snowgall: (close-up)
snowgall ([personal profile] snowgall) wrote2015-08-18 12:44 am
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
Entry tags:

Rec list for all the tropes :)

Yesterday [livejournal.com profile] vaysh got everyone on a Trope Meme kick, which was tons of fun. And then in a comment thread, she went and said:

"It would actually be fun to make rec lists of fics to go with the trope. It would take ages, though. :)
So you know me. If Vaysh makes an off-hand comment, I'm tempted to go do the thing :) (see: Who Tops More?)

So I went through the original list of 28 tropes and tried to find a representative (and awesome) HD rec for each one, while also trying not to duplicate any fics. But I decided that the original list was inadequate.

  • Some tropes needed to be renamed to more clearly fit HP (e.g. "High School/Uni AU" --> "8th year")
  • Some tropes needed to have subcategories within the trope (e.g. "Vampires/Werewolves AU" --> "Creature!fic" --> Veela, Werewolf, Vampire, etc.)

Once I did that, however, I felt like too many good fics were not being represented, so I added a bunch of additional HP tropes (second list at the end). All in all, I've recced 66 fics from 56 authors!

And even after all of that, there are still 4 tropes from the list that I could not think of any recs for:

  • Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
  • Fake Out Make Out
  • Incest
  • Selfcest
"Incest" and "Selfcest" really don't make sense for HD, but if anyone has good recs for the other two, let me know! (Coffee House AU is just not my thing, and I couldn't think of any examples of Fake Out Make Out :)

And also let me know if you think I missed any important tropes or fics that should have been recced instead

Tropes from the Meme

8th year (High School/Uni AU)

Adopting/Raising a Baby

Age Difference

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

Amnesia

Bond (Magical Connection)

Creature!fic (Vampires/Werewolves AU)

Enemies to Friends to Lovers

Espionage (Espionage AU)

Fake Dating Turns Into Feelings

Found Families

Friends to Lovers

Groundhog Day

Hate Sex (Rivalmancy)

Hurt/Comfort

Loyalty Kink

Marriage of Convenience (Royalty/Arranged Marriage)

Multiple Alternate Realties (Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU)

Pining (Seemingly Unrequited Pining & Actually Unrequited Pining)

Role Reversal ( = Draco saves the day)

Sex Pollen

Soulmate Identifying Marks

Trapped Together

More Tropes that Should Have Been Listed

Bed Sharing

Bets/Wagers

Caring/nursing

Club!fic

Draco tropes

Established relationship

Fluff

Game Show

Genderbender

Humor

Mpreg

Matchmaking

Party games

Remix

Roommates

Sex Magic

Unknown Identity

Veritaserum

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[identity profile] create-serenity.livejournal.com 2015-08-25 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm very flattered to see one of my fics up there, thank you :)

This is a great post. So many wonderful fics on this list; loads of my favourites and also quite a few I haven't read. *Adds them to the ever-growing list.* At some point I will find time for them all.

Also "Starts With A Spin" was a real flash back to the past for me. I originally read it when it as it was being published all those years ago and I'd forgotten all about it. I'm pretty convinced I read it on ff.net actually, but it doesn't seem to be there now and the author only mentions publishing on LJ so I might have imagined that part!

For the 'Unknown Identity' trope I quite like "When It Alteration Finds" by Momatu over on ff.net. In the story neither of them recognises the other and although it is set in the magical world and compliant up to the epilogue Harry actually owns a muggle bakery/coffee shop so sort of works for that trope too.
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only