#since it's 60% fluff 30% pining 10% angst

[salty-ironstrange-shipper]

Hi.

You might remember this post of mine where I used a tier template to rank my favorite (and less favorite) fic tropes. I shared that, and a lot of you decided to do it too, which is great. And it was at the point that quite a few (30+) people decided to do it that I thought, “You know what? I should write this down.”

And I did. So here it is. I looked at a lot of people’s ranks from the notes of that post and compiled the results into a google doc. 

I left out any that that had more or less than the ordinary 5 tiers because I didn’t know how to translate that data (this turned out to just be 1), and also any that was missing one or more trope to ensure an even distribution and accurate representation (this was 4 rankings). All tiers are listed on a scale of “S” (the best, standing for supreme/superior) to “D” (the worst).

I also included my own rankings, although after thinking on it for a while, I ended up changing some of my opinions, which is reflected in the data. It’s also possible that more have been added since I looked at it. I will not be adding any new ones because this already ended up taking way longer than I thought and I don’t want to. 

Keeping in mind that this is the result of posting from my ironstrange account, which could potentially result in a bias towards ironstrange and MCU fans, as well as people who for whatever reason are drawn towards my particular blog.

At the end, I had a total of 33 rankings to include. This is far from a complete representation of fandom, but it’s not half bad. Each trope will also include a “popularity number” at the end to make it easier to interpret and clearly see where they stand in relation to each other. This number is based upon assigning a value to each tier and adding up the results. So: S=5pt, A=4pt, B=3pt, C=2pt, D=1pt (5+4+3+2+1 = 15pt.). There is a possible range of points of 33 to 165.

Now, here is the raw data:

A/B/O: S - 3, A - 3, B - 5, C - 7, D - 15  ::  71 pt.

Amnesia Fic: S - 1, A - 8, B - 10, C - 6, D - 8  ::  87 pt.

Angst: S - 13, A - 10, B - 2, C - 4, D - 4  ::  123 pt. 

Arranged Marriage: S - 6, A - 6, B - 10, C - 7, D - 4  ::  102 pt.

Baby Fic: S - 4, A - 3, B - 6, C - 9, D - 11  ::  79 pt.

Bang Or Die: S - 4, A - 4, B - 5, C - 4, D - 16  ::  75 pt.

Body Swap: S - 1, A - 5, B - 10, C - 12, D - 5  ::  84 pt.

Canon Divergence: S - 9, A - 13, B - 7, C - 2, D - 2  ::  124 pt.

Coffee Shop AU: S - 7, A - 10, B - 6, C - 7, D - 3  ::  110 pt.

College AU: S - 10, A - 6, B - 7, C - 7, D - 3  ::  112 pt.

Crack Fic: S - 6, A - 6, B - 7, C - 8, D - 6  ::  97 pt.

Cross-Over: S - 3, A - 3, B - 8, C - 8, D - 11  ::  78 pt. 

Dark Fic: S - 6, A - 5, B - 11, C - 9, D - 2  ::  103 pt.

Enemies To Lovers: S - 13, A - 14, B - 6, C - 0, D - 0  ::  139 pt.

Established Relationship: S - 11, A - 9, B - 11, C - 1, D - 1  ::  127 pt.

Fairytale AU: S - 4, A - 10, B - 6, C - 11, D - 2  ::  102 pt.

Fake Relationship: S - 13, A - 9, B - 5, C - 5, D - 1  ::  127 pt.

First Kiss: S - 7, A - 11, B - 14, C - 1, D - 0  ::  124 pt.

Fix-It Fic: S - 11, A - 10, B - 8, C - 3, D - 1  ::  126 pt.

Fluff: S - 18, A - 12, B - 3, C - 0, D - 0  ::  147 pt.

Friends To Lovers: S - 11, A - 15, B - 6, C - 1, D - 0  ::  135 pt.

Gen Fic: S - 4, A - 8, B - 9, C - 10, D - 2  ::  101 pt.

High School AU: S - 8, A - 6, B - 6, C - 6, D - 7  ::  101 pt.

Historical AU: S - 5, A - 8, B - 9, C - 8, D - 3  ::  103 pt.

