December meme
Dec. 8th, 2013 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helsinkibabySo profshallowness asked me to write about a ship trope I really love.
Which I then had to think about because what I think of as a trope might not be one, and tvtropes.com was surprisingly little help to me. Ergo, you will get what I got and that's all I can do!
I will admit to having a soft spot for the whole "we are secretly dating and no one knows except oops oh yes they do" thing. I've seen it lately in Castle with Lanie and Esposito and to the best ever effect in Friends with Chandler and Monica. (The one where they all find out will never not be funny.) Not one that lends itself to fic though, at least not that I can recall.
Partners/friends to lovers is another one of my favourites and considering the ships I have shipped, it's probably one of the ones represented most in my writing. I like how the emotions change from one status to the other, the confusion that can come with it and how, if one is more sure than the other, they get them to change their mind. (I've been thinking about this a lot lately what with some of the Warehouse 13 spoiler spec that's out there and the amount of people who use lines from season one and two to justify their POV makes me want to headdesk a lot. People change, people! Feelings, emotions...I've said for a long time, if two people who have been in love for years can fall out of love, two people who have been friends for years can fall in love. But that's a separate rant.)
Looking at my writing, I also seem to like it when a ship has been rent asunder and then they get a second chance to it... The Greg Sanders/Ellie Bartlet series was entirely based on that premise, so was anything Kyle/Diane I ever did from Jake 2.0. Jake/Peyton from One Tree Hill also fit that mould and I will never get over the end of season three and what happened there.
Will edit if I think of more!
Which I then had to think about because what I think of as a trope might not be one, and tvtropes.com was surprisingly little help to me. Ergo, you will get what I got and that's all I can do!
I will admit to having a soft spot for the whole "we are secretly dating and no one knows except oops oh yes they do" thing. I've seen it lately in Castle with Lanie and Esposito and to the best ever effect in Friends with Chandler and Monica. (The one where they all find out will never not be funny.) Not one that lends itself to fic though, at least not that I can recall.
Partners/friends to lovers is another one of my favourites and considering the ships I have shipped, it's probably one of the ones represented most in my writing. I like how the emotions change from one status to the other, the confusion that can come with it and how, if one is more sure than the other, they get them to change their mind. (I've been thinking about this a lot lately what with some of the Warehouse 13 spoiler spec that's out there and the amount of people who use lines from season one and two to justify their POV makes me want to headdesk a lot. People change, people! Feelings, emotions...I've said for a long time, if two people who have been in love for years can fall out of love, two people who have been friends for years can fall in love. But that's a separate rant.)
Looking at my writing, I also seem to like it when a ship has been rent asunder and then they get a second chance to it... The Greg Sanders/Ellie Bartlet series was entirely based on that premise, so was anything Kyle/Diane I ever did from Jake 2.0. Jake/Peyton from One Tree Hill also fit that mould and I will never get over the end of season three and what happened there.
Will edit if I think of more!
