Fifty* ways to twist your trope

*OK, not quite fifty, more like twenty. Don't ask me why I did this. One night it just seemed like more fun than going to bed like a normal person to see how many prompts I could come up with to play with a trope.

I did a thought experiment testing each of these prompts on three tropes: sex pollen, telepathy, and fake marriage -- I figured if it more or less works with all three, it will more or less work with anything you come up with.

Anybody else have ideas? If we all work together, maybe we can come up with a multi-use list to share.

1. Flip it. (It's not sex pollen, it's friendship pollen, and it's messing up the nice no-strings thing we had going. I can't hear your thoughts; I can't even hear you talking, though I can hear everybody else just fine. It's not fake marriage, it's fake divorce.)



2. We handled it OK the first time it happened. I don't understand why we're having such trouble with it the second time.



3. We didn't handle it well at all the first time it happened, but it keeps happening and it's actually getting kind of funny. (Great example: cesperanza 's Stargate Atlantis story Weddings, Plural, and a Yak.)



4. Lean heavily into the implied consent issues, because have you noticed there are almost always implied consent issues?


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