Ranking of Fandom Tropes
I saw this on birdsofshore and isinuyasha's journals this morning thought why not. I did it twice, as the first time I wasn't sure what a few of the tropes were. I think this is reasonably accurate for my ranking of these particular tropes.
Since I'm not particularly involved in fandom these days and don't get much time to play, the main question I asked, was what usually grabs my attention in summaries and makes me want to explore further; thinking of mainly the HP and Merlin universes.
1. Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2. Hurt/Comfort
3. Seemingly Unrequited Pining
4. Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
5. Fake Out Make Out
6. Rivalmancy
7. Friends to Lovers
8. Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
9. Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
10. Espionage AU
11. Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
12. High School/Uni AU
13. Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
14. Found Families
15. Incest
16. Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)
17. Royalty/Arranged Marriage
18. Adopting/Raising a Baby
19. Amnesia
20. 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
21. Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
22. Role Reversal AU
23. Vampires/Werewolves AU
24. Actually Unrequited Pining
25. A/B/O
26. Loyalty Kink
27. Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
28. Sex Pollen
I think the trend is, give me story and emotions! Think I'm pretty much over PWP these days...
Here is the link to the ranking thingy, if you wanna try: http://ellimists.tumblr.com/
~*inspired being*~