#fic genres

[wolf-tail]

What "Cringe" Fic Genres Do Ya'll Like?

X Reader

OC Self-Insert

Chat Fics

High School AU

Other(specify in the tags)

Some combination of the above

Voting ended onOct 17, 2023

In honor of cringetober

[julikobold]

I really love hurt/comfort fics. Only, sometimes I just skim the hurt to get to the comfort fast. Like, I know there has to be an injury for it to heal but I’m not in the mood for the bad parts I only want to read about it getting better.

[naranjapetrificada]

TIL my brain hates something about SMAUs. Maybe the same way it hates image and video focused social media like instagram and tiktok. Something about my wiring is just like TEXT TEXT GIMME TEXT, but the intensity with which I wanted to nope tf out of there surprised the hell out of me. 🤔

[ailec-12]

Best Fic Genre

Fluff

Angst

Hurt/Comfort

Romance

Crack

Tragedy

Other (let me know!)

Voting ended onFeb 14, 2023

[spacelion-loveshermulletson]

Thank you for tagging me, @nokaru

I love so many of these, but I tried to chose only a few favorites.

Here's the template!

Tagging:

@dreamingspark @crimson-mage-02 @tiredhawks @beholdthemem @fiery-mullet @oilux @landing-amongst-the-planets

[hedonist-wolf]

Hey genuine question, what do people get out of Y/N fanfic? Or like how do you enjoy it?

What few fics I’ve tried reading over the years either end up rubbing me the wrong way or aren’t very engaging

[centrumlumina]

Genres

This post is part of the AO3 census data analysis.

N.B. The above percentages refer to % of total responses to this question, and sum to 100%. Percentages shown below refer to the % of total survey participants unless otherwise specified.

This question was phrased as "What genre(s) do you prefer to read or produce works for?" and was accompanied by the instruction "Check all which apply."

Responses

The responses were selected with the following frequencies:

Angst - 6747 respondents. 67.4%

Fluff - 7380 respondents. 73.8%

Smut - 7359 respondents. 73.6%

Humour - 6320 respondents. 63.2%

Romance - 7879 respondents. 78.8%

Action - 4667 respondents. 46.6%

Horror - 1794 respondents. 17.9%

Original works - 1131 respondents. 11.3%

Canon-based - 6420 respondents. 64.2%

Alternate Universe - 8093 respondents. 80.9%

Longfic - 7057 respondents. 70.5%

Shortfic/drabbles - 4286 respondents. 42.8%

Other: Textbox - 357 respondents. 3.6%

82 respondents (0.8%) did not respond to this question.

The mean number of responses was 7.00 with a standard deviation of 2.38 responses. Both the median and the mode number of responses was 7, which was selected by 1510 of the respondents (15.2%). The maximum number of responses given by a single respondent was 13.

2705 respondents selected five or fewer responses, accounting for a total of 10,874 responses. Among these 2705 people:

1273 selected Angst (47.1%)

1251 selected Fluff (46.2%)

1408 selected Smut (52.1%)

875 selected Humour (32.3%)

1446 selected Romance (53.5%)

481 selected Action (17.8%)

152 selected Horror (5.6%)

75 selected Original works (2.8%)

903 selected Canon-based (33.4%)

1522 selected Alternate Universe (56.3%)

957 selected Longfic (35.4%)

447 selected Shortfic/drabbles (16.5%)

84 selected Other (3.1%)

Other

The following trends appeared in more than 5 of the 357 write-in responses:

Hurt/Comfort or Whump (105 responses)

Crossover (40 responses)

All/Everything/Anything (32 responses)

Drama (15 responses)

Crack (14 responses)

Mystery (11 responses)

Character study (11 responses)

Casefic (9 responses)

Fanart (9 responses)

Dark fic (7 responses)

Kink or BDSM (7 responses)

Friendship (7 responses)

Podfic (6 responses)

Limitations

This question shows the respondents' perceptions of their own preferences, but may not necessarily reflect their actual behaviour. The write-in responses will be severely under-represented as users were not prompted to remember them.