Danny Phantom fics in general and therefore unaware of just how dark (and potentially triggering) they can be.

When there's been fics for years about SA and grooming, some of which is explicit, some of which is all implied and talked around and just as gut wrenching, and some of which is actually painted in that cringe forbidden love sort of way, for more than a literal decade now.

If you don't like it, if it makes you uncomfortable, you're just going to have to ignore or block those people, like everyone else in the Phandom who feels the way you do has done for more than a decade now.

Don't make comments to those authors that you don't like that trope, or that it makes you uncomfortable, or anything similar. Just ignore them or block them if it really bothers you that much. Because if you don't like their stuff, then rather obviously you are not their intended audience, so you need to ignore their posts and fics and keep scrolling if you're not going to block them.

*Also yes I must state it was a violent vivisection murder. Because it is clearly stated in the fic, that Vlad finds Maddie sitting outside on the porch covered in Danny's blood and viscera, and that the room she killed him in is in a similar state.

I wanna say the fic got deleted during the old Fanfiction.net purge of more adult content, even though all of the sexual abuse/incest parts of the fic where all implied and not explicit, along with the violent vivisectoin murder taking place off screen.

Though I could be wrong, and it's still out there somewhere, and possibly not exactly as I remember it. I read it more than 5 years ago now, so there's almost certainly some memory drift by this point.

#danny phantom #feeling sick of seeing all these people complaining about the current popular trope in the phandom #this goes for all the various trending tropes that pop up by the way #not just the current dpxdc SA misunderstanding trope that's popular right now #I feel the same way about people who complained about the various de-aging adoption fics that were crazy popular a while ago too #and complained about Little Baby Man fics before that #phandom has trending tropes they all pass with time #if you don't like the trending trope then you just need to avoid it #or the whole phandom for a while if it really bothers you to the point of ruining your fandom experience #like they only tend to last a couple weeks to a couple months at most #I've seen some explode and then fade out within as little as like 3 days #I've seen fast fashion trends with more staying power than some of the tropes that seem to blow up in the Phandom

[roboctopus]

Maybe I just haven’t been reading the right Steddie fics but I think I need more of Steve wearing a hellfire club shirt and causing Eddie to bluescreen on sight.

#I’ve read it plenty of times with the scoops uniform #or him wearing Eddie’s vest or him wearing various super short crop tops and/or shorts #but only once maybe twice with hellfire shirt & that’s a shame imo #Honestly ​I can never get enough of Steve’s hotness melting that scrungly lil metalhead’s brain #but yeah would love to see more of that variant of this trope #I’m open to recs if anyone’s got them #stranger things #steve harrington #fanfiction #eddie munson #steddie

[simp-thingz]

Enemies to Lovers

Yeah y'all wanted to kill each other but now you also wanna kill for each other

(Bakugou Katsuki. Enji Todoroki. Tomura Shigaraki. Toru Oikawa. Kei Tsukishima. Lucifer. Thirteen. Belphegor. Laxus Dreyar. Ultear Milkovich. Levi Ackerman. Eren Yeager. Inuyasha. Megumi Fushiguro. Aoi Todo. Yuta Okkotsu)

Friends to Lovers

Said ‘I love you’ as a joke…..But I don’t think it’s a joke anymore

(Shoyo Hinata. Koshi Sugawara. Yu Nishinoya. Hitoka Yachi. Leviathan. Diavolo. Mammon. Armen Arlert. Connie Springer. Sasha Blouse. Cana Alberona. Lisanna Strauss. Max Alors. Warren Rocko. Mina Ashido. Denki Kaminari. Eijiro Kirishima. Sango. Yuji Itadori. Kento Nanami. Maki Zen’in)

Forbidden Romance

It shouldn’t feel as good as it does…

(Keishin Ukai. Hajime Iwaizumi. Satori Tendo. Saeko Tanaka. Simeon. Satan. Erwin Smith. Annie Leonhart. Historia Reiss. Ymir. Mavis Vermillion. Totomaru. Zeref Dragneel. Rufus Lore. Erik. Lucy Heartfilia. Kurogiri. Camie Utsushimi. Kai Chisaki. Kikyo. Ryomen Sukuna. Suguru Geto.)   

Second Chance Romance

One more chance couldn’t hurt………….right?

(Kenma Kozume. Tobio Kageyama. Ryunosuke Tanaka. Kenjiro Shirabu. Barbatos. Solomon. Jean Kirstein. Reiner Braun. Mikasa Ackerman. Hange Zoe. Gildarts Clive. Loke. Lyon Vastia. Hibiki Lates. Jenny Realight. Shota Aizawa. Izuku Midoriya. Touya Todoroki. Hojo. Sesshomaru. Toji Fushiguro. Nobara Kugisaki. Kiyotaka Ijichi.)

Fake Dating

Playing house didn’t used to be this serious….

