Weird Fanfic Trope Meme - aka Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown

Okay this is just a weird meme, it's entitled The Ultimate Fanfic Trope Challenge, but honestly? It could also be the Ultimate Romance Genre Trope Challenge and work just as well. I know I've read a lot of romance novels in the past three years and they have the same tropes.


Rank Name
1 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2 Amnesia
3 Hurt/Comfort
4 Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
5 Friends to Lovers
6 Rivalmancy
7 Role Reversal AU
8 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
9 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
10 Espionage AU
11 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
12 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
13 Royalty/Arranged Marriage
13 Adopting/Raising a Baby
15 Actually Unrequited Pining
16 Loyalty Kink
17 Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
18 Found Families
19 Sex Pollen
20 Fake Out Make Out
21 A/B/O
22 Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
23 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
23 High School/Uni AU
25 Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)
26 Vampires/Werewolves AU
27 Incest
28 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)

And I had to do it twice, because it's just weird. First round didn't work out quite right - I had things like Selfcest above Hurt/Comfort and Amnesia. And, just no.

I used to like Vampires/Werewolves AU...but I'm not sure what that is? Everybody's human? Anyhow, not as into anymore. Never liked Age Difference or High School/University AU, nor a huge fan of Coffee House/Food Service. At any rate the stuff that I hate is safely at the bottom - Soulmates, Age Difference, Incest, High School...no frigging clue what A/B/O is or Selfcest is.

The stuff I love is safely within the top ten, so no problems there. The middle though is a hodge-podge, possibly due to indecision.

My kinks lean towards:

1 Enemies to Friends to Lovers [Basically Spuffy]
2 Amnesia [I read a lot of amnesia - I loved What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (film), it's a huge kink.]
3 Hurt/Comfort [Spike S7, Buffy S5]
4 Magical Connection (telepathy, etc) [Willow/Tara]
5 Friends to Lovers [John Crichton/Aeryn Sun, actually a favorite]
6 Rivalmancy
7 Role Reversal AU
8 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
9 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
10 Espionage AU

Everything else, doesn't quite work for me. This goes for romance novels as well as fanfic.

Some, I admittedly have no idea what they are. This meme comes from tumblr, which explains a lot.