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[blue-disco-lights]

Excited to share my submission for the Gallavich Tropes Challenge!

Thank you @its-a-queer-thing for the opportunity to think this story up - this was so much fun 💗 My tropes are: * Lawyer/Client * Jock/Nerd * Party AU (Happy 🎃 !)

And a big thank you to my betas @sweetbee78 & @ian-galagher for eyes and comments and help!

"Running Into You" on AO3

Summary: After spending ten years in a fake, but comfortable, marriage, the time has come for Mickey Milkovich to seek out a divorce lawyer, to gain back the freedom he’s been craving since he was a teenager. After the last bit of paperwork is filed, he can finally admit to himself that he wouldn’t mind getting to know the attractive lawyer who’s been helping him, dorky ties and all.

What he doesn’t know yet, is that his lawyer’s had his sights set on him since his high school junior varsity baseball days.

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[t3acupz]

will graham really was that damsel in distress in digestivo that hannibal had to rescue then carry bridal style to safety

[lyndentree63]

Saw a BookTok about how 'there are millions of people in the world but I happened to fall in love with one that doesn't exist' and then it showed a bunch of books including Fourth Wing and people are in love with Xaden? The broody guy with as much personality as wet cardboard?? (This post isn't out here to yuck anyone's yum—if you think he's dreamy I love that for you /gen. This is sheer asexual/demiromantic bafflement about why people go crazy for characters whose sole personality is 'hot, brooding, and in love with me'.)

[amchara]

“I think what people were is less important than what they are. And what people are is less important than what they could be.” ― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise

[constantvigilante]

I love falling in love with my own writing

[trainofcommand]

For the trope ratings: bodyswap!

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

I'm not sure I've ever read a bodyswap fic. I think the idea is probably interesting to me, but I also think I'd be squicked if the characters are using the bodies for things that the other would not want? But if they were both good with it? Then yes!

Thank you for asking!

[out-of-jams]

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

[not-avril]

The trope I appreciate very much

[bebx]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

[skipppppy]

I think she’d respect his methodology

[prokopetz]

"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[amchara]

For the fanfic trope ask meme: enemies to lovers OR soulmarks

Ooh, not both?

Okay- talking about soulmarks. I think it's a C for me - Neutral. A good author might be able to sell it, but a bad one will kill it deader than dead.

I have read a couple of soulmark stories as written by some fav authors and those have really worked for me. But often I think that's because those stories have often had some subversion of that trope built in so... hmm, maybe it's more like borderline C/D for me on that.

(And just quickly on enemies to lovers - prob a C for me too. I think it's challenging for even professional authors to pull it off well too.)

[your-absent-father]

I think people misunderstand "x fell first, y fell harder " trope because it's not about like the one who fell harder loves the other person harder. It's just that the one who fell first falls in a graceful way, one step at the time, maybe gradually over a span of time. The one who fell harder smashes trough the air, there's blood everywhere, everything is fine-

[trainofcommand]

ratemytrope.com time

And there was only one bed

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

I like this trope! Especially if it's cold out. And the bed is cozy! And there's longing. And cuddling. And then urgent 'oh my god I can't believe I can have this' sex. Yes. Very nice. (Thank you for asking!)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills