Meta: Faces of H/C
Jul. 23rd, 2007 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arrow00I'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.)
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:05 pm (UTC)so distracted by the beauty/lithesomeness/extraordinary hair of their possible-future-same-sex-mate
Oh my yes. Yes indeed. It would happen to me, yes. Especially about that hair, yes.
And the Unnecessary Bathing for Stubbed-toe h/c -- *golly*, yes. TS is awash in it. (Not that I -- necessarily -- object, mind you. It all depends.)
I must say I am reprehensibly fond of all these categories, although I Swear It Was an Accident has to be my personal fave, for sheer angst potential added in to the overall physical woobieness.
And I'm really rather fond of these not just as categories, but as categories. Clearly, food poisoning has not toxified your brain. Fine work. Really. Glad you're recuped enough today to post essential thinky meta like this. Classification is the foundation of... something or other. Something even good, possibly? :-))
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:32 pm (UTC)Classification is just F-U-N. We need to understand these things! :)
And apparently I do quite well on no food at all, because I am working on a fic right now where Blair accidentally gets dosed (and doses Jim with a kiss.) I'm not sure what category that falls under. "I Didn't Know It Was Loaded"?
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:44 pm (UTC)And you're working on new fic! ::intrigued and ecstatic beam::
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:41 pm (UTC)You get the pun award of the day :-)
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:52 pm (UTC)God, I love this fandom. For way too many reasons...
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:57 pm (UTC)God, I love that fic... :;wistful::
And the way you describe it, I want a ficathon devoted to bathing with much silent yearning :-)
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Date: 2007-07-23 08:15 pm (UTC)I like the pre-slash/slash/yearning version of Bathing best, oh I do... So much more possibility there.
So much possibility everywhere, really. ::grateful shiver::
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Date: 2007-07-23 08:20 pm (UTC)ficdrabble.It was hard to love from afar, and know that your feelings would never be requited. But Jim was used to never getting what he wanted out of life. Blair's azure eyes lit with physical desire? Just one more item to add to the list of things that were never going to happen. But he had this at least, to offer the cherishing care that he would love to extend into *every* area of their life. He carefully squeezed out the cloth – no possibility of ticklish dribbles to irritate that beautiful skin.
"There you go, Chief. No more icecream smear."
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Date: 2007-07-23 08:24 pm (UTC)Now he just has to realise that his tongue's so much softer and less drippy next time Blair's messy and you can bet Blair's eyes will be lighting up...
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Date: 2007-07-23 09:08 pm (UTC)highlow that fandom has brought me to...no subject
Date: 2007-07-23 11:14 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, two weeks later Jim is assaulted by a rattlesnake while on the trail of the Desert Killer, and Blair has to suck the venom from a very, er, delicate area.
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-24 02:14 am (UTC)I'm sorry, what was the question again?
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:20 am (UTC)And the icon was made by the inimitable SallyMn
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:26 am (UTC)And how they can sleep at night with that on their conscience, I do not know.
::sulks::
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:50 am (UTC)Looks like I'm in for a serious treat!
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-23 08:50 pm (UTC)Blair really needs to go for something more useful here... say, spilling a little (lukewarm, don't want any actual injuries here. There.) coffee in his lap... Jim would be seeing so much *more* of that beautiful skin and, um...
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Date: 2007-07-23 09:09 pm (UTC)Thanks. :-)
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Date: 2007-07-23 08:54 pm (UTC)*dies*
Anna *gg*
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Date: 2007-07-23 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-23 08:52 pm (UTC)OMG, yes! I would love this madly. *eyes all of you talented TS writers*
Anna *eg*