Challenge #11
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
What is that one (or several!) trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme that grips your attention whenever it pops up in fandom or fanworks? What is it about it that works for you or appeals to you? If you have any recs or examples, feel free to include them!
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Tropes, motifs, themes
Trope - Obsfuscating Stupidity
Especially when I write Brittany Taylor in my various Daria fanfics, as there are hints in the canon that there's more to her than it appears.
(It is Kevin Thompson who retains his 'dumb as a box of rocks' portrayal from the series)
I also have a tendency to write in a slow burn manner.
One motif I have is overcoming difficulties, whether they be caused by circumstances, because of others, such as Stacy overcoming bullying by Sandi with the help of Quinn and her friends in the installment most recently added to the archive sites, or because of neurodivergence, such as in Mysteries of Aurora. (And then there is Quinn dealing with her grief in Spider Quinn, where witnessing Jake's death continues to affect her months later.)
Nearly all Daria, but I also work with those in my Doctor Who and Star Trek fics.
I also dabble in Alternate Universe, whether they be Canon Divergence or not. (Many of the Daria AUs are Precanon Divergence.) What a Choice Leads To is an example of a Voyager Canon Divergence.
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