all ur fave tropes IN SPACE
- coffeeshop au In Space – set at a coffeeshop in a space station, lots of interesting people coming and going along with the regulars who live/work at the station. OR set on a space ship, providing for the crew as they travel
- mr & mrs smith au In Space – spies operating in different star systems didn’t realize they were married!
- enclosed in a tight space In Space – after some catastrophe, ur faves have to get off the ship but there’s only one escape pod left! they have to squeeze in together!
- huddling together for warmth In Space – environmental controls are failing and we need to share body heat. alternatively, the cooling systems have failed and now the power systems are cooking us, it’s getting so hot in here take off all ur clothes
- fake dating/married In Space – this mission is long-term so they only wanted couples and we both want to go, so want to use the buddy system?
@hariboo i felt that i needed to tag u on this
this is literally everything ive ever wanted
Otp AU ideas:
•Its like 3am and I’m exhausted and I can hear you raging next door about failing at putting an ikea bed together so here I am helping you put it together and holy shit you’re cute.
•You keep falling asleep in the lectures and I keep waking you up so you don’t get in trouble, so to make sure you stay awake a brought you coffee with my number on it.
•You were the only one in class that got my TV show reference so hey wanna marathon?
•We both reached for the last box of fruit loops and I don’t care that we’re both adults I with fight you.
•We write notes to each other on the desk we share at different times and I never knew who I was talking to until I saw you stay behind after class to write on it and holy shit yoU’RE HOT.
•I’m really sorry, I suck at dancing and you’re suppose to teach me but you’re really cute and keep distracting me so I keep stepping on you’re feet I’m so sorry.
•Our schools are rivals and were on their sport teams and we get injured and spend time in the school infirmary and hey you’re pretty cool and wtf are we a modern Romeo and Juliet?
•Your window was open and you live across from me so I saw and heard you in your underwear, singing and dancing ridiculously and I really wanna get to know you cause you’re pretty hot and I might have a crush on you.
•We hate each other but apparently our teachers ship us and make us partner up all the time and sit next to each other and for the love of God if you don’t shut your mouth I’m gonna shove you on the desk and sNOG THE HELL OUT OF YOU.
•We’re both teachers and I ship these two students but you ship one with another student so let me just tell you why my ship is meant to be.
•My cat keeps breaking into your apartment next to mine so I tied a note to its collar to apologise and you write back so we keep exchanging cat notes and you’re pretty funny.
•wE ARE YOUTUBE RIVALS AND OUR FANS ALL SHIP US
•You’re parents are extremely overprotective and hired me to be your bodyguard.
•We have to partner up in our health class to look after a robot baby and oH GOD ITs crYING again pleASE JUST STOP WHy did we agree to tHIS HELL.
•I’m a punk singer and am hiding from fans in a florists and you work here and are snarky and funny and are adorable go out with me?
So, I know how much everybody loves pretend-dating/pretend-marriage fics, but have you considered ‘pretend NOT to be dating/married’ AUs?
For example:
- My friend is so determined to fix me up with somebody better than my string of casual coffee date/hookup partners that I didn’t have the heart to tell her, after she set us up for a blind date, that I actually met you six months ago
- We’re both professors in the same department and it enhances your reputation with the students as a mysterious enigma and my reputation as a stone-cold terror if we pretend to hate each other, plus when we back each other up in departmental meetings everybody’s so surprised they give in right away
- My parents thought I was working for an insurance company in New York when really I was joining the CIA so I just sort of never mentioned when I met you on an assassination-gone-wrong and now we’ve been married for five years and they still don’t know you exist, this has gotten wildly out of hand and you won’t stop laughing about it
- All your coworkers know you’re married to a cop but now I’m undercover investigating a string of bank heists and it turns out that your only friend at your shitty new job is dating the head bank robber.
- We’ve been communicating entirely by email/phone/carrier pigeon/paid messenger for the past year as we work to bring some peace and order to this troubled land, so when I walked into the negotiation room to sit down with the fearsome and terrible politician/businessperson/famed warrior that all my people are so afraid of, I didn’t really expect it to be you.
- I didn’t think my parents could accept me dating somebody of your gender/race/religion/species, so we’ve been keeping it quiet, but now my mom can’t stop talking about her friend’s next-door neighbor and how perfect they’d be for me and you’ve got some nosy neighbor trying to set you up with their coworker’s kid and how do we tell them we’re engaged without making them think it’s because of their completely uninvited meddling?
- You’ve got to pretend-date your best friend for a couple of weeks because reasons, and somehow that means we’re passing ourselves off as siblings to explain why we live together but we’ve started giving each other really filthy pre-sex looks behind everyone’s back like a game of chicken and pretty soon somebody is going to start to have serious concerns about our siblinghood.
