Like everyone else, I just did the
Ultimate Fanfic Showdown, and results were... unsurprising. Although I was surprised at how viscerally off-putting it was to have to choose certain tropes that I loathed... just a tiny little bit less than the other trope I loathed. Picking between things I liked was a lot easier.
| Rank | Name |
| 1 | Hurt/Comfort |
| 1 | Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time |
| 3 | Amnesia Fic |
| 3 | 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop |
| 5 | Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc) |
| 5 | Seemingly Unrequited Pining |
| 5 | Found Families |
| 5 | Friends to Lovers |
| 9 | Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc) |
| 10 | Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings |
| 11 | Body Swapping |
| 11 | Polyamory |
| 13 | Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU |
| 14 | Vampires/Werewolves AU |
| 15 | Fairy Tale/Mythology AU |
| 16 | Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings |
| 17 | Actually Unrequited Pining |
| 18 | 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out |
| 19 | Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job |
| 20 | Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target |
| 21 | And They Were Roommates! |
| 22 | Adopting/Raising a Baby |
| 23 | Enemies to Friends to Lovers |
| 24 | Daemons |
| 25 | Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom) |
| 26 | They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together) |
| 27 | High School/University AU |
| 28 | 'They All Work In An Office' AU |
| 29 | Hogwarts AU |
| 30 | Coffee House AU/Food Service AU |
| 31 | Loyalty Kink |
| 32 | Pride and Prejudice AU |
| 33 | Supernatural Creature/Human Romance |
| 34 | Hot Single Parent(s) |
| 35 | Selfcest (possibly due to time travel) |
| 36 | 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU |
| 37 | A/B/O |
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glorious_spoon
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Date: 2019-02-09 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-10 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-09 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-10 02:04 am (UTC)...oh, here's one--I don't know if you've seen the most recent Magnificent Seven movie, but I think you can get most of it from context here? Anyway, I thought it was really good:
The Difference Between What is Never to Be and What Never Was
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Date: 2019-02-10 02:15 am (UTC)I completely understand having trouble keeping track. Since we've all been talking about tropes I've been trying to find this one Groundhog Day AU where Erik Lehnsherr does the Cuban beach divorce over and over, and I can't seem to lay heads on it or even recall what the title was. :P
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Date: 2019-02-10 02:17 am (UTC)...wasn't it a kinkmeme fic originally? I stg I know exactly the one you mean. I'll see if I can track it down...
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Date: 2019-02-10 02:24 am (UTC)Try, Try Again by and_backagain https://and-backagain.livejournal.com/6669.html
That title should not have been that hard to recall. ;P *sigh* Well I feel better now. :) And you are totally right it started out as a prompt on 1stclass_kink. :D
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Date: 2019-02-10 02:27 am (UTC)(Yeah, I feel that. Even though my formative fandom experience was pre-AO3, I'm so used to it now that I'm like '...but it's not on The Archive? How?? Why???)
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Date: 2019-02-10 02:32 am (UTC)