The sleeping beauty thing

That whole bit where someone wakes someone with a kiss -
usually it's a dead girl and a prince charming, and she marries him, because obviously one kiss is the sound basis for a lifetime together.

ways to twist that story:

make it two guys. obviously a popular choice around fandom.

make it a girl kissing a guy. straight up reversal, vaguely feminist.

either way, guys getting up after kissing? not subtle.

make it after a relationship instead of before. that would be nice and logical.

I mean, who falls for a dead girl anyway? Neil Gaiman's version follows through on that angle to disturbing effect.

Or, the least usual twist, make it not about sex or marriage at all.

Granted, then a kiss becomes, to modern eyes, a peculiar gesture to express that with, but why should it be?
Kiss of life without the sex part would be how that generally works.
Kiss as expression of friendship or gratitude or hello-fellow-being isn't so very unlikely, right?


It's like the way it's on my list of things I want to see in a story: man and woman work together and there's no sexual tension at all. Because, oddly enough, sometimes humans interact without sex, even if they're of genders and orientations that would make sex a theoretical possibility.

Not that sex isn't fun. Plenty of fun there. I've heard.
But if you get m+f you always get UST, or sometimes RST.
So m+f=work would just be vaguely revolutionary storytelling.



/vague silly thought

Why Doctor Who is so very very cool, and Torchwood is a little bit

Just had a sudden urge to write 10th/me fanfic.
Had to lie down until it went away.

Because everybody thinks the what-if-I-was-the-companion story, but that doesn't mean anyone wants to read it.

Thing of it is, it is really a story about why I love the series, the setup of the 'verse. So I can put that in a list of meta.

vaguest of spoilers for DW and Torchwood, including the sekrit reason I find this icon funny.
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See, now I've written all that, I want to put a story in front of it. Because that's just me being all passionate about fiction, really. It feels a bit like not getting dressed.

... Actually, I don't usually get dressed. So why should that bother me?

Naked thoughts inside the cut! Written at 4 in the morning after a day of emotion bungee! You have been warned!


... And also, it might not make sense.
I feel I should probably have that as a subtitle on my LJ somewhere.

fic preferences

In other news
have discovered I like snarky, recogniseable, Ianto, in fic where he's shagging entirely the wrong person
much more than I like allegedly-Ianto in bed with allegedly-Jack.

I also appreciate a tendency I've noticed for suicide warnings on stories. Because sometimes death warning isn't technically appropriate, but very often I've had quite enough of suicides.


... I do get occasional urges to throw people at Highlander fic in a watch-and-learn kind of way. Just the niggly feeling I've read some things before. A lot. And not liked them the first time.