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[ SECRET POST #2754 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2754 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Of Heroes and Villains, by Minikisa]

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[Orange is the New Black]

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[Axis Powers Hetalia]

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[Lone Survivor]

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[Yasunori Kato, Doomed Megalopolis]

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[Spartacus and Game of Thrones]

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12. [WARNING for underage sex (and probably dub/noncon too)]

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13. [WARNING for rape]

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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]

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15. [WARNING for child abuse, rape]

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Since we had the opposite yesterday: What are some tropes you simply can't get tired of?

An SG-1 fic almost did me in on this one but "team turns against one of their own (but maybe it all works out in the end)."

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-18 23:09 (UTC) - Expand

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jaybie_jarrett - 2014-07-18 23:10 (UTC) - Expand

Rule of Cool. You'll have to pry chainswords from my cold dead hands.

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darkmanifest - 2014-07-19 05:58 (UTC) - Expand

I love:
- serial killer psychoanalyzes the detectives
- the documentary episode
And I'll always watch when it's one of these "It's personal"-episodes (a team mate is framed for murder/taken hostage/etc) even if I haven't watched the show in ages.
I also think even the most overused trope becomes 70% more bearable with a little lampshade hanging.

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otakugal15 - 2014-07-19 01:12 (UTC) - Expand

Enemies to friends to lovers, time travel, time shenanigans, time loops. Oh, and enemies becoming allies, either for brief mutual gain or as a turncoat.

Edited 2014-07-18 23:17 (UTC)

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othellia - 2014-07-18 23:18 (UTC) - Expand

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fingalsanteater - 2014-07-18 23:24 (UTC) - Expand

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caecilia - 2014-07-18 23:39 (UTC) - Expand

Genderbender, Mpreg, Mandy's Law of Genderbending, yeah I like my guys to be gals.

I also like Honor Before Reason, and Militaries are Evil.

I'm sick, I know it.

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skippydelicious - 2014-07-19 01:42 (UTC) - Expand

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lunabee34 - 2014-07-19 02:09 (UTC) - Expand

Soul bonding. I will read all the soul bonding for any fandom I even half-way know. *grabby hands*

Found family. Same for this one, only I'll also be bawling my eyes out in joy and relief for the main character(s).

Antagonist reformation. I just love it when they start fighting with the good guys. C: Bonus points for plenty of UST!

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mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com - 2014-07-19 07:49 (UTC) - Expand

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slr2moons - 2014-07-19 09:03 (UTC) - Expand

I keep becoming a fan of things that use The Wall Around the World (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWallAroundTheWorld) or one of its variations. It's not that I even went looking for things that use it; if it's not a spoiler it's usually a part of the setting I didn't know about when I started. I would expect to be sick of it by now, but something about the idea always keeps me intrigued and makes me like the story more.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-19 01:12 (UTC) - Expand

One of my fav cliches is the lovers torn apart by external forces who reunite in the end.

AMNESIA!

Gimmie ALL the amnesia fics!

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doilycoffin - 2014-07-18 23:55 (UTC) - Expand

Bad guys having to team up with the good guys.

Arranged marriages. Reincarnation. Trapped in an elevator/cave/spaceship/whatever.

Age transformations where an adult character is now in the body of a kid. But NOT vice versa. First one is essentially a supernatural/magical cock block in the vein of Detective Conan. The other's just an excuse to pair up a child with an adult because "hey! they no longer look like a kid, so it should all be okay!" :|

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takaraikarin - 2014-07-19 01:20 (UTC) - Expand

"The Future is Noir" as TVTropes describes it. I am really attracted to the interplay of light and shadow, and lots of focused lighting and cool tones.

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insanenoodlyguy - 2014-07-18 23:45 (UTC) - Expand

Musical episodes! Done way to rarely imo

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-19 00:33 (UTC) - Expand

Fake dating that becomes real dating, redemption and contrived misunderstandings that are ultimately solved with communication are mine.

