True Blood

[brigdh]

OMG OMG OMG. That was really surprisingly sad, since although I like this show, I'm not usually emotionally involved in it.

BUT JESUS CHRIST. ERIC KNELT AND WEPT AND BEGGED GODRIC NOT TO KILL HIMSELF!!!1! I am suddenly aware that this is a kink of mine. Or not kink? Because it does not make me happy. But I am powerless to resist it.

OMG OMG OMG.

Also Tara OMG.

Comments

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Er, your not-kink is someone not wanting someone to destroy themselves?
You're right, however emotionally powerful, a situation is not a kink if it doesn't make you happy. Happiness is rather the point.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean kink in the story-kink sense, not in the sex-act-I-enjoy-performing sense. Story kinks are just any scenario, element, or trope that one really enjoys seeing in stories; some common ones are amnesia, Mpreg, weddings, saying 'I love you' without actually saying those three words, and so on. And then there's a bullet-proof kink, which is a kink that appeals so strongly to you that you'll read a story with it even if every single other thing (writing, spelling, characterization, etc) about the story sucks.

And I've seen this scenario of someone pleading with another to not kill themselves, to the point of offering to die with them, and while it's definitely not a happy scene, whoa, does it affect me strongly. So I like it! Stories can be good without being happy.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Ahem. I was thinking story-kink. Reading what I wrote, I would have said theme, rather than situation, had I been writing earlier in the evening.
The sort of happiness I meant was literary happiness:I enjoy this story, not just:this is a happy story, but What I Said didn't make that clear. *now blushing furiously*

[weirdquark]

gaudior refers to that sort of thing as having a "key word/phrase". Something that you'll watch/read/etc. if it's there, no matter how bad every other element of it is. Unless you find a lot of things with your key words in them, in which case you can afford to be picky. ::g::

For example, her key words include "gay", "angel", and "therapist". This is why we made her Gay Angel Therapist Ken (tm) for Christmas one year.

Oh, Hollywood, you can always sell me crap...

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I will watch Very Bad SF/F simply because it's set in the future/Alternate Universe/has magic in it. It can get pretty bad, real bad, just plum bad, and I'll still be watching. I may be offended, but I'm watching.(24 managed to max me out, but the was more the Infomercial for Torture as Social Policy aspects then any other badness.)

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, a friend earned my undying devotion by telling !Star of Film that Armageddon was a piece of crap, while an invited quest at a party at his home.(She has witnesses.)
Because it is a piece of crap. Which I'll probably watch again.

[kyriadalyn.livejournal.com]

You are SO not alone! That scene was so incredible.

I just lost it when he started crying/losing his english *wibble*