Trope sorting meme

[sholio]

Seen at snickfic! You can sort yourself here.

The incredibly (well, mostly) unsurprising results:

1 Found Families
2 Amnesia Fic
2 Hurt/Comfort
4 And They Were Roommates!
5 Vampires/Werewolves AU
6 Daemons
6 Polyamory
6 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
6 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
10 Body Swapping

11 Hogwarts AU
12 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
12 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
12 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
12 Friends to Lovers
12 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
17 Loyalty Kink
18 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
19 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
19 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
21 'They All Work In An Office' AU
21 High School/University AU
21 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
24 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
24 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
26 Adopting/Raising a Baby
26 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
28 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
29 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
30 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
30 Pride and Prejudice AU
30 Hot Single Parent(s)
33 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
33 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
33 Actually Unrequited Pining
33 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
37 A/B/O

Comments

[sholio]

Though I do think it's kind of interesting that amnesia ended up topping almost everything else. Some of the ones I'm not that interested in (or only conditionally interested in) came out pretty high, but this was mostly because they kept going up against options I liked much less. I WAS a little surprised that the kidfic one came out so low because I remember picking it over a number of different options. I think some of the results do depend a lot on whether something gets chosen early over a less popular option and then gets bumped up the list when you keep choosing that less-popular one over other stuff.

[sheron]

lol I got 15 items at #1 and then everything else at #16 or so XDD

[sholio]

LLOLLLLLL. This is probably the sort of thing they're thinking of when the instructions mention trying not to use the "I like both/no opinion" option too much. XD (I did use it what felt to ME like a lot, but apparently not that much!)

[sholio]

p.s. I want to know what your #1s are! You can send them to me privately if you don't want to share them with the world, but I want to know. For reasons. :D

[sheron]

Well a few were weird, like the royalty/arranged mariage AUs. It's not really my top favourite but it was like one of those things I can't say I don't like?

Anyway, the real usual suspects were, in no particular order:
Daemons, Fairy tales, Hurt/Comfort, Found Families, Amnesia, fake married,

I forget the rest. If there are Reasons you want to know I can tell you more about specifics XDDD

(lol i didn't check where A/B/O was on my list but I should have because I'd be shocked if it's not the last spot XD )

[sholio]

I am definitely interested in specifics. :D

[sheron]

I redid it just for you, trying to be more selective and less 'i like both', though how they expect me to pick between 'fairytale mythology au' and 'daemons' i'm not sure! This time I only had 8 things at #1 (I TRIED). Basically you can consider everything below #19 as "stuff I don't like to read or write"

Strangely, I was only asked about A/B/O once, which is why it's so high up (least favourite trope ftw!)

Rank Name
1 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
1 Hurt/Comfort
1 Found Families
1 Amnesia Fic
1 Friends to Lovers
1 Loyalty Kink
1 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
8 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
8 Daemons
8 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
8 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
8 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
8 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
8 Pride and Prejudice AU
8 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
16 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
16 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
16 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
19 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
19 Hogwarts AU
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21 Adopting/Raising a Baby
21 Body Swapping
21 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
21 A/B/O
25 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
25 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
25 'They All Work In An Office' AU
25 High School/University AU
25 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
25 Actually Unrequited Pining
25 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
25 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
25 And They Were Roommates!
25 Polyamory
25 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
25 Vampires/Werewolves AU
25 Hot Single Parent(s)

[sholio]

Hee! Thank you for indulging me! :D

Strangely, I was only asked about A/B/O once, which is why it's so high up (least favourite trope ftw!)

That happened with a couple of tropes I don't like, too. It's a little frustrating that if you see a trope come up and are like NOPE, INSTANT NOPE it'll go away but then it seems to get sorted much higher because you don't end up ruling it out in a bunch of match-ups.

As far as your list itself, I think it's actually more useful for the "don't like" section, because I already know a lot of your favorite tropes, but now I know a bunch of things not to put in a story if I'm writing something for you, especially since some of the stuff down there are tropes I like and might otherwise not know you didn't!

[sheron]

Well I meant "don't like" not "dislike" fwiw. And I can think of a fic for almost every one of those that I absolutely loved despite the trope (e.g. Selfcest? Yes, hello Marvel multiverse XD But normally nope)

Our of curiosity which tropes were you thinking you like? :) The roleswap? What would that mean in the context? I just don't have feelings about it.

[ranalore]

Hmm, polyamory ended up much lower on my list than it should have, but then, for me it's not a trope. It's just a way of shipping. My number 1 is "Fairy Tale/Mythology AU," which should be up there, but I'd rank Found Family and Loyalty Kink higher, given they end up in stories of all settings and plotlines.

[sholio]

Yeah, and with some of these, a lot of it depends on fandom and writer and how you interpret the trope. Or even ... like, there are some things I love under ANY circumstances (e.g. Found Family), but there are others I like writing but don't often read (e.g. soulmates) or ones where how much you like it depends on what you assume they meant by it (like, I took the "roommates" one to mean any kind of involuntary/accidental rooming-together circumstance, like "there's only one room/bed" or "aliens trashed my place, can I stay with you?" - but it'd be lower on my list if it was just "roommate/housemate AU").

[ranalore]

Exactly. How I was answering actually changed partway through because I was trying to answer in terms of what I will read, which is generally wider than what I can write, except of course with tropes, I find myself thinking, "Well, I would never read that, but I can think of a fandom and pairing where it might be interesting to try writing it." So that threw off my results, I'm sure. And there were several where I thought it was ambiguous what was meant, too. I mean, I took "roommates" to mean a mundane AU in which they end up being roommates as a meetcute, which doesn't interest me, whereas "only one room/bed" and "demon fireballed my place, can I stay at yours" are things I like a lot. Likewise, coffeehouse AUs bore me to tears, but chef and cooking competition AUs are things I try to actively encourage in my fandoms, so I was torn about how to answer "coffeehouse/food service AU." The trope as traditionally used is the one I don't like, and when I sign up for things and leave prompts, I have to word it "chef AU" or "cooking/baking competition AU," but as tropes go, it falls under that umbrella, and my preferred variation is especially gaining traction as more American fans discover GBBO via Netflix.

[yalumesse]

I just posted my results over on my blog if you're inerested. I'm also surprised by some of the ones that made it to the top, but I think there were a lot more tropes that they didn't include, which would explain why some that I like but don't love rank so high.

[corvidology]

Picking the lesser of two evils really does lead to some surprises. :D