#this should be a more popular trope

[tinapsychocat]

Books like Spatort

I sorted some books by how similar to Spatort they are.

Was wir verschweigen, Arttu Tuominen: A cop has to investigate the murder committed by his childhood bestie. They have a history, 5* Very similar to Spatort

Short reviews:

The binding (Die verborgenen stimmen der Buecher) , Bridget Collins: Bad memories can be bound into books, to free your mind from them, but is this such a good thing? 5* lovely magical realism

Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra: 4 teenagers get into trouble, consequences into adulthood, revenge served cold, 5* great story

Mystic River, Dennis Lehane: Cop investigates the murder of his childhood bff's daughter, other friend is the suspect, 5* very well told

The wishing game (Das Wunschspiel) , Patrick Redmond: boarding school in the 50s, black magic and toxic friendship (or could it be sweet and innocent?), 5* dark academia, couldn't stop reading

Garron Park, Nordika Night: Enemies to lovers with bad fathers and hurt/comfort, 4.5* it has only one bed trope while being enemies *chef's kiss*

Feldpost, Mechtild Borrmann: WW2 Germany, forbidden romance, 5* occasionally reads like ARD describing Spatort

A little life (Ein wenig Leben), Hanya Yanagihara: 4 friends living in New York, we follow Jude who never talks about his childhood, 5* like Spatort hurt/comfort fanfic without the comfort. Beautifully written

These violent delights, Micah Nemerever: 2 college friends from different backgrounds, 3.5* Story is kind of stupid and pointless but I enjoyed the toxic friendship/relationship

Violence begets, PT Denys: Teenagers helping each other survive with their bad fathers, romance ensues, ends badly, 4* there's a sequel but I didn't like how it continued.

#there are more #and more on my tbr #this should be a more popular trope #i don't like fantasy I'm sure there would be lots of fantasy books #books like spatort #tatort saarbrücken #spatort #not a fdg spoiler

[crybaby-writings]

i think we need more fics where the 'parent' of the group introduces/mentions their s/o (whether on purpose or accident) to the friend group and everyone gets super excited to meet them and when they do meet the s/o is loved by everyone and becomes like a second 'parent'

#♤— ash tries #this has nothing to do with bruno buccerati.... so don't ask 👀 #but yes #this should be a more popular trope

[p2ii]

redemption arcs where instead of the character having to do through the arc with the person they wronged and have the end goal be forgiveness they go through the arc with a completely different character that has no involvement in the main conflict with the goal being self improvement>>>

#feel it opens up alot more character exploration possibilities with the character being 'redemed' where you can explore their end of the #conflict (which tends to be less focused on as the actual conflict in relation to whoever they wronged is what happens in-story) without it #being 'apologism' #and the arc is more about self improvement than forgiveness/fitting the main characters status quo #it also feels alot more fair on the one who suffered from the conflict because to be able to say 'this person needs help but I can't give i #to them' is rlly good #obviously there are times where both characters SHOULD work together for overcome the conflict in question. but with the common/popular #structure of redemption arcs rn (I blame zuko personally) we need more variety #I'm growing to love this trope it's rlly fun #esp if your're a fan of rarepairs/are more interested in the villains pov #current examples floating in my brain: atlas/denkou. 0124ji. morro/echo (but as a long term citrusshipper...when am I not thinking about #them? XP)

[fitzrove]

