What are your favorite story telling tropes or plotlines?

For sexy stuff I’ve always liked the concept of gregarious straight guys doing aggressively heterosexual or macho things, but unwittingly in the most over-the-top gay way possible. (for instance, check out the latest gif set I posted of Takamura having a literal dick measuring contest with Ippo)

Otherwise, uhh, hmmm! I really like Chekhov’s Guns? Like, things that seemed really trivial before suddenly popping up in later stories and suddenly becoming SUPER IMPORTANT LIKE HOLY SHIT WE DIDN’T REALIZE. Farscape did that all the time.

I also really like super diverse casts of completely different beings interacting with each other. I mean, like, fairies talking to space aliens talking to futuristic cyborgs talking to old gods talking to crime noir detectives. See Sandman, A Distant Soil, and Gargoyles.

I also like characters who define themselves entirely by their role (such as a job, or a relationship) and then breaking free of that.