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

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

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.

ZOMG WHERE CAN I FIND THIS?!?! :D (I'm not even entirely sure I care what fandom. Just GUH.)

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Well, it's been a while since I've found it in fic, but it did occasionally pop up in Alias fic. Mostly I just write a whole bunch of repetitive kidnappings into the massive crossover self-insert crackfic multiverse that my friend and I started six years ago. I deleted all my old Alias fic because it was terrible, or I'd link you to stuff. But since there's clearly a demand other than my own kinks, I might just go back to old writing habits! ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think it maybe time for you to revist that trope, possibly starring a part of master assassins?