Bad hair day and fic

[louiselux]

Weiss Kreuz fic: Fire, Schuldig/Aya, R

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Does anyone else ever feel the lack of a bad hair day icon? Today is one of those days where you feel greasy all over, as though someone's covered you in a fine layer of lard. Anyway.

There's a very interesting discussion over in hp_fictalk about the way writers symbolise increasing intimacy between their characters by using stages of sexual intimacy. You start with hostility/no interest, move to kissing, handjobs, oral sex then finally penetrative sex. alchemia's main point is that this is rather a tired plot device, ie, once anal sex is achieved then conflict between the characters is resolved and the characters are bound to each other far more deeply than if they only stuck to blowjobs. It's a cliché, but it's mixed up with compelling romance tropes that still work for me. I like to read about building intimacy between characters, especially characters that put up strong barriers between themselves and others. The breaking down of these doesn't necessarily for me have to be symbolised by increasing sexual intimacy, but I can see why they are used so often as a device for this particular type of romance plot. Perhaps it reflects the accepted notion that penetrative sex is 'real' sex, or the most intimate part of sex. It can be, but it isn't necessarily so. I'm really bit too lard-covered and grotty to talk about this properly now, but I do recommend the discussion- it's excellent.

Comments

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Hm, OK, all this discussion did was feel the urge to go about this all the wrong way. To start with anal sex (most possibly a rape or something similar, something purely sexual) and have it grow into something else entirely. And of course which pairing comes to mind when thinking of this? Yes, I bet you guessed it. Hm, this may even very well fit in with the story I already told you about. Will give this some more thought :) Thanks for the link.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It's a good discussion, I think. There are some stories that do turn that sort of progression on its head, ie, they can fuck but they can't kiss - so you have sex as something not intimate at all, but more a purely physical pleasure. I would say that Schuldig almost certainly would feel that way, because how easy can it be getting close to someone if you are telepathic? Would he set rules for himself not to pry into people's minds to see if they loved him or not? It's probably more likely that he'd want to get away from intimacy.