Fandom Snowflake Day 14

[narya_flame]

Challenge #14: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) What makes it particularly appealing for you? What do you like in fanworks featuring that trope?



I really had to think hard about this, because I thought my tastes were quite wide-ranging, but there are some common threads. I like fic that hurts me, and makes me laugh, and makes me think, and makes me believe in the world it's set in. Preferably all of those things in one story. I like authors who understand language and can use it in ways that make me go "oh! Why didn't I think of that?" I like hauntings (literal and metaphorical), and the juxtaposition of the everyday with the mythical and magical. I like groups of disparate people finding their way to each other, working together, learning to care about each other - even (especially) if it's in strange, complicated ways.

I'd struggle to unpick exactly why I like all those things, except perhaps that they're all elements that run through Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, which is my oldest and deepest fannish love.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Sometimes I read a fanfic and am just ~transported by the author's use of words, how they describe things and people and emotion, it's so lovely, and I wish I could write just like that.

[narya_flame]

Yes, absolutely this. I have come across plenty fanfic writers who in my view write better than most published writers.

[spiced_wine]

Oh yes, this, absolutely

[independence1776]

I like groups of disparate people finding their way to each other, working together, learning to care about each other - even (especially) if it's in strange, complicated ways.

Yeeeees.

[narya_flame]

<3 <3 <3 so much love for found/chosen families.

[ysilme]

This is a great way of saying this! I also subscribe to this more or less in the same fashion.

[narya_flame]

:) <3