Snowflake Challenge #11
Jan. 22nd, 2025 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snowynight 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.
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Date: 2025-01-22 11:35 am (UTC)Sometimes the yearning lasts so long that it has become the background feeling in their lives, until it's awakened again. -- oh that hits hard and goes hand in hand with a bit of angst - the pining is so constant that it's a part of them, a little like a splinter, but gets worse when the character becomes aware of it.
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Date: 2025-01-22 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-22 04:20 pm (UTC)Anseio realmente é um maravilhoso tropo, gosto muito e recentemente li um de Singin' in the Rain com Cosmo se achando um empecilho na relação de Kathy e Don enquanto os anseia, só para descobrir que os eles o amam e querem-no para si u.u
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Date: 2025-01-23 05:06 pm (UTC)C is a secondary character and A's political rival. The epilogue is in his POV and re-interpret his behaviour. It's so great to realize that while A and B struggle to resist their feeling, C is yearning for A but will never gets A. Unrequited feeling all the way!
Yearning is such a great trope!
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Date: 2025-01-23 05:48 pm (UTC)É que na sua entrada você fala sobre A e B e depois sobre C que não havia sido introduzido antes, sem a explicação do seu comentário eu fiquei um pouco confusa sobre a dinâmica deles. Gosto de anseio, mas amor não correspondido é tão triste. Querer a outra pessoa e nunca a ter, ain sorry mas de tristezas já basta a vida, nas fics gosto deles sofrendo um pouco antes de todos se amarem e ficarem juntos.