[ SECRET POST #2768 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2768 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Eliza Dushku and Michelle Rodriguez]


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07. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]



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08. [SPOILERS for The Day the Laughter Stopped]
[WARNING for rape]



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09. [WARNING for gore]
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Notes:

Staying late at work, day the 3rd. Sorry again.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it depends on what the reader or writer's wish-fulfillment is -- whether they fantasize about being rescued/comforted, or whether they fantasize about rescuing/comforting someone.

a) someone who fantasizes about rescuing or comforting someone would be more likely to want the character they relate to the most to be the rescuer

b) people who fantasize about being a rescuer are often (not always, just often) more secure, confident people than people who fantasize about being rescued

c) people who are more secure and confident tend not to be as obsessed with finding characters to "relate" to (the person with low self-esteem are very gratified when they can go "wow, there's someone like me! I'm not a freak!" People with high self-esteem don't have this reaction because they already know they're not a freak). Instead, secure, confident people tend to rather gravitate towards characters they admire.

Put a b and c together and the general trend is that the characters who people relate to the most tend to get hurt the most. If different fans relate to different characters, the h/c tend to be more evenly divided amongst them.

[(Anonymous)]

This analysis started off well, but then went 0 to unneccessary, unfounded judgement of h/c readers' self esteem in the space of a sentence. Like, what even? Who asked for that? WHO?

Just for the record, some people like seeing their fave character hurt because they find them hot and seeing them hurt then comforted hits their kink buttons. Is that so difficult to understand?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Sorry, I didn't intend for it to be a universal statement -- I was just thinking of highly generalized tendencies. Like, a 55% or 60% correlation, not a 100% one.

I absolutely agree that some people like seeing their favorite character hurt because they find them hot and seeing them hurt then comforted hits their kink buttons.

I just think it's somewhat more likely for people with low self-esteem to be more attached to characters they relate to than people with high self-esteem. And there is some definite correlation between relatability and favoritism in fandom.

I certainly do not think this describes ALL hurt/comfort fans though, or even a vast majority, and I'm sorry if it came off that way.