Pretending-not-to-be-dating AUs: add yours today!
my college experiences that would make great fic prompts:
- “i thought you were my new roommate’s boyfriend so i casually invited you in but you’re actually the RA of the dorm and now you think i want to have sex with you” au
- “i accidentally flooded the laundry room and you really needed to do laundry” au
- “i took a bunch of free condoms from health services just because i could and they all fell out of my bag at once and now you’re staring at me weirdly” au
- “we have to go camping together and share a sleeping bag even though we’re complete strangers” au
- “the cereal dispenser in the dining hall broke while i was getting froot loops and now they’re all over the floor and you blame me ” au
- “we argued so much during a class discussion that we both got kicked out and we’re still arguing outside of class” au
that last one though.
AU Massive List – Google Sheets
AU Massive List – Google Sheets
I compiled a spreadsheet of the posts going around tumblr I’ve found of lists of AUs. So, if you want a bunch of AUs in a handy-dandy sheet that makes it easier to use with a random number generator, here you go.
Categories/Titles are highlighted.
mythological creature AUs
- “i just got turned into an incubus or a succubus and i’m like the least smooth and most self-conscious person on the planet so i’m literally starving because i don’t know how to seduce people” AU. BONUS POINTS IF THEY ARE A VIRGIN.
- “i’m a siren and i keep accidentally forgetting that i have roommates now and and end up putting them in my thrall when i’m singing taylor swift songs in the shower” AU
- “i’m a newly-turned werewolf without a pack and i can’t really control myself well on full moon nights yet and you keep finding me passed out naked on your lawn” AU
- “i got cursed and turned into an animal and taken to the shelter and ended up getting adopted by someone who is really hot OH NO” AU
- “i’m a med student who has a huge crush on the hot guy who works at the coffee shop who always gives me free drinks when i’m stressed and calls me princess even though i pretend i think it’s annoying but i’m extremely concerned about him because he always smells like smoke so i always give him lectures about how terrible cigarettes are for you and i may have made a powerpoint which is probably excessive but lung health is extremely important and oops it turns out he’s part-dragon or something hahahaha oops” AU
- “my best friend got turned into a frog and now i’m being the best wingman/woman/person ever by carrying them around to bars and getting hot people to kiss them in hopes of hooking them up with their true love” AU
- “i’m a history major and i keep getting into arguments with one of my classmates about things because they keep saying i’m wrong so i finally scream, ‘how would you know?!?’ and they’re like, ‘because i was THERE!’ and that’s how we all find out that there is a centuries-old vampire taking our British history class” AU
GUESS WHO LOVES AUS
I don’t claim to create any of these and please feel free to add on bUT HERE YOU GO YOU PRECIOUS DORKS HAVE FUN
General
- Coffee Shop AU
- together literally every day AU
- vet clinic AU
- college professors AU
- on a train together and the train is stopped in the middle of nowhere for some reason AU
- Letter found in an old notebook AU
- Road trip across the country and accidentally crossing paths AU
- Work at the same shitty restaurant and have all the same shitty shift times AU
- Record store AU
- basically just like a coffee shop AU but with music
- Always getting the same cashier when checking out at Target no matter what day it is AU
- 1950’s diner AU
- Youtubers AU
- Found the phone number of an old childhood friend in some box at the back of your closet and decided to call it to see if it still worked AU
- ‘I live in the apartment below yours and I keep getting your mail this needs to stop dammit’ AU
- Going up to the mountains for Christmas and getting stuck at the ski resort because of bad weather AU
- ENGLISH LOVE AFFAIR AU
- Going to the fair and rocking the Ferris wheel seat so the person sitting next to you clings to you like a lifeline AU
- Walked into the wrong classroom and didn’t realize until halfway through AU
- Hugged to wrong person from behind AU
- Waved back at someone who wasn’t waving to you in the first place AU
- snowed in AU
- lives alone in the woods and finds a confused lost person walking around AU
- finding a puppy on the side of the road AU
- asthma attack without the inhaler in the middle of the night and the other one has to calm them down AU
- spy AU
- con artists AU
- grew up as best friends but you got hot over the summer can I touch ur biceps AU
- scared of flying AU
- “I have no idea how to work this washing machine, can you help me?“
- person A asking for directions from person B because they’re new in town and hopelessly lost
- constantly fighting for the best seat in the library/coffee shop/whatever
- Neighbors who only meet because I cannot get this stupid jar open, can you help?
- Argue over the last jar of cranberry sauce at the 7/11 au.
