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⌈ Secret Post #2015 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 085 secrets from Secret Submission Post #288.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Fandom cliches you love

[intrigueing]

In honor of yesterday's biggest fandom pet peeves, let's share some fandom cliches and memes and fanon that we love. :)

A couple off the top of my head:

I love 5+1 fic in every single fandom ever. Can't get enough of it.

I never have and probably never will get tired of the "what if Xander had been dressed up as Darth Vader/Batman/Freddy Kruger/a medieval knight/an alien/whatever instead of a soldier in "Halloween"? fics.

OT3s made of cute canon couple + bff who one half (or both halves) of the couple has mad hoyay/UST with.

That thing where the West Wing fandom collectively decided CJ always calls everyone by wacky nicknames, not just Charlie.

That thing where half The West Wing fandom decided seasons 5-7 were bad fanfic and ignored them, not just in fics but in all characterization discussions as well.

Who gives a fuck what the Avengers lineup was during 1979? Imma just throw a bunch of of my favorite members onto the team and go nuts.

Ditto for the Justice League.

Coulson is alive and no one cares why.

Captain America is totes mystified by the future, yo. What's a hard drive? Does it have something to do with golf?

Star Trek: all teh Ponn Farr fic cliches are good Pon Farr fic cliches :D.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[anonymouslyyours]

We have to pretend to be dating/arranged or for convenience marriages. I will never know why and I am not even a little ashamed.

Oh and SGA deciding early on that Ronan played a musical instrument/was artistic before being drafted.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

/Yawn~

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[writerserenyty]

We have to pretend to be dating

Yess. I've had a thing for this since I saw the X-Files episode where Mulder and Scully had to pretend to be married. Ever since I love this trope.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[thene]

I wrote a femslash one of those recently! It was a 'let's pretend we've had sex to piss off my canon gf who I am mad at-->okay she's suffered enough now-->THREESOME NOW' fic.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

Guy who's a jerk, but eventually turns outs to be in love with the girl he's being a jerk to.

That often used fic cliche that DarkHeart becomes evil again, but won't hurt Christy because he loves her

Love/Hate relationships

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[anonymouslyyours]

I would say I hate that cliche but...

BOOOYS OVER FLOOOOWERSSSS!

*le sigh* I cannot mock your poor taste in cliches any longer.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[childings.livejournal.com]

Love/hate relationships, guys who are jerks who turn out to not really be jerks, or the tsundere female + guy she hates ending up together are some of my favorite clichés

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[doilycoffin]

I looove amnesia fic (you know, the wonderfully medically inaccurate amnesia that gets cured with a kiss or whatever. I was disappointed when I learned about how real life amnesia usually works. I romanticized the hell out of it when I was younger)

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

+.5 I actually had amnesia as the result of a concussion when I was a kid so...it's oddly comforting to read about. I don't really mind curing it with a magical kiss or even if the character hits their head a second time and that cures them, as long as the rest of it is done believably (like...there is a certain set of behaviors that people have, and different types of amnesia, so at least the author should read the wikipedia article. I have to check my facts too since, well, I don't remember what it was like lol). I have seen some prompts/summaries for amnesia fic that just pissed me off. My current fandom doesn't have any amnesia fic at all though and now I'm craving it again. :(

wow I'm kinda embarrassed by how long this comment is

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

Six words, one cliche: "If it's you then it's okay."

Yes, I know it's problematic but I still find it stupidly romantic.

Also, high school AUs, band AUs, college AUs, WHATEVER AUs I LOVE ALL OF THEM.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[biohazardgirl]

I also recognize this is problematic and still enjoy the hell out of Sherlock fic that has this cliche.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[aetter]

So we're trapped in this cave with each other and we end up having a heart to heart that ends in sexy times. It makes perfect sense!

We hate each other's guts, but that means we'll be having sex by the end of this fic.

Loki wants cheap amusement + Tony Stark wants to know how magic works = bam, that means they'll be having secret sex all over the place soon. Thor will be angry but understanding. Steve will be worried. Everyone else will be too happily paired up to care. Rearrange pairings as necessary.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[tasogare_n_hime]

AUs, mostly fantasy AUs, and modern day AUs depending on the fandom. Also: (character/characters name here) is/are still alive fics ♥.

The "blanket scenario" fics, though I don't think I've seen one in ages...

I also love baby!fic/Kid!fic especially if it involves a character you wouldn't think of as good with kids being surprisingly good with kids. I'm not sure if that's actually fandom cliche through...

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[biohazardgirl]

BBC Sherlock loving bees. I will never get tired of fanworks with Sherlock + bees.

Sherlock is a bitch when he's sick.

Sherlock is adorable/cuddly while he is sleepy/sleeping.

The cliche that most Marauders era fic is Remus/Sirius. I am a huge fan of that pairing (but it's ok if you're not shippers please don't kill me!)

I will never get tired of crossover art with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Seriously, my favorite new law of the internet is "if it exists, there is a pony of it."

