stay with me.

i have read a million books where the usually shy and conservative guy takes off his shirt and the girl is like CLARK KENT and I will read a million more!!!

Idiots to lovers implies that they stop being idiots when they finally get together, but that is just not true, they will always be idiots

Idiots (pining) to idiots (dating)

slow burn mutual pining but the burn is emotional and the fic is pwp. they smut it up while both wanting more and thinking the other one wants to be friends with benefits. having only this much of them is torture but not having them at all would be worse. each of them dreads the day their lover falls in love with someone else. both of them are so surprised to learn they've both been in love with the other the whole time

Yes please.

I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes

Running out of the same trope when you’re really in the mood for it is so devastating 

y’all know that trope where two people have been separated/apart and when they finally see each other they’re practically clinging to each other and you can practically feel the happiness and relief radiating off of them? that’s my crack

saw this and thought of carry on

credit to @jellifishies for the tweet!

image description: two tweets by what the fuck richard ( @FishiesJellie ): rivals to lovers but only one of them thinks of them as actual rivals while the other is just in it for the homoeroticism person a: fight me so i can prove i’m better than you! person b: ok but only if you pin me against a wall and we have to deal with the obvious tension /end id

I recently started working in hospitality, and I’ll tell you guys right now, the trope of “there was only one bed” is not as rare as you’d think in real life. A few times a week, at least, I have guys come in who are working together on projects in town or passing through who have to literally book the last room I have available for the night and lo and behold — there is only one bed, and guess what, they give each other a side-eyed look and begrudgingly take it. So write it up, it happens all the time!!!

angst with no happy ending ???? in this economy ????

‪bodyguard romance trope: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆‬

‪bodyguard romance trope but it's gay: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★‬

enemies to lovers who are still pretending to be enemies for the reputation

uh “we’re fake dating and we need to prove to someone close to us that we are actually together and oh fuck they want us to kiss” is still one of the best fucking tropes in the book don’t fucking touch me

You know why I love AUs? Because the whole point of them is that everything is changed, and yet these two people are still going to meet and fall in love- that they’re so set in stone and so meant to be that you can change literally everything in a hundred universes and they’ll fall in love over and over again. 

I’ve been looking for this post my entire life

Writer: There Was Only One Bed…

Smut fans: *gasp!!!!!*

Writer: So They Spooned All Night And The Brooding One Allowed Themselves To Feel Vulnerable For The First Time In Years And The Chirpy One Got Some Quality Snuggles

Fluff fans: *GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Alternatively:

There was only one bed and so they lay there together, only inches apart physically but it may as well have been miles for neither could muster the courage to tell the other the true depth of their feelings and so they lay there sleepless in their mutual pining

Angst fans:

You are so goddamn right

All of the above is good too….

every bed sharing scene in fanfics is like "oh no there's only one bed... please take it i'll sleep on the floor... unless... u want to share 😳? lol just kidding 😅 i'll take the floor... if u want 👉👈... haha no it's okay i'll take the floor... unless? "

enemies with benefits

enemies to lovers who are still pretending to be enemies for the reputation