Snack -- Vive le grudgefuck!

[themostepotente]

Well...

I just finished my second Snack -- 3000k. I'm quite pleased. The first one I actually wrote -- brilliant plan of action, executed poorly. I must go back and fix one of these days.

I love this pairing for a multitude of reasons;

They hate eachother.

They really hate eachother.

They really, really hate eachother.

So to all the gifted Snack writers -- amanuensis1, cluegirl, ellen_fremedon, fabularasa, isiscolo...

What is the key ingredient to writing this pairing and doing so convincingly?

IMHO, this is one, if not the most difficult slash pairings to pull off.

It's like...trying to snap a picture of your two-year old at Sears Portrait Studio :P

It's like...putting a pair of sunglasses and a big floppy hat on your dog, hoping he'll stay that way and strike a pose :P

They...just...won't...cooperate.

FYI -- I'd love to hear from everyone. If I have forgotten anyone that writes Snack in abundance, 'please' just give me a firm slap on the wrist, and I'll edit.

--P

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Do I write Snack? *looks at website* Damn, I guess I do!

Geez, I guess I haven't thought about it too hard, but, besides some of the points the above people have made, I'd add:

1. "The opposite of hate isn't love--it's indifference." Easier to trade hate for love, easier to feel emotion so strong that you can't tell if it's hate or love.

2. Some of what I've written of Snack is non-con, and maybe that's a bit of a cheat, for what you're asking. ^_^

3. The Beatrice and Benedick syndrome. You take 2 people who hate each other, plant in the head of one that the reason the other is so hostile is because they actually are in love with their rival and are hiding it, and that person will become obsessed with that idea and then begin examining their own brain to see if they maybe feel differently, knowing that now, and wondering if it's been like that for them as well, all along.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Does she write Snack she asks? :P

I seem to recall a delicious fic in which you based off fiendling's 'Bed of Nails.'

And eh, so what if non-con is a bit of a cheat. Non-con is a kink of mine. Snack, when written well, is good in any form.

And well, Amy, you rock irregardless :-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*uses icon, grins, hugs you hard*