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While the general trend is to redeem or rehabilitate a villain in order to ship them with a hero, my guilty pleasure is corrupting a hero to ship them with a villain. Let them be bad, and let them enjoy it.
One of my guilty pleasures is reading a hero being badass while being tortured, them being rescued at some point, and then them just breaking down to their best friend/significant other. I don't know, there's something so cathartic to me about not breaking while being hella traumatized, and then breaking down later with a safe person due to their care and kindness. Like a hammer couldn't break them, but a feather did.
My aunts best friend met her husband because when they were at another friends wedding, she wasn’t paying attention and got clocked in the head with the bouquet. Bouquets are surprisingly heavy and the bride overshot the group. Clocked her right in the face. Guy who was a a friend of a friend of the groom helped her up and they were both hysterically laughing. Long story short they got married like two years later.
I'd say one of my guilty pleasure is when the mc is like super strong and everything goes their way even if other characters are not always aware of but in the end the struggle was never real and we always knew. I feel like it's guilty bc it's the easy way, a bit like deus ex machina. But it's comforting My other guilty pleasure are probably mainly smut things
Other more general ones tho would be Character Study, Fix-it, Missing Scene, One-Sided Relationship, No Romantic Relationship(s), Lab AUs (or just AUs where the characters are all stuck in a facility and have to work together to escape while dark secrets come to light), etc.
nah cuz honestly same I love really dark topics, and I pretty much NEVER read the tags or trigger warnings cuz I like having most of them be a surprise, since I am very much not triggered by them lmao
TOXIC CODEPENDENCY. I just love when the characters are just obsessed with each other and everyone else is looking at them with concern and/or disgust Also makes for some ANGST if they break up
*casually slides you the TCOAAL rabbit hole* I swear, if you're not turned off by the horniness of the fandom or the wincest undertones then it's so damn good!! I'm not gonna spoil, but if you can find character study fics or a great one, "Mister Graves" where they look into the perspective of a side character that is quite intruging. But please catch up with the main game first before getting into the fandom, and do try to see all the routes and endings to find your cup of tea. Wish you luck!
I fucking love false accusation. Like B is accused of doing something extremely terrible, everyone including A mistreats B as a result, and then it's revealed B did nothing wrong so everyone is guilty and AAAA I haven't found any fics like that yet tho pls help
this happens so often in fics with a ship I love so I FEEL THIS edit: and now that I think about it, the exact same thing happened in canon so it makes sense LMFAO
My guilty pleasure is con noncon. I love when either one pauses for a moment to make sure everything is ok with their partner or when they use the safe word and there's a 180 change in personality (usually turning softer). Its the trust between the partners
I can’t get over the description Red gives in of Dracula in Netflixes Castlevania, where Dracula is being all big and scary and this woman basically bangs his door down and he’s still trying to be all big and scary and she just is _savage_ and basically goes “of course everyone is afraid of you! You never leave, and you’re a terrible host. Offer me tea, a place to sit, and light a fire.” And you can _see_ that man (uh, vampire) going “oh… oh no… OH NO I LIKE HER.” In like… the opening scenes, xD
I think this trope also works best when both characters would _never_ get together otherwise… Like I’ve read multiple featuring such pollen when it comes to Mo Ran and Chu Wanning from _Erha,_ because at the point of the story where fans call Mo Ran “Mo Ran 2.0” (if you know, you know), he loves and cherishes and yearns for Chu Wanning but could never bear to touch him due to ~reasons™️~ and then Chu Wanning needs it because he’s had a crush on Mo Ran forever but he’s too reticent to ever fully try and face those feelings. So whenever there’s that pining + angst involved of both of them thinking the other doesn’t actually want this and that they’re the bad ones for enjoying it even though they’re helping the other party resolve an issue… Yeah. It makes for some compelling reading. 👀
@@BrewsBrownies **looks at my own fics I write because I get tired of not finding what I want and I tend to have a rare pair that doesn’t defang someone** I can think of about… two subjects that might get you side eye from even the general degenerate community, one being the subject that blew up over “The Coffin of Andy and LeyLey” (so not the Radio Demon/Hannibal stuff) and non/dub con involving the… uh… “but she’s 900 years old!” (Still doesn’t explain why so many shipped Ciel… but, I tend to just back out if I wound up in a weird tag.)
Hybrid AUs!! Characters with wings, with claws, with tails-characters that can purr, can growl, can trill. It can add a lot of show-dont-tell emotions and a lot of unique situations, like wing preening, animalistic courting, nesting, instinctual fears, instinctual likes, different settings based on hybrid needs, etc, etc. I also just think it’s really cute 😅
Having Cleópatra and a few Magical Girls ("Madoka Magica" universe) turn into creatures based on the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet (vampiric looking). Does that count as Hybrid AU ?
Non-sexual omegaverse. I love the scenting, marking, etc. (animalistic behaviour) depicted on characters. The spicy stuff is more of a bonus. Its interesting to see how authors approach it without relying on the smut. Though unfortunately, its a rare find in the fandoms im in 😢😢😢
I also like non-sexual omegaverse!!! Especially when it explores how the secondary genders affect their way of life, aaaa there’s so much weird world building that has potential to be played out really well???
What about omegaverse combined with soulmate AU's (I love the idea of two characters especially a normal person and the omegaverse wolf being soulmates and the complexity that can bring
This has ended up being me 😂 Teenage me was reading porn for the porn, adult me is reading porn for the world building, plot and themes Especially with omegaverse, there are so many different and equally interesting avenues to explore
Same here! I just finished reading Bond Brothers by JTLeigh2 on AO3, and while it’s really, really smutty (like really.) it also has a fair amount of talk about how the world works. I really enjoyed reading it and definitely think it’s worth checking out ;))
My guilty pleasure is sickfics/whump fics that are just as fluffy and saccharine as they are angsty, like GIVE ME the bold stoic character who’s always brave and respectable and absolutely floor them with a virus or injury to the point where they have no choice but to rely on their friends and accept help, and the illness needs to be BAD in order for the help to feel satisfying - I’m talking bedridden, can’t sit up by themselves, need to be bridal carried to the hospital/car/bathroom, that’s some GOOD SHIT
I absolutely love those, but like on the verge of death, with stab wounds and gun shots and a hundred-degree fever but still somehow clinging to life and telling character b to put them down and let them walk themselves when they’re literally dying. Also the more determined and the more they bottle up their trauma, the better. Sorry I sound like a sadist 😅
Outsider POVs! I love seeing someone who isn’t in the main ship or the main group of characters watching them interact and being baffled or wildly misinterpreting what’s happening - for example coworkers thinking two characters (who the audience knows are married) hate each other bc they bicker constantly? Hell yeah good shit right there Also, playfighting scenes. Idk I just think they’re really sweet. Especially if one (or more) of the characters is usually very stoic or reserved, it’s heartwarming to see their playful side come out.
OH I LOVE THESE!!! One example of a fic I’ve seen this in was when the characters in the ship were teachers and it was in the perspective of the students, who were betting on whether or not they were married or just good friends
I ADORE outsider fics, especially in secret world settings (e.g. hp, pjo, etc.) or when a character is often misinterpreted by others/acts differently than they are and the outsider gains a sudden understanding of the character. It's SO good. Bonus if it's social media fic/ buzzfeed unsolved episode format, those are always really fun
Ooh, yes! It’s especially fun in fandoms like the Riordanverse where the characters have a whole other secret world that their normal friends aren’t acquainted with, and watching the POV character(s) try to figure out what’s up is a blast.
Ikr? Like... Maybe this comes from working in publishing, but a 20k story is a novella, I'd break that into a minimum of 4 chapters. Probably more like 6-8, 5000 word chapters feel too long. As you say, a oneshot being 2-8k words seems right.
My hot take is that y/n, reader or OC fics can be good but you have to make that inserted character just as insane as they exist in your head. If you try and make them palatable to others or so cool that no one can say that they aren’t then you aren’t doing it right. I can tell when you’re having fun with it and that means I’ll have fun too
One of my all-time favorites that I'm comfortable putting on the internet is temp character death. When they get revived and have trauma from the afterlife that nobody else understands. When their body has permanent side effects from being reanimated
I got into if from the dsmp fandom a few years ago, there's some rly good stuff about it in there. Also a good bit in the HermitCraft fandom. And the traffic light smps. And harry potter? For some reason? Idk man, I've even seen a few good ones in the ATLA fandom lol
I just posted a fic that had something similar to this. It wasn't a full-on body death, but it was almost there, and definitely a death of self that had never been experienced by anyone else. Half the fic is main character struggling with the fact no one understands what he went through, and how no one can help him because the unique trauma and side effects the situation left behind.
Player x innocent/inexperienced, "im not good enough or right for this person...", 5+1 fics, oneshots, & identity reveal tropes will literally have me on a choke hold😭😭💀
*me seeing these perfectly normal guilty pleasures and hiding my Cannibalism and Eldritch Abomination AU tags:* 😊 edit: digital footprint, guys… cmon.. (if you could not tell i was *joking* about those tags).
Honey...I AM the Eldritch abominations in my fics: -I'm a crimson and white zebra's human form with a peacock's tail. I'm also genderless, can turn into water polluted by red paint and ash, and I want to create a pantheon of psychologically and emotionally broken cute individuals.
Tooth rotting fluff. Gosh darn it, I want my uber fluffy fics and see my favorite characters be sweet on each other. Alternatively, those chapters where characters realize "maybe have feelings for each other" after one saves the other. Is it cheesy? Yeah. But man, I squeal like a kid every time. Addenum: Friend to All Children characters. They produce the absolute sweetest moments in Fanfiction too.
Drunk confessions/drunk sex. I know it's problematic, but I don't care. It also enables characters acting dumb which amuses me. Sick/Injury fic. I like seeing characters being cared by someone they're secretly pining for, and this extends to mental health episodes too, not only physical health. Vampire AU. I was a goth kid who was also a massive weeb. Some things never change. Not a trope that I know if it's named, but I enjoy the authors inserting random knowledge about their hobbies/job/subject into the fic through the characters explaining it enthusiastically, because I like reading things that have been injected with the author's genuine desire to gush about things they think are cool even if they're not completely related to the characters or the fic. I read a fic years ago in which a character went out of her way to explain the specifics of rhythmic gymnastics' competitive scene and I loved the amount of research and care that went into that. Idk. Baby fics are cool too, Coley knows.
