A fandom and shipping phenomenon. Originally, most of them were based on LiveJournal, but a number have started on or moved to Dreamwidth. A Kink Meme is where a user (usually anonymously, though the rules on this differ between kink memes) posts both a pairing and a kink (or some kind of basic plot setup, or some other stipulation). Another user then anonymously fills this request with either a piece of fan art or a fanfic.
While kink memes, true to their name, usually contain plenty of smut, it is usually permissible to request fluff or drama fic with no sex or shipping elements as well, making this somewhat of an Artifact Name.
Tropes commonly found in kink memes include:
- Aliens Made Them Do It
- All Gays are Promiscuous
- All Men Are Perverts
- All Women Are Lustful
- Anatomically Impossible Sex
- Attractive Bent-Gender
- Bigger Is Better in Bed
- Black Comedy Rape
- Boldly Coming
- Calling Your Orgasms
- Cargo Ship
- Caught with Your Pants Down
- Conveniently Common Kink
- Crack Fic
- Crack Pairing
- Crossover Ship
- Deus Sex Machina note
- Everyone Is Bi
- Everyone Has Lots of Sex
- Fandom-Specific Plot
- Fanon
- Fantastic Arousal
- Foe Yay Shipping
- Gender Bender
- Hemo Erotic
- Hurt/Comfort Fic
- Idealized Sex
- IKEA Erotica
- Interplay of Sex and Violence
- Interspecies Romance
- Intimate Healing
- Kinky Spanking
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships
- Lemon
- Mate or Die
- May–December Romance
- Memetic Molester
- Memetic Mutation note
- Mills and Boon Prose
- Mister Seahorse
- No Yay
- OT3
- Porn with Plot
- Porn Without Plot
- Questionable Consent
- Rape as Drama
- Real-Person Fic note
- Redemption Equals Sex
- Rule 34
- Screw Yourself
- Sex–Face Turn
- Sex Starts, Story Stops
- Shower of Love
- Slash Fic
- Ukefication
- Wall Bang Her
- Wholesome Crossdresser