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

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

That is made of awesome. :;admires::

I would love to see RB in a H Rider Haggard type movie, too... he's got just the look for it.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Oooh yeah. That's an AU right there....Jim as a WWII undercover spy "hunting for antiquities", and there's this interfering anthropologist trying to preserve historical treasures... :)

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

And a threesome guest appearance by a certain Doctor Daniel Jackson...

There's something about the thought of a harrassed Jim dealing with Blair AND Daniel on a jungle expedition that makes me chuckle evilly.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Heh. He'd be so fucking busy pulling their heads out of their asses (and away from the poisonous and/or deadly fauna) he wouldn't get ANYthing done.

Well, except for the hot sex fire-tending.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

There's always time for THAT! :-)