#common cliches

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

overused cliches let’s go

- love triangle (bane of my existence)

- he’s a monster and she “fixes him”

- bad end queer stories (chill when done right and tastefully, but it’s a trope steeped in homophobia)

- “uh, he’s right behind me isn’t he” Disney movie line

- any fun high school experience. High school is a mess of hormones and misery

This was in response to my original post asking for overused tropes/clichés - I know I said I'd make a post on it, but I: a) completely forgot and b) was worried about unintentionally upsetting people by casting a negative light on tropes/clichés. As a whole they are very interesting to analyse/read about in narratives as they add structure/substance to a story.

Incidentally I have since written a long list of spy tropes that I can post if people are interested. (I watched a James Bond film and it inspired a long list). I've also been plugging away at a 'common whump tropes in film that annoy the average whump enjoyer' list.

That being said, here's mine:

- "You just don't get it, do you?" - Character unknowingly speaking to the enemy (open coms/hacking/stolen coms) - Speaking into a communicator on their wrist/shoulder/ear. - Walking away from a crash that should've killed them with a cut on their eyebrow. - "Is that all you've got?" / "I'm giving her all she's got!" - One last job before retirement - A computer virus that will affect everything in the world. - Nuclear launch codes being in a briefcase and requiring two keys. - "Turn on the TV" - "We've got company." - Underlying serious moments with jokes. (I am looking DIRECTLY at Marvel) - Villains need to be redeemed/have reasoning behind their actions (an increasing trend, particularly with Disney remakes. Sometimes villains are just villains. ) - "It's not what it looks like." - "You look like shit." - "Tell them I love them." - "You have to choose between one person, or the world." - or choosing between having superpowers or their loved ones. - Coughing indicating a terminal disease. - "Everyone I get close to, dies." - Manual overrides. - Hyper-intelligent = cold and unfeeling or extremely egotistical - Dead parents/family/loved ones making the hero jaded and untrusting.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TF One D-16

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some fantasy traveler inventory details (like what they would carry in their bags), based on two of the recent costumes I did.. love finding random little scraps and items and putting them together lol

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Funniest thing about the Bart and Ace rivalry is that they are both absolute nerds. I'm talking genius level, could make it into Mensa, prodigy style nerds.

And yet they keep making fun of each other for it???? Bart called Ace "Mr. Science Guy" like Bart doesn't understand the intricacies of quantum mechanics like it's a six piece foam puzzle for toddlers.

This is nerd on nerd violence

[lucidsadvocate]

who here wants another kubometo fanfic. (it's been months, and the lack of fanfiction is killing me)

[shiraishi--kanade]

I hope people know that when I call VBS a shounen story I am not doing so derogatory. I have 500+ watch hours of shounen anime. If anything that's the reason I'm obsessed with them.

[gently-decaying-flowers]

i don’t think forever exists

[danmeichael]

both ad lib lovers and the summer hikaru died to something really interesting wherein they take typical genre conventions and set-ups of BL and place them into a genre other than romance, while still portraying the romantic undertones. where the summer hikaru died does this with horror, ad lib lovers does this with comedy.

as opposed to hikaru's focus on horror, in ad lib lovers, jealousy, desire, and a fear of inadequacy and loving someone more than they love you is portrayed through the lens of improv. this accurately depicts that having a crush on someone as an adult is humiliating.

[fideidefenswhore]

The concentration of chapel goods among the items delivered to Elizabeth provides another indication that the Privy Council did not exercise exclusive control over the selections made for the princesses. Had this been the case, the Council would seem to have acted arbitrarily indeed in awarding Elizabeth a broad range of chapel furnishings, yet allowing only one altar cloth to Mary. Even Starkey, who assigns agency to the Privy Council in the selection of these goods, admits that it is "curious" that Elizabeth received more chapel goods than Mary. Elizabeth had already demonstrated a keen interest in religion. She had presented translations of religious treatises from French, Latin, and Italian sources as gifts to Henry VIII and Katherine Parr. Surely, the most reasonable explanation is that Elizabeth [...] asked for these chapel goods herself.

