I keep seeing Twist And Shout referred to as the Dean/Castiel tearjerker, in that every pairing on every show has one. I haven't read it, and the weepy gushing doesn't pull me towards it (still shying from most of the Major Character Death tags, and their ilk). But I'm wondering if it is indeed fair to say most pairings have their equivalent to this fic-can you guys think of an equivalent sort of a thing for the slices of fics you read?

I think I'm now seeing "chocked" more than the rein/reign substitutions, not least of all because someone is forever letting out a "chocked sob" during the very emotional fucking.

Another thing which is a dearth of vocabulary more than anything else is "lathed the velvety skin with his tongue". Now, I know what a lathe is, and I've actually used one. I do not want anything near me that operates at that RPM, and unless it was a character I was determined to punish, not near any of their tender bits, either. The word these smiths are reaching for is probably "laved," which has the same root as lavish and lavabo and has to do with bathing, submerging, usually in liquid. Which...yeah, not so appealing, either. Tongue-bath is what I assume they're going for and really? Just as, or more, appealing, really.

"Nothing Left to Lose" is probably the big tearjerker in the Sheppard/McKay neighborhood of Stargate Atlantis. I know don't read it unless I'm feeling particularly mentally sturdy.

Rereading the summary for Twist and Shout fills me with despair. I cried, and was depressed and angry for days after finishing it.

I can't think of a big tear-jerker fic in bandom, but that's probably more a reflection of my reading habits than anything else.

There was that depressing Cobra Starship hookerfic, but that was more gloomy than tear-jerking.

The "got popular enough to become a cliche" one in Sherlock is Alone on the Water.

Julie, can you put the Twist And Shout plot in spoilerfont?

There was that depressing Cobra Starship hookerfic, but that was more gloomy than tear-jerking.

Well sure, and some of the zombie apocalypse fics end with everyone dead, but I don't count those as tear-jerking, either. Much like the serial killer/cannibalism fic; disturbing, but not a trigger for weeping.

There is a Pete/Patrick mpreg fic by longtime_lurker that made me cry and cry, but it was ultimately happy. There is also a fic by sunset_mog where Spencer leaves the band because of Brendan, moves to Seattle, works in a office and is super-depressed.

Connie, is that the one where most of the "action" is Rodney teaching university after he comes home from Atlantis? I liked that one a lot, and it certainly wasn't happy but I'd call it more elegaic than tearjerking.