[ SECRET POST #2022 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋

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

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________



16.


__________________________________________________



17.


__________________________________________________



18.


__________________________________________________



19.


__________________________________________________



20.


__________________________________________________








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 088 secrets from Secret Submission Post #289.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This anon with a disability definitely agrees! it's always the coddling that gets me. That in h/c fic the one being comfort seems to need to be coddled (not always a character with a disability though) - and everyone seems to think this is okay or appropriate. Me? it makes my skin crawl because I HATE HATE HATE the idea of being coddled or treated like I can't take care of myself and that's what the fics seem to reduce people to - being incapable of functioning without someone to coddle them and tell them everything is going to be okay.

[stainless]

Thank you. :-) I think a lot of us have a love-hate, or maybe just a hate-hate, relationship with coddling, because it's so easy for it to be creepy and demeaning.

[lyndis]

Yeah. I can take care of myself. I mean, open doors for me, that's nice to do for EVERYONE, but some 'fics are like, people spoonfeeding perfectly capable people and it just reminds me of that one scene in Glee where Terri tries to feed Will and play "baby" with him when he has the flu. Creeped me the fuck out.

[(Anonymous)]

This is my biggest problem with h/c. I technically like the genre. I like it when the people who do it have some grasp of psychology or any of the ways a person actually work. The comfort side of hurt is a complicated, resentful, difficult place to be, and most fics just sugar coat and do the healing sex thing, which is honestly pretty boring. Boring for me, anyway, as I can be far more removed from the subject than some others.

And yes. Coddling is a very bad thing to do to someone. Because it belittles them, but also because the ones who enjoy it can tend to latch on and become incapable of helping themselves. But no fic ever deals with these themes. Sometimes I think about doing it. Just because I know that most readers would flip their shit in rage and the first sign of frustrated victim blaming/abandonment/self destruction which are very awful but very unfortunately real.

[stainless]

That would be kind of awesome. :-) Especially frustrated!caregiver.