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What are your favorite tropes? Ship dynamics? Genres? Have you ever just read anything out of curiosity/boredom or because there's a small amount of fanworks in your fandom?

Always weak for hurt/comfort and Angst with a happy ending - I want emotional pain that ends well.

Also, usually where there's loads of fanfics or if there's a large cast of characters to combine various shipping combos; I have been guilty of reading anything regardless of how messed up or weird the fic is. I know the main assumption is that almost everyone is horny for smut fics/ships, but because I don't really get turned on by anything I just read fics for fun and if the summary is interesting enough: like the A/O/B AUs and how people decide on world building in longer fics to make sense of it in a day to day - as well as how various kinks can be written into a universe to make 'sense' in the characters day-to-day fascinates me.

Yeah I always want a happy ending in my fics. Except for a couple horror ones I love.

Hurt/Comfort is my number one tag. Got to have equal amounts of both.

I also love when a character tries to deal with their problems by being stoic but eventually they break down. Then the comfort comes in from other characters.

I enjoy deaging fics.

A couple of genres that I've read fic for in fandoms I know nothing about are sugar daddy and mob boss ones. I love them and not enough in my fandoms.

Dresden Files hansom is all mob xD

I like a little bit of everything, fluff to C-less H, humor to drama, drabbles to novel length, AUs to cannon compliant. I'm following a big fandom right now so I'm spoiled for choice and mostly sort by 1) Character, 2) pairing and then I'll either stop there or go for some kink, sex act, or random thing just to see if there's anything.

When I followed smaller fandoms I'd read everything. Even if it meant google translating a fic from Russian.

I'm that sort of person who only reads niche kink porn to scratch an itch. I'm in one super huge fandom and a couple very small ones and I already know that Big Fandom is rife with too much shit to sift through to find the diamonds, while smaller fandoms are all either, I've read it all, I've written it all, or the fandom itself is prone to bandwagoning stupid fanon trends and next week gird your loins for five new coffeehouse AUs because that's on trend today.

so, I've given up on actually reading in my fandoms and filter by tags to get kinky shit. I don't even search by ships, I'd rather find something decently written that pushes the right buttons regardless of fandom or pairing.

In order starting with the one I read most commonly.

1 and 2 (tied). PWP and torture/trauma fics.
3. Hurt/comfort
4. Everything written for my two OTPs: Melkor/Sauron and Celebrimbor/Sauron because they are small enough ships that I can read all the fics.
5. Fics where a character or characters sacrifice themselves in some way to save the world/everyone else
6. long action/adventure fics
7. character study
8. Angsty fics with happy endings

Edited 2021-07-03 23:22 (UTC)

Hurt/comfort is good especially if it's heavy on the hurt. Especially psychological trauma. And I am 100% okay with there being no comfort or an unhappy ending.

Long plotty epic adventure stories that happen to involve hurt/comfort (or just hurt) are my very favorite, whether they're gen or shippy. (And I do the "write what you want to see" thing, so there are two fandoms where I am apparently known as "the person who wrote that fic that made everyone cry". I grin like a jerk every time I get comments to that effect on them. :D)

Ship dynamics? I like messy and dysfunctional. Best friends who just can't get it together because they're too messed up as individuals but keep coming back. Power struggles. Loyalty and loyalty betrayed. I remember being somewhat interested in the Remus/Sirius ship in Harry Potter until I found out that the vast majority of the fic was fluffy teenager fic and was not canon-era PTSD and the assumption of betrayal for YEARS and how on earth they could ever have any sort of sane relationship after that. :( I got a few good recs at the time when I mentioned it but gave up after. (I was more interested in the idea of James/Sirius when they were younger anyway.)

Intense kinky smut and well-done, long character and relationship-driven plotty fics

Canon Divergent / AUs. My very favs. are 'so and so goes back in time and Fixes Shit' but I will accept basically any sort of AU premise for an AU that takes place in canon, no matter how canon has been changed. I'll read AUs where the setting has been changed but I'm a lot pickier about them. If you change the setting you need to make damn sure you've got the character dynamics down so that they're there in some way, shape or form.

Because if you take Draco Malfoy out of the HP universe and then strip away everything that makes him Draco Malfoy The Character then it's just an original character with a sticker on it.

Yeah some AUs change characters to much.

I generally like things that are a little angsty, but still fluffy and sweet. I like hurt/comfort as well, but I don't want the characters to suffer for too long before being comforted. And then sometimes I'm in the mood for really messed up crap, but it has to have a happy ending where all the bad characters get what's coming to them.

I like it when my kinks show up in my fandoms, or just like reading about my kinks in general. I like it when the writing is similar to the author, book or time period of the book/movie/etc.
I read a fic out of curiosity about an actor I liked which involved something I didn't usually read-- and found it hot. The writer is really good!

Lately, I've really taken to PWP. My fandom tends to do yandere tropes and I don't rly vibe with that (though I'll read a few here or there, but I tend to back button most). But for the most part I've found awesome fluff smut and light hurt/comfort fics. There are some kinks I'm not that into but I'll read. I tend to end up liking most of those.

I also like friends-to-lovers fics (smut is preferred but if I find a pairing I like lack of smut doesn't make or break a fic).

I also have been enjoying domestic fluff fics! Also, don't mind lack of smut but it is nice!

20K+ mostly English fics about characters dealing with problems. Preferably with some intrigue, something to keep me guessing. I have some nOTP and tropes I know I won't enjoy that I try to avoid.

I also like a fresh look at canon, diverging, AU, tropes, unreliable notarators, switching PVP.

I'll take short fics over long ones for crack and silliness.

I tend to like fics that centre on my favourite character and how they've been doing since the end of the canon. Or (especially if they're dead) how they felt at some point before the end of the story/before the story even begins, perhaps a situation that was mentioned in canon but never portrayed, just pieces that give more attention to my favourite characters in general.

When I'm looking for ship content, I generally have a single OTP with a bunch of other ships I'm willing to read stuff for... and I have unusual taste, so there's often more content of my side ships than my OTPs. OTL The more a fic delves into the relationship between two characters and stays character-driven, without falling into tropes like love triangles, the more likely I am to finish it. Think my favourite tropes are slow-burn friends to lovers, mutual pining, unrequited love, people falling in and out of love with each other at different times... stories that examine their separate issues and make a satisfying conclusion (happy or not) about whether the individuals can overcome their problems to maintain the relationship are always deeply fascinating to me.

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