Narrative kinks specific to me

[snick_backup]

Some of my fic kinks are pretty common coin: h/c, for example. But I'm starting to wonder if some of them are a bit more peculiar...

1. Moments of unexpected grace. Those times between two enemies or rivals or people who just don't talk, when one gives unselfishly to the other. Bulletproof kink, here. You ever want to write/rec something I'll be sure to love? This is it. Examples: Spike and Buffy on the porch in FFL. Xander lighting Spike's cigarette in "Spiral." (One of the many reasons I love Spike is because he's such an outsider that anything unselfishly given or received is unexpected.) Xander seeing Cordelia in "The Prom" in the dress he helped her pay for.

2. Moments of finding out. Big news! Best is characters assimilating information that is weird, unexpected, or just entirely outside the realm of thought. "I'm a vampire." "I'm dating a vampire." "I'm alive." "I'm dead." "I have a soul." "I'm pregnant." (Or, alternately, "You're a vampire," "You're dead," etc.) I bet you had no idea there was someone reading your alt-S7 fic solely for the scene where Buffy figures out Spike has a soul, yet here I am!

Comments

[silverusagi]

I have a thing for 'finding out' moments.

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IT IS NOT JUST ME! I thought maybe I was just peculiar; I've never heard anyone else talk about this.

Like in Sideways, some of my favoritest moments were the moments when people figure out Spike's a vampire. First Buffy, then Willow, then (the biggie) Giles... It was great!

[silverusagi]

IT IS NOT JUST ME!

Why do you think I wrote so many of them, LOL?

But I always loved the finding out moments in fics. Usually with canon-ish fics, the finding out involves the Scoobies realizing Spike and Buffy are together, but I always liked the finding out moments in AUs, since characters can be finding out so many different things.

[deird1]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have HUGE LOVE for the first one.

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HUGE. LOVE. I am so with you.

[diamondtook862.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Revelationatory moments *Homer drool*

that one is the more voyeuristic one for me :)

I really like the first too. No wonder I love your fic and recs! (and it's also why I'm looking forward to what season 6 fics you will be recced) :)

[snickfic]

Yay, I'm so glad you enjoy the recs lists! I really do enjoy putting them together - I love pointing people to things that (and hopefully they) enjoy.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Shameless pimping -
Have you read my "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Vampire"?

I love those little moments of connection too. It's one of the things I loved about Seraph - those little scenes where one of the Scoobies is reluctantly kind to Spike. And the way those little moments begin to add up.

[snickfic]

I have read that one, actually! And I read it early enough on in my fannish career that I involuntarily think of it pretty much every time I watch the alley scene in Dead Things. :)

Heh. It's one of the things I enjoyed about writing Seraph, too. There were so many opportunities for that sort of thing in it! (And - did you notice - also plenty of fun moments of Finding Out.)

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes, there certainly were. I have to think about that one - not sure I've ever thought about Finding Out moments. Do I really like them? Or do I not really notice them? Hmmmmm *goes off muttering to self*

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Ooo... those are big for me too. They're not iron-clad kinks (the rest of the story has to be good, too), but if I know a story has one of those two things, I'm MUCH more likely to read it.

[snickfic]

So it's not just me! I'd always sort of thought it was, especially the second one. I don't remember ever seeing anyone talk about loving big scenes of revelation. An underappreciated pleasure, maybe. :)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, whatever. Like it could possibly be just you when I'm around. ;D

I know we've talked about the first (and how I love it every bit as much as you do), but I don't think we have the second. It's not bulletproof, but I do love those moments when they're in something well-written. Love.

And here we have more in common!

[snickfic]

You speak the truth. And also: awwww. Warm fuzzies. :)