[ SECRET POST #2811 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2811 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/L2jzEqf.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I'm on the fence about that cliche. The formula is generic, but I love scent descriptions and am glad to see them even when they're predictable ones. What goes through my head is, "I see you trying, but please try just a little harder."

[(Anonymous)]

He tasted of stale corn dogs, cheap beer, and morning breath completely his own.

[dancing_serpent]

Reminds me of my first kiss, which tasted overwhelmingly like onion tart. I kinda want to know who comes up with the most ridiculous or yucky combination now... *g*

[dreemyweird]

I laughed IRL. Now I kind of want to see a serious fic with this description in it.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I think I was too nervous about my first kiss to think of any descriptors for it, but I have expirienced 'corn nuts' breath which is my end point; a big resounding 'nope'. My ex-husband didn't kissed for a week after that experience.

[sabotabby]

I can think of a bunch of canons in which that would be entirely appropriate and wonderful.

[lunabee34]

And the thread to you!

[cakemage]

Well done indeed, sir or madam!

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading a Mulder/Scully fic years ago that described Scully's mouth as tasting like peaches and coffee, and for some reason tat was hilarious to me and I never forgot it. Not saying she couldn't taste like that, but it's like the author just picked two random flavors - the peaches particularly.

[ozaline]

I think anime fans might have got it from Utena, and other shoujo adventures.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a common line in romance novels, so while they might be nipping the line from another fic, it started in published novels.

Though really, there should be "romance novel trope bingo" at this point, I'm not sure if some older romnovels I read are the originators of some tropes or if they were the start of it. (Seriously, Nora Roberts' first books, were you ever original, or are you just so tropey as to be laughable now?)

[elaminator]

I see it all the damn time and have since I started reading fanfic. I just accept that it's going to happen and don't think about it much.

[(Anonymous)]

It's because writing kissing is hard. There are only so many ways to write 'they kissed' or X brushed her lips against Y's'. In those circumstances the next thing to do is invoke the rest of the senses - 'He heard Sam's breath quicken', He tasted whisky and toothpaste.' Etc. And then go into the emotions provoked by the kiss.

[ketita]

wow, JUST TODAY I was talking to a friend about that XD (mostly because I wrote a really crackish parody fic, and while I never in my life wrote that line seriously, I just had to include it. Exact same wording and all)

[dreemyweird]

I immediately stop taking the writer seriously if they use this cliche. Throws me right out of the fic.

[(Anonymous)]

I always think writers should reach for a different way of describing things (without falling into the abyss of absurdity) instead of falling back on the familiar, but at the same time, you're trying to get across a feeling, and that's one way of doing it. As long as it's not overdone in the same fic.

They smelled/tasted of cloves, a citrus sort of tang, and their own unique strains of bacteria.

[(Anonymous)]

Better?

[(Anonymous)]

I can stand it in my current fandom but that involves a character that smokes almost constantly. So he would probably taste like a bloody ashtray.

[silvereriena]

It really depends on how over the top the taste is described. I've read so many kisses tasting "like honey, but sweeter" and I'm always thinking: "But honey doesn't taste that sweet to me..."

[bur]

And that's why I wrote a first kiss that tasted like snot. Because when you kiss someone who's been ugly-crying and their nose is all running it's going to taste like snot.

[herpymcderp]

In my (extremely scientific) experience, people really do have flavours.

...They're not really food flavours, but they have different tastes to them.

I don't tend to notice it about mouths (unless said person is a smoker, in which case they taste like cigarettes) as much as ...er... gentials, but your results may vary.

[(Anonymous)]

honestly, i've kissed plenty and i still don't really know a good way to describe the taste. sometimes you know that unique 'smell' a person or house has, it's kind of similar? so i guess that's where i can understand where the "something uniquely character A" comes from.

[(Anonymous)]

It bugs me too, someone's morning breath is not going to taste like cinnamon.

It's even funnier in porn. No, author, we don't need to hear about what that anus tastes like. No, I don't think it would taste like chocolate, but thanks for the association.

[(Anonymous)]

lmao! Guilty.

But I thank you for pointing it out so I can avoid ever doing it again.