2026 Snowflake Challenge #9.

[pattrose]

9. What are your favorite tropes?

I have too many to list. Here are a few.

Friends to lovers. The reluctant hero. Someone in distress. Found family, race against time, rags to riches.

I live to read fantasy stories but don’t write them at all.

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

Friends to lovers is the ultimate trope, isn't it? It's why I'm in fandom, and that's no matter if the ship is m/m, f/f, or m/f.

Tiermaker has a lot of trope ranking charts from fans, which is fun to do. I've posted one to my journal before.

https://tiermaker.com/search/?q=tropes

[pattrose]

That's something very cool. I'm going to see if I can figure it out.

[melagan]

I've done a lot of Friends to Lovers without even realizing that's what I was writing.

[muccamukk]

You can combine all of those into one story! But it has to be a longish story.

[brumeier]

Reluctant hero is so good! So is found family, which I find across my fandoms. This is a very solid list!

[pattrose]

Thank you. :)

[melagan]

I love these tropes.

[luthien]

Short and sweet - and good choices.

[yarnofariadne]

I live to read fantasy stories but don’t write them at all.
I feel this - there are some genres I absolutely love reading but could not get my head around to write.

[pattrose]

Exactly. But I love fantasies. So I just wait for someone else to do it.

[fairyniamh]

I like the trope, but I always fail when I try to write it.

[sallymn]

I do like writing fantasy, it's fun to play with the boundaries (and I like dragons :)

[pattrose]

That’s why I like to read them. I. Love all the places you can go.

[lucy_roman]

Friends to lovers is a great trope. It's always nice to see a relationship change, and finding out what it is that pushes them over the line.

[pattrose]

Oh, I agree with you. It’s a very sweet and cool trope.

[potentiality_26]

Very good tropes here!