I would send her an email or make a comnent-- I've done so in those circumstances when I've betaed
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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People can get tetchy about comments in a public post, though, so I'd second that but suggest email first.
Help! I need a definition. Recently I keep seeing the abbreviaton "h/c" used, and I can't figure out from context what it means. I tried googling, but had no luck. Can someone please explain it for me?
It's usually "hurt/comfort". (Without knowing the context, I wouldn't rule out it being a pairing name-- Harry/Charlie?-- but people generally use capitals for those.)
Thanks! Other than Fay's Harry Potter fiction I only read Supernatural stories, so it wouldn't be referring to a character pairing. Given the amount of angsting that goes on in SPN, I can see where hurt/comfort could make sense.
Hurt/comfort is a fairly common genre throughout fanfiction, particularly used in the sense of manufacturing a difficult situation--the hurt--and having the all-powerful awesome ManLove (or WomanLove, or HetLove, as you will) be the redeeming factor of the aforementioned hurt. I've always seen it as an excuse to beat your characters and then get 'em laid.
I've always seen it as an excuse to beat your characters and then get 'em laid.
SA is not wrong--h/c goes back just as far as Mary Sue does. Occasionally it even gets filmed; I recall a Xena episode that was basically hurt/comfort. But without the healing sex.
Starsky & Hutch was pretty much four seasons of hurt/comfort interspersed with cheesy costumes, dance numbers, and hookers.
Starsky & Hutch was pretty much four seasons of hurt/comfort interspersed with cheesy costumes, dance numbers, and hookers.
Good times.
I mean, what, six episodes in and one of the leads is kidnapped and forcibly addicted to heroin. It just doesn't get better than that!