- Both stood up on blind dates au
- Buddy cop au
- 1940s noir au
- Meet in a diner at 2am au
- Patients on the same hospital ward au
- while volunteering in the library for a summer reading scheme, got talking to the guy who brought cousins to sign up au
- talked for hours in a queue for tickets au
- asked for advice for a recipe in the supermarket because you had no internet connection au
- showed you had to use the gym equipment and then turned out to be your gym class instructor au
- met at a Renaissance faire AU
- sat next to each other on a roller coaster AU
- got locked out of dorm room AU
- camping in the same area AU
- hurricane during a beach trip AU
- met at a card game competition AU
- kids go to the same school AU
- repairman AU
- strip club AU
- surfer AU
- private security AU
- Deep into Character Development AU
- meeting while waiting for hours on end in the emergency room au
- monopoly night au
- commiserating on a night shift at McDonalds au
- you were the only one that offered to help me move in au
- marching band au
- sharing a high school textbook and leaving each other notes and answers in page corners au
- working in a museum au
- panicked yelling in unison because of lost baggage in between connecting flights au
- I keep calling tech support because you’re helpful and also your voice is really cute au
- rival ice cream trucks au
- you helped me get my kayak upright so we’re friends forever au
- competitive buskers who eventually form a band au
- newspaper advice columnists who passive-aggressively diss one another in their advice au
- working at a theatre together during the midnight premiere of a blockbuster au
- Coffee shop AU
- found their phone number in a library book au
- hitchhiker ride au
- met through online rpg au
- accidentally taking each other’s bags au
- camp councilors au
- antiques shop au
- called the wrong number while drunk au
- sex shop au
- found your their dog au
- crashed the their car au
- yoga class au
- public demonstration au
- Both Speak a Different Language and Have to Communicate Another Way AU
- Small Town Lovers AU
- Road Trip AU
- meeting on Tumblr au
- artists au
- lost in a museum au
- meeting on an online game au
- art shop au
- mattress store au
- Goth au
- grocery store au
- wrong apartment au
- pizza delivery au
- on the same sports team au
- Arranged Marriage AU
- CIA AU
- Fallen Angel AU
- James Bond AU
- Fashion Designer AU
- Dancer AU
- CEO AU
- Band on a Tour AU
- reached for the last snack item at the same time au
- accidentally ‘borrowed’ their towel at their gym au
- saw their number graffitied on a toilet stall au
- parents signed them up for the same shitty art/science program au
- met on omegle au
- thirst follow au
- mail keeps coming to the wrong address au
- I think your dog likes my dog” au
- Wrong bag AU
- Hey can I use your charger AU
- Missed the same flight AU
- Accidentally fall asleep on stranger AU
- Can I use your hotspot AU
- Running late for same flight AU
- Get in the same cab AU
- Share the same layover AU
- Racing on the walkway AU
- Hot pilot AU
- Sitting by the same wall plug AU
- Getting lost in the airport AU
- Last bag of gummy bears in the machine AU
- Thinking they’re someone else and jump hugging them AU
- Airport bar AU
- Commenting on the TV in the gate AU
- Can I borrow money for the pay phone AU
- Huge storm all planes grounded AU
- Stuck in the subway AU
- Huge blizzard only one room left in the hotel AU
- Both in the smoking room AU
- Scared of flying and needing comfort AU
- In line together AU
- Grabbed wrong shoes in security AU
- Grabbed wrong anything in security AU
- Being patted down AU
- Don’t speak the language AU
- Help with wheel chair AU
- Took the wrong phone off the charger station AU
- Plane pressure drop and helping with the mask AU
- Only one on late night bus AU
- Wrong tour group AU
- Oops went the wrong way AU
- Why didn’t you recycle that AU
- My airplane TV screen doesn’t work can I watch yours AU
- Heard childhood best friends name being called on the loudspeaker AU
- Heard first loves name being called AU
- Ghost haunting airport AU
- Only open seat in a diner AU
- Can I have a stick of gum AU
- Wearing the same shirt as a stranger AU
- How many ways do you think we could smuggle drugs AU
- Actually smuggling drugs AU
- Human trafficking AU
- Left wallet in a cab AU
- Talking about art in a museum AU
- Both typing essays on plane and helping each other AU
- Rival teams heading to the same tournament AU
- Vampires
- Band heroes
- Librarians
- Office romance/bromance
- Genderbend
- Hospital staff
- Hollywood
- Broadway
- Bandits/criminals
- Medieval
- Modern
- shape shifter au
- road trip au
- stripper au
- elevator stopped and we can’t get out au
- one is a ghost au
- debate on a mutual friends status au
- librarian assistant au
- dog walker au
- internet friends au
- scared of flying on a plane au
- amnesia au
- bookshop au
- high school teachers au
- goes to wrong apartment when drunk au
- music store au
- cross dresser au
- foster care au
- witness protection au
- meet in online rpg au
- picked a random number in a phone book and got you au
- ice skaters au
- roller skaters au
- dancing partners au
- singing partners au
- mermaid au
- stuck in an elevator together au
- daycare au
- yoga class au
- Disney au
- meeting on a vacation au
- gangsters/ mobsters au
- dystopian au