Drunk sex fics aren't necessarily problematic when both characters are drunk. Their reactions in the morning are always hilarious, especially since usually one of the characters is embarrassed, and the other one is glad it happened.
dude I actually love drunk sex/confessions fics- I don’t think it’s as problematic as some think, tbh? like, even if only on party is drunk, yes it can create a lot of distance and angst and I can definitely see how it makes people uncomfortable, but typically its not something the drunk person WANTED to happen. they couldn’t help it, and I love the idea of them feeling like shit over it and everything on both sides spirals and book angst and ehh maybe comfort but like. I love that and drunk confessions can be so.. yes?? like?? one character just gets drunk and casually confesses their love or makes a move on the other character and then the sober one panics trying to figure out their feelings about the situation? and typically in both cases the rink character might forget what happened depending how wasted they were, so the other one has an EXTRA struggle of how to process and go about telling them (or trying to avoid it altogether, but inevitably becoming distant and cold with the other and them to really knowing why bc they don’t remember the drunk incident)
My guilty pleasure is definitely whump or heavy angst, I’ve read 100k+ fanfics that are about one character just not having a good time and I love them. Most of the time I prefer them to have a happy ending but sometimes I do appreciate when it gets worse and just never get better, sometimes the happy ending just feels unrealistic and the unhappy ending just scratches that masochistic urge in my brain that makes me wanna read stuff that will leave me crying curled into a ball at the end
This except I will go absolutely insane if it doesn’t have a happy ending It’s unrealistic if the trauma just ups and leaves, but I definitely need the comfort to my hurt/comfort, the recovery & healing fic to my whump & angst fic
I also have an unexplained love for whump fics! They're just...idk, so weirdly satisfying. I like angst too, buuut in moderation, if a fic is nothing but angst, I get super burnt out and just feel empty by the end. But if a fic has just the right amount, hooooo, that is the SHIT, lemme tell ya 👌😂
@@lilyd8908 omg same, sick fics are one of my favorites but I prefer the ones that are full of angst, I don’t know what it is but something about a character getting sick and things getting progressively worse until it becomes life threatening (or life ending) is just so good
yandere.... it's always been kind of a guilty pleasure for me no matter what media i'm obsessed with and, idk what about it but it just scratch that one part of my brain where normal fic can't
9:26 I actually LOVE oneshots. idk why but just a simple story put in one little chapter is nice to me. especially because I don't have the time to read long epics so I'll only read one epic that i'm absolutely invested in at a time and then read tons of oneshots. There's tons of good oneshots out there
Same. I actually use one-shots as a way to jolt down an idea that I can't get enough Inspo for to turn into a full fic. I really need to get some of the ones I've written onto AO3 to see if people would actually want full fics.😂
While I personally prefer long fics, I do sometimes read oneshots if I don't have time or don't feel like reading a long fic (or if I'm caught up on all the multichapter WIPs I've been reading).
Totally agree that sometimes you just don’t have the energy for a multi-chapter fic. Though, the thing I always find funny about one shots are the differences in length. I’ve seen some that are 500 words long, but I also saw one monster of a one shot that was 70,000+ words long XD. There are a ton of multi-chaptered fics that aren’t 70,000+ words long.
Omg yes, especially ridiculously long and/or on going fics, my ADHD could never (or I get hyperfixated on one very specific, extremely niche idea and find one fic about it lol)
Oh, I definitely love 'We live in one body and are horribly intertwined to the point we can't tell each other apart'. It's also good if it's mixed with psychological horrors and gore :D
My guilty pleasure is the hanahaki au where character A has it for character B and when they die, character B discovers their love too late and gets it. But they can't be cured cause character A is dead.
@@joaniteme6028 God yes the angst is unparalleled! Or the other flavor of "A had The Surgery to remove their feelings" before it could be requited and then you get it on both sides of the relationship. Bonus points if B knew that A had a surgery but not for who
Something I absolutely need more of in fanfiction is *recently* established relationship! I love the idea of two characters being like “okay I like you and you like me and we both know that. Cool. So what now?” I just love seeing the characters figure out how they work together as a couple, what each one likes in a romantic relationship, and learning more about each other.
getting together aus are like my fav thing on earth, but sometimes the little bit at the end of those fics where theyre finally together isnt enough and i craaave some established relationship to hit the spot
@purpleheart3000 Jesus Christ that fucking scene… I know it’s supposed to be symbolic of some pretty heavy stuff, but if I was Sarah I would stay in that dream sequence as long as possible
Mine is either a villain needing to be comforted and getting that comfort or a villain playing a reverse and saving a character from someone meant to be a good guy… or similar, the lesser evil, same thing but with a greater evil. Yes, I do have issues.
Most of the characters I utilize from different fandoms are villains who have situations like these happen at least once for them. It's just too much fun! 💖
Mental bonds. Anything that connects two (or more, I ain't picky when it comes to this trope) people in some way (be it a soulbond, an empathic bond, or a mating bond in abo) people in each other's brain is my brain worm
Maybe you'll like. justanotherstay parallel worlds (i am an omega?) Or Makirasan under the never changing moon. Ok i really should go to sleep but i saw this comment and remembered those fics , i'll go sleep now , sorry If i don't make sense. Good night .
Im a SLUTTT for soft fluffy fics, whether that be non smut or the smuttiest thing you've ever read. The way one character sees the other overworking themself and begging for them to just relax, giving soothing massages or kisses, among (us) other things. Or when character A is injured and character B helps by changing sheets or bandages, leaving lingering touches and slight angst because character B cares and loves them so much. Bonus points if it's gay, specifically yuri JGKJGKGH
@@pacificseaotter it might not be as gory as usual, but I mean, it’s a Charlistor Fic so… yanno, typical Radio Demon Shenanigans. (Also Lu’s a mob boss and my _god_ is Vox written well-obligatory “I still hate Val because of course.”) Also it’s on AO3 called Smiling Man. :3 it still should be up, and I believe it’s finished. It’s… a _fun_ wild ride. (Just… like… _don’t_ ask, but everyone’s favorite Radio Host ends up ripping out someone’s throat. With his very human, and not conducive for that task, teeth.) Edit: it’s by MuseValentine. :3
One thing that I found I like is a Mermaid/Mermaid Hunter or Fisherman fic. Like, I love the idea of Character A being part of a group of people who hunt mermaids, unusually unexperienced, but while alone, runs into one (Character B) for the first time and just has this moment of “Holy shit they’re beautiful, I can’t bring myself to hurt them“ and usually angst ensues with either the crew catching Character B, and Character A either having to save them and betray the people they work with, or realizing said people are awful and choosing to escape with Character B. Something about it gives so many opportunities for hurt and comfort and I love itt
My worst one is child @buse 💀 Like spicifically past child @buse and then the @bused character is assuming that the people their with is going to hurt them. And then the miscommunication and the no comfort for forever until there is a whole comfort at the end. I think I read to many sbi and Tubbo fanfics
@@patisilenceprobably the characters lmao im in the sbi fandom and they like sort of take the characters and put them in as there own if that makes sense?? a lot of sbi-ers explain it like that :3
This, I both have that exact Same mind set (the automatic assumption that others are out to take advantage of me or hurt me) and love Fanfics that focus on the healing of trauma.
im a huuuge sucker for enemies to lovers, i don't even know how to explain it. the possibilities for tension in moments where they're fighting and then get like super close up to each other is just UUGHH i love it. also the still bickering like an old couple when they actually get together is very silly to me. maybe that makes me basic, idk.
Thissssss omg I crave enemies to lovers. Like the potential arguments and roasting is so great. Like the tension is soooo real. The toxic potential is good. And then having your heart melt at the end and the heart ache during and laughter at the start makes for a perfect fic
26:31 Kidnapping is my favorite tag for a REASON. There’s just so much potential- you can have the kidnapped character’s POV and the rescuers POV or you can have just one. You can have a character kidnapped for 7 hours, a day, a week, a month, a year etc. then deal with their inevitable trauma in the aftermath. *whispers* when you add torture into the mix things can get reallll bad and it just makes the rescue even better. *whispers even quieter* or there doesn’t have to be a rescue at all Sry whumper here- I got excited when I saw that tag in the thumbnail :)
I personally love nightmare fanfics, especially when it’s a powerful being having a nightmare about losing the not powerful character. I also love immortal x mortal because of the pure angst potential.
The fact that Aziraphale sheltered Crowley under his wing in the first rainstorm…! And all these thousands of years later, Crowley’s talking about how sheltering from a sudden rain together is how people fall in love…! MY HEART STILL CAN’T HANDLE IT!!! 😭😭😭
Time travel fix-it is one of my favorites and i wish there was more of it!!! Also characters watching the show. Which is rare and not easy to find cause it doesnt have a standardized tag. On the other hand its usually either way to long or really low quality. Still it has a small place in my heart.
I think it's becausee not aa lo tof people want to deal with that specific time paradox, of a future character being the very same cause for , idk, some technological improvement that makes them able to time travel in th efirst place or simply them being their own ancestor, or many other things that render something non-existent without the Paradox. I mean, tale the song of storms from Zelda Ocarina of time. It's self-contained so it's harmless, but where and when did it firstly begin?
I love time-travel fix-it , lately I'm obsessed with time travel fics with Harry Potter at the time of Voldemort in hogwarts!!¡!! I think I read all the finished ones I NEED MORE !!!¡, also time travel fix-it in the universe of Final fantasy 7 has me in a chokehold for more than 3 years..
Sadistic psychopaths. Sadistic psychopaths. Sadistic psychopaths. Just the fact of one person having such an obsession with another that they'd take and hurt and go to great lengths to twist this person's mind up in exactly the way they want it. The fact of them enjoying the harm they cause. The complexities of the psychological damage and the creativity with the physical. The Stockholm Syndrome and toxic affection that would result. I could spend ages detailing this and why I love it.
