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masqthephlsphr did a book review and before the review detailed her kinks or those items that turn her on to a story or narrative.
In fandoms - people call it bullet-proof kink , which I first saw described bysuperplin- or an item that will make you read a fanfic no matter what. Of course if the fanfic is well written, you may even fall in love with it. I stopped reading fanfic some time ago, well except for one which pushed all my kinks, that I keep waiting for new installments on, but seriously doubt they'll appear.
Anyhow - I liked how Masq applied the concept to books. I think this can be applied to tv shows, movies, music, any sort of narrative form actually. But, here's the thing - all we are doing is talking about kinks. What people fail to mention is buttons.
If a kink is whatever will make you gravitate to a narrative and latch on to it, at times obsessively, regardless of how well or badly written it is - a button is whatever will make you flip the channel, rant and rave at it, or despise it regardless of how well it is written or which friend adores it to pieces. Buttons are at times much harder to identify or admit to - buttons make people see red. They are often linked to personal baggage or childhood issues that remain unresolved and as a friend of mine put it recently, the older one gets, the more entrenched certain aspects of one's personality become.
People don't always know why they hate something and will hunt objective reasons - such as: it is poorely executed or some other type of critique. When the truth is? It just happened to push their buttons.
Then there are those sane souls who really don't care to analyze it. They like what they like and hate what they hate.
My kinks:
Hard to pinpoint and I'm certain this is not a complete list...but here it goes.
( my 21 kinks )
Now...here are my buttons:
( 21 buttons )
This list in a nutshell probably clarifies why I hate certain tv shows, books, what have you and love others. Of course, I occassionally run into a show such as Angel or Buffy that may contain my buttons and kinks, but if it contains mostly my kinks as those two shows did - I'm there. The fifth, sixth and seventh season of Buffy contained almost all my kinks - hence the reason I became obsessed.
masqthephlsphr did a book review and before the review detailed her kinks or those items that turn her on to a story or narrative. In fandoms - people call it bullet-proof kink , which I first saw described by
superplin- or an item that will make you read a fanfic no matter what. Of course if the fanfic is well written, you may even fall in love with it. I stopped reading fanfic some time ago, well except for one which pushed all my kinks, that I keep waiting for new installments on, but seriously doubt they'll appear. Anyhow - I liked how Masq applied the concept to books. I think this can be applied to tv shows, movies, music, any sort of narrative form actually. But, here's the thing - all we are doing is talking about kinks. What people fail to mention is buttons.
If a kink is whatever will make you gravitate to a narrative and latch on to it, at times obsessively, regardless of how well or badly written it is - a button is whatever will make you flip the channel, rant and rave at it, or despise it regardless of how well it is written or which friend adores it to pieces. Buttons are at times much harder to identify or admit to - buttons make people see red. They are often linked to personal baggage or childhood issues that remain unresolved and as a friend of mine put it recently, the older one gets, the more entrenched certain aspects of one's personality become.
People don't always know why they hate something and will hunt objective reasons - such as: it is poorely executed or some other type of critique. When the truth is? It just happened to push their buttons.
Then there are those sane souls who really don't care to analyze it. They like what they like and hate what they hate.
My kinks:
Hard to pinpoint and I'm certain this is not a complete list...but here it goes.
( my 21 kinks )
Now...here are my buttons:
( 21 buttons )
This list in a nutshell probably clarifies why I hate certain tv shows, books, what have you and love others. Of course, I occassionally run into a show such as Angel or Buffy that may contain my buttons and kinks, but if it contains mostly my kinks as those two shows did - I'm there. The fifth, sixth and seventh season of Buffy contained almost all my kinks - hence the reason I became obsessed.