FanChats💬submit your prompts!It's trope discussion Monday! What do you think about Friends to Lovers fics? What makes them work for you? Can you recommend a good fic where the romance grows out of friendship? 
Julia@FandomChats I love friends to lovers! It's basically canon for WangXian (although we're just discussing alternative views :) ). Looking at my bookmarks the tag seems to have little predictive value :D I think among the getting together fics, apart from short meet-cutes and tropey settings like arranged marriage, probably most are some variation of friends to lovers (or rivals to lovers), irrespective of the tags. I'll try to find some that focus a bit more on the friendship.
@FandomChats Here's a friends to lovers f|f WangXian fic where straight girl lwj is folded into wwx's queer friend group (and understands a few things about herself over time). I loved that aspect of the story, in addition to others.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31883452
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31883452