#this one is so tropey

[kdramaxoxo]

Sure it's wild that Marry My Husband and Perfect Marriage Revenge have almost the exact same set up, but the vibes are waaaaaay different.

#marry my husband #perfect marriage revenge #kdrama #ones a makjang #and the other is a tropey office rom com #the villains are super different too #perfect marriage revenge had serious evil villains #Marry my husband ones are like grade b meddlers #i was obsessed with perfect marriage revenge until ep 8 and then just kinda lost interest #so i wonder how this one will go #ep 4

[canisalbus]

sorry im emotonal and going off of the other asks sent about machete and just i need to stress how beautiful it is to me that machete sees himself so undeserving of love and affection and feeling as if vasco's too good for him but despite all that he is so incredibly devoted to vasco and loving towards him (in his own way) but is so incredibly clear to anyone with eyes that just how in love he is with vasco. like it's not done out of a "oh god please never realize that you're too good for me here here let me overdo it with the affection" its done with the "i love you, and will always love you, no matter what happens to us or separates us, and i will give it to you as long as i am able, and if you ever leave, i won't be okay, but will still love you, and want you happy". like he doesn't use his own feelings of being undeserving taint his love or the way he loves for vasco, and it's so, so beautiful

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#;M; #oauhh #that's so sweet I'm in shambles and so glad to hear all of that #sometimes I worry about whether I'm communicating their chemistry correctly #it would be so easy for this sort of relationship to gain suffocating and possessive and overall just abusive tones #and even though you could argue it would be a source for juicy drama I just don't want that #Machete could selfishly exploit Vasco's care and altruism without giving anything in return #or worse let his paranoia and jealousy get the better of him and end up destroying them both because if he can't have Vasco no one can #and Vasco could leverage his influence over Machete to manipulate and use him because out of them two he's the more mentally stable one #and it would be easy to take advantage of Machete's vulnerability obedience and his trust that Vasco would never harm him #but I don't know maybe it's a bit tropey and idealistic but I really just want these dogs to be genuinely good for each other #they have so many things working against them already I don't wish to see them backstab each other as well #they have a bit of a 'us against the world' thing going on which I really like #they're not perfect there's issues they're trying to work on but the will to get through it together is there #and I want to make it seem like they wouldn't hesitate to prioritize the other one's happiness and wellbeing at their own expense #if it came to that #anwered #anonymous

[willowser]

lmaooo can you imagine having to be the assistant to multi-billionare ceo gojo satoru it would be HELL. you think this man looks at his emails ??? you're constantly having to stand in at meetings for him because he doesn't like any of the old farts on the board. coffee and breakfast in the morning is ESSENTIAL and if he doesn't get it, then he's sending you out with his credit card to buy dozens of doughnuts for everyone. he's taking a two hour lunch and dragging you out to eat with him.

and of course you have to accompany him on every trip out of town, why wouldn't you ???

#so tropey but it works so well for him aigbeiqkqk #started the comapny with his best friend when they were only 18 🥺 had to absorb his half when he died 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #you’re constantly having to do stuff for megumi like running his lunch to him bc gojo forgot to PACK IT #or picking up megumi from band practice or something #you tell him that tsumiki stopped by to say hello and he's like CLEAR MY AFTERNOON 😃😃😃 #UH SIR ???? YOU HAVE 4 MEETINGS THIS AFTERNOON AKGBDIAKAKA #UGH YUCK AT THAT TAG YUCK YUCK #one thing about me i'm gonna write assistant au #✿ thoughts: gojo

[mintjeru]

it probably wasn't the smartest decision to start an ongoing 1000+ chapter webnovel when i know it'll consume my every waking thought but here we are

open for better quality | no reposts

#turning novel #터닝 #kishiar la orr #yuder aile #when i tell you i read the manhwa in one go last night and then started reading the novel today bc commenters said it was good #and my god were they right #i'm 40+ chapters in so i've just passed where the manhwa is at rn and wow #first of all thank god there are high quality and easily accessible translations #second of all kuyu-nim has a way of making all the lines carry weight. the dialogue and body language cues especially #like i'm definitely not that far in but there are already a few lines i can point out that made my heart clench #and the tension between the two leads is so so palpable #kishiar is very enigmatic i'm very interested in finding out what he's really thinking and what his abilities are #and i really appreciate the way yuder's development is focused on him caring about others and relying on them #ok and third the fact that it's a slow burn romance but focuses heavily on the plot and politics and relationships is so good #based on the tags this could have been very tropey but they didn't go that route and i'm glad for it #in other news i'm upset about how yuder came out but i have to post him bc i will not separate them ;;; #thought kishiar would be harder to draw bc he's pretty:tm: and i struggle drawing pretty boys but yuder put me through the wringer fr #anyway!! i love them very much!! going a little insane over them as you can see!!

