Fandom Snowflake Day 7

Day 7

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

You thought I was going to talk about friendship fic, but no, I will talk about friendship fic! Mostly because it's super late (because I was typing up a post about the rest of the books I read in 2014 and at 1.3k in, I've dealt with only 3 of them, because I am apparently back in tl;dr book mode) and so I apologise in advance if this isn't very coherent.

So friendship fic is my favourite kind of fic and pretty much everything else I like is a sub-type of it or derives from it somehow:

• "People on opposite side caring about each other" is pretty much what happens when you can't be friends but you also can't not be friends.
• "Chosen families" is what happens when you don't have a family, so you make one.
• "Friendship in unlikely places" is pretty much "friendship fic + crack fic taken seriously" and crack fic taken seriously is also one of my favourite tropes.

Here's the thing: I like people who care. This is why I'm very into characters who are nerds of all sorts (scientists in particular), but in the end, I'm always right there with the people who care about people (see also my thing for doctors). People who care are my biggest weakness and friendship is about people caring about each other so it's pretty much my kryptonite.

I tend to multiship, but there are occasionally things I cannot ship romantically because I friendship them so hard. The one example that comes to mind immediately is Jace Valchek and Charlie Aleph from the Bloodhound Files. The amount of NOPE I have at this idea can pretty much be seen from space.

For the most part, the pairs I friendship but don't ship tend to be f/m (I mean, aside from the things I just plain don't ship), but I will honestly read friendship fic in any combination of genders.

Or write it, even. It seems to be pretty much all I write these days.