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?
A phrase often used if a fic is 'cute' or 'wholesome'.
What is fluff?
Often considered the worst fanfiction ever to be made.
What is My Immortal?
This is often considered the 'gateway' site to fanfic.
What is Wattpad?
This company recently bought Wattpad.
What is Webtoon?
Oh no! There's two of us and only one of this.
What is a bed?
The opposite of 'cute' or 'wholesome', though not explicit.
What is angst?
This Harry Styles fanfic was rewritten and made into a tv show.
What is After?
This site has the most advanced filtering system of any fanfic site.
What is AO3?
AO3 is actually a part of this larger organization.
What is the OTW? (Organization for transformative works)
Whenever you fall into a unrequited love, you start to cough up flowers until you die/ get the love returned.
What is hanahaki disease?
I am an idealized version of the author.
What is a Mary Sue? (Oc, self-insert are also acceptable.)
This recent Dreamnotfound fanfic garnered 2 million hits on Ao3.
What is Heat Waves?
On this site, you can post anything.
When the author goes above and beyond to hurt the character(s).
The male version of a Mary Sue.
What is a Gary Stu?
This questionable best-selling novel was originally a Twilight fanfiction.
What is 50 Shades of Grey?
This site also lets users make quizzes and polls.
What is Quotev?
The name of Wattpads yearly writing contest.
What are the Watty awards?
The love interests were friends at a young age that have since grown apart.
What is childhood friends to lovers?
A phrase used when the content in a fic could be considered morally reprehensible, though not inherently explicit.
What is a Dead Dove: do not eat?
The first of the Mortal Instruments series, this book was originally a Harry Potter fanfic.
What is City of Bones?
This site stopped being used due to it's infamous 'purge'.
What is Livejournal?