Supposedly common fanfic things you've never encountered
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:
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OP protagonists
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harems
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strict love > marriage > babies progression
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clinical overemphasis on consent/safe sex
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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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