Jeri L. McIntosh. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516–1558.

[vaicomcas]

Algorithm for Character Assassination

Castiel's 10-year-long character assassination has got to be the longest and most gruesome in television's history.

I always complained about the writers stripping Castiel of everything, but I sort of assumed it happened organically because they fundamentally didn't value this characte. But now I am seeing that it looks very much like a conscious, long term design, which goes like this:

some kind of "bad" or "foolish" action (his "screw-up") --consequences or "crimes" that destroy him with guilt--physical and mental trauma--blows to his self-esteem--leading to some more of "screw up" -- even worse consequences--rinse and repeat.

I don't know if that's their idea of character growth, but it was such a one-way street down an abyss, that his character just got carved up piece by piece, until, I have to admit, late stage Castiel (S13 and S14 especially) was a shadow of himself, no conviction, no power, no spark, he didn't even have any coherent storylines, just random plot-assisting cameos really. (With a couple--far too few-- dadstiel scenes being slight exceptions)

Below the cut is a color-coded recount of this vicious cycle of his character's "arc".

Purple is the "Castiel's screw-up action explained by the piles of prior blows to his self-worth"; blue is the supposed consequence of his actions, aka his "crimes" usually not actually anything he is to blame for; red is physical or mental trauma; orange is blows to his self-esteem from both enemies and friends and most often Dean

Getting exploded without so much as a thank you from those he died for--Bonkers gas-lighting storyline turning his heroics of fighting a civil war to save the world into him being super-villain --getting exploded then losing his mind --being mind controlled into killing his beloved brother or beating up Dean--hunted by angels and demons --getting berated by Dean--falling for Metatron's deceit in desperation --causing all angels to fall and many to die--losing his grace and became homeless and got killed briefly--thrown out and humiliated by Dean -- captured by angels and tortured--trying to rally the angels to return to heaven only to have to chose Dean's life over them and losing his army--dying from stolen grace with nobody caring about it--letting Sam convince him to do whatever it took to save Dean from the Mark --got beaten by Dean to an inch of his life--got turned into Rowena's attack dog and turned to angels to avoid hurting innocents--got tortured and learned angels all hated him-- severe PTSD and depression and berated for letting Metatron go--being told he was expendable and hated by angels and got branded and humiliated by Amara and nobody cared--said yes to Lucifer in order to save the world --tortured by Amara and told by angels he was worse than Lucifer--God his father reconciled with Lucifer in his body without acknowledging him----Lucifer was unable to defeat Amara and his sacrifice was meaningless--failed in a bunch of things --got yelled at by Mary for being useless--failed to kill Dagon--got yelled at by Dean for doing his own thing--regained faith through "meeting" unborn Jack and resolving to raise him away from the Winchesters--gets killed by Lucifer and his child became the Winchesters (victim))

And after that he doesn't get even shitty arcs anymore, they made him full-on plot device.

And green is "the one good thing that should have been a win for him for once in this goddam show but somehow also was portrayed as his screwup and his win was immediately and absolutely nullified ".

I can't ever fault Castiel for anything and that is a character flaw of mine. However, I do sympathize with people who are angry that Castiel lost all his backbone after Season 7, to the point that they don't even like him anymore. I hate that aspect as well but just look at it. In this show, Castiel never stood a chance.

[shortmexicangirl]

spy!feligami au... hmm much to think about

[flovverworks]

(scrolling down the wizard list) who am i bringing to the love n deepspace verse

[ray-moo]

Common tongue? In my fantasy setting? No fantasy setting is complete without one. I actually have five separate languages all referred to as 'common' myself.

[warningsine]

[roguelioness]

The best way to predict the future is to create it

someday I'll figure out how to astrologian

[memecatwings]

btw if anyones looking for a tv show rec Kingdom on netflix is one of my faves rn its a historical kdrama zombie horror and it has 2 seasons plus a movie :3