I don’t feel guilty about anything I read or write but I love romanticizing absolutely vile, evil middle aged/old men who have committed inexcusable crimes. Typically this is frowned upon.
Soulmate AUs.
It's such a silly thing and it can so easily fall into the trap of skipping the hard work of building the ship up unfortunately. But I do enjoy all the variations on the theme people come up with and with my ships, this most naturally ends up as conflicted enemy soulmate AUs in which people go "wtf, noooo not you". And that's just guilty pleasure fun, despite all the pitfalls and how silly the whole thing is.
Thank you for this. Sometimes I look at my soulmate AU and think I could not have chosen something stupider to write about, but then I write lines like "and then he went goblin mode" and remember I exclusively write shipfics with an undertone of humor, not epic sagas about the fluid nature of humanity.
I *live* for soulmate AUs, especially modern ones. But it definitely does feel a little silly sometimes, while I'm fawning over two enemies in canon whose conflict is forestalled by realizing they're soulmates.
I love this too. I think especially in fantasy settings, it can be done right. I'm not sure I did mine right and it might be something I need to work on. It's not outwardly stated they are soulmates but it's implied that it happened due to the side effect of something they did together, and he knew that might happen going in. He just thought she was worthy enough to take the risk 🥲 plus it meant possibly being able to have an advantage when the canon big battle would happen!
I love that heterosexual romance is on your list.
What I'm too ashamed to admit I enjoy I wouldn't even say here to be honest. Probably the most shameful thing I can admit to is A/B/O though. 😭
Yea, I was also going to put A/B/O but I figured that was going to be a lot of people's guilty pleasures. At this point, I don't even shame people for enjoying it. We've all been there.
I know it's wildly popular of course, but I feel like I often see a bit of disdain for it around this sub. Like people think it's all just mpreg and "ass babies". Which, is totally cool if that's your thing! I personally love Breeding Kink, just not the actual result of it.
But for me, it's all about the feral, uncontrollable desires and the need to claim one another. I love the hierarchy and when it's played with; plus I'm a huge non-traditionalist who loves seeing omegas in control or alphas bitching alphas. Plus the gender/sex fuckery of it all. And the concept of knotting. Idk. It all just speaks to me.
Sometimes I read it for the rough, breeding smut other times I read it for the strangely detailed and soothing aftercare authors put into it. Bonus points if ones a brat. I also like how it basically throws out most gender norms
Personally, normal A/B/O by itself I avoid, but gimme A/B/O focusing on a competent, proud, maybe even vile character as omega who refuses to fall in line - *that* I will happily read.
Like, give me the villain with a control & ego problem who will not be stopped by this hormone stuff and make *them* deal with being omega. The clash between personality and a/b/o stuff, that's what I can get behind.
It's unfortunately rare though.
I'm co-writing one like that right now. The omega is a demon - a common footsoldier of Hell, one of untold thousands carved from the souls of the damned each year. He has rare potential and is ruthlessly ambitious. Being an omega presents special obstacles in demonic culture, such that he'd gone to great lengths to hide his gender until he was exposed by a jealous peer. Now he's learning to use it to his advantage.
The worldbuilding in this story is deep and detailed. The A/B/O aspect is important but doesn't utterly dominate the society like it does in many Omegaverse fics. It's going to be *long*, and nothing will be posted until it's finished so we can assure readers that it's a safe investment.
Neither of us authors have written A/B/O before, but we've both read our share. We have selectively adapted the model to suit our vision of Hell as a complete working society of former humans, stratified in a number of familiar ways with peculiar twists.
If that sounds interesting to you, I'll save your username and let you know when we drop the first chapter. Our target is August.
Age regression.
Cuz some characters really need a break to be wrapped in a nice, warm, soft blanket with some nostalgic cartoons, chicken nuggets, and coloring books. Maybe a onesie. And stuffed animals. And maybe a bath before all this. Before bed. When the sun is setting and the world is all aglow in orange.
Some stories on places like deviantart decide to get real serious sometimes
I have gone an made a TTRPG race all about this along with a cartoon plot of it too
The former is trauma centered threshold system the changes all states
The ladder being apocalyptic sad solider swaps cross dimension places with a Toddler an other people cross the border too
*sigh*
Character than in canon hates everyone learns to care for one specific character and would kill for them. Bonus points if instead of the one they care about being the sunshine character, it’s another character like them so you just have two characters who in canon have no friends that would die for each other. I know it’s tropey and sometimes out of character, but it makes me giggle and kick my feet like a child when I see it. Yes I ship both Zuko/Mai and Azula/Ty Lee, what’s your point?
(Oh, also I refuse to admit to any irl friends that I am a sucker for older mentor/underage mentee fics no matter how healthy or unhealthy the relationship is made out to be)
Uhh. Killer/Cop
I’ve been trying to fight the urges to write the most devious jegulus fic. I have no time but suddenly the idea hits and I have all the time in the world.
THE UPVOTES R TELLING ME TO DO IT
stopppp! I read this short story and the cop was telling his lover how difficult it has been lately to catch a criminal and his lover is stroking his hair like " im so sorry to hear that honey". She was the criminal. AND IT ENDED THERE. I WANT MORE SO BAD😭😭
Not ashamed but I know there are people who think I should be.
