• canon-compliant and divergent
  • one of them clearly has issues (repression, complexes)
  • bleak boyband tropes
  • contract/fake dating
  • in that vein, undercover couples
  • assassins/spies/espionage au
  • mafia/syndicate au (bonus if it's in the untraditional sense)
  • heist aus (bonus if they cannot pull it off at all)
  • mistrust/mindfuck/manipulation
  • soulmates, but only if it's spicy
  • actor/idol/model aus
  • pacrim au
  • dystopian/post-apocalyptic aus
  • anything dealing with the self (inner conflict), relationship perception (how much of it is real)
  • crude but weirdly specific humor
  • specialization/sports/instrument trauma
  • relationship status: It's Complicated
  • i hate you (but hate is love too)

all roads lead to lovers (kinda):

  • exes to lovers!!!
  • estranged friends to lovers
  • fwb to lovers, fwb to enemies (to lovers), ewb to lovers
  • enemies to friends to lovers, friends to enemies to lovers, friendly rivals to enemies (to lovers)
  • uneasy/unresolved tension in any sense to lovers
  • (misunderstandings crucial to) undefined r/s to lovers trajectory
apr 1 2013 ∞
apr 11 2021 +