Oh shit, I'm going to get flak for this one. Please do not hate me. I like Derpy Hooves. Yes, I know she is problematic. No, I didn't realize this until recently. My friend and I both watch MLP and she has an eyesight problem (blind in one eye) and she is a ditz sometimes and so we have both enjoyed Derpy for a long time. Again, I apologize to anyone Derpy may have offended, and I know she is problematic but. . .I still think she is cute and I like her.

I am a sucker for unrequited love in fic. It makes my heart ache in the best way.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[rtydmartel]

I love Fix-Fics/Do-Overs/Peggy-Sues in the Harry Potter fandom.

In other fandoms too (like in Naruto, despite not keeping up with the anime beyond the start of that exam tournament they had going and learning everything that happened afterward via fics, fandom!secrets and the occasional frustrated venting of a friend), but the canon of Harry Potter lends itself especially well to that kind of story.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

Stories where a character cries openly and makes sappy overly-emotional declarations of appreciation/love/friendship even though they would look like a thirteen-year-old girl who's stayed up past her bedtime if they did that in canon. I HAVE NO SHAME.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[anonymouslyyours]

Sort of related?

Does anyone know if there are any fandoms that still do the Harlequin challenge? (Where they take the blurbs off the back of Harlequins and slash the heck out of it. Some awesome trashy gems came out of those!)

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

Agreeing with all the ones listed by OP of this thread, especially "Coulson is alive and no one cares why."

A few more that I like:

- Sailor Moon crossovers. I will NEVER get tired of seeing random characters dressed as Sailor Senshi.

- A male character is revealed to secretly be a crossdresser when no one is looking (especially if he's a MANLY MAN like Thor or Wolverine).

- Characters discover fanfic of themselves on the internet and freak out. Meta ensues!

- Parodies and trollfic written in the style of My Immortal.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno if this counts, but canonically promiscuous characters getting called a whore or a slut and/or being thoroughly shamed about it during sex scenes.

It's a fandom thing, because it does nothing for me in real life. I mean, it's not a squick or a turn-off or anything, but IRL it just sounds weird and contrived and rather nonsensical, whereas in fic I'm like OMG I NEED A BUNK GIVE ME FIVE MORE PARAGRAPHS OF THIS PLZ. (I'm also pissed that this trope seems to only happen to men in slashfic, never women in het or femmeslash. It's actually gotten to the point where it's rather condescending, like us poor females are too insecure to weather some dirty talk or something.)

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[(Anonymous)]

Meta fics about Mary Sues, where the Sues know they're Sues and are trying to use their canon-warping powers for good. I will never get sick of them.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[fickletastictot]

I'm right there with you with the 5 Things fics! Especially the UST-themed ones. (With a dash of angst thrown in.)

I also really like high school AUs. when it's done right I end up shrieking with glee at my computer screen, and I have a smile on my face for hours after reading it.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[cloud_riven]

Coulson is alive and no one cares why.

This is a beautiful cliche. At least, if it actually happened to be a cliche and something that wasn't true. Coulson never died, silly!

Alright, putting on my love cap.

- Oblivious!Character/Pining!Character. I fucking love that, having it almost unrequited, but it's only because one half of the pairing is suffering from social/communication fail.

- smush/portmanteau ship naming :D Jisbon, Sterek, Sterica, Kataang, Sansae (sp?), whatever. I don't even care if I ship them, I love trying to say the names out loud. ATLA/LoK ones always sound like comic book sound effects too. So fun!

- "Closer" fanvids. Yeah yeah, none of them will ever actually be as good as the Kirk/Spock that started them all, and they're usually quite terrible, but it's obligatory, man. Your tv/film fandom sucks if there hasn't been one vidder out there to half-ass, or pull off, a Closer fanvid.

- Genderswaps. Especially genderswaps that leave the characters looking their age (fem!RDJ!Iron Man comes to mind as usually looking way too young). Except, I kind of still eat it all up.

- Suddenly ooc Bakery AU! Or omegaverse. Or highschool au. Or Hogwarts AU! HDM AUs! Or college AU and some of the character's are TAs, or professors, and students, and ♥ ♥♥♥♥ ♥&HEAR TS ;

- tumblr has gotten me into gifset AUs. Fake subtitles are AWESOME.

- haha I'm an awful person that loves when a canon love interest, who I probably don't ship with someone, ends up besties with that interest instead. because I usually ship them with different people, but i still love the idea of them as the bestest supporting friendship ever.

- slap slap kiss because i am allowed to be a boring mofo

- case fiiiic and metas where people detail how characters would solve crime, fight crime, deal with monsters, deal with specific kind of monsters, or whatever the hell they normally deal with depending on the source material.

I have more but I'm being yelled at to watch something on my computer. :(

I love you, fandom.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[fingalsanteater]

Enemies (or antagonists) to friends to lovers fic. All my favorite pairings have that dynamic (Harry/Snape, Harry/Draco, reboot Kirk/Spock, MU Steve/Tony). I swear, it's pretty much all I read.

Re: Fandom cliches you love

[agentcthulhu]

IA, I <3 "what if" fics.

I also like (not in any order)

-Actor meets the character they play and other breaking-the-4th-wall fics
-Forced bonding/marriage
-kid!Avengers
-(pseudo-)science talk

I'm pretty easy to entertain.