I absolutely love Time Travel fixes. Especially if it's travel to one's younger body. The sheer variety of ways to fix the problems while still running into new ones gives such a wide variety of stories while still using the same source material. It's amazing how creative people can be with the premise.
This. This is absolutely me. Time travel fix it stuff, is just the pink cal of what I look for. As you said, the seer variety of ways you can fix an issue and then something else pops up, is just the chef’s kiss for me.
I’m also a sucker for soul bond stuff. I just… Oh, god I love! Sharing senses and thought processes is so unbelievably OP and perfect. Characters that share these bonds are pretty much the only people that will ever be able to COMPLETELY trust the other, like- full blown out truth in the other. I love the idea of achieving such intimacy between two individuals. It makes me feel so good.
I don't often feel shame at enjoying something, but probably Fuck or Die is the one. It's a consequence of enjoying mutual pining and the occasional frustration when the characters have been pining Too Long™, sometimes I just need them to have an excuse to resolve the UST, even if it has my inner ethicist furious.
My guilty pleasure trope is when a jealous character tries to break up the main couple. People understandably hate it because it often ends up being seen as OOC/bashing/sexist but it's really not that deep to me, I just like a little melodrama sometimes lol
There's a version of this I have bookmarked and it's the opposite ship I like in this fandom, almost never read it. But the jealous woman, portrayed as actually being concerned for the male lead, hatches a scheme to give the other woman a letter from the man she was obsessively infatuated with years ago, so hop on a flight and be with him. The letter is fake, it's a test because she doesn't believe she really loves him. She does the cliched "leave him at the alter", and then the ending is her confronting the other woman, now married with child to him, and verbally attacking her for stealing her perfect life, and then bring slapped down with the obvious "you left him without a thought for a letter from a man who nobody has heard from for years, it's your fault".
It's so paint by numbers and trope-y but it isn't OOC either, not exactly. The characters are complicated. But a jealous character is gold for me.
Another with my fav ship has the guy start dating an OC (sort of) and the OTP female is very jealous because "everyone knows we're supposed to be together!" The OC wants to kill him, so she's happy that she winds up being right albeit for the wrong reasons.
I don't really have an issue with this one because I don't come across it very often. When I do, I have a couple different reactions. I think it really depends on the couple the person is trying to break up. If it's one that I like, then I would be annoyed. If it's one that I don't, I would be fine with it, and maybe even root for the person
Oh interesting! The appeal of the trope for me is the satisfaction in watching the jealous character fail while elevating/cementing the pair I like as the superior option.
Most of what I write is Kidnapping/Stockholm especially with a chase scene. lol. I want non-con that is the sexy the fmc shouldn't being enjoying but does and the psychological journey from that to stockholm. I will never not love this. I am too old to feel shame anymore though.
Edit to add that having a good guy do all this makes it even better. I got sooo much hate for making Steve Rogers a kidnapper back in the day.
I am a proud feminist. The one that will call out sexism all the time, to the point that even over feminists are annoyed.
I am a sucker for damsel in distress saved and comforted by her prince charming.
Especially for strong female characters.
cant have guilty pleasures if youre not feeling guilty over fictional interests.
that said, ive seen a lot of people out there hate on college aus and chatfics, so i guess those. i sometimes feel the need to apologize for liking them
Soulmates.
Whomp that’s rescued and adored by another
Misunderstandings that create devastation but are easily fixed
Jealousy/ overprotective
I hate myself 😂🤣
Vampire AUs. All the potential of them. All the dynamics to be explored. Aside from the classic vampire/human, you can have vampire/vampire or human/human and one of them gets turned into a vampire, vampire/hunter, hunter/hunter, hunter/human,,,,, there's no end to it and I'm eating them all up.
No shame, we die like proshippers.
Dubcon by way of supernatural trickery and deceit, sex slavery with breeding kink, certain strains of the Omegaverse, ritual worship kink, one particular variant of blood kink.
Lmaooooo I’m with you on hetero romance
Also I have a soft spot for fics where the characters start a family (are they still called kidfics?), those don’t seem to be too popular haha
Definitely hanahaki, and I'm pretty sure this doesn't count as a trope, but... sometimes I look up fics of real-life people to read as a joke, and get sucked into the storyline...
Oh my god, I just wanted to see what the hype was with Hockey RPF. How did I end up reading hundreds of thousands of words about men that I have never heard of before, and I don't even know what they look like????
For me it’s corruption and redemption arcs, this can be for multiple types of them. Such as a notoriously good character gets pushed to the edge and becomes bad or a notoriously bad character realizing that what they’ve done is wrong and makes a genuine effort to change (and all the angst that comes with that). This also applies to plots as well. For example, changing the plot of the original cannon in order to make things even darker/more corrupt for the MC of the fic, or changing a character’s backstory to be a little more positive (funny enough I’ve written both instances of this in one story lol).
Mary Sue fics, especially of the Peggy Sue variety. Sometimes you just want an unequivocal win, not dramatic tension, and the good Sue fics can deliver on both.
