Top 5 modern au’s for Nicky and Joe or if you’ve already done that one top 5 tropes
I'm getting so many questions today, damn. Is it my birthday? Lol.
I'm not really a modern AU reader. I'll indulge occasionally but fundamentally I love them as canon immortals who have been through nearly a thousand years of human history together. I love researching the history and seeing what other people explore in their fics. I don't think I even have enough favourites to make a top 5. I can give you a top one, and that's Academia AU. Looooove an Academia AU. (Also does modern AU just mean normal human AU, or specifically set in the modern day?)
As for tropes... hm. I don't usually look for tropes, I look for plots that intrigue me. I have a terrible habit of forgetting to read tags and having to backbutton quickly, lol. My own fault! Plus I never remember the names of tropes (despite spending a hefty chunk of the early 2010s on TV Tropes, lol). I couldn't tell you anything specific, tbh. I just love when they're in love! So like, I can't say "ooh I love 'there was only one bed'" or something like that. I find measuring a fic in tropes just as tedious as measuring a book in tropes. Feels "migratory slash fandom"-y, like everything is interchangeable. Not a fan of that, the trope should arise naturally from the plot, not the plot serve the trope.