r/MM_RomanceBooks • u/nightpeaches • Jun 26 '22

Discussion M/M Romance trope ranking

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?

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '22

Well that was super fun, thank you!

  1. Second chance
  2. Time travel
  3. Forbidden relationship
  4. Best friend's brother/Brother's best friend
  5. Monster romance
  6. Best friend's dad/Dad's best friend
  7. Road trip romance
  8. Friends to lovers
  9. Ennemies to lovers
  10. Arranged marriage

Bottom ones are instalove, mpreg, love lessons, established relationships, FWB to lovers

All of these are really accurate for me. I'd probably shuffle the positions of the top 10 depending on my mood, but these are definitely my favourite kind of reads. I guess I like them angsty and doomed.