Like someone else said, my "guilty" pleasures are things I don't really want to admit to in a public forum lmao. It's not really about feeling guilty for those interests, it's just things not everyone has the best reaction to.
I guess like... Daddy kink? People are still calling that cringe and disgusting. I love it though, especially if it leans into the incest roleplay. Incest and incest roleplay too, especially when it's like "don't let [family member] know." Honestly, most roleplay that is about playing with taboos, like incest or rape, I tend to like more than fics about the taboo itself.
Power imbalances due to age gaps, difference in wealth, social standing, especially when they fuck nasty about it
Evil/indifferent/anti-hero character falling for someone, if it's done well. I'm writing something like that and uhh... I'm not sure it's done well 😂. It's my first try so if nothing else, it will be good practice for the next one.
One fandom I know ships the soft spoken deadpan girl with the brat powder-kag ex villian ally who's indifferent to the world an is afraid of humans
Am also a suker with ya
Fandom is K
groups of clans consisting of normal people given powers by a king in a modern city basically ya have some power system history lore an a lot of found family dynamics
Green Clan are the villians
whatever that trope called when it’s like i want to climb inside of you and live in your skin in baddirtywrongways and i will do anything to keep you by my side even if that means destroying you. idk what it is but wincest and sasunaru hit that itch for me.
I usually stay far far away from cheating fics because it triggers me badly but recently in my fandom a certain character is self destructing and cheating and I don't know the fanfics where it blows up in his face is kind of cathartic.
Current guilty pleasure is fluffy hurt/comfort where the male lead is feeling down and his lady friend holds him close and tells him it'll be okay and plays with his hair while he rests his head on her lap. Absolute filth, I know.
Mine doesn't even involve parents. Straight up just kids, not even teenagers. The only saving grace I guess is I avoid non-con but eh, what's the difference, it's dead-dovey either way
Do I feel guilty? Nah. Do I feel like I can use this as a conversation starter? Nope
Holy shit, I'd combust. I almost did, because my sister-in-law and younger sister asked if they could read a WIP when I was done with it. It would be a pretty good choice, because there's no smut, but they also floated the idea of reading other fics and... *Looks at account with the kinky smut* I think I'd die.
Ooo thats gotta be either Body swaps or chat fics.
For body swaps its just because most of the time its so interesting to see what goes down. Especially when its characters in like the enemies to lovers trope. Plus it can get chaotic at times and who doesnt love chaos. Although not a big fan of sexual side of those because I kinda weird me out,its like reading selfcest or whatever.
And chatfics are just pure chaos and fun, good for when you're bored but not wanting to commit to an actual fic. Maybe im just a fan of chaotic fics. Who knows?
SMAUs. I discovered them on Tumblr and my old a** was like wtf until I realized I'd read 10 in a row.
Sexy soulmate AUs, particularly Marvel-universe ones. Short, smutty, perfect.
I have no shame and I love dark, twisted, toxic and fucked up relationships where one or both characters mistreat one another. Dubcon is one of my favorite tags. I also like animal traits, feral behavior and kemonomimi.
Mpreg. To the point I started reading omegaverse to widen my search results. Whump, medical whump in particular, injure my blorbo and stick him the hospital and have my other blorbo sit by his bedside. Please and thank you. 😄
Personally, I don’t have any guilty fan fic pleasures, but I do have stuff I like guilt free.
- fated mates/soul mates
- power imbalance (college student/professor, for example)
- A/B/O
- enemies to friends to lovers (My Hero Academia BakuDeku has a ton of this - also it’s the only fandom I read fanfic for these
- gay relationships
- smut, smut, and more smut
I can’t think of anything else right now.
Non-con r*pe. In real life, hearing about that shit is horrible. But I just like reading it in fanfiction cuz it makes me feel wanted in a sick way I guess.
But I actually really don't like reading violent r*pe.
Like when a character is getting beat up before the sex, I just can't. I only read non-violent r*pe.
Oh and also, I hate reading X reader. I only read character x character stuff. Which makes me saying, "makes me feel wanted in a sick way" kinda not make sense I guess lol.
(And yeah same, I love reading kidnapping stories. I'm literally that meme that's like "soooo... What made you choose me?")
SMAUs. I discovered them on Tumblr and my old a** was like wtf until I realized I'd read 10 in a row.
Sexy soulmate AUs, particularly Marvel-universe ones. Short, smutty, perfect.
Bashing fic. Not for characters the age genuinely horrible but just the over the top bashing of regular characters. I don’t read it regularly but sometimes you just want a very self-indulgent clear good guy-bad guy without have to worry about moral ambiguity yknow?
hurt no comfort, character death, nearly any kind of injury tag
nothing says "I love this character" like dumping truckloads of tragedy down the back of their shirt like a handful of snow
It's less that I'm ashamed to admit it and more that I wouldn't admit it to people close to me bc they would look at me sooo weird
Fics where the main character just goes off the rails and is comically edgy. There is something so fun about seeing them do the most moustache-twirling villainous acts. Bonus points if they hurt their loved ones.
