Comments | harmonyangel: H/C Bingo!

harmonyangel

H/C Bingo!

Jun 08, 2010 21:51

Disclaimer: I'm not really a h/c person. It's not a trope I've ever really understood, and I'm not sure I've ever consciously written it. But I really like the idea of the tropes on the bingo cards, and even if I wind up failing at h/c-y aspects in some fics, I'd like to at least try to write to these prompts.

( Cut to save flist space, and to avoid triggering anyone. )

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harriet_vane June 9 2010, 01:56:27 UTC

TRAPPED IN AN ICE RINK OVERNIGHT. :DDDDDDDD So this time apparently YOU will be writing MY favorite trope.

I am seriously considering turning Johnny invisible. It would kill his soulllllllll, he would need so many hugs later. (Which, for me, is the appeal of h/c. It reveals your insecurities, somehow, and then it turns out people love you and rally around you. See also: I am considering shooting BrianO in a story just so he can get all loved on by his kids.)

harmonyangel June 9 2010, 02:07:44 UTC

I'm pretty sure that trapped-in-an-ice-rink prompt was unfilled at wintergameskink; I might as well try my hand at it!

And I love your point about vulnerabilities -- invisibility would just be lulzy with some characters, but with Johnny it really would hit all his fears. I need to look at some of these squares in that light. (And I encourage both of those fics, even if Brian being hurt makes me SAD.)

harriet_vane June 9 2010, 02:14:07 UTC

Basically those two need to be trapped with each other in order to get over themselves, is my entire thesis on Johnny/Evan. SOMEONE HANDCUFF THEM TOGETHER UNTIL THEY FALL IN LOVE, IT'LL WORK, I'M PRETTY SURE.

h/c can be totally lulzy, and like, I wrote kidfic with all kinds of implied sexual harrasment, and I LOVE hookerfic and slavefic and all kinds of embarrassing fics that I will defend to the DEATH because they are AWESOME. But really well done h/c is (for me) something physical reflecting something emotional. Something that forces people to face up to how they really feel -- shippy or not -- about each other.

If no one could see Johnny I think he'd die. It's wonderful as a premise. HOW WOULD HE DEAL WITH BEING IGNORED? BADLY, I THINK.

ETA: Muscle strains really, really should be Evan.

harmonyangel June 9 2010, 13:45:48 UTC

I'd love it if Johnny were invisible and Evan were the ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD who could see him. Which might, actually, be worse for him.

I'm glad you came up with the muscle strains idea, because I was like, "Really? That seems kind of ridiculous to base a fic around." But with skaters...

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pocky_slash June 9 2010, 02:04:42 UTC

I like yours WAY more than I like mine. But I'll make it work, I guess.

harmonyangel June 9 2010, 02:09:50 UTC

Aww. I'm sure you will. It'll just take some creativity. I was surprised by how well mine works for me -- some of my biggest fandom guilty pleasures are on here -- but there are still some squares where I'm like, "...really?"

resolute June 9 2010, 02:41:03 UTC

Which ones are you a little stumped by? Because I, I am not stumped. By any of these.

harmonyangel June 9 2010, 13:43:56 UTC

I THINK I could do most of these. I don't feel like writing Harry Potter and I have no other fandoms with canon werewolves (we're ignoring CapWolf), so I'm not sure I could do that one. And some of the physical stuff I'm not sure I WANT to do -- I don't have a great urge to write about infected wounds. But we'll see...

elspethdixon June 9 2010, 03:05:35 UTC

Well, sore muscles would be perfect for skater fandom (also, you got the "old school medical treatment" prompt I added to the cliche list, which amuses me edit: oh, hey, and my "wounds that turn septic one," too. I think I showed my Magnificent Seven roots when trying to help people brainstorm scenarios, because both of those are really cliches for historical settings).

Everyone on my flist seems to be getting all the good physical h/c prompts, while I ended up with a lot of psychological/emotional ones (and the weirdly specific silver bullet poisoning one that seems ubiquitous).

Honestly, the physical hurt part of h/c is a kink even those of us who have it don't always get/know how to explain. Like, I'm sure the appeal of the comfort part is either the desire to nurture or be nurtured/loved depending on who you identify with, and "terribly misjudged/they'd all be sorry if they knew he was dying" is clearly my and other people's deep-seated adolescent need for validation speaking, but why exactly it's so awesome when characters ( ... )

harmonyangel June 9 2010, 14:08:18 UTC

I'm not sure I can write septic wounds, because it kind of grosses me out, but I find myself curious about the old school medical treatment -- I DO have Newsies fandom in my head, after all.

I think I might actually prefer psychological/emotional h/c to the physical, but I think I'll be able to do stuff with the physical too. I think h/c has just never quite been my thing because I prefer pairings where the characters both hurt each other, either intentionally or unintentionally, and then have to come back together and sort of heal each other, tentatively.

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harmonyangel June 9 2010, 14:05:34 UTC

I kind of want to write post-apocalypse fic for EVERY PAIRING EVER, but I may consider those Springsteen lyrics to help me out. (Sadly, I have not seen TSCC yet.)

Snowed In is sadly claimed in my heart for my figure skaters, but I will DEFINITELY be writing some Scott/Logan for something, and I like the Luke/Jessica idea!