[DISCUSSION] Author Bingo!
Jun. 18th, 2026 12:01 amIt sorta came up in last week's read-in-progress post, but it might be fun to create bingo cards for authors!
So, here's an effort to crowd source ideas for your favourite authors (or authors you just happen to read more than one work from and found some patterns).
For each author proposed for the bingo card, leave a top level comment and then reply to that author with some patterns you've noticed. Feel free to link this out or just ask your friends! There are no right or wrong suggestions, as long as you are having fun and you've noticed it in at least two works.
(I added a few authors to start us off with!)
So, here's an effort to crowd source ideas for your favourite authors (or authors you just happen to read more than one work from and found some patterns).
For each author proposed for the bingo card, leave a top level comment and then reply to that author with some patterns you've noticed. Feel free to link this out or just ask your friends! There are no right or wrong suggestions, as long as you are having fun and you've noticed it in at least two works.
(I added a few authors to start us off with!)
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Date: 2026-06-17 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-06-18 02:16 am (UTC)(tealspire! invigilators! what in the panguan is happening here!) (or when she just flat out says, about heitian: "this is a bizarre setting")
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Date: 2026-06-18 01:30 pm (UTC)- They knew each other in the PAST!
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Date: 2026-06-17 11:07 pm (UTC)Edited to add: Significant love token.
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Date: 2026-06-18 01:51 pm (UTC)I am intrigued
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Date: 2026-06-17 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-17 04:36 pm (UTC)(also, hello! I saw your post about this boosted on fedi and couldn't resist, this is such a fun idea)
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Date: 2026-06-17 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-17 04:45 pm (UTC)(and lol yeah, tbh for priest, I think it's also "if you think the order is A x B, switch it around and you'll be right").
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Date: 2026-06-18 02:07 am (UTC)2) genuine sweetheart of a beleaguered heterosexual best friend who's constantly pulling his hair out over the mains, why are they LIKE THIS
3) cats
4) "…"
5) an entire found family. that you found in the trash. but they're yours now.
6) side CP you ship harder than the mains, classic priest stealth attack
7) stealth attack part two: about a third of the way into the novel, you will be shot 57 times. somehow you do not see this coming, even after having it happen to you repeatedly
8a) insane worldbuilding getting suddenly dumped on you at the last possible moment, sort of like being handed an airplane ticket right as you're being shoved onto the plane (i think lhjc is the worst about this; it's almost mxtx levels of describing a character for a full paragraph right before announcing breathlessly: "and it was lan wangji!" or whoever. but then this is a danmei that has not only metahumans and sword demons but also merfolk and highlanders)
8b) honestly tho does pipi have a murderboard the length of her entire apartment, she SAYS she's a pantser but i do NOT believe this, like many of her characters i think she is in fact a lying liar who lies. you cannot write mo du without at least five charlie day pepe silvia boards.
9) priest self-insert character! smart, socially awkward, obsessed with something mundane like online shopping or gacha games, almost always fujoing out over the CP while she should be working
10) ...what do you mean there's historical politics randomly appearing in my dumb fantasy/scifi romance??? and sweeping massive social justice issues suddenly clamouring to be addressed?
(in all fairness there should be a bingo square for colorism/ethnic stereotypes, but not sure the world is ready for that conversation just yet)
bonus square: somebody at some point has definitely been a cannibal, but it will be 500 pages before you know who.
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Date: 2026-06-18 02:38 am (UTC)tops who cook
psuedo-incest (it's not a bug, it's a feature!)
loyalty kink
hurt/comfort
token Useless Straight(tm)
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Date: 2026-06-18 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-06-17 04:48 pm (UTC)ETA: Though yanno, this also applies to a few female MCs that aren't tricksters.
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Date: 2026-06-18 02:09 am (UTC)*(okay in svsss it's not even that secret)
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Date: 2026-06-18 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-18 02:21 am (UTC)1. this chase scene WILL last at LEAST three chapters but you will be riveted the whole time
2. you will also like the (brilliant, quiet, tsundere) shou SO much more than his partner that by the halfway point you're going to wish you could kidnap him and give him to a priest gong. wait did i say that in my outside voice
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Date: 2026-06-18 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-18 12:45 pm (UTC)-Crossdressing
-Asshole character who you increasing grow fond of against your will
-Slowburn and subtle expressions of affection
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Date: 2026-06-18 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-18 01:39 pm (UTC)- Toxic past generation relationship
- FORCED TO STAB SWORD INTO SOMEONE YOU LOVE
- Orthodox x Unorthodox sect relationships of doom
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Date: 2026-06-18 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-18 03:33 pm (UTC)-Using popular tropes in unexpected ways