[ SECRET POST #2852 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2852 ⌋

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

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[Harold and Maude]


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05. [ SPOILERS for Blood of Olympus ]



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06. [ SPOILERS for The Walking Dead ]
[ WARNING for rape ]



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08. [ WARNING for suicide ]





















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Comments

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

How can hurt/comfort be OOC when it happens to the characters in the original work itself? Like, Chewbacca was hugging and petting Han Solo after he was tortured in Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back, so how could a fic where he does that in a different scenario be OOC by its nature? Wouldn't that be very much IN-character by its nature, because it's directly inspired by character behavior that explicitly happened in canon?

This comment makes no sense.

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

Since he didn't spend the entire Empire Strikes Back doing it, then it would be OOC to see it in a fic too. Hurt/Comfort fics spend so much time on the hugging and petting that there was no way for the characters to actually get hurt and in all likelihood would have starved to death long before the fic began due to the inability to do anything else other than pet and hug.

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so you DON'T mean they are OOC "by their nature."

You mean that all the hurt/comfort fics you personally have happened to read so far were crappy melodramatic ones.

Thanks for the clarification.

Also? Try to scrounge up just the teeny-tiniest bit of imagination and understanding of the difference between "some stuff I read" and "the inherent nature of everything that involves a certain activity", because wow, dude. Wooooowwwwww.

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, are you implying that every fic ever written should be the same length as and be a perfect replica of all the elements that went into canon?

Um, how about no.

Also, there's a big difference between "hurt/comfort" and "shitty hurt/comfort."

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the volume. And with every search result being dominated by the latter so that it is drowning out anything other, and it being a real PITA to have to wade through a dozen pages of it to get a gen fic, due to tag abuse it is more than fair to say that H/C of any variety is a cancer at the heart of fandom. Its made AO3 virtually unusable unless you are a (bad)H/C fan. I know AO3 was always more for writers than readers, but even so, it is getting out of hand. It is far too easy to write less than 300words of cuddling, label it h/c, and slap it up on AO3. Sometimes there are more tag-words than actual words.

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

"cancer at the heart of fandom"
"Its made AO3 virtually unusable"

GREATEST HITS ANON YOU CAN BANG OUT SOME MORE C'MON DO IT

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for showing up the problem with AO3 in a nutshell. Its supporters think the site can do no wrong, any criticism or discussion of what doesn't work is written off as trolling. AO3 is virtually unusable because of the massive tag problem and its low barrier to posting. It has a problem, it is not addressing that problem, and worse than that, the AO3ers brand any attempts to even bring up that problem as trolling.

Re: Fanfics

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you somewhat.
However it's difficult to include everything in one fic - the drama, action, humour and so on. So a fic usually focuses on one thing. Sometimes it's h/c. It doesn't give the same feelings as canon, but it provides a fic writer's vision and in many cases it's enough.