(Yuji Terushima. Tetsuro Kuroo. Keiji Akaashi. Asmodeus. Petra. Jellal Fernandes. Eve Tearm. Karen Lilica. Sting Eucliffe. Kagura Mikazuchi. Rustyrose. Neito Monoma. Yuga Aoyama. Shoto Todoroki. Keigo Takami. Miroku. Takuma Ino)

Rivals to Lovers

They might become a distraction but…….. why not live a little?

(Daichi Sawamura. Yaku Morisuke. Wakatoshi Ushijima. Kiyoko Shimizu. Natsu Dragneel. Gray Fullbuster. Fried Justine. Jet. Tenya Iida. Hitoshi Shinso. Momo Yaoyorozu. Koga. Satoru Gojo. Masamichi Yaga. Mai Zen’in. Mei Mei)

#romance tropes #mha #bnha #haikyuu!! #aot #jjk #obey me #fairy tail #various x reader #I have an obsession with enemies to lovers ngl

[cuddle-2-electric-boogaloo]

Thinking about pred villain who actually really cares about their subordinates and their wellbeing and will let them sleep in their stomach if that's what it takes for them to be in top evildoing condition.

#and yes this is going to be a thing in the vore lore™️ #safe vore #soft vore #extreme cuddling #vore talk #sfw vore #vore thoughts #i like to vorify various concepts and tropes it would seem

[blmpff]

✨ Various Tropes: Neck Touch (1/?) ✨

TITLES IN ORDER: 1. Semantic Error (2022) 2: Hidden Agenda (2023) 3: Stay Still (2023) 4: Sing My Crush (2023) 5: Step by Step (2023) 6: Playboyy (2023) 7: Kiseki: Dear to Me (2023) 8&9: The Sign (2023) 10. VIP Only (2023) 11. My Universe: Marry Go Round (2023) 12: The Whisperer (2023)

#TITLES IN ORDER: #semantic error #hidden agenda the series #stay still the series #sing my crush #step by step the series #playboyy the series #kiseki: dear to me #the sign the series 2x #vip only the series #My Universe: Marry Go Round #the whisperer the series #various tropes #neck touch #part one #blmpff

[strixhaven]

honestly it’s so weird to see shipping stuff for dunmeshi. that is a story about pure platonic devotion, friendship, and familial love. feels beyond trite to try and shove romance into it

#farcille is the only one i get and even then. qprs are right there #i know this is just how fandoms are and shipping brain is eternal. but it feels so counter to everything #dunmeshi is about and the various nonromantic ways that care and devotion and what could be called love manifest #and the different forms relationships can take. yknow. #it’s about the importance of eating well and dedication to the people around you. and you wanna do the same stock romance tropes #you’ve done a million times over. cmon man. i know i’m too aro for a lot of things but again this just feels Especially weird #guy going into the dunmeshi tags looking for cool art fully aware of how fandoms act and the prevalence of shipping voice: #good lord there’s romance in here. augh

[pastafossa]

Thank you for the tag, @bellaxgiornata! I enjoyed this one!

(Link found here)

What this has hilariously illustrated to me is that I am absolutely a fanfic trope racoon who's willing to read just about anything if I'm hungry enough. Google I did the math and 84% of these are 'sure if I'm in the mood' or higher. And if I trust an author a TON, I may even follow them into the dark lands of Major Character Death and Dark Fic. So if you include those 'if I trust you' tropes, I'll read 93% of these in the right scenarios. 😂 Equally hilarious, I've managed to squeeze 14 of the 16 top tropes for me into TRT. LIVE YOUR DREAMS PEOPLE.

Honestly my NEVER EVER category is really small. Pregnancy + babies are a hard no due to tokophobia (ironically only solidified years ago by trying to WRITE a pregnancy fic I was assigned in a fic challenge), as well as bad memories of being around babies that were hard on my sensory issues. And 'unhappy ending' is out because I generally read as a form of escapism. I'll follow characters through all SORTS of tragic shit as long as there's a promise, or even just an implied 'maybe eventually in time there's a happy ending and they make it through', but if there's no light at the end of the tunnel, I tap out pretty quick.

