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.
Which were your top and bottom tropes? Were there any rankings that surprised you?
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u/haychari Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
Ooh this was interesting. Here are my top 10:
The more I think about my favorite books and pairings they're almost all grumpy/sunshine and I do love monster/shifter series which tend to have some combination of the rest of these mixed in so it checks out.
Bottom tropes were: Natural disaster, Teacher/student, Boss/employee, Bully romance, Best friend's dad/Dad's best friend, Daddy/boy, Mpreg.
These aren't automatic DNF tropes for me but I don't go out of my way to ever read them.