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I don't have the spoons to deal with the current discussion about derailing sparked off by the m/m and slash debate without incoherent screams of rage, and I've already had the comments/concrit discussion several times (my general opinion, taken away from said discussion, is that my perceptions on concrit are skewed by the way my brain processes criticism, which I suspect isn't quite the way everyone else's does, and also that reviewing is often difficult and there's nothing wrong with lurking, given that fandom is supposed to be for fun).
So, recent posts about woobies have got me thinking, because the way people define woobies and the qualities desired in them seem to differ between fans.
Thus, a h/c poll:
(Hurt/comfort poll of gratuitous length)
Mostly, I'm curious to see how many other h/c fans out there share my kinks, and how many are getting something completely different out of h/c in terms of emotional satisfaction. Ex: I kind of feel like a hurt/comfort story that's all comfort without onscreen hurt is like a sex scene that opens with a couple sentences of orgasm then is all afterglow, and never shows you the foreplay or, indeed, the actual sex, whereas I know other people view the hurt as something to be rushed through or put up with in order to get to the comfort rather than something to savour. Ditto for emotional vs. physical hurt -- some readers I know find emotional hurt more satisfying on it's own without physical injury to distract from it and don't think "You know what would make this story even better? If the angsty/woobie guy got captured by the wraith and tortured and *then* the comforting-the-woobie part happened." (those of y'all who have read that alien invasion fic with the gratuitous torture sequences probably don't find that a surprise)
So, recent posts about woobies have got me thinking, because the way people define woobies and the qualities desired in them seem to differ between fans.
Thus, a h/c poll:
(Hurt/comfort poll of gratuitous length)
Mostly, I'm curious to see how many other h/c fans out there share my kinks, and how many are getting something completely different out of h/c in terms of emotional satisfaction. Ex: I kind of feel like a hurt/comfort story that's all comfort without onscreen hurt is like a sex scene that opens with a couple sentences of orgasm then is all afterglow, and never shows you the foreplay or, indeed, the actual sex, whereas I know other people view the hurt as something to be rushed through or put up with in order to get to the comfort rather than something to savour. Ditto for emotional vs. physical hurt -- some readers I know find emotional hurt more satisfying on it's own without physical injury to distract from it and don't think "You know what would make this story even better? If the angsty/woobie guy got captured by the wraith and tortured and *then* the comforting-the-woobie part happened." (those of y'all who have read that alien invasion fic with the gratuitous torture sequences probably don't find that a surprise)
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