Fanfiction Tropes
The romance trope used in The Owl House, She-Ra, Red White and Royal Blue, and Game Of Thrones.
What is Enemies to Lovers?
This is often considered the 'gateway' site to fanfic.
What is Wattpad?
A phrase often used if a fic is 'cute' or 'wholesome'
What is fluff?
This Harry Potter fanfic is considered one of the worst fanfictions to every be made, and stars the original character Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
What is My Immortal?
Fanfiction is mainly written for monetary gain?
What is False?
The love interests were friends at a young age that have since grown apart.
What is Childhood friends to lovers? <3
This site has the most advanced filtering system of any fanfic site.
What is Ao3? (Archive of our own)
The opposite of 'cute' or 'wholesome', though not explicit. Also used by authors to torture their readers when they want to be emotionally challenged.
What is angst?
This Dreamnotfound fanfic garnered 2 million hits on Ao3
What is Heat Waves?
Roughly what percentage of fanfiction writers are female?
What is 90%?
This trope is one of the most popular tropes, basing itself in an alternate universe and has over 14k stories based on it.
What is Coffee Shop AU?
I am an idealized version of the author, in both male and female forms.
Who are Mary Sue & Gary Sue?
This Harry Styles fanfic was rewritten and made into a tv show.
What is After?
What fraction of fanfiction makes up all content on the web related to books and stories?
What is One-Third?
When the author goes above and beyond to hurt the character(s)
What is Whump?
This site also lets users make quizzes and polls.
What is Quotev?
A story that starts with a ridiculous premise and carries throughout the whole story itself, making it both funny and serious.
What is Crack treated seriously?
This questionable best-selling novel was originally a Twilight fanfiction
What is 50 Shades of Gray?
What century in the 1900’s was the first ever fanfiction published?
When is 1952?
Whenever you fall into an unrequited love, you start to cough up flowers until you die/ get the love returned.
What is Hanahaki Disease?
This site stopped being used due to its infamous 'purge'.
What is Livejournal?
A phrase used when the content in a fic could be considered morally reprehensible, though not inherently explicit.
What is Dead Dove: Do Not Eat?
This Sleepy Bois Inc fanfiction has rapidly gained almost 3 million reads after being brought to light on Youtube by animator Sad-ist.
What is Passerine?
Modern fanfiction as we know it in the west was popularized in the 1960’s through this medium.
What is Star Trek Fanzine?