- utopian au
- wizard AU where one accidentally apparates into the wrong house
- bffs when they were little but one moved away and they run into each other again AU
- archaeologist AU
- paramedic AU
- ghosts in love AU
- go to the same support group AU
- just keep running into each other everywhere AU
- younger siblings are best friends AU
- ski patrol au
- McDonalds au
- you work at the ice cream stand across from my hamburger place and you’re cute au
- the electricity went out and I don’t have candles au
- you turned up at my door sopping wet and I don’t know what else to do au
- reached for the last item on the shelf au
- detention au
- playing romantic interests in a play au
- time travel au
- summer camp au
- sat next to each other on the train/airplane/bus au
- stuck in an airplane au
- went on the school trip together au
- ballet au
- Boarding school au
- romantic comedy scriptwriters AU
- Disney world characters au
- Picking apples at grocery store when all of them fall down AU
- Modern royalty AUs
- Egyptologists AUs
- Book club AUs
- Met at comic con AUs
- Lifeguard AUs
- 1920s con artists AUs
- Time traveling AUs
- Struggling artists AUs
- incredibly long cross-country train ride AU
- police procedural AU
- bookstore AU
- reluctant teammates that save the world together AU
- platonic living together AU
- lawyers AU
- stuck-in-an-airport-because-the-flights-were-SO-VERY-delayed-and-it’s-like-two-am AU
- sent to live with cousins AU
- pretending to be siblings because of reasons AU
- teaming up to rescue respective abducted children AU
- pseudo-adopting-the-runaway-I-ran-into AU
- forget high school students AU I want a high school teachers AU
- law school AU
- on the same college tour AU
- trapped in a bank during a robbery AU
- forced to share a table at the coffee shop a couple days in a row because crowded coffee shop and no room AU
- DOCTORS AU
- medical school AU
- ride the same bus
Domestic AUs
- Sock skating in the newly waxed floors.
- Fighting over the thermostat settings.
- Movie night on the couch.
- With nowhere else to be, they both spend their rare day off at home.
- Hosting a holiday party for their mutual friends.
- Game night.
- “Oh! Hey! Could you come and taste this to see if it’s okay?”
- Your stray red item turned my whites pink.
- Rosh ambo to see who has to go talk to the neighbors upstairs for being too loud.
- Swapping “miracle cure recipes” for hangovers.
- Having to put up holiday decorations together after a big fight.
- Target practice with marshmallow shooter and the local kit of pigeons.
- Power outage causes them to have dinner by candle light.
- “My parents are coming over in 10 minutes so please put some clothes on”
- Person A is sick and Person B takes care of them.
- “What is ______ doing in the freezer?”
- Person A runs into Person B’s one-night stand at breakfast.
- Sharing book titles/CDs.
- Volunteers to investigate the strange noises coming from the closet.
- Begrudgingly adopts the cat that climbed in through the open window and hid in said closet.
- The ceiling is leaking. Who wants to deal with the apartment manager?
- Person A suspect the new neighbors are serial killers. Person B attempts to placate them.
- Choosing to repaint the apartment and goes to the hardware store together to pick out color swatches.
- Thunderstorm cuddles
Roommate/Neighbors AU
- ‘friend of a friend needs a place to stay before they get evicted’ au
- ‘roommate falls in the shower and breaks an arm’ au
- ‘roommate has a nightmare and doesn’t want to sit alone at night’ au
- ‘new roommate cooks alone for the first time and almost burns down the house’ au
- ‘roommate gets sick and needs tissues and cough sweets and soup’ au
- ‘overhearing roommate singing in the shower to find out they sound angelic’ au
- ‘My roommate is kind of hot?????’
- Walks in on roommate crying while watching a movie in the living room.
- my roommate’s boyfriend is staying over so can I please sleep on your floor
- walking in on hot roommate masturbating oh my god
- Sorry my roommate puked on your shoes
- “wait, you’re not the roommate I requested”
- Neighbors in a shitty apartment building that share a sense of solidarity for each other (also a mutual attraction because hot what)
Romance!
- I promise I’m not hitting on you but you smell really good"
- Sleepy kisses AU
- Inappropriately timed confessions
- INAPPROPRIATELY TIMED PROPOSALS
- At a ski lodge and somehow got stuck outside in the middle of the storm but hey look there’s a conveniently abandoned cabin I guess the logical thing to do is go in there and snuggle for warmth for the night
- Seeing love interest in formal wear for the first time whaaat
- Everyone thinks they’re dating and then they start wondering if they’re dating
- Oops friend looks like the only place to sleep in this house is this small, twin-sized bed, guess we’ll have to share
- Crashed the wrong wedding and now the best man/maid of honor is on my ass, but hey they’re kinda hot so???
- drama school rivals being cast as romantic opposites because they have “crazy sexual tension” according to their director AU
- You belong to a rival team, but I’m falling head first for you and I’m trying my hardest to not throw the championship game away au.
- I see you with the same person all the time and I assume you two are in a relationship so I’ll just pine for you from a distance au.
