My Least Favorite Tropes
Greetings, friends and enemies [hopefully not enemies, actually. Why would my enemies be reading my blog? Do they know I have a blog? Do I even have enemies?]. I don't hate tropes. Really. There are some that I love reading, and, even ones that I don't love, I can appreciate in the right story. After all, most people can't come up with a wholly original idea or a story without tropes. However, there are a few that I really dislike. Some of these I hate all the time, and some I can enjoy if they're done in a unique way, but, generally, I hate them. And, if this post is too negative for you, don't worry. I'm going to make a post with my favorite tropes soon. #1: Love Triangles I think I've met maybe one person who genuinely likes love triangles. And yet people are still writing them! Why? My main issue with love triangles is that they're incredibly formulaic. I have less of a problem with subversions. Most of them go something like this: There's a...