book tropes that i love. they butter my
biscuits. they water my plant
they make me go...
last video i talked about book tropes
that i absolutely hated because
some tropes are just redankulous.
[the lord
is testing me]
but then there are some
tropes that are like,
i don't know. they just they make me feel
warm and gooey and like i'm floating on
clouds. before we get started on this
video,
you know how we do it. go in the comments
right now and let me know
one trope that you absolutely adore.
the very first of those tropes for me
which should come as absolutely no
surprise to anybody because
i always talk about how much i love this
trope is the enemies to lovers trope. i
know this trope gets
a lot of bad rep. people have thoughts
and opinions about enemies to lovers. they
say
oh it's not realistic enough.
[i call it bullshit]
i think not a lot of writers
can get
enemies to lovers. like it--it it takes a
certain level of finesse for you to be
able to get it right.
because at the core of it, like i always
say, a good enemies to lovers story is
one that is built on respect. it's a
i respect the fact that you're strong. i
respect the fact that you're a badass. i
respect the fact that you can do
so so and so. i respect the fact that you
are even better or
you are my equal in this regard, and that
is the reason why i fucking hate you.
i hate you because you're this good. i
hate you because you're this amazing. i
hate you because
if there's anybody that can threaten my
position, that can come for me,
it is you. and when you see these people,
these characters that
you know somewhere beneath all that
hatred is a respect,
then you find it understandable and
believable that
they can then fall into love. of course
usually they are drug kicking and
screaming into the love,
and that is always what warms my heart.
that realization that these characters
cannot fucking stand each other,
that this character consider the other
person as a threat, and yet,
and yet true love must still prevail!
[they call it, we call it, you call it, I call it love]
and then the second trope i love is very
close to the first trope which is
friends to lovers. i i love enemies to
lovers right? i absolutely love that
dynamic. but at the same time i also love
the dynamic of friends to lovers because
you already have these characters who
have been there for each other, who know
each other better than anybody else, and
they already have that connection and
all that is left is for them to just tip
over into love.
and then usually a lot of the time--it's
it's always so cool because there's
always one friend
that has fallen in love first, and
because they do not want to lose their
best friend,
they hold back and they don't say it and
all that secret pining like
friends to lovers is always layered with
secret pining,
and it just makes the flavor, it makes
everything just sit
better. it's like marinating all that
want
and need and desire and anguish and
you're just like
[hmmmm. this was delicious]
i i absolutely
adore friends to lovers. i think that if
it is done
well, because sometimes right? sometimes
we just we
will drop straight into the story after
it is that they've become a thing, after it is that they've entered the
relationship, or
shortly before that, and i rather--i want
to... i want to get a feel of how these
characters
are as friends, and then know that the
next progression is for them to be
lovers because
nobody knows them like the other
character does. nobody loves them like
the other character does. they are
already
in love. they just shift from platonic
friendly love into romantic love
and sexual love, and it's always very
interesting. and let me tell you this
right? reading about characters who used
to be friends having sex for the first
time.
like if it is done well, it is always so
good because enemies to lovers is
always
all that rage, and all that pent up
emotions, and boom!
[the whore jumped out]
but with friends to lovers, i want to see
laughter. i want to see
fondness. i want to see all of that in
their first time because
this is just them laughing at the fact
that they have gotten to this point, and
they know the other person
so much and um there's just that melding
of
mind before there's a melding of bodies.
now take it up a notch for it to be
childhood friends to lovers, like...
[crying]
childhood friends to lovers. childhood
friends
to lovers. they used to be friends,
as children. they have been friends as
children for like forever.
and then something happens. there's that
moment when
there's that shift, when all of a sudden
this person that has been seeing this
person
as their friend for ever,
all of a sudden see them as
more... ah childhood friends to lovers.
i couple that shit up. i gobble it up
with a spoon,
feed me, let me roll it!
[hmmmm. hmmm. oh that's that good shit!]
but then of
course the superior trope of them all
will be
friends to enemies to lovers, because the
level... 
the level of emotions. i--i cry. i witness
a trope so beautiful i cry.
that that that is me. the third trope yes
i say third trope even though i technically
mentioned three tropes before...
