Story Tropes - Fanlore

This page lists fannish story tropes and taxonomies. Please follow the links for more information on individual tropes. For a historical perspective on story tropes in fanfiction, see Story Tropes By Fandom or Slash Tropes. See also TV Tropes.

Contents 1 type of story by relationship 2 type of story by plot 3 type of story by story element 4 type of story by plot device 5 type of story by relationship to canon 6 type of story by tone 7 type of story by length

type of story by relationship

• Het
• Slash, Yaoi
  • (for tropes specific to slash, see Slash Tropes)
• Femslash, Yuri
• Gen
  • Smarm
• Polyfic
• Incest
  • Twincest

type of story by plot

• AU
  • Elf AU
  • Harlequin AU
  • Highschool AU
  • Hookerfic
  • Noir Detective AU
  • Pornstar AU
  • Western AU
  • Pirate AU
  • Regency
• Casefic
• Crossover
  • Fusion

type of story by story element

• Aging Up
• Animal Transformation
• Anthropomorfic
• Apocafic
• Bodysharing
• Bodyswap
• Curtainfic
• De-aging
• Deathfic
• First Time
• Hurt/Comfort
• Kidfic
• Magical Healing Cock
• Mary Sue
• Pregnancy
  • Mpreg
  • Fempreg
  • Magical (entire pregnancy takes only days; pregnant without sex, etc.)
• Presumed Dead
• Rapefic
• Slavefic
• Soulbond
• Tentaclefic
• Virgin!fic
  • Secret Virgin
• Werewolf
• Wingfic
• Woke Up Gay

type of story by plot device

• Amnesia
• Cave Story
• Disability fic
• Epistolary fic
• Genderswap
• Soulbond
• Time Travel

Inherently sex-related:

• Aliens Made Them Do It
• Heat fic
• Fuck or Die
• Sex Pollen

type of story by relationship to canon

• AU
• Crossover
• Darkfic
• Denialfic
• Episode tag
• Missing scene
• Fix-it
• Futurefic
• Pastfic

type of story by tone

• Angst
• Comfortfic
• Crack
• Darkfic
• Emoporn
• Fluff
• Porn, PWP
• Schmoop
• Smarm

type of story by length

• Drabble
• Double-drabble
• ficlet
• vignette
• story
• chaptered story
• novel
• epic
• series of stories
• series of novels