[shaking and biting] but what does it MEAN. what does it SAY what is the THEME

#akkdlflf i watched this long lecture video abt austrian national identity and the researcher said 'the austrians are quite adept at #selling the austro hungarian monarchy back to tourists incl ones from former parts of the empire... but even in the imperial nostalgia they #don't want back multilingualism or multiculturalism or any of what it actually was' #(it was a lot abt the way in which austria deals with orban's hungary in and after the 2015 refugee crisis) #ajskgldo and that just made me think about... how pointless some things feel. both in fiction and in academic research #you CAN say meaningful things about almost any topic and with almost any argument! but in some strands of history trying to 'uncover events' #with no exploration of the context and what it all MEANS and what the things we think about it mean #is the most prevalent and popular type of research :/ like there's a reason i overrely on hamann's bio of rudolf because her central thesis #is that he wasnt a crazy murderer but someone with a forward-thinking political vision that went as far as suggesting a sort of 'proto-EU' #among other things #so like. she is looking at what it all MEANS!!! #and like. my favourite todolf fanfics are also like that 😂😭 perhaps not abt politics but about suffering and power dynamics and guilt #same for original fiction. i'm never happy if a book i'm reading isnt saying something #or then again - this is more personal pickiness but. they should also be saying something NEW AND INTERESTING #a lot of the time. sometimes if you have a fave trope you can just enjoy it over and over #but idk even tropey stuff can say things #ajlsldkfkf i'm just so tired of kitsch in all its forms and also of bad science

[dollypopup]

colin should 'suffer' for penelope

aka: 5 short reasons why wanting colin to 'suffer' or 'grovel' or whatever other bullshit this fandom keeps pulling is stupid and makes no sense and should have been buried ages ago, how is this still a thing?

1: it sets a terrible and unhealthy dynamic between an endgame couple

especially considering Polin's motif is that of a mirror, if Colin is expected to grovel or suffer for Penelope's affection and forgiveness, it only stands to reason that Penelope then, too, would have to reciprocate. how Penelope treats Colin's ills is setting the precedent for how he's expected to handle her own against him, of which there are many. giving him the cold shoulder, holding what he said over his head and rubbing it in his face, potentially not even explaining why she's upset at him: these are not signs of a mature woman ready for a marriage to ANYONE

2: Colin's slights against Penelope are considerably less harmful than Penelope's against Colin's and it makes no narrative sense for her to be on her high horse about it

'he ruined her prospects' 'he talked about her behind her back' 'he laughed at her' (we don't even know if that one's true, frankly speaking)

but Penelope did the exact same to him and she did so first. Please remember that Penelope is the reason Colin and Marina broke up, and it was her express goal the entire time. Penelope humiliated Colin and Marina both by exposing them publicly (not to mention rubbed the salt into the wound for days afterward). Penelope didn't even think about Colin's feelings because she tried to confess her crush on him immediately after his engagement went poof. Penelope holding Colin accountable for what he said without herself recognizing the ways in which she's hurt him, too, makes her out to be a hella hypocrite

3: it's weirdly catholic on main?

love isn't about suffering points or penance or guilt and i'm tired of Christianity pervading every damn thing. sorry not sorry, some of us want an actually fulfilling love story

4: y'all are just mad Colin didn't love Penelope back from jump and it's a revenge fantasy

which, fine, that's what fanfic is for, but it's OOC, y'all are aware of that, right? because if he DID want her from the start, we all know that it wouldn't be Polin? why are you shipping a friends to lovers ship if you INSIST that the friends to lovers dynamic is less than? guess what? unreciprocated love is kind of part of the deal. you don't hold a grudge against your friend for not loving you back immediately. Colin shows he cares about Penelope in SO MANY WAYS that somehow are completely invalidated because it isn't meant to be romantic? imma say it: fuck you if you think that way. friendships are important and beautiful and deep and fulfilling with or without romance. Colin sticking his neck out for Penelope to help her family from Jack's scheme? an act of love. Colin sending Penelope letters after her father passed? act of love. Colin telling Penelope she's 'really very good' and holding her hand in appreciation of her coming to talk to him? act of love. if you think those acts of love mean nothing just because he isn't fucking her seven ways to sunday, maybe analyze your own viewpoint of relationships and ship Pen w/ some random stranger who makes heart eyes at her tits from jump

5: it makes Penelope an asshole to her own long term partner

dude, if a friend of mine insisted I crawl on hands and knees to determine whether they want me back in their lives, i don't want to be around that person? so many of these narratives make Penelope a straight up terrible person. if you want your partner to suffer? you probably don't actually like them very much, but Polin is narratively MEANT to be the couple that likes AND loves one another. be real, if your friend ghosted you for months, gave you the cold shoulder when you tried to talk again, treated you like shit (you can't argue that him 'suffering' isn't treating him like shit in some way shape or form) as you tried to apologize, and then you find out that she was the reason you and your ex broke up and she wrote straight up nasty things about your family for YEARS, you would want absolutely nothing to do with that friend. why should Colin be expected to be any different? do these two not deserve a lovely love story built on love and affection and trust and honesty? a healthy happy relationship in which they see one another and appreciate one another for all they are? no? so why do you ship them?

