Sex pollen: D -- this is one of my "only by an author I trust" or "only if recommended by someone I trust" tropes, and even then it's highly dependent on the summary/other tags. Actually I tend not to be the biggest fan of other forms of intoxication in fic either (which often throws me straight out of a fic, especially with drunk!LWJ being a thing in canon--that shows up a fair bit).
Modern no-powers/mundane AU: there was a time when this would've been a straight F, but now it's an "it depends." I still don't care for mundane modern AUs at their most generic--students/unspecified office jobs in a nameless but probably American city, etc. But highly mundane AUs can be great actually.
Outsider POV: B. There's a subset of outsider POV that I don't like, which is when the outsider is observing romantic interactions specifically--not like voyeurism but just like, oh this shopkeeper doesn't realize they're a couple/knows they're a couple before they do/etc. In MDZS fics what I really like is when outsider pov calls into question gossip & public opinion vs reality, because there's so much you can do with that. Characters being afraid of someone and learning they shouldn't be, or the other way around.
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Date: 2022-12-21 02:58 am (UTC)Modern no-powers/mundane AU: there was a time when this would've been a straight F, but now it's an "it depends." I still don't care for mundane modern AUs at their most generic--students/unspecified office jobs in a nameless but probably American city, etc. But highly mundane AUs can be great actually.
Outsider POV: B. There's a subset of outsider POV that I don't like, which is when the outsider is observing romantic interactions specifically--not like voyeurism but just like, oh this shopkeeper doesn't realize they're a couple/knows they're a couple before they do/etc. In MDZS fics what I really like is when outsider pov calls into question gossip & public opinion vs reality, because there's so much you can do with that. Characters being afraid of someone and learning they shouldn't be, or the other way around.