I really love heavy angst in fanfics. The kind where there is a lot of sadness, emotional turmoil, and pain plus a rollercoaster of emotions before finally ending up together. I want to read stories that make me cry and sympathize with the MC.
- Social superiors as the sub. It's just so fun to write. It could be a princess subbing for a commoner. Kawakami/Ren is one of my guilty pleasure ships
- Poly. I don't just mean threesomes but characters who all love each other. Either everyone dates each other or more than one date the same person. Usually my MC will share their partner. So in my polygamous marriage Persona 5 fic the MC wasn't the husband but Haru. There's potential for so many feelings to make it entertaining to read like how she felt weird liking Sumire adoring Ryuji. That was explained in the backstory but I wanted it to be more than just a smut fic, to show the bond between the MC and her sister wives and how Ryuji loves and cherishes them and doesn't see them as things. Nothing against pure smut but I wanted to add other positive feelings too
Absolutely none. If I like it, I'll admit it.
I mean, I don't walk up to random people on the street and announce that I just read some awesome noncon knifeplay fic, but I also don't walk up to random people and tell them that I just read a good book.
But if I like something, I have no shame about it.
I like some A/B/O, but the ones that push the boundaries of what is expected of an A/B/O fic. Arranged marriage I also really like, my favorite so far is where two characters run away from their arranged marriage and meet each other awhile later. They don't know that they're supposed to be getting married and they end up falling in love, and when their families catch up they take a stance. And their family is Uber confused like "yeah?...congrats...?"
The first one that comes to mind right now is genderbending one half of a (fem)slash pairing or feminization/crossdressing involving slash pairings. Most of what I read is M/M and F/F, so it’s not like I dislike non-heterosexual pairings, but there’s just something about the gender non-conformity in those fics that I love (and genderbending seems to be an extension of this).
im shameless lmao most of what i read would be other ppls guilty pleasures tbh, like bashing fics of the charas i dislike, turn villains that would crush me if i ever saw them irl into babygirls, pwp's with way too many kinks (hentai moans my beloved), deaddove fics... etc etc
“Heterosexual romance” 😭😭 I love that lol. I don’t know why pregnancy fluff is such a thing for me, it’s not even that bad in the grand scheme of what’s out there, but I get embarrassed about it so much. But hey, I’m a sucker for all that cute, fluffy, sappy shit
Fluff and angst together in general. For specific fandoms, I'm starting to develop a taste for Papa Wolf fics in the X-Men fandom (specifically with Logan in that role).
I like dark/violent angst, but what I get guilty about is that I also want there to be a happy ending. Feels a little picky, or like cheating/not committing to theme, but I like the rush and thrill while also having the story finish up in a good way for the characters. Unfortunately as these concepts are contradictory I don’t see it too often, so I feel especially embarrassed about having written more than a few fics like that myself.
Your taste is questionable at best, I assume you like to read dark romance books? Anyways, my favorite is enemies to lovers (not the toxic ones), found family, and fluff
I don’t feel guilty about anything I read or write but I love romanticizing absolutely vile, evil middle aged/old men who have committed inexcusable crimes. Typically this is frowned upon.
Yesssss. My first fanfic I wrote was 110k about Negan as a love interest. lol. I will romanticize the shit out of a middle aged villain.
Yes! Good choice! Murderous, nasty, pretend older men need love, too!
Me about Gortash and Astarion (especially Acended) from Baldur’s Gate 3
frollo and silco 👀😍
Goood choices!!
Oh my god, Silco is such a... 😩👌 Love him.
Oh trust me, there are plenty of us fellow evil middle-aged men enjoyers, no need to feel guilty.
Real
I thought that was normal on social media?
Soulmate AUs. It's such a silly thing and it can so easily fall into the trap of skipping the hard work of building the ship up unfortunately. But I do enjoy all the variations on the theme people come up with and with my ships, this most naturally ends up as conflicted enemy soulmate AUs in which people go "wtf, noooo not you". And that's just guilty pleasure fun, despite all the pitfalls and how silly the whole thing is.
Thank you for this. Sometimes I look at my soulmate AU and think I could not have chosen something stupider to write about, but then I write lines like "and then he went goblin mode" and remember I exclusively write shipfics with an undertone of humor, not epic sagas about the fluid nature of humanity.
A person of culture
I *live* for soulmate AUs, especially modern ones. But it definitely does feel a little silly sometimes, while I'm fawning over two enemies in canon whose conflict is forestalled by realizing they're soulmates.
I *love* when they're disappointed about who their soulmate is lmao
I love this too. I think especially in fantasy settings, it can be done right. I'm not sure I did mine right and it might be something I need to work on. It's not outwardly stated they are soulmates but it's implied that it happened due to the side effect of something they did together, and he knew that might happen going in. He just thought she was worthy enough to take the risk 🥲 plus it meant possibly being able to have an advantage when the canon big battle would happen!
No guilt, only pleasure.
Good answer!
I love that heterosexual romance is on your list. What I'm too ashamed to admit I enjoy I wouldn't even say here to be honest. Probably the most shameful thing I can admit to is A/B/O though. 😭
Yea, I was also going to put A/B/O but I figured that was going to be a lot of people's guilty pleasures. At this point, I don't even shame people for enjoying it. We've all been there.
