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.)
Lindsey: Why--why did you... Lorne: One last job. You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. You never will be. Lindsey: You kill me? A flunky?! I'm not just...Angel...kills me. You...Angel... Lorne: Good night, folks.
'Not Fade Away'
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Am-Chau Yarkona - May 22, 2007 12:00:28 am PDT #3801 of 10436
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Morgana - May 22, 2007 12:04:54 am PDT #3802 of 10436
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
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.
esse - May 22, 2007 12:55:25 am PDT #3803 of 10436
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
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.
Consuela - May 22, 2007 5:09:53 am PDT #3804 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
shrift - May 22, 2007 5:14:25 am PDT #3805 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Starsky & Hutch was pretty much four seasons of hurt/comfort interspersed with cheesy costumes, dance numbers, and hookers.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2007 5:34:20 am PDT #3806 of 10436
brillig
Starsky & Hutch was pretty much four seasons of hurt/comfort interspersed with cheesy costumes, dance numbers, and hookers.
Good times.
shrift - May 22, 2007 5:39:22 am PDT #3807 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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!
Connie Neil - May 22, 2007 5:51:54 am PDT #3808 of 10436
brillig
Was that the one when Hutch collapsed and Starsky was cradling him desperately in his arms? Then wrote I love you on the ICU window?
shrift - May 22, 2007 6:17:33 am PDT #3809 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Yes on the desperate cradling, but I'm actually not sure about the ICU thing because that show had so many near-death I love yous. The bullet wounds, the poisonings, the kidnappings, the car accidents, the hotpants...
Connie Neil - May 22, 2007 6:18:33 am PDT #3810 of 10436
brillig
It was the poisoning one, right. And Starksy desperately searching for the cure.
I wonder if I could stand to track down the DVDs for a glorious wallow in '70s hoyay.