50 cliché tropes and prompts

It’s my first prompt list! Thank you to my followers for helping. Credit not needed but please don’t repost. Feel free to link back to the list! These may be cliche but I love them.

1. There’s people chasing us and I pulled you into the alley with me and wow you’re close
2. Your shirt/jumper was in the laundry pile and I couldn’t help but steal it
3. I’m dying and I’m confessing my love for you
4. Kissing in the rain and getting soaked before running inside laughing
5. Playing with their hair while their head’s in your lap.
6. Jolting awake after a nightmare and being comforted
7. “Good morning, beautiful/handsome”
8. Hands brushing unexpectedly
9. There’s only one bed and we sleep as far away as possible from each other but wake up cuddling
10. You confessed your feelings and we’re about to kiss but we get interrupted
11. Secret relationship
12. We dated in high school but then you moved away but now you’re back in town
13. Both going to grab the same thing and touching hands, then making eye contact.
14. We’re roommates but we’re falling for each other
15. Drunkenly confessing feelings
16. I need a date for this wedding
17. “I think I’m in love with you.”
18. Fake dating AU
19. Blurting out a confession of love
20. You’re in a coma and I confess all my feelings only for you to wake up
21. Blind date set up by friends
22. You’re my new bodyguard and you’re cute.
23. “Just tell why you did it!” “Because I’m in love with you, okay!”
24. You’re my ex but I think I still have feelings for you
25. Wrapping arms around them when they make breakfast
26. Cuddling in comfortable silence before murmuring “I love you”
27. Help me I’m being hit on at a bar please be my fake boyfriend for a second
28. We literally ran into each other
29. You’re leaving for something dangerous and I can’t help but kiss you
30. Painting the house that ends in a paint fight and giggles
31. “You’ve got something on your lip, here let me.”
32. A soft smile before leaning in for a kiss
33. Everyone thinks I should stay away from you because you’re dangerous
34. Spin the bottle
35. “Do you trust me?”
36. Friends with benefits and both people catching feelings.
37. We’re dating and I didn’t know you were a mobster/biker
38. Everyone thinks we’re already dating, but we’re just best friends- oh wait
39. Having a bad day and the other noticing
40. “You saved my life.”
41. Overhearing they have feelings for you
42. I’m going to save you from the terrible date you’re having
43. Taking care of the other when sick or injured
44. I’m your new neighbour and I got locked out, help!
45. You took a bullet for me
46. Argument leading to kissing/sex
47. “I’ve been in love with you for years.”
48. I called you at 2am because I need you
49. You caught me doing something dangerous and flipped out 
50. I’m scared but won’t admit it so you take my hand 

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.

Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

Originally posted by mermaids-pirates

I’m pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I can’t remember her name rn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

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And they’re not kidding, they actually got arrested in 2016 at a protest in Philadelphia