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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.
(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)
reblog if you believe fanfic writers are as valid and talented as any professional writer who publishes and sells their novels
I’m trying to prove a point
Nina Zenik is a whole another level of iconic. She read dark romances and said "I'll do enemies to lovers" and actually pulled it off.
Bad fantasy/sci fi series be like lol All jokes aside this is one of my most hated tropes. Like if you have all these races in your fantasy/sci fi series and then only have humans in your main cast and with the only one or two or so nonhuman races as the side characters or whatever
And the absence of these races isn't an important plot point we're meant to explore/solve Why are these races even here? Just make humans the only race and that saves you the trouble
We need more female characters who channel exhausted single father who is just doing his best. Do you understand what I mean.
She's kind of a loser in a charming, but also in a pathetic way. Wears the same jacket she's owned for 10 years. Really good at some random uncool hobby like darts or scrabble. Terrible at meal prep. Reheats her coffee three times before drinking it. Tries to keep up with slang, but never gets it quite right. Little kids love her, teenagers think she is mega cringe. Hasn't had enough sleep in 6 months.
the holy grail types of fanfic
Rare Tropes
One of my favorite rare tropes is this, kitchen absolutely RECKED, but the most perfect food ever made. It's never used but I find it cute and funny. Here's an example;
Character A walks out the kitchen, covered in stains and spills, the stench of smoke wafting of them. Character B is terrified as a sloppy slice cake is placed In front them. They steal a quick glance at A, who's looking at them with an excited smile. B gives a defeated sigh, and takes sizeable bite of the cake, expecting the worst. It tastes better than heaven.
The best duo >"<
choose one and i’ll write it with characters you choose for me!! i’ll post my characters shortly (or if you want me to write something before i tell you my characters just tell me and i’ll choose ones i think would go well!!)
so cute tender hurt comfort is nice and all, but
enemies to lovers hurt comfort.
"i'm fine."
"you are NOT fine."
"you're running a 103 degree fever and you think you're just going to go to work like everything's just peachy? you're absolutely unbelievable."
"you dumbass! you got stabbed and you didn't think to tell me? you got it infected, you worthless piece of shit!"
"if you fucking die, i will kill you."
"you're eating this soup if i have to force it down your throat."
"you probably think i care about you now. well, i don't. i don't give a shit what happens to you, actually." (proceeds to do everything possible to take care of said person they don't care about)
"you are not sleeping on my couch. get on the bed, asshole."
"i'm not your mother. take care of yourself." (they did not, in fact, let the sick person take care of themself)
"have i ever told you that spending five hours in freezing rain without a coat is stupid? no? well, it was fucking stupid, [insert name here]."
"you know, there's this magical thing called common sense. you've probably never heard of it, but normal people have it, and that's why they're careful while handling knives so that they don't drop one on their foot."
"lie down. that's not a request, that's an order."
"you're going to drink this if it's the last thing you do."
"take your own temperature, asshole. no. no, you're doing it wrong. oh my gosh, just let me do it."
"are you feeling alright?" (clears throat) "i mean, uh, you better not be fucking sick, you idiot."
Lina looked down at the table, she was nervous for when John arrived, she didn’t know if he would even turn up. She thought it would be embarrassing if he stood her up but how they left the relationship they were in felt awkward and wrong. Lina had been blocked from contacting him for about a month or just over and the amount of days she hadn’t slept just worrying about him felt unreal and left her in a daze. The bell over the door brought her back to her surroundings and the smell of coffee hit her fast, and she felt dizzy. Lina looked up. John was standing in the doorway looking around, presumably for her. She raised her arms over her head “Hey John! I’m here!” John looked over and smiled, his hair was windswept and she looked out of the window realising it was a storm outside. The weather said is would be warm with short spells of showers but it turned out to be wrong, once again. John started walking over and Lina stood up awkwardly “Hey Li, how are you?” He asked her. She gave him a shrug and mumbled she was fine, John just rolled his eyes and hugged her. “We can still talk you know, you’re my friend and that won’t change,” he said to her, Lina looked up surprised “Wait, actually?” He flicked her shoulder “Nah I hate you, dummy.” Lina giggled and they sat down to discuss how they had been, making sure not to talk about their relationship, trying their best to start from scratch.
Trope of the day is... exes to friends. Not all relationships have to end badly, not all exes have to hate each other. Being amicable exes who still trust and respect each other and who are just better off as friends should be more included in fiction.
Elle looked at Mina, struggling against the grasp of the chains against the wall. Mina sobbed as Giles grabbed her hair “Tell me how you fucking found me,” she made eye contact with him and spat in his face. Giles raised his fist to hit her and Elle braved herself for seeing her friend be hurt but Mina grabbed his wrist “Touch me and I promise you I will destroy you.”
ok but enough of that “touch her and i’ll kill you” trope, i want my badass female main character to have “touch ME and i’ll kill you” energy