80s, 90s, age difference, age gap, agents, aliens, androids, apocalyptic, bad endings, bands, betrayal, characters with flaws, childhood-friends-to-lovers, closeted characters, codependency, cops, corruption, cosmic horror, cowboys, creator vs. creation, crime, criminals, cryptids, cults, cyberpunk, d&d, dark-fantasy, deception, details, detectives, domesticity, drug abuse, dystopia, emotional suppression, emotionally heavy, enemies-to-lovers, espionage, fantasy, flashbacks, gore, height difference, high-fantasy, horror, hurt/comfort, hybristophilia, ill-intentions, imperfections, infidelity, lima syndrome, love/hate relationships, lovecraftian, mafia, manipulation, mercenaries, masked characters, monsters, murder, musicians, mystery, noire, nostalgia, nuclear fallout, obsession, opposites attract, pining, playing god, possession, post-apocalyptic, power imbalances, power-play, psychological horror, punishment, revenge, reward, rivalry, road trips, robots, role reversal, runaways, savior complex, science experiments, science fiction, serial killers, size difference, slice-of-life, slow-burn, small-towns, sobfest, stalkers, stockholm syndrome, supernatural, taboo romance, tenderness, thriller, torture, touch starvation, toxic masculinity, unconventionally attractive characters, "ugly" characters, unexpected love, unhealthy relationships, unrequited love, vampires, violence, vulnerability, yakuza, zombies

( yes ) ; a/b/o, affection, aftercare, age differences, begging, biting/scratching, blackmail, blindfolds, bloodplay, breast/nipple play, breath control, choking, consensual non-consent, creampie, crossdressing, cuddling, daddy kink, degradation/verbal abuse, dirty talking, discipline/reinforcement, domesticity, dubious consent, exhibitionism, face-fucking, feminization, fingering, forced clotheswearing, foreplay, frotting, hair pulling, handjobs/blowjobs, heat/rut, humiliation, kissing, knife play, leash/collars, licking, light/medium bondage, masks, masturbation/mutual masturbation, monsters, multiple orgasms, orgasm control/denial, overstimulation, pet names, pleasure control/denial, rimjobs, roughness, sadism/masochism, sex toys/electric toys, sexual frustration, sexual pain, sexy/slutty clothing, size differences, socks/stockings, spanking, swallowing, teasing, throat-fucking, tit-fucking, uniforms, uppity, virginity, voyeurism, wax play
( no ) ; all the way through, bathroom play/control, beastiality, bimbofication, castration, death, diapers, docking, enemas, extreme mutilation, extreme torture, farting, feeding, fisting, footjobs, furries, hirsute, inflatables, inflation, living insertions, macrophilia, menses, microphilia, necrophilia, nipple penetration, objectophilia, oviposition, pedophilia, prolapse, scat, shaving, sounding, toilet play/control, transgender (i'm all for trans characters, i just don't want them to be fetishized or used as a kink), unbirthing/birthing, vomit, vore, watersports, wound fucking, zoophilia

( slice of life ) ; best friend/best friend, babysitter/employer, boss/employee, brother/sibling's boyfriend, bully/bullied, celebrity/anti-fan, celebrity/bodyguard, closeted/out, band member/band member, runaway/runaway, model/photographer, professor/assistant, professor/student, step brother/step brother, teacher/student's father
( horror ) ; stalker/stalked, cult leader/victim, killer/hybristophile, killer/victim, veteran killer/rookie killer, kidnapper/victim
( supernatural ) ; ghost/detective, supernatural/human, supernatural/hunter, monster/human, priest/demon
( crime ) ; addict/dealer, bounty hunter/target, cop/criminal, detective/killer, rookie cop/veteran cop, gang member/rival gang member, mafia leader/undercover cop, prison guard/inmate
( sci-fi ) ; alien/human, android/human, mercenary/scientist, new gen android/old gen android, scientist/alien, scientist/experiment
( fantasy ) ; assassin/target, cleric/warrior, mage/apprentice, evocation mage/abjuration mage, mercenary/noble, prince/knight, prince/prince, prince/servant, knight/squire, rogue/apprentice, last of their species/hunter, god/worshipper, elf/orc, elf/human, orc/human
( western ) ; bounty hunter/sheriff, criminal/sheriff, bounty hunter/target, cowboy/cowboy, migrant worker/rancher

( tropes ) ; hurt and comfort, unforgettable first meetings, childhood/best friends to lovers, unrequited love, enemies to lovers, opposites attract, finding love in unexpected places, unlearning past patterns, betrayal and redemption, instant attraction but slowburn emotional intimacy, corruption, grey morality, coming from different worlds or cultures, power imbalances, power struggles, forbidden taboo romance: different species, social status, gender and society, power, occupation, age gap etc.
