#that trope is just

[topsyturvy-turtely]

my contribution for @sherlockchallenge. here is the first part, the rest is on ao3 (link below).

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title: BLACK NAILS

John was running down the hallway and Stephen yelled after him, "She definitely likes you, Johnny!"

John turned around, while still walking quickly (he was about to be late), "No, she doesn't and STOP calling me that, for fuck's sake!"

John saw Stephen chuckle and he shook his head with a tiny grin on his face. Stephen was such a-

"Hey, watch where you are going!", a voice yelled behind him.

Abruptly John turned around - to see about five books and 43 pens on the floor. "Oh, shit! I am so sorry, man. Let me help ya-", quickly John gathered everything and held it out to the pers-

He stopped midtrack. Two hands. Ten fingers. Ten perfectly manicured black nails. John didn't know why but he stopped moving like a maniac and stood still. Just staring at those hands with black nail polish. He couldn't tear his eyes off those nails.

"Sorry, I- didn't see you."

"Yeah. Obviously.", the voice to the nails said. It was deep.

"I'm really sorry. Here.", John handed the boy he ran into his books. When most of the nails disappeared underneath the books, John finally looked up. And was swept off his feet again. Even his mouth hang open. He looked into the prettiest eyes he has ever seen, framed with black kajal and black eyliner. His lips and those just a tad bit too long curls were black too. He was wearing a black choker as well.

The boy scoffed. "Thank you.", but it could have been a 'fuck you' too, John wasn't sure. Then the student purposely bumped John in the shoulder and walked off. Long strides, head lowered, one shoelace of his boots untied. John stared after him, until the curly head was lost in the crowd. And just by then John remembered to breathe properly again. "Who. Are you?", he asked the air. When the bell rang John's mind came back online and he cursed. He was gonna be late!

continue on Ao3 (1785 words)

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tags! ✨ (tell me if you wanna be added/removed or if i forgot you!) @catlock-holmes @justanobsessedpan @helloliriels @boredsushi @fluffbyday-smutbynight @inevitably-johnlocked @hisfavouritejumper @rhasima @forfucksakejohn @ohlooktheresabee @turbulenttrouble @7arantellgrrl @ssmeowl123 @so-youre-unattached-like-me @totallysilvergirl @peanitbear @train-mossman @loki-lock @smulderscobie @timberva @grace-in-the-wilderness @chinike @pansherlock @the-smol-bean-libby-blog @jawnn-watson @whatnext2020 @escapingthereality @missdeliadili @kettykika78 @musingsofmyown @7-percent @speedymoviesbyscience @astudyin221b @toobluebrunette @francj15

#sherlock challenge #turtely writes #august prompt #nail #teenlock #and attention please! #it is #ENEMIES TO LOVERS #*sqeals* #because #that trope is just #👀🥵😍😭🥹❤️‍🔥 #turtely #topsyturvy turtely #johnlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock #john watson #sherlock holmes #sherlock x john #johnlock ficlet #ao3 #johnlock ficlet on ao3 #i'm becoming a ao3 pro my babes #thanks for reading #do please reblog #love ya #*throws badly cut out paper hearts at you*

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

#tumblr #politics #media #fiction #tropes #social justice #like soooooo much of the popular media I see big on this website does this. like #marvel #mcu #atla #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar #rwby #bioshock #the clone wars #dc #dc comics #<- just to name a few #this might get me harassed by a certain fandom but you know what they already harassed me 2 times before third times the charm!

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

#getou suguru #kaneki ken #abyss twin #i know there are others who im not thinking of rn #feel free to reblog with more examples #aphelion.txt #tropes #WAIT I REMEMBERED MORE #jaina proudmoore #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #phosphophyllite #i just spent like half an hour trying to find this on tv tropes but it must be. Too specific of a thing i have in mind bc #I just kept finding similar and related but too broad categories #despair event horizon. fallen hero. well intentioned extremist. etc etc etc #like specifically i'm talking about when the character's EMPATHY is the CRUX of the problem. sosooo crunchyjuicytasty #edit: #also just know that i am reading every tag on this post #and enthusiastically scribbling down the names i dont recognizr #so i can check out their series later #edit 2 wow this post blew up 🫡 godspeed fellow villain likers #the amount of people tagging this as 'me lmao' is concerning to me #wwx #how did i fucking forget this was also yllz era wwx

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #my art #book 2 au #book 2 aus have been done before but i wanted to try my own take with tropes i personally enjoy akdjslkdks #also had the urge to draw zutara arguing and just not getting along in general qldjkakslsk #i recently finished natla and also just rewatched book 1 so zutara book 1 dynamic where they're quite hostile with each other is on my mind #they decide to travel together but obviously they don't get along at all at the start #they find each other annoying but that annoyance slowly turns into affection #also alsooo #short hair zuko enjoyers hello #i have switched over to the side of short hair zuko ajrskakdlksjd #also thinking about how to put short hair katara into this akdjaljdlskf #i just think short hair zutara neat :>>

[daigah]

We lose everytime a girl in fiction who is on the masc side and happy with it becomes very feminine as a supposed sign of maturity

#Also applys to alt girls #Tropes #to everyone in my notes saying cassie sandsmark this was cassie vagueposting #IM NOT !!! REFERRING TO THOSE INTERNALISED MISOGYNY WHO DRESS MORE MASC CUZ OF THAT AND START TO EMBRACE FEMINITY JUST FINE #IN A POSITIVE WAY #this is more like. girls who were explicitly shown to dress gnc/masc leaning because thats simply their personality and what they like #and are comfortable with but still need to be “corrected” to dress feminine #especially if its for male/social validation

[rubyleaf]

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

#i just see it explored so rarely and i think there's a whole bunch of untapped potential here #or else i've been reading the wrong books i dunno #writeblr #writing #character writing #tropes #c: clara hightower #c: elise jamieson #I'm just sayin' #time for ruby's opinion

[prokopetz]

"DILF", a word which here means "the only male character with a speaking role in this piece of media who's actually old enough for me to be horny for him".

