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 Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:24 pm
It is true that most protagonists end up with the love interest they choose, due to the "happy ending factor". The gay guy always gets the other gay guy. But I think that it would be nice to see him at least have an interest in a straight guy somewhere in the story. It adds to the exitement. blaugh
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:01 am
Well, I know it isn't writing, but on the TV show Jack and Bobby that they took off the air, there was one part where a guy confessed his love to Jack, and started crying and stuff, because he knew it could never be.
And in my story, (not a fanfic), I completely devastate this one girl, so that's pretty much the emotional climax.
But it does seem that a lot of things hapen too perfectly. In a lot of fanfics, it's that the two guys discover they both had crushes on each other, or something which rarely ever happens in real life like that. It is more fun to read than rejection, because it works and it's cuter or whatever you want to call it. People like happiness over realism.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:25 pm
Yeah, when that stuff happens, it's really unrealistic. I don't do that with my characters out of sheer respect for their right to express their individual orientation. Also, when you change something like that, you really end up changing that character as a whole unintentionally.
Besides, perfection is boring, ne?
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:06 pm
I saw it happen once in Utena (or at least in what little of it I saw before I lost intrest in it), Juri had this friend and a guy came between them and she got bitter about it. Her friend though it was because she stole Juri's man but at the end of the episode, it wasn't the guy's picure Juri kept in the locket she kept with her it was her friend. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:42 pm
It's depressing if the ''gay character'' falls in love wih a straight character, and I believe that many fangirls (including me) has the sweet, forbidden love in the male-male relationship as one reason for lookig at/reading yaoi-manga/anime .
I mean, if the uke falls in love with a straigh person, it's otften very, very many tears and suicide thoughts... stare
And if the seme falls in love, it's often rape (like Fujima Orchestra) eek
Sweet, sweet, mutual love. heart
Sure, I read lots of angst as well, and I enjoy it as much as hell, but too much angst is depressing, it's nice with fluff sometimes as well.
Fluff = Make all the yaoianimes at least most fluff!
Angst = It's okay with angsty manga's, and in the fanfiction's I love it!
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:09 pm
Personally I love sad endings to books. The Well of Lonliness by Ratcliff Hall was a lesbian novel from the 1930s or so and it had a sad ending where she ended up without the one she loved. In fact two women broke her heart throughout the story. It's my favorite book and that's one of the many reasons.
But everyone's right. Majority rules and most people perfer a happy ending. Plus fangirls wanna see some kissing and cuddling and the whatnot. Or..read about it technically since we're talking about literature. It's just a matter of giving the public what they want.
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:53 am
For me be it sad or happy, the ending should be satisfying. Though I still prefer that the perfect couple in the end will end up together.
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:08 am
Because unrequited love SUCKS MONKEY BALLS!!! >.< I like it when it's unrequited at the beginning and slowly becomes a happy ending.
Because unrequited love to the end SUCKS MONKEY BALLS AND I AM A CHEERFUL PERSON AND LIKE HAPPY ENDINGS, DAMMIT! D:<
Also, I hate feeling unrequited love and I don't want to read about it. >_>
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:45 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:07 pm
Garnet233 Simply put: Everyone wants a happy ending.
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:27 pm
I fantasize about storylines like that in my mind quite a bit. I have a thing for torturing my characters mentally, physically, and emotionally. I guess that makes me sorta sadistic. I like it when the pretty boys get hurt it just makes the moments hotter (eg. the episode in YYH where Kurama gets hit by Kurasu's demon bombs). However, I don't imagine such things with real people just manga characters and anime characters 3nodding .
P.S. Happy endings are nice, though.
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:47 pm
Quote: I have a thing for torturing my characters mentally, physically, and emotionally. o_O Thank god I'm not the only one. I don't feel as bad about it now. X3 I don't physically torment them as much as I do emotionally. I just screw my characters emotionally. Unrequited love is a favorite of mine but I don't post them anywhere because it disappoints people. ^^; I save them for myself.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:36 pm
They say unrrequited love is the pures love of all...but I think it's sad. I do read some like those, not much really...
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:24 pm
In the webcomic Boy Meets Boy by Sandra Fuhr... well not the main couple but one of single male charas falls for his best friend who is straight and there is that kind of angst.
Spoilers:
They don't wind up together. The friend never finds out and leaves with some girl towards the end of the comic.
I usually do happy endings but some of my stories but not always.
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:57 pm
Why does that happen? Because it's a MOVIE. Not many modern movies have sad endings. Also, because homosexuals are already getting a bad wrap, the movie makers don't feel like they need unrequited love to make you sympathize for them. They're pretty sure you'll feel sorry for him enough as is, and therefore, it's fair game to toy with their emotions and drama for the duration of the movie without anything like a fatal crush. Then they give them a happy ending to cover up their cheap lack of character developement.
Same goes for happy parts. They know that people love gay people, so they don't need to expend too much energy making the audience like the person---just say "Hey! He's gay!" and the job's done.
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