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dreamerinsilicoLink snagged from isabellerecs: ULTIMATE FANFIC TROPE SHOWDOWN
I'm a bit amused/mildly annoyed that A/B/O was as high on my list as it was (which isn't very high, but still) - it's one of those AU tropes I find inherently cringey in most implementations, but it's REALLY popular in two of my major fandoms, so I've ended up reading quite a bit of it over the last few years, some of which was really good (and usually had some kind of twist on it to handle the agency problems the trope can introduce, which is one of my major complaints about it). So while I don't really seek it out, it's no longer something I only read for morbid curiosity reasons...
I'm not at all surprised that Enemies to Friends to Lovers wound up on top. (As I discussed withshadaras recently, I also enjoy basically all wacky, convoluted permutations that generally fall under the heading "enemies to lovers") :P
Characters Swap Roles AU wound up on the very bottom, and that feels like it wants a little bit of discussion too, so, briefly - these just fundamentally never make much sense to me. Either the "roles" are intrinsically tied up in who the characters are (e.g. in Hannibal) to such an extent that swapping them breaks the characters for me, or it's a situation where while I can conceptualize what the characters would be like in each other's roles, swapping them just brings us to something like the canon dynamic but with the names swapped (e.g. Reaper76). It either completely breaks the characters for me or doesn't feel like a question worth asking.
1 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2 Hurt/Comfort
3 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
4 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
5 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
6 Polyamory
7 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
8 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
9 Loyalty Kink
10 Friends to Lovers
11 Found Families
12 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
13 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
14 Daemons
15 Vampires/Werewolves AU
16 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
17 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
18 High School/University AU
19 Hogwarts AU
20 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
21 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
22 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
23 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
24 A/B/O
25 And They Were Roommates!
26 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
27 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
28 Amnesia Fic
29 Pride and Prejudice AU
30 Hot Single Parent(s)
31 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
32 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
33 'They All Work In An Office' AU
34 Body Swapping
35 Actually Unrequited Pining
36 Adopting/Raising a Baby
37 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
isabellerecs: ULTIMATE FANFIC TROPE SHOWDOWNI'm a bit amused/mildly annoyed that A/B/O was as high on my list as it was (which isn't very high, but still) - it's one of those AU tropes I find inherently cringey in most implementations, but it's REALLY popular in two of my major fandoms, so I've ended up reading quite a bit of it over the last few years, some of which was really good (and usually had some kind of twist on it to handle the agency problems the trope can introduce, which is one of my major complaints about it). So while I don't really seek it out, it's no longer something I only read for morbid curiosity reasons...
I'm not at all surprised that Enemies to Friends to Lovers wound up on top. (As I discussed with
shadaras recently, I also enjoy basically all wacky, convoluted permutations that generally fall under the heading "enemies to lovers") :PCharacters Swap Roles AU wound up on the very bottom, and that feels like it wants a little bit of discussion too, so, briefly - these just fundamentally never make much sense to me. Either the "roles" are intrinsically tied up in who the characters are (e.g. in Hannibal) to such an extent that swapping them breaks the characters for me, or it's a situation where while I can conceptualize what the characters would be like in each other's roles, swapping them just brings us to something like the canon dynamic but with the names swapped (e.g. Reaper76). It either completely breaks the characters for me or doesn't feel like a question worth asking.
1 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2 Hurt/Comfort
3 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
4 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
5 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
6 Polyamory
7 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
8 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
9 Loyalty Kink
10 Friends to Lovers
11 Found Families
12 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
13 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
14 Daemons
15 Vampires/Werewolves AU
16 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
17 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
18 High School/University AU
19 Hogwarts AU
20 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
21 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
22 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
23 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
24 A/B/O
25 And They Were Roommates!
26 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
27 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
28 Amnesia Fic
29 Pride and Prejudice AU
30 Hot Single Parent(s)
31 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
32 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
33 'They All Work In An Office' AU
34 Body Swapping
35 Actually Unrequited Pining
36 Adopting/Raising a Baby
37 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
