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I personally will read almost any gen hurt/comfort no matter how terrible the fic is. And though I have some standards for slash and het hurt/comfort (mostly because of some particularly creepy forms of Magical Healing Cock and other sexual squicks), but not very high ones.

Oh yes. De-aging fic. I have read some terrible fics because of that.

+1

I gave up and wrote some myself in like 3 fandoms cause i wasn't getting my fix o.o

I have daydreamed many a de-aging story in my head.

Hmmm. Not really? I still have standards even with my preferred tropes.

I'm surprised to say that I am the same. I did not know this about myself.

Though, depending on my mood I will accept lesser quality fic. Like, right now none of the SG-1 fic I've read is really hitting any of my buttons (I think it just may be the ship-- I'm not really that into Jack/Daniel, which is what I've been reading, and I don't ship Jack with Sam AT ALL), but I've been out of it with this sinus thing for over a week so I'm pretty easy to entertain right now.

Question: have you tried non-shippy team!fic or rarer pairings?

Re: Is there any trope that you love so much you will read badfic to get it?

fingalsanteater - 2014-08-21 01:05 (UTC) - Expand

I'm like that too. It's that there's just a quality line I can't cross, it seems.

And that's sad to hear about SG1. I like Sam/Jack but I never did care for the fic so after a few tries I gave up on reading romance fic in that fandom. (I tried other ships too.) Maybe you can ask for recs? Someone on F!S might have something you like.

Family fluff

Aaaand Peggy Sue fics

Pretend dating

I don't even care, give me all of it, in all pairings and scenarios. I don't care how weak the justification or execution is.

Sometimes I enjoy reading these just to see how outlandish the justification is, tbh. Fake dating is a wonderful trope.

Same! I love this trope.

Yes

it's just so perfect

m-preg, hoping for mad science!!! and/or dark magic construction--too bad most of the time it's that stupid "oh it just happens" handwave and skip to cliché-ridden regular-preggo fic.

I would've once said soulmates AUs but I recently came across one I had to backspace out of because it was too bad even for me.

I find soulmates really interesting but only if it's not a justification for fluffy happy times with no arguments. I just end up thinking about all the insecurities it would probably bring up in me if I were to find out I had a soulmate and it intrigues me.

Agreed about still being themselves/able to argue/not just fluff. I only like them if they address that you don't *have* to get with your soulmate if you fall in love with someone else and you can still be happy, no one goes crazy, etc. Luckily that's most of the ones I come across.

Certain types of hurt/comfort. Rape, or Presumed Dead, or Kidnapped. Most other kinds of hurt/comfort I have standards for, though.

Also, grovel!fic or make-up!fic post-eps for certain canon episodes/events in certain fandoms. But there's only a very few canon episodes/events that totally destroy my standards. <_< (I'm wondering if anyone can guess which...)

I love those cheesy spin the bottle/truth or dare fics.

I will read just about anything super melodramatic and sad and where the plot is predicated on ridiculous misunderstandings.

I have a weird similar one: I will read just about anything super melodramatic and sad and where the plot is predicated on ridiculous misunderstandings as long as the misunderstandings are not romantic. I got completely maxed out on the fucking "angsty romantic misunderstandings" trope by the time I was about 14, before I even moved from mainstream media to fanfic, that's how oversaturated the trope is. I cannot take it seriously anymore so I can only stand it in comedies.

Any other kind of ridiculous misunderstanding, though? Bring 'em on!

Heeeeeeeee. I hear ya. It is totally overused and cliche and silly. I can't help myself. It's like a sickness.

World building. Especially detailed or unique world building, and especially (in modern-ish worlds) anything with a media or social media element. Also, D/s worlds (or well thought out, not-tropey-or-rapey ABO fic).

Which means if an author does elaborate D/s worldbuilding with a lot of media (social and otherwise), they could write like a fucking kindergartner and I will love their fics to hell and back. :P

...I suspect this (world building) is the only reason the shit I wrote 10 years ago still gets any views at all. Well that and I think one of them is probably on some kind of rec list based in the Philippines (this seems to be a popular topic on F!S this week).

Anyway, yeah, I may cringe at the prose but I had some weird thinky ideas about modifying the world of the source and developing new things that could exist in it-- including an AU origin for it-- and I guess that's why people still read it.

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