More Fannish 50 ramble

[tellshannon815]

Sometimes I feel like an oddity, because when I'm writing, I tend to avoid tropes, unless it's something like an exchange where my recipient asked for a specific trope. (Although on a recent trip away, I was walking through a Premier Inn reception, there was a group of dudes there who seemed to have had some issue with the rooms they had booked not having enough beds, and I found myself thinking "So which ones of this lot will be reenacting the forced to share a bed trope?") The aforementioned forced to share a bed, coffee shop AU, high school AU....I may read, but I don't usually get inspired to write (I did do forced to share a bed for an exchange once ages ago - Fringe altverse AltLincoln/AltLivia - and wanted to say that was for a specific prompt, but then realised I couldn't remember what the prompt had been, since that was about 11 years ago).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1039251 - here it is.

For me, I've always preferred filling in missing backstory for characters, theories about what might be coming up next in the show, or what-if scenarios such as "What if So and so didn't die?"

Then I realised that maybe I do have my own theme of trying to fix the timelines.

These are completed:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4980793/chapters/11440288 - My first ever series, Once Upon a Time, Defying Gravity. I couldn't understand why Will had been brought across from OUATIW to say "Oh, bloody hell" and not much else, when Jafar could have been brought back in a way that made more sense (his lamp could have ended up in Gold's shop and Zelena accidentally let him out).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17945270/chapters/42379562 - Reverse Flashpoint. Yeah, you've all heard me on the subject of why Cicada was a totally unnecessary addition to The Flash season 5 and they should have just let Eobard be their villain.


These are WIPs:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51462046/chapters/130052452 - Caught Somewhere In Time, Dark. I remember watching Season 1 and thinking "You absolute prat!" when Ulrich realised he'd ended up in 1953, but instead of turning round and at least trying to get to 1986 and rescue Mikkel, he stayed there long enough to get arrested. Straight away, I started writing the scene where he does get there. Two and a bit seasons and six chapters later, I know now it's not quite that straightforward, and the direction the fic is now going isn't where it originally started, but that story will still be told.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44720326/chapters/112516540 - Celestial Mechanics, Past Distant Comets (Red Rose) Wren's attempt to save Rochelle from downloading the Red Rose app goes wrong.

So looking at some of my history, maybe I do have a trope after all.

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

I'm a bit of an odd duck, because I love reading my favorite tropes; can't get enough of them... however, I do not like writing them. I found out about the latter a few years ago when I decided to do Trope Bingo and just couldn't manage without subverting them somehow.

Except for fix-its. Those I write all the time. But then canon too often screws something up and/or kills off my fav character, creating a huge need for them.

[laurapalmer]

I couldn't understand why Will had been brought across from OUATIW to say "Oh, bloody hell" and not much else, when Jafar could have been brought back in a way that made more sense (his lamp could have ended up in Gold's shop



The lamp being in Gold's shop was always one of my headcanons. It was also the premise of one of my unfinished fics, but we won't talk about that... 😬

[spaciireth]

It used to be nearly always missing scenes for me, but now that I've come back to fic, I find I'm really enjoying doing "What if that moment went this way instead" type explorations.