[codacheetah]

If I made some kind of post related to my mirasif/miraisiloop thoughts would you guys trust me. Would you trust in my arospec sieve of projection. Would you guys kill me

#i think there's something interesting to be said regarding mirabelle and the way she views siffrin in conjunction with her lack of awareness #of isafrin as well as her very. tropey way of thinking of other people and herself? #and it's something i've been wanting to explore in a fic for a while #likewise i have thoughts regarding her potential orbital involvement in the isiloop polycule as a nonromantic but not Regular Platonic #(one may even say queerplatonic) participant #however i am anxietybeast so i'm afraid ppl might think i'm just making an aromantic character smooch for the hell of it #but mirabelle being aro is very important to me and i like using her as a vessel to explore nontraditional intimacy and dealing w #very allonormative expectations. #i'm not very good at articulating myself so i am very afraid of being misconstrued. so would you guys be interested in this #or should i just not lol

[layzeal]

the thing is. lwj would have protected and stood by wwx's side even if he didn't love him romantically

like. i often see the order of things switched up. that lwj believes in wwx and stood up against his clan and the world for him because he was in love. no no nonono guys it's the opposite!! lwj is in love with wwx because he believes that wei ying is good, because his pre-conceived notions of him kept getting challenged, because at every corner wwx kept showing how he was actually good, and kindhearted, and capable, and smart

we even see early on how lwj behaves when he's experiencing attraction while he still thinks he shouldn't. lwj is cold and detached, he ignores him, he constantly tries to draw a line between them! we see exactly how that changed after xuanwu cave, and especially after the yiling date

he became infatuated with wei ying against his own judgement, but loving him was a choice. protecting him was a choice. he would have made that decision anyway, even if the feelings weren't there

#back on my ''making wangxian more tropey and traditionally romantic doesn't actually work for them'' #i get the appeal of lwj going ''love against everything'' but that's not what was happening here. wei ying meant so much more than that #he believed in his goodness and that's where the love comes from!! lwj wouldn't have betrayed his clan just bc ''boy hot'' #it's ''boy hot'' and also ''actually he has a point and if no one will stand by his side then i will'' #boy hot is a bonus but what turned the tables for lwj was the latter. not the former #modao #lace speaks

[atthebell]

i don't even mind aus in other fandoms (if done well and still characterized properly) but i just cannot deal with how obsessed mcyt fans are with aus instead of just writing in-canon stuff and particularly for spiderbit there is SO much to talk and write about involving them and so few good fics that i'm like please can we all write regret arc tension fics can we talk about them reuniting can we delve into how they feel about being co-parents and about their future and and and and

#bell.txt #sorry to people who like aus i totally get that this is more of a me thing i just cannot deal with them atp #like some tropey ones sure im down for some fae shit or whatever #but i just want canon-compliant or lightly canon divergent stuff so bad #if we had more of that i probably wouldn't mind aus so much

[figofswords]

somebody rec me some good books. and they do actually have to be good. don’t rec me something just because it’s gay or it’s popular, it has to also still be good. like both the story and the writing have to be good none of this good concept bad writing or good writing horrible story. fantasy or soft scifi preferred, especially if it’s nontraditional fantasy. I am bored and sick of the internet and I want to get back into reading more but I’m kinda meh about most of what’s on my shelf

*edit: when I say “soft scifi” I don’t mean cozy I mean not hard scifi, as in stories that are more fantastical than grounded in hard science. for example the Martian is considered hard scifi, so not that. Star Wars would be closer to a soft scifi bc it’s all bullshit on the science end and it’s more about the vibes

#I started the jasmine throne and that was good but then I noticed a somewhat repetitive quirk of the writing style #and once I noticed it I couldn’t STOP noticing it which was extremely distracting and made it hard to pay attention to the story #the problem with books is I am sooooo hypercritical and so many ppl are bad writers and get published anyway #and booktok can’t tell the difference so these shitty books become bestsellers just bc they’re gay and tropey #not that jasmine throne is bad writing. it’s ok writing I just can’t stop noticing they overuse one particular sentence structure #and now it’s driving me crazy #but there are plenty of other bestselling books that ARE legitimately bad writing #I’m reading a psalm for the wild built rn and that is genuinely really good and next is the second book #but I’m almost done with the first one and both are like. really short. so I need something for when I finish those #(carefully does not look at the stack of comics I bought at SPX that I haven’t read yet)

[fitzrove]