+1: it's oversaturated in this fandom

polin is a fantastic ship. how is THIS their main trope?

find a new fucking idea, PLEASE

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #dude i have so many more #it's OOC for both of them #it strips colin of his character (and let's be real this fandom has proven they don't give a shit about him anyway) #it continues to open the door for weird crack and sideships this fandom is strangely obsessed with #why is it weird that when i say i ship Polin i mean i ship POLIN #like. . .exclusively. as my otp. i don't give a SHIT about your dumb pen/oc or whatever bullshit crackship y'all pulled out your arses #it's BORING #there are at least five other people ahead of colin who should be apologizing for their actions to their love interest #like. . .you do realize one them literally almost married his wife's sister yes???? #what exactly does colin have to 'grovel' for? #'oh the groveling gentleman is a popular trope and colin and penelope are a good match for it' #when anthony is RIGHT THERE???? #on a meta level it's been noticed for ages that polin doesn't have any or very little love for Colin #there are other ships that step to BAT for their couples and we're here constantly shitting on half our OTP #you don't have to put down one half of your ship to make the other half desirable #they literally live a love story #OBVIOUSLY he's gonna make her feel desirable #without having to be treated poorly whilst doing so #could i just shut up about this dumb trope? maybe so #but i am first and foremost: a hater

[marley-manson]

i just don't understand how you watch mash and come away with the impression that bj needs to save hawkeye or that bj is at all interested in saving hawkeye or that bj is even capable of saving hawkeye

if anyone does the saving it's hawkeye, bj does none of the emotional heavy lifting and if hawkeye needed him for that he would have already killed himself mid season 7.

i'd be much more willing to believe a hawkeye goes to california to save bj scenario, frankly, because he absolutely could and would. bj doesn't have the emotional awareness or honesty to save himself let alone anyone else

(i assume saving here is being used in the sense of 'helps them through a depressive and/or self destructive period of life')

also yk i could maybe see it in the sense of 'bj is implied to emotionally support his wife pre-war so maybe he's that way with hawkeye post-war' but a) it's always written/discussed as an obvious facet of bj's characterization/their show dynamic rather than a total reversal of their show dynamic and something we don't see in canon, and b) it's mike farrell fancast as an idealized perfect service top oc, let's be real here

#a great irony of my life right now is that the mash blogs i strongly disagree with are gomens blogs i broadly agree with #so i'm beset by more mash takes i disagree with than usual #marley on mash #ship: hb #under a cut bc it's a minor whiny complaint about a popular ship trope so yk read at your own risk #oh yeah i can turn of reblogs #i should do that sometimes probably

[queerasian]

succession is simultaneously a:

shakespearean tragedy

postmodern tragicomedy

drama about dysfunctional families and cycles of abuse/trauma

comedy about the absurdity of the ultra wealthy

surreal circus of repressed queerness

political critique of the toxicity of late-stage capitalism

trying to pinpoint exactly what kind of show it is feels impossible, and that's what makes it good – you can rewatch it and experience it from a different lens each and every time and i love it for that

#listened to an interview w the writers who were asked if succession is a tragedy with comedic elements or a comedy with tragic elements #and the answer was basically that they don't really think of it that way and it's impossible to categorize it either way #like there's no real ratio of tragedy: comedy it kind of transcends that at least in my experience #i think the architecture of the story is more like a tragedy but it often expresses itself in comedic moments #and there's the political commentary that underscores it all #and i dont think its really possible to separate all these elements they live together and work with each other #similar to how the opening theme is a mixture of classical music and hip hop and would not be the same without either of those elements #that but with all the different layers that the show exists in #i added the queerness point in not because it's like. a necessarily popular view but because there is a way u can watch it where it's just #*just like. everyone is so fruity and fucked up and repressed #and it's p much canon that none of the side characters are straight #and roman def isn't but i dont think any of the siblings except maybe connor are #and it's like wow this is like the dark twisted alternate universe's queer found family trope #(love it for that. btw.) #i talk so much in tags i should just make another fucking post sorry #succession #hbo succession #queerasian.txt