A little like coffee shop AUs but... Bar/Bartender AUs. I FOLD for a bartender who is looking after and caring for someone who is drop dead drunk and sobbing their broken little heart out in the middle of the night, and then they end up being a regular and they get to know each other a lot more and AUUFUGHDSDGJGLKSJ
I love the "celebrity × nobody" where essentially, the celebrity has to keep them secret because of publicity or something, and then they get feed up and show of their s/o to the world. And there are so many different ways to write them meeting each other, from bumping into them while disguised, too a literal meet and greet, its very fun
Social media fics. Just seeing the world interact with your characters, whether they're well known or not, just always makes me appreciative of the characters. It's like I'm sluething on these characters by seeing what they say. It just adds so much. Like, you can play with what platform, the typing styles, usernames, profile pictures, group chats, memes the characters may or may not be aware of, the trends they try to keep up with or understand, just UGH, love it. It doesn't matter if it's based on recent events or just contained in a small section of the internet, I eat it up. I've been especially guilty of this when it comes to superhero characters in a more modern age... (COUGH, DC, COUGH, JUSTICE LEAGUE, COUGH COUGH, BATMAN, AND HIS PUBLIC PERSONA, COUGH COUGH COUGH.) Bonus: I once saw a fic where, out of spite and nagging from his team members, Bruce Wayne outbit Lex Luthor on buying Twitter-- which he then ended up improving. The author made a split universe where Bruce Wayne didn't try to buy Twitter at all, and Lex immediately made all sorts of changes. Like, changing Twitter to X and having people pay to verify they're humans. It was so silly, good thing that is entirely fictional :) Edit: Didn't know that Coley also has this guilty pleasure. YOU GET IT
I’m a sucker for the Too Close trope. - Person B is against a wall (or they fall) and they end up trapped between hands by Person A and they’re either looking at them or not or Person B is blushing madly (bonus points is vice versa) - Person A grabs person B by the collar - The dip dance move Any of these! If anyone has or have seen other ideas let me know!
i love those cliches so much. when a and b are fighting and then one of them falls on top of the other and all of a sudden the hateful tension turns into sexual tension
Dark fanfiction tropes go brrr. Thank you for calming discussing the wholesome and not-so-wholesome aspects of fanfic that're all fine to explore in the fictional context. It makes me happy
A lot of my fanfic guilty pleasures are tropes that are very specific to certain fandoms (to name one example, Peter Parker’s Field Trip to Stark Industries) but here are some more general ones I do really like: Whump Salt Crack POV Outsider One-shots Crack Treated Seriously (my favorite type of crackfic) Identity Reveal Buzzfeed Unsolved Fusion (For those unfamiliar, this is basically a very specific type of POV Outsider where the outsiders are Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej from Buzzfeed Unsolved, and the fic is written in the format of a Buzzfeed Unsolved video, usually looking into some bizarre occurrence in the “host” fandom’s story) Rarepairs Social Media/Chatfic Backstory Fics
I dont know much about buzzfeed unsolved but "That Jackson Kid" is amazing, it explores the adventures of Percy Jackson from the view of tumblr posts and news articles and people putting the pieces together
Can’t believe I’m writing this, my absolute favorite guilty pleasure fic is any Non-sexual submission, any sort of power dynamic where one just absolutely treasures their SO, and also wants to control them. Tags that also fit, Dom/sun undertones and power dynamics. Some ships of mine just do not work for this so I haven’t read too many of them like that. I typically don’t enjoy reading smut, so maybe that’s where the non-sexual part comes from for me, or maybe it’s the fact I love descriptors of absolute trust and dependence that makes it an absolute win
Toxic found family I *LOVE* when someone stumbles into a found family and it absolutely ruins them, but they can’t leave because they’re family no matter what happens.
I love self sabatoging my emotional state so i go out of my way to read THOSE kind of "dead dove do not eat" fics with a gut wrenching plot and hurt no comfort ending I recently read one with VERY good writing and it helped me fall asleep like a damn baby LMAO
Reincarnation trope is dope, especially when a character makes a promise to another character (or both of them do) that transcends lifetimes, memory and even fate itself.
Something I’ve learned about the best ships, is that they are the most interesting when it’s between 2(or more) evil-ish people. Because they lack morals, but they go out of there way to occasionally be loving to each other. For hero’s, that’s expected, nothing knew to them. But for villains to be lovey and kind to each other it shows just HOW much they love each other.
I love casefics. Finding a well-constructed case fic gives such a great "Eureka!" high when the twists and reveals start to happen. I usually only start reading them if they're tagged Complete, but there was an Ongoing TF2 fic I kept seeing fanart for on Tumblr. So I started reading it and it's SO good. The intrigue, the romance, the characterisation. Chef's kiss!
I only look for completed casefics too! I found one not too long ago that was completed and got hooked! I completed it within a day only to realise that the fic was just a setup for the next part of the series where the actual mystery solving takes place. Problem is that the next part of the series is incomplete... Thank you for the casefic recommendation, because I don't think my heart can take committing to another incomplete casefic.
Fanfiction IS my guilty pleasure but for me, strict oneshots girlie. Give me something quick, make it snazzy and you got me giggling and kicking my feet
Misunderstandings and miscommunication is my bread and butter in modern au enemies-to-lovers fanfics. Confessions in the rain, I can see the appeal. You are opening yourself up confessing your heart out plus you are cold and wet from the rain, then their is the relief and the closeness in celebration as well as seeking out warmth from the other. I will always adore mermaid AUs (mermay is such a blessing), but also AUs where one character is a monster and the other is human and they have their first encounter. It could be a meet-cute, first encounter, etc. It's basically the same thing as mermaid-human Aus but more flavor variety if you aren't a fish, ocean lover. Dragons has some lovely high fantasy scenarios. BUT FAE AUs, I gobble that stuff up! GIVE ME ALL THE DARK FAE and Fairy Tale nonsense! I can see the appeal of the old character and horny younger character, but for me the minimum age for the younger character has to be somewhere around 29 -early 30s. It's more dependent on the younger character's maturity and experiences with life as an adult and LOTS OF CONSENT, as well as the older character being mildly attracted but deeply respecting consent and boundaries and seeing the younger character as an independent person without belittling them. There are multiple older characters I would flirt with if given the chance. Also it has some fun tsundere energy, and I love watching someone fail at attempting to deny their feelings. *size difference and intellectual kinks will forever be a guilty pleasure
Mind control of any kind. Hypnosis, puppetry, trances, mental modification, forced obedience, amnesia, mood control… not in a spicy context, I don’t really read smut, but just… mind control.
Omg I love chatfics you don’t understand. I do not care if it is OOC, I do not care if it’s stupid. My favourite chat fic is a Bungou Stray Dogs unfinished trilogy on ao3. They are so, so, so in character and it’s helped me get a better understanding of a few. Developing relationships, sex jokes, character growth, angst, fluff, comfort, humour, fights, secret relationships, misunderstandings, slice of life, a few rare pairs, so much crack, it literally is perfect and I love it so much.
so many times i clicked on a tag just out of pure curiosity, just to see what all the hype was about only for "this better not awaken anything in me" to be my famous last words.
kidnapping fics where the focus is on the rescue; i read a really good one that actually kept me up at night wondering what happened to the kidnapped character as the character whose going to rescue them got ready for the mission
Monster/human, family au and DEFINITELY size diff. Can be more platonic, fluff, n$fw idc, if one of them has to either look up slightly or basically look up at the ceiling, i don't care what you're selling I'm buying it And i swear, 9:28 YES! I think i have at least 3 looong fanfics i haven't touched in months on top of 30 fandom and couple-sorted oneshots
I adore platonic fics, especially with my favorite current fandom ( formula one shamelessly) I just think its cute to stumble across a cute little platonic fic that bordered on romantic but the lines are so blurred you can’t really tell anymore, and travel fics, they bring me so much joy
My bigest gulty pleasure would honestly have to be apocalypse/wartime fics, pretty much anything with a "the odds are stacked against us and now we need to figure out how to survive when nature and/or something else is actively trying to kill us" kinda thing. I love the amount of character dynamics that can change and evolve from these, either romantically or platonically. I also just have a hyper-fixation on medicine and foraging/natural medicines, so I get really exitied when I see it pop up in fics like "YES, YES BITCH YOU CAN EAT THE DANDELIONS!" "FUCK YEAH CHEST COMPRESSIONS!"
Aaaaand this is one of the things I like about the Warhammer 40k fandom. Yes, it's the worst possible universe to live in, literally every faction is a nightmare, there is no peace and even the stars themselves are screaming for your blood. But also, these two soldiers were shot by a rogue teleporter in the middle of a war and ended up on a strange jungley planet. The sky is dark, the constellations are unfamiliar, and they will probably be eaten by a giant murdersloth if they split up. Still, one of them grew up in the jungles of Catachan and the other is eight feet tall and fearless, so they're going to make the best of it. They're going to hunt and build and grow what they can while trying to get an ancient crashed spaceship they found working... And maybe, just maybe, they'll fall in love in the process. Yeah, finding pockets of warmth and light in the cold grimdark is absolutely my favourite thing. ❤
Horror fics, especially body/transformation horror and psychological horror stuff. For the former, the lack of control over ones body and watching it slowly become something alien and horrifying is just delicious, and for the latter I like watching the dismantling of what make people tick and how to fundamentally mess with it and break that person. I also like vampires and werewolves, hidden world/urban fantasy, role swaps, and hanahaki disease/flowerfell type fics
Hanahaki is a big fanfic guilty pleasure for me. I know it’s kind of controversial but I just really like it! Another guilty pleasure for me is just…any fic that’s has the stereotypical “bad” writing expected from fics…
HARD agree on one shots. When I was younger I used to be able to read fics that were 20 to 30 chapters long, one time I read a fic that was over 100 chapters long, I almost never touched one shots. But now as I’ve gotten older I’ve started to gravitate to them to more, I think the reason why I like one shots more now is because I have more responsibilities than I did back then, so I don’t have as much time for fanfic but still love it, so a nice short story is a good compromise.
as annoying as miscommunication can be in normal media, for some reason it's one of my favorite things in fanfics! probably because in the fics i've read the authors find ways to make it super funny. i'm just giggling, screaming, and kicking my feet the entire time
Enemies to lovers (literally most of my oc’s and stuff that I read is this I am obsessed), Redemption Arcs, Villain Arcs, arcs where the love interests help each other heal from trauma, person A doesn’t like B but then halfway through their romance Person A is just like: “Oh sh_t OH SH_T NOW I HAVE FEELINGS FOR THEM?!?” …yeah, there’s probably more that tickles my brain but that’s all i’m listing rn.
Knight/princess/royalty au,tangled aus,coffee shop,soulmates,omegaverse(I don't understand it, but the first are awesome),fantasy among reality,hitman au,slow burns,pining,gay panic,throuples,one bed,werewolfs or cursed transformation,vampires,oneshots,established relationships,weddings,ceo/regular person,sports aus,
I love friends to lovers, especially when one friend has been crushing for years and the other friend starts dating someone else, and then a whole angst thing usually happens and sometimes maybe a lot of times ends in smut 💀
something about actor aus make my brain tingle like the pining and the “am i in love with them or is my character in love with them?” and the tension on set
There’s so many…but if I had to narrow it down it’s Best Friends to Lovers. It’s usually a hit and rarely a miss, and it can bring me out a depressive funk if it’s really well written.
I so agree! I feel like best friends to lovers is extra nice because you get a kind of established relationship vibe, but also the excitement of a confession and yearning!