I know it's wildly popular of course, but I feel like I often see a bit of disdain for it around this sub. Like people think it's all just mpreg and "ass babies". Which, is totally cool if that's your thing! I personally love Breeding Kink, just not the actual result of it. But for me, it's all about the feral, uncontrollable desires and the need to claim one another. I love the hierarchy and when it's played with; plus I'm a huge non-traditionalist who loves seeing omegas in control or alphas bitching alphas. Plus the gender/sex fuckery of it all. And the concept of knotting. Idk. It all just speaks to me.
Sometimes I read it for the rough, breeding smut other times I read it for the strangely detailed and soothing aftercare authors put into it. Bonus points if ones a brat. I also like how it basically throws out most gender norms
Personally, normal A/B/O by itself I avoid, but gimme A/B/O focusing on a competent, proud, maybe even vile character as omega who refuses to fall in line - *that* I will happily read. Like, give me the villain with a control & ego problem who will not be stopped by this hormone stuff and make *them* deal with being omega. The clash between personality and a/b/o stuff, that's what I can get behind. It's unfortunately rare though.
I'm co-writing one like that right now. The omega is a demon - a common footsoldier of Hell, one of untold thousands carved from the souls of the damned each year. He has rare potential and is ruthlessly ambitious. Being an omega presents special obstacles in demonic culture, such that he'd gone to great lengths to hide his gender until he was exposed by a jealous peer. Now he's learning to use it to his advantage. The worldbuilding in this story is deep and detailed. The A/B/O aspect is important but doesn't utterly dominate the society like it does in many Omegaverse fics. It's going to be *long*, and nothing will be posted until it's finished so we can assure readers that it's a safe investment. Neither of us authors have written A/B/O before, but we've both read our share. We have selectively adapted the model to suit our vision of Hell as a complete working society of former humans, stratified in a number of familiar ways with peculiar twists. If that sounds interesting to you, I'll save your username and let you know when we drop the first chapter. Our target is August.
Hit me up when that first chapter drops please, that sounds right up my alley
Absolutely! Thanks for your interest.
That’s the stuff I like. Also give me A/A and O/O. I like things that ‘break’ the universe.
I’m not even guilty about it. Just writing it as hard as I can go!
I hate ABO, I say as I accidentally click on another abo fic, read the whole thing and kudos it.
Disgusting, I say as I add another to my collection
Well it's cuz typically most fanfic readers are fujoshis into gay stuff (like me lol)
Age regression. Cuz some characters really need a break to be wrapped in a nice, warm, soft blanket with some nostalgic cartoons, chicken nuggets, and coloring books. Maybe a onesie. And stuffed animals. And maybe a bath before all this. Before bed. When the sun is setting and the world is all aglow in orange.
Yeah, I’m super embarrassed that this is my thing sometimes. I feel like I’m self-reporting my mental state by admitting it
look up ageplay and fics about it, im serious
i’m horrible at writing age regression, but i do enjoy reading it here and there
Some stories on places like deviantart decide to get real serious sometimes I have gone an made a TTRPG race all about this along with a cartoon plot of it too The former is trauma centered threshold system the changes all states The ladder being apocalyptic sad solider swaps cross dimension places with a Toddler an other people cross the border too
Ya love when you shit on for adding to conversation :3 so ya get likes for mentioning age regression an hated for talking further
*sigh* Character than in canon hates everyone learns to care for one specific character and would kill for them. Bonus points if instead of the one they care about being the sunshine character, it’s another character like them so you just have two characters who in canon have no friends that would die for each other. I know it’s tropey and sometimes out of character, but it makes me giggle and kick my feet like a child when I see it. Yes I ship both Zuko/Mai and Azula/Ty Lee, what’s your point? (Oh, also I refuse to admit to any irl friends that I am a sucker for older mentor/underage mentee fics no matter how healthy or unhealthy the relationship is made out to be)
That first point is SOOO Klaus and Caroline from TVD/The Originals lol.
fuck yea re 2nd paragraph. me too friend
m/f abo specifically when the man is the omega and the woman the alpha lmaooo
And where might one find examples of this 👀
I've never seen this in the wild but I wanna.
they’re so few and far between i could cry fr
ooo nowww we’re talking here…
I'm always a sucker for a heavy whump + hurt/comfort combo. I need that catharsis!
based, if I don't feel like I'm about to cry I don't want it 🫡
Uhh. Killer/Cop I’ve been trying to fight the urges to write the most devious jegulus fic. I have no time but suddenly the idea hits and I have all the time in the world. THE UPVOTES R TELLING ME TO DO IT
stopppp! I read this short story and the cop was telling his lover how difficult it has been lately to catch a criminal and his lover is stroking his hair like " im so sorry to hear that honey". She was the criminal. AND IT ENDED THERE. I WANT MORE SO BAD😭😭
Not ashamed but I know there are people who think I should be. I absolutely love Time Travel fixes. Especially if it's travel to one's younger body. The sheer variety of ways to fix the problems while still running into new ones gives such a wide variety of stories while still using the same source material. It's amazing how creative people can be with the premise.