[vendettasfanfictioning]

fucking LOVE happy queer revelations. you mean to tell me this character goes through the whole "oh i like women. i like men. I don't think I'm as straight or as cisgender as I thought I was" arc WITHOUT ANGST???? they get to ask their already-out friends and colleagues and even love interest????? they get to develop a healthy identity uninterrupted by the heavy burden of societal prejudices and just explore for the sake of experiencing different things?????

amazing.

#bonus points if the text doesn't involve alcohol or drugs or some other unhealthy thing #like genuinely unhealthy #it may sound like plain salted chips to you but to me it's a delicacy it's an art form it's fucking liberating and cathartic and GOOD #im so fucking sorry to everyone but this is about a human castiel fic lmao #buT HAPPY QUEER REVELATIONS!!!!! MY BELOVED #i need this trope to be more popular istg im going insane #internalized homophobia + dealing and unpacking all that is so fucking neat don't get me wrong #BUT HAPPINESS!!!! y'all should try it sometimes😭💀 #supernatural #castiel #fanfic #destiel

[illgiveyouahint]

Can someone explain to me why disturbed fucked up kinda evil lesbians is such a popular genre?

Me and my friend watched the first episode of Yellowjackets that I saw so many women rave about around here. But once I found out what it's about, I don't feel like I want to watch it. There's also Eileen which I didn't like but so many women love. There's Jennifer's Body. There's just so many of these that I don't vibe with but so many queer women love.

#sometimes it's not even a lesbian sometimes it's just amy dunne in gone girl #but it seems that it's such a popular trope about queer women #to the point where I don't feel like I should be calling myself queer #because somehow I don't vibe with these shows #I want to watch more lesbian content #but when so many of it is like this #i go back to gravitating towards silly little asian gay shows #because they're silly and make me feel good #and there's usually no murders or blood in them

[rainingmbappe]

The rise of "let people enjoy things" is single handedly the backbone of the rise of anti intellectualism

#i need to talk about this #disclaimer : im beyond terrible at putting my point across #so with that being said let me attempt at it #let's take look at the hate and misogyny women receive for liking a certain genre of books #that is so often simply countered with let people enjoy things #but we cannot let that narrative take over a whole as if critical thinking is “bad”? #booktok has made it so that disliking a popular books makes you the person with the superiority complex who should just let people enjoy- #-things #but when did criticizing actively target audiences who like that peice of literature? When did that become the narrative? #its all mindless consumption without a second thought to the actual material which can easily be credited to the tropification of books #the enemies do turn into lovers and the best friends do fall in love 10 years down the line #classifying books into tropes and then fulfilling that promise gives books an illusion of being “good” since it checks those boxes- #-that the reader picked up the book for in the first place #the act of reading has kind of been substituted by the act of being a reader and just owning stacks of books #we have turned away from any form of analysis or criticism #if it scratches the itch then its automatically the perfect book without further thought #i cant help but contribute the mere existence of that “itch” to how mordern books are classified into tropes with set plotlines #intelligenctualism is almost always looked at as elitism #reading only classics doesn't make you an intellectual individual but looking at any book with a critical lens may it be a classic or a rom #-com does #criticizing certain aspects of your absolute favorite books is intellectualism and not bullying people who like anything but classics #that distinction is so far lost in translation that talking about how a popular book is objectively bad is being a “hater” #well then im a hater #this is not a hate post for people who actively enjoy booktock or the more popular books #im just trying to introduce any amount of nuance into the conversation thats all #i can honestly go on forever but i think ill end my ranting here #literary criticism #literature #books #anti intellectualism

[humanveil]

you guys ever dip your toes back into old fandoms out of curiosity and immediately want to die