22:40 I read a wedding fic where one of the main mcs Best friend is getting married (but the MC still has feelings for him). He's still happy for his friend so he ends up making a wish that he gets over his feelings and is able to hand over his friend as best man wholeheartedly. He then proceeds to get stuck in a timeloop of the day of the wedding😂😭. The day never plays out exactly the same, depending in what he decides to do, and one day he meets the ex of the person his friend is getting married to and turns out, he is also stuck in this timeloop. Hijinks ensue🤣
I love unrequited but actually requited love, interdimensional crossovers, traumatized main characters, runaway children/teens, and certain OT3 ships. My biggest guilty pleasure has some caveats so I won't mention it. I really like this Fear & Hunger/My Hero Academia crossover right now, it's really cool so far, and I think it's really well written (crossover and traumatized because of it is A++).
Mine is pregnancy and parenthood. Especially if the character suffers and goes through an arc, whether the ending is good or bad. I love seeing how authors explore how characters would be parents, or how a character would act as a single parent, ESPECIALLY characters who have BAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR OWN PARENTS or have had TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. Will they or will they not be like their parents? Will they be better or will they be worse? Will they keep the kid or will they abort/set them up for adoption? If they do keep the kid, how will they react when all the trials of life that come with being a parent face them? Will they ask friends and family for help? Will they raise the kid alone? Will they suffer or will they find the kid a blessing? How will their family and friends react? I have seen a few fics that explore the good and BAD sides of pregnancy, especially the depression that comes with it. Usually pregnancy fics have wholesome moments or heartwarming scenarios but I somehow resonate with those who seem to just get hit by the world with all its might yet come out stronger. Maybe not stronger. They come out fine. They come out better and satisfied. They made it through all that. Weird guilty pleasure, yeah, some may even give me bad side-eyes, but I guess this stems from my own experiences with my mom and her relationship with her mom.
Adding to this guilty pleasure is this really specific prompt where a ship has a kid and that kid is dying, whether it be through some sickness or a curse. Will their kid’s life or death status bring them closer or tear them apart?
My guilty pleasure is Jealousy When one of the characters is desperately in love with another, and the another one definitely loves them back, but the first one is a little bit too overprotective for their love. And it gets me every time, if the jealous character understands he is jealous with the whole 'I'm an idiot ' attitude, tries to stop it and somehow deal with it and then lets the person they are in love with talk to other people ahahah It's so cute to see the reveal of the jealousy, those apologises and explainations, when the one who was jealous gets the sincere proof of feelings from another. And it is interesting to imagine how the object who jealous character takes as a rival could communicate with them in sone way jsjjs
Mines are hurt no comfort, suicide, grief, abuse (bonus points for parental abuse + dead dove do not eat), self harm, they are all just aaaaaaaaah, I love to see the decadence of a character (even more my blorbos) and getting everything taken away from them until the just die (bonus if the write a note in the most messy and raw way). Not only that, seeing the aftermath, them finding the body, the funeral, reading the note (if they even get to find it), the grief, the “things will never be the same”... These are all my silly little guilty pleasures :3
I can't get enough of soulmate aus. There's just something about love being out there, and you just have to find the right person who will love you the same that really gets to me. Also I 100% agree on kidnapping/any situation where a character is helpless and their friends have to come to their aid. And the hurt/comfort potential in the aftermath is so delicious. Probably my most controversial guilty pleasure is heavy angst, hurt no comfort/delayed comfort, and t*rturep*rn. I want my blorbos put in a situation, but it just so happens that that situation is a blender set to purée.
My guilty pleasures is any tag related to sicknesses/illnesses whether mental or physical IDC. The sicker the better 😭 I like seeing my OTP taking care of each other and finally realising how much they care for one another.
Identity Porn has been my favorite trope my entire life. I want to know what thats means about me lol. When I saw the tag for Identity Porn, I realized its the commonality in all my media interests
Older Character thinks they're too old for love X Younger Horny Character is one of my absolute favesssss. Please if anyone has fic recs of this drop them below, I need more of them.
Kidnaping is one of mine as well but instead of a rescue I love stockholm syndrome situations and maybe after it has really developed then a unwanted recuse
I'm absolutely obsessed with the hero character going crazy and either becoming a villain or not giving a crap about anything and it becomes even better if it's also combined with hero x villain's henchman
Self harm and eating disorder fics are a very VERY guilty pleasure especially when they spiral continiously in despair to the point they're nearly dying. This is a really big safeguarding concern camhs pls don't come after me xx
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Sick fics I cannot like a character without wanting a nice hurt/comfort sick fic
Mine is torture
hanahaki but character 1 is dead so character 2's feelings are never reciprocated :) also hurt no comfort scratches the brain
While the general trend is to redeem or rehabilitate a villain in order to ship them with a hero, my guilty pleasure is corrupting a hero to ship them with a villain. Let them be bad, and let them enjoy it.
"Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go apeshit?"
Love this shit
Yessssss villain!AU is absolute gold! My favorite one right now is villain!Izuku from BNHA.
YASSSS!!!! This is the REAL reason why I ship hero x villains!! THIS RIGHT HERE! IDGAF!
Noice
"I don't want to fix them, I want them to break me!"
One of my guilty pleasures is reading a hero being badass while being tortured, them being rescued at some point, and then them just breaking down to their best friend/significant other.
I don't know, there's something so cathartic to me about not breaking while being hella traumatized, and then breaking down later with a safe person due to their care and kindness. Like a hammer couldn't break them, but a feather did.
Gonna need someone to write soldier boy like this😭🙏🙏🙏
This trope is amazing
:0 like oobleck
SAME
I need REC
Honestly fanfiction as a whole is a guilty pleasure for me
Yes!😊
ikr
Shit, you write too?
Bruh I'm literally an English major and fanfiction is pretty much all I write now, don't worry, you're not alone, lol
Very much so
My aunts best friend met her husband because when they were at another friends wedding, she wasn’t paying attention and got clocked in the head with the bouquet.
Bouquets are surprisingly heavy and the bride overshot the group.
Clocked her right in the face.
Guy who was a a friend of a friend of the groom helped her up and they were both hysterically laughing.
Long story short they got married like two years later.
That is fucking adorable!!!!!
The bouquet is never wrong about who will get married next 😏
@@emilysmith2965 was it expected? Nope. Did it work as intended? Probably not.
But it did work nonetheless so YAY!
I'd say one of my guilty pleasure is when the mc is like super strong and everything goes their way even if other characters are not always aware of but in the end the struggle was never real and we always knew. I feel like it's guilty bc it's the easy way, a bit like deus ex machina. But it's comforting
My other guilty pleasure are probably mainly smut things
Ngl that is fucking hysterical
At least half of my guilty pleasures are trigger warnings 💀💀💀
Other more general ones tho would be Character Study, Fix-it, Missing Scene, One-Sided Relationship, No Romantic Relationship(s), Lab AUs (or just AUs where the characters are all stuck in a facility and have to work together to escape while dark secrets come to light), etc.
All of the trigger warnings are my guilty pleasures 💀
Dude me
Character Studies might be my favorite thing ever, tbh
nah cuz honestly same
I love really dark topics, and I pretty much NEVER read the tags or trigger warnings cuz I like having most of them be a surprise, since I am very much not triggered by them lmao
TOXIC CODEPENDENCY. I just love when the characters are just obsessed with each other and everyone else is looking at them with concern and/or disgust
Also makes for some ANGST if they break up
YESS!!!! One of the fics I’m reading right now has the potential to go down that path and I really hope it does!! 😍
Omg yes i´ve been gravitating to that since last year and the APPEAL. What fandoms do you find this tag? I can´t see it in my fandoms
basically unbelievers/bloodsport
*casually slides you the TCOAAL rabbit hole*
I swear, if you're not turned off by the horniness of the fandom or the wincest undertones then it's so damn good!! I'm not gonna spoil, but if you can find character study fics or a great one, "Mister Graves" where they look into the perspective of a side character that is quite intruging. But please catch up with the main game first before getting into the fandom, and do try to see all the routes and endings to find your cup of tea. Wish you luck!
@@KuinaCoconut ??? Elaborate
I love it when A is so guilty for hurting B, but B forgives them super easily and it makes A feel even worse AAAAAAA
Ooh, that's the good shit right there
_realizes I had the perfect chance to pull this but didn't_
I fucking love false accusation. Like B is accused of doing something extremely terrible, everyone including A mistreats B as a result, and then it's revealed B did nothing wrong so everyone is guilty and AAAA
I haven't found any fics like that yet tho pls help
this happens so often in fics with a ship I love so I FEEL THIS
edit: and now that I think about it, the exact same thing happened in canon so it makes sense LMFAO
@@number1rimbaudfan Okay, I'm curious, what ship it is? (Also hii, fellow bsd fan)
My guilty pleasure is con noncon. I love when either one pauses for a moment to make sure everything is ok with their partner or when they use the safe word and there's a 180 change in personality (usually turning softer). Its the trust between the partners
This this right here!!
I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS CALLED THAT THANKS
but con noncon is so real
@@Leafy-but-shes-a-lesbian consensual non-consent is the full name shortened as cnc
OMG THAT'S WHAT ITS CALLED??
So true
It's uhh... It's smecks pollen.
I just find two characters seeing each other and going on an "OH NO THEY'RE HOT" downward spiral amusing
I can’t get over the description Red gives in of Dracula in Netflixes Castlevania, where Dracula is being all big and scary and this woman basically bangs his door down and he’s still trying to be all big and scary and she just is _savage_ and basically goes “of course everyone is afraid of you! You never leave, and you’re a terrible host. Offer me tea, a place to sit, and light a fire.”
And you can _see_ that man (uh, vampire) going “oh… oh no… OH NO I LIKE HER.”
In like… the opening scenes, xD
this gave me the cruel idea of sex pollen fic that's e/t rated and they're just blueballed the whole time
I'm very guilty. Sooo guilty.
I think this trope also works best when both characters would _never_ get together otherwise… Like I’ve read multiple featuring such pollen when it comes to Mo Ran and Chu Wanning from _Erha,_ because at the point of the story where fans call Mo Ran “Mo Ran 2.0” (if you know, you know), he loves and cherishes and yearns for Chu Wanning but could never bear to touch him due to ~reasons™️~ and then Chu Wanning needs it because he’s had a crush on Mo Ran forever but he’s too reticent to ever fully try and face those feelings.
So whenever there’s that pining + angst involved of both of them thinking the other doesn’t actually want this and that they’re the bad ones for enjoying it even though they’re helping the other party resolve an issue…
Yeah. It makes for some compelling reading. 👀
I swear I just read it laugh. It’s absurd but great.💗
The fact that I didn’t think that most of these are guilty pleasures speaks a lot about me. 💀💀💀
Same 😭
Shameless Goblin Hours™ over here, 24/7! 💖
Me too
they would send me into a mental hospital if i shared my guilty pleasures about ANYTHING.
Don’t need to share them but surely others must have them too if you’re able to find fic of it?
Same honestly...but also I'm only human afterall!!! LOL
@@catzilla_XD join the Radio Demon and or Hannibal fandoms and you’ll be aces on all the weird crap you can think of.