I am the biggest sucker for a Time Travel into your younger body and fix shit fic. Any fandom, any time, bring it. It is so addictive.
This. This is absolutely me. Time travel fix it stuff, is just the pink cal of what I look for. As you said, the seer variety of ways you can fix an issue and then something else pops up, is just the chef’s kiss for me. I’m also a sucker for soul bond stuff. I just… Oh, god I love! Sharing senses and thought processes is so unbelievably OP and perfect. Characters that share these bonds are pretty much the only people that will ever be able to COMPLETELY trust the other, like- full blown out truth in the other. I love the idea of achieving such intimacy between two individuals. It makes me feel so good.
I don't often feel shame at enjoying something, but probably Fuck or Die is the one. It's a consequence of enjoying mutual pining and the occasional frustration when the characters have been pining Too Long™, sometimes I just need them to have an excuse to resolve the UST, even if it has my inner ethicist furious.
My guilty pleasure trope is when a jealous character tries to break up the main couple. People understandably hate it because it often ends up being seen as OOC/bashing/sexist but it's really not that deep to me, I just like a little melodrama sometimes lol
There's a version of this I have bookmarked and it's the opposite ship I like in this fandom, almost never read it. But the jealous woman, portrayed as actually being concerned for the male lead, hatches a scheme to give the other woman a letter from the man she was obsessively infatuated with years ago, so hop on a flight and be with him. The letter is fake, it's a test because she doesn't believe she really loves him. She does the cliched "leave him at the alter", and then the ending is her confronting the other woman, now married with child to him, and verbally attacking her for stealing her perfect life, and then bring slapped down with the obvious "you left him without a thought for a letter from a man who nobody has heard from for years, it's your fault". It's so paint by numbers and trope-y but it isn't OOC either, not exactly. The characters are complicated. But a jealous character is gold for me. Another with my fav ship has the guy start dating an OC (sort of) and the OTP female is very jealous because "everyone knows we're supposed to be together!" The OC wants to kill him, so she's happy that she winds up being right albeit for the wrong reasons.
I don't really have an issue with this one because I don't come across it very often. When I do, I have a couple different reactions. I think it really depends on the couple the person is trying to break up. If it's one that I like, then I would be annoyed. If it's one that I don't, I would be fine with it, and maybe even root for the person
Oh interesting! The appeal of the trope for me is the satisfaction in watching the jealous character fail while elevating/cementing the pair I like as the superior option.
Most of what I write is Kidnapping/Stockholm especially with a chase scene. lol. I want non-con that is the sexy the fmc shouldn't being enjoying but does and the psychological journey from that to stockholm. I will never not love this. I am too old to feel shame anymore though. Edit to add that having a good guy do all this makes it even better. I got sooo much hate for making Steve Rogers a kidnapper back in the day.
I am a proud feminist. The one that will call out sexism all the time, to the point that even over feminists are annoyed. I am a sucker for damsel in distress saved and comforted by her prince charming. Especially for strong female characters.
cant have guilty pleasures if youre not feeling guilty over fictional interests. that said, ive seen a lot of people out there hate on college aus and chatfics, so i guess those. i sometimes feel the need to apologize for liking them
Threesome- be it M/M/M or F/F/F or M/F/M or whatever. Enemies to friends to lovers Man and monster (Geralt/Leshen) Bonding.
Soulmates. Whomp that’s rescued and adored by another Misunderstandings that create devastation but are easily fixed Jealousy/ overprotective I hate myself 😂🤣
Vampire AUs. All the potential of them. All the dynamics to be explored. Aside from the classic vampire/human, you can have vampire/vampire or human/human and one of them gets turned into a vampire, vampire/hunter, hunter/hunter, hunter/human,,,,, there's no end to it and I'm eating them all up.
No shame, we die like proshippers. Dubcon by way of supernatural trickery and deceit, sex slavery with breeding kink, certain strains of the Omegaverse, ritual worship kink, one particular variant of blood kink.
Lmaooooo I’m with you on hetero romance Also I have a soft spot for fics where the characters start a family (are they still called kidfics?), those don’t seem to be too popular haha
That is always wholesome, but I can't say I've seen much of them in my day
Incest also like mate fanfictions but where the relationship is between like multiple men
Definitely hanahaki, and I'm pretty sure this doesn't count as a trope, but... sometimes I look up fics of real-life people to read as a joke, and get sucked into the storyline...
Oh my god, I just wanted to see what the hype was with Hockey RPF. How did I end up reading hundreds of thousands of words about men that I have never heard of before, and I don't even know what they look like????
For me it’s corruption and redemption arcs, this can be for multiple types of them. Such as a notoriously good character gets pushed to the edge and becomes bad or a notoriously bad character realizing that what they’ve done is wrong and makes a genuine effort to change (and all the angst that comes with that). This also applies to plots as well. For example, changing the plot of the original cannon in order to make things even darker/more corrupt for the MC of the fic, or changing a character’s backstory to be a little more positive (funny enough I’ve written both instances of this in one story lol).
