YES

• GEN (YES ALL THE GEN)
• platonic life partners/bros/deserved soulmates
• Well thought out plot, suspense! drama! plot twists!
• subtle introspection that gently delivers dynamic and character study
• taking real life influences: a song, a city, an event YES. I remember one fic had the Sydney Harbour Bridge and mentioned the sea flashing in the gaps next to the footpath ;___; DETAILS)
• Jargon; scientific, literary, musical, types of cake. Name drop! I love it when I need to google things!
• ideal life which is not really ideal and actually hell in disguise YES - trouble in paradise, awkward first love, unromantic dates, plans being disrupted, people being misunderstood, actions being regretted
• imperfect characters that DEVELOP - CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT //screams INTO THE SUNRISE//
• the passing of time, the contrast between childhood and adulthood ;___;
• fashion (fanart in particular)
• characters being selfless, SELF-SACRIFICE
• characters being forced to reconsider their own limits, especially when it's for others!
• madness, hallucination, obsession - psychology that's not quite the norm
• fic that explores the boundaries of humanity: failure, defeat, death, isolation, longing, acceptance etc.
• when one of the character's a professional! i.e. doctor, teacher, lawyer, aerospace engineer eh eh ehhh I feel like I'm living another life =3=
• settings: abandoned places, airports, trains, buses, empty classrooms, a station at midnight...

AUs I will click on

• time travel, reincarnation
• sci-fi/far future/outer space
• dystopia
• crime/thriller/police
• magical realism
• long distance relationship
• JPRG
• Harry Potter/Hogwarts
• original/rare (retrograde amnesia, retirement home, epidemic!AU, historical)

Things I like but am too shy to say

• please unlock friendship level 99 type: hellbound

NUPS:

• I don't have any NUP NUPS :D :D :D I am as resilient as the russian winter please hit me with anything.
• ...but I do tend to avoid cliched AUs because I am an impatient, insatiable reader