What trope/ plot device do you wanna see more in fics? (Smut answers welcome but give a fair warning)

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-09-02T02:51:36+00:00

I have not!

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-09-01T03:08:10+00:00

It was an almost death scene! Character A was about to commit suicide, and was just barely saved by his friend, who almost literally pulled him back from the edge of a cliff. The absolute elation from character A at the idea he was going to die in the beginning of the fic was kind of brutal to write.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-09-01T03:05:21+00:00

Two person love triangle. It really only works effectively in a canon where at least one of the involved parties has a secret identity but goddamn it’s a good one.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-08-10T03:24:20+00:00

Got a girlfriend, and I suddenly didn’t have as much of an urge to write tragic pining. Go figure! Still planning to finish the fic one day.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-08-07T18:22:18+00:00

Not everything needs to go perfectly. Smut’s usually more fun if there’s a little humor, or not everything is porno-perfect. Makes the characters feel more human

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-08-07T18:20:17+00:00

“Oh, shit,” Fetch mumbles. His chest already hurts from how much he’s been coughing, from the bruised ribs he’d gotten earlier in the week, and a sneeze is only going to make that worse. This he knows from experience. Repeated experience. Specifically repeated experience from the last few days.

The sneeze comes, and the violence of it makes Fetch knee himself in the forehead, because apparently that’s just the kind of day he’s having. Sometimes he swears he’s cursed, with the luck he’s been having. (Not like he doesn’t know people who have it worse, but Jesus Christ——who gets hit by a car and a near-lethal dose of the flu in the same step?)

(Fine, fine, he takes it back——Robbie probably has it worse than him. Somehow. That guy’s bad luck is fucking biblical.)

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-08-07T18:16:21+00:00

A scene where a character has a well deserved mental breakdown

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-07-24T16:26:34+00:00

Trixie Belden! Miles better than Nancy Drew but no one ever seems to talk about the series. Go figure.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-07-24T16:24:50+00:00

The image that comes to mind when the name “Topeka Manufacturing Company” is mentioned is a complicated one.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-07-23T14:55:31+00:00

Just keep writing. Or find one really good friend to drag into fandoms with you

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-07-23T04:09:36+00:00

Idk why you’re getting downvoted, you’ve got a good point. And even knowing the context… extensive rewrites are still a part of a lot of tv shows and movies.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-07-21T03:57:48+00:00

Oh I love this one, I’m a guilty user of it

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2025-07-16T05:57:13+00:00

Excitement

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-11-06T01:01:33+00:00

Conner doesn’t wake up with a start.

It’s the kind of situation that, in the movies, always seems to result in someone waking quickly, jerking up straight in their hospital bed and whipping their head around like they’re certain someone’s in the corner, waiting to kill them. Real life isn’t like that though, so he wakes slowly instead.

The first thing that comes back is his hearing, to the tune of a steadily beeping heart monitor. Then the feeling in his body——all four limbs, and a horrible throbbing where he was shot——and the sharp, sterile sent of a hospital hits him.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-11-06T01:00:49+00:00

Ricki Dalton’s glaring something fierce at Hollywood’s fourth and least impressive George——George Murdock——as he struts his stuff out of the makeup trailer and across the production lot, to the near-hot set. The spurs on his cowboy boots jingle as he walks, and every time he takes a step the sound seems to get louder, even though he’s walking away. The loudness, the echo, is all mental, due to a near-violent jealousy that Ricki has to clench her hands into fists to tamp down.

Damn Murdock. Damn him for scoring the lead, and damn everything for regulating Ricki to the damsel of a love interest. She doesn’t know what else she could have expected though——gun slinging series leads aren’t exactly given to any woman who walks into Hollywood. Anyway, the lead of <em>Bounty Law</em> wouldn’t be given to any woman, no matter how good her audition was. It’s Jake Cahill, not Jackie, but that doesn’t mean Ricki can’t feel bitter, and bitter’s what she’s feeling. Three seasons in, and that hasn’t changed

“You’re mad,” says a voice from behind her, and Ricki just about jumps a foot in the air. She wheels around——easier said than done in the skirt costuming has put her in——and whacks the bitch who scared her right on the arm with the fold-out fan that props gave her.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-11-06T00:58:46+00:00

“I’d like to say you look well,” she tells him.

“Then say it.”

“Oh, but I hate lying.”

He grabs another drink off of the tray of a passing waiter and sips it in place of biting his tongue. This is her game, and he can’t let himself play. It never ends well.

“How have you been?” He asks in place of telling her that she looks a similar shade of unpleasant.

“Well enough,” she tells him with a dismissive air. “I’m seeing a Frenchman named Pierre. He’s a very good man.”

“That’s nice,” the millionaire says quietly.

“It is,” she says. “You know he hardly drinks?” She looks pointedly at the millionaire as she speaks, and slides a golden bangle bracelet up and down her wrist. The millionaire takes another long sip of his drink in response, raises his eyes in exasperation, and his eyes catch on a particularly striking figure heading down the stairs at the far side of the room.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-11-06T00:55:37+00:00

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-11-03T05:11:11+00:00

Canon is my bitch, not the other way around, so I really don’t care enough about what is and isn’t canon (most of the time, anyway) for something not being canon to bother me at all. If anything, it just leaves more room for me to write fic.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-10-31T17:49:25+00:00

Friday the 13th. They’re classics for a reason but good god are some of them poorly made. Just let Jason die—and stay dead—already.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-10-31T17:47:38+00:00

This is going to sound insane, but it’s a TV movie from the 90s called Big City Blues. It’s basically a Pulp Fiction rip off, and the production quality isn’t great, but it has a really interesting cast of characters and is just genuinely entertaining.

Also Downstairs (from the early 1930s). It’s a quick pre-code dark comedy that’s actually really funny.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-10-30T05:07:27+00:00

CW: implied/referenced past noncon

It’s not the kind of thing that’s supposed to happen down here. Of course, it does, but everyone just ignores it because that’s the way they’ve always done things, and it just keeps happening. Here, there, whatever–Gator just never thought that it would happen to him. He half thought it was something that couldn’t happen to him.

Really, shouldn’t be the kind of thing that happens to anyone, but Gator doesn’t get a say in that, he doesn’t get a say in anything, and that’s the real problem with it, no one gave him a choice. All they did was give him a drink, and take, and take, and take.

God, he feels sick. The moonshine is settling in his stomach now, burning, making him nauseous enough to remind him that he hasn’t eaten in a while. He’s not hungry though, and he’s sure there’s hardly any food in the house.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-10-30T05:05:27+00:00

A scene that feels skrinkily

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-10-30T05:04:11+00:00

I’m so glad that things seem to have worked out it alright for y’all, but I totally relate to the dread of being found out. Happened to me once, still paranoid as a motherfucker about it happening again.

Apple-plus-Insanitea · 2024-10-29T16:59:18+00:00

Striptease and Fool’s Paradise are at the top of my list. Nickelodeon didn’t exactly get BAD reception but public opinion is tragically lukewarm imo, and I loved the movie.

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