 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another Top 5 Friday. Sorry, there haven't been any videos this week. I'm still trying to get over cold. I got a little bit of congestion up here. My throat's kind of bothering me, but all that's starting to go away, so if I sound a little funny, that's why. First thing I want to talk about, if you look down below the video, you'll see a brand new join button. YouTube approved me for adding members now, so if you want to support the channel for $4.99 a month, you click on that, you get some generic icons or whatever you can use when we do our live streams or whatever, but that's really the only difference. That and you're going to get two extra videos a week that you normally wouldn't get here. So you'll still be getting movie reviews, book reviews, all the stuff that you normally get, all the stuff that the members are getting, completely new content stuff that I actually need the income to be able to provide for the channel and the community. But nothing is changing as far as if you like Edward Lauren channel the way it is right now. Nothing is changing whatsoever. So jumping in at number five on this list, we're going to do the top five tropes. Tropes isn't really the proper word here. I was looking it up on Wikipedia. Tropes is like a metaphor for something, a piece of dialogue or something or writing that's a metaphor for something. Tropes has become in the internet landscape of today, it has become like a storytelling device kind of deal. And Wikipedia does go over that also, but I'm going to label the video top five tropes even though tropes isn't the right thing just because it sounds better than top five story devices. The first thing is bad people getting their comeuppance. Any time that there's a group of bad people, like I love reading about thieves, murderers, criminals, serial killers from their point of view, I like getting in their head whether it be first person or close third person, I really like deep dives into a character that isn't the best. I'm super tired of reading about nice people or people who do the right thing. There's literally been hundreds of years of content for those type of people and it's only been within probably the past, I don't know, maybe 50 years there's been a rise in stories about bad people, just about bad people. I remember one of the first movies I watched that was in this theme was Mel Gibson's payback where he was a criminal and he was getting back at other worse criminals. I don't think he got what he deserved in the end, but I do like the stories where it's bad people against bad people and there's no real moral right or wrong area, it's all gray area, I really love those stories. Next up is anything coming of age, I like reading about kids who find out that the world is not perfect, I love reading about kids who that moment where they find out that they're not invincible, that they might, that we're all going to die one day, that coming of age, not the coming of age like sex, you know, the puberty, what not, of course that usually comes hand in hand, but there's a whole subgenre like on Amazon that's coming of age that's just new, not new adult, but like YA mixed with new adult, it's like YA with sex, very, very weird. But I think the characters are over 18 so it makes it okay, that kind of thing, I'm not sure where that gray area is, but I'm talking about things like Stephen King's It, Richard McCammon's Boy's Life, even Mystery Walk by McCammon, Summer of Night by Dan Simmons, and it doesn't have to be horror, Chad Lutsky, well people call Chad Lutsky a horror author, but he writes really good dramas about coming of age, and usually about, you know, it's a very weird circumstance, Foster Homes and Flies, Skull Face Boy, both of those are terrific coming of age books. Next up is any kind of fictionalized documentary, I like taking like a real subject and giving it some kind of twist, especially like Dan Simmons the Terror, and that'll come into my number one also, but Dan Simmons the Terror takes a real life expedition and fictionalizes it. Kea Wilson's We Eat Our Own is back there behind Pennywise, that was a fictionalized version of the filming of Cannibal Holocaust, excuse me, actually might not have been Cannibal Holocaust, it might have been, I can't remember exactly what hers is about, I don't think it was Cannibal Holocaust, it might have been, I just don't remember, so let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not I'm right or wrong, but any time you take a real situation and you put like either a supernatural spin on it or you change something to help the fiction to make it more interesting, you're adding some kind of element, I really dig that, what I don't like is like alternate histories like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, I mainly don't like that one because of the vampires, but that's not what I'm talking about, there has to be some real things going on, like 11.22.63 is another one, had there not been that huge chunk of romance right in the middle, I would have loved that book. Alright, next up, at number two we have Grief, my favorite authors as far as grief is concerned is Keelan Patrick Burke and Stephen King, they both do grief so tremendously well, they also build dread and there's a lot to be said about dread and grief and how those two things are so close together because grief builds dread and dread can build grief, it's that idea that something is coming or that something has already happened and you expect that to happen to everyone you love, it's that kind of thing, so dread and grief really, if I were doing like top emotions and I would add dread in there also, but grief, if someone has died in the story and someone is mourning them, I am showing up for that and finally, number one is cold weather, whether they be out at sea, whether they be up in the mountains, whether they be in Maine or whatever it is, anything with cold weather I love, the only thing that I've ever read that was based in the snow or the cold weather is that I didn't enjoy was Dreamcatcher, oddly enough, I enjoyed most of the stuff that happened in the cold weather and it's once a certain character dies and the military comes in that I stop enjoying the book, but Dan Simmons the terror, the abominable is another one I didn't like, but only because he really got bogged down into the minutiae of rock climbing or mountain climbing and bored the mess out of me and just about everybody who read it, it was interesting for a while and everything that happens on the mountain, any of the stuff that happens there was really interesting, really fun to read about, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the terror. Another one that I read that was in the cold weather, I think the North Water by Ian McGuire, is that it? Yeah, Ian McGuire was really good, just about anything in the cold weather as long as it sticks to the cold weather, I use a Bone White by Ronald Malfee, is another one that is just absolutely fantastic, but those are my picks for top five tropes or slash story devices, if you have a list let me know down in the comments below, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another Top 5 Friday, I'll talk to you guys later, bye bye!