Oh, that kind of confusing. I was thinking more what-the-hell-is-the-author-getting-at kind if confusing.

So I was left thinking that maybe a lot of these cliches are peculiar to LJ and not to FA.

Or perhaps it's the talking about those clichés that's peculiar to LJ. (I haven't visited the FA discussion boards so I don't know.) I imagine it's easier to catch the clichés if one has talked/read about them. I mean, I don't read much veela!fics, but even I know it's a cliché to write veela!Draco, because other people have talked so much about it.