There's A Woman Inside Of All Of Us Who Never Seems To Get Enough

[redbrunja]

 Okay, so I haven't done the last two week's fannish5, because two weeks ago, my answers to the question (Five reasons you only get into one fandom at a time - or - five reasons you are multi-fannish") just didn't parse nicely into five answers, and this week's (Name five imaginary places you would like to go on vacation) frustrated me, because honestly, the places I'd like to go would require me to be printed with special skills to not die.

So, I'm making my own questions and posing it to you.

So, flist, tell me five of your bulletproof kinks in storytelling.

I talk about a lot of them here, but I'm going to give you five more, to start the ball rolling:

1.) Nakama.

2.) Gender-reversals. Everything I'm really digging right now has some nice gender reversals deep in the text.

3.) Complicated father-daughter relationships. (See, Jack and Sydney Bristow, Keith and Veronica Mars, Noah and Shiloh from Repo!) This ties into the idea of gender reversals. So many author just focus on the whole father/son dynamic.

4.) Glasses. Especially hot, dark hair guys with glasses.

5.) Romance with an equal. I like contrast between two people in a pairing, but I also want them to also be equals in some kind of root way. Zuko and Katara are actually a really good example of this. Despite their sociocultural and (initial) nationalistic differences, they're very similar in a lot of deep ways (importance of family, the ways they decide to protect their family, a total disrespect of other people's property....)

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Crossdressing heroines.

I adore this. Probably from reading Alanna: The First Adventure at an insanely impressionable age. But anyway - nothing gets me like the epic hair freeing, "I am no man," scenes. *grins*

I don't like stories about the central character's children, but I *do* like the reverse. I love children discovering more about their parents' pasts. See: Flora Segunda, Alias, Avatar.

*nods* Agreed. In a similar vein, I like it when children AREN'T lying to their parents about what they're doing at night - one reason I initially liked Bleach was how honest Ichigo was with his family.

ETA: And girls who kick ass. This can often go into fanservice territory, but I'm okay with that so long as the girl is tough, and awesome, and more than *just* a sex object.

Word. Hot chicks kicking ass is fanservice for both genders and all sexual orientations, imho.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I adore this. Probably from reading Alanna: The First Adventure at an insanely impressionable age.

I'm just about to start a reread of Alanna. *g*

I like it when children AREN'T lying to their parents about what they're doing at night

Yes! I like mutual respect between parents and children. That's one reason why I can't stand sitcoms; there's no respect between *any* parent/child combinations (whatever generation they come from). It's deeply off-putting.

Hot chicks kicking ass is fanservice for both genders and all sexual orientations, imho.

This comment made me think of your recent Naruto posts. Hot chicks being dangerous is--on the most shallow level--visually appealing. "Shonen is for boys" doesn't mean that boys can't appreciate a kickass woman, even if it's only for the hot factor.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes! I like mutual respect between parents and children. That's one reason why I can't stand sitcoms; there's no respect between *any* parent/child combinations (whatever generation they come from). It's deeply off-putting.

That, and fat, lazy, men have insanely beautiful wives (who are also smart yet incredibly shrewish).

"Shonen is for boys" doesn't mean that boys can't appreciate a kickass woman, even if it's only for the hot factor.

EXACTLY!