Well, it was only seven bucks...
May. 22nd, 2010 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tulapeiwaNot every storyline has to end with a wedding. No, really, it doesn't.
Some day I will read/watch/listen to/taste a story where someone of the female persuasion expresses a disinterest in matters of the heart, follows her own calling and then doesn't wind up swept off her feet in the third act by Mr. Right.
Or Mrs. Right. I haven't seen this one so much in LGBT lit, but I'm keeping my eye on you. Be good. You have your own Cliches that Make me Cringe.
Just once can we please not? There are people out there, even excluding me because I am clearly bitter, but there are people who lead perfectly happy lives and do perfectly splendid things that don't involve another person in that way.
I know character development is hard, but tropes aren't always the answer. If your character has been built so that she values adventure/knowledge/her vows/being a trapeze artist above domestics, that is an alright choice for her to make. Yes even after the first chapter. Yes even at the height of the action. Or maybe even after the action has died down and we're deciding where we go from here. She could choose a city/ocean/cosmos full of adventure over the cock. Once? Just once? Please? No? Alright then. I'll just get back to my knitting.
Some day I will read/watch/listen to/taste a story where someone of the female persuasion expresses a disinterest in matters of the heart, follows her own calling and then doesn't wind up swept off her feet in the third act by Mr. Right.
Or Mrs. Right. I haven't seen this one so much in LGBT lit, but I'm keeping my eye on you. Be good. You have your own Cliches that Make me Cringe.
Just once can we please not? There are people out there, even excluding me because I am clearly bitter, but there are people who lead perfectly happy lives and do perfectly splendid things that don't involve another person in that way.
I know character development is hard, but tropes aren't always the answer. If your character has been built so that she values adventure/knowledge/her vows/being a trapeze artist above domestics, that is an alright choice for her to make. Yes even after the first chapter. Yes even at the height of the action. Or maybe even after the action has died down and we're deciding where we go from here. She could choose a city/ocean/cosmos full of adventure over the cock. Once? Just once? Please? No? Alright then. I'll just get back to my knitting.
