I'm starting to figure this out.

[julian_griffith]

 If you take the world of romance as being like the entire world of fanfiction, then the sub-genres are the individual fandoms.

So there are paranormals with their subdivisions: vampire, werewolf, psychics, faeries, witches. And there are Westerns, both historical and contemporary. And police stuff, and military, and the ones about billionaires, and historicals of various periods... you get the idea. And of course they come in slash and het variations, as well as other stuff.

I have never had a whole lot of fandoms. I tend to stick to a few. And even in those, I don't often read widely, unless it's a tiny little fandom.

So it's not an actual failing that entire subgenres of romance hold no appeal for me.

They're just not my fandoms.

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[julian_griffith]

Now I feel like I should write you a post-apocalyptic coffeeshop AU, although how I can possibly get "post-apocalyptic" and "coffeeshop" into the same setting, unless it's Apocalypse Lite, I have no idea. Coffee is a persnickety plant...

I'll cop to having already decided that my OT3 will have four children, and I've named three of them, as I did a bit of Christmas fluff for a dear friend, a crossover with characters in her continuity (there's a generation gap, but it's not insuperable), and by the time I got them all together for a house party, three of the four were walking around and #4 was on the way. And now, as I did with Potterfic, I'm pairing up the side characters -- my main ship was Snape/Rosier, but it also encompassed Percy/Oliver and Tonks/Charlie. In my own 'verse, there's an existing M/M pairing of side characters, and I've got an outlined het WIP for the viscountess's cook-maid and a soldier from the viscount's regiment, and a planned F/F story for the viscountess's schoolgirl BFF and an officer's widow from the viscount's regiment. (It is SO USEFUL to have a whole regiment to draw from.)

I think if there's breakout m/m mpreg, my head will explode. Snape and Rosier would be horrified at the idea of raising children, though Evan was touched when Tonks asked him to be her younger's godfather, and then she volunteered to be a surrogate for a child that was genetically Percy/Oliver's. That's the closest I'll ever get to mpreg, I SWEAR.

So yeah, I'm pretty solidly in the "give the OTP lots of kids" id-stuff. What else are you going to do with historical HEA? Except the femdom lady pirate thing. She can't have kids. They just retire rich and turn the ship over to her niece.

Post-apocalyptic coffeeshop AU. That's a hell of a prompt!

[ankaret]

Hee. If you write it I promise I will read it!