Your favorite tropes!

So as you've grown into your writing career, which of the tropey story ideas has grabbed your interest the most?
A casual encounter, often involving cafés, public transport or an oft frequented shop, leading to something more. Long hair (although gamine is always worth a glance), and women with a confident and a "mind made up" kind of gaze.
 
Ive written a ton of Exhibitionist / Voyeurism stuff and I pretty much enjoy every related trope that fits i suppose: Caught masturbating, friends / couples/ strangers watching watxhing each other masturbate, CFNM, CMNF, Public nudity, etc etc etc.

I also seem to mention my... um, I mean my character's love and lust for a woman's scent in quite a few of my stories...
 
One of my favorite tropes is using the phrase - On the one hand... followed by On the other hand.

Edit: Ostensibly, I think it is because of the use of the On the gripping hand in Larry Niven's book "The Mote in God's Eye" about a three handed alien race.
 
"Torn between two lovers" - a somewhat inexperienced main character finds themselves with two very different branches to take in life, and has choose one or the other. I especially like it if I can tweak it so that there is no clear right or wrong choice. It gives me (and hopefully the reader) something to ponder, and also a variety of types of sex.
"[T]he problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
 
One of my favorite tropes is using the phrase - On the one hand... followed by On the other hand.

Edit: Ostensibly, I think it is because of the use of the On the gripping hand in Larry Niven's book "The Mote in God's Eye" about a three handed alien race.
Well, on the one hand, it's tried and true, but on the other hand it's a bit overused... :p
 
In my Mature category stories either published or in progress, there will always be the line, "But I'm old enough to be your father (or mother)..." spoken by the older person in the new relationship. Instant but terribly predictable angst.
 
Somebody doing somebody they're not supposed to for whatever reason. Crossing some sort of like of normalcy. It's fantasy here after all.


Women in charge at the office, running the company with the option, or maybe practice of 'rewarding' special clients or employees.
 
I want enough real world in my fantasy to give hope that the real world could still become the fantasy. Just enough so it is relatable, where you can say, "I can imagine life being this good." Then the resolution is all happiness and I'm more connected to it, with just this glimmer of maybe, just maybe.

But I'm an optimist, except when I'm depressed and a pessimist.
 
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