The sleeping beauty thing

[beccaelizabeth]

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

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

In Blakes7, Dayna kisses Avon after one of the innumerable times he gets clonked on the head (although nothing much comes of it in canon), and in Firefly, Mal + Zoe = work and best friends of anybody EVER.

[beccaelizabeth]

I was thinking Mal+Zoe when I wrote this :-)

[agilesreader.livejournal.com]

Have you watched the final torchwood yet?

[beccaelizabeth]

four times.

actually, three for 1-13 and four for 1-12.

:-)

[agilesreader.livejournal.com]

I love Torchwood!

I liked the kiss that woke Jack because I did not find it a sexual kiss, but one of friendship.

I also loved the kiss with Jack and Jack. But my hubby kept saying , "Not in 1940 they wouldn't have. The real Jack would have been fired from the military." But that thought just inserts a little too much reality.

Also if this were an americanized show then the kiss that wakes Jack would have been sexual because JAck would not be allowed to be gay. Which is why most US TV sucks.

[beccaelizabeth]

There's been a lot of debate about realism, and so far people who've pulled out the quotes and contemporary sources say actually in 1941 the military would have been too busy fighting the war to care. There was an official rule, and there was the fact they needed everyone they could get. The rule was sort of on hold.

I'm paraphrasing but that's the impression I've been getting.

I guess refusing to talk about stuff (on TV) kind of erases the relevant history?

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

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

And that made me think G/E.

man and woman work together and there's no sexual tension at all

Yeah, I'd like that to exist in popular media on occasion.