Non-Rec: Sylvie's BEST Idea!!

[isabellerecs]

The wonderful sylvaine (who already redid the trope sorter to make a non-romance version) has come up with another wonderful idea! They proposed that one could use your top ten of either or both of the trope sorters’ results as prompts for recs, fics, arts, what have you. :) Obviously, I’m going to do a recs list. I tried not to go too hard on this or over think any of these selections, but it was difficult to hold myself back on some of them. I’m going to be using the romantic trope sorter, because I read mostly romantic fics. :D

 

For my very top trope I’ve got four recs, two for “Fake Dating (with feelings)” and another two for “Fake Married (with feelings)”. ;D

 

1. Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
          Fake Dating with Feelings

Tiptoe Through Our Shiny City by Dira Sudis | Generation Kill | Brad Colbert/Nate Fick | Teen | 5,793

Rumour Has It by thecrackshiplollipop | Jessica Jones | Jessica Jones/Trish Walker | Explicit | 18,191

          Fake Marriage with Feelings
Something Dumb to Do by poisonivory | Daredevil | Matt Murdock/Foggy Nelson | Explicit | 33,292

The Warp and Weft of Your Being by tardigradeschool | Star Trek AOS | Jim Kirk/Spock | Teen | 7,701

 

For the rest of the top five, I’ve picked out two examples. :D

 

2. Friends to Lovers

Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen by Laura JV | Captain America | Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes | Explicit | 7,533

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Werelibrarian | Daredevil | Matt Murdock/Foggy Nelson | Mature | 13,101

 

3. 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out

I’ll Find My Way ‘Cause It’s Love Real Simple by Finduilas | Hawaii Five-0 | Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams | Explicit | 6,294

Harvey Specter Doesn’t Do Gay Panic by thatotherperv | Suits | Mike Ross/Harvey Specter | Explicit | 9,518

 

4. 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop

Try, Try Again by and_backagain | X-Men (Filmverse) | Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier | Teen | 5,710

The Difference Between What Is Never to Be and What Never Was by catwrites | The Magnificent Seven | Joshua Faraday/Vasquez | Teen | 5,541

 

5. Enemies to Friends to Lovers

Shifting Alliances by sistersleep | Oz | Ryan O’Reily/Miguel Alvarez | Explicit | 110,000+ (this might technically be enemies to lovers)

Revenge and Other Confessions by Still_and_Clear | Gotham | Jim Gordon/Oswald Cobblepot | Not Rated [PG] | 5,142

 

For the last five of my top ten, I’ve restrained myself to just one rec. :)

 

6. Supernatural Creature/Human Romance

Stilinski’s Home for Wayward Werewolves by owlpostagain | Teen Wolf | Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski | Teen | 35,197

 

7. Found Families

Reassembling by texanfan | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Xander Harris/Spike | Explicit | 80,953

 

8. Seemingly Unrequited Pining

Cut My Feelings to the Bone by gottalovev | Stargate Atlantis | John Sheppard/Rodney McKay | Teen | 14,215 (bonus Forced Bonding)

 

9. Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target

Ace of Spades by manic_intent | Kingsman | Harry Hart/Eggsy Unwin | Explicit | 44,070 (Ugh, I love this so much. manic_intent is the best)

 

10. And They Were Roommates!

The Lightness of Feeling by aesdiac | Star Wars | Poe Dameron/Finn | Teen | 5,203 (I'll be honest, I'm not really sure how this made it so high on my list of tropes *shrug*)

Comments

[jainas]

Ho, this is such a great idea! Thank you for making my reading list grow! ;)
Now I want to do the meme just so I can do the recs after.

In the Groundhog day trope, have you read Lets Do The Timwarp again by Lettered? It's an incrediblme take on the trope and I adore her Responsible Science series.

[isabellerecs]

You are most welcome! :D

I'd not read that one, I'll have to squirrel that one away for a rainy day. Thanks. <3

[jainas]

Ho, I envy you then. I think it still is one of my favourite series ever.
'Let's do the timewarp' can be read as a standalone, but the whole Responsible Science series does amazing things characterization-wise, but also by gutting various tropes and then putting them back together.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, that's an interesting idea!

[isabellerecs]

:D

[mrs_d]

Can't wait to read some of these. Keep up the great work!

[isabellerecs]

I hope you enjoy! :D

[corvidology]

It's a great idea for a rec list. :D

[isabellerecs]

It really made me think about the tropes when I really tried to apply them to the stories that I've liked. I noticed that while I don't think there's anything wrong with "And They Were Roommates!" I didn't really have many (if any) stories that fit the trope in my repertoire. So I'm thinking it really shouldn't have been as high as it was. *shrug* It was fun to work up this list though.

[sylvaine]

*claps hands delightedly* yes! Tropey recs! \o/

[isabellerecs]

I'll be honest, I found making a recs list via tropes to actually be kind of hard. I just don't mentally sort my reading by the tropes that they embody, but rather almost entirely by the main pairings featured in them. I'm thinking it might be good to be more mindful about that in future. :D

[sylvaine]

Same here, actually! It's also so much harder to categorise by this kind of content than by things like pairing or fandom, I find... and yet I am more likely to be interested in fics via tropes than via fandom/pairing/that kind of thing? So really I should retool how I tag my bookmarks. xD