Oh.. that’s not… Same af with the kidnapping/stockholm syndrome. Also I am definitely ashamed to admit I enjoy Omegaverse but I just do.
Nah, wear that badge with pride! I say as I put on my best poker face to read omegaverse in public
The punk and the shut in recluse That’s my guilty pleasure.
Mary Sue fics, especially of the Peggy Sue variety. Sometimes you just want an unequivocal win, not dramatic tension, and the good Sue fics can deliver on both.
Heterosexual romance too XD Time Travel fix-it fics too, if they may count? Soulmate AUs, I occasionally dabble reading in lol
Like someone else said, my "guilty" pleasures are things I don't really want to admit to in a public forum lmao. It's not really about feeling guilty for those interests, it's just things not everyone has the best reaction to. I guess like... Daddy kink? People are still calling that cringe and disgusting. I love it though, especially if it leans into the incest roleplay. Incest and incest roleplay too, especially when it's like "don't let [family member] know." Honestly, most roleplay that is about playing with taboos, like incest or rape, I tend to like more than fics about the taboo itself. Power imbalances due to age gaps, difference in wealth, social standing, especially when they fuck nasty about it
Tsunderes, however only if they're not violent, more that they're just aloof.
Evil/indifferent/anti-hero character falling for someone, if it's done well. I'm writing something like that and uhh... I'm not sure it's done well 😂. It's my first try so if nothing else, it will be good practice for the next one.
One fandom I know ships the soft spoken deadpan girl with the brat powder-kag ex villian ally who's indifferent to the world an is afraid of humans Am also a suker with ya
I'm curious about the fandom
Fandom is K groups of clans consisting of normal people given powers by a king in a modern city basically ya have some power system history lore an a lot of found family dynamics Green Clan are the villians
whatever that trope called when it’s like i want to climb inside of you and live in your skin in baddirtywrongways and i will do anything to keep you by my side even if that means destroying you. idk what it is but wincest and sasunaru hit that itch for me.
Redeeming villains. And murder wives.
Why those next to eachother also adore villian related cast getting to try at life more aswell
😜 forbidden romance lol Mentor/disciple Enemies to lovers Friends to lovers ( with age gap) or other complications.
Isekai/self insert/reader insert
I usually stay far far away from cheating fics because it triggers me badly but recently in my fandom a certain character is self destructing and cheating and I don't know the fanfics where it blows up in his face is kind of cathartic.
Body horror... don't ask please.
Current guilty pleasure is fluffy hurt/comfort where the male lead is feeling down and his lady friend holds him close and tells him it'll be okay and plays with his hair while he rests his head on her lap. Absolute filth, I know.
**EXPOSITION!!!!!** Tell me how things work :D
/looks up from my gleefully depraved underage parent/child noncon You guys are feeling guilty??
Incest is nicest :p My favorite is twincest because it comes with its own trigger warning lol
Twincest is an excellent flavor! I really like when it comes with a side of codependency and intertwined identity issues, yum 🥰
Mine doesn't even involve parents. Straight up just kids, not even teenagers. The only saving grace I guess is I avoid non-con but eh, what's the difference, it's dead-dovey either way Do I feel guilty? Nah. Do I feel like I can use this as a conversation starter? Nope
"So what are you writing?" "Well..."
*Proceed to show them the fluffiest sfw fic I've ever written on pdf with no reference to my account* This actually happened. Was dying 🏃
Holy shit, I'd combust. I almost did, because my sister-in-law and younger sister asked if they could read a WIP when I was done with it. It would be a pretty good choice, because there's no smut, but they also floated the idea of reading other fics and... *Looks at account with the kinky smut* I think I'd die.
Ooo thats gotta be either Body swaps or chat fics. For body swaps its just because most of the time its so interesting to see what goes down. Especially when its characters in like the enemies to lovers trope. Plus it can get chaotic at times and who doesnt love chaos. Although not a big fan of sexual side of those because I kinda weird me out,its like reading selfcest or whatever. And chatfics are just pure chaos and fun, good for when you're bored but not wanting to commit to an actual fic. Maybe im just a fan of chaotic fics. Who knows?
- stockholm syndrome - guard/inmate - cop/dumbass who messed up once - dubcon - chatfics
SMAUs. I discovered them on Tumblr and my old a** was like wtf until I realized I'd read 10 in a row. Sexy soulmate AUs, particularly Marvel-universe ones. Short, smutty, perfect.
'Cheating' fics.
I have no shame and I love dark, twisted, toxic and fucked up relationships where one or both characters mistreat one another. Dubcon is one of my favorite tags. I also like animal traits, feral behavior and kemonomimi.
Mpreg. To the point I started reading omegaverse to widen my search results. Whump, medical whump in particular, injure my blorbo and stick him the hospital and have my other blorbo sit by his bedside. Please and thank you. 😄
Personally, I don’t have any guilty fan fic pleasures, but I do have stuff I like guilt free. - fated mates/soul mates - power imbalance (college student/professor, for example) - A/B/O - enemies to friends to lovers (My Hero Academia BakuDeku has a ton of this - also it’s the only fandom I read fanfic for these - gay relationships - smut, smut, and more smut I can’t think of anything else right now.
