Tropes--Not just for fanfic anymore

[facetofcathy]

ETA. Tuesday March 30:  This page is getting very hard to read for anyone who didn't happen to follow along as it was changed.  I'm going to post a new list that shows all the wonderful additions people have suggested as well as a new category system.  I'll put that up tomorrow, Wednesday, and we can discuss categories and visit the issue of re-naming pages in a format where no-one's opinions get lost. 

ETA: Can we start using Subject Lines.  I need to put this page onto ?view=flat to keep up.

The Background:  This post on fanlore :  Fic -Privileging on Fanlore and Limitations to Fannish Diversity

Various conversations on talk pages on the wiki, some linked below.  See also:  Talk page on tentaclefic page.

As discussed on the pages linked above, most of the trope pages on the wiki are linked from the Story Trope page.  That page began as a fic-focused list and the problem has spread into dozens of pages throughout the wiki. 

The Proposal:  Let's begin with the Story Tropes page and reimagine it, then we can all work on various other old and new trope pages and make Fanlore trope pages about all fanworks in all fandoms. 

What I am suggesting is first renaming the page as Tropes, Genres and Classification in Fanworks (or something shorter if that's felt to be necessary.)  If we as a community can come to a consensus on restructuring the page in this way, the next step is to rename the listed tropes in an inclusive way, and then rename the pages they link to, or make pages if they don't yet exist. 

Below the cut is the code from that page, as at March 23, with my proposed changes shown.  Strikethroughs = removal, Blue means new or changed.  I am starting from the code here, since just looking at the page (which is a list of wikilinks) won't show you where the links actually go.

I don't have all the answers here!  I am finding names hard to determine, I don't know much about art or vidding, so there may be needed additions that I'm not aware of.  Please look this over, offer suggestions for names where you see ???, and let's see if the community likes this idea, and if we can go forward with making this area of the wiki better armed with a plan. 

If we do chose to go this route, we need a list of pages that need to be moved (the way a name change happens) and a list of new pages that can be made(currently really hard to count, but it's quite a few).  Please look this over, look at the page on the wiki and chime in with how you think this can be improved. 

N.B. I have used hard coded Blue text in places.  If you happen to have a background that will not display that text comfortably, please try adding ?format=light to the url of this entry.  Comments are in ().   ETA, suggestions from comments are in red.

ETA:  I should have been clearer, that blue does not absolutely mean erase the old page name from existance.  Some things, like Curtain fic, are terms that will have to have a page to explain the term, but the trope itself in a general non fic-specific way should have a page to be discussed. 


Tropes, Genres and Classifications in Fanworks(limit this page to tropes only?)

This page lists fannish story [[trope]]s, [[genre]]s and classifications that can apply to all types of [[fanworks]]. Please follow the links for more information on individual topics. For a historical perspective on story tropes in [[fanfiction]], see [[Story Tropes By Fandom]] or [[Slash Tropes]]. See also [[TV Tropes]].

===Relationship Based===(Remove this to the Genre page?  Polyamory and Threesome to stay?)
*[[Het]]
*[[Slash]], [[Yaoi]]
**(for tropes specific to slash, see [[Slash Tropes]])
*[[Femslash]], [[Yuri]]
*[[Gen]]
**[[Smarm]]
*[[Polyamory]], [[Threesome]] (fist page is currently polyfic, content is spread over these two pages and needs to be reorganized.)
*[[Incest]]
**[[Twincest]]

===Character Transformation=== (new section drawing from other sections)
*[[Elf]] (page is currently Elf AU)
*[[Aging Up]]
*[[Animal Transformation]]
*[[Bodysharing]]
*[[Bodyswap]]
*[[De-age|De-aging]]
*[[Genderswap]]
*[[Ghost]] (going with the structure of vampire, etc. use page for canon and trope uses)
*[[Vampire]]
*[[Werewolf]] (page already exists, descripes trope is disambiged from works of same name)
*[[Wings]] (using the same logic as werewolf, elf etc. wings in canon and wings in fic are related.)
**[[Wingfic]]
*[[Woke Up Gay]]
*[[Zombies]] (page already exists)


===Content Based===(was type of story by plot)
*[[Afterlife]] - Assension
*[[AU]]
**[[Elf AU]]
**[[Harlequin Challenge|Harlequin]] AU ?? (see disccusion on talk page--this is the only trope page where the links all go to the page that describes challenges that use the trope--there is currently no page for the trope itself. Also this discussion raised good questions about the term AU.)
**[[Highschool AU]]
**[[Noir Detective AU]]
**[[Pornstar AU]]
**[[Western AU]]
**[[Pirate AU]]
**[[Romance]]
**[[Regency]]
*[[Based on a Painting]]
*[[Case Story|Casefic]]
*[[Crossover]]
**[[Fusion]]
*[[Noir (Trope)]] - Detective, Detective or Noir AU (page is now Noir Detective AU)
*[[Pirate]]
*[[Prostitution (Trope)]] (proposing renaming Hookerfic page, but not losing the term from Fanlore.  It is a fannish term and should have at the very least a glossary page.)
**[[Hookerfic]]
*[[Regency]]
*[[Romance]]
**[[Harlequin Challenge|Harlequin]] AU ?? (see disccusion on talk page--this is the only trope page where the links all go to the page that describes challenges that use the trope--there is currently no page for the trope itself. Also this discussion raised good questions about the term AU.)
*[[Western]] (current name of page)


