Fandom Meme, 26
Aug. 10th, 2021 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archer26. A trope which you are virtually certain to love in any fandom.
I am always weak for h/c, particularly h/c with a side order of forced proximity or forced intimacy. Huddling for warmth? Excellent. Sickfic? Bring on the fevers, the chills, the weak hand clutching at the caretaker’s arm because the sick person doesn’t want to be left alone! Or one character has to feed or bathe the other… God, that’s the good stuff.
Cuddling, particularly for touch-starved characters, or characters who are just starved for affection in general. Captivity narratives. Literal dungeons; character A cradles character B’s battered head after the guards beat up B, probably because of B’s incorrigible cheek… which B possibly pulled out to deflect the guards’ attention from hurting A.
But also captivity in a more metaphorical sense (an abusive relationship; a harmful societal belief, like internalized homophobia). A character coming to a place of relative safety and slowly learning how to love and trust. Characters learning to be loved, in general. Characters who think that they can never be loved (they are too difficult/ugly/unpleasant, they have a Past, whatever) realizing that they are.
I am always weak for h/c, particularly h/c with a side order of forced proximity or forced intimacy. Huddling for warmth? Excellent. Sickfic? Bring on the fevers, the chills, the weak hand clutching at the caretaker’s arm because the sick person doesn’t want to be left alone! Or one character has to feed or bathe the other… God, that’s the good stuff.
Cuddling, particularly for touch-starved characters, or characters who are just starved for affection in general. Captivity narratives. Literal dungeons; character A cradles character B’s battered head after the guards beat up B, probably because of B’s incorrigible cheek… which B possibly pulled out to deflect the guards’ attention from hurting A.
But also captivity in a more metaphorical sense (an abusive relationship; a harmful societal belief, like internalized homophobia). A character coming to a place of relative safety and slowly learning how to love and trust. Characters learning to be loved, in general. Characters who think that they can never be loved (they are too difficult/ugly/unpleasant, they have a Past, whatever) realizing that they are.
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Date: 2021-08-10 04:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-08-11 05:20 am (UTC)People who do the equivalent of sitting down and having a cup of tea and a biscuit before rushing off to do whatever!
Equal, friendly relationships between men and women, whether romantic or platonic.
All of them are rather rare, regardless of fandom, though the Lois Mmaster Bujold fandom is pretty good for them...
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Date: 2021-08-11 07:48 pm (UTC)Cuddling, particularly for touch-starved characters, or characters who are just starved for affection in general.
Yessss, I love that.
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Date: 2021-08-11 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-12 04:38 am (UTC)For me, it's not exactly hurt/comfort, but "weird moments of intimacy which are not sexual at all but still very intimate, either physically or emotionally."
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Date: 2021-08-13 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-13 07:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-13 03:18 pm (UTC)