Fandoms
What video game fandom is known for it's extreme shipping wars, that may or may not have ended friendships?
Genshin Impact
A genre categorized by its focus on negative emotions such as anger, sadness, regret, jealousy, and hopelessness
Angst
"I did it, I saved the town."
Say Gex Billford animation
A ship blowing up due to the release of a recent book.
Billford from Gravity Falls
A character is in love with Character B, but they don't return the same feelings, so they end up coughing up flowers until they may or may not die.
Hanahaki
This fandom are notorious for their dramatic and exaggerated scenarios and stories made by a cutesy character dress-up game.
Gacha
A fanfic that consists soley of one chapter (can be short or long) and this is not continued once complete.
Oneshot
This piece of media used the notorious Hide Away song by Daya
Charlie from Hazbin Hotel selfship animation
This trope is usually used in longer fics/media, taking the time to develop the relationship.
Slowburn
This AU is normally used for extremely violent media such as Banana Fish so they get a break from all the angst, usually very fluffy.
Coffee shop AU
This video game fandom blew up in 2017-2018, known for it's many, many, MANY AUs.
Undertale
A character that gives you brainrot, you literally cannot shut up about them
Blorbo
This edit was made popular by using the song Rhinestone eyes by Mother Mother
That one Nagito edit
This trope of two characters are bound by fate and have basically been made for one another.
Soulmates
This tragic AU was made popular in the Undertale fandom where it was originally supposed to be a father-child dynamic between Sans and Frisk that was influenced into romance by Frans shippers
Flowerfell
A character you relate to and or find a connection with in terms of personality, backstory, etc.
Kin
This fanfic was made for the DreamSMP fandom and was later adapted by the famous DreamSMP animation creator SAD-ist
Passerine
Top ship on ao3 2024
Castial/Dean Winchester from Supernatural
A character you are basically married to and will literally trade your family for them (Adam uses this term a lot)
My beloved
This fandom may or may not have influenced two little girls to try and murder their best friend.
Creepypasta
This trope dynamic is usually used for the more spicy piece of media, the two characters having extreme tension. This trope usually takes time to develop, this trope used more in queer media.
Enemies to lovers.