- We’ve been together for a while now and I want to have a family with you but don’t know how to approach the topic since you made it pretty clear that you dislike children au.
- you’re in the air force and I’m in the marines and deeply in love you, but I’m not sure if it’s possible for us to be anything because I just got my orders and I’ll be an ocean away from you au.
- Drunk dialed/texted ex/crush oh hell
- We met years ago when you helped me find my mom when I got lost in the mall and I never forgot your soft smile even after all these years au.
- I work the late shift at the bar and you recently started being a regular during the evening, always looking like a wreck and one day I finally worked up the nerve to ask if you were okay. You tell me how you have twins and the mother/father left and you don’t know what to do so you’re drinking your problems away au.
- You’re my tutor on a subject that I can easily ace but I’m only acting stupid because I really want to know how your lips taste and feel like against mine au.
- I’m a criminal detective investigating a murder and you’re a suspect. You definitely look the part of a murderer… unfortunately. It should be illegal to be that hot and menacing au.
- You and I meet at a bachelor/ette show with both of us hoping to get with, well, the bachelor/ette only to find and fall for each other au.
- ‘I guess we’ll have to share the bed’
- ‘maybe we should pretend to date’
- ‘Oh no….look like we trapped in this closet together….’
- kissed them as a distraction while stealing their wallet au
- I can’t go alone to my ex’s wedding
- Omg our car broke down in a snowstorm
- Hot single dad hires broke babysitter
- “we’re the only ones who didn’t get the email about class being canceled” au
- “we’re the only ones on campus who didn’t go home for Christmas” au
- “can u help me sneak my cat into my dorm” au
- “accidentally got assigned the same library study room so I guess we’ll have to share for the semester” au
- “It’s raining and u forgot your umbrella so come over and stand under mine while we wait for the bus” au
EVERYTHING IS THE SAME BUT
- antlers AU
- wings AU
- spirit animal that follows them around AU
- It rains ducks AU (Like the bird. Srs)
- name on the wrist for soulmate AU
- first words of what your soulmate says to you on wrist AU
- every time a person falls in love, a red line like a tally mark appears on their wrist More info here
PEN PALS or LETTERS
- pen pals AU
- pen pals for class au
- Pen pals who meet in person for the first time AU
- pen pals who vent at each other every week au
APOCALYPSE
- Apocalypse survivors au
- ‘Maybe if we met before the apocalypse I could have loved you properly.’ AU
- being reunited after surviving the zombie apocalypse unknowing if the other was alive or dead AU
Random
- “are we both robbing the same house oh fuck” AU
- growing up together in a rough neighborhood AU
- mutual friends always dragged to the same inane barbecues AU
- ‘I heard you singing backstreet boys at 3am and decided to sing along oops’ AU
- ’ holy shit I’m in the wrong car’ AU
- LASER TAG AU
- ‘Omg I can’t believe you still listen to CDs let me help you digitize’ AU
- ’ I know you steal my Wi-Fi to watch porn but it’s kind of hot idk’ AU
- ‘My pet really hates your pet’ AU
- ’ Customer that knows wayyyy more than the brand new employee please help me out’ AU
- ‘I was walking by the roller coasters and SOMEONE’S SHOE FLEW OFF AND HIT ME IN THE HEAD” AU
- ‘dude I know we don’t know each other but my swim trunks came off when I jumped in the water can you grab them for me’ AU
- ”it’s 2am and I’m drunk and I need some goddamn French fries right now so open your fucking door’ AU
- SWIM TEAM AU
- ‘got mistaken for a celebrity by the celebrity’s biggest fan’ AU
- ‘this person just fell asleep on me in the subway but they’re cute so whatever’ AU
- ‘sorry I set the fire alarm in our building off again for the forty-eighth time I was trying to cook’ AU
- ‘so YOU’RE the douchebag who keeps mowing their lawn while I’m trying to sleep’ AU
- ‘I know nothing about camping will you help me I think I heard a bear’ au
- WINDOW WASHER AU
- ‘we’re literally the only two kids who ride this school bus maybe we should carpool or make out or something’ AU
- ‘I hired you off craigslist to be my date for a wedding’ AU
- ’I’m a werewolf but I’m embarrassed to tell you because my wolf form is more like a Chihuahua’ AU
- ‘we both tried to rob a bank at the same time’ AU
- fighting a squirrel AU
- ”your sandcastle is pathetic” beach au
- ‘I’m pretending to be ur bff because u looked VERY uncomfortable with that person at the bar hitting on u’ AU
- ‘What the fuck are you doing it’s midnight why are you playing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ on the piano’ AU
- Alternatively, ‘I’m going to lean out the window and sing along until you fucking stop and wonder who else is singing’ AU
- ‘Your cat keeps getting into my house and I don’t even know how would you care to explain’ AU
- ‘I forgot to do my homework so I’m just going to copy off of you and hope that you didn’t get the answers wrong’ AU
- “which asshole hasn’t returned the DVD I want yet” au
- Model who looks and acts really professional at the photo shoot but is actually a huge nerd AU
- AU where they are coincidentally seated next to each other at a sports game as strangers and get caught by the Kiss Cam
- Stole a car with someone sleeping in the back seat [Turns out that the car had already been stolen so basically you just stole a stolen car] AU
- I lost a bet and I am a man of my word so here I am about to get a bikini wax for the first time. I knew it was going to be painful but what I wasn’t expecting was that a really hot guy going to do the waxing and now I’m trying failing to not get a hard on au.