( archetypes ) ; painfully stubborn characters with trust issues who are hard to love slowly learning how to
two characters where they have no choice but to reconcile differences to trust each other
partners in crime, grumpy veteran with the overly-optimistic rookie or smug know-it-all
two characters with differing world views, one wants to save it, one wants to destroy it
one character willing to do anything to save their lover, but loses themselves in the process
the monster being treated gently for the first time in their life, the human who sees past the ugliness of the monster
older characters (30+), imperfect characters, "ugly" characters, masked characters
( genres ) ; horror, psychological thrillers, slashers
criminals, military, gangs, mafia, cops, agents, detectives
zombie apocalypses, post-apocalyptic, nuclear fallout
robots/androids, cyberpunk, tech-noir, space bounty hunters
dnd fantasy, medieval fantasy, high-fantasy, adventure fantasy, isekai
road trips, escort/rescue missions, traveling adventures, just two dudes stuck together for long periods of time, bonus points if they hate each other

( slice of life ) ;
- two bandmates become famous and fall hard with their stardom only to breakup. their agencies force them back together years later to make one last album.
- two friends have a falling out at graduation, they meet again when one of them is getting married to the other's sibling.
- two students attend prestigious university, the misfit is forced to dorm with the goody-two shoes for the year.
- two friends decide to go on a road trip, one of them is to announce their wedding plans, the other wants to confess feelings.
- two lovers lose contact after one of them is presumed dead in the military, years later they happen to meet in a bar.
- two celebs who are now ex-lovers earn the leading roles in the next up and coming rom-com.
- runaway from crazy religious cult bumps into traveling musician who teaches them about the real world and what it has to offer.
- openly-gay misfit is forced to go to conversion therapy and befriends the preacher's son who is heavily closeted.
- two people meet on a suicide help forum and decide to runaway together irl, once meeting up, they find out they're actually enemies irl.
- runaway from abusive relationship runs into recently widowed man who decides to take them in, the two of them learn how to love again.
( crime ) ;
- old grumpy detective teams up with the newly-hired rookie who doesn’t ever shut up.
- undercover agent is forced to bodyguard the latest mafia leader to bust them for crimes, but ends up falling for them instead.
- eldest of a mafia gang is forced to marry the daughter rival gang as a treaty, but ends up falling for the brother instead.
- two members from rivaling gangs are captured by a third gang, the two must reconcile differences and escape.
- drug dealer and their client, or simply two addicts trying to get clean together.
- an ex-criminal opens up a bar across the street from the widowed florist.
- two famous criminals after years of getting out of the trade, decide to team up again for one last heist.
- ex-criminal stuck in witness protection after giving up details in exchange, begrudging cop who has to babysit them.
( horror ) ;
- seasoned serial killer is blackmailed by obsessive fan who wants to partner up with them.
- stalker decides to kidnap the most popular student from uni. come to find out they are mistreated at home and go willingly.
- popular kid at uni has a stalker. stalker goes to their house in secret and finds a victim in their basement. popular kid is actually a killer.
- famous killer has an obsessive hybristophile fan who decides to help them break out of prison.
- murders happen in a small town, a cop has a weird best friend who happens to show up one night asking for a place to stay.
- obsessive sugar daddy hooks up with sugar baby's divorced parent in hopes of getting closer to the sugar baby again.
( supernatural ) ;
- nurse rents out the room in their apartment, and a newborn vampire trying to get blood by more humane means moves in.
- newborn vampire (or werewolf) was turned by accident, instead of being killed, a veteran takes them underwing out of pity.
