HELP! Epic songs for epic kisses. Ballady whatever.

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I am trying to write a fanfic where it involves an epic make-out moment, and... I don't know what to listen to!

Music is VITAL to my writing process. And all I can seem to find to listen to on my comp is break-up songs! ARGH!

I need some quick recs. Something sweeping. Romantic. Swooning. Swooping. Other cleaning & vertical movement metaphors, I don't know. I'm not asking for links, just names I can play from youtube or something. Anything to jolt my brain into the right sphere of sappy romantic thinking! They can be totally mainstream, too. I don't discriminate in my pop.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllppppppppppppppppppp!

ETA: The pairing I'm trying to write for is Uhura/Spock, if that helps.



ETA 3: 1. You guys are so thoughtful for responding! 2. I don't think my romantic vernacular matches everyone else's, apparently. I should figure out how to fix that. To clarify my confusing and incomprehensible request above: Not slow songs, because slow songs tend to be sad even if they are romantic and my brain thinks sweeping/swooning/epic = big music and energy. Seventy-six bloody trombones.

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REALLY long ramble in here about my ideal superhero crew

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MWAHAHA, Tuxedo Mask - I didn't watch nearly as much of Sailor Moon as you did (just whatever I could catch every Saturday during marathons) but what I remember most about him was how little he could do for Serena and his complex about it. I think he powered up eventually, as I remember a quartet of ghostly moon-life advisors, but yep, that was the first time I'd seen a male fictional character weaker than the woman he wanted to defend, and it was so satisfying.

Lately, I've been reading and watching more series with strong-willed, talented female characters who are NOT the moral centers, but there are so many whose strengths are intelligence-based and almost none with stengths that are physical-strength-or-magical-power-based. It's understandable because, generally, women are physically weaker, but when magical powers are involved, there's no excuse. >< I did find an exception, though: the manga Gokusen, in which the female protagonist, a high school teacher raised by the yakuza, is the physically strongest character in the show. When she runs off to save her dumb students from thugs, her male love interest always follows, convinced that he has to be there to save her from trouble, and ends up being saved by her in the process. I wouldn't really recommend the series, but I do wish there'd be more female heroines who can fight like men.

One of the questions I'm still trying to work through is whether I want her friends to be helpers like in Buffy or fellow heroes like in comics and SM. I'm thinking I might end up combining the two, somehow.

I haven't seen Buffy (TOO EPIC TO START? Internet-less vacation in a month ><) or even all of Sailor Moon, so my comment might not be particularly credible, but I can tell you what's worked for me recently (and for TONS of its fans, apparently.) In One Piece, Luffy's crewmembers are all separately developed characters who subordinated themselves to him without surrendering their own goals. One example is Nami, the navigator and cartographer, whose dream is to create a map of the entire world; what better way to do it than to attach herself to the Pirate King? Every single member is given their own backstory and history, their own set of family members or surrogate family (to leave behind), and their own dream, even if it means that Oda-sensei has to provide BOATLOADS OF FLASHBACKS for them and writes a heck of a lot for each. You get the impression that while they're invincible as a group, they're going to split up one day and pursue their own separate futures, and you can imagine one character without the other. They're all developed outside of the context of the show's initial premise, and during adventures, it's pretty common to see them splitting up to do their own thing.

I don't recall seeing that often, characters in a team of heroes constantly enjoying adventures alone or in smaller groups. I've always seen that if there's a heroic main character, the side characters aren't developed as well as he is, and so their "personalities" become nothing more than a set of set of a gimmicks (this one is the main character's rival, and he's a pervert; this one is his love interest, and she's accident-prone but kind). But in One Piece, a lot of the crewmembers' backstories are far more complex than Luffy's, which would explain why he's so carefree while some of the others are pretty jaded.

Of course, because of the nature of a pirate crew and the assignment of roles (cook, navigator, doctor, etc), it's easier to distinguish them as separate heroes in their own fields, but it isn't only their abilities that are distinct; it's their personalities and goals, and how the cook's relationship with the swordsman is different from his relationship with the navigator, and that sort of thing.

(maxed out character count, eeps)