[bitch i'm me!]
but the third trope on my list
has to be found family. i absolutely
adore it. this group of misfits who
have differing opinions, differing
personalities, differing
goals and wants, coming together and
becoming a family,
where they defend each other, and look
out for one another. i absolutely adore
this trope. i already have a video up on
my channel, i'm going to leave it down in
the description
bar, and it's probably going to pop up
somewhere on screen where i
talk about this trope and i mention
books that have this trope and
kdramas and cdrama that have this
trope because your girl loves asian
dramas. and i. [sigh] 
like i said, it's several levels of
knowing that this
are your family by choice. you meet each
other and you decide that you want to be
a family, and you look out for each other
and you defend one another,
and i just love love reading it in books.
every single time
it pops up in a book, my heart just warms
and i just float.
let me know down in the comments down
below a book that you recommend with
this found family trope because
this is one of my favorite tropes. i--
every single time
i see it, i just i know that i am in for
a ride,
and even if it is that the book is not
the best book,
even if it is that the book is horrible
i can hate everything else
but i will still love the found family
unit present in that book.
[and that's the truth]
and then there is
the contractual relationship trope. like [laughs]
every single time i come across
a book with characters that decide that do
you know what, we are not dating.
i do not like you. i am not in any way
interested
in you. but let us pretend to date. let us
have this contractual relationship
whereby you know, you do this, i do this,
we we both benefit from this situation,
and then at the end of it, we go our
separate ways i'm always like
[laughs] no. my bad i'm sorry.
pretend lovers that form a contract and
from there on fall in love. it's always
just hilarious especially because
usually when when it starts the
characters are usually delusional enough.
they'll be all like,
you know we'll have a contract. you'll do
this for me, i'll do this for you and
then we'll move on blah blah blah blah
blah.
you know go on our separate ways. nobody
needs to know after that and
you just, every single time i start the
book
and i'm aware that these characters are
going to end up together in a real
relationship at the end, and the contract
will be torn up and then become real.
like i know that, and still.
and yet. i still--i still squeal
every time it happens, because i just
love it. it just. it goes to show that you
cannot control emotions. it goes to show
that people that think that they can
play,
i don't know some sort of divine being
and pick and choose and pretend,
they have no control. like sometimes it's
just, fate just looks in and then is like
[i i have to laugh. i'm sorry this is so (bleep) ridiculous]
contractual. [laugh] fake dating. [laughing] you wish. it's
proof that love cannot be controlled.
you cannot negotiate with it. you cannot
bargain with it. you also cannot know
when it would come
and hit you in the face like a mack
truck.
[it's a hard knock life]
and then there's there's only one bed
trope. you know
characters that cannot stand each
other, or characters that have just been
ambivalent towards each other. or
characters that don't necessarily see
each other in that light.
you know, they go somewhere maybe it's
raining, maybe there's a storm,
or whatever whatever. basically they seek
shelter and then are given the dreaded
news.
there is only one bed. [dramatic music]
and then i'm over here like
[cackling]
you know those moments when you're
laughing with the author like you're
just like, you could just imagine you're
sitting right beside the author, and both of
you are cackling, 
at the fact that these characters have
no choice, they are going to have to stay
in the same room, on the same bed. and
then you know feelings are going to come.
they're going to catch feelings at the end.
i just--it makes me
very very happy. there does not even need
to be sex at that point.
if there is i'll be like... i'm not opposed
to it.
but it's just always very satisfying
because you know what the end game
is. you know what is gonna happen. you
know
this relationship and these feelings are
going to develop
because there's just something about the
close proximity,
that love blossoms within it. and then
finally the gruff character
who loves the cinnamon roll. there's just
something about this juxtaposition of
one person who frowns and hates the
world, and cannot stand the world,
and wants the world to keep its distance,
and doesn't want anything else to come
near them, and they're just like nope
i don't want it blah blah blah, and then
you have the cinnamon roll who everybody
loves, who is just the life of the party.
who is very cheery. who is adorable
and then boom!
[you're my new best friend]
you have the gruff character who's all like do
not talk to me world.
i hate this world. i want to become a
misanthrope. i'd rather get an island
somewhere where i can live alone, and
then you have the cinnamon roll, who's
like no come. let's come play. let's come
play. let's come play. i absolutely
love it and adore it. it butters my
biscuit.
i love it when i see it. i love love it
when i see it in a book. it makes me very
very happy
[sweet dreams are made of these. who am i to disagree?]
so yeah, those are six book tropes that i
absolutely love. let me know if any of
the tropes on my list make it on yours.
if you have any book recommendations for
any of these tropes, drop it down in the
comments as well, i would love to see it.
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