Hurt/Comfort fanfiction is deeper than you’d think

Hurt/Comfort, aka H/C, is a genre of fanfiction where a character gets hurt — either physically, mentally, or emotionally — and is comforted and/or taken care of by one or more other characters.

It pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Whump is a sub-genre where a character is continually being injured/having really bad luck, piled on and/or emphasised gratuitously for the ‘oh no! I must hug this precious bean!’ effect by the fic author, and pretty common in H/C, as you might expect.

I’m a fan of H/C — especially when the fic author manages to somehow make it so that it’s not too melodramatic

It’s often trash. But it’s the good trash. The self-care kind of trash.

And we all need that from time to time.

Plus, y’know what? H/C also has good life lessons:

• it’s OK to ask for help
• having problems is…

Recently, I saw that McDonalds are gonna stop supplying hard plastic toys in their kids’ meals in the UK and Ireland.

This was due to a petition from two smol eco-warriors, who were annoyed at the lack of recyclable-ness.

And good on them. We all need to be working on cutting down on the amount of plastic we use.

But when I heard the news, I wasn’t entirely happy.

Of course, I was happy that there’d be less plastic thrown away and ending up in landfill or the water system!

…But I still had some reservations.

Because I knew how much it would hurt a lot of kids whose families are on low incomes.

Yes, you read that right. Those of you who know will know — those…

…Just some random thoughts from when I finally got around to watching Avengers: Age of Ultron. Enjoy!

• Yay, more Hawkeye! Still not enough, but when you’re a Hawkeye fan, you take what you can get
• They need to make Clint deaf, like he is in the comics.
• This version of Pietro & Wanda… meh. I prefer the X-men versions. Where they get to be mutants, and also Magneto’s children (comics be weird sometimes.)
• Really under-utilising Pietro here
• This guy’s OK, but I’m going with Evan Peters as my fave Pietro

‘Seriously. Who is the author kidding? This book is about the Manson murders.’

Title: The Girls

Author: Emma Cline

Genre: Adult Fiction*, Historical Fiction*, Crime*, LGBTQ+ (M/F, F/F)*✢

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, I’m done.

No.

Wait-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…OK, now I’m done.

This is still a SPOILER-free zone, but there will be a SPOILER section at the end, which will be clearly labelled, OK? OK

Oh, and, as per usual, it doesn’t count as a SPOILER if it’s in a trailer. And Queer IDs aren’t SPOILERS.

First off — that clock somehow got creepier.

I didn’t think that was possible, but somehow we managed it.

Maybe that was the purpose behind the hotel-from-The-Shining aesthetic at the TVA this whole time — to warn us that there was something creepy af lurking in there!

Speaking of aesthetics — the whole gold-veined-castle chic was really pretty and really gothicky. 10/10, would redecorate bedroom if I thought I could pull it off.

Now, Marvel — didn’t we have discussions about you providing me with too much ammo for existential crises?

Because this last episode…