Least favorite tropes
May. 3rd, 2020 02:17 amThis was going to be a Twitter thread, and then I was like... maybe I would like this to be findable in the future, like if I ever do an exchange? So that trope sorter was going around a while back and it was fun but I can tell you exactly what I like and don't so here are the tropes I normally do not read:
- De-aging. This trope makes my soul want to depart from my body. It squicks me more than any sex-related thing that could be in a story, even when it's 100% platonic as it usually is. I have no idea why and I can't really explain it! But I have literally never read a de-aging fic all the way through, that's how much it doesn't work for me.
- Fake-out character death: when a character dies, is mourned, and then turns out not to be dead. Give me actual major character death over this every time.
- Amnesia where people around the amnesiac character know things about them they don't know themselves and the amnesiac knows they have amnesia. It's like constant embarrassment happening or waiting happen.
- Jealousy as proof of love/sudden desire for monogamy and lack of desire for other people as proof of real lurve. As a person who prefers to be non-monogamous this is kind of self-explanatory. Jealousy as a signal that there are unacknowledged romantic feelings for someone is fine.