Hurt/comfort stories seem to rely on a trope that love and/or sex can "fix" or greatly resolve the problems created by the disability or traumatic event.
I self-identify as somebody who loves to read* h/c fic and I think this is an unfair generalization. Yes, there is h/c fic that uses sex/romance to "fix" disability but there is also a lot of h/c fic that does not. Comfort can be something as fleeting as a hug that brings temporary comfort. It doesn't have to permanent fix everything comfort.
I know warnings are a very tricky thing to get right and even after the last round of meta on warnings I think there is more for me to learn. Sometimes I do recs and I always go with what the writers lists in their warnings but your post has made me realize that might not be enough if I want to rec things from the hc_bingo. So I'm curious to know what revisions you'd like to see in the hc_bingo warnings policy.
*I'm not a writer so I'm not sure if it's really my place to say anything, please let me know if I've overstepped.
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Date: 2010-06-13 09:50 pm (UTC)I self-identify as somebody who loves to read* h/c fic and I think this is an unfair generalization. Yes, there is h/c fic that uses sex/romance to "fix" disability but there is also a lot of h/c fic that does not. Comfort can be something as fleeting as a hug that brings temporary comfort. It doesn't have to permanent fix everything comfort.
I know warnings are a very tricky thing to get right and even after the last round of meta on warnings I think there is more for me to learn. Sometimes I do recs and I always go with what the writers lists in their warnings but your post has made me realize that might not be enough if I want to rec things from the hc_bingo. So I'm curious to know what revisions you'd like to see in the hc_bingo warnings policy.
*I'm not a writer so I'm not sure if it's really my place to say anything, please let me know if I've overstepped.