Thread:Metool Bard/@comment-30953185-20180320003103/@comment-34871403-20180320005807

Well, certainly more than just restating the tropes. Usually, an exaggeration of said tropes works, and I feel like that's what you were trying to do (especially with the bits of meta humor sprinkled in). The problem is that given the examples I've seen of lousy TLH fanfiction (mainly through the riffing in Peeking Through the Fourth Wall), there's not much more you can do to exaggerate what other writers have already come up with.

The other way to go is to deconstruct the tropes and really draw attention to their absurdity. Perhaps even delve into why you believe such tropes even exist, given that the show has repeatedly proven the opposite to be true.