Oh my gosh same. I thought I was the only one. I wanna write it here but I feel like people will think I romanticize it 😭
@@BrewsBrownies **looks at my own fics I write because I get tired of not finding what I want and I tend to have a rare pair that doesn’t defang someone** I can think of about… two subjects that might get you side eye from even the general degenerate community, one being the subject that blew up over “The Coffin of Andy and LeyLey” (so not the Radio Demon/Hannibal stuff) and non/dub con involving the… uh… “but she’s 900 years old!” (Still doesn’t explain why so many shipped Ciel… but, I tend to just back out if I wound up in a weird tag.)
Hybrid AUs!! Characters with wings, with claws, with tails-characters that can purr, can growl, can trill. It can add a lot of show-dont-tell emotions and a lot of unique situations, like wing preening, animalistic courting, nesting, instinctual fears, instinctual likes, different settings based on hybrid needs, etc, etc. I also just think it’s really cute 😅
Having Cleópatra and a few Magical Girls ("Madoka Magica" universe) turn into creatures based on the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet (vampiric looking). Does that count as Hybrid AU ?
hmmmmmmm this smells like minecraft yt fic..
HELL YEAH
Wings…. WINGSSSSSSSS WEEEEENGSSSSS
@@autumn_3989 YOU GET IT!!
Non-sexual omegaverse.
I love the scenting, marking, etc. (animalistic behaviour) depicted on characters. The spicy stuff is more of a bonus. Its interesting to see how authors approach it without relying on the smut. Though unfortunately, its a rare find in the fandoms im in 😢😢😢
Omegaverse has so much potential as sci fi, dystopia, LGBT+ commentary, human Vs animal, interpersonal relationships, and social issues fiction ❤
I also like non-sexual omegaverse!!! Especially when it explores how the secondary genders affect their way of life, aaaa there’s so much weird world building that has potential to be played out really well???
What about omegaverse combined with soulmate AU's (I love the idea of two characters especially a normal person and the omegaverse wolf being soulmates and the complexity that can bring
This has ended up being me 😂
Teenage me was reading porn for the porn, adult me is reading porn for the world building, plot and themes
Especially with omegaverse, there are so many different and equally interesting avenues to explore
Same here! I just finished reading Bond Brothers by JTLeigh2 on AO3, and while it’s really, really smutty (like really.) it also has a fair amount of talk about how the world works. I really enjoyed reading it and definitely think it’s worth checking out ;))
My guilty pleasure is sickfics/whump fics that are just as fluffy and saccharine as they are angsty, like GIVE ME the bold stoic character who’s always brave and respectable and absolutely floor them with a virus or injury to the point where they have no choice but to rely on their friends and accept help, and the illness needs to be BAD in order for the help to feel satisfying - I’m talking bedridden, can’t sit up by themselves, need to be bridal carried to the hospital/car/bathroom, that’s some GOOD SHIT
:D me too
Like that one episode of The Way of the Househusband :D
I absolutely love those, but like on the verge of death, with stab wounds and gun shots and a hundred-degree fever but still somehow clinging to life and telling character b to put them down and let them walk themselves when they’re literally dying. Also the more determined and the more they bottle up their trauma, the better. Sorry I sound like a sadist 😅
YES LET'S GO
@@elainez Then we can be sadists together because I got the biggest whumperflies from that
Okay, but I would read the Hell out of "Star Wars, but Everywhere You Go it's Space Australia."
14:17 yesssssssssss please same
god i love space australia story’s, even outside of fanfics
Same
i would too. not because i like star wars ( i don't ) but because i am australian
Outsider POVs! I love seeing someone who isn’t in the main ship or the main group of characters watching them interact and being baffled or wildly misinterpreting what’s happening - for example coworkers thinking two characters (who the audience knows are married) hate each other bc they bicker constantly? Hell yeah good shit right there
Also, playfighting scenes. Idk I just think they’re really sweet. Especially if one (or more) of the characters is usually very stoic or reserved, it’s heartwarming to see their playful side come out.
OH I LOVE THESE!!! One example of a fic I’ve seen this in was when the characters in the ship were teachers and it was in the perspective of the students, who were betting on whether or not they were married or just good friends
I ADORE outsider fics, especially in secret world settings (e.g. hp, pjo, etc.) or when a character is often misinterpreted by others/acts differently than they are and the outsider gains a sudden understanding of the character. It's SO good. Bonus if it's social media fic/ buzzfeed unsolved episode format, those are always really fun
Ooh, yes! It’s especially fun in fandoms like the Riordanverse where the characters have a whole other secret world that their normal friends aren’t acquainted with, and watching the POV character(s) try to figure out what’s up is a blast.
@@Al_-cf1djHELL. YES. I am a sucker for PJO/Buzzfeed Unsolved fics! 🤩
@@YouveBeenMegged YES THEY'RE SO GOOOOOD
Am I the only one who loves going absolutely batshit crazy over friendships with genuinely good platonic chemistry? So hard to find tho!
yeah its sad. Platonic totally rocks. I've dedicated my entire ao3 account to platonic works like this
Same! Bonus points if it's a trio 😊
@@bananabro1010HERO PFP
@@bananabro1010omori fan spotted (I am mentally ill)
Omg same!!!!!!
10:13 "I think the average one shot is 20 to 30k words"
*Me, only ever seeing/reading one shots that are 2 to 8k words:* 0.0
I saw one that was 2 sentences 😭😭😭
Ikr? Like... Maybe this comes from working in publishing, but a 20k story is a novella, I'd break that into a minimum of 4 chapters. Probably more like 6-8, 5000 word chapters feel too long. As you say, a oneshot being 2-8k words seems right.
HELLO?? ive read one shots over 60k words 😭😭realistically i know it should've multiple chapts but 25k would be a typical one shot to me
I write tiny one-shots, leaning toward ficlets. My longest fic is still under 2k words.
Not me reading a hurt-no-comfort fic when the notification was put up
You are a real one for that.
Same
Oh hey fellow depressed people :D
Real
hurt no comfort my beloved
My hot take is that y/n, reader or OC fics can be good but you have to make that inserted character just as insane as they exist in your head. If you try and make them palatable to others or so cool that no one can say that they aren’t then you aren’t doing it right. I can tell when you’re having fun with it and that means I’ll have fun too
I ❤ my insane OCs and how they "Joker out" through out the world.
One of my all-time favorites that I'm comfortable putting on the internet is temp character death. When they get revived and have trauma from the afterlife that nobody else understands. When their body has permanent side effects from being reanimated
omg same, it's so hard to find good fics for this tho (╥﹏╥)
I got into if from the dsmp fandom a few years ago, there's some rly good stuff about it in there. Also a good bit in the HermitCraft fandom. And the traffic light smps. And harry potter? For some reason? Idk man, I've even seen a few good ones in the ATLA fandom lol
Ohhh the life series fandom and their angsty narritives
I just posted a fic that had something similar to this. It wasn't a full-on body death, but it was almost there, and definitely a death of self that had never been experienced by anyone else. Half the fic is main character struggling with the fact no one understands what he went through, and how no one can help him because the unique trauma and side effects the situation left behind.
@@bananabro1010 you wanna drop that link?? i don't even care about the fandom lol, I just need to be fed
"Fix-it" fics are like balm for the soul.
What's a balm ?
Also, I like balanced "Fix-it", as in, doesn't make everything too positive, should the source material not be full happy going.
Fix it, as in that it irons out any issues the main story had while maintaining its original integrity while optionally expanding on it?
I like specifically "fix it" fics for the magnus archives, which ended in the apocalypse lol
EDIT: AND GOOD OMENS!!!??????? i'm gonna cry
PREACH! I'm currently working on a black butler fix-it fan fiction because I wasn't very satisfied with season 2 or the ending of season 1.
Player x innocent/inexperienced, "im not good enough or right for this person...", 5+1 fics, oneshots, & identity reveal tropes will literally have me on a choke hold😭😭💀
the identity reveal one is so real lol
Just general secret reveals ngl
i go fuckin WILD for 5+1
I LOVEEEEE 5+1 it’s just so fucking iconic and perfect for me
I had an essay for school that was basically a mini 5+1 fic and I got a 95-
*me seeing these perfectly normal guilty pleasures and hiding my Cannibalism and Eldritch Abomination AU tags:* 😊
edit: digital footprint, guys… cmon..
(if you could not tell i was *joking* about those tags).
Honey...I AM the Eldritch abominations in my fics:
-I'm a crimson and white zebra's human form with a peacock's tail. I'm also genderless, can turn into water polluted by red paint and ash, and I want to create a pantheon of psychologically and emotionally broken cute individuals.
Same, I can't explain why I like cannibalism and vore so much it just scratches my brain so good!
Yepyep, the story's not complete without 'em! 💖
@trinitiebabcock9087 me core tbh
Eldritch vore ftw
Tooth rotting fluff. Gosh darn it, I want my uber fluffy fics and see my favorite characters be sweet on each other. Alternatively, those chapters where characters realize "maybe have feelings for each other" after one saves the other. Is it cheesy? Yeah. But man, I squeal like a kid every time.
Addenum: Friend to All Children characters. They produce the absolute sweetest moments in Fanfiction too.
Dude when I find I really good one I kick my feet like a toddler it's amazing
A good palette cleanser after seas of depravity; like a really nice sorbet after a decadent meal 💖
I live and breathe fluff
Cute n' silly is my jam, I love fluff
i drown in so much fluff that my teeth fall out. and you know what? i’m perfectly fine with that
Drunk confessions/drunk sex. I know it's problematic, but I don't care. It also enables characters acting dumb which amuses me.
Sick/Injury fic. I like seeing characters being cared by someone they're secretly pining for, and this extends to mental health episodes too, not only physical health.
Vampire AU. I was a goth kid who was also a massive weeb. Some things never change.
Not a trope that I know if it's named, but I enjoy the authors inserting random knowledge about their hobbies/job/subject into the fic through the characters explaining it enthusiastically, because I like reading things that have been injected with the author's genuine desire to gush about things they think are cool even if they're not completely related to the characters or the fic. I read a fic years ago in which a character went out of her way to explain the specifics of rhythmic gymnastics' competitive scene and I loved the amount of research and care that went into that. Idk.
Baby fics are cool too, Coley knows.
Drunk sex fics aren't necessarily problematic when both characters are drunk. Their reactions in the morning are always hilarious, especially since usually one of the characters is embarrassed, and the other one is glad it happened.
