Guilty Pleasures

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Because it's almost 5am, and I still can't get to sleep.

stultiloqentia recently posted a drinking game for Spuffy smut fic. It's a list of words you're sure to have seen a time or two (except for, you know, gnomon). Of course, "cold dead seed" makes an appearance.

Also, a while back, kita0610 had an outing for the old schoolers who invented things like Buffy's vanilla scent. They're those things that get used again and again. And again.

And on stultiloqentia's list? I was surprised to realize I don't care how over-used it is, I still find the primal roar/whisper "Mine!" sexy. I also get turned on by Buffy's "tiny hands" (in Angel's broad ones), even though it's in every single fic on ff.net, the unsexiest place in the whole wide world.

I've managed to convince myself I'm not the only one.

So come on. What are those "I don't care how many times I see it, I still like it"s? Okay, it might be more of a "I don't care how many other people misuse it, I still like it if it's done right", but you have one, don't you? You like seeing Spike say "Da" or "Yes, Sire," or "Xanpet". You like Buffy's mossy green eyes and Angel's chocolate ones. You like it when _____'s mouth is like satin and ______'s spunk tastes like honey. You like it when Buffy finds out Angel married her without telling her when he put the Claddagh ring on her finger. You like seeing Angel spelled "Angle". What's your cliché-kink?

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

OMFG yes, I am a "da" whore. I blame TBQ for that completely. And it's just perpetuated by some really awesome writers, thank god. Like yourself. Whereas, "Sire", isd unfortunately used in every bad fic ever and so it doesn't work as well for me anymore. During sex is also the only time I can see Spike using that term as a form of address.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

Plus also when mocking.

Spike: There we were, just finished off the demon and the alley's dead quiet. We know there's one more, so it's tense, and I'm thinking: that's my sire.
Angel: Spike.
Spike: Angelus, the Great and Glorious, peril of the...
Angel: Shut up.
Spike: ...Russian steppes, feared destroyer of Los Angeles demon riff raff.
Angel: *stands up, comes around the desk*
Spike: *backing through the door, pious* Anyone would have started. Alert, on edge, the warrior sort...
Angel: *passing Wesley (English face) and Gunn (openly grinning), gaining speed*
Spike: Bloody cat was enormous!

And fistfight ensues while Gunn and Wesley crack up. So. Sire. Not during sex.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Yea, he's *referred* to Angel as his Sire many times, but not as a form of address. As in, "Wanna shag, Sire?"

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

Hee. Just being funny.

But yes, a writer must be as careful with "sire" usage as with opening a bottle of coke that rode up the mountains in the back of a land rover. I have this theory that anything at all can be done well in the hands of the right author, but all the same. There should be a "handle with care" list or something. ;)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

People should have to get a license to use words like that.

A badge in the userinfo that says, "I can use the word 'Da', bitches." Or something like that.