- We’re guild mates in a mmorpg and I’ve only ever heard your voice and I may or may not have jacked off to you just talking while I had my mic off. And now I accidentally forgot to turn it off and you heard me breathing hard moaning your name as I came on myself au.
- Our families loathe each other because we’re competing for the best pizza restaurant title and now they asked us to get close to each other to steal the opposing family’s secret. But the thing was that we’ve been together for months so we fake a fake relationship and give our family false information au.
- rival superhero’s who are trying to protect the same small city
- posted a joke ad in the classifieds but someone actually responded
- person A who sits in the back of every staff meeting and makes snarky comments under their breath about everyone the whole time and person B who arrived late and sat next to them and can barely hold in their laughter
- “we both got in separate bar fights downtown and now we’re waiting in the ER comparing stories" au
- “accidentally fell in your lap while standing on this crowded bus” au
- “tried to get the candy bar that didn’t drop out of the vending machine and now my hand is stuck can u help me out” au
- “I rented the apartment above your flower shop and in the last two months you’ve gotten a new flower I’m allergic to so I keep buying bouquets until I can figure out which kind it is” au
- “you know you’re singing to your headphones out loud, right” au
- beat the crap out of each other in online multiplayer au
- worked really well together in online co-op au
- met while buying condoms at the corner store
- little kids getting way too caught up in make-believe AU
- got involved in a heated game of Smash Bros. at a con AU
Movies, Anyone?
- Labyrinth au!
- Jurassic park au?
- Bonnie and Clyde or Thelma and Louise au
- GREASER/SOCS AU OH MY GOD
- Breaking Bad AU
- FRIENDS AU
- Zombie AU
- Season 5 of SPN AU
- Lucifer and Michael AU
- Backpacking Across Europe AU
- Kingdom Hearts AU
- Mermaid AU
- Beauty and the Beast AU
- Adam and Eve AU
- Noah’s Ark AU
- Fight club au
- Murder mystery au
- Reality TV show au
- Both cosplay the same character at a con au
- Sitting next to each other in the theatre au.
It Takes Two to Tango
- Soldiers on opposing side au
- Prisoner and prison guard au
- war prisoner/captor who lets them go but they want to stay AU
- One character is an angel and one is a demon au
- Taken hostage at the bank au
- Alternatively, Hostage Taker and Hostage
- Tailor and customer au
- Next to each other on a turbulent plane journey au
- both turned to look at a cute kid and saw each other au
- got debating on a mutual friend’s status au
- asked a library helper for reading advice and got excited about the same books au
- Sitting in Detention AU
- Asking a date to Prom AU
- Proposal AU
- Wedding Planner and Wedding Caterer AU
- Actor/Rock star and agent AU
- Author and Illustrator AU
- Vet and Pet Owner AU
- School Rivals AU
- 7 minutes in heaven/Truth or Dare AU
- Stuck in an Elevator for 3+ hours AU
- Book Seller and Customer AU
- Running from the police AUs
- Librarian AUs
- Rebels against the government AUs
- Internet friends AUs
- Rock star and groupie AUs
- Accidentally read his/her diary AUs
- photographer and model AU
- writer and editor AU
- immortal and non-immortal AU
- Immortal and Methuselah AU
- screenwriter and director AU
- Greek god and roman counterpart AU
- We were skiing/snowboarding and got on the same lift and now the lift is stuck au
- runaway royalty and confused commoner AU
- android and human AU
- orchestra player/pianist and concertgoer AU
- mailman(/woman) and person who receives a lot of mail AU
- private detective and client AU
- protester and police officer AU
- lab partners AU
- new neighbors AU
- one’s blind and falls in love with the other’s voice AU
- hair stylist/makeup artist and actor/model AU
- cat/dog runs away and other person finds it AU
- mistaken identity AU
- sit next to each other in orchestra/band/class AU
- Partners in (literal) crime AU (theft? fraud? hacking? murder?)
