Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown
10 Feb 2019 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritBecause everyone else is doing it and the meme sheep says BAA as ever.
Rank Name
1 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
2 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
3 Hurt/Comfort
4 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
5 Loyalty Kink
6 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
7 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
8 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
9 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
10 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
11 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
12 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
13 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
14 Vampires/Werewolves AU
15 Found Families
16 Pride and Prejudice AU
17 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
18 And They Were Roommates!
19 Daemons
20 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
21 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
22 'They All Work In An Office' AU
23 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
24 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
25 Hogwarts AU
26 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
27 Polyamory
28 Friends to Lovers
29 High School/University AU
29 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
31 Adopting/Raising a Baby
31 Actually Unrequited Pining
31 Amnesia Fic
34 Body Swapping
34 A/B/O
34 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
34 Hot Single Parent(s)
Which has tropes I like at the top, tropes I don't like much at all at the bottom and everything else in the middle depending on what it showed against. Some of these I've never even seen let alone read or written, but they ought to be better than kidfic and ABO and amnesia. (I have an amnesia squick. It's all right if it's temporary/a bad thing, but not if it's permanent or done regularly by any main character or for the 'best' or whatever.)
I was going to do the non-romantic one as I hoped that would be a more basic trope list, but it was not! It was even more strangely specific than this one. (Montage Training Fic? What even is that? I ran back to this one and embraced the specific romantic AUs in sudden gratitude.)
Rank Name
1 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
2 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
3 Hurt/Comfort
4 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
5 Loyalty Kink
6 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
7 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
8 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
9 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
10 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
11 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
12 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
13 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
14 Vampires/Werewolves AU
15 Found Families
16 Pride and Prejudice AU
17 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
18 And They Were Roommates!
19 Daemons
20 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
21 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
22 'They All Work In An Office' AU
23 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
24 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
25 Hogwarts AU
26 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
27 Polyamory
28 Friends to Lovers
29 High School/University AU
29 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
31 Adopting/Raising a Baby
31 Actually Unrequited Pining
31 Amnesia Fic
34 Body Swapping
34 A/B/O
34 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
34 Hot Single Parent(s)
Which has tropes I like at the top, tropes I don't like much at all at the bottom and everything else in the middle depending on what it showed against. Some of these I've never even seen let alone read or written, but they ought to be better than kidfic and ABO and amnesia. (I have an amnesia squick. It's all right if it's temporary/a bad thing, but not if it's permanent or done regularly by any main character or for the 'best' or whatever.)
I was going to do the non-romantic one as I hoped that would be a more basic trope list, but it was not! It was even more strangely specific than this one. (Montage Training Fic? What even is that? I ran back to this one and embraced the specific romantic AUs in sudden gratitude.)