Hurt/comfort bingo

[osprey_archer]

hc_bingo is open again! I'm so tempted to sign up; it's always been my favorite bingo, and it's also been a while since I wrote any fanfic, so maybe it would get me going again...

But I've also been thinking that I need to focus on my own original writing, and hurt/comfort bingo is such a tempting distraction, perhaps I should resist it's siren song.

On the other hand, I have an almost polished first draft of Sage, and once I've finished that I really ought to take a brief break before jumping into another big project. (My current plan for my next novella - possibly novel? I feel like this one could grow alarmingly - is The Depressed Civil War Nurse and the Doctor with the Permanent Limp from His War Wounds Find Love Even Though They Believed Their Infirmities Made That Impossible. It will have a better title once I've actually written it.)

And what is better for a brief break than writing a short story about Stockholm syndrome or survivor's guilt or scars?

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You can also have them say they keep remembering the soldiers who died and it still makes them sad. Or if it started earlier, maybe they had several relatives who also had it and their family thinks it runs in the family, like red hair or such. That's ahead of its time as a general concept, but people did notice genetic tendencies way before we had actual genetics. Like, "That family has a lo of wild boys," or "She's smart like her mother."