Sick/Injury fics are such a comfort of mine
I love drunk confesions too
dude I actually love drunk sex/confessions fics- I don’t think it’s as problematic as some think, tbh? like, even if only on party is drunk, yes it can create a lot of distance and angst and I can definitely see how it makes people uncomfortable, but typically its not something the drunk person WANTED to happen. they couldn’t help it, and I love the idea of them feeling like shit over it and everything on both sides spirals and book angst and ehh maybe comfort but like. I love that
and drunk confessions can be so.. yes?? like??
one character just gets drunk and casually confesses their love or makes a move on the other character and then the sober one panics trying to figure out their feelings about the situation?
and typically in both cases the rink character might forget what happened depending how wasted they were, so the other one has an EXTRA struggle of how to process and go about telling them (or trying to avoid it altogether, but inevitably becoming distant and cold with the other and them to really knowing why bc they don’t remember the drunk incident)
Omg I love drunk fics🫶🫶🫶
My guilty pleasure is definitely whump or heavy angst, I’ve read 100k+ fanfics that are about one character just not having a good time and I love them. Most of the time I prefer them to have a happy ending but sometimes I do appreciate when it gets worse and just never get better, sometimes the happy ending just feels unrealistic and the unhappy ending just scratches that masochistic urge in my brain that makes me wanna read stuff that will leave me crying curled into a ball at the end
REAL
This except I will go absolutely insane if it doesn’t have a happy ending
It’s unrealistic if the trauma just ups and leaves, but I definitely need the comfort to my hurt/comfort, the recovery & healing fic to my whump & angst fic
I also have an unexplained love for whump fics! They're just...idk, so weirdly satisfying. I like angst too, buuut in moderation, if a fic is nothing but angst, I get super burnt out and just feel empty by the end. But if a fic has just the right amount, hooooo, that is the SHIT, lemme tell ya 👌😂
YES
Within that I also have a specific love for sickfics…they can either be really sweet and fluffy and cute or FULL of angst
@@lilyd8908 omg same, sick fics are one of my favorites but I prefer the ones that are full of angst, I don’t know what it is but something about a character getting sick and things getting progressively worse until it becomes life threatening (or life ending) is just so good
yandere....
it's always been kind of a guilty pleasure for me no matter what media i'm obsessed with and, idk what about it but it just scratch that one part of my brain where normal fic can't
Y e s
ME TOOOOOOOOOOOO
yes yes yes yes
9:26 I actually LOVE oneshots. idk why but just a simple story put in one little chapter is nice to me. especially because I don't have the time to read long epics so I'll only read one epic that i'm absolutely invested in at a time and then read tons of oneshots. There's tons of good oneshots out there
especially on tumblr! the best oneshots are always there...at least for me :]
Same. I actually use one-shots as a way to jolt down an idea that I can't get enough Inspo for to turn into a full fic. I really need to get some of the ones I've written onto AO3 to see if people would actually want full fics.😂
While I personally prefer long fics, I do sometimes read oneshots if I don't have time or don't feel like reading a long fic (or if I'm caught up on all the multichapter WIPs I've been reading).
Totally agree that sometimes you just don’t have the energy for a multi-chapter fic.
Though, the thing I always find funny about one shots are the differences in length. I’ve seen some that are 500 words long, but I also saw one monster of a one shot that was 70,000+ words long XD. There are a ton of multi-chaptered fics that aren’t 70,000+ words long.
Omg yes, especially ridiculously long and/or on going fics, my ADHD could never (or I get hyperfixated on one very specific, extremely niche idea and find one fic about it lol)
Oh, I definitely love 'We live in one body and are horribly intertwined to the point we can't tell each other apart'. It's also good if it's mixed with psychological horrors and gore :D
YES, YES, YES, I'LL EAT THAT SHIT UP!!! 💖
nice
Hanahaki and soulmate AU
Gosh I love it so much
Especially if it involved more than two persons😃
Same!!!
omg hanahaki and soulmate aus used to have me in a chokehold when i was younger 😭 they were so good i should find some again
My guilty pleasure is the hanahaki au where character A has it for character B and when they die, character B discovers their love too late and gets it. But they can't be cured cause character A is dead.
@@joaniteme6028 God yes the angst is unparalleled! Or the other flavor of "A had The Surgery to remove their feelings" before it could be requited and then you get it on both sides of the relationship. Bonus points if B knew that A had a surgery but not for who
@@limitlesslizzie frrr and my favourite part ( don't judge me eh) is when the character start coughing up blood:)
Something I absolutely need more of in fanfiction is *recently* established relationship! I love the idea of two characters being like “okay I like you and you like me and we both know that. Cool. So what now?” I just love seeing the characters figure out how they work together as a couple, what each one likes in a romantic relationship, and learning more about each other.
Yess!! This is so good, I love that trope.
getting together aus are like my fav thing on earth, but sometimes the little bit at the end of those fics where theyre finally together isnt enough and i craaave some established relationship to hit the spot
masquerade balls or just two characters dancing together is just MMMMMMMMM
🎶As the world falls down🎶
I will singlehandedly keep the Labyrinth fandom alive because of its masquerade ball dream sequence.
@purpleheart3000 Jesus Christ that fucking scene… I know it’s supposed to be symbolic of some pretty heavy stuff, but if I was Sarah I would stay in that dream sequence as long as possible
REALL
Mine is either a villain needing to be comforted and getting that comfort or a villain playing a reverse and saving a character from someone meant to be a good guy… or similar, the lesser evil, same thing but with a greater evil. Yes, I do have issues.
X2
Most of the characters I utilize from different fandoms are villains who have situations like these happen at least once for them. It's just too much fun! 💖
Mental bonds. Anything that connects two (or more, I ain't picky when it comes to this trope) people in some way (be it a soulbond, an empathic bond, or a mating bond in abo) people in each other's brain is my brain worm
Sense8 and the Transformers fandom put me in the same path as you, with the added benefit of almost never finding other good fics with this trope :")
@@juliag.c.4292Transformers😭 you’re so real for that honestly I’m a sucker for anything Soundwave related
DinLuke fics where Din Djarin is force sensitive and has special bonds with Grogu and Luke are
Maybe you'll like. justanotherstay parallel worlds (i am an omega?)
Or Makirasan under the never changing moon.
Ok i really should go to sleep but i saw this comment and remembered those fics , i'll go sleep now , sorry If i don't make sense. Good night .
oh my god my current brain story has this troupe
Im a SLUTTT for soft fluffy fics, whether that be non smut or the smuttiest thing you've ever read. The way one character sees the other overworking themself and begging for them to just relax, giving soothing massages or kisses, among (us) other things. Or when character A is injured and character B helps by changing sheets or bandages, leaving lingering touches and slight angst because character B cares and loves them so much. Bonus points if it's gay, specifically yuri JGKJGKGH
my guilty pleasure is definitely gore, darkfic like that. It just scratches the itch in my head.
**slides you a 1920s period piece about mobsters and speakeasies using the Hazbin cast**
@@Crisjola wait no i seriously would read where is it
@@pacificseaotter it might not be as gory as usual, but I mean, it’s a Charlistor Fic so… yanno, typical Radio Demon Shenanigans. (Also Lu’s a mob boss and my _god_ is Vox written well-obligatory “I still hate Val because of course.”)
Also it’s on AO3 called Smiling Man. :3 it still should be up, and I believe it’s finished. It’s… a _fun_ wild ride.
(Just… like… _don’t_ ask, but everyone’s favorite Radio Host ends up ripping out someone’s throat. With his very human, and not conducive for that task, teeth.)
Edit: it’s by MuseValentine. :3
@@Crisjola Yooooooooooo, thanks comrade!
@@CrisjolaAYOOOO I’m definitely reading this later, thank you for the suggestion!
One thing that I found I like is a Mermaid/Mermaid Hunter or Fisherman fic. Like, I love the idea of Character A being part of a group of people who hunt mermaids, unusually unexperienced, but while alone, runs into one (Character B) for the first time and just has this moment of “Holy shit they’re beautiful, I can’t bring myself to hurt them“ and usually angst ensues with either the crew catching Character B, and Character A either having to save them and betray the people they work with, or realizing said people are awful and choosing to escape with Character B. Something about it gives so many opportunities for hurt and comfort and I love itt
I’ve had like MULTIPLE little brain stories about scenarios like this bro I love mermaid aus
There is a TV show called Siren with kind of the same plot! Plus bisexual/pansexual and polyamorous representation!
@Melissa-sx9vh OMG WHERE CAN I WATCH IT
@@one-onessadhalf3393 I have no idea, it was produced by Freeform but I watched it on a 🏴☠️🏴☠️ website
@@Melissa-sx9vhwhat is it called?
My worst one is child @buse 💀
Like spicifically past child @buse and then the @bused character is assuming that the people their with is going to hurt them. And then the miscommunication and the no comfort for forever until there is a whole comfort at the end. I think I read to many sbi and Tubbo fanfics
Seeing tubbo here gave me whiplash
The TH-camr??
@@patisilenceprobably the characters lmao im in the sbi fandom and they like sort of take the characters and put them in as there own if that makes sense?? a lot of sbi-ers explain it like that :3
I relate to this so hard, like it's such a good concept
This, I both have that exact Same mind set (the automatic assumption that others are out to take advantage of me or hurt me) and love Fanfics that focus on the healing of trauma.
im a huuuge sucker for enemies to lovers, i don't even know how to explain it. the possibilities for tension in moments where they're fighting and then get like super close up to each other is just UUGHH i love it. also the still bickering like an old couple when they actually get together is very silly to me. maybe that makes me basic, idk.
Thissssss omg I crave enemies to lovers. Like the potential arguments and roasting is so great. Like the tension is soooo real. The toxic potential is good. And then having your heart melt at the end and the heart ache during and laughter at the start makes for a perfect fic
@@sourfaced12 REALL
My kind of Kidnapping fic is where the love intrest ismt the kidnapper but the savior! I like a good heros story NOW KISS.
Oh yes that was my first thought when Coley wrote that. One person gets kidnapped and the other one is there to be a badass hero😂
YESSS
OMG my fav kind of ficcc!!!
THISS
26:31 Kidnapping is my favorite tag for a REASON. There’s just so much potential- you can have the kidnapped character’s POV and the rescuers POV or you can have just one. You can have a character kidnapped for 7 hours, a day, a week, a month, a year etc. then deal with their inevitable trauma in the aftermath. *whispers* when you add torture into the mix things can get reallll bad and it just makes the rescue even better. *whispers even quieter* or there doesn’t have to be a rescue at all
Sry whumper here- I got excited when I saw that tag in the thumbnail :)
I personally love nightmare fanfics, especially when it’s a powerful being having a nightmare about losing the not powerful character. I also love immortal x mortal because of the pure angst potential.
