Tropes

[amaresu]

Let's talk about tropes. Both for femslash and women in general.

What are your favorite tropes? Which tropes should die in a fire? What do you desperately wish with all your heart would become a trope?

Comments

[lea_hazel]

I like to see when two female characters are introduced in canon as romantic rivals, but the slash doesn't use the third party as an intermediate. Basically when the two characters are shown to relate to each other in some deeper way, that doesn't have much to do with how they originally met. There are some Ginny/Cho fics like this in Harry Potter fandom, I remember reading them but can't think of the titles offhand.

One I don't like is a really strong emphasis on femme presentation. Not so much in a neutral way, but when it's contrasted favorably against butchness or gender ambiguity. I much prefer when a character's gender presentation stands on its own, butch femme or otherwise.

[lilacsigil]

Yes, especially when a character gets more femme as she becomes happier/more in love and this is seen as a natural and positive outcome! I don't mind when it's a character taking on more of her partner's style, or experimenting with looks, but that's not the problem.