Snowflake Challenge
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tellshannon815Challenge #11
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
Years ago, I remember seeing some random meme about tropes doing the rounds on my friends list, and I can't remember the questions, but I do remember I gave up and deleted whatever I was trying to type because I just had nothing to say about forced to share a bed, coffee shop AU or any of the other tropes on the meme.
Since then I've realised what my thing actually is. I love alternate timelines, what if So and so didn't die, that kind of thing. The first idea I ever had for a fic (which I scrapped because it wasn't great) involved Lost's Michael and Walt having been prevented from boarding the plane (for context, Michael was the character I didn't like at the time - this was before I realised that Smokey McSmokeFace aka What's his face Bastard was truly the worst of the worst).
Sometimes I might play it where a character's made an active choice to try and change things - see Reverse Flashpoint where The Flash's Nora, determined to prevent Barry's disappearance, is manipulated by Eobard into giving Barry the metahuman cure (which I was so convinced was the route the show would go down, I was disappointed when the finale ended up being Cicada crap) or The Eleven Mile Game (the end of the original book The Midnight Game totally set this up, I'm still hoping for a sequel because I think there is potential). The first ever series I finished and posted was Once Upon a Time's Zelena trying to erase Regina from existence, with a little help from Jafar who was brought to Gold's shop in the curse - Defying Gravity.
Sometimes I just change it without making it be an active choice by the character. After getting really frustrated when first watching Dark when Ulrich got stuck in 1953 instead of making it to 1986 to rescue Mikkel, I started my current project Caught Somewhere In Time, where Ulrich does get to 1986 - I didn't get into how he managed to do that, just started with Egon returning Mikkel to Ulrich's care. With this one, I have wondered many times if I bit off more than I could chew. At the time of starting, I was still on season 1, so didn't fully understand the ramifications of removing Mikkel from the 1986 timeline (for anyone not familiar with Dark, the timelines and family trees are very complicated. This show comes with family trees, one for each season, so people can keep track of how everyone is related). Instead of giving Mikkel his happy ending, returning him to 2019 would just erase the whole Nielsen family line, and I now feel I'm being drawn to an ending I'd initially wanted to avoid.
And I still want to finish You Are Here, Like A Mystery where Lost's Sun goes back to 1977 instead of staying in 2007 - I lost heart a bit after certain events of season 6 (yes, Smokey McSmokeFace, I'm looking at you) but determined to come up with an ending that also erases that episode.
Speaking of Smokey McSmokeFace, I realised I was a lost cause a couple of days ago when I was at the three sentence ficathon and saw the prompt where the antagonist travels back in time to the start. I now have Origin where said asshole travels back in time to when his fake mother was still alive, and gets the chance to change time so he can leave the island back then. I hate this guy. I haven't forgiven him for killing off my het pairing and one half of my slash pairing. And yet I'm actually seriously considering expanding on this and letting him actually change time. Somebody save me....(*Smallville theme stuck in my head*)
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
Years ago, I remember seeing some random meme about tropes doing the rounds on my friends list, and I can't remember the questions, but I do remember I gave up and deleted whatever I was trying to type because I just had nothing to say about forced to share a bed, coffee shop AU or any of the other tropes on the meme.
Since then I've realised what my thing actually is. I love alternate timelines, what if So and so didn't die, that kind of thing. The first idea I ever had for a fic (which I scrapped because it wasn't great) involved Lost's Michael and Walt having been prevented from boarding the plane (for context, Michael was the character I didn't like at the time - this was before I realised that Smokey McSmokeFace aka What's his face Bastard was truly the worst of the worst).
Sometimes I might play it where a character's made an active choice to try and change things - see Reverse Flashpoint where The Flash's Nora, determined to prevent Barry's disappearance, is manipulated by Eobard into giving Barry the metahuman cure (which I was so convinced was the route the show would go down, I was disappointed when the finale ended up being Cicada crap) or The Eleven Mile Game (the end of the original book The Midnight Game totally set this up, I'm still hoping for a sequel because I think there is potential). The first ever series I finished and posted was Once Upon a Time's Zelena trying to erase Regina from existence, with a little help from Jafar who was brought to Gold's shop in the curse - Defying Gravity.
Sometimes I just change it without making it be an active choice by the character. After getting really frustrated when first watching Dark when Ulrich got stuck in 1953 instead of making it to 1986 to rescue Mikkel, I started my current project Caught Somewhere In Time, where Ulrich does get to 1986 - I didn't get into how he managed to do that, just started with Egon returning Mikkel to Ulrich's care. With this one, I have wondered many times if I bit off more than I could chew. At the time of starting, I was still on season 1, so didn't fully understand the ramifications of removing Mikkel from the 1986 timeline (for anyone not familiar with Dark, the timelines and family trees are very complicated. This show comes with family trees, one for each season, so people can keep track of how everyone is related). Instead of giving Mikkel his happy ending, returning him to 2019 would just erase the whole Nielsen family line, and I now feel I'm being drawn to an ending I'd initially wanted to avoid.
And I still want to finish You Are Here, Like A Mystery where Lost's Sun goes back to 1977 instead of staying in 2007 - I lost heart a bit after certain events of season 6 (yes, Smokey McSmokeFace, I'm looking at you) but determined to come up with an ending that also erases that episode.
Speaking of Smokey McSmokeFace, I realised I was a lost cause a couple of days ago when I was at the three sentence ficathon and saw the prompt where the antagonist travels back in time to the start. I now have Origin where said asshole travels back in time to when his fake mother was still alive, and gets the chance to change time so he can leave the island back then. I hate this guy. I haven't forgiven him for killing off my het pairing and one half of my slash pairing. And yet I'm actually seriously considering expanding on this and letting him actually change time. Somebody save me....(*Smallville theme stuck in my head*)