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What are you die-hard favorite fic tropes? The more cliched the better.

Soulmate/soulbond stuff. Hurt/comfort. I really like the tried-and-true stuff. Even if it's been done a million times, it's still all-good for me.

Seconding all of this. I wish there were more creative takes on the soulmate stuff in all of my randoms, because I eat. it. up.

Pretending to be married.
Hurt/Comfort of the tortured mentally and physically variety.
Terrible childhood.

Pretend marriages/ relationships are the best, especially when the characters are enemies and get some UST. Good Lord do I love me some of that!

Having to pretend to be married. The more ridiculous the reason the better.

Amnesia
One or more characters presumed dead.

Sexual tension and canon gay jokes about male rivals/enemies.

Hurt/Comfort. Sometimes even Healing Cock. Angst, so much angst.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SouthernFriedGenius

Most especially because their real life examples:

Quite a few of the United States' Founding Fathers were from Virginia. Their genius embraced such diverse disciplines as clockmaking, gunsmithing, architecture, legal drafting, theology and wine appreciation... and that was just Thomas Jefferson. No wonder that when John F. Kennedy hosted a gathering of Nobel Prize winners, he said, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Robert E. Lee was a professor at West Point before the American Civil War and went on to become President of what is now Washington and Lee College after.

Stonewall Jackson was a physics instructor at Virginia Military Institute prior to the war.

I'm taking these write-ups as proof that the rest of the world acknowledges how wonderful my home state is.

My runner up favorite trope page is their take on Eisenhower. Best President, or best President?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower?from=Creator.DwightDEisenhower

Edited 2014-12-05 00:21 (UTC)

Robert E. Lee was a professor at West Point before the American Civil War and went on to become President of what is now Washington and Lee College after. Stonewall Jackson was a physics instructor at Virginia Military Institute prior to the war.

It's a shame they were traitors.

Still mad it took you four years to win despite having more money, manpower, and materials?

General Lee was awesome and he gave Virginia the chance at dignity when the fighting stopped. Too bad Grant didn't do the same for the North.

I rather think it was more dignified not to go to war against the country you pledged your allegiance to because you were terrified that the practice of literally owning human beings might be outlawed in the future

I think, on the whole, that course of action was less dignified than being kinda corrupt and inefficient at Presidenting

Fucking dignity, Jesus Christ, dignified treason, dignified chattel slavery, Lord save me

Accepting defeat with grace is more dignified than continuing to bitch about a war you won 150 years ago. After the war Lee got to work as the President of Washington University (which later changed its name to Washington and Lee University because he was just that amazing). He recruited Northerners to attend the school and was well liked and respected by both sides.

Grant, on the other hand, kept hittin' the sauce. Maybe if you guys hadn't been drinking so much you would have won sooner. Maybe then you wouldn't be such bitter jerks now!

Nobody bragging about the south gets to call anyone else bitter about the Civil War. Seriously, that's just embarrassing.

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- Hero distances himself from group because he thinks that they're not friends (because he's not good enough), team finds out

- H/C with emphasis on the C

- Chosen families/Siblings moments between not-blood siblings

- Hero taking the pain for other people (can tie into #1 if part of the reason is he thinks it's his "duty" and it'll be less painful for the others if it's him *coughStevecough*)

- Hero adopts a pet, shenanigans ensue

- Everyone thinks hero is dead, hero is not

- Hero overextends themself to try and save team, but hides it. Team gets angry because they think hero is being a jerk, but it turns out that they're wrong, and they find it out when hero collapses, followed by H/C and "why didn't you just tell us you asshole!"

- Stories where someone just up and leaves their life, either permanently (or an attempt at permanently), or temporarily (ties into the next one)

- ROAD TRIPS

(I use 'hero' because I tend to find men more attractive, but I like heroine doing these things too. /shrug)

I really like C1 has a friend ground, and they feel like the outsider, especially regarding romance because the one they like likes someone else, so they contend to watch from after (not telling their affections) so they don't trouble anyone or mess up their friend group.

Hurt/comfort, especially if there is a lot of hurt
Action heroines

I love both angsty angst angst and fluffy fluff fluff. I don't know why I go to such extremes.

arranged marriage, especially if they don't like each other at first but have to get married for the benefit of their family/country/religion.

+1

In a similar way, I also really like arranged marriage where just one likes the other.

A and B are in love with each other, and both trying to hide it cause they dont think they're good enough for the other or they don't want to ruin their friendship.

Bonus points for communication failure that convinces A that B is in love with an unnamed person C.

THIS IS MY ULTIMATE FAVORITE.

Character is driven solely by revenge like in Man From Nowhere, Count of Monte Cristo, Revenge, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance etc. I love the emotional breakdown when they've achieved what they thought they wanted.

Noble idiots (the self-sacrificing kind, not the royal kind)
Platonic soul mates
"I thought you were dead" reveals
Secret identities

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