Fandom Snowflake Challenge

[respoftw]

Day 10
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples!

After thinking about it, I'm going to narrow this post down to my two favourite tropes of all time.

1. Hurt/Comfort

For as long as I can remember, I have had a fondness for watching or reading about my favourite characters getting hurt and one of the best things about finding fandom was learning the term whump and realising that I am not alone! For me, the real litmus test of whether I have fallen for a character or a show is whether or not I get that clenchy hurt feeling in my chest when they are the ones that are hurt. I love that feeling. I love any and all forms of hurt/comfort although I'm honest enough about myself that I know it's the hurt that really gets me. I especially love hurt Rodney in my SGA fics. Coming into the fandom a couple of years ago I was a little disappointed to realise that hurt John is more common but there's still plenty of hurt Rodney to go around!

One of my favourites is Salt of the Earth by dasha which sadly doesn't seem to be available online anymore :(

2. Kid Fic

I don't have kids. I don't actually ever want to have kids. But goddamnit, I love me some kid Fic. I've been known to read kid Fic in fandoms that I don't even know anything about just to get my fix. This wasn't a genre or trope I expected to like because I'm really not a kid person in real life. Maybe it's the fantasy element? Kid Fic and playing with my niece are the closest I want to get to having kids!

So Wise We Grow by Deastar</a is one of the kid fics I've read for a pairing I don't even ship (Spirk) but it's one of the best I've ever read.

Comments

[vaysh]

... and one of the best things about finding fandom was learning the term whump and realising that I am not alone!
Same! Thanks for putting it so well.

[respoftw]

<3

[summerstorm]

One of my closest fandom friends loves loves loves hurt/comfort and I've learned so much about it from her. It's not my kink but I do read it sometimes; I like it when it's focused on the sort of mundane slog of recovery, people being nice to each other and whatnot.

Your line about not being alone also reminds me of another kink of hers actually. I experience the feeling you described sometimes but I think I'm too self-centered to experience it about tropes. Or too mainstream? Who knows.

I love fic with cats in it, I just realized that's probably my version of loving kid fic. LOL. I do read kid fic though, sometimes! I don't seek it out but it can be very good.

[amycooper]

I too am a big fan of h/c, but you already knew that. ;)

I too have my favorite whumpees and Rodney is way up there on that list. I still have that partially written fic for you that hasn't made much headway lately. I think I need to rewatch the Siege before I can get back into it.

[respoftw]

i will wait to the ends of the earth for more hurt Rodney :)

[alessnox]

Thanks for the rec.

[otherearths_outthere]

Yep, H/C. Make ‘em suffer, make ‘em bleed. But put them all back together in the end.

[themusecalliope]

Yes and yes!
Excellent choices.

[em_kellesvig]

Salt of the Earth by dasha

http://web.archive.org/web/20170306001238/http://www.area52hkh.net/asd/dasha/saltof01.php

http://web.archive.org/web/20170306001239/http://www.area52hkh.net/asd/dasha/saltof02.php

http://web.archive.org/web/20170306001239/http://www.area52hkh.net/asd/dasha/saltof03.php

[respoftw]

Thank you! One of these days I will learn how to work the way back machine!

[em_kellesvig]

runpunkrun has a great tutorial on the Wayback Machine here. I hope that helps. :D

[respoftw]

Thanks!

[talkingtothesky]

I also adore both of these tropes <3 I don't ever want kids but I like to read how fictional characters grow up, without spending all that money on actually bringing them up *grin*

[spikedluv]

I don't have kids. I don't actually ever want to have kids. But goddamnit, I love me some kid Fic.

Same! Give me all the kid!fic! (On self-rec day I rec'd a kid!fic I'd written and commented that it's weird to me that I've actually written a few when I don't have kids of my own. *g*)