Huddle For Warmth: S - 6, A - 9, B - 6, C - 9, D - 3  ::  105 pt.

Humor: S - 11, A - 11, B - 8, C - 3, D - 0  ::  129 pt.

Hurt/Comfort: S - 17, A - 11, B - 4, C - 0, D - 1  ::  142 pt.

In Vino Veritas: S - 4, A - 11, B - 9, C - 6, D - 3  ::  106 pt.

Love Triangle : S - 4, A - 4, B - 6, C - 9, D - 10  ::  82 pt.

Magic AU: S - 5, A - 10, B - 9, C - 8, D - 1  ::  109 pt.

Major Character Death: S - 3, A - 3, B - 2, C - 10, D - 15  ::  68 pt.

Miscommunication: S - 6, A - 11, B - 5, C - 7, D - 4  ::  107 pt.

Missing Scenes: S - 5, A - 6, B - 12, C - 5, D - 5  ::  100 pt.

Mutual Pining: S - 21, A - 8, B - 3, C - 1, D - 0  ::  148 pt.

Pregnancy Fic: S - 2, A - 2, B - 4, C - 5, D - 20  ::  60 pt.

PWP: S - 8, A - 7, B - 5, C - 7, D - 6  ::  103 pt.

Royalty AU: S - 10, A - 8, B - 9, C - 3, D - 3  ::  118 pt.

Sex Pollen: S - 4, A - 5, B - 4, C - 9, D - 11  :: 81 pt.

Sharing A Bed: S - 6, A - 15, B - 6, C - 4, D - 2  ::  118 pt.

Slow Burn: S - 21, A - 6, B - 1, C - 2, D - 3  ::  139 pt.

Soulmate AU: S - 14, A - 11, B - 2, C - 5, D - 1  ::  131 pt.

Time Loop: S - 1, A - 9, B - 5, C - 10, D - 8  ::  84 pt.

Unhappy Ending: S - 5, A - 0, B - 5, C - 7, D - 16   ::  70 pt.

Unrequited Love: S - 4, A - 6, B - 6, C - 9, D - 8  ::  88 pt.

Now, some notes.

“Baby Fic” and “Huddle For Warmth” both had a different answer for each of the first five charts.

The most popular, from highest to lowest, are: Mutual Pining (148), Fluff (147), Hurt/Comfort (142), Enemies to Lover (139) and Slow Burn (139). The least popular, lowest to highest, are: Pregnancy Fic (60), Major Character Death (68), Unhappy Ending (70), A/B/O (71), Bang Or Die (75).

Neither “Enemies to Lovers” or “Fluff” had any C or D rankings. “First Kiss”, “Friends To Lovers”, “Humor”, and “Mutual Pining” did not have any D rankings. “Hurt/Comfort” did not have any C’s and “Unhappy Ending” did not have any A’s. “Mutual Pining” had the most A’s and “Pregnancy Fic” had the most D’s.

[jamescarstairs]

kinda wanna start silver melody now but I know I’ll overwhelm myself by having 3 wips at once, so it’ll be better for me to wait until I finish one (which might not be for a whilst now)

[merlinpendragoon]

How do you know that I’m on Tumblr on the PC? I start answering all the stuff I was tagged in ages ago ^^

I’ve also been tagged by my beloved Matey @napoleonsolos

Rules: Answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions. (I don’t even know so many people)

1. Coke or Pepsi: I actually don’t really care about that. I wouldn’t say it tastes the same, but it tastes both good, so...

2. Disney or Dreamworks: Definitely both, you can’t make me choose between The Lion King and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

3. Coffee or tea: Tea

4. Books or movies: Both as welll

5. Windows or Mac: Windows

6. DC or Marvel: Depends. At the moment I would say DC, but after watching Iron Man again, I would probably say Marvel again.

7. X-Box or Playstation: I never had either of them, so I don’t know which one might be better.

8. Dragon Age or Mass Effect: Again, I don’t know either of them, but I would start Mass Effect before Dragon Age, because I’ve heard more about that.

9. Night owl or early riser: Neither, I sleep too much.

10. Cards or chess: Both

11. Chocolate or vanilla: Definitely Chocolate

12. Vans or Converse: I’d probably prefer Converse, but I own neither.

13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar: Uhm... What’s that?