- partners in dance class AU
- trapped on a deserted island together AU
- crashed their car au
- psychologist/ patient au
- teacher/ student au
- fell asleep on a stranger au
- Superhero and/or Villain AU
- understudy for play/musical au
- date auction for charity
- alternatively, buyer and the date
- rescuing their partner from a recon mission gone wrong AU
- Run into each other in a hospital while there for really stupid reasons
- Both have same obscure taste in music and meet in a dark corner of a music store
- ‘camp counselors at the same sleep away camp’ au
- ‘my new FBI partner/consultant is really hot’ au
- ‘we have to sing a duet together but I hate you’ au
- ‘I should not be this attracted to the new intern’ au
- ‘you accidentally shipped this weird thing to my apartment’ au
- ‘my new best friend’s sibling is so hot’ au
- ‘forced lab partners’ au
- ‘you just joined the -sports team here- that I’m the captain of’ au
- ‘we both tried to grab the last copy of that book in the shop’ au
- ‘we went to a con/party dressed as a couple on accident’ au
- ‘my roommate’s best friend is really obnoxious but also hot’ au
- ‘we’re the only ones in this subway car and the metro broke down’ au
- the ‘new bartender at my favorite bar is unfairly attractive’ au
Fuckin’ Assholes
- kept kicking the back of my chair at the theatre au
- tried breaking into my flat when they were drunk because they thought it was theirs au
- always arrives at the cafeteria 30 seconds before me and takes the last sandwich I like au
- repeatedly comes into the shop I work at and picks up a lettuce then half way through the shop
- decides they don’t want the lettuce and puts it back on the shelf next to them regardless of what aisle they’re in au
HALLOWEEN
- I tried to buy all the Halloween candy in a store before you could
- Met trying to grab the last of a costume in a specific size
- Came to the wrong Halloween party
- Wore the same exact costume
- Surprise decorating neighbor’s yard with fake spiders/webs
- Pranked the wrong person on accident
- Grabbed at the same time for the last copy of a scary movie
- Came to investigate someone screaming next door
- The kids we’re escorting to trick or treat dropped their bags
- Accidentally scared a kid and their adult is angry
- Dog chased me up a tree when I tried to knock on the door
- Tried to get the last perfectly round pumpkin at the same time
- You took my pumpkin pie on accident and I have your apple one
- I ran out of candy and aren’t you too old to be trick or treating
- Hugged/kissed wrong person in a costume like my friend’s.
- Stuck in the same group for a haunted house and grabbed each other when something jumped out at them
- ‘I was unaware that there was an organized zombie crawl going on and I didn’t realize you were in a costume and I screamed in your face because I truly thought I was facing a zombie invasion’ au
COLLEGE
- turns out that random hookup from the club sits right next to you in your favorite class
- skipping class to get high
- I really need to pass this midterm and rumor has it you have the best study guide"
- I’m really passionate about this cause and I will give you this flier if I have to shove it down your throat
- vicious battle over the only left handed desk in the room
- It’s pouring and my final paper is in my backpack so I guess we’re stuck under this tiny awning together. do you think they’d deliver pizza here
- hey I have to photograph someone for class will you be my model
- hey I have to take someone’s blood pressure for class will you be my victim
- I know I keep coming to the cookie shop and for some reason it’s always your shift but don’t you dare judge me I need these for my sanity
- all our friends are drunk
- it’s 3 am and I’m still in the library studying for finals and I’m losing my grip on reality and I think I just saw a ghost
- We’re the only two people in this club. what is this club even for
- humans vs zombies (see you can still have your zombie AU, best of both worlds)
- we’re the only people who ever talk in discussions it’s awful
- GROUP PROJECT
- #both of us turned up at the wrong room for this lecture but don’t know where its meant to be
- waiting outside for pizza to be delivered and both of ours are super late
- you keep parking in the space outside my student house you absolute asshole
- we live in halls opposite each other and I keep seeing you changing through your window
- #you’re the only other person in the room when I break the printer and I’m panicking
- Neither of us bought the expensive textbook but there is only one copy in the library and it can’t leave the building
- This awesome professor only has one TA slot and we’re rivals
- I found your USB drive still in the computer
- I thought I was the only one who liked the waffle station in the cafeteria
- You keep reserving the good study room in the corner of the library with the windows
- We’re studying in the library and there are two people very obviously fucking in the stacks and we keep sharing embarrassed glances
- We’re both donating blood in the blood donation van in the quad to get out of the same class
- You decked me in the head while you were playing Frisbee golf
- Wait, I actually have a competent lab partner?
- You’re the RA and you’re trying to bust me for having hermit crabs
- You’re baking cookies in the communal kitchen at 3am and I’m angry but also really hungry
- What are you doing at this table at the career fair
- Waiting for office hours
- I’ve been sitting in this seat all semester why did you decide to sit in it today
- Clearly we’re both really uncomfortable at this party
- You peed on my car. You were drunk. I was in the car. There will be hell to pay.
