[ SECRET POST #2615 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2615 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Tropes!!

[intrigueing]

I mostly just dislike it when it's implied or shown or stated in the fic that the characters no longer care about their previously very important cases/jobs/issues. Like, a long fic that is all about the characters' ~big damn relationship issues~ or some other random plot which has no connection to any of the things that were central to the characters' lives in canon, and doubly so when they're depicted as no longer caring about or being involved in the things that are important to them in canon. (The exception to this is retirement fic, though).

I don't at all mind fics that can be read as the characters taking a brief time-out from their jobs/issues for the duration of the fic in order to focus on something else, especially if the fic is on the shorter side.

Re: Tropes!!

[dreemyweird]

Oh, I dislike that, too. Though it doesn't happen too often in gen fic, I've seen some instances when the characters just go all "fuck the cases, I'll just be a drama queen about my friendship with this other character instead". (eyein' u, Sherlock fandom).

But then again, they were generally badly written.

I guess it must be much more common in romance-y fics. I've read some stuff by Atlin Merrick, and it's all like that. I was torn between laughing and being irritated.

Re: Tropes!!

[intrigueing]

My least favorite is when the fic mentions or shows them quit their jobs or get out of a situation that strongly defined them in canon or something, but the fic doesn't even acknowledge how important a change it would be for the characters to do that and its treated like just some kind of regular 9-to-5 job to pay the bills. "Oh that thing? The activity that was my main purpose in life these X number of years? Yeah whatever that's over now let's be sickeningly romantic and fuck a lot."

Is Atlin Merrick a fic writer? In which fandom(s)?

Re: Tropes!!

[dreemyweird]

She's a Sherlock fanfic writer with okay writing skills, a love for pervasive, endless smut, and a god awful sense of humour.

http://archiveofourown.org/users/AtlinMerrick/pseuds/AtlinMerrick

I think the worst part of her smut fics is that she's trying to joke when writing smut. It ends badly.