Some Interesting Character Tropes

I thought a lot about my podcast series on favorite tropes while summarizing this article. Particularly about gendered tropes. I have several topics on the to-do list for that series that deal with pairings of character types such as "the rake and the wallflower" which feed nicely into the question of how such tropes work differently for female couples. There were a couple of references for this chapter that touch on the category of "female rake" that I'll need to track down for when I address that character trope in the podcast. And this article points out quite realistically how women who act like a libertine or a rake were viewed very differently in their historic era than men were. That doesn't mean that you can't change the rules when writing them into your own fiction, but it's something to stay aware of.