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Somehow it delights me to find out that S.E. Hinton (of The Outsiders) writes Outsiders fanfic (under a pen name), and also wrote to her favorite Outsiders fanfic author to tell them that she liked their work. ("It took her a while to believe that it was really me." I'll bet.) So in case you're in that fandom, the author is probably reading your fic, and some of the fic you're reading might be by her, too.
I finished a writing project today (a side story planned to be a mailing list extra ... though I might end up incorporating it in the main book; I'm not sure now) and I'm feeling somewhat at loose ends, so - you know what I love talking about and haven't talked about lately? Hurt/comfort. :D
If h/c is not your thing, no worries. If it is your thing ... or if aspects of it are ...
What are your favorite things in hurt/comfort? And is there a type of hurt/comfort you love that nobody ever seems to write?
... you know what I've been thinking about lately that you never seem to see in fic anymore? Comas. This was such a huge trope in '80s TV - it's on my mind because there's a great example in Wiseguy. And I remember a little of this in SGA fic, which was so huge it had everything. But I can't really ever remember seeing it anywhere else, even in White Collar which was a very h/c-intensive fandom that did basically everything to Neal - there MUST have been coma fic, but I don't remember any.
Possibly one reason for this, I guess, is that a realistically written coma isn't actually that much fun, because the recovery is so arduous and the likelihood of permanent, severe long-term health effects is so high. But, then, that's also true of concussions and a bunch of other things fandom really loves.
So yeah. #bringbackcomas2K20
It has also occurred to me that nobody ever writes altitude sickness. The only fic I've ever read that deals with it is the one I wrote; it's not even a canonical tag on AO3. And yet it's so perfectly tailor-made for it! It's debilitating, miserable, and life-threatening, and yet, with the right treatment it's easily curable with no lingering after-effects: get oxygen, go back to normal. If you were going to custom-design a fictional disease for hurt/comfort writers, you couldn't really do better. C'mon, fandom, don't leave me all alone here.
Anyway, favorite things - there's a lot that I love, but I think for me the best-of-the-best really comes down to the general categories of "woozy and out of it", and "desperately worried." And therefore, things that produce one or both of those conditions: head injuries, fevers, and drugs (among other things) in the first case, and for the latter, just about anything really life-threatening: getting shot, getting stabbed, being stranded far from medical help, drowning, heart attacks, etc.
(Oh yeah, that last one is another one I really would enjoy reading more of. Heart attacks. It's another one that rarely seems to get written, but has symptoms that lend themselves excellently to h/c. White Collar did have some, since Peter has one in canon.)
I think I like both of those classes of things because ... well, partly because sometimes you just like things and clearly I am wired that way, but there's just so much you can do with it from a character perspective. They both involve a sort of emotional stripping down of barriers -- pushing people to reveal a little of their inner selves without actually being pushed by the people they're around, if that makes any sense.
I finished a writing project today (a side story planned to be a mailing list extra ... though I might end up incorporating it in the main book; I'm not sure now) and I'm feeling somewhat at loose ends, so - you know what I love talking about and haven't talked about lately? Hurt/comfort. :D
If h/c is not your thing, no worries. If it is your thing ... or if aspects of it are ...
What are your favorite things in hurt/comfort? And is there a type of hurt/comfort you love that nobody ever seems to write?
... you know what I've been thinking about lately that you never seem to see in fic anymore? Comas. This was such a huge trope in '80s TV - it's on my mind because there's a great example in Wiseguy. And I remember a little of this in SGA fic, which was so huge it had everything. But I can't really ever remember seeing it anywhere else, even in White Collar which was a very h/c-intensive fandom that did basically everything to Neal - there MUST have been coma fic, but I don't remember any.
Possibly one reason for this, I guess, is that a realistically written coma isn't actually that much fun, because the recovery is so arduous and the likelihood of permanent, severe long-term health effects is so high. But, then, that's also true of concussions and a bunch of other things fandom really loves.
So yeah. #bringbackcomas2K20
It has also occurred to me that nobody ever writes altitude sickness. The only fic I've ever read that deals with it is the one I wrote; it's not even a canonical tag on AO3. And yet it's so perfectly tailor-made for it! It's debilitating, miserable, and life-threatening, and yet, with the right treatment it's easily curable with no lingering after-effects: get oxygen, go back to normal. If you were going to custom-design a fictional disease for hurt/comfort writers, you couldn't really do better. C'mon, fandom, don't leave me all alone here.
Anyway, favorite things - there's a lot that I love, but I think for me the best-of-the-best really comes down to the general categories of "woozy and out of it", and "desperately worried." And therefore, things that produce one or both of those conditions: head injuries, fevers, and drugs (among other things) in the first case, and for the latter, just about anything really life-threatening: getting shot, getting stabbed, being stranded far from medical help, drowning, heart attacks, etc.
(Oh yeah, that last one is another one I really would enjoy reading more of. Heart attacks. It's another one that rarely seems to get written, but has symptoms that lend themselves excellently to h/c. White Collar did have some, since Peter has one in canon.)
I think I like both of those classes of things because ... well, partly because sometimes you just like things and clearly I am wired that way, but there's just so much you can do with it from a character perspective. They both involve a sort of emotional stripping down of barriers -- pushing people to reveal a little of their inner selves without actually being pushed by the people they're around, if that makes any sense.
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"Woozy and out of it" really does sum up my favourite hc so well. It's the main thing I enjoy about concussion fic. And fever, drugged, etc. Guardian does a good line in magically exhausted too (well I keep writing it at great length anyway).
I wrote magical coma last year! Focused on the excruciating waiting of the other character. I've done the sort of cliche POV coma fic too where you hear snapshots of what's going on around, but not since CSI NY I think. I'm actually surprised I didn't write this for White Collar, I'm pretty sure I must have a WIP or something because it feels so familiar!
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I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED that you've written comas in Guardian. xD I am also genuinely surprised that neither of us ever wrote it in White Collar. I think the only fandom in which I specifically remember finding fic that had comas with the particular set of tropey plot/character elements surrounding it (anxious bedside vigils, etc) was SGA.
Though I guess a lot of magical and sci-fi fandoms have various conditions that are vaguely similar, e.g. being trapped in VR, and possibly those end up getting substituted. I think you can tell the difference between true, tropey coma fic (which it sounds like is what you wrote, regardless of the cause) and fic in which something else is merely simulating some of the symptoms of a coma with other things going on around it, though.
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SGA canon and fic were so good for anxious "we don't know if they'll wake up" scenes, now I think about it! It was a very hc canon really. I definitely miss that in shows since. Guardian does have good bedside caretaking, though. *points to icon*
I've remembered another thing in weirdly fond of in fic - seizures! You get the extreme scary worry, the woozy out-of-it afterwards, and you really can dial up and down how serious it is. I have written seizures quite a lot, although usually not at the subject of the fic but as an intensifier. (I have only become more interested in writing them as a result of the huge amount of seizure training I've done for work, lol.)
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I think what is amusing me at the moment is the list of top-level categories, which includes what you'd expect (no comas, though!) and also things like "stomach ulcers" which apparently happened to Neal enough in fic to deserve their own category. :D
Every fandom needs one of these.
I've remembered another thing in weirdly fond of in fic - seizures! You get the extreme scary worry, the woozy out-of-it afterwards, and you really can dial up and down how serious it is.
ohhhhhhh. You know what ... I would have to think about it, but I'm not sure if I have EVER written this. (If I did, the odds are pretty good that it was in White Collar, though. xD)
ETA: I am now perusing the Peter masterlist and it's like 50% me. XDDD I seem to recall this was a problem in that corner of the fandom, yes.
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