Meta: Faces of H/C

[arrow00]

I've been on an h/c reading kick since my illness, and it got me to thinking of the many different types of h/c, and how my particular situation would *not* have made a good h/c plot (oh, alas.)

This led to the following categorizations. Please feel free to add your own, hopefully with Sentinel or dS examples:

• Stubbed-toe h/c — When a character suffers an injury or illness that is completely common to everyday man and woman, yet the author has chosen to explore the character recovering from a head-cold, for example. (Warning: This type of story can and may involve some Unnecessary Bathing.)
• Pulling a Homer — When the character is responsible for their own injury ("D'oh!"), e.g., cutting their finger while chopping vegetables because they were so distracted by the beauty/lithesomeness/extraordinary hair of their possible-future-same-sex-mate.
• After School Special — in which the character suffers a major illness or calamity that is atypical and somewhat sensational, yet unrelated to a career of crime-solving or world-saving.
• C is for Clara — When the character simply wastes away out of pining/yearning/perpetual hard-on.
• I Swear It Was an Accident! — When the character is injured by his own partner, who then must not only provide h/c but loads of penance.
• Holy Hand Grenades, Batman! — The character is kidnapped/wounded/tortured by Bad Guys. Sometimes all three. Repeatedly.
• Dudley Do Right — Character throws himself in front of bullet/knife/speeding train to save his partner cum object-of-sexual-interest (or just the rest of the world.)
  

Comments

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

I can has icon? ::squees::

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Of course! It was your idea!

I won't use it out in public so it's all yours. :)

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

I've done a wee post relating to my - er - activities here, and linking to you. Hope that's all right.

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

verrrrry funny,
and I want to read that fic, dammit.
Laurie

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Ditto. The trouble that Blair and Daniel could get themselves into enjoyably boggles the brain.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

But of course. I'm glad you posted your wonderful drabble! And I'm looking forward to reading your Children of Cascade. What's the premise?

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

I attach my Moonridge blurb below - I knew it was going to be long, (well, for me at least) which is why I offered it for Moonridge. Knowing that I have a buyer patiently waiting is keeping me going, even if it is at a snail's pace.

"The Children of Cascade - SF AU. Some twenty-seven years ago, a pregnant young girl escaped the reclusive and secretive planet of Cascade. It's taken a long time, but Cascade has finally found its lost child. The Government sends Agent Protector James Ellison to retrieve the'child' - Blair Sandburg."

So lots of angst and, urggh, plot to keep me going there.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds fascinating. Lots of angsty possibilities. How much more do you think you have left? (an impossible question, I realize.)

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Well, I was thinking 40,000 but now I'm thinking between 40 - 45,000. ::more wibbling, of the nervous sort this time::

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Just look down at the road, babe. :)