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]

1. I like humor in stories. And it doesn't have to be crackish or over the top.

Agreed. Honestly, I DON'T like crack - it usually just feels ooc and not honestly funny. But when the humor is organic and comes from the characters, it's AWESOME.

And I am a totally HEA-addict. I can handle a mediocre happy ending much better than a good sad ending.

4. Interesting, varied roles for both genders. I want to see a guy who can perform a triple bypass surgery, a chick who can make bombs, a boy who's ultra religious, or a girl who's an aloof genius. Total bulletproof kink is the subversion of gender roles, or twists that are put into it.


So much word.

And can you give me an example of #5?

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Crack can work sometimes, but only if it's used sparingly or ALL THE TIME (the crack!manga Bo-bo-bo comes to mind for the latter)

And I am a totally HEA-addict. I can handle a mediocre happy ending much better than a good sad ending.

YES. It can be the most moving, significant, literature ending but I'm still in desperate need of some warm fuzzies.

As far as an example for number five, the first one that comes to mind is the New Jedi Order series. It has its flaws (oh GOD does it have its flaws, mainly due to the fact that it was written by several authors and it's very rare that they can agree on characterization) but it creates a HUGE cast of varied characters, each of them having their own role of importance in aiding a war against invaders, and the plots often overlap and connect and at times it is the most skillfully handled storytelling I've ever seen. /could gush about Star Wars forever.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

YES. It can be the most moving, significant, literature ending but I'm still in desperate need of some warm fuzzies.


I'm the same way.