Especially when it is something like hurt-comfort which a little part of the brain insists the majority of non-fandom-understanding folk would look squint-eyed at you for...

Actually, one of the very first posts I read on joining the Blakes 7 mailing list yeeeeeaaaaaars ago was someone having a gentle laugh at h/c in a tiny dialogue ficlet (I remember this because of the sheer 'other folk think like this!!!!' amazement. I wonder if I still have the copy I kept for years of the ficlet?