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sanguinity  did it, and I couldn't resist: Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown

My results:

1 Body Swapping
1 Polyamory
1 Found Families
1 Friends to Lovers
1 Loyalty Kink
1 Vampires/Werewolves AU
1 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
8 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
8 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
8 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
8 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
12 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
12 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
12 A/B/O15Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
15 Adopting/Raising a Baby
15 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
18 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
18 And They Were Roommates!
18 Amnesia Fic
18 Hurt/Comfort
22 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
23 'They All Work In An Office' AU
23 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
25 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
26 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
26 Hot Single Parent(s)
28 High School/University AU
28 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
30 Pride and Prejudice AU
30 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
32 Actually Unrequited Pining
32 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
34 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
34 Hogwarts AU
34Daemons
34 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU

Surprisingly granular! Though I would have pegged Vampires/Werewolves AU and Magic Connection lower, more like 12. And soulmate marks is only as high as it is because I was envisioning my best-case-scenario for the trope, which I really like a lot, instead of the most-common-scenario for the trope, which I kind of hate. The ones at the bottom of the list are right on though, those are the tropes I don't touch with a ten-foot pole, for various idiosyncratic reasons. (I have never been able to explain why reincarnation AUs squick me so hard, but I can't scroll past the summaries of them fast enough.)

Also, I didn't see the instruction to try not to use the "I like both" or "No opinion" boxes until halfway through, and then I changed my behavior, so I might have gotten slightly different results if I had bothered to read the whole page before starting.

Update: I took it again, refusing to use the "I like both" or "No opinion" boxes -- I gave in only once, when it gave me Daemons vs Hogwarts AU, which are two things that fit in exactly the same box in my head (really popular AUs that I have negative interest in, because I haven't read -- have in fact refused to read -- the source material, and whose popularity I thus resent) and I really couldn't choose between them. The test took a lot longer that way, I suspect because I kept giving it conflicting information! But at the end, I got a list with only one tie on it:

1 Loyalty Kink
2 Polyamory
3 Body Swapping
4 Friends to Lovers
5 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
6 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
7 Found Families
8 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
9 A/B/O
10 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
11 And They Were Roommates!
12 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
13 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
14 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
15 Vampires/Werewolves AU
16 Hurt/Comfort
17 Amnesia Fic
18 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
19 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
20 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
21 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
22 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
23 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
24 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
25 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
26 Hot Single Parent(s)
27 Adopting/Raising a Baby
28 'They All Work In An Office' AU
29 High School/University AU
30 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
31 Actually Unrequited Pining
32 Hogwarts AU
32 Daemons
34 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
35 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
36 Pride and Prejudice AU
37 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU

And you know, I think that's pretty much accurate!