Ultimate Fanfic Tropes Showdown

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(psst hey ellis shouldn't you try to actually participate/learn about dw culture instead of just braindumping for every post--SILENCE let me make weird lists in peace) 
 

resonant  did it before I did and I don't know who did it first!! here is the showdown

1 Found Families

2 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings

3 Hurt/Comfort

4 Enemies to Friends to Lovers

5 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop

6 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)

7 High School/University AU

8 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance

9 And They Were Roommates!

10 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
 

11 'They All Work In An Office' AU

12 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time

13 Hogwarts AU

14 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU

15 Vampires/Werewolves AU

16 Polyamory

17 Body Swapping

18 Loyalty Kink

19 Pride and Prejudice AU

20 A/B/O

21 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)

22 Daemons

23 Amnesia Fic

24 Seemingly Unrequited Pining

25 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)

26 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out

27 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target

28 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)

29 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU

30 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU

31 Friends to Lovers

32 Adopting/Raising a Baby

33 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU

34 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)

34 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings

34 Actually Unrequited Pining

34 Hot Single Parent(s)

Ok, and some stuff sticks out. I really like simple, clean, tightly restricted AUs that give a lot of room for creativity (Groundhog Day, Hogwarts AU). I like stories that center more on "us vs the world" than "beautiful legendary romance" (Arranged Marriage and fresh takes on Soulmark or A/B/O AUs over reincarnation or fairy tales, for example). I am all about found families and clusterfucks of love--hurt/comfort, found family, the whole team together, college/high school, roommates, etc. My humiliation squick comes down hard against misunderstandings and lack of communication (no fake relationship or breakup fics or unrequited pining for me, please). I love forced intimacy (snowed in, telepathy, arranged marriage) and I'm super not about kidfics. 

...but if it's done well, I'll read anything.