tropes & me
Jan. 13th, 2015 02:09 pmWhat tropes/situations do I love to put my favorite characters in, and/or read about them being placed in? (for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cathalin)
Well. I'm sure this will come as no surprise to a lot of y'all, but I LOVE me some friends-to-lovers. Write it, read it... It is total catnip to me, to watch as a solid, good, sustaining relationship takes a turn for the romantic. I write it all. the. time. I have to actually stop and think about how people might go about putting together a romantic relationship with a stranger, because I love having that solid ground underneath first. Then, of course, there can be uncertainty and insecurities and all that, especially if everyone is afraid of losing the excellent thing they already have going and they already know that the other person knows their tells and how they might BS their way out of the hard part of relationship-building. (I thought about linking to fic that I'd written with that trope, but then decided it'd be easier to pick out the few that don't include it. And then I realized I didn't really have any of those, either. So, yeah, that's my trope. :D)
Trope #2 is found families. Oh, my god, give me people putting together their own families-of-choice, even (or especially) when they don't realize that's what they're doing, and I will follow you anywhere. I think that was how I fell so easily into writing Hawaii Five-0 – it was just delicious, the way that team coalesced into a family. And that's my hot button in the MCU, too – I am more than happy to borrow the Mansion from the comics-verse and play house.
Honorable mention goes to food – people feeding each other or bonding over eating together or actually cooking for each other (I mean, I still have about 20 menus I never got to use in Kisses Sweeter Than Wine that I can't bear to delete, because they are just *perfect* for the characters. And my favorite headcanon for Clint Barton is that he's a pretty damn good cook—nothing fancy, but give him a couple of hours and he can blow your mind.)
I should probably also mention my thing for finding houses for characters when I write… Jensen's condo in Silver Star, Phil's converted townhouse in doesn't matter if I bleed, all the houses in Caught Inside, Lady Frances's London mews house in Long Way Home, and it's probably best if we don't talk about the map of London circa 1800 that I printed out and used for reference for all the houses and gambling hells in An Uncommon Season. ::shrugs:: Some people make playlists—I googlemap everyone's houses and stalk the real estate listings for inspiration.
cathalin)Well. I'm sure this will come as no surprise to a lot of y'all, but I LOVE me some friends-to-lovers. Write it, read it... It is total catnip to me, to watch as a solid, good, sustaining relationship takes a turn for the romantic. I write it all. the. time. I have to actually stop and think about how people might go about putting together a romantic relationship with a stranger, because I love having that solid ground underneath first. Then, of course, there can be uncertainty and insecurities and all that, especially if everyone is afraid of losing the excellent thing they already have going and they already know that the other person knows their tells and how they might BS their way out of the hard part of relationship-building. (I thought about linking to fic that I'd written with that trope, but then decided it'd be easier to pick out the few that don't include it. And then I realized I didn't really have any of those, either. So, yeah, that's my trope. :D)
Trope #2 is found families. Oh, my god, give me people putting together their own families-of-choice, even (or especially) when they don't realize that's what they're doing, and I will follow you anywhere. I think that was how I fell so easily into writing Hawaii Five-0 – it was just delicious, the way that team coalesced into a family. And that's my hot button in the MCU, too – I am more than happy to borrow the Mansion from the comics-verse and play house.
Honorable mention goes to food – people feeding each other or bonding over eating together or actually cooking for each other (I mean, I still have about 20 menus I never got to use in Kisses Sweeter Than Wine that I can't bear to delete, because they are just *perfect* for the characters. And my favorite headcanon for Clint Barton is that he's a pretty damn good cook—nothing fancy, but give him a couple of hours and he can blow your mind.)
I should probably also mention my thing for finding houses for characters when I write… Jensen's condo in Silver Star, Phil's converted townhouse in doesn't matter if I bleed, all the houses in Caught Inside, Lady Frances's London mews house in Long Way Home, and it's probably best if we don't talk about the map of London circa 1800 that I printed out and used for reference for all the houses and gambling hells in An Uncommon Season. ::shrugs:: Some people make playlists—I googlemap everyone's houses and stalk the real estate listings for inspiration.
