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Snowflake Challenge #11
Jan. 22nd, 2025 05:17 pm Challenge #11 I have posted about this in previous years before, but pining is still my favourite trope. The pining person has good reasons to believe that their feelings is unrequited and stoically endures the pain. Sometimes the yearning lasts so long that it has become the background feeling in their lives, until it's awakened again. In fanworks, I'm a softie and wants my favourite characters to get together. In original work, I'm fine when the feeling remains unrequited to the end. The secret emotional pain just appeals to my id very well.
There are so much fun variations: mutual pining, sex while pining and longs for more, A is pining and resigned while B thinks they're already dating, one-sided pining turned requited, flower vomiting disease, mutual "outside my league" ships ... As long as the piner doesn't feel entitied to be loved back, I love them all.
I once read a novel that A and B sadly know that they can never get together but for a night of passion. Then in the epilogue we find that C is pining for oblivious A and hides his feeling with a boisterous facade. C's feeling remains unrequited and a secret, but it's so strong that he refuses to forfeit this feeling. I still remember and love the reveal to this day, but it's harder to find things like that.
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There are so much fun variations: mutual pining, sex while pining and longs for more, A is pining and resigned while B thinks they're already dating, one-sided pining turned requited, flower vomiting disease, mutual "outside my league" ships ... As long as the piner doesn't feel entitied to be loved back, I love them all.
I once read a novel that A and B sadly know that they can never get together but for a night of passion. Then in the epilogue we find that C is pining for oblivious A and hides his feeling with a boisterous facade. C's feeling remains unrequited and a secret, but it's so strong that he refuses to forfeit this feeling. I still remember and love the reveal to this day, but it's harder to find things like that.
