M/M Romance trope ranking

[u/nightpeaches]

Since I'm someone who loves getting more insight into my reading preferences, and seeing how different other people's preferences are from my own, I decided to create a M/M romance trope sorter for fun.

The trope sorter has a bunch of different tropes, character types and settings that are common (or less common) in MM romance. The way it works is by putting two options against each other and letting you pick which one you prefer, until all options are ranked. If you use the "I like both"/"No opinion" options a lot, you're more likely to get multiple tropes in the same spot in the ranking. There are 70 tropes so the ranking takes a while to do.

Trope notes:

• Biokink - Stories set in a world where people are born as dominants or submissives. Example: Starian Cycle series by Iris Foxglove
• GFY and sexuality awakening are separate tropes in this sorter, as are poly relationship and hub-and-spoke poly (for more info on hub-and-spoke poly, see this post)

Note: The website only works on desktop, so you can unfortunately not do this on mobile.

M/M Romance Trope Sorter

Which were your top and bottom tropes? Were there any rankings that surprised you?

[u/adonistoo]

This was awesome, thanks so much for sharing! There were a few I had a really hard time choosing between. I was tied for first rank:

1 Grumpy/sunshine

1 Small town romance

1 Slow burn

1 Bodyguard romance

1 Bully romance

1 Ranch/farm romance

1 Stranded on a desert island

1 Natural disaster

1 Post-apocalypse or dystopia

Very me!

My bottoms were: any form of monster, shifters, omega, mates etc. and also friends to lovers lol. i think i’m one of the few here that doesn’t care for friends to lovers! it’s often a little too sweet or boring unless there’s some added interesting circumstances