There are definitely some recurring themes, and in others I can just see the way that other media was impacting me at the time, ha. Like, in some of those old high-school era fic ideas, I can see the ways the anime that I was watching with friends impacted the kinds of stories I was thinking about, even when those series weren't the fandoms I was actually active in.
Some of the recurring plot threads are pretty broad relationship arc type things: going through a lot to be with the person(s) you want to be with, regardless of whether they're who you *should* want to be with. (And I know that "the battle against internal and external homophobia" is considered a very passe plotline these days, where mentioning the existence of homophobia is somehow a homophobic act, but it's still a thing that I have some baggage around from growing up in the 90s and 00s. A lot of the fic ideas aren't literally about that, but they're *kind of about that*, if you know what I mean.) Others are relationship arcs that are embarrassingly revealing, lol. "No, the fact that trauma recovery or overcoming bad shit happening, with a partner who works to understand you/you working to understand them and help them through their own baggage doesn't say anything about me, nope." Sometimes it's just more of "I want to read genre stories about the types of characters and relationships I enjoy, and I will shamelessly write AUs to get those stories."
That's a very good point about timeloops... I really like them when they're done well, but there've been some that bored me or left me pretty cold. I think that's a lot of it: ones that feel like I'm just watching the canon episode over and over definitely isn't as satisfying as one that does more to play with what's going on.
I only ever read the first Twilight book, and saw maybe the first two movies? I think? They were Not For Me, but I do at least understand that they are for someone. But I'd love something that catered to me the same way it caters to the tastes of the people who were super into it!
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There are definitely some recurring themes, and in others I can just see the way that other media was impacting me at the time, ha. Like, in some of those old high-school era fic ideas, I can see the ways the anime that I was watching with friends impacted the kinds of stories I was thinking about, even when those series weren't the fandoms I was actually active in.
Some of the recurring plot threads are pretty broad relationship arc type things: going through a lot to be with the person(s) you want to be with, regardless of whether they're who you *should* want to be with.
(And I know that "the battle against internal and external homophobia" is considered a very passe plotline these days, where mentioning the existence of homophobia is somehow a homophobic act, but it's still a thing that I have some baggage around from growing up in the 90s and 00s. A lot of the fic ideas aren't literally about that, but they're *kind of about that*, if you know what I mean.)
Others are relationship arcs that are embarrassingly revealing, lol. "No, the fact that trauma recovery or overcoming bad shit happening, with a partner who works to understand you/you working to understand them and help them through their own baggage doesn't say anything about me, nope."
Sometimes it's just more of "I want to read genre stories about the types of characters and relationships I enjoy, and I will shamelessly write AUs to get those stories."
That's a very good point about timeloops... I really like them when they're done well, but there've been some that bored me or left me pretty cold. I think that's a lot of it: ones that feel like I'm just watching the canon episode over and over definitely isn't as satisfying as one that does more to play with what's going on.
I only ever read the first Twilight book, and saw maybe the first two movies? I think? They were Not For Me, but I do at least understand that they are for someone. But I'd love something that catered to me the same way it caters to the tastes of the people who were super into it!