[ SECRET POST #2825 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2825 ⌋

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Comments

[anonymous4]

I'm exactly the opposite!

I hate 'slow burn' because, to me, it always seems to be one step forward, two steps back, with a similar scenario played out in every episode/chapter, and after a few cycles I lose interest. My ideal is "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am... Now let's have an adventure together, with sex whenever we get the opportunity." (And it doesn't matter whether that's explicit or fade to black).

[(Anonymous)]

I'm like this as well. The problem with the build-up/ust part of the relationship is that a lot of fics seem compelled to hit the same notes over and over again (realisation of feelings, dithering about revealing them, stumbling blocks thrown by plot against our love, fraught confession, optional extra stumbling blocks thrown by plot, delirious first kiss, optional extra stumbling blocks, delirious consummation of love, optional good/horrible reactions by other characters, cut to sex or cut to black). Expand or contract some sections as desired.

With established or casual couples, you can afford to put more focus on the other parts of the plot, without being compelled to hit those same milestones, and still keep the option of kisses/sex/relationship problems/fraught confessions/delirious lovemaking for the moments in between. I like it when there are other problems besides the romance, in other words, and even more when the love and romance between the characters is used to help solve those other problems and liven up those other plots.

But, yes. Personal preference, as always.

[anonymous4]

I like it when there are other problems besides the romance, in other words, and even more when the love and romance between the characters is used to help solve those other problems and liven up those other plots.

Exactly this! It's the perfect way to write a happy relationship without its getting boring or samey, and without resorting to the misunderstandings, splits and reunions you so often get in soap operas. The plot can rip the couple apart, they can be terrified for each other, take risks and make sacrifices for each other, and have a passionate reunion -- there can be loads and loads of drama but, underneath it all, the relationship is always intact.

[(Anonymous)]

You're talking about two different types of stories, though: romance vs. a different type of plot that happens to involve an established romantic couple. There's nothing inherently wrong with a romance story hitting romantic tropes, you just happen to not like a story that's primarily romance.

[(Anonymous)]

A story that's primarily romance doesn't necessarily have to rehash all of the same things that other romance stories have done. There's nothing saying "if you write a romance, it absolutely must include this list of tropes."

[ariakas]

Yeah. Slow burn/will-they-won't-they is so overdone and boring at this point that if a fic/show/what have you revolves around it it's enough to make me quit. It's much more interesting to see how established couples work through the trials in relationships (of which, in any real relationship, there are always many - even in the best of them).

I actually prefer the couples who jump each other's bones right away and then work out all the kinks from there, because I know quite a few successful couples in *cough* real life who went that route. If it's a sexual relationship you're after, it's good to know that you're sexually compatible right off the bat, as opposed to finding out after months/years of friendship and romance that will ultimately be killed dead once you hit the bedroom because you're completely incompatible (of course, despite happening all the time in real life, this never happens in fic and rarely ever in fiction).

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like something Dan Savage would say. :P

[ariakas]

Dan Savage has been happily married for a decade ;p