Snowflake Challenge #11

[potentiality_26]

Challenge #11

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

Only one??? Impossible! I love tropes, so it's a tough one.

I think Pining/Seemingly Unrequited Love is probably my favorite. Though I'll definitely give Established Relationship fics a go if they look interesting, getting into a character's headspace while they agonizingly long for someone they think couldn't possibly feel the same way is my jam.

A lot of the other tropes I love are, in a way, offshoots of my love for that one. I like pretty much all the #problematic relationship tropes - Enemies to Lovers, Age Difference, Incest - because they offer so many delicious reasons they shouldn't want to be together.

Then there's also Fake Dating, Bed Sharing, Trapped Together... all that good forced proximity while just yearning. 

And then of course Sex Pollen, Fuck or Die, Forced Marriage... where things might get even more intense while the feelings are still unresolved.

(So, one answer and many at the same time. What else is new?)

Comments

[rogueslayer452]

Having characters pining for each other in what they believe to be unrequited love is also something I like, as well, and when explored in different ways it can lead to some good crunchy angsty stuff. I'll try any flavor of this trope. The "pining while already together" is one that I've come across that I found to be really enjoyable. I discovered this through an arranged marriage/marriage of convenience fic and the way it was done just made me realize that I love the concept of characters who have to be convinced that they are worthy of being loved by someone who think could never, ever love them for who they are, because of the arrangement of the relationship. It really is about that headspace about them denying while pining, the self-loathing, the the acceptance of the love the other has for them.

[potentiality_26]

Yesss, characters pining while in a relationship is top tier!