snowflake challenge #11

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Challenge #11:
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

There are a lot of tropes that, if present in a work, will get me to click almost immediately, like: fake dating, friends with benefits, and soulmates, but the one that I really love yet haven't written myself (yet) is 'amnesia'.

I am ready to handwave any medical accuracy for all the drama and angst of a character forgetting part or all of their memories. It just contains so many things I like - pining, angst, misunderstandings. I like it when a character forgets up to a certain point and that means they forget just a certain someone or someones. There's angst on both sides of they're in a romantic relationship and one doesn't remember, but I also love it as a push to get two characters together, with the character who forgot seeing the situation much more clearly than when they had their memories, kind of a "why AREN'T we together? we are practically married!" type thing. Or even just assuming that they are together and the other (pining) character is so conflicted, because of the potential 'oh they only want me when they don't remember me' aspect.

I also like it when they do remember the other person but a different relationship than what they currently have. As in they remember being friends or even not liking one another and now they're in a relationship. There's something both funny and painful about them looking at an important person and being like "him/her?"

I've had ideas for all variations and started one or two but never got around to finishing any, going back to the Charles/Erik (XMFC) fic I was working on over a decade ago (almost 10k just sitting in a word doc lol) and a couple of Smallville fics that didn't go very far either. Fortunately other people are writing amazing fic so I can still enjoy the trope! :D

I even got a couple as gifts:

root out the wine-dark honeyed center by celaenos (Elementary, Jamie/Joan, Teen, 7.8k)
“WATSON, COME DOWN HERE AND TAKE YOUR WIFE OFF OF MY HANDS. PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU!” Sherlock hollers.
“My what?” Joan mutters, snapping the book shut with force and climbing out of her bed. “I’m sorry,” she repeats as she makes her way down the stairs. “My what?”
(or, a story of poison, amnesia, sexual tension, and marriage)

Normal by LearnedFoot (Suits, Mike/Harvey, Teen, 9.7k)
“Welcome back,” Harvey tells him. “I always knew biking was a bad idea.”
Mike’s eyebrows squeeze together. He blinks again. Then, voice weak but clear, he says, “Sorry, who are you?”

If we have shared fandoms/ships and you have recs, I will always welcome them! :D

Comments

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Por sorte até o presente momento só tive um único encontro horrível com o tropo amnésia e foi por acaso. A pessoa estava fazendo uma fic hp (que era meu fandom na época) inspirada em um filme com essa temática. A estória estava evoluindo para o personagem ser salvo depois de sofrer nas mãos de uma pessoa que usou seu estado amnésico de forma ruim, só para no último capítulo a pessoa escrever o maior gore que eu já vi, com cenas de abuso sexual, assassinato e tortura dizendo que de algo como aquilo nada de bom viria. Acho que ela se ressentiu com o fandom e decidiu escrever ele como algo ruim logo no final do enredo. Eu me assustei porque era uma fic sobre auxílio, onde uma pessoa vítima iria ser resgatada para do nada se transformar em uma carnificina. Isso me deixou muito traumatizada e receosa do tropo, eu fui enganada, me prometeram algo e entregaram outra coisa no lugar. E aquilo me feriu e muito.

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I can understand why even that one experience would've put you off. I know people enjoy angst and pain but when you're not expecting a story to take a turn like that, it can be pretty jarring to say the least, regardless of the reasoning behind it.

[barbaratp]

Sim. Eu não leio angústia e dor. São squicks e gatilhos para mim. Aí do nada uma fic mais sombria que é até aceitável pelo meu humor se torna algo que não quis. Foi horrível.

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Yeah, I'm not really into it either. At least on AO3 most people are good about tagging and it's easier to avoid there than it was on FFN/LJ.

[barbaratp]

Sim por isso eu deixei o ffn de lado e migrei totalmente para o ao3. O site me deixa ter liberdade do que posso e quero acessar em medo de me separar com coisas assim, porque há um total apreço ao direito do outro.

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Yeah, I appreciate FFN for what it was and the time I spent there, but they definitely had very limited options and people didn't think to use them as much. Even editing fics is impossible. When I started writing fic again, I did crosspost back there but then eventually I drifted away completely.

[barbaratp]

Meus deuses eu não quero nem lembrar de como era um porre ter que upar todo o arquivo novamente só porque você errou uma partezinha dele. Por essas e outras prefiro o ao3

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Exactly, I had to do it a couple of times and it is such a waste of time/energy. And I am with you there.