#trope rating

[siyvaruli]

Please rate hurt/comfort.

A+! Listen, I love a happy ending, but I want it to feel earned, like a hot chocolate after hours out in the wintry cold. Putting the character in situations (external or internal hurt) and then having someone hold them through it is probably one out of the two tropes I go hunting for most. (It also combines very well with other tropes. With everything.)

It's also so very Hotchgan, frequently Morgan comforting Hotch (through the arson case, divorce, getting blown up in NY, Foyet, Haley's death, etc.). Since we don't see it in the other direction as often and I just rewatched "The Perfect Storm" (2x3), here's a brief moment in the other direction:

Aaron hears the commotion and sprints toward it, already shouting Derek's name. He leaves the car door open and disregards the fact that his suit is sticking to his skin in the Florida heat.

Derek's fine, of course. He's already got the suspect on the ground, and his only visible discomfort is the sweat dripping down his face. But Aaron sees the baseball bat on the ground. He sees the way Derek winces just a little as he twists to his feet.

"You couldn't have waited?" he asks lightly, because they're surrounded by cops and there's a potential murderer on the ground and he once tried to take Derek to the ER for scans in the middle of an investigation and it had gone ... poorly. Jason occasionally gets a fond look in his eyes and reminisces about "that time Morgan offered to put you in the ER, Hotch, you remember that?"

So Aaron does what Derek didn't. He waits. He takes Derek with him to check out suspects. He doesn't ask anyone at the precinct for an ice pack, or the location of their nearest emergency room. He doesn't say any of the things he's thinking about bruised or fractured ribs when Derek carries the victim out of the cabin.

Then they catch the unsubs. They save the girl. Aaron quietly tells Jason to schedule their flight home for the next morning. He angles Derek toward one of the borrowed sedans and drives off before anyone else can climb in.

"I'm fine," Derek insists preemptively. Aaron hums, politely incredulous just like his mother taught him, etiquette before everything else. "Okay," Derek confesses, "so he got me with the bat. Got one good kick to my ribs." Aaron keeps his face smooth. He hadn't known it wasn't the bat for that second hit. He's glad he got Garcia to send him a map of local places with x-ray machines. "They're just bruised, Hotch. I'm fine."

"Humor me," Aaron replies. Derek rolls his eyes and grumbles and complains about the lack of good music on the radio as he flips through stations too quickly to catch a single song, but he slouches down into the chair. He takes the ice pack Aaron pilfered from the precinct freezer and presses it to his ribs without pretending that they don't ache. He lets Aaron change the station to something soft, lowers his chair and closes his eyes.

He's fine, Aaron thinks, and--for the first time since sprinting through the trailer park earlier that day--he thinks it might be true.

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[cha-melodius]

Trope ratings: Bodyswap, Accidental Marriage, aaaaaand Mutual Pining? xoxo MJ/kiwiana-writes

HELLOOOOOO.

Bodyswap: LMAO you're very clever sending me one I'm currently writing. I do love body swap fics of all kinds, so probably a solid A? I enjoy the awkwardness of characters having to inhabit someone else's body, and it often makes for some good physical comedy. Plus the moments of 'oh no, they're too hot how am I supposed to deal with this'.

Accidental marriage: I don't think I've actually read that many of these? I assume most of them are Vegas fics, which I can kind of take or leave, so I guess a C. They don't draw me in, but they can be fun.

Mutual pining: MY BELOVED. A+++ 105%. If pining is delicious, mutual pining is 10x as sweet. I once said almost all of my fics are mutual pining even if we only see one side pining, and I stand by that. It's mutual pining even if one of them doesn't know it. Sub-trope of mutual pining while fucking is also incredible. Mutual pining is the GOAT.

Send me a fic trope and I'll grade it

[wikiangela]

Trope Rating Tag game

tagged by @jesuisici33 @spotsandsocks @thewolvesof1998 @daffi-990 @fortheloveofbuddie

rules: How much do these tropes affect your decision to click on a fic? -10 -> very dissuaded  0 - don’t care either way  +10 -> very enticed  nope -> if it’s a hard no and you’d never click on a fic with that tag or or you even have the tag blocked or you’d insta click out of the fic if it wasn’t tagged.  Bonus points for explaining the rating and whether it’s conditional.

