[ SECRET POST #4995 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4995 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I agree with this. I remember being so surprised and delighted when I read Barbra Hambly’s ‘Those Who Hunt The Night’ and the main character, after a vampire coerced him by threatening his wife, went home and told her. It shocked me so much, because so much of the time you don’t get that. Basic communication and relying on each other. So many stories rely on angst and ‘I must suffer in silence to save her’, and it just surprised me so much.

When so many het romances are so samey and rely on so many of the same tropes, it is noticeable when you stumble across something different, something that actually gives you an idea why they’re together. How they function together.

Or even just makes it interesting. I remember being giddily delighted by Ivan and Victoria in RED, as well, despite it being a ridiculous action comedy with a dodgy main pairing, because how often do you get two vicious old spies/assassins who’ve loved each other across enemy lines, and whose sign of true devotion is that she once shot him three times in the chest to prove her loyalty to her country, instead of three times in the head? They’re ridiculously extra and romantic and fun, in a rabid sort of way, and it’s amazing.

Just, throw some things in. Talking to each other. Joking. Some backstory. A connection that other characters don’t have. Guinevere Pettigrew and Joe Blomfield in ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day’, two battered, earnest older people who remember the first world war, in the midst of giddy young things desperately trying to ignore the dawn of the second. Something to show why these two, of all people, would choose each other.

It really is noticeable how much dreck there is when you feel surprised and delighted to get something more once in a while.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, Ivan and Victoria! Ohhhh I loved them so much (ﾉ*>∀<)ﾉ♡