[Meme] Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown

Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown, where twenty-eight narrative tropes fight it out to see which ones you love best. :D

My results are as follows:

1. Found Families
2. Loyalty Kink
3. Role Reversal AU
4. Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
5. Enemies to Friends to Lovers
6. Rivalmancy
7. Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
8. Friends to Lovers
9. Espionage AU
10. Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)
10. Vampires/Werewolves AU
( the rest of the list and some thoughts )

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In other news I got a haircut today. I really should have gotten it trimmed last weekend, but my trip to New Jersey precluded that and so I suffered through excessive shagginess this past week. My life: so hard.

(The annoying thing about short hair is that you notice relatively minor length differences a lot more than you do when your hair is already halfway down your back. The nice thing about short hair, though, is that it is so easy to deal with in the morning. I mean, I have started having vague thoughts about, 'hey, what if long hair and ponytails and braids...?' again, but they are still extremely vague and half-hearted even though this is the longest I've gone with short hair since, uh, ever. I dunno if they'll come to much of anything or if I'll settle into a more permanent hairstyle.)

wherein Liz is surprisingly productive

Things I have done today:

1. Get a haircut.

2. Buy groceries.

3. Enroll in the Not the IRS tax prep course which starts mid-September.

4. Prune the daylights out of the shrubbery at the side of my house, which was encroaching heavily upon the driveway. If those suckers want to be trees, then I will make them ACT like trees and have no branches until at least eight feet up. *resolve face*

5. Start applying for a job at Not the IRS. (I haven't finished because I want Vicky to look over my cover letter for improvements. I am very bad at writing cover letters.)

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I don't feel completely wiped out by all that, either, which is nice! Having a regular job doesn't alter my physical energy levels one way or the other, but it does noticeably raise the amount of mental/emotional spoons I have on an average day -- and today is an average day, not one of those once-in-a-blue-moon 'I can do anything; watch me go!!!' days that I try to milk for all they're worth when they come around. I think it's a combination of reduced stress (less panicking over finances) and an external regulator for my schedule. I am terrible at internal motivation for... well, pretty much everything... so having an externally imposed framework around my days is a godsend. It keeps me anchored to time instead of drifting off into the vast untethered gray wilderness.

(I've been trying to anchor myself a little by walking to Cascadilla Creek and taking a picture from the Tioga St. bridge every day, which has been helpful, but that's not the same as an actual 'be at Place X at Time Y' job requirement.)