7:42 “Get humans wet and 👏🏼vaboom. They are in love” Crowley in Good Omens 2 😂
The fact that Aziraphale sheltered Crowley under his wing in the first rainstorm…! And all these thousands of years later, Crowley’s talking about how sheltering from a sudden rain together is how people fall in love…! MY HEART STILL CAN’T HANDLE IT!!! 😭😭😭
Unrequited Love.
No comfort, no nothing.
It's not really a guilty pleasure, I will just stand by this tag.
I LOVE THATTTT u would think the hanahaki tag wpuld have this but nope 😢
Samarina coded
Time travel fix-it is one of my favorites and i wish there was more of it!!! Also characters watching the show. Which is rare and not easy to find cause it doesnt have a standardized tag. On the other hand its usually either way to long or really low quality. Still it has a small place in my heart.
I think it's becausee not aa lo tof people want to deal with that specific time paradox, of a future character being the very same cause for , idk, some technological improvement that makes them able to time travel in th efirst place or simply them being their own ancestor, or many other things that render something non-existent without the Paradox.
I mean, tale the song of storms from Zelda Ocarina of time. It's self-contained so it's harmless, but where and when did it firstly begin?
Same. I actually put both in one fic once lol.
LEGACY OF KAIN FANDOM COMING THROUGH! 💖
time travel fix-it my beloved
I love time-travel fix-it , lately I'm obsessed with time travel fics with Harry Potter at the time of Voldemort in hogwarts!!¡!! I think I read all the finished ones I NEED MORE !!!¡, also time travel fix-it in the universe of Final fantasy 7 has me in a chokehold for more than 3 years..
Domestic fluff is my absolute weakness
YES
OMG FR ESPECIALLY ONE SHOTS
Especially when it’s with characters you NEVER see in fluffy situations. 😊
Thats my go to especially for dark or violent series
I love domestic fluff whenever it's between two characters who aren't together (yet), and they just carry this TENSION around🙏
Sadistic psychopaths. Sadistic psychopaths. Sadistic psychopaths. Just the fact of one person having such an obsession with another that they'd take and hurt and go to great lengths to twist this person's mind up in exactly the way they want it. The fact of them enjoying the harm they cause. The complexities of the psychological damage and the creativity with the physical. The Stockholm Syndrome and toxic affection that would result. I could spend ages detailing this and why I love it.
As someone who almost exclusively writes oneshots, it lowkey made me so happy to hear you praise oneshots like that lmao
Keep writing ❤ we love one-shots
Same! Oneshots are such a delight, both to read and write
I write oneshot series a lot
same!
One-shots are the only fic I can get my ADHD brain to focus long enough to write.
A little like coffee shop AUs but... Bar/Bartender AUs. I FOLD for a bartender who is looking after and caring for someone who is drop dead drunk and sobbing their broken little heart out in the middle of the night, and then they end up being a regular and they get to know each other a lot more and AUUFUGHDSDGJGLKSJ
I love the "celebrity × nobody" where essentially, the celebrity has to keep them secret because of publicity or something, and then they get feed up and show of their s/o to the world. And there are so many different ways to write them meeting each other, from bumping into them while disguised, too a literal meet and greet, its very fun
Social media fics. Just seeing the world interact with your characters, whether they're well known or not, just always makes me appreciative of the characters.
It's like I'm sluething on these characters by seeing what they say. It just adds so much. Like, you can play with what platform, the typing styles, usernames, profile pictures, group chats, memes the characters may or may not be aware of, the trends they try to keep up with or understand, just UGH, love it. It doesn't matter if it's based on recent events or just contained in a small section of the internet, I eat it up. I've been especially guilty of this when it comes to superhero characters in a more modern age...
(COUGH, DC, COUGH, JUSTICE LEAGUE, COUGH COUGH, BATMAN, AND HIS PUBLIC PERSONA, COUGH COUGH COUGH.)
Bonus: I once saw a fic where, out of spite and nagging from his team members, Bruce Wayne outbit Lex Luthor on buying Twitter-- which he then ended up improving. The author made a split universe where Bruce Wayne didn't try to buy Twitter at all, and Lex immediately made all sorts of changes. Like, changing Twitter to X and having people pay to verify they're humans. It was so silly, good thing that is entirely fictional :)
Edit: Didn't know that Coley also has this guilty pleasure. YOU GET IT
I think I need to see some of this kind of fics for an "Omori" crossover with sagas such as "Resident Evil". Could you please point me to some ?
Sadly, not yet. 45% of my fanfics got accidentally deleted :(
@@gachareacter4170but do you know someone else's "Social media fanfics" ?
Omgg yesss I love these sm
@@cheatherhandlerhey again ! Can you provide me with the examples I ask in this reply section ?
I’m a sucker for the Too Close trope.
- Person B is against a wall (or they fall) and they end up trapped between hands by Person A and they’re either looking at them or not or Person B is blushing madly (bonus points is vice versa)
- Person A grabs person B by the collar
- The dip dance move
Any of these! If anyone has or have seen other ideas let me know!
i love those cliches so much. when a and b are fighting and then one of them falls on top of the other and all of a sudden the hateful tension turns into sexual tension
@@_toasty_- YESSSS You get it!
In other words, your basic Destiel Supernatural fanfictions, ...more or less.
Dark fanfiction tropes go brrr. Thank you for calming discussing the wholesome and not-so-wholesome aspects of fanfic that're all fine to explore in the fictional context. It makes me happy
A lot of my fanfic guilty pleasures are tropes that are very specific to certain fandoms (to name one example, Peter Parker’s Field Trip to Stark Industries) but here are some more general ones I do really like:
Whump
Salt
Crack
POV Outsider
One-shots
Crack Treated Seriously (my favorite type of crackfic)
Identity Reveal
Buzzfeed Unsolved Fusion (For those unfamiliar, this is basically a very specific type of POV Outsider where the outsiders are Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej from Buzzfeed Unsolved, and the fic is written in the format of a Buzzfeed Unsolved video, usually looking into some bizarre occurrence in the “host” fandom’s story)
Rarepairs
Social Media/Chatfic
Backstory Fics
omg yes I love outsider povs! and I completley forgot about the field trip to stark tower fics, those were amazing!!
I dont know much about buzzfeed unsolved but "That Jackson Kid" is amazing, it explores the adventures of Percy Jackson from the view of tumblr posts and news articles and people putting the pieces together
brb, i need to read BFU fusion immediately
Socmed fics and chatfics are just 🤌🤌
@@kalqul8er Oh I love that one! Makes me die laughing every time!
Can’t believe I’m writing this, my absolute favorite guilty pleasure fic is any
Non-sexual submission, any sort of power dynamic where one just absolutely treasures their SO, and also wants to control them. Tags that also fit, Dom/sun undertones and power dynamics. Some ships of mine just do not work for this so I haven’t read too many of them like that. I typically don’t enjoy reading smut, so maybe that’s where the non-sexual part comes from for me, or maybe it’s the fact I love descriptors of absolute trust and dependence that makes it an absolute win
My guilty pleasures are definitely hurt/comfort and whump. Especially those Bad Things Happen Bingos. Ugh ive loved those since i began reading fanfic
Toxic found family
I *LOVE* when someone stumbles into a found family and it absolutely ruins them, but they can’t leave because they’re family no matter what happens.
oh damn
I love self sabatoging my emotional state so i go out of my way to read THOSE kind of "dead dove do not eat" fics with a gut wrenching plot and hurt no comfort ending
I recently read one with VERY good writing and it helped me fall asleep like a damn baby LMAO
Reincarnation trope is dope, especially when a character makes a promise to another character (or both of them do) that transcends lifetimes, memory and even fate itself.
Something I’ve learned about the best ships, is that they are the most interesting when it’s between 2(or more) evil-ish people. Because they lack morals, but they go out of there way to occasionally be loving to each other. For hero’s, that’s expected, nothing knew to them. But for villains to be lovey and kind to each other it shows just HOW much they love each other.
I love casefics. Finding a well-constructed case fic gives such a great "Eureka!" high when the twists and reveals start to happen.
I usually only start reading them if they're tagged Complete, but there was an Ongoing TF2 fic I kept seeing fanart for on Tumblr. So I started reading it and it's SO good. The intrigue, the romance, the characterisation. Chef's kiss!
The fic sounds super interesting! Would mind dropping the name?
@@pumpkinopatch7426 It's "From the Outback With Love" in the TF2 fandom tag.
I only look for completed casefics too! I found one not too long ago that was completed and got hooked! I completed it within a day only to realise that the fic was just a setup for the next part of the series where the actual mystery solving takes place. Problem is that the next part of the series is incomplete...
Thank you for the casefic recommendation, because I don't think my heart can take committing to another incomplete casefic.
@@Katy133 Thanks!
Fanfiction IS my guilty pleasure but for me, strict oneshots girlie. Give me something quick, make it snazzy and you got me giggling and kicking my feet
I don't have the attention span for anything too long.
Misunderstandings and miscommunication is my bread and butter in modern au enemies-to-lovers fanfics. Confessions in the rain, I can see the appeal. You are opening yourself up confessing your heart out plus you are cold and wet from the rain, then their is the relief and the closeness in celebration as well as seeking out warmth from the other.
I will always adore mermaid AUs (mermay is such a blessing), but also AUs where one character is a monster and the other is human and they have their first encounter. It could be a meet-cute, first encounter, etc. It's basically the same thing as mermaid-human Aus but more flavor variety if you aren't a fish, ocean lover. Dragons has some lovely high fantasy scenarios. BUT FAE AUs, I gobble that stuff up! GIVE ME ALL THE DARK FAE and Fairy Tale nonsense!
I can see the appeal of the old character and horny younger character, but for me the minimum age for the younger character has to be somewhere around 29 -early 30s. It's more dependent on the younger character's maturity and experiences with life as an adult and LOTS OF CONSENT, as well as the older character being mildly attracted but deeply respecting consent and boundaries and seeing the younger character as an independent person without belittling them. There are multiple older characters I would flirt with if given the chance. Also it has some fun tsundere energy, and I love watching someone fail at attempting to deny their feelings.
*size difference and intellectual kinks will forever be a guilty pleasure
. Wanna be friends ✨☺️
Kink is king in fanfiction 🤭
You need Jesus
@@sincerelynotme3522No they don’t
@silentraven8786 Yeah they do 😭
@@sincerelynotme3522You’re in a ColeyDoesThings comment section, we all do
we might need jesus, but we also need our kinks
Mind control of any kind. Hypnosis, puppetry, trances, mental modification, forced obedience, amnesia, mood control… not in a spicy context, I don’t really read smut, but just… mind control.
Omg I love chatfics you don’t understand. I do not care if it is OOC, I do not care if it’s stupid. My favourite chat fic is a Bungou Stray Dogs unfinished trilogy on ao3. They are so, so, so in character and it’s helped me get a better understanding of a few. Developing relationships, sex jokes, character growth, angst, fluff, comfort, humour, fights, secret relationships, misunderstandings, slice of life, a few rare pairs, so much crack, it literally is perfect and I love it so much.
