I like a Smallville story that follows these lines: Clark, with his feelings for Lex, but unsure of what to do...trying for that right moment. And then that moment comes and he and Lex despite the age difference and all the secrets that they hide from one another, they admit their attraction. They kiss, they work their way to sex. There is still tension because of the secrets. A delicate romantic relationship is formed, such a fragile thing. And the truth comes out...and things are shattered. Because Lex can't handle being lied to. Or Clark can't handle Lex's reality.
Or you know, they've been together and they've tried to make it work but they can't compromise their ideals for the other.
And there is misery all around.
Buffy and Angel can go either way. You can make a story funny and it works or you can make it dark and deadly with no hope or light. Or full of bittersweet longing and regret. Or delicate hope.
The only fic that's made me cry is Annie SJ's "Last Summer."
I also like "Executor" because it uses Harding Welsh as a narrator, which you hardly ever see, and gets him right, too.
I haven't finished Last Summer, there's something about it that doesn't click for me.
I always sob about 3/4 of the way through the last part of the Talking Stick/Circle series (The Rose and the Yew Tree). And I've been known to get pleasantly sniffly over Herself's Bittersweets.
I never cry when reading fanfiction.
There's no separation for me between lit fic and fanfic. I've
wept
at my computer. I cried watching a *vid* the other day.
Grail's <frantically tries to remember the damn title> story about The Big Breakup
Immortality.
BTW-- it's not off-topic because I'm writing the NotSongFic for Jilli for it-- my Rasputinas CDs came today, Jilli. I'm listening to "Gingerbread Coffin" over and over again. Originally I thought I'd have the song actually *in* the story, the way "Like Nobody's Watching" does it, except I thought I'd be tying it in to the way Dru danced to one of their songs (as you mentioned) in S2.
But now that I've actually listened to the song, I think I'm gonna do it differently. I have Plans. I may have Plots, and Contrivances, too.
The only fic that's made me cry is Annie SJ's "Last Summer."
Huh. That was, I mean that affected me a little bit, but it was more of an intellectual way than anything else.
Cryingest story ever: Second of our Reign. And goddamn but is that good writing. It's one of the few stories I've saved a copy of to my own hard drive, so I can read it over and over. And it's *really* had to do that, actually, because it's such a good, good, fine, hard story that it requires really a very deep level of concentration to read. Not that it's hard to understand-- it's just so fucking *good* that I feel I have to be concentrating very deeply to appreciate every bit of it. Like drinking really good alcohol, Plei.
But now that I've actually listened to the song, I think I'm gonna do it differently. I have Plans. I may have Plots, and Contrivances, too.
Yes! See, this is why I wanted someone to write songfic w/ "Gingerbread Coffin". RL, I owe you. Um, I have to may find you an Evil Bunny Alliance minion of your very own.
I downloaded Gingerbread Coffin and I've been playing it over and over and thinking "hmmm wonder if I take this to my dance instructor if he'll help me find away to do a Showcase piece to this OR freak the hell out."
Also, I think I've maybe cried while reading 3, maybe 4 books. The ones that stand out in my memory are: A Lantern in Her Hand, by Bess Aldrich(I was about 12 when I read it), Peach and Blue (A children's book Mom got me when I was 20 or so, She found a woman in the aisle of Books a Million crying after reading it), after that it's fuzzy. Possible The Diary of Anne Frank.
Although I'm terrible moved to anger by reading books and often feel cold or hot or the grass on my face or other tactile sensations for some reason I'm not moved to tears.