 



===Based on Individual Elements===(was type of story by story element)
*[[Aged up|Aging Up]]
*[[Animal Transformation]]
*[[Anthropomorficphism]](This page uses an example of a work that has art for it, but the art is never mentioned.)
*[[Apocaficlypse]]
*[[Bodysharing]]
*[[Bodyswap]]
*[[Conduitfic]]
*[[Curtainfic]][[Domesticity]]???
*Domesticity  (not really thrilled with the phrasing--and maybe this is an example of one where the fic page is enough--or combine the concepts in one page with separate headings.)
**[[Curtainfic]]
**Marriage
**Forced Marriage
**[[Kidfic]]
**Marriage of Convenience
**Weddingfic
*[[De-age|De-aging]]
*[[Deathfic]] [[Character Death]] (will this be confused with fannish reactions to killed-off characters?)
**[[Deathfic]]
*[[First Time (Fic)|First Time]]
*[[Ghost (Trope)]]
*[[Holiday (Trope)]]
*[[Historical AU]]
*[[Hurt/Comfort]]
*[[Kidfic]]???
*[[Kink]]
*[[Magical Healing Cock]]
*[[Mary Sue]]
*[[Non-Con]](should these be combined?)
**[[Rapefic]]
*[[Modern AU]]
*[[Pregnancy]]
**[[Mpreg]]
**[[Mpreg#Fempreg|Fempreg]]
**Magical (entire pregnancy takes only days; pregnant without sex, etc.)
*[[Presumed Dead]]
*[[Pretending to be Married]]
*[[Prostitution (Trope)]]
**[[Hooker AU]](not absolutely au, lots of concurent with canon fics, can also be art and vids easily too.  Single page that explains for all fanworks with redirect from hooker fic or separate?)
**[[Hooker fic]]
*[[Rapefic]]
*[[Robots]]
*[[Slave AU]]
*[[Slavery (Trope)]] - Slavefic (page is now slavefic)
*[[Soulbond]]
*[[Tentacles]] - Tentacle fic (page is now tentaclefic)
*[[Vampire (Trope)]]
*[[Virgin!fic]]
**[[Virgin!fic#Secret Virgin Fic|Secret Virgin]]
*[[Werewolf(Trope)]] (page already exists, descripes trope is disambiged from works of same name)
*[[Wings]]
**[[Wingfic]]
*[[Woke Up Gay]]
*[[Yenta]]

===Based on Single Device===(was type of story by plot device)
*[[Amnesia]]
*[[Cave Story]]Isolated or trapped
**[[Cave Story]] (current name of page)
**[[Desert Island]]
**[[Canadian Shack]]
*[[Disability fic]] [[Disability (Trope)]] (Is Disability fic really a common term?)
*[[Documentation]], [[Epistolary Fic|Epistolary fic]]
*[[Genderswap]]
*[[Hypothermia]] or [[Huddling for Warmth]]
*[[Soulbond]]
*[[Time Travel]]

===Inherently sex-related: ===(making this a heading)
*[[Aliens Made Them Do It]]
*[[Chan]], [[Underage]], [[Shota]], [[Lolicon]]
*[[Hypothermia]]
*[[Fuck or Die]]
*[[Heat fic]]??
*Sex Compulsion
**[[AMTDI|Aliens Made Them Do It]]
**[[Heat fic]]
**[[Fuck of Die]]
**[[Mating Urge]]
**[[Ponn Farr]]
**[[Sex Pollen]]
*[[Incest]](Can easily be moved to another category--or we can erase this distinction and move all of this, once categories have been sorted out)
**[[Twincest]]


===Based on relationship to canon===
*[[AU]]
*[[Re-Casting]] - Chromatic Casting, Genderflip Casting.
*[[Crossover]]
*[[Darkfic]]??
*[[Denialfic]]??
*[[Episode tag]]
*[[Missing scene]]
*[[Fix-it]]
*[[Futurefic]]??[[Post-Canon]] - Futurefic  (page is now named futurefic.)
*[[Pastfic]]??[[Pre-Canon]] - Pastfic, Backstory, Flashbacks  (page is now named pastfic.)


===Based on tone===
*[[Angst]]
*[[Comfortfic]] (not really a trope, more a matter of taste)
*[[Crack]]
*[[Darkfic]]
*[[Emoporn]]
*[[Fluff]]
*[[Porn]], [[PWP]]
*[[Schmoop]]
*[[Smarm]]

(this entire section could go on the fanfic page)
===type of story by length===
* [[Drabble]]
* Double-drabble
* [[ficlet]]
* vignette
* story
* chaptered story
* novel
* epic
* series of stories
* series of novels


[[Category:Glossary]] [[Category:Fan Activities]] [[Category:Fiction Writing]]??

Comments

Re: Heading Structure

[meg_r]

I actually don't think that will work, because we are stripping AU off so many tropes that are only *mostly* AU.

Re: Heading Structure

[facetofcathy]

I just started to think that myself. I cant think of a good non-fic way to split plot from element though.