Snowflake Challenge - Day 10

[lightofdaye]

Day 10
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Banter. I love Banter; Banter and Dialogue and quirky turns of phrase for the narrators. This is probably owing to too much Joss Whedon inspired works in my youth; Buff The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly. (Never saw any Dollhouse strangely enough) As well as comic books and another big influence; Terry Pratchett. And of course Harry Potter the source canon for most of my fanfic is not above whimsy and snappy dialogue itself.

Why do I like it? It's key to characterisation and tone for a fic. Want a fun fic? Lots of fast banter. Even if you're writing a trope or plot or pairing people have seen time and time again if you can keep the flow going with some banter and back and  forth; they'll probably stick to it. The trickiest thing I find to do is to write a character who I think is habitually quiet and tight lipped like say, Blaise Zabini. 

Comments

[alisanne]

I agree! You'll laugh if you read my answer to this. :)
And I didn't copy you, promise. *g*

[lightofdaye]

:D

I shall take it as a mark of our good taste.

[spikedluv]

I love banter, too! You mention Buffy, and I think the banter is a huge reason why I enjoyed the show so much.

[lightofdaye]

Whedon is ridicolouly good at making every character a smartarse.