- human uni student decides to join a frat, come to find out the frat is a group of supernatural.
- runaway joins a cult, the cult leader decides they'll make a good vessel for a powerful eldritch god.
- supernatural agent is paired up with human agent to figure out the the latest increase of human deaths.
- vampire leader gets a human blood slave as a gift for their arranged marriage, but falls for the blood slave instead.
- a monster is captured in a facility and tested on, a psychologist is brought in to study their behavior but gets attached.
- a friend goes missing mysteriously, but shows up on the other friends doorstep like nothing happened. the friend has now been taken over by a strange entity pretending to be them and is learning to be human.
- supernatural sheriff has a run-in with a gang in a bar they frequent, the human bartender sees everything. as per rules, they have to be turned or killed, but the sheriff doesn't have the guts to do either.
( apocalyptic ) ;
- hardened veteran who isn’t afraid to kill runs into the sheltered rookie who hasn’t even killed a single zombie yet.
- asshole mercenary has to escort the brainy scientist across the country to deliver the cure to a deadly virus.
- two strangers meet in a coffee shop as the zombie outbreak begins. they decide to team up, one of them is immune.
- two ex-lovers run into one another when scrounging for supplies, something bad happens forcing them to work together.
( sci-fi ) ;
- android agent teams up with human detective to find out the latest mishaps of androids killing humans.
- engineer steals the latest prototype of an ultra intelligent android and goes on the run.
- esper escapes from government facility and runs into a city gang who uses them to win the latest turf war.
- an intelligent alien is unwillingly experimented on by the team, one of the scientists want to help them instead.
- human who hates androids finds one in the trash, decides to fix it for cash but instead it wakes up.
( fantasy ) ;
- hardened knight who has been wronged by his kingdom is enslaved to the opposing side: the enemy who isn’t as evil as what they are portrayed as.
- a prince is being married off to a rival kingdom, a knight is appointed to them as a gift, the two fall for one another.
- a knight is sent out to kill the last of a dying race. finds them but can't bring themselves to kill them: decides to go on the run instead.
- a blight sweeps the lands, a priest is being escorted to the center of the world by a hardened mercenary to cleanse the world.
- a sickly prince seeks out the powers of a powerful demon to save their falling kingdom from war.
- a magical prince is married off to a rival kingdom who ends up killing his family instead. he and his retainer go on the run.
- mage is experimented on to become a weapon, decides to escape and meets a mercenary who helps them find salvation.
- prince is put into slavery by a bastard of the king aiming for the throne, they are bought by the rival kingdom.
- famous mage buys a human with an affinity for the magic from a slave auction, a great magical war is upon the horizon.
- two mages of different schools of magic are forced to partner up for their final exam: killing a monster terrorizing a village.
- two friends have just been transported into their dnd campaign, now they have to find a way out.
- someone gets isekai'd into a fantasy world, they decide to tag along with an veteran adventurer who initially wants to kill them.
- a mercenary is assigned to find a runaway noble and bring them home for whatever reason, shenanigans ensues.
- the trickster god a follower has been worshipping for years isn’t as fanciful as what they turn out to be when they finally meet.
- two people are prophesied as the destruction of the world, come to find out they are the ones that will save it.
- two lovers are fated but cursed to forget when they die and reincarnate. one of them dies, the other finds their reincarnation who hates them.
- a new adventurer is falsely imprisoned, come to find out their prisonmate is actually the infamous rogue people are looking for. in exchange for keeping their identity a secret, the rogue decides to make the adventurer their apprentice, and the two of them escape.
( western ) ;
- two cowboys are falsely imprisoned for things they didn't do, the two of them decide to break out.
- bounty hunter sets out after an infamous gang, but instead finds a man who's wife was recently killed by the gang and is out for blood.
- wanted criminal goes on the run and collapses on a rancher's property, the rancher takes them in unknowingly.
- two cowboys have been a part of a gang since they were kids, their leader is now corrupt and the two of them must make a decision to stay or leave.
- sheriff of a small town notices the mysterious man who recently moved in looks a lot like the famous criminal on the wanted poster around town.