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09. http://i.imgur.com/1LEHP75.png

Well, it can work that way, though it's not necessarily so.

I don't understand the appeal of h/c fic. I just flat out don't get it. :/

I guess you've never been hurt. Or comforted.

Mostly when I've been hurt I've had to comfort myself. But even the times when I have been comforted just don't seem like the basis of a story to me. :/

Sorry if I brought up bad memories, I was kidding with you. We all like different things.

I like them because I like to see my favorite characters put to the test. It makes their character richer. But I want them to come out OK in the end, thus needing the comfort.

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Sorry about that, anon.

To me it's sort of the combo of two things

a) liking pretty boys who cry as a turn on
b) sort of re-enancting variations on scenario's where I've been hurt (but generally not comforted)in the past and having that as a sort of catharthic thing or whatever.

Yes, I realize those two might sounds contradictory.

da

Personally I'm a lot like you, anon. I don't like being comforted. If I'm hurt in any way, I prefer to be left alone and I most certainly don't want to be touched. But I'm also aware that a lot of people aren't like that (as shown by the fact that I had to teach all of my friends not to touch me when I hurt myself).

One of the reasons I like it in fanfic is because it's a good trope to work with when a ship isn't together yet. It's a good, realistic, often in character way to make them touch each other when they usually wouldn't do that yet, a way to make them acknowledge their feelings for each other and the fact that they worry and care about each other, and to behave in maybe more tender ways than they usually would. This especially goes for some of my ships who are somewhat emotionally constipated and wouldn't under normal circumstances behave that way. So one of them getting hurt and the other taking care of them is often the only way to get them closer to each other.

nayrt

I'm sort of the opposite: I personally greatly prefer h/c to be in gen fic -- in shippy fic I find it has a tendency to feel sort of immature and too much of a "means to an end" to me. I prefer my shippy pairings to acknowledge their feelings in a more explicitly romantic fashion, to mark it as different from platonic love, and I don't really want them feeling turned-on or romantic-feeling by the sight of each other in pain or something (I don't like that even in mainstream media).

But when it comes to friendship or other types of relationships, I definitely agree with what you mention about the appeal two characters acknowledging how much they care about each other in a IC way, showing it more tenderly than they usually would, etc. I also really like it between people who don't really like each other (or pretend not to like each other, or just have some sort of hang-up about each other) in canon.

It could? There are different subsets of hurt/comfort I think.

Hi Adrian Peterson (Or Ray Rice)

Hi, troll of #9.

Not necessarily abuse-- maybe what you're really looking for is BDSM fic?

lol
And dom/sub is about a character who can't decide on a preference.

I always get a kick out of dom/dom or sub/sub fic, rare as it is.

You're not alone, actually.

And now I am interested too!

...now how to find them?

Badly, sadly. The rare ones I read were original fic.

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It's never just you. I thought it sounded creepy and dom/sub because I read it that way.

You can write it that way or find stories like that if you want to.

I like h/c best when no one did the hurting. The character just got sick, or was in an accident of some kind.

Of course I think I'm also a little weird because I really only like both going on at once, character A in pain/miserable while B tries hard to help/comfort. Just the hurt without someone trying to help, or the comfort without touching on the hurt much is just meh.

oh

i didn't think of it that way, but now i do..
...i kinda like it too

op, let me join you

I thought so too. Since I don't really seek out that genre I still tend to think of it that way.

Not sure if I'd call that abuse though. Sometimes people argue, or sometimes they hurt each other through accidents or misunderstanding. These things can become abusive though. But then I think of abuse as something continuous, so my view may not be best.

I think it can be either way, really. But I don't like it, personally.

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