Fandom Meme DAY 4 - Harnessing the emotional power in NOTPs and NOPES
Saturday, 5 December 2015 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarasa_catWow. I do not like this question for so many reasons. Here is the new question:
4. Talk about your thoughts on pairings that cause discomfort in your fandom(s).
I had to change the original meme question because there are no pairings that I truly, intensely, passionately hate to the point that I avoid the pairing at all costs. Here is why: if the thought of any specific pairing causes me discomfort, that pairing or something that pairing represents has strong emotional power in it.
AND THAT MEANS IT IS MUSE FUEL.
The idea here is not to provoke readers. Instead, this is a matter of understanding the power that a NOTP has over me so I can harness it and tell an emotionally honest and emotionally powerful story.
Some of my most kudoed/commented stories were born from NOTP pairings and from NOPE prompts (where the prompt itself is a NOPENOPENOPE, rather than the pairing).
As for reading NOTP pairs and prompts, this is where my notion of “trusting the author” comes in.
A writer gains my trust when they write a NOTP or a NOPE in a way that knowingly nods to why I feel a knee-jerk NOOOOOOO. It's like this secret handshake of "yep, know how you feel on this one, and here is a story that validate the reality of those feelings."
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Anyone else with thoughts on this?