[shaking and biting] but what does it MEAN. what does it SAY what is the THEME

#akkdlflf i watched this long lecture video abt austrian national identity and the researcher said 'the austrians are quite adept at #selling the austro hungarian monarchy back to tourists incl ones from former parts of the empire... but even in the imperial nostalgia they #don't want back multilingualism or multiculturalism or any of what it actually was' #(it was a lot abt the way in which austria deals with orban's hungary in and after the 2015 refugee crisis) #ajskgldo and that just made me think about... how pointless some things feel. both in fiction and in academic research #you CAN say meaningful things about almost any topic and with almost any argument! but in some strands of history trying to 'uncover events' #with no exploration of the context and what it all MEANS and what the things we think about it mean #is the most prevalent and popular type of research :/ like there's a reason i overrely on hamann's bio of rudolf because her central thesis #is that he wasnt a crazy murderer but someone with a forward-thinking political vision that went as far as suggesting a sort of 'proto-EU' #among other things #so like. she is looking at what it all MEANS!!! #and like. my favourite todolf fanfics are also like that 😂😭 perhaps not abt politics but about suffering and power dynamics and guilt #same for original fiction. i'm never happy if a book i'm reading isnt saying something #or then again - this is more personal pickiness but. they should also be saying something NEW AND INTERESTING #a lot of the time. sometimes if you have a fave trope you can just enjoy it over and over #but idk even tropey stuff can say things #ajlsldkfkf i'm just so tired of kitsch in all its forms and also of bad science

[marklikely]

ok u know that fake 80s horror movie meme that people did on tiktok well aside from the blatant goncharov plagiarism i feel like the idea isnt inherently bad but trying to convince people the movie is real while giving it an obscure and therefore easily googleable name like zapotha is unwise. like goncharov was always openly fake but the video said they want to convince people zepotha is real. too easy to fact check imo.

#if you want to convince ppl this is a real movie you gotta name it like. using the few things that 80s horror titles are allowed to use.. #its gotta be some kind of combination of #'night of the (xyz)'. the name of a broad category of monster (demon werewolf etc). smth like freak/creep. massacre. #and/or some event that high schoolers would participate in. prom. graduation. camp. slumber party. etc. bonus pts if its a franchise. #like omg have you seen my favorite underrated 80s horror? Vampire Camp III: Night of the Were-Creeps? from 1987? #omg its soooo good you have to check it out. linnea quigley's best role. don't @ me you know im right. #avpost #you gotta give it a really tropey name so people cant like look it up and find nothing. #at the very least if you name it 'night of the ' people will find a ton of other horror movies and assume it's blocking out the right movie #anyway you dont have to watch the rest of the vampire camp series to understand the 3rd movie bc they explain the lore #in a campfire scene at the beginning. so youll be caught up. plus the second one was really weird and hasnt aged well #the first one is kind of a low budget 1981 gem but the bad dialogue and acting is really hard to get past. pretty good gore effects though. #check it out if you like that sort of thing but the series takes off at the 3rd movie. when they make it more horror comedy. #i think its getting a remake soon. directed by a woman!

[merlinmerlot]

I could play one of the most beautiful well crafted video games on the planet and it will never be as appealing to me as one that kind of sucks shit but has soooo much potential

#merlin.txt #just finished cyberpunk #i feel like they could have done sooo much more with the concepts they had #the game showed us a bit of everything in the world but i dont think they explored any one topic enough #and they pulled a ton of punches. the ending did not feel like this big 'grab your allies and fuck the corpos' thing it shouldve been #it was mostly just tying up johnnys loose end. one big loop. which i fuck with; but it wasnt rlly anticapitalist at all in that sense #i have a bunch of other thoughts on johnny but ill save it #but god. the beginning (act 1 and the first bits of act 2) where just soooo fucking good #and it rlly felt like it was going to gear up into this huge thing instead of just being one last hurrah for rogue and johnny #AUUUGHH theres just So Much Potential. goddamn #imo i think the major thing is that at some point it stopped being v's story. it was everyone elses #he has Very little agency. which is interesting but man this guy deserves better #when it comes down to it the game Is really shallow. whenever there is any sincerity in themes its very centrist #the fact is you dont rlly meet many characters in game who are Truly working to take down corps except for johnny and he doesnt rlly count #and if there Are its usually played for irony and laughs (looking at kerry) or theyre flat out kind of awful. #judys story is probably the best of the companions bc shes actively trying to help sex workers and its played very positively #i also think two of the main themes (letting go of the past; what it means to die) are Majorly helped by some incredible emotional beats #and w/o some just Really Really good scenes and good repetition of lines and motifs its very tropey. #ok i wasnt going to write a full thing. but let me be clear: i fucking loved this game. i would not be writing so much if i did not love it #the sun ending was Still soooo vindicating. v is still kicking and that's all that matters to me #(it helps that v is a Great protag like one of the Best voiced rpg protags next to hawke da2) #(which is kind of a funny comparison since i think both protags suffer from a lack of agency) #ok im done now

[hezuart]

Have you Watched One Piece?