#is there anything worse than widespread/popular fanon. i don't think so #like having fun is one thing i also like to be delulu BUT when people treat popular fanon as sacred and like. shit on people who dare not #adhere to it. i'm always like................ ? #babygirl you made that up. (which again i think is w/e.). but someone is not 'reading the text wrong' if they don't agree with you. #like you know when people literally treat it as the 'better' version of the text. or way the better way to engage w a text #and they get so hostile with it. i've even had fic comments before like 'i don't agree with this part bc my headcanon is __ but i enjoyed #the rest of it. next time you should _______' and it's like ????? next time you should shut up #i guess also bc more often than not fanon is just like. less complex versions of canon characters now featuring 20 tropes! #which might've been fun when i was 15 but not now. the way i approach stuff is just different now lmao. but anyway #confirms that i likely wont ever return to being involved w [redacted]. despite the special interest brainworms.

[aimless-passerby]

Need a separate list of fics where hobbits don't praise Yavanna on each occasion 😭

#vent post #there are too many #I simply can't read them #I will open one and Bilbo blesses Yavanna there #then I open the next one and he does the same and there are no separate tags for this headcanon to filter it out #one of my least favourite tropes and it's so popular just so yavanna/aule would parallel bilbo/thorin #no 😔 #it shouldn't be like this #or I am shipping in a wrong way as usual #oops the placement of pairs should be reversed in that sentence to make more sense #anyway #it's best when the creation of hobbits continues being a mystery #and Yavanna has ents animals and plants already #and why would she have hobbits #she seemed so devastated by dwarves in the silm chapter (probably was more tame about elves and men since they are creations of eru) #and not in a single sentence a hobbit in canonical text praises yavanna #it bugs me so much #someone can't enjoy nor reading nor writing so this vent post was created #hopefully it will be ignored and won't trouble anyone #I don't know how to turn this snobbism off and it feels lonely

[md-guel]

ok but no. pls post your tired takes where i can see them because i love using the block button and you're indulging me 🫶🏽

#for the record i love guel and i will defend him to the bitterest end #but i don't think he is or that he will be or that he should/have been the main character #like there's a reason why the poster child of mobile suit gundam witch from mercury is called suletta mercury and not guel mercury #or that the show isn't called witch from jeturk #which would actually make for a hilarious parody but whatever #i feel like this whole jesusifying of guel jeturk is like the side character trope but make it straight white and male #like you know how a lot of times the side characters become more popular and beloved by the fans over the main characters #even tho they only have 5min to their name #i feel like it's like that but worse and stinkier #anyway yeah i just blocked someone over the stupidest reading on g witch and bro im stunned that a person like them watches the show

[bsaka7]

look. at least I'm not writing usmnt fanfiction right.

#2 more games and I'd be like maybe I should check this out. So we're safe #Footie.txt #I will say i looked at the football rpf tag on ao3 sorted by fics popular since 2018 #Seems like it's populated exclusively by Liverpool fans #And very different tropes than f1blr #I will say i am glad that publicly outed is not a big trope in f1fic #It is not a trope I particularly enjoy #Saying this like it wouldn't take me a four hour YouTube deep dive and some Wikipediaing and I'd be there

[bookstoresmp3]

ali hazelwood’s success is proof that you dont need to understand writing as a craft to get published anymore

#how does she even get published #any decent editor should throw her shit away #instantly #her work reads like the reylo fanfics she used to write #i could ascribe this to the popularity of fanfiction #i COULD.. esp since books are starting to read more and more like ‘good’ ao3 fics #especially when you get into the new emphasis on tropes to sell rather than qualitt of story #<<<’enemies to lovers’ meanwhile the relationship isnt developed and the characters dont feel human lmao #but that’s too deep! 😃 a discussion for another day! #simi speaks

[the-kipsabian]

the classic "theres only one bed" trope is so pointless to write with orangekip cause kip would do it willingly disguised as mind games and oc just wouldnt care, he'll sleep everywhere with anyone lol

#idk why ive been thinking this since yesterday #i guess cause its a rarepair im on a quest kinda to try to fill out the more popular tropes but yeah i dont think this one is really doable #..should i try anyways? it could still be funny #anyways not today im taking a break from everything today its just video games kinda day #maybe i'll edit that first chapter i finished yesterday who knows. i sure dont im just tired lol #night is an absolute mess on main