Trope Bingo Card and Some Quick Reviews
Jan. 13th, 2013 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowFinished my festivid entry last weekend, so now I have a new challenge. Trope bingo
It's really fun. I mean, I'm currently writing an au: were/vamp/supernatural fic for The Hour, which sounds ridiculous, which on a level it is, but it's actually become a really fun exercise in world building since to pull that off, I've got to come up with a plausible explanation for why vampires and werewolves would exist in London in 1957 and what the world would be like if that happened, and what it would be like if they worked as a team on a TV news show. Anyway – I am having fun.
(FYI, I very much believe the key to good crossovers, AUs and crack is you've got to take your premise seriously and properly run with it).
In other things: Watched Call the Midwife as am in a 1950s mood, and is that not just the most perfect little drama ever? It's just magnificent and I want to hug it for being just so wonderfully humanist and not at all soapy and all about women.
Also watched Les Mis. I did not cry. Which is pretty damning really, since I cry at everything, including the trailer for The Impossible which aired right before the movie. I just didn't connect. But aside from my lack of connection, it was very well done.
| food porn | au: apocalypse | secret child | secret twin / doppelganger | de-aged |
| au: space | kiss to save the day | soul bonding / soulmates | au: daemons | fake relationship |
| immortality / reincarnation | accidental marriage | FREE ★ SPACE |
sharing a bed | handcuffed/bound together |
| cross-dressingtd> | au: cop / detective | game night | au: were / vamp / supernatural | au: historical |
| kidfic | au: circus | presumed dead | holiday | road trip |
It's really fun. I mean, I'm currently writing an au: were/vamp/supernatural fic for The Hour, which sounds ridiculous, which on a level it is, but it's actually become a really fun exercise in world building since to pull that off, I've got to come up with a plausible explanation for why vampires and werewolves would exist in London in 1957 and what the world would be like if that happened, and what it would be like if they worked as a team on a TV news show. Anyway – I am having fun.
(FYI, I very much believe the key to good crossovers, AUs and crack is you've got to take your premise seriously and properly run with it).
In other things: Watched Call the Midwife as am in a 1950s mood, and is that not just the most perfect little drama ever? It's just magnificent and I want to hug it for being just so wonderfully humanist and not at all soapy and all about women.
Also watched Les Mis. I did not cry. Which is pretty damning really, since I cry at everything, including the trailer for The Impossible which aired right before the movie. I just didn't connect. But aside from my lack of connection, it was very well done.