Ooh, yeah, I love really memey chatfics 😂
so many times i clicked on a tag just out of pure curiosity, just to see what all the hype was about only for "this better not awaken anything in me" to be my famous last words.
Oh, no XD
kidnapping fics where the focus is on the rescue; i read a really good one that actually kept me up at night wondering what happened to the kidnapped character as the character whose going to rescue them got ready for the mission
“It always comes back to confessions in the rain” is a SHIRT
Hanahaki, soulmates, blind character, college teachers, sirens/mermaids, and monsterf***ing are all my favourites :3 also summoning circles
do you like heaven officials blessings?😂
@@vanessaives1892 never watched it lol but it’s on my list
Monster/human, family au and DEFINITELY size diff.
Can be more platonic, fluff, n$fw idc, if one of them has to either look up slightly or basically look up at the ceiling, i don't care what you're selling I'm buying it
And i swear, 9:28 YES! I think i have at least 3 looong fanfics i haven't touched in months on top of 30 fandom and couple-sorted oneshots
I adore platonic fics, especially with my favorite current fandom ( formula one shamelessly) I just think its cute to stumble across a cute little platonic fic that bordered on romantic but the lines are so blurred you can’t really tell anymore, and travel fics, they bring me so much joy
My bigest gulty pleasure would honestly have to be apocalypse/wartime fics, pretty much anything with a "the odds are stacked against us and now we need to figure out how to survive when nature and/or something else is actively trying to kill us" kinda thing. I love the amount of character dynamics that can change and evolve from these, either romantically or platonically.
I also just have a hyper-fixation on medicine and foraging/natural medicines, so I get really exitied when I see it pop up in fics like "YES, YES BITCH YOU CAN EAT THE DANDELIONS!" "FUCK YEAH CHEST COMPRESSIONS!"
EAT THE FUCKING DANDELION YES YES!!
Aaaaand this is one of the things I like about the Warhammer 40k fandom. Yes, it's the worst possible universe to live in, literally every faction is a nightmare, there is no peace and even the stars themselves are screaming for your blood.
But also, these two soldiers were shot by a rogue teleporter in the middle of a war and ended up on a strange jungley planet. The sky is dark, the constellations are unfamiliar, and they will probably be eaten by a giant murdersloth if they split up. Still, one of them grew up in the jungles of Catachan and the other is eight feet tall and fearless, so they're going to make the best of it. They're going to hunt and build and grow what they can while trying to get an ancient crashed spaceship they found working... And maybe, just maybe, they'll fall in love in the process.
Yeah, finding pockets of warmth and light in the cold grimdark is absolutely my favourite thing. ❤
@@poilaaliop Imma just- *adds Warhammer 40k to list of games/fandoms to check out* Thank you :)
Horror fics, especially body/transformation horror and psychological horror stuff. For the former, the lack of control over ones body and watching it slowly become something alien and horrifying is just delicious, and for the latter I like watching the dismantling of what make people tick and how to fundamentally mess with it and break that person.
I also like vampires and werewolves, hidden world/urban fantasy, role swaps, and hanahaki disease/flowerfell type fics
I love these so much to the point where I'm working on my own horror/thriller creature
I love when a human character becomes a couple with a Monster/Divine Creature/Demon, bonus for size difference
Hanahaki is a big fanfic guilty pleasure for me. I know it’s kind of controversial but I just really like it!
Another guilty pleasure for me is just…any fic that’s has the stereotypical “bad” writing expected from fics…
Same for the Bad writing.
omg same the trashy writing and bad grammar is a comfort at this point 😂 and i say this as a literature major smh
Hanahaki is controversial?
@bananabro1010 Yeah that's new to me I thought it was a trope everyone just forgot about
I think they just mean in the sense of you love it or despise it? @@bananabro1010
HARD agree on one shots. When I was younger I used to be able to read fics that were 20 to 30 chapters long, one time I read a fic that was over 100 chapters long, I almost never touched one shots. But now as I’ve gotten older I’ve started to gravitate to them to more, I think the reason why I like one shots more now is because I have more responsibilities than I did back then, so I don’t have as much time for fanfic but still love it, so a nice short story is a good compromise.
as annoying as miscommunication can be in normal media, for some reason it's one of my favorite things in fanfics! probably because in the fics i've read the authors find ways to make it super funny. i'm just giggling, screaming, and kicking my feet the entire time
Enemies to lovers (literally most of my oc’s and stuff that I read is this I am obsessed),
Redemption Arcs,
Villain Arcs,
arcs where the love interests help each other heal from trauma,
person A doesn’t like B but then halfway through their romance Person A is just like: “Oh sh_t OH SH_T NOW I HAVE FEELINGS FOR THEM?!?”
…yeah, there’s probably more that tickles my brain but that’s all i’m listing rn.
Knight/princess/royalty au,tangled aus,coffee shop,soulmates,omegaverse(I don't understand it, but the first are awesome),fantasy among reality,hitman au,slow burns,pining,gay panic,throuples,one bed,werewolfs or cursed transformation,vampires,oneshots,established relationships,weddings,ceo/regular person,sports aus,
fam u just listed every single good trope omg
@limitlesslizzie I mostly read Owl House fanfics, and they come up a lot. Also, for some reason, kamen rider aus are starting to trend in the fandom
I have no guilt. Only pleasure.
I love friends to lovers, especially when one friend has been crushing for years and the other friend starts dating someone else, and then a whole angst thing usually happens and sometimes maybe a lot of times ends in smut 💀
something about actor aus make my brain tingle like the pining and the “am i in love with them or is my character in love with them?” and the tension on set
There’s so many…but if I had to narrow it down it’s Best Friends to Lovers.
It’s usually a hit and rarely a miss, and it can bring me out a depressive funk if it’s really well written.
I so agree! I feel like best friends to lovers is extra nice because you get a kind of established relationship vibe, but also the excitement of a confession and yearning!
@@wizard-lizard I wrote a whole fic where people in my comments were literally screaming for the two to just confess and get together
22:40 I read a wedding fic where one of the main mcs Best friend is getting married (but the MC still has feelings for him). He's still happy for his friend so he ends up making a wish that he gets over his feelings and is able to hand over his friend as best man wholeheartedly. He then proceeds to get stuck in a timeloop of the day of the wedding😂😭. The day never plays out exactly the same, depending in what he decides to do, and one day he meets the ex of the person his friend is getting married to and turns out, he is also stuck in this timeloop. Hijinks ensue🤣
I love unrequited but actually requited love, interdimensional crossovers, traumatized main characters, runaway children/teens, and certain OT3 ships. My biggest guilty pleasure has some caveats so I won't mention it.
I really like this Fear & Hunger/My Hero Academia crossover right now, it's really cool so far, and I think it's really well written (crossover and traumatized because of it is A++).
"As of what kind of size difference? Yes" had me cackling like a madwoman
Mine is pregnancy and parenthood. Especially if the character suffers and goes through an arc, whether the ending is good or bad. I love seeing how authors explore how characters would be parents, or how a character would act as a single parent, ESPECIALLY characters who have BAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR OWN PARENTS or have had TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES.
Will they or will they not be like their parents? Will they be better or will they be worse? Will they keep the kid or will they abort/set them up for adoption? If they do keep the kid, how will they react when all the trials of life that come with being a parent face them? Will they ask friends and family for help? Will they raise the kid alone? Will they suffer or will they find the kid a blessing? How will their family and friends react?
I have seen a few fics that explore the good and BAD sides of pregnancy, especially the depression that comes with it. Usually pregnancy fics have wholesome moments or heartwarming scenarios but I somehow resonate with those who seem to just get hit by the world with all its might yet come out stronger. Maybe not stronger. They come out fine. They come out better and satisfied. They made it through all that.
Weird guilty pleasure, yeah, some may even give me bad side-eyes, but I guess this stems from my own experiences with my mom and her relationship with her mom.
Adding to this guilty pleasure is this really specific prompt where a ship has a kid and that kid is dying, whether it be through some sickness or a curse. Will their kid’s life or death status bring them closer or tear them apart?
My guilty pleasure is
Jealousy
When one of the characters is desperately in love with another, and the another one definitely loves them back, but the first one is a little bit too overprotective for their love. And it gets me every time, if the jealous character understands he is jealous with the whole 'I'm an idiot ' attitude, tries to stop it and somehow deal with it and then lets the person they are in love with talk to other people ahahah
It's so cute to see the reveal of the jealousy, those apologises and explainations, when the one who was jealous gets the sincere proof of feelings from another. And it is interesting to imagine how the object who jealous character takes as a rival could communicate with them in sone way jsjjs
Mines are hurt no comfort, suicide, grief, abuse (bonus points for parental abuse + dead dove do not eat), self harm, they are all just aaaaaaaaah, I love to see the decadence of a character (even more my blorbos) and getting everything taken away from them until the just die (bonus if the write a note in the most messy and raw way). Not only that, seeing the aftermath, them finding the body, the funeral, reading the note (if they even get to find it), the grief, the “things will never be the same”... These are all my silly little guilty pleasures :3
I can't get enough of soulmate aus. There's just something about love being out there, and you just have to find the right person who will love you the same that really gets to me.
Also I 100% agree on kidnapping/any situation where a character is helpless and their friends have to come to their aid. And the hurt/comfort potential in the aftermath is so delicious.
Probably my most controversial guilty pleasure is heavy angst, hurt no comfort/delayed comfort, and t*rturep*rn. I want my blorbos put in a situation, but it just so happens that that situation is a blender set to purée.
My guilty pleasures is any tag related to sicknesses/illnesses whether mental or physical IDC. The sicker the better 😭 I like seeing my OTP taking care of each other and finally realising how much they care for one another.
Identity Porn has been my favorite trope my entire life. I want to know what thats means about me lol. When I saw the tag for Identity Porn, I realized its the commonality in all my media interests
Older Character thinks they're too old for love X Younger Horny Character is one of my absolute favesssss. Please if anyone has fic recs of this drop them below, I need more of them.
...Chatfics. I just love it when teen/teenager characters are allowed to meme, bicker, and be silly in general.
Kidnaping is one of mine as well but instead of a rescue I love stockholm syndrome situations and maybe after it has really developed then a unwanted recuse
Omg yesssss
I'm absolutely obsessed with the hero character going crazy and either becoming a villain or not giving a crap about anything and it becomes even better if it's also combined with hero x villain's henchman
Self harm and eating disorder fics are a very VERY guilty pleasure especially when they spiral continiously in despair to the point they're nearly dying. This is a really big safeguarding concern camhs pls don't come after me xx