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

[goldenmelisande.livejournal.com]

I don't even really know that there's a point in me trying to do this, because mine are basically all listed above... except for the miscommunication error thing because that actually really stresses me out.

[cambridge.livejournal.com]

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

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE. Examples (taking from your icon) would be the Golden Trio and the Marauders. Other than though, I...am not sure.

[superskittles76.livejournal.com]

THIS IS SO HARD! I don't think about stuff like this, I just...like what I like. I don't even know where to start with this.

I like journeys and coming of age type stuff. Ie, Voyager and it's ridiculous journey home and Harry Potter's whole journey/coming of age through school and such.

Apocalyptic, end of the world, horrible future stuff. Whether it's The Giver or bad made-for-tv OH NO AN ASTEROID IS ABOUT TO KILL US ALL movies, I love seeing people struggle and survive against all odds.

Anything time travel, people misplaced or thrown into crazy situations through time and space. Hence my love of Doctor Who and Trek.

The only other major thing that's coming to me is a love for older, wiser men, who usually end up in these tales around younger women, even if it's completely platonic. Let me list for you my favorite older men: The Doctor (900 something traveling with 20 something age Earth women), Giles and Angel and Spike on BTVS, Chakotay and Riker on Trek (Paris doesn't fit this, he fits my other cute but kinda nerdy kink), Gibbs on NCIS, Remus in HP. I've got so many issues idek lmao

And then I like normal stuff like sitcoms and romcoms but I can't think of the tropes and such that I like about those.

I don't even know if any of that was what you were looking for, but it's what my brain threw up. Enjoy haha :P

[irishmizzy.livejournal.com]

Oh my goddddd, dads and daughters are so it for me.

Also: found families, especially when it's a group of friends who celebrate holidays together (which is pretty much the same as your platonic best friends scenario, I'm such a sucker for anything about friends and shared histories and building lives together); stories that are about growing up and trying to figure things out for yourself and failing and triumphing and learning about yourself and your place in the world; secretly married or secretly dating or any sort of secrecy; faking being married or dating or any sort of relationship; relationships (platonic or romantic) that develop in weird, extenuating circumstances, like on tour buses or at war or in apocalypse situations, that kind of brothers-in-arms camaraderie that blossoms into something desperate and intense; and probably so many more things that I cannot think of right now.

[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.

this post is relevant to my interests.

[veils.livejournal.com]

also inappropriate sexual tension between siblings. and going undercover as a couple. and bffs.

[hazyflights.livejournal.com]

PEOPLE WHO PREJUDGE EACH OTHER/WORKING ON OPPOSITE SIDES AND THEN ARE THROWN TOGETHER UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THEIR CONTROL.

THE 'YOU DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE' SHIPS, AS IN SHE IS QUIET/UNDERSTATED AND HE IS ABRASIVE/ALMOST COLD AND THEY BRING OUT THE THINGS NO ONE ELSE BRINGS OUT THEM.

spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiies. secreeeeeeeeeeeets. mutual hatred and yet understanding of one another's nature despite/because of said mutual hatred.

sisters! the asshole girl! as in i've had enough of the emotionally stunted so called bad boys and i like the girls who are all ew feelings, let's go to a bar, baby.

I don't even know what I'm saying anymore.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

YES FOUND FAMILIES ARE THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST. Agree with you on fathers and daughters too, actually I agree with most of yours. Domesticity, yes! I really like fake relationship storylines, I like UST and pining, especially between best friends. I loooooove dude best friends so much. I also really love teenage girls (any character, really, but especially teenage girls) who are completely realistic - Julie Taylor comes to mind for that one.

[thelittlespy.livejournal.com]

I've found that this quote from (of all things) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler pretty much sums it up for me:

"What happened was: they became a team, a family of two."

"Becoming a team didn't mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it caring. You could even call it love. And it is very rarely, indeed, that it happens to two people at the same time--"

Basically everything leads back to Mulder & Scully. Doesn't it always?

[book-babe.livejournal.com]

Oh my god this list is perfect.

[sleuths.livejournal.com]

UGH, YOU, STOP POSTING SO MANY ENTRIES THAT I JUST HAVE TO COMMENT. (I'll just give up trying to keep up; I am terrible, but jsyk I may come back here to add more to respond to the other comments from before................... IDK WHAT I'M SAYING)

BUT SERIOUSLY THIS ENTRY IS SO PERFECT. OK. SO.

1) THE group of platonic best friends who Are KIND OF LIKE A REAL FAMILY omg yes yes yes yes yes. I THINK THIS BEGAN WITH FRIENDS FOR ME, BUT REALLY SET ITSELF IN STONE WITH SATC (with that one quote about how there are some families you are born into but others that you make or choose for yourself or something, idk I was obsessed with it for awhile during my ~emo angsty~ early teenage years, aka always angry with my born-into family looool) BUT ANYWAY I'VE STARTED TO REALIZE THAT THIS IS A COMMON THEME IN EVERYTHING THAT I WATCH/READ. BUT honestly it is not even necessarily best friends, just mismatched people who kind of all fall in with each other and fit each other perfectly and they have that unspoken love, affection, what have you to each other and they create their own family aslkd;fjas;df PERFECT

2) Any thing that has the kind of potential relationship where one person is a complete ass and the other one is like WHAT EVEN DID I DO but the ass is acting that way because they are secretly ~madly in love~ with the person omg seriously it is the WORST.

3) SPIES. UNDERCOVER AS A COUPLE. KICKING ASS TOGETHER. INTRIGUE. GENERAL MAYHEM.

4) .... VAMPIRES--NON-HUMANS. BEING HOT. DOING HOT THINGS.

5) So much angst. Like, ridiculous, ridiculous angst that leads to separation for years and there is so much resentment and angst and EVERYTHING but it leads to this ridiculous sexual tension and then it is just hot as unrealistic as it is that people can still be in love with each other after five years of not hearing a word from one another. IDK IDK IDK

6) Omg THIS: 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.

Okay I skimmed over some of the things on my favorites list on FictionPress / Fanfiction.net and........................ I JUST CAN'T LIST ANYMORE, I have no standards. I READ EVERYTHING, ugh. This just made me realize just how very sad my life is....