No. I saw two episodes I think, when Nami looked more normal, I thought she was really cute with short hair But yeah I'm not a fan of the style and there's like 1,000+ chapters And it is a shounen so I don't think I'm gonna watch or read it

#one piece #ask #text post #so many shounens end so badly man #anime in general is so tropey #i feel like i only get into an anime once every 5 to 10 years if its unique enough #but it often drags on or takes a weird direction and i drop it

[aplpaca]

"YA fantasy is just more diverse than adult fantasy" "adult fantasy is all hopeless and grimdark" "every adult fantasy book just shoves sex scenes in your face"

tell me you don't know anything about adult fantasy outside of secondhand reviews of game of thrones without telling me. it costs zero dollars to google "queer adult sff books" or "adult fantasy books without sex" or "feminist adult fantasy" or "hopeful adult fantasy". Check the content warnings on storygraph if you have to. Hell go on r/fantasy and search any keywords or questions you want and you'll literally get dozens if not hundreds of results, including lots of things that arent "mainstream". I read like 50 fantasy books last year and less than 10 of them weren't queer in some way, none were "grimdark", and the majority did not have explicit sex scenes.

You can complain about shitty things or things you don't like in adult books or from specific authors without implying that every adult book falls into that and that it's impossible to avoid. Bc once you put even a tiny bit of effort and research in, its pretty easy to get a hang of what books you wanna try, at least from my experience. As long as you don't just grab something randomly off the shelf, you'll be a lot more likely to find things you like. (that's a pretty bad way to pick YA books too, let's be honest)

Just, there's so much variety and a lot of really good stuff out there, you just gotta actually search for what you want before diving in

#books #ya fantasy #adult fantasy #like theres literally so much man #anyone who claims there's nothing either hasn't been looking in the right places or hasn't been looking at all #like i read mostly adult fantasy and don't say all YA is bad and tropey #bc its not true and the YA i do read are ones that ive picked to appeal to me #so like people who read all or mostly YA can at least do the same in regards to adult fantasy even if they don't read any themselves #which like. they should. theres good stuff. you don't have to give up YA to read adult stuff also

[piosplayhouse]

yeah after reviewing my favorite binghe quote im contemplating. I do sort of wonder what mxtx's thought process was when she gave wwx pretty much the exact same tragic upbringing as binghe (fighting dogs for scraps on the street) but decided to make cynophobia such a major part of wwx's character to the point where it's instantly recognizable whereas binghe has zero mention of anything even similar to that

#not a commentary on which is better or anything i just thought it was interesting to think about #obviously also lbh's backstory (while extremely sad in canon) is still played off as somewhat of a tropey parody #of excessively tragic character backstories whereas wwx's is played straight #but i do feel like that one minor detail of fighting dogs which is directly mentioned in both texts is just . so specific JSKSNS #svsss #mdzs #lbh #luo binghe #wei wuxian #wwx #mxtx

[whirl-whump]

I'd really like to write a new story (and I've already written about 7 pages worth!) But I want to know how "in media res" I should start.

The basic plot setup is as follows: Boxboy universe, set in the near future. Local CEO has a "pet" he's grown a bit bored with, and decides to hand them over to a well-performing employee as a "bonus".

*note: the actual handing over part will have whump as well, ofc

#its one of those things where i have a lot of scenes in my head but only one wants to be written #at least so far #also this will be very tropey and self indulgent lol #whump #whumpblr #box boy universe #slavery whump #slavery mention #I hope I'll get some responses with it set to one day. We shall see!

[mzminola]

I blame Prof's potential-stock-AU post for making me think about Gotham High School Host Club in which sports scholarship student Cassandra Cain is the one who breaks the vase (not looking for a place to study, but while defending another student from a bully).

I want Babs mentoring Cass somehow, but keep the gender disparity of OHSHC, so she's either Cass's tutor (for classwork) or sports team coach, not a club member.

Helena Bertinelli just straight up keeps her canon job.

Alfred is in charge of distributing resources to after school clubs so there are periodically episodes where Club President Dick Grayson has to convince him why this week's shenanigans are good for Student Enrichment and/or Educational.

#DC #fic ideas #I just really like Ouran AUs #Batfam #Cassandra Cain #the Batboys are already so tropey in the #'Cliche Exterior With Secret Other Side' way #they don't one to one fit the Ouran boys roles but they fit the Super Duper Tropyness #Cass is not blackmailed into joining the club to pay back for the vase btw #it's just a very explosive way of getting the boys' attention and Babs has been encouraging her #to both make friends and do an extracurricular that isn't just more sports #so she can have some variety! #so when they invite her she shrugs and goes along with it #also like #the club always has so many snacks #do you see Cass ever turning down food? no