hmm i'm surprised you didn't make Memory a category of its own... or i guess Memory is kind of a broad meta-category that overlaps everything else too. not to overcomplicate your model more than it already is lol
anyway, it really is amazing how much we broadly like the same types of things and have extremely similar taste but we like them in different ways and will go in opposite directions in execution. like, i love power dynamix but ambiguity & ambivalence >>> formal command structures, and enemies to reluctant allies/lovers >>> friends/lovers to enemies, and i also love the sub-categories of not knowing each other you posited but i also need canon interax to live. i do think ultimately we're not so different after all tho but my priorities among these dynamix are distributed differently than yours. lmao idk if i should continue navelgazing in this comment or just save it for my own post since i'd been meaning to do something similar for general story tropes, but ship dynamix would be easier.
ALSO idk if you've read it already, but you haveeeeeeeee to read ancillary justice. the main dynamix is literally haters to leader x 2ic w/ hints of one-sided You Saved Me I Was Your First Ship, You Should Remember Me (and many variations and inversions on that theme among various characters), and there's some light mentorshipping + potential narrativeshipping in the books 2 and 3. i already did a quotespost of the first book that includes most of the major main dynamix moments if you want to check if it baits you (though the leader x 2ic dynamix doesn't actually happen until book 2).
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Date: 2021-05-21 08:02 am (UTC)anyway, it really is amazing how much we broadly like the same types of things and have extremely similar taste but we like them in different ways and will go in opposite directions in execution. like, i love power dynamix but ambiguity & ambivalence >>> formal command structures, and enemies to reluctant allies/lovers >>> friends/lovers to enemies, and i also love the sub-categories of not knowing each other you posited but i also need canon interax to live. i do think ultimately we're not so different after all tho but my priorities among these dynamix are distributed differently than yours. lmao idk if i should continue navelgazing in this comment or just save it for my own post since i'd been meaning to do something similar for general story tropes, but ship dynamix would be easier.
ALSO idk if you've read it already, but you haveeeeeeeee to read ancillary justice. the main dynamix is literally haters to leader x 2ic w/ hints of one-sided
You Saved MeI Was Your First Ship, You Should Remember Me (and many variations and inversions on that theme among various characters), and there's some light mentorshipping + potential narrativeshipping in the books 2 and 3. i already did a quotespost of the first book that includes most of the major main dynamix moments if you want to check if it baits you (though the leader x 2ic dynamix doesn't actually happen until book 2).