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9. What’s your fandom’s most overused trope?
you want me to make enemies huh hbc.... I see how it is
Uh, maybe Rhys as Jack’s PA? Which, like, I’m not the target audience for that fic in the first place ‘cause it’s not a ship I read so whatever. But having done basically that job for the better part of a year it’s really funny to me, I worked for a nice reasonable woman who wasn’t a literal cartoon villain and it was still gruelling and demoralizing, I can only imagine what absolute hell it would be to do for Jack LOL. It’s not a glamorous job and it is not power by proxy, you are not second in command you’re just in the vicinity of people with power all the time. I don’t think it suits a dude whose one immutable character trait is wanting to climb the corporate ladder.
PA/Boss is definitely just like, A Trope in fanfiction at large though. I thought about that a lot when I was doing that job lmao.
12. What writing rule do you refuse to break?
I can’t tell if this means “writing rule” like the kind of rules you see passed around as advice in Tumblr posts or writing rule as in, like, my own personal set.
For the ones that get shared around Tumblr... I dunno, maybe my extreme aversion to using epithets for known/named characters. Like “the blonde” etc. Absolutely not. Only if the POV character doesn’t know who that person is.
For my own personal set, I write every scene in order. The only exceptions are if I realize later I need to flesh something out by adding an earlier scene. I can’t skip ahead to the fun bits. Brain refuses.