Tagging those who might enjoy this: @heybluechild @wonderlandmind4 @shouldbestudying41 @stress--relief @burstanddecay @bunnelbie @cellophaine @feelmyskinonyourskin

#tag game #fanfic tropes #fic tropes #in which i discovered i'm a fic trope racoon who will eat just about any of these if i'm hungry enough #also yes i did arrange that first row with all the ones i've put in TRT coming first and in general order of preference #because i find that hilarious #WRITE WHAT YOU LOVE PEOPLE #did i look up a variety of 'No's in various languages for that last box? yes yes i did

[anguishmacgyver]

I’m posting my draft tropes and aesthetics because I have no intention to do anything with them:

Magical character crying black tears due to magic overuse instead of having a nosebleed

Injured character is arrested for a crime they didn’t commit and they’re roughly manhandled by unsympathetic guards/police etc

Character locks themselves in the bathroom and passes out from hidden wounds

Touch starved character gets massaged to help with terrible, painful cramps. The relief brings instant tears to their eyes

Sick character at their lowest, shouting “get out, just get the fuck out” at the caretaker who’s doing their best to support the sick character

Character is injected with full body paralytic; they’re conscious and aware, eyes open, but they can’t move at all. Caretaker finds them like this and assumes the worst™

Character who’s invulnerable to injury is vulnerable only around their friend. They find out the hard way, of course

Main character is running like hell to save the day, heart is punching in their chest. But even when everything ends (well) they just can’t come down from the adrenaline high

Character digs their own grave at gunpoint. They’re saved but they (obviously) have nightmares of this for a long time

Magic mentor with questionable morals trains the apprentice to be invulnerable to psychic attacks. In the process there’s unnecessary violence and intrusiveness, and painful memories resurface

#these are hardly original #but feel free to use as prompts #angumawrites #whump #whump tropes #whump prompts #whump aesthetic #ive had these in my drafts for ages #in various degrees of readability #as well as some that didnt make the cut because #wth was i thinking? lmao #those are hyperspecific in my mind but feel free to interpret them as u want

[pacificgasandelectric]

it would just be very very cool. if more ppl would be capable of being anti-israel, anti-genocide, anti-colonization and anti-human-rights-violations, and ofc pro-palestinians without also being anti-jewish about it.

#mine #sarah rivka rachel and leah fucking save me. #i don’t deny that there Are genocide apologists out there ofc & many of them use judaism as their justification #but literally so do christians and so do fundie sects of islam and so do various other religious & non-religious groups bc It Turns Out: #taking & enforcing power by hurting ppl is NOT unique to One Group Who Has All Power Ever. #literally makes me want to start biting to see ppl parroting ‘jews are all rich & powerful & have dual loyalty’ tropes #but it’s ok! bc instead of ‘those filthy jews’ they said ‘those colonizing israelis’ or ‘those genocidal zionists’! #if your rhetoric is indistinguishable from the way that literal nazis veil their rhetoric. maybe. the things you are saying are Bad. #‘oh well zionist just means ppl who support israeli colonization! they’re Bad so it’s ok to wish death & violence & extermination on them!’ #oh so suddenly words are devoid of context & history? sure jan. 🙄

[fiapple]

repeat after me: if you are the descendent of colonizers living on stolen land, you do not get to judge the methods of decolonial resistance movements.

#this isn’t in relation to the last reblog itself it just reminded me of something #thoughts #sarahofmagdelene has some good shorts about this on insta though #like specifically abt how it relates to white feminism + patriarchal notions of (white) womanhood #the skinny of it being that white women tend to impose the standards of white womenhood laid out by white patriarchy onto those who they ar #*womanhood #(​sorry all over the place today) #complicit in the oppression of with the added specifically racialized view of violent resistance through the lens of various savage tropes #have to get a copy of her book after the strike tbh #but yeah i think a lot about this in congruence with how authoritarianism is such a deeply engrained aspect of whiteness & how that itself #contributes to the attitudes being discussed here being so prevalent even among my fellow white people who consider themselves leftist or #progressive (& how that relates to how many white people are liberals/neoliberals posing as being farther left than they are) #but if we were to relate this specifically to the last reblog i would like to point out that another part of that is the whiteness frames #good & bad as an immutable either/or binary & the way super fucked up notions of purity play into whiteness #which (not an excuse absolutely not acting like this is still 100000% white supremacist at its core) is what leads my fellow white people t #be so fearful of having current or past wrong doings pointed out as such & why so many are more concerned with being seen as racist than w #the actual racism they perpetuate/garner privilege from #because that means being horrible with no chance of change (thoug oppressed ppl do 100% hold the right to view their oppressors as such #the white guilt this often leads to when self imposed is what leads to attitudes like the article from the last post describes) #(& so the difference of perspective in the oppressed feeling that way & the oppressor using it to self flagellate is v important here) #& all of this is ultimately rooted in the carcerality inherent to whiteness as a social construct #both in terms of the far worse tangible violence imposed upon poc (particularly black people & fn ppl here in canada) & the carceral view o #morality white “culture” imposes upon those white people who are unwilling to fully do the work to divest from whiteness #hope this is coherent #also if any of this is out of line plz lmk #but basically to cut to the chase power (& as a result empowerment of the oppressed) viewed through the lens whiteness has set for it will #always be fucked up & lead to completely racist conclusions about liberation movements for poc #& the reason i mention this in relation to decolonial movements specifically is due to whiteness being an inherently colonial construct it’ #*itself #racism