14. Fluff or angst: For reading Fluff, for writing Angst, just because it’s fun to watch your readers suffer.

15. Beach or forest: Depends on my mood, so both, I guess

16. Dogs or cats: Cats

17. Clear skies or rain: Clear skies in the night and warm summer rain during the day

18. Cooking or eating out: Cooking

19. Spicy food or mild food: Both, I think

20. Halloween/Samhain or Solstice/Yule/Christmas: Christmas

21. Would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot: A little too hot

22. If you could have a superpower, what would it be: Transforming into any animal or being able to control animals

23. Animation or live action: Depends on the content of the movie

24. Paragon or Renegade: Renegade, but only in specific situations

25. Baths or showers: Showers

26. Team Cap or Team Iron Man: Definitely Team Tony

27. Fantasy or sci-fi: Both, but a bit more Fantasy

28. Do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they:

“My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: Do it or do not do it; you will regret both.” - Soren Kierkegaard

“Scio me nescire.” (”I know that I know nothing.”) - Socrates

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban)

29. YouTube or Netflix: YouTube, but I guess, once I have a Netflix Account, it will be Netflix

30. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson: Always a Potterhead

31. When you feel accomplished: I don’t know actually, I hardly had that feeling in a long time

32. Star Wars or Star Trek: Both, although I would lean towards Star Trek

33. Paperback books or hardback books: Paperback

34. Fantastic Beasts or Cursed Child: Fantastic Beasts

35. Evans, Pratt, Hemsworth, or Pine: Uhm, neither? ^^

36. Handwriting or Typing: Depends on what I’m writing. Stories I’m usually typing, because I want them anyway on the PC

37. Velvet or Satin: I don’t care actually

38. Video Games or Movies: Depends on my mood again

39. Would you rather be the dragon or own the dragon: Be the Dragon

40. One episode per week or marathoning: Pff, marathoning of course

41. Gandalf or Obi Wan: Gandalf

42. Heroes or villains: Depends on the characters

43. John Williams or Hans Zimmer: Hans Zimmer

44. Disneyland/Disney World or Six Flags: Disneyland

45. Forest or sea: Depends on my mood again ^^

46. Flying or reading minds: Flying, always flying

47. Twin Peaks or Northern Exposure: I don’t know what either of this is?

48. Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings: Come on, how could you ever possibly choose between these two masterpieces?

49. Cake or pie: Cake

50. You are banished to a desert island, which Benedict Cumberbatch character would you choose to take with you: Since I know him only as Khan, Sherlock and Smaug, I think, Smaug would be the most useful to get off the Island

51. Train or cruise ship: Both could be very nice

52. Brian Cox or Neil deGrasse Tyson: Neither?

53. Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland: I’ve never been deep into both of them, so idk

54. Fanfiction or fanart: Fan Fiction

55. The Hunger Games - books or movies: Books, I guess

56: Be able to see the future or travel into the past: Travel into the past. Knowing the future is never good.

57. Han Solo or Luke Skywalker: Luke Skywalker

58. Lilacs or sunflowers: sunflowers

59. Spring or autumn: Both have something special

60. Campfire or fireplace: Campfire

61. French fries or onion rings: French fries

62. Truth or dare: Truth

63. Winter or summer: Summer

64. Vampires or werewolves: Werewolves

65. Red or blue: Blue

66. Eyes or lips: Eyes

67. Burgers or sandwiches: Sandwiches

68. Friends-to-lovers or enemies-to-lovers trope: Enemies-to-lovers. I’d prefer if friends are able to stay platonic friends.

69. Pizza or pasta: Both

70. Ancient Rome or ancient Greece: Ancient Rome

71. Foxes or wolves: Wolves

72. Mermaids or dragons: Dragons of course

73. The Craft or Charmed: Charmed

74. Silly puns or playful sarcasm: Why not both?

75. Superman or Batman: Would you kill me if I said Batman?

My Question: Would you prefer not knowing your Soulmate at all or watching them die?

I tag again @pansexualtriptucker and @bucky-barns, I hope, you don’t mind .-.