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[nny]

I'm reading a fic on someone's journal right now, and it's got a header with Jack/Ennis, and the text says a love that will/never grow old. And I'm like... heh, you may be right, but it will grow a poorly judged mustache...

I dunno. Where do you stand on Happily Ever Afters? What's your ultimate one? Argument's sake, the greatest love story ever told is Romeo and Juliet, even though I hate hate hate that designation, purely because there was never time for the bloom to fade from the rose, as the clichés'd have it.

Me? I like Happily Ever Afters, so long as there's snarking. I'm a romantic of a queer sort. I like happy endings where no one admits that there're feelings involved, where there is much huffing and talk of putting up with each other, where people gravitate towards each other even if only so they can bitch. I like equality and co-dependence, I like a little uncertainty on both sides, I like bull-dozing with a layer of trepidation carefully hidden.

(Mostly, at the moment, I like John/Rodney. *grins* Also? Red wine.)

How 'bout you?

Comments

*sits firmly on fence*

[yakalskovich]

1) Sometimes there is something like a politicla reason for a happy ending, especially for a gay character or any other story about a 'forbidden' love - it doesn't always have to be tragic. That would give people the wrong message - do not attempt.

2) Sometimes, there is a dramatic and narrative reason for an unhappy ending - readers do like to bawl over books, viewers over films.

3) Some fic only exists to give charries the writers and readers care about their happy ending after all - see my icon, those two are a good if recent example.

4) In RPGs, though, too much of a happy ending kills the ongoing relationship. We need to go on writing after the 'happily ever after', and only ever smut or schmoop gets earfully boring after a rather short time. If we do let people get together, keeping up some sort of ongoing tension or plot is of the essence.