Let's chat about h/c today!

[frith_in_thorns]

To 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.)

Comments

[ranalore]

Hmm, I think that's more what I mean by imposter. Like, do I fulfill enough of the requirements to actually claim to be an h/c fan, rather than a fan who likes select h/c tropes? Is there really a difference? Though it's funny that I should be asking myself the question at all, given I can be downright obnoxious in my affirmation that nobody gets to gatekeep these things in fandom.

Especially, a lot of my triggers/squicks are right up next to my id-candy

There is definitely some of this going on around some of mine, too, and it's one reason all the tropes are very much dependent on the fandom and the characters in the scenario. There's no trope I can really make a blanket statement about liking, and even in fandoms and with characters where I like it, it can easily be written in a way that hits the NOPE for me. That's just squicks and things that leave me cold unless written a certain way, though. My triggers are more easily separated from what works for me, and just knowing the characters involved will usually tell me if I'm likely to be triggered, even if it's a trope I might love with other characters.

There have been a few blowouts over the years that hit my triggers involving certain fannish behaviors, so anyone wanting to hit me where it hurts already knows where to aim. They just need to be prepared to be scourged from hell to breakfast for the privilege.