Unfortunately, I came into slashdom in 2002, so I don't know what came before that, except from what I could glean from the Websites of that time. My particular "fandom," original slash, was just beginning to coalesce around then (unless there's a prior history to it that I missed) - by which I mean that original slash writers, rather than all doing things on their own, were beginning to form communities and archives.
Since the original slash community has been around for such a short time, there aren't a lot of classics in our famdom yet. However, I can think of two works that have had an especially big impact, and both of them, as it happens, have h/c elements.
Manna Francis's Administration (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/index.html) series has attracted an abnormally large number of meta posts (http://community.livejournal.com/mannazone/). The pairing is between a sociopathic torturer and his strong-minded BDSM partner, which doesn't exactly sound as though it's the right set-up for hurt/comfort, but gradually the readers come to realize that the torturer is a lot more vulnerable than he appears on the surface, because of his mental illness. Probably the two most chilling stories in that series which explore the vulnerable part of the torturer are Gee (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/fic/gee.html) and Caged (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/fic/caged.html). And probably the most chilling aspect of the series (aside from the matter-of-fact manner in which the torture takes place in that society) is the fact that the torturer is limited in his capacity to accept comfort.
A more recent work, maculategiraffe's The Slave Breakers (http://maculategiraffe.livejournal.com/10338.html), has inspired what appears to me to be an unprecedented number of fan fiction works (or "friendfiction," as they've come to be called, since they're officially authorized by the author), as well as inspiring an entire multi-author fic comm, orig_slavefic. The series is pure h/c - in fact, it's so deceptively traditional at the beginning that I nearly set it aside, thinking it was the same old same-old. maculategiraffe told me in a post that she was trying to create the classic slavefic, but without the implausible bits that plague so many slave stories.that source material.
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Date: 2008-10-13 05:50 am (UTC)Since the original slash community has been around for such a short time, there aren't a lot of classics in our famdom yet. However, I can think of two works that have had an especially big impact, and both of them, as it happens, have h/c elements.
Manna Francis's Administration (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/index.html) series has attracted an abnormally large number of meta posts (http://community.livejournal.com/mannazone/). The pairing is between a sociopathic torturer and his strong-minded BDSM partner, which doesn't exactly sound as though it's the right set-up for hurt/