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

[goldengrimoire.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I like the more traditionally ugly ducking characters, where you get that nice makeover montage.

I have to narrow it down slightly because there's always been something that bugs me a little bit about ugly duckling characters when it comes to more romantic stories. The ugly duckling character is a great person, quirky, smart, etc. but nobody really pays attention to them until they're pretty. The makeover bits are fun, but the subtext tempers my enjoyment somewhat.

This depends - sometimes I'm weak in the knees, sometimes I just want to kill them.

Yes, I suppose I don't always find them sexy per se, but they're almost always interesting. I'm usually quite fond of 'love to hate' type characters. For a Harry Potter example, I've always liked the obnoxious, cowardly canon!Draco over the sexed-up, leather pants fanon one; he's such an entertaining little jerk in the books. :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The ugly duckling character is a great person, quirky, smart, etc. but nobody really pays attention to them until they're pretty. The makeover bits are fun, but the subtext tempers my enjoyment somewhat.

There is that factor, which is both unpleasant but also very realistic.