#media #tropes #dilves #is he really a smoking hot daddy or is he just the only dude who's visibly over 30?

[tragedykery]

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

#edit: please don’t tag this with hp characters it makes me very uncomfortable. and if you really want to at least block me after #tropes #I’m just saying words but. Ugh #elli rambles #this isn’t about one character in particular #more like snippets of different characters #sokka tané priya malini azula sabran ty lee etc etc #niclays too. sadly #I hate him (lovingly) #or I love him (hatingly). I haven’t decided yet #alternatively: I ❤️ ampersands #breached containment (derogatory) #a

[greykolla-art]

Every day I wake up and think:

“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”

“They are all bonded through shared trauma now.”

And every day I cry like a baby.

#grey art #fan art #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd comic #ofmd fanart #can you believe how much I love Izzy??? #and Edward just needs some warm soup #Izzy hands #edward teach #jim jimenez #this season is so dark I’m honestly here for it #whump art #self sacrifice is also a trope I’m very weak for

[willowcrowned]

love when a dynamic is like. this would be deeply toxic for anyone else but considering the people involved this is actually far and away the healthiest option

#not to blog about divisive sitcom ********* in the year 2022 #but ***** and **** my beloved……. #just so people stop accusing me of blogging about Seinfeld or family guy #THIS IS ABOUT JEFF AND ANNIE FROM COMMUNITY #tropes #willow's greatest hits

[allright]

came back wrong trope but the character knows that they came back wrong. they’re so acutely aware of how different they are now from how they were before that it drives them fucking insane. they’re stuck trying to return to somebody that’s long dead. they can never be the person they once were. everybody around them knows it. deep down, they know it too, but they’re trapped in a cycle of their own making. of trying to revive someone that no longer exists.

#i am just obsessed w the idea of someone being revived that so badly wants to be the person they used to be but that person is dead. #they're dead and gone and now all that is left is the person they are now who is fucked up from being revived !!!! #it drives them to madness <3 #also whenever i think of the came back wrong trope i think of jason todd #classic came back wrong (or different at least) trope #all.right

[gayphoenixforce]

I hate the dog-ification of werewolves >:( I by making them happy dumbos it misses the best part of transformative monstrosity: repression. If you aren't afraid of the beast within what's the fucking point. It's the big bad wolf lurking on moonlit nights it's not your golden retriever in the park at noon. Justice for repression!! Justice for the beast within!! Justice for the fear of who you could be if you really let loose! Is the monster your true self? Does the thrill of the wild outweigh the guilt that comes in the light of day, when there's mud on your feet and blood on your hands? What does it mean that you crave that which disgusts you, that the wolf isn't just something you become, it's something you always were

#werewolves #its not that there cant be silly werewolves its just that it lacks narratove oomph without some element of fear! #vampires are still seductive when they get made goofy #fundamentals of horror tropes in monsters should survive when the monster leaves horror

[bloominflowers]

"Melusines are beautiful creatures. They are the pride of Fontaine."💗

#i feel like melusines would be very caring and affectionate towards neuvillette ;_; #the whole plot of neuvillette taking them in and taking care of them is just everything to me #found family trope save me #fanart #genshin impact #genshin fanart #neuvillette #melusine

[buggachat]

do you ever think about how funny the fanon vs canon trope contrast of how Marinette and Alya talk to each other is. I’m guilty of this too. Fanon usually goes for the “Marinette is the relatable single friend who has to listen to Alya talk about her boyfriend all the time”, which is just an intuitive scenario etc etc. but. in canon Marinette is the demon keeping Alya awake at 3 am to talk about how raaaawwwrrr sexy Chat Noir is and waking her up at 6 am on a Saturday morning to cry to her about Adrien going on a weekend trip without her. they’re just so funny. we’ve only heard a FRACTION of what Alya deals with on a daily. Alya deserves financial compensation. if Alya is being TMI to Marinette in a fic just remember that she is only balancing the scales

#this isn’t a criticism of fanon trope btw I just think it’s funny

[binary-bird]

i just think he’s neat

#the spot #johnathon ohnn #across the spiderverse #i enjoyed watching him so much look at him go #the nobody to nightmare trope is absolutely catnip to me #can someone in-universe just sit down and listen to his backstory. i am begging

[redysetdare]

enough stories about how someone learns to truely be happy through love. i want a story where someone is desperately seeking out love thinking it's the only way to be happy only for them to learn by the end that happiness is what they make of it and they don't need love at all to make it.

#aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #aroace #loveless aro #loveless #non-partnering #nonpartnering #non partnering #nonamorous #aplatonic #enough of amatonormative tropes in media!!! enough 'you're miserable without love' stories!!! #less “you're too focused on ambitions to make you happy that you dont let yourself fall in love” #more “you're too focused on finding love to make you happy that you wont let yourself live” #more “there is so much more to life than love and so much more that can bring your happiness if you just let yourself experience it.” #maybe I should write this story #and when i say love i mean all love. not just romantic love. #which is why i tagged aplatonic too #while i mostly see this trope in terms of romantic love i think there's something to be said about #telling stories where people are perfectly content alone too #it doesn't have to be sad or pathetic to not have friends by choice. they dont have to be a miserable person to not have friends #i think we need more variety in stories where it shows people just content in their lack of love or relationships in all shapes #not everyone wants a family not everyone wants friends not everyone wants a partner not everyone wants love #some of us are content without. that should be explored without the need to fix it.