Fandom Discussion -- Kissing in fanfiction -- I hate your fucking guts but let's kiss anyway!

[themostepotente]

Perhaps it's me, but is there a lack of really steamy and passionate kissing in fics?

It probably doesn't help that I thrive on;

a.) antagonistic pairings
b.) darkfic
c.) Snape and his lousy oral hygiene

Not exactly a breeding ground for 'Casablanca' and 'Gone With the Wind' style passion, I know.

I'm posing a couple of questions here.

How important is kissing in a story for you?

Should kissing be bypassed with some pairings? (Extreme and utter hatred, implausibility, etc.) If so, let us know what they are.

What makes or breaks a kiss for you?

What was the hottest kiss you've ever read in a fic? Link if you can, please. I've been craving kissing too. Don't read nearly enough, dammit!

Bonus points if someone can rec me kissing in a Snape/Black fic that's plausible.

Anything else you want to mention about kissing in fics? By all means!

--P

Comments

[firebird5.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about this actually. Kissing is something I love, and really miss in this era of nothing-but-PWPs. It's not really fluffy, when you think about it. I almost felt like not writing the last chapter of one of my stories, because of the sex, with the bottom face-down, and, well... it seemed so un-intimate, whereas in the chapter before that, they were snogging each other's faces off and getting into little bickering fights in between. Anyway, I recently read a lovely kissing story (http://prillalar.com/fic/stories/000307.php), and it's so fitting for the pairing. Even more fitting than porn, which, actually I don't think fits much with R/D. *shrug* Dunno why. Hate-snogging seems more likely, and nicer to read, than hate-sex.

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[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

No, I agree, it isn't necessarily only in fluffy fics.

If hate!sex exists, you have to know that hate!snogging does too. But kissing is very personal which is why I don't see it nearly as much in the pairings I adore.

Touché I s'pose :)

--P