Fuck, Marry, Kill – with tropes!

[extrapenguin]

Via china_shop and solo:

Fuck: this trope takes over your primary fandom(s), but the rest of the internet (and your subsequent fandoms) remain as is OR you have to (hypothetically) read your way through the whole AO3 tag for this trope.
Marry: you will read/see this trope every day for the rest of your life.
Kill: this trope is wiped off the face of the internet.

So – give me a set of 3 tropes! If you want, I can give you 3 tropes for you to play with in response to your comment, too.

Comments

[riventhorn]

Merpeople
Coffee shop AU
Soulbonds

And I'll take some!

[extrapenguin]

Kill: Coffee shop AU, all the way. I hate them! They take out all the things I like about the canon and replace it with generic, and all the characters turn into generic modern romance OCs with the names pastede on yey. :(

As for the other two... I don't particularly like either, but maybe fuck soulbonds, since that'd be the more annoying trope, and marry merpeople. I guess I'm coming over random merpeople everywhere forever.

Yours: Untitled Goose Game AU, Star Wars AU, Stardew Valley AU

[riventhorn]

Marry Star Wars AU because that's a fun verse to play with.

I don't know what the other two things are, so fuck Stardew valley and kill goose game?

[trobadora]

Enemies to lovers.
Found family.
Time loop.

ETA: and give me some, too?

[extrapenguin]

Hmm! I have neutral to positive feelings on all those tropes. Perhaps I'll fuck time loop, as that would be the most fun to have as a one-fandom wonder to look back on fondly, and then ... hmm. I think I'll kill found family, since that usually verges more on glurge/not really what I'm here for, and marry enemies to lovers.

For you: Getting together, Developing relationship, Established relationship.

[trobadora]

For you: Getting together, Developing relationship, Established relationship.

My first reaction to that list: AAAARGH, that's just cruel.

My second reaction: Hmmm, I think of "developing relationship" as a subtrope of "established relationship" (though you may have meant something else?), so I'll cliff the subset and keep the larger one. And then ... AAARGH. But I think I'll shag the get-togethers (there are so many; reading through the entire AO3 tag will take a LONG time) and marry the rarer established relationship. *g*

[extrapenguin]

I generally see the divide as "developing relationship" being when they've just gotten together and are figuring things out, whereas "established relationship" is when they've been together forever and know each other well. Cooperating on finding the footing vs seamless cooperation, I guess? Though it's slightly complicated with the get-together/established relationship dichotomy lumping developing relationship mostly with established relationship.

And isn't cruelty here half the point? *g*

[solo]

BDSM
genderswap
bodyswap

hit me!

[extrapenguin]

Hmm ... Okay, out of those, I'm obviously marrying BDSM, because I like it the most. Most genderswap fic doesn't do much for me at all (and the chance of gender essentialism is higher than I like), so I guess I'm killing that. Which leaves bodyswap as the tag that takes over my fandom. Eh, I can live with that. (Guardian bodyswap would even be pretty interesting imo.)

You get a trope tags with a / in them: Hurt/Comfort, Action/Adventure, Dom/sub.

[solo]

Oh, this is easy. :)


Marry h/c. I love h/c.
Shag action/adventure. I love action/adventure.
In fact, my wife and my mistress are very compatible...

BDSM can go hang.

[rheasilvia]

tentacle porn
genderswap
first person narration

And I'd like some too, please. :-)

[extrapenguin]

I am marrying tentacle porn because tentacles! It's my favorite of the three. I would love to see it every day. :D As for the others... I'm killing first person narration because I don't like it. (My interpretation is that 1st person POV doesn't encompass epistolatory, but even if it does, still killing it.) Which leaves genderswap as the plague that takes over my fandoms. Eh, I can deal with that.

You get 3 trope tags from AO3's random selection of tags: Handcuffed together, Shovel talk, Writing on the body.

[rheasilvia]

Hee, I had no idea you are a tentacle gal. :-)

Hmmm. A bit tricky with the other two, so lets start with:
Kill - shovel talk (I used to like this concept, but have since come to find it performative and senseless; nobody will treat someone better because they're being threatened, it's just a way for the threatening person to feel they've showed their affection)
Have sex with - handcuffed together (which I like, but not necessarily all the time)
Marry - writing on the body (which I like a lot if done right, though I also don't want it all the time, but what can you do *g*)

[extrapenguin]

Tentacles are cool! Though I especially enjoy the more offbeat stuff, like tentacle monsters bottoming. *g* Also, your thoughts on shovel talks are mine.