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Taken from sodium_amytal

Rules: Bold your fic preferences because why not, gotta choose one.

Slow burn or love at first sight
Fake dating or secret dating
Enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers
Oh no there’s only one bed or long distance with correspondence
Fantasy au or modern au
Smut or fluff
Mutual pining or domestic bliss
Alternate universe or future fic
One shot or multi-chapter
Kid fic or road trip fic
Reincarnation or character death
Arranged marriage or accidental marriage
High school romance or middle aged romance
Time travel or isolated together
Neighbors or roommates oh my god they were roommates
Sci-fi au or magic au
Bodyswap or genderbend
Angst or crack
Apocalyptic or mundane

I keep second-guessing some of these decisions, but some friends in a discord server were doing this, so putting this together is how I wasted my Friday evening's productivity.

Basically this is to compare and contrast character favorites and/or recognition. If you want to play along, you can save the image file and use your choice of marking system: stickers on an app, Paint, gimp/ps, whatever. You can circle or x or star characters you like too. We also took to putting question marks on people we didn't recognize at all.



Here is the template: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/298284589577928705/649774600128823296/image0.png

I think I did this early in its existence like three years ago, around the time I was first getting heavily into Fate / Type Moon. It's very weird and eerie to revisit it, though I'm not sure if it is the exact same one. It is strange how much involvement with that one fandom changed my life and person in both good and regrettable ways... Anyway, I did this thing: http://ellimists.tumblr.com/

And I had... 10 of them tie for #1 rank??? So I'll list the ones that tied in the order listed and then do the ones that also tied for #11 rank, I guess.

1's

• Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  
• Hurt/Comfort
  
• 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
  
• Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
  
• Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
  
• Found Families
  
• Friends to Lovers
  
• Loyalty Kink
  
• Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
  
• Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)

I should note that the Selfcest one is for one extremely specific thing in Fate... not usually my thing. Also, if this is the same sorter that I remember, I think it might've replaced an "Age Gap (possibly due to time travel)" entry that I also highly prioritized because of Fate and little else. Though I suppose shipping a Time Lord with anyone also counts for that... kinda. That's more a fantasy creature thing, though, where age is... different. Okay I'll stop.

11's

• Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
  
• Adopting/Raising a Baby
  
• 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
  
• Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
  
• Polyamory

All in all, this is very, very me... gives me food for thought. This tool might be useful for fic challenges, hm.