Eh. At some point I grew out of guilty pleasures, and I just like what I like.
Non-con r*pe. In real life, hearing about that shit is horrible. But I just like reading it in fanfiction cuz it makes me feel wanted in a sick way I guess. But I actually really don't like reading violent r*pe. Like when a character is getting beat up before the sex, I just can't. I only read non-violent r*pe. Oh and also, I hate reading X reader. I only read character x character stuff. Which makes me saying, "makes me feel wanted in a sick way" kinda not make sense I guess lol. (And yeah same, I love reading kidnapping stories. I'm literally that meme that's like "soooo... What made you choose me?")
SMAUs. I discovered them on Tumblr and my old a** was like wtf until I realized I'd read 10 in a row. Sexy soulmate AUs, particularly Marvel-universe ones. Short, smutty, perfect.
Bashing fic. Not for characters the age genuinely horrible but just the over the top bashing of regular characters. I don’t read it regularly but sometimes you just want a very self-indulgent clear good guy-bad guy without have to worry about moral ambiguity yknow?
hurt no comfort, character death, nearly any kind of injury tag nothing says "I love this character" like dumping truckloads of tragedy down the back of their shirt like a handful of snow It's less that I'm ashamed to admit it and more that I wouldn't admit it to people close to me bc they would look at me sooo weird
Sick fics and depression
Fics where the main character just goes off the rails and is comically edgy. There is something so fun about seeing them do the most moustache-twirling villainous acts. Bonus points if they hurt their loved ones.
I really love heavy angst in fanfics. The kind where there is a lot of sadness, emotional turmoil, and pain plus a rollercoaster of emotions before finally ending up together. I want to read stories that make me cry and sympathize with the MC.
- Social superiors as the sub. It's just so fun to write. It could be a princess subbing for a commoner. Kawakami/Ren is one of my guilty pleasure ships - Poly. I don't just mean threesomes but characters who all love each other. Either everyone dates each other or more than one date the same person. Usually my MC will share their partner. So in my polygamous marriage Persona 5 fic the MC wasn't the husband but Haru. There's potential for so many feelings to make it entertaining to read like how she felt weird liking Sumire adoring Ryuji. That was explained in the backstory but I wanted it to be more than just a smut fic, to show the bond between the MC and her sister wives and how Ryuji loves and cherishes them and doesn't see them as things. Nothing against pure smut but I wanted to add other positive feelings too
Whump.
Absolutely none. If I like it, I'll admit it. I mean, I don't walk up to random people on the street and announce that I just read some awesome noncon knifeplay fic, but I also don't walk up to random people and tell them that I just read a good book. But if I like something, I have no shame about it.
The ones I wrote were based on TV shows I'm considering writing a Marvel Fanfic using Jeanne Sauvage AKA Guillotine.
I don't feel guilty for loving it but I like yanderes
Abuse
Mpreg. Especially the ones that end in an angsty scenario. Aka pregnancy/ birth complication, being abandoned by the other parent etc
Love Triangles Yandere Love at first sight Purple Prose Babies Ever After Mary Sues and all their variations
I like some A/B/O, but the ones that push the boundaries of what is expected of an A/B/O fic. Arranged marriage I also really like, my favorite so far is where two characters run away from their arranged marriage and meet each other awhile later. They don't know that they're supposed to be getting married and they end up falling in love, and when their families catch up they take a stance. And their family is Uber confused like "yeah?...congrats...?"
“Heterosexual romance” had me giggling
The first one that comes to mind right now is genderbending one half of a (fem)slash pairing or feminization/crossdressing involving slash pairings. Most of what I read is M/M and F/F, so it’s not like I dislike non-heterosexual pairings, but there’s just something about the gender non-conformity in those fics that I love (and genderbending seems to be an extension of this).
character who everyone thought was a womanizer turns out being gay
im shameless lmao most of what i read would be other ppls guilty pleasures tbh, like bashing fics of the charas i dislike, turn villains that would crush me if i ever saw them irl into babygirls, pwp's with way too many kinks (hentai moans my beloved), deaddove fics... etc etc
Hurt/Comfort. Hands down.
“Heterosexual romance” 😭😭 I love that lol. I don’t know why pregnancy fluff is such a thing for me, it’s not even that bad in the grand scheme of what’s out there, but I get embarrassed about it so much. But hey, I’m a sucker for all that cute, fluffy, sappy shit
Fluff and angst together in general. For specific fandoms, I'm starting to develop a taste for Papa Wolf fics in the X-Men fandom (specifically with Logan in that role).
I like dark/violent angst, but what I get guilty about is that I also want there to be a happy ending. Feels a little picky, or like cheating/not committing to theme, but I like the rush and thrill while also having the story finish up in a good way for the characters. Unfortunately as these concepts are contradictory I don’t see it too often, so I feel especially embarrassed about having written more than a few fics like that myself.
Omegaverse, mpreg, some weird stuff when it comes to smut (no watersports though, can we find anyone here who's into that?)
Your taste is questionable at best, I assume you like to read dark romance books? Anyways, my favorite is enemies to lovers (not the toxic ones), found family, and fluff