[ SECRET POST #3063 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3063 ⌋

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[intrigueing]

sometimes I don't want to have to pay for that sense of safety with romance/sex, I just want to feel like it can happen just to happen.

This is a great way of phrasing it. I DO like h/c combined with romance/sex, but in those cases the romance/sex is the point, and the h/c is just the excuse or route to get it. A lot of the time, I want h/c and the sense of comfort and safety that comes with it for its own sake. Though in my opinion, the sense of comfort and safety doesn't really feel believable without good characterization too, and believability is important in h/c.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I generally like it with on-point characterisation, yes. I especially love, if the author can get the edge of danger and safety right, when a character finds an unlooked for safety at the hands of an in-character enemy or opponent. Because the circumstances changed, because there was a space where mercy was allowable/advantageous, because some evils go beyond what even an enemy is willing to countenance. That kind of story. I love that so much. I like the spaces where all the dangers are so very real, and all the safeties are so hard-won and bitterly carved out, but they're there nonetheless. Someone made them, and made other people safe inside them.

I don't know. I have moods where that so very cathartic and reassuring to me.

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OMG are you me? I love that so much, the "enemies have to work together" or "enemies wind up helping/listening to/offering comfort or kindness to each other" thing. It's like catnip to me, especially when it's in the face of an even worse enemy. I am very picky about it, though.

[(Anonymous)]

It's very tricky to get right. Rush through it or fail to explain well enough why they'd be willing/forced to work together, you end up making the characters unrecognisable in very short order. But when it does work ...