My kinds of stories

[dolorosa_12]

Day Twenty-Four of the fandom meme prompts:

X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Hurt/comfort! I could expand on this and say that I have more specific preferences (such as which character is hurt and which is doing the comforting) depending on the fandom, but in general, this is a pretty solid trope for me. I like it in original fiction as well.

I also love 'across the barricades' kinds of relationships (whether romantic or platonic), villains/antagonists and heroes having to grudgingly work together and slowly becoming friends, and heists (particularly when they involve the two preceding tropes as well).


Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

Comments

[lokifan]

YES such a strong agree on both. They're so great. I haven't actually written very much hurt/comfort, but it's the first thing I look for in a new fandom. It can be pretty much the only thing I read, if I do a fandom in a "binge fic for a weekend then barely think about it again" way.

[dolorosa_12]

I actually find it really hard to write (or possibly I find it hard to share — the longest fic I've ever written is a massive emotional hurt/comfort epic, but I've not posted it on Ao3 and probably never will). I agree one hundred per cent with regard to reading it, though — I immediately seek it out in new fandoms, and tend to gravitate towards fandoms where it's already there in canon as well.