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Rank Name
1 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
1 Hurt/Comfort
1 Loyalty Kink
1 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
1 Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
6 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
6 Incest
8 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
8 Amnesia
10 Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
10 Found Families
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I think it's an accident of algorithm that actual 'Friends to Lovers' ended up so low it didn't make top 10. I do love "friends to lovers"! But maybe it shows that it doesn't do so well unless it's amplified with the added spice of some other tropes. I took the quiz again, trying not to hedge so much as it doesn't lead to good algorithm loops, and Friends to Lovers came much higher, surrounded by more or less the same tropes as now. QED.
I can also nicely visualise why Steve/Bucky not so much presses my buttons as jams them down with supersoldier strength and a metal arm: canonical amnesia, with a friends to lovers and found family background (Steve and Bucky before the war) and foreground (the Avengers), with so much loyalty it's off the charts, and so much hurt to require comfort from.
It also explains why I occasionally like to append Tony Stark and make a nice tension-laden triad. I wouldn't call Steve and Tony enemies, more like antagonists, but it's enough. Add in Bucky and kaboom!
Not all tropes apply to all my fandoms equally, but all in all, pretty good sorting algorithm. :D
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1 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
1 Hurt/Comfort
1 Loyalty Kink
1 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
1 Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
6 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
6 Incest
8 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
8 Amnesia
10 Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
10 Found Families
Welcome to my id. You're welcome.
This is the tumblr where you can have a go at the meme yourself: http://ellimists.tumblr.com/
I think it's an accident of algorithm that actual 'Friends to Lovers' ended up so low it didn't make top 10. I do love "friends to lovers"! But maybe it shows that it doesn't do so well unless it's amplified with the added spice of some other tropes. I took the quiz again, trying not to hedge so much as it doesn't lead to good algorithm loops, and Friends to Lovers came much higher, surrounded by more or less the same tropes as now. QED.
I can also nicely visualise why Steve/Bucky not so much presses my buttons as jams them down with supersoldier strength and a metal arm: canonical amnesia, with a friends to lovers and found family background (Steve and Bucky before the war) and foreground (the Avengers), with so much loyalty it's off the charts, and so much hurt to require comfort from.
It also explains why I occasionally like to append Tony Stark and make a nice tension-laden triad. I wouldn't call Steve and Tony enemies, more like antagonists, but it's enough. Add in Bucky and kaboom!
Not all tropes apply to all my fandoms equally, but all in all, pretty good sorting algorithm. :D
If you prefer Dreamwidth, you can reply or read the