Let's talk fiction
 

Okay so


1. What is your favourite storytelling cliche/trope? Like, something thematic, or a construct or just type of "thing" you like in a story.

2. What is your least favourite?


Just to get the ball rolling.

Optional third: What's the happiest story you've ever read/watched/played without it becoming cheesy and forced?

I dislike this thread already.

What's your favorite trope? What an absurd question.

Sometimes I don't get complaints about "cheesy", half the time I suspect the people complaining are just trying to be "edgy".

Once upon a time.

And it was all a dream.

It was a dark and stormy night.

My favorite fiction is the bible.

DURR IM SO CLEVUR

Also, I don't read that much. Can you tell?

As for the happiest story, I remember being happy whenever I read something to do with Haruhi Suzumiya. I never considered it cheesy or forced whatsoever.

Ranma was pretty happy, but not cheesy.

I really really like dark magical girls.

Check out TV Tropes sometime, you might like it. Or not, considering how critical you are over pretty much everything. :P

There's no way OANST will like TVTropes.

Even I hate TVTropes. I still go on it every fucking day, but God do I hate it.

Happiest story, I'm not a fan of big happy endings, but something close to that was To Kill a Mockingbird, which also happens to be one of my favourite books of all time.

I just had to read Atonement for university. Having seen the film already spoilt it rather a lot but I still enjoyed it immensely.

Fuck this essay on it I have to write by next Wednesday, though. I have no fucking idea what to do with that.

But we have a thread for reading.

Do you need help with essay structure and all that shit? I can give you some pointers if you'd like. PM me if you do.

But you're not even in university.

I read this thread as "Let's talk friction". That would of been really uninteresting.

It would have been rather grating, wouldn’t it.

All these puns are really starting to rub me up the wrong way.

What a burn.

Stop being so abrasive!

I didn't know that!

It appears to have been pushed off the main page.

That won't do, I absolutely must let you all know I'm reading War and Peace.

I just finished reading In Our Time. I enjoyed it.

Which half did you like more?

They key word here being reading. They haven't gotten to the war yet.

But the title indicates that war comes first!

Actually it was originally Peace and War, but that's just nowhere near snappy enough.