[oh, Basara.... *facepalm*]
Aug. 21st, 2005 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaI wonder if I'm the only person that has these... things that drive her batty in stories, neither in a good way or a bad way, just a squirmy way. With me, the 'thing' is always going to be something embarrassing-- I just can't stand having embarrassing misunderstandings happen to main character-- and I can easily tolerate very high levels of angst. Actually, most misunderstandings drive me batty in stories (like, I start screaming at the book and jumping up and down and feeling like I'm going to squirm out of my skin), but romantic misunderstandings... oh my gahd.
I'm squirming like mad right now, reading the `Basara' manga, and there's this case of secretly switched loveletters-- a typical romance trope-- and it always drives me insane. It's worse than angst to me by far, because it's just one of those prickly misunderstandings where you don't know -where- it's going to go, and the suspense is pretty much killing me. And no matter -where- I come across it (the major other example that drove me nuts was in Draco Veritas), this plot-device drives me insane with feverish excitement and dread. I'm like, noooooo, not... not... the switched loveletters!! :(( :((
...Though I actually came across a switched-loveletters story recently where it didn't get to me at all, because the misunderstanding was really more like a seduction/manipulation type thing, with the outside manipulator (the kicker in switcheroo stories) wasn't really very powerful. In that case, a boy claimed this girl wrote a loveletter she didn't, which he actually wrote himself 'cause he liked her (....), and then this other girl claimed she wrote it (even though she didn't), but that really didn't matter. It's just so much worse, the idea of already knowing the person, for one thing, and having a relationship of some sort with them, and then supposedly saying something out of character yet plausible. Oh, the horror.
In this case it's just embarrassing (from Sarasa's pov, 'cause of the whole 'but she'd never say that'-- aaahhh, so humiliating), and that's really what gets to me-- the sheer embarrassment factor. Like, I live in horror of people saying I said things I didn't say when it really counts, and to the boy I was in love with?? That'd be a million trillion times worse.
Clearly, considering this is a drama about revolution and political intrigue and high adventure and life and death struggle, I have my priorities very much straight.
I'm squirming like mad right now, reading the `Basara' manga, and there's this case of secretly switched loveletters-- a typical romance trope-- and it always drives me insane. It's worse than angst to me by far, because it's just one of those prickly misunderstandings where you don't know -where- it's going to go, and the suspense is pretty much killing me. And no matter -where- I come across it (the major other example that drove me nuts was in Draco Veritas), this plot-device drives me insane with feverish excitement and dread. I'm like, noooooo, not... not... the switched loveletters!! :(( :((
...Though I actually came across a switched-loveletters story recently where it didn't get to me at all, because the misunderstanding was really more like a seduction/manipulation type thing, with the outside manipulator (the kicker in switcheroo stories) wasn't really very powerful. In that case, a boy claimed this girl wrote a loveletter she didn't, which he actually wrote himself 'cause he liked her (....), and then this other girl claimed she wrote it (even though she didn't), but that really didn't matter. It's just so much worse, the idea of already knowing the person, for one thing, and having a relationship of some sort with them, and then supposedly saying something out of character yet plausible. Oh, the horror.
In this case it's just embarrassing (from Sarasa's pov, 'cause of the whole 'but she'd never say that'-- aaahhh, so humiliating), and that's really what gets to me-- the sheer embarrassment factor. Like, I live in horror of people saying I said things I didn't say when it really counts, and to the boy I was in love with?? That'd be a million trillion times worse.
Clearly, considering this is a drama about revolution and political intrigue and high adventure and life and death struggle, I have my priorities very much straight.
