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Supposedly common fanfic things you've never encountered

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Part of the reason I love this subreddit is that it shows me how vast the fanfiction world really is. Some of the tropes/genres/writing quirks that people bemoan as "inescapable" are things I've literally never seen in the wild, including:

  • OP protagonists

  • harems

  • strict love > marriage > babies progression

  • clinical overemphasis on consent/safe sex

  • epithet abuse (okay, I see this sometimes, but it's rare)

I'll admit that I'm not reading a ton these days. I mostly stick to my handful of favorite authors and whatever my friends are recommending, and that definitely does a lot of the filtering for me. It's still funny, though.

What "common" tropes make you feel like you exist in another universe?

Posted Jul 16, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

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