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Non-sexual ones!

hurt/comfort

fix-it fic

fluff in general

End of life fic. I think it is also called curtain fic? Doubly so when it involves an immortal/mortal couple. I can't handle that depressing ass shit.

Hurt with no comfort.

Character death.

I thought "curtain fic" was related to fluffy domestic themes? As in "shopping for curtains" or even "behind the curtain" stuff?

People have told me that before but in one fandom I was in (Supernatural maybe), I am 99% sure it was also used for end of life fics as in "The curtain closes at the end of their life".

Imagine trying to look for fics using that tag, and getting the exact opposite of what you want.

Yeah, it's Supernatural that has that weird definition of "curtain fics." It really caused some head-scratching the first time my friend used the term.

Literally anything with this tag "bamf!Character".

Either the character is a badass and you write them in-character, rendering the tag redundant... or you're doing something OOC and try-hard.

Men coming out to their female significant others as gay. I have no idea why it bothers me, since it doesn't remind me of anything that happened to me or a friend in real life, at least not that I remember.

(Obviously I'm not saying I have a problem with this in real life. If someone has to do it then they do. But for some reason in fiction I just want to skip it.)

...Fics with a het pairing (as the primary pairing, secondary is okay). =/ Honestly that seems to be the only thing that puts me off from a fic. Not counting Homestuck (where I ship everyone with everyone lol) I only have interest in like a handful of het pairings and couldn't care less for the rest.

I always avoid:
--Genderswap
--Pregnancy
--Characters as kids/Characters have kids/Characters de-aged/Characters adult brains but transformed to have children's bodies

I usually avoid:
--Fic featuring canon couples/couples that will probably be canon
--AUs
--Character death

Can I ask why you don't enjoy genderswap fics? I'm not asking because I want to give you a hard time, I just don't tend to like them either (which I sometimes feel bad about) and I'm interested in knowing what another person's reason for not liking genderswaps is.

I avoid all of those things too. For me genderswap is just... pointless? Like I don't go looking for fic to find what would happen if they were another gender, I generally am attracted to or like/am interested in the character as they are presented, even if the storyline or plot motivations are twisted, I want to see the character I went into this liking.

I get why people might like it though as a twist on what would change, just as I like to see if, say, what would happen if such-and-such scene ended with a villain getting the upper hand or something of that sort. Characters are the centerpiece to me and the plot is the dressing. Switch it to it being that the gimmick (that's how it feels to me) of a gender swap is the central point, and I lose all interest.

Unrequited love fics with a bad ending. Unrequited love in general. Used to like it before but now I’m bitter and lonely and prefer my ships getting together in the end.

This doesn’t include fics where all parties are involved and THINK they’re love is unrequited. Couple that with mutual pining and a warm bed and I’m set for the night.

Oh man, it drives me a little crazy that people use the "unrequited" tag for fics where the character mistakenly think their love is unrequited when it actually isn't, because HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHICH WAY YOU MEAN IT?!! Fortunately, you can usually tell which way they mean it by the other tags that are used, but there's always a degree of risk there that you're going to get knifed in the feels by an actual unrequited love scenario. Which is not something I handle well.

Well, on the rare occasion I'm reading fics that don't involve one of my OTPs, then sure, bring on the unrequited angst. But I mostly only read fics featuring my OTPs, in which case I am WAY too invested to handle unrequited love scenarios.

All of this. (I read an unrequited fic that bothered me so much I wrote a sequel where they got together. I didn't post it anywhere because it was building off their idea, but it made me feel better.)

High school AUs, magic AUs and superhero AUs.

Most AU's. But especially high school AU's. The AU has to make sense somewhat with the characters in order for me to like it.

My number one thing to avoid is asexual!character fics. (I'm ace myself, for the record.)

I also avoid retirement fics.

High School/College AUs
Coffee Shop AUs
Non-canon maiming
Anything where one half of your OTP is literally adopted by the other half (or by his parents) and they still wind up fucking at the end.

Mpreg
High school AUs and most university AUs
Character death, unless it's part of the canon or under certain other situations

Character death is the big one. Depending on the character it can trigger me pretty badly so I'm very vigilant about not stumbling into it. (Temporary deaths are okay, as are canon deaths. idk why fanfic deaths bother me so much.)

I also don't read any infidelity or love triangle fic. I'm an OTPer. There's some characters I'm willing to read in other pairings occasionally (like Steve/Loki and Frostpudding tho my OTP is Thorki) but I won't read a fic where two ships are competing. I also avoid most threesome fics for similar reasons (likely to have love triangle-type situations).

I don't read much kidfic of any sort. Characters having kids, characters becoming kids, none of it. But if that's not the main focus of the plot I don't mind.

Aaaaand fics where a character is changed to be trans, ace, autistic, a different race, etc.

Genderswap, always-a-girl-(male character)

Coffee shop/ high school AUs

Kid fic, pregnancy

Character death, most AU's(but especially High School AU's and coffee shop AU's), kid fic(I just don't like kids in stories much), any kind of infidelity/cheating with my OTP(I don't want my OTP to be the cause of a break-up and I don't want my OTP to be cheated on, both are shit), I'll avoid threesome or OT3 fics for most of my OTP's(some OTP's my vary, but for the most part I don't multiship much).

'mundane' AUs -- coffee shop, high school.

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