Like leethet I prefer happy endings. I get way too much of the other stuff in real life. But I think MFU fiction has branched out into a lot of different areas, with writers experimenting with other types of "genre" in both slash and gen. That is why we get death stories occasionally, and AUs. But I am a dyed in the wool happy ending person. If I'm going to read it, I at least want a hint of a happy ending (or enough nuance for me to supply my own...which is what I do in my MFU fic). :)