Ooooh! For fanfic tropes, can I ask for more than one? (If not, please just pick whateverâs most interesting to you!) How do you feel about:
- Fake relationship;
- Enemies to lovers;
- There was only one bed;
- Sex pollen; and/or
- Time loop.
(I literally found a list of these on reddit because the minute I tried to think of anything, my mind blankedâŚthere are probably like 15 more Iâd ask about but Iâll restrain myself.)
So many excellent options.
Fake relationship: Definitely A. The pining and yearning inherent in this trope is off the charts, and I love reading about two idiots pretending to be in love while definitely being in love. It's great.
Enemies to lovers: C. I feel like the majority of enemies to lovers is really two people annoyed with each other to lovers, which hey one of my favorite dynamics to write is to annoying assholes in love, but that is definitely not enemies. I'm generalizing here but a lot of enemies to lovers tends to just skip over the middle part of falling in love and learning to trust each other to get to the lovers part even though the middle part is the whole point of this trope. It's the conflict! The wariness! The shifting feelings! The reluctant affection!If you're not going to go all the way in then what's the point?
There is only one bed: A. Again it's about the pining and the yearning and waking up to find they're all tangled together. This is the good shit.
Sex pollen: Another C. I've read some good sex pollen fic and bad sex pollen fic, but it's not something I specifically set out to find. A lot of it is an excuse to write porn, which I'm all for, but also I like feelings with my porn but mostly what I like is complex and conflicted feelings in the aftermath, and that's harder to find in fic.
Time loop: Oh that's an A, baby! I love time loop trope so fucking much: the way it can be both funny and tragic, even at the same time; how the concept is elastic enough you can use it to explore just about any theme; how a character comes out of the loop changed and different, for better or worse. Also I may be writing a time loop fic for @beanarie as their fth fic and I am so excited about it. Time loops, motherfucker!



