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sarillia - 2014-07-18 23:33 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-19 00:54 (UTC) - Expand

Tangled Family Tree

I always loved reading the family trees for the Greek gods and in fantasy books. The weirder it is, the happier it makes me.

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othellia - 2014-07-19 00:23 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

jaybie_jarrett - 2014-07-19 00:29 (UTC) - Expand

Heroic Sacrifice

I'm corny I know.

Also:

Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoe: Big Damn Heroes, sir!
Mal: Ain't we just.

Genre dissonance / de-dramatization. Is that a thing?

Like you have a totally bleak future and everything is dead and broken but you have the characters be kids who have never known anything else, so all of that is just "normal" and all the stuff they're finding is new and cool and bright for them (:o a bug!).

I really, really loved the intro to WALL-E, for example.

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cushlamochree - 2014-07-18 23:51 (UTC) - Expand

One that is sadly too rare, characters meeting the actors that play them (like they somehow get into another universe).

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kaijinscendre - 2014-07-19 01:39 (UTC) - Expand

it's difficult in a sub/omega's world (mcu has a lot of these fics)

conflict in values VS personal feelings (x-men, les mis, almost any enemy/enemy pairing)

'...talking carefully, as if to a spooked animal'
'like a doe caught in highlight' (I like these 2 phrases)

a character finding their purpose (sga rich in these fics)

secret identity (spiderman for example)

culture clashes and contrast sprinkled with WTF moments

Too many to mention, really.

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cushlamochree - 2014-07-18 23:52 (UTC) - Expand

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solticisekf - 2014-07-19 00:03 (UTC) - Expand

Overly convoluted villain plans that makes the viewer suspend their disbelief like woah. Bonus points if said plan involves getting captured by the hero/heroes.

From TV Tropes: Worthy Opponent, Enemy Mine, Undying Loyalty, True Companions, Briar-Patching, Xanatos Gambit, Heroic Sacrifice, Guile Hero(ine), Trickster, The Con, Mad Scientist, Lets Get Dangerous.

Generally, I just have a thing about honour, hidden depths, guile, intelligence, trickery, sacrifice and loyalty. Reliable as clockwork, my favourite characters are the honourable ones, the sneaky ones, and the sneakily honourable ones. I'm also in favour of any and all plots that show these tendencies off.

I also have a thing about trust, characters discovering it, characters struggling with it, characters being betrayed by it, just all the struggles and joys that potentially come from trusting something or someone enough to act on it.

Sexual tension between the villain and hero. Especially of the gay sort, but straight is okay if done sexily enough - e.g. much appreciated in the 300 sequel (302 dalmatians or whatever it was called)

I love it. Except when the writer takes it too far and the character gets all the hurt, ever, or there's a really gory and graphic torture scene.

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ryttu3k - 2014-07-19 04:55 (UTC) - Expand

Here's an odd one: Token Nonhuman. More generally speaking, I like the idea of someone who has been cut off from all his old friends and allies, but has made new friends among folks who're very different from him, and is now trying to fit in without compromising his own cultural background. (Token Human doesn't work as well for me, because they tend to hog the limelight and get all the victories.)

-Time loop (Groundhog day).
-Enemies/rivals to romance.
-Childhood friend romance. (Preferably, they were childhood friends, one moves away and they re-unite years later.)/Childhood promises
-Identity porn! Dual identities, double lives, knowing each other in both identities but not knowing it's the other, etc.
-"In it together" (A group of people are put in a situation together. (Whether they are stranded or lost together, or they're all connected by a secret whether it be normal secret, or something like they can all use magic powers, or they all are on a quest together, regardless if they like each other or not.)
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(TVTropes)
-All Love is Unrequited / Love Dodecahedron
-Imaginary Love Triangle
-Unknown Rival/One-sided Rivalry
-Lonely Together
-Birds of a Feather
-Friendly Enemy
-Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
-Commonality Connection
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