Snowflake Challenge: Day 10

[llaeyro]

Day 10

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

WHY ARE THESE GETTING SO HARDDDDDDDD >.<

I like a lot of kinks and tropes, you can see my list here, so I want to talk about something harder to define.

I like small realistic details. Particularly in sex. Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of ridiculous cheesy romance now and then, and certain aspects of rl are just not sexy, but I like to have a balance between the realism and the fantasy. Things like gravity-defying penises (if he's as big as you're making out, it's just not going to be touching his belly while he's standing...) and sex-god virgins turn up quite a lot, and they just make me giggle.

So, what do I mean by small realistic details? Even someone needing to use the toilet inconsequentially makes me smile. It's not a plot device, he just really needs to pee, because bladders have shit timing. Fumbling virgins, imperfect first times, incompatibility (to an extent, obvs), being interrupted, bumping noses kissing, having a stupid/goofy moment during sex, griping at each other over little things, the occasional character being left-handed, things not always working out, imperfect characters, imperfect relationships, bad decisions, the list goes on. If I was a het reader, I'd include mentions of contraception and periods.

I think these little touches just make the story feel more real, and the characters more relatable. I don't really feel able to rec for this, as what I'm focussing on here may just be a single line in the story. The only stories I can think of that have an overall feel of this sort of realism are certain virgin!fics, but a list of recs for that wouldn't accurately represent what I'm trying to advocate here.