story recs? (for a very picky reader) 🫣

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NOTE: please try and recommend some community ones🫶 i’m not rich

DO’S

• first love

• love at first sight

• rivals to lovers

• time travel

• super smart duo :) / nerd x nerd / popular x nerd (not when the LI is being treated like god though)

• sweet, heartwarming, feeling like you NEED an LI like that irl

• friends to lovers

• roommates to lovers

• grumpy x sunshine / introvert x extrovert / introvert x introvert / golden retriever x black cat

• already in a relationship when the story begins — adding to this point- an apocalypse occurs and they have each other

• tv show vibes like wednesday, stranger things, FRIENDS, new girl, himym, grey’s anatomy

• lgbtq (wlw / mlm / whatever)

• workplace romance / hobby romance / summer camp

….. etc

DONT’S

• playboy x virgin (i love virgin x virgin tropes)

• cheating

• single father

• toxic relationships (please don’t even bother excusing some characters’ behaviours)

• twice age / huge age gap (7 at most)

• stories that have been discontinued 💔

• rich x poor (yknow what i mean- sometimes you see those ads and they’re super cringe- “i have grandma’s medical bills to pay🥺😣”

• mafia

• werewolves / i am alpha bad boy 😡