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pauraque - "Something fannish (a character, a ship, a show, a trope) that you initially disliked, but that grew on you. What changed?"

I came into fandom totally kinked for best-friend romance. I would read strangers or newly assigned partners or whatever, but a good long friendship was my very favorite thing. I started out reading Data/Geordie (Next Generation was only playing in reruns) and moved seamlessly into Paris/Kim and Fraser/Kowalski (Voyager and Due South were still releasing episodes).

I'd only encountered enemies-to-lovers type tropes in romance novels, and I didn't care for it. I wanted people to like each other!

But you know how it happens. The amount of fic that I'm capable of reading is apparently much greater than the amount of fic the fandom is capable of producing for me, and, reader, tragically, I ran out of best-friend stories. And I was already reading Voyager, and trusted writers like

torch were writing Paris with Chakotay as well as with Kim. So I dipped my toe in and was gradually won over.

It seems pretty funny to me now that I was more hesitant to read enemies-to-lovers stories back then than I am now to open, say, a Venom story with a cannibalism tag. (It's

dira_sudis. It's really good. Don't be scared.)

Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.

This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...

As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.

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terminally_underwhelmed - "What's a popular trope that doesn't do much for you, and an unpopular one you love?"
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runpunkrun - "something you recently learned about yourself"
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muccamukk - "Favourite power couple(s) and what makes them work so well together. Can be storyish or not."
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armadillo1976 - "I'd appreciate a few words about navigating the issues of kids growing up and having the "mommy writes fanfic, mainly erotica, and mommy's using this word just because it sounds better than porn" conversation. My kiddo is only 5 now, and I have only written one story and am in the middle one the second one, but I see myself writing more, so I've been wondering how this conversation goes."
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coffeeandink - "You took a break from fandom for a few years. Now that you're back, what's changed and what's stayed the same?"
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mific - "what about crossovers? Have you written any?"
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marginaliana - ghost stories
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runpunkrun - "a new thing you tried "
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china_shop - Guardian as described by someone who only knows it via social media
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kiezh following up with - "What have you heard about MDZS/The Untamed, and what did you think of what you heard?"
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ride4ever's birthday prompt - "Storyish prompt: for any due South fic you've written, write a prequel or sequel snippet for the fic or meta about the before-or-after that can be imagined about the fic's story arc."
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mific - "the genderswap trope where a character's gender is changed. Yes? No? Maybe?"
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runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"
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minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
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runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
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