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[How To Train Your Dragon]

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You know how there's some fanfic trends that apply to a particular character/relationship in one fandom....but very similar variations apply in lots of different fandoms? Like, say, the woobified bad guy draco-in-leather-pants? Or that-one-guy-who-bottoms-to-everyone? Or that-couple-where-A-is-always-taking care-of-B-and-never-the-other-way-around?

What are some examples of such trends and cliches and patterns you've noticed and been amused by?

(Bonus: a parody fanart demonstrating an example of one such trend:

http://elfkin.deviantart.com/art/Of-Sickness-and-Slashers-169390151 )

I've noticed a huge uptake in fanfics which start "[OC Name] was a US marine who...[fandom with no connection to the US and especially not soldiering]".

I'm kinda sick of people glorifying American soldiers and military tactics. Especially when they have to knock 100 IQ points off regular canon characters and nerf their technological capabilities in order to do it.

On the other hand I also have noticed an upkick, and still hate, fanfics with "[Ridiculous OC Name] was a pregnant teenager who...[fandom]"

I suppose the eventual outcome will be a fanfic with [Ridiculous OC Name] was a heavily pregnant teenage US Marine who slaughtered her way to become Queen of the Care Bears sat upon a throne of skulls...actually I would read the hell out of that one.

I suppose the eventual outcome will be a fanfic with [Ridiculous OC Name] was a heavily pregnant teenage US Marine who slaughtered her way to become Queen of the Care Bears sat upon a throne of skulls...actually I would read the hell out of that one.

That honestly sounds like the very best kind of crack. So imaginative!

If I could write that for you, I WOULD.

High school AUs. (I get that many people in fandom are in high school or have left it a short time ago but I, er, shall we say have not so these hold no interest for me. That said I am capable of using the scroll but so it's not like I'm going to whinge about them to their writers.)

Female OC paired up with hottest male canon character. I bet you you could find this fic in every singe series with more than a handful of fics to its name. (I get that this is just escapism and there's nothing wrong with it, but I never did this even as a kid so it kind of wigs me out.)

I feel the exact same way about... both, really. But for high school AUs, whenever I voice this opinion people shoot me down, saying, 'but it works so well because of the pressure cooker environment where everybody sees each other all the time!! College AUs don't work so well for that reason because you don't see the same people so often!1' Call me crazy, or maybe it's the fact that I went to a community college and then a relatively small university (coughUViccough), but I saw many of the people who were pursuing the same degrees as me quite often. (I also chose to hang around my department a lot otherwise because it was nerdy and awesome.)

Well that and, like you I'm long past my high school days.

Fellow UVic alumni fistbump!

I don't know how much I'd enjoy a college AU either, but at least it would be something remotely original and probably a fair bit more engaging. What I'd give for the next Persona game to be set in a college or -gasp- an office instead of a high school, I can't even describe. I am so, so sick of high school shit. Doesn't help that it seems like that was the "best time of your life!!!111" only for the very worst sort of person. Even the jocks/popular kids weren't also colossal dickbags enjoyed college or early adulthood (travelling! money! independence!) more.

/fistbump I'm actually kyuusei, just can't log in atm. ;)

While I talk about a hypothetical college AU, I'm not sure I've ever actually... read one yet. (Are they out there?) It would be something new at least and I agree, I'd looove one for Persona 5 - there's even more possibilities than the previous games' HS setting imo, and again, it's more relatable for me! 'best time of your life' has always sounded like bullshit. HS has a few good moments in an otherwise meh existence, but I loved both my post-secondary schools way more.

Just read TVTropes. They often have a fanfiction section.

Coffee Shop AUs are in every fandom. Rarely are they that great.

How about a coffee-shop AU that is only a side-story to the main story of a cathedral under destruction?

Could count. But even if it doesn't I'm going to assume there's another out there that does.

I'm guessing this one you mention is actually good?

I'm actually writing about one. The main character is traveling to a city to cheak-up on his brother, who has emigrated there and is operating a coffee shop with his boyfriend. While there, the main character discovers a cathedral that is slated for destruction yet still has a working piano. He plays, one thing leads to another and the whole thing is now being converted into a concert hall. Of course, there are more than just ordinary immigrants in the city, and a political upheaval on the other side of the earth shall bring about trouble close to home...

Is it good?

Sounds like a mix of things with some Coffee Shop AU thrown in as a small part.

And I wouldn't know if it's good. I haven't read it. I'm a firm believer in the idea that it's not what you write, so much, but how you write it. I said that "rarely are they [CSAU] great." That means some are actually great. Most are just okay. Others are bad. Yet, they're all the same premise. It's the author who turns it into something good or bad by virtue of their own writing. Look at Jim Butcher. He wrote an entire series based on that idea. He bet someone that it wasn't about the idea but how that idea was written. He said he could turn not only one bad idea but two bad ideas into a good series. The other person who was betting him gave him two "bad" ideas. I think they were Pokemon and the lost roman legion. The Codex Alera series was born and let me tell you, it's very good. Very popular. So Jim Butcher won the bet.

Your story will be good if you write it that way. Good luck.

I wrote a long-winded coffee shop AU with a friend for a long time. I got bored eventually but it was fun back then as just a silly side project.

That sounds like fun. Did you finish it off or did you leave it a WIP?

It was never finished sadly, but we did a lot with it that we set out to do and it stretched over a couple years. Sometimes we wrote tons or we'd go months without adding to it. I think it died when we both wanted to do other, more serious writing projects. But it was great fun.

That sounds absolutely fantastic. It gives me warm fuzzies thinking about the fun you must have had.

Haha, it was great :) I feel like we started before 'coffee shop AUs' were really a thing (that I knew of) and now it seems like the new high school AU? Or are high school AUs still a thing? I can't keep up LOL

High School AUs are still a thing. I don't read them but I pass them by a lot. Coffee Shop AUs are like High School AUs for people who don't like high school, as far as I can tell.

I had a feeling that's what it was. I probably wouldn't write another coffee shop AU, and I'm way past high school to care about those AUs. :)

Ah, well, you have your memories.

Re: Fanfic trends that cross all fandoms

(Anonymous) - 2013-09-14 06:00 (UTC) - Expand

There is one in the Dishonored fandom and it's glorious. The first Coffee Shop AU that I really liked.

Oh, yes, I like that one too.

That sounds hilariously awesome.

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