Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it! November is over and 2016 is nearly over!

This week I'm asking about favorite tropes, mostly because I felt like taking this trope sorter test again and seeing what I came up with. Listing only my top ten yields a fairly predictable set:

1 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
2 Sex Pollen
3 Hurt/Comfort
4 Fake Out Make Out
5 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
6 Amnesia
7 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
8 Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
9 Loyalty Kink
10 Enemies to Friends to Lovers

What are your results if you feel like it, and what are you working on this week? I don't have anything ready to post (alas!) because Yuletide took up a lot of my energy (I do have four Yuletide stories written, so I feel good about that!). And things are going slowly on the writing front in general but I'm confident I'll find some time soon to work on my alien sex party fic, muahaha.

Comments

[mithen]

THAT'S AWESOME. And yeah, I translate loyalty kink as fealty kink mostly too, though I think it could become some level of self-sacrificing loyalty as well (like in wrestling a tag partner throwing themselves in front of an attack).

Pretty much all of my top favorite tropes have the theme of "being forced into a romantic/sexual situation"--add in the "seemingly unrequited pining" and that's basically the heart of my fanfic writing. :D