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Saturday, March 20th, 2010 12:28 pm (UTC)
I think there are more questions about some of the others, because some elements exist in all media, but I'm not sure they are really genres in all. On the talk page when I brought "Deathfic" up as an other example kylara sensibly suggested calling the page "Character Death" (which hadn't really occurred to me, as I associate that with the warning, not the genre), which is more inclusive, but I'm not actually sure it means the same to show a dead character in fanart, and that it is a genre there as it is in fic.

In general the articles many of the tropes called such-and-such AU are very fanfic focused even if it is also an art trope (Elf AU comes to mind, there's certainly plenty of fanart drawing characters as elves), but is art "AU"? The AU page itself is very fanfic-centric. And calling the page "Elves" is really not the same, as the trope is elf-ication of non-elf characters, not fictional elves in general.

Actually that the trope page itself is called Story Tropes is rather telling, even though a ton of these tropes listed actually are visual as well as plotty, and some even at present have art as well as fic examples on their stubby pages, for example the "Noir Detective AU" article, also the not yet created Regency AU trope page comes to mind for another quite visual one, with the love of period costumes and dressing characters up.

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