Futa. But not because I have a problem with chicks with dicks, I just have a problem with it because most authors that use them as a stand in for everything male. It's so ingrained that the futas are male stand ins that they act 100% male except for the time boobs are relevant for a joke. It's extremely boring, cause we already got regular cis smut, and I've read enough of that to be bored of it. Like, you'd think there'd be some kind of futa orgy or something, nope you just got the futa harem GBing the normie package girl MC exactly like how a cis porn vids would go. Very boring.
BL because it's either very deep in weeb culture with seme and ukes, or it's very flamboyantly gay. There's more than two modes of being gay ma guys and dirty girls.
GL is a miss 90% of the time. Mainly because it's usually a reincarnated or magically male to female, and they don't have their new biology influence them. Which means they just magically keep their previous life's sexuality some how, and the story becomes 100% girl power, slay queen, no men allowed unless they are evil so we can kick their asses. That's a story I've seen several dozen times, it's lazy with no research, and I'd rather not again.
I really think smut beyond cis is just subpar, and reads like a straight guy/girl wrote their ero fantasy, but they don't go all the way so it just reads as cis characters RPing as what they think the other gender/sex is like in bed. Not doin any research on real people has made the smut really boring and the relationships just an echo of hentai and porn instead of anything realistic.
Harem cause it's boring. I do give it a shot f it's a novel idea, but I'm usually disappointed. I truly don't get how people can enjoy it. There's just not much relationship building in those, so everyone comes of as one dimensional. Over compensation from the lonely basterds who don't touch grass or something?
Depressing, tragedy, dark, grimdark, slavery, evil protagonist, crazy protagonist, torture, corruption, guro, etc. Case I'm already depressed and don't need to add to it.
Mind control. Mainly because it's entirely too OP to be in a story at all. And no author has satisfied me when it comes to actually resolving the use of it. I've seen mind control be broken via: power of friendship, power of love, divine intervention self harm, magicaly dispelling others, but you know, that works on OTHERS. It's the Naruto Genjutsu nerf all over again. Makes no sense to add such a thing if you are going to have to nerf it to the point everyone and their mom can dispell it through shear willpower.