- We started racing up the three flights of stairs to class for some reason and we can’t stop
- You’re REALLY GOOD at using the right search terms for the academic databases and I’m on a deadline
- both stuck in the dorm common room because their respective roommates needed “alone time”
- my friend dragged me to this party and I just saw my ex quick make out with me
- we’re always at the fitness center at the same time and end up competing on the treadmill
- Can I borrow a dryer sheet? I ran out and the ones in the vending machine give me a rash
- Your school mailbox is right next to mine
- I saw you sneaking captain crunch and cutlery out of the dining hall
- My roommate borrowed your contraband hotpot and managed to set it on fire
- You keep using my preferred shower stall in the floor bathrooms when I’m trying to get ready for class
- My computer crashed and you’re the student worker at the IT center
- we’re both on athletic teams that aren’t as cool as the football team and they give us shit
- You’re part of the guerrilla theater club on campus and crashed my class for a performance
- What do you mean we’re under a tornado warning?
- it’s 3am, in the dead of winter, some motherfucker pulled/set off the fire alarm and I am being very vocal about how I’m going to make that fucker pay
- you’re the fucker who set off the fire alarm with your awful cooking
- I’m the fucker who set off the fire alarm with my awful cooking
- my shower isn’t working can I use yours
- RA mandated floor party
- I couldn’t help but notice you’re watching a show I like instead of studying in the computer lab
- dude your headphones are really loud like I can make out most of Kanye’s lyrics and I’m sitting across the fucking room
- Hey the semester’s almost over and I have way too much money on my cafeteria account, do you want anything??? this shit’s just going to disappear into the college’s pocket otherwise
- THERE IS A BOUNCY CASTLE IN THE OVAL AND I AM VERY EXCITED
- I’ve ordered take out every night this week and you always seem to be my delivery person
- we’re both skipping class to study for a different class
- you live above me and I’m going to murder you if you don’t stop throwing parties Sunday night
- there’s only one study room left in the dorm basement and I don’t want to walk to the library, let’s fight for it
- I swear I’m wearing this Batman costume because of a dare
- The guy with the bibles on the quad has cornered me and is screaming about hell, please rescue me
- lecture room bingo for annoying things your prof says
- you’re obviously high or hungover so I’m going to rescue you and tell the teacher why your answer wasn’t as strange as it sounded, but you’ll owe me
- holy fuck you found me on the roof please don’t be an RA
- You’re standing right next to me while we’re both flyering and catching all of the people walking past before I can
- Alternatively, we’re standing right next to each other while flyering and hey, are you as miserable as I am right now?
- We can’t both listen to our music in the shower at the same time
- Both of us are super bored at this mandatory floor meeting
- We both work really late shifts on Friday Nights and you give me a ride home so I don’t have to walk alone in the dark
- You’re the only one who actually responded to the desperate message I sent to the whole class about needing the notes
- All the seats in this huge fucking lecture hall and you have to sit right next to me
- I’m sorry you caught me moving your clothes out of the dryer but in my defense I’ve been waiting for one to open up for about an hour now
- We were both running for the bus and it didn’t wait for us, so now we’re at this bus stop together alone
- Are you the one who keep leaving their dirty dishes in the common area kitchen
- You posted that you needed to borrow something on the floor’s Facebook group and I just so happen to have what you need
- I want to buy your football ticket/textbook/etc. so we have to meet up
- Every single table in the union is full, do you mind if I just sit here for a while?
- “we heard meningitis is going around and we’re both terrified and buying hand sanitizer in bulk”
- the only ones in the dorm that go out for thirsty Thursday
- met doing laundry at 2am college au
- accidentally knocked on the wrong dorm room college au
- picked up the wrong book when we bumped into each other college au
- Hey exchange student why don’t you can come to mine for thanksgiving?? college au
- walked in on you in the shower college au
- drunkenly hooked up but you’re dating my roommate who already hates me college au
- the always-partying kid falls for the always-studying kid college au
- heard a scream and thought you were getting killed but it was just a spider college au
- I really hate you but you have the highest grades in class and I need help college au
how about them single parent!au’s??
- im on the bus and my 2-year-old won’t stop crying, except you just smiled at them and they did
- i asked you to babysit one time and now my child keeps asking when you will spend time with them again
- you asked me to the store with you and your child, and now my distant relative we met thinks im married with a baby
- we are friends and my child’s first word was your name and im jealous but also kind of endeared
- you’ve been sleeping at mine because your house is being renovated and we aren’t even dating, yet every time you wake up to the baby crying and sigh, “i’ll go” i feel like we might as well be married
- we’ve been on a few dates and my child just asked us when we are getting married
- our children are in the same class and we both hate their teacher, eventually the parents’ evenings are just us competing who can call out snarkier comments
- we are the only two parents who agreed to attend the school trip (bonus: “so i guess we share this hotel room?”)
- our children are best friends….yeah
- “i’m so sorry that my child pointed out how your shirt- actually nevermind i agree, that shirt is horrendous”
- you crouched down to coo at my baby but i forgot to tell you their favorite thing to do is to play with people’s hair and now they won’t let go of you