What’s a trope you thought you didn’t care about until you wrote/read the right version of it?
thanks for including me in your ask-a-thon :) definitely have a fair few. may not be recalling the first ones here, but memorable ones i enjoy are below. and as always, blanket recommendation for anything by the below authors, and feel free to add ones you like!
character x OC - this is back from my overwatch days, but Halcyon Days by @pentacass is an absolute masterpiece. Ana Amari and OFC, from pre-Omnic crisis to post canon.
age gap - really recent for me in Destiel. wear the hat by @vicsankles, your The Middle of course. prior and years ago, Overwatch had some great opportunities: Rode Hard, Put Away Wet by @xekstrin, i think Götze by silkinsilence or something other Anamercy was my start.
murder - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by @akaalaisabel gripped me all last summer. it's the closest i can probably get to murder husbands because dark/killer characters aren't my thing. their fic Incentive would probably fall into both this and previous too.
time travel - psalm 40:2 by @mourningdovecry and Crazy Diamonds by @pantheonofdiscord. i'm generally not huge on time travel in any medium besides doctor who, but these are phenomenal.
omegaverse - common thing for folks i see ha. i've come to love non-traditional a/b/o due to tiamatv (example fic Phalaenopsis). The Courtship of Combat by @bendingsignpost is also great.
wing fic - generally just not into anything with wings, but @northern-sparrow of course has amazing fics (You Can Keep Holding On may be my favorite and was my first, but i also love Under the Midnight Sun). dream in color by @sharkfish is the other i enjoy.
canonverse - so i near-exclusively read AU, specifically from @destiel-au, for at least the first two years of being into destiel. i still prefer AUs for most fic regardless of fandom. but there are some absolutely wonderful canonverse ones here. until the end and after by Philyra912, Assimilation by komodobits, take that history and other codas by @vaudelin
and as a bonus, there are tropes i absolutely love but am very particular about/rarely find fics i love in:
sports - For All You Young Hockey Players Out There, Pay Attention by @thursdaysfallenangel is possibly my all-time favorite due to when i found it/how much it's meant to me for over a decade, Playing Hard to Get by @salamitsunami1 i absolutely love how they build dean, cas, and dean+cas in every one of their stories and the art by @witchy-worm is gorgeous as always. Deep Edge by @akaalaisabel is an annual reread now, break the ice by @puppycastiel a fun and sweet oneshot.
medical - Apheresis by @bendingsignpost, for me no one does it better than @salamitsunami1 (most recent obsession was Heated Medicine which i forgot was HR inspired until the second chapter, just because i was so invested already), muscle ache by @gracefreakdean, What I Need by Jacqueline Albright-Beckett (xaandria).
academia and/or college - Chili Peppers by @justanothersong is another fic i have loved for more than 10 years, professor Dean and professor Cas.
military - In a Moment of War by @allmystars-i, All the Substance of His House by @aerlalaith, Gran fury. by orange_crushed, Moving Mountains by tiamatv. Pacific Rim AUs are my favorite of any media type and i've never seen the movies.
homeless and/or sex worker are the ones i'm the most particular about due to my life. do enjoy Twenty Dollars and A Winter's Tale by @northern-sparrow, Four Letter Word for Intercourse by @bendingsignpost, midnight cowboy by @gracefreakdean, like moses and batman and james dean by saltyfeathers, And This, Your Living Kiss by opal_bullets may be my modern favorite fic.