Age gap: -2

tbh I don't mind an age gap unless it's huge and/or the younger person is way too young when the relationship starts, that's icky

other than that I don't particularly care hah

Codependency: +4

depends - a bit is fine, but not like unhealthy levels haha

Obsession/Possessiveness, jealousy: +8

see above lol - if done right, amazing, love it (also, my buddie always ends up at least a little bit possessive, idk, i can't help it haha)

Opposites (grumpy/sunshine etc): +10

adore it

Enemies to lovers, Enemies with benefits: +8

used to be more into it, but still love it

Friends with benefits: +10

YES, and with mutual pining too? perfection

Sex to feelings: +10

Fake dating/relationship: +10

one of absolute faves, love it so much (even finally wrote one and it was so fun lol)

Friends to lovers: +10

used to be kinda meh about it, now it's my shit (I blame buddie)

Found Family: +10

one of faves

Hurt/Comfort: +5

I don't seek it out, but I'll read it if I'm in the mood

Love Triangle: -8

so sick of these, sns, just make them all date each other

Poly, open relationships: +6

haven't read that many, but I do like those haha

Mistaken/hidden identity: 0

just bc I don't think I've ready any? idk

Monsterfucking: +8

listen... after venom I went so into symbrock on Ao3 lol (pretty sure they're my only ship for this trope so far tho)

Pregnancy: 0

don't seek it out, and haven't read that many, it's whatever

Second Chance: +1

depends, don't actively seek it out

Slowburn: +9

the. best.

Soulmates: +6

really depends, but generally they're fun I guess

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[iammistressofmyfate]

More tropes for the rating!! Enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, and kidfics 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks, friend!! I really love doing these lmao And literally just in time, my CEU starts now!

Enemies to Lovers - B - I like it. I'm not usually in the mood for it but I'll read it, especially if it's humorous, maybe some lite angst

Friends to Lovers - A+ - One of my favorite tropes. I love writing it, I will actively seek it out. A++ if it's CHILDHOOD friends to lovers. Cannot get enough. I love when characters have a whole history as they develop into a romantic relationship 🥺

Kidfics - A - I enjoy a good kidfic. I love exploring and reading about my favorites becoming parents and seeing what that would be like. Maybe some lite angst, but I mostly like how soft and tender these fics usually are.

[Trope Rating Ask]

[lilyrizzy]

tropes: forbidden love, one famous/one not, second chance :)

foribidden love:

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

the more fucked up the betterrrrr;)

one famous/one not:

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

second chance:

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

i don't loveeeeee breakup/makeup fic but sometimes it's done v well

[witcher-and-his-bard]

Coffee shop AU

Oooh that's a tough one. I think for me it completely depends on the fandom, so it could fall anywhere on the scale. Since I'm primarily Witcher these days, I'm gonna have to give it a low score because I'm not a huuuge fan of modern witcher aus (however if we could make ye olde coffee shoppe I think it would get an A)

[hauntinghyrule]

I gotta ask this one because it recently slapped me in the face, but: Fake Dating and then OOPS OH NO I ACTUALLY CAUGHT THE FEELS OH NO-

A+ I LOVE THAT TROPE :D

Someday I want to write a Vio/Shadow fic with this.

I've actually got a snippet on my phone that I wrote ages ago... if I ever do write a full fic, this might not even end up being in it, but here:

"You... are a very bad actor." Shadow scowls. "Well I don't see you even trying." There's a glint in Vio's eye, a flash of "challenge accepted." It's gone a moment later, as Vio's face... softens. His posture shifts - not dramatically, he's not right up in Shadow's face - but he's leaning toward him now, something playful in the tilt of his head, something comfortable in the slope of his shoulders. He looks... happy. Content. He reaches out to link his fingers through Shadow's - just that, nothing more - and says in a low, soft voice "It's all a matter of not overselling it." And oh. Oh. Shadow is in trouble.

I also want there to be a fake-kissing scene. You know the kind of stage kissing where one person cradles the other person's face (with their thumb over their lips) and then kisses the back of their own thumb, so that from a certain angle it looks like they're kissing? Yeah that.

ANYWAY. Yes, good trope, A+ trope :D

[reynaruina]

Dumbass x dumbass where they're dumb together

How is this anything but an S tier