Hello, pal! Thank you for creating this blog! I find it very intriguing what my favourite writer’s read. And yours recommendations are so great! Besides that, I wanted to ask you what things/tags you usually avoid in fics? What tags you avoided but found yourself enjoying reading later?
hi ! thank you for this question! i'm glad you're enjoying the blog, and I hope you find some new stories you like through it :)
before answering, a very important disclaimer: obviously, my personal opinions have no bearing on other people finding these tropes/characters/plots enjoyable. i'm not casting any judgement on any of it. I'm not saying any of the things I mention are bad. they are simply not my preference!
the answer to this question of course varies depending on the ship and fandom, so I'll focus on jikook for this one.
for jikook, I avoid reading (and writing):
age swap. I think I might have read one or two with this trope from writers i like, but it's really not my thing. especially because the dynamic of these two plays so heavily on the hyung/dongsaeng social expectations.
age difference. I like my jikook quite close in age. plus, see point above.
CEO/chaebol aus. I just find it hard to empathise with rich people, hand on heart. again, I have read a couple fics that I liked with this trope, but it takes a lot for me to be convinced!
enemies to lovers. again, hard for me to buy these two as enemies. i have read fics that did it well, but i tend to prefer other dynamics for them!
most fic where jk is an asshole and remains so throughout. it's just a huge leap for me and I don't tend to find it enjoyable.
too weak-hearted for dead dove, too soft to read toxic relationship, jealousy, divorce, unhappy ending, cheating between jikook.
most omegaverse, these days. I have read a bunch previously, and I'm sure I'll read more eventually, so it's not a hard no, but there's just such a massive amount out there it's hard to keep up. also, I have reservations about some popular tropes in this genre, so i tend to read very specifically.
E rated fic. I don't avoid it completely, but I do often skip sex scenes entirely, depending on mood, characterisation, and tags.
about your second question, the answer is actually omegaverse as well. i hardly ever read any before getting into jikook, and here i just went with the flow, because there's such volume i had to see what it was all about. I've also read a few hybrids fics for the same reason.
I find myself enjoying long fics these days as well! the amount of 100k+ word fics in this ship is entirely disproportionate to any other I've read before. i had to kind of train myself for it, but it turns out I do like just sinking into a super long fic once in a while and just letting it take me into some other world completely, like the grim reaper's love game fic I just recced.
so I suppose you can take this as a guide for things you are not likely to/ you will rarely find on this blog!
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