This is my fourth post this week, WHAT IS GOING ON

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YOU GUYS I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU THIS FOREVER, I don't know why I never do, or even remember why I was reminded today but uhhhh, can we talk about our fictional kinks? LIKE, will you maybe think about the tropes and things that make you like fiction (any kind, from badfic to literature, from awful reality TV to your very favorite movie), the underlying message of all your favorites that ALWAYS DRAWS YOU IN. And then make me a list of them.

me
- So much codependency, I cannot even express it.
- Platonic best friends, extra points if it is a big (or small) group of platonic best friends who are KIND OF LIKE A REAL FAMILY
- Earnest dudes who are REALLY REALLY IN LOVE with very emotionally complicated girls, but very willing to step aside and wait and pine while said emotionally complicated girl sorts out her feelings.
- Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons. I guess mothers and daughters and fathers and sons too, I LIKE FAMILIES, but fathers and daughters is the bottom line one.
- Domesticity, always, but (sort of?) especially from people who either aren't together in any capacity or who you wouldn't expect to be domestic.
- K the word that keeps popping in here is "genderswap", but I don't mean genderswap and I hate actual genderswap when it pops up, LIKE WHAT A WASTE OF A STORY, but sometimes I just really like it... when dudes are mom-like and girls are dad-like and girls are the stereotypical "dude" in a relationship when guys are the stereotypical "girl". THAT KIND OF THING, I DON'T KNOW.
- Ridiculous miscommuncation errors.
- Best friends who are in love, but also best friends who are not in love.
- There is this link between my favorite movie (Bringing Up Baby), my favorite book (The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon), and my favorite television show (The X-Files) that I cannot quite express in words, but it's like... the idea of some kind of quest, I guess. But it isn't the quest that matters, it's... maybe it is the quest. But something you have to do, that is important but separate from the rest of the world. Alone togetherness? SOMETHING. God I don't know.
- THIS ONE IS LONG AND IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN, but... I really like people whose lives get explained to them? Like. Okay, what happened is I imprinted on these two Voyager episodes at a very young age, one in which season 1 Captain Janeway gets lead around her ship by season 7 Chakotay, and another where B'Elanna has been brainwashed and Neelix has to walk her around and show her things as she slowly regains her memory. So now like, certain amnesia stories, within-a-lifetime time travel, and Christmas Carolesque stories all appeal to me to like, a gross degree.

I DON'T KNOW, there are others, I suppose, I am going to think about this too.

Comments

[manasseh.livejournal.com]

TBH IDEK? I read your list, and was like, "Yes, I too like gender role reversal (perhaps what you meant by not!genderswap?), and domesticity! And best friends who love each other and are IN love with each other!" But then other things I was like "mmmm not keen on miscommunication errors."

But coming up with a list on my own? LOL FAIL. The only thing I know I like for sure is a sort of codependence where characters take care of each other. I REALLY LIKE THAT. It's not totally necessary for them to be bffs or even friends, but I really enjoy fic/shows/movies/everything where characters take care of each other or are forced to watch out for each other. Perhaps why I'm so into h/c. :D: I ESPECIALLY like it when it's women taking care of men in like a straightforward sort of way? Not like "oooooh you are a big tough MAN and you're BLEEDING let me tear up some sheets for bandages!!" but more like "ugh, again? god, stay there, I'll get the first-aid kit NO YOU CANNOT STITCH THAT UP YOURSELF :| :| :|" I enjoy that sort of thing.

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Yes, that's what I meant! MAN, I am not so good with the wordings of things.

"ugh, again? god, stay there, I'll get the first-aid kit NO YOU CANNOT STITCH THAT UP YOURSELF :| :| :|"
THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS WISHED THE MULDERTORTURE GENRE OF X-FILES FIC WOULD BE, instead it was mostly manpain.

[manasseh.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding me that I never finished reading Oklahoma. SO MUCH MULDERTORTURE so little enjoyability.

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What always gets me is that they are all pretty much THE SAME EXACT STORY with slightly different circumstances. But I guess there are some things I would read the every exactly the same story with slightly different circumstances for, so maybe I should take off my judging hat. BUT AT LEAST MY KINK ISN'T MANPAIN

[manasseh.livejournal.com]

Angst: yes. Manpain: no. Whump: yes. Ridiculously over-the-top character torture: ....rarely. X-Files fic is strange in that most of what I've seen is as you've described: same stuff over and over, but most often the different circumstances are whether Mulder is having the assbaby or not. :|

OH I also enjoy stories where character A is in a perilous situation and character B realizes their feelings for A either during or after the situation. Bonus: B CONCEALS THEIR FEELINGS FOR A FROM A. YESSSS UST IS THE GREATEST. I would read all the fics that do that.

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The X-Files fandom as a whole has really weird taste in angst, which is easy to note as such because almost none of it corresponds to my taste in angst. It's the same couple of stories about cancer and (physical) Mulder torture and profiling over and over again. But 2% of it is really great! SO I DON'T KNOW.

I DO TOO, but I also like it when the perilous situation causes the character B to realize their longstanding feelings! And sometimes I like the concealing, but other times I like it when the event makes B ~need~ to tell A, but they're too dumb to figure out how.

[manasseh.livejournal.com]

Sooooooo many cancer stories. Soooo many.

Yes, that too! All so great. UST in all flavours is pretty great in my book UP TO A POINT. That point is never acting on the UST ever. >:| Then it's not great anymore.