Shame Is For The Weak

[redbrunja]

This Friday's Fannish5:

Five fic cliches you're embarrassed to admit* you love.

1.) Using sex to drown out emotional noise.

2.) "I have to get you out of these wet clothes! And snuggle with you. And share body heat! Because your life is in danger! P.S. I love you and I think we should bone."

3.) Drunken/feverish confessions.

4.) Forced proximity like whoa. All varients. Trapped in a elevator! There's only one bed! Hiding in a closet! All are welcome here.

5.) Pretend!dating. Undercover!lovers. Etc.

Now I'm really sad that there doesn't seem to an active cliche bingo around. Because I would sign up in a hot minute.

*Fandom has no place for that thing normal people call shame.

Comments

[lady-with-cats.livejournal.com]

All of these are excellent choices, especially forced proximity! Every fandom should have a trapped in an elevator episode/scene. :D

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

oh man my list is like the same as yours. Especially the SURELY HAVING SEX WILL MAKE ALL FEELINGS I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE FOR YOU GO AWAY AND NOT COMPLICATE THINGS IN THE SLIGHTEST and ALSO NOW YOU ARE TRAPPED IN A DARK CLOSET WITH THE SOUND OF EACH OTHERS' BREATHING, GO.

[jenab.livejournal.com]

There is kind of a Cliche bingo started up. homebrewbingo for cliches, tropes, kinks and fetishes.

The snuggling together to keep warm is one of my favourites.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Sometimes cliches are cliches because they are wonderful and people like seeing them over and over.

Drunken/feverish confessions.

So...I don't know if you got through S2 of LOST or stopped at S1 but Sawyer has a GR8 feverish confession.

[cynchick.livejournal.com]

I was going to reply with my own list, but YOU ALREADY USED THEM. Seriously.

I'm also down with *I love you but (insert angsty circumstance) is keeping us apart.* Particularly if the angsty circumstance happens to be *we are enemies/on opposite sides of a conflict*

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Pretty close to my own list. OMG, undercover lovers or fake marrieds is just so good. The sheer reason I go for so much spy-themed fiction and fandom is because almost every single trope and cliche in it is on my list of bulletproof kinks. Also on my list? Fake kidnappings/hostage situations. Where the two spies-or-whatever in love are acting out this violent or victimizing scene and nobody knows but them that they're doing it for the thrill of putting their lives in each other's hands.

ESPIONAGE FICTION THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU ARE and also for confusing my life goals enough that I have had to talk myself out of trying to be a spy because it's actually not the same at all you know seriously.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Yes to all of these! Mwahaha.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Excellent choices! And if you decided to start a cliche bingo, I would sign up for that in a heartbeat!

[deathmallow.livejournal.com]

I definitely approve this list. ;)