Let's chat about h/c today!
Oct. 1st, 2019 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frith_in_thornsTo go with naye's lovely post about comfort tropes, tell me your favourite kinds of hurt for your fictional characters! Do you have ones you like to read but not write, or vice versa? Are there some you will read endlessly in any fandom you're in? Are there some h/c tropes you can bash out a 2k oneshot for at the drop of a hat?
Also, do you find you're equal-opportunity with your hurt, or do you hoard it all for one particular character or character archetype?
I'll start, and say that I'm really into hurt resulting in altered-state, as provided by many things but especially concussion/drugged/fever etc. It's something I find endlessly enjoyable to write -- the vulnerability caused by the skewed perspective, and how that plays out in character interactions, but also I... just like... the hurt bit itself *gg* And currently I have a definite Thing for Shen Wei magically exhausting himself and coughing blood and stumbling in a floppy way and having to be supported by Zhao Yunlan. (I don't suppose this is a revelation to anyone. But I'm so glad to know that I'm not alone!)
Anyway, please share your own likes! And recs!
(This is a positivity-only post. Very uninterested in hearing how h/c is OOC or a moral failing or how some people write it badly or whatever, thanks.)
naye's lovely post about comfort tropes, tell me your favourite kinds of hurt for your fictional characters! Do you have ones you like to read but not write, or vice versa? Are there some you will read endlessly in any fandom you're in? Are there some h/c tropes you can bash out a 2k oneshot for at the drop of a hat?Also, do you find you're equal-opportunity with your hurt, or do you hoard it all for one particular character or character archetype?
I'll start, and say that I'm really into hurt resulting in altered-state, as provided by many things but especially concussion/drugged/fever etc. It's something I find endlessly enjoyable to write -- the vulnerability caused by the skewed perspective, and how that plays out in character interactions, but also I... just like... the hurt bit itself *gg* And currently I have a definite Thing for Shen Wei magically exhausting himself and coughing blood and stumbling in a floppy way and having to be supported by Zhao Yunlan. (I don't suppose this is a revelation to anyone. But I'm so glad to know that I'm not alone!)
Anyway, please share your own likes! And recs!
(This is a positivity-only post. Very uninterested in hearing how h/c is OOC or a moral failing or how some people write it badly or whatever, thanks.)
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Date: 2019-10-02 02:53 am (UTC)--My list has more on it, these are just the things that tend to float to the top, and that hadn't been talked about already (like, panic attacks are definitely A+++ for me but that's already discussed above!)
...all right, I can get sometimes why h/c seems weird to people when you have all of us going "Concussions! :D Panic attacks! :D :D :D"
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Date: 2019-10-02 03:14 am (UTC)LOLOL, I was just thinking that reading the above comments. XD I mean, within the context of a discussion about h/c, everyone knows exactly what everyone else is talking about; it's no stranger than a discussion about BDSM where people are like "beating or caning?? BOTH IS GOOD! :DDD" CONTEXT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. But yeah. XD
This whole conversation is so inspiring, though. I want to write 50 different things, oh nooooo ...