AO3 Exchanges - Eternal List of Tropes/Freeforms

• Genres

 

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy (★)
• Cosmic horror
• Creature features
• Fantasy horror
• Fluff (★)
• Horror (★)
• Horror-comedy (★)
• Humor (★)
• Hurt/comfort
• Magical realism
• Monster of the week
• Psychological horror
• Slice of life
• Suspense
• Thriller

• Settings

• Abandoned locations
• Spooky forests
• Haunted houses

• Animals

• Birds
• Cats (★)
• Dinosaurs
• Dogs
• Frogs

• AUs

 

• 1980s
• 1990s
• 2000s
• Cassette futurism
• Cyberpunk
• Fairy tale
• High fantasy
• Monsters
• Outer space/in space
• Pirates
• Post-apocalypse
• Raygun gothic
• Roleswap
• Science fantasy
• Steampunk
• Superpowers

• Tropes

 

• Accidental cat acquisition (★)
• Alternate perspectives
• Banter & snark
• Befriending the monster (★)
• Being watched/stalked
• Bonding over animals
• Came back wrong
• Campfire stories
• Childhood friendship
• Christmas
• Comfort no hurt
• Cooking as a love language
• Costumes
• Crossover relationships (both romantic and platonic!)
• Cryptid/ghost hunting
• Cuddles and snuggles
• Curses
• Doppelgangers
• Dream logic
• Enemies to friends
• Evil clowns
• Fairy tale vibes
• Familial relationships
• Family fluff
• Festivals
• Forced to work together
• Found footage
• Friendship
• Genre homage/parody
• Ghosts
• Halloween (★)
• Heists
• Helplessness
• Horror in cartoony or silly settings (★)
• Hugs
• Idiots in love
• Intergenerational friendships
• Kaiju
• Kidnapping
• Kids being stupid
• Mad science (★)
• Magic
• Mental worlds
• Monster escaped from the lab (★)
• Nightmares (★)
• Occult
• Paranoia
• Parties
• Partners in crime
• Platonic intimacy
• Pumpkin carving
• Puns & wordplay
• Rain
• Scary monster that means well (★)
• Scary movies
• Sibling dynamics
• Sleepy days
• Summer camp
• Supernatural elements
• Surrealism
• Symbolism
• Transformation horror (★)
• Trick or treating
• Urban legends
• Witches and warlocks
• “What if” scenarios