Dec Days : Tropes I Like/Dislike/Want to Try Writing, for Balder12

On the Deceber Days meme, balder12asked: Favorite and least favorite tropes in fan fic. Plus, what's a trope you've never written, but want to try?


Tropes I love:
Ooooh. So many. Spells gone wrong, or gone wrong for a character, or just happening - are great. It's interesting to read a character facing new situations, new problems and a new existence, identify or identity they resist. Being dropped into a different place in society, rediscovering their relationships through it, or just going through some in-character crack. Creative curses are interesting as well. I find it very interesting, the different ways people write witches or those who curse, their motives, agency and interests, and who they are.

One thing about this trope - for some reason it's almost always Dean. Where is all the great fic about Sam being cursed in interesting ways?

some recs (mostly it's both fic and podfic:
I don't wan Somebody to Love Me by lazy_daze- I don't wanna give too much away, it's just great
And You Would be a Fool by badbastion- another really good and fun one I don' t wanna spoil
Speechless by candle_beck- just fantastically well written
Keep Our Minds on the Sum of Each Other also by LazyDaze - the boundaries between Dean and Sam were never that stable to begin with
And one of the best fics in the fandom, balder12's Mystery Dance

Tropes I dislike:
I don't like AU - there's some great AU out there, but I almost always want non-AU more. Probably since so many AU's make things more normative, perhaps... but also just cause I'm interested in "canon" variations... I might read something unrelated, but that's - not related very closely? Not a fan of hooker fic, mostly . And A/B/O I'm frustrate that I don't get. It squicks me some, but more than that - I don't get the appeal, and want to!


Tropes I might want to Write:

Well, all else aside, choosing by trope - being able to write wonderful fluffy happies, or a really good long road trip story, with the music and the food and sights and music again and *relationships* and so forth, or a good - like, a classic Wincest early season fic...

Dec Days: Christmas Traditions I like/dislike, for Frozen_Delight

On the December Days meme, frozen_delight asked: What's your favourite and what's your least favourite Christmas tradition?

My family's and people who were my family's religions and so forth are/were very varied, so I wasn't raised with Christian traditions, very much. M is Christian, so I started celebrating it for her.

I like: the lights! Oh, oh, Man, all the shiny!!! I mean, it's so much glitter! And lights! My drag queen self and just my... little girl self and my... warm wintery-ness wanting selves - ahh!!!!! YES . like that. And that warm fuzzy good will thing people get when they;re toasty and forgiving and more empathic than usual....
We only went tree shopping once, cause we got a reusable folding tree thingy, but all the beauty and beautiful tackiness and... hope ... about it... Man... yeah...
And the... family and hope... ness to it ... all...
Egg nog. I love egg nog, I love that the masses liked my vegan version better than the non-vegan version, I liked making up recipes and experimenting with that and making yummy food. And bragging about it, too ;)

Family, safety...

This:

(for the lyrics)





Things I dislike about it:
Well, since I was the one organizing it for large groups of people - argh. All the budgeting, all the things everyone can't eat, all the work for days cooking, especially since it;'s hard for me, all the stuff like people not showing up at the last minute or saying they won''t come then showing up late with a date I literally don't have a chair for and expecting me to serve them like I work there... all the people participating officially in the Secret Santa thing but not actually getting gifts and me having to (or feeling I had to) get presents for people instead of them, so somehow I end up responsible for a million gifts I can't afford for people I don't even necessarily know, and trying to still be thoughtful and find something specifically for them, and often not really getting anything thoughtful for me, cause thoughtful was 'my responsibility'. Oh - and one year my mother's boyfriend-at-the-time felt it was his place to divide the leftovers between his kids without even asking. He didn't make them, pay for them, he was a guest, he didn't even bring a gift for my mom, I had to get her one in his place cause 'he doesn't feel comfortable with that sort of thing', but my mom insisted they both had to be part of the secret Santa thing. And my mom nitpicking and criticizing the way I arranged things. And people complaining about whatever issues they had with the food: there is plenty of variety, eat something else and shut up. You know - the Christmas spirit!