you better make her raspberry swirl

[lunabee34]

So I just finished The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith (which I highly reccommend; it's a well told story) and I've caught up on fannish gossip with Sue and I'm thinking about reading some Snape fic, but before I do, I wanna talk to you guys. I miss y'all. I'm making myself crazy with this reading regimen. Like scary crazy. I'm a have the vapors eeeeeny second now.

So here is a talking point, gentle flist:

What keeps you reading a piece of fanfic despite a horrific abuse of the rules of punctuation and grammar or rampant OOC-ness or weepy!Ron who weeps and weeps all over the place? What sorts of things in fic keep you reading when you'd have backbuttoned out of another story? In other words, what are your bulletproof fanfic kinks (and I'm defining kink here as that which you can't resist, which satisfies you deeply, which you are drawn to, which gets you off in some way (not necessarily a sexual one))? What are your narrative kinks (ex. mpreg, epigraphs, lots of dialogue, aliens made them do it), your character kinks (ex. Inara has a secret, Giles is a closet fan of Blakes 7, Sam is jealous of Dean), your fanon kinks (ex. Buffy smells like vanilla, Xander's parents are abusive)?

Comments

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

I love angst. It's so melodramatic, and I adore melodramas. We need more melodrama in our lives; otherwise, how are supposed to get our full share of full-body sobbing in every day? There's something to be said for fictional emotional trauma (as long as it's easily fixed, through some nice healing cock or whatever the yonic equivalent is [Come to think of it, I think that's the definition of woman: generative pussy. It really is all about the love of a good woman]).

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Ha!

But see, I'm in to it even when the fictional emotional trauma cannot be fixed, when it exists in perpetua.

Although, the healing cock and the generative pussy are also huge guilty favorites of mine. In more ways than one. LOL

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

So I just read a bunch of George-post-Fred stories at some sort of celebratory George community (hpgeorgecentric) that were all about never-ending angst, trauma-in-perpetua, and lots and lots of grief. Which was interesting, because I can now definitely say, I like it when people move forward. Iterations of the same, but still: ever different. Especially in this case, grief never goes away, but people change and loss lessens, minutely, breath by breath.

And now I want to read some stories about people who've lost a child or something. Or a spouse: Ron and Snape falling in love after Harry dies, or Andromeda moving on after Ted and Tonks. Or better hurt/comfort stories (read: more realistic, but also totally melodramatic) about relationships surviving after a sexual assault. Like that Ron/Draco, in fact.

One of my favorite stories in this vein was the Rodney/John one where John dies and Rodney kills Atlantis, and the entire thing is about Rodney trying to piece his life back together. And it's more about Rodney coming to grips with having committed murder (citycide?) than with his loss of John. How come more of my fandoms don't involve potential genocides? That would be great for the angst-potential. If I were in Reboot, I'd write a Spock-prime story about the effects of losing his world three times (once with the time travel, again with the knowledge that Vulcan disappears, and a third time when it actually happens). And that's not even counting destroying someone else's world! (Why am I not in this fandom?)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

OMG that sounds pretty much like my cup of tea. I will have to check out the George comm.

And now I want to read some stories about people who've lost a child or something. Or a spouse: Ron and Snape falling in love after Harry dies, or Andromeda moving on after Ted and Tonks. Or better hurt/comfort stories (read: more realistic, but also totally melodramatic) about relationships surviving after a sexual assault. Like that Ron/Draco, in fact.

Yes, yes, a million times yes. Yes!

I do not remember that SGA fic. How can I not remember it?

You should be in Reboot. It would love to have you. I should write more Reboot. It was like a bright flare of interest that rapidly faded for me. Once I get this round of HP out of my system, that would be a good one to go back to.