Fictional Fans

...for #1, my first reaction was "Oh, how interesting! YKINMK" and then I realized it was just last week that I stayed up past my bedtime to read an AU where the characters were dance instructors. And yes, I had to think a moment to remember the pairing, because what drew me in were the intimate descriptions of developing the choreography and dancing/teaching the dances. I think the attraction for me with this type of story is getting the personal relationship of the character with their work, which doesn't necessarily have to be art. It kind of crosses over with "competence kink" and the appeal of listening to experts talk lovingly about their fields.

The fic was: Seen a Million Faces (but I've been waiting for you) by Hyeyu, Haikyuu!!

A popular genre I've recently started to like is friends to lovers, and I've always loved AUs, and a subgenre that combines them that I sometimes really like and sometimes am ambivalent about is childhood friends getting put into a meetcute AU. Because then they don't have their touching history! But they have an immediate connection and it feels like they've known each other forever!

A comfortfic staple for me is comedy of errors involving superhero secret identities.

Another is slice-of-life feeling stories about developing relationships that describe the small gestures and surprises as characters learn to make space for each other in one another's lives. Or really any fic that has these moments.