Narrative kinks specific to me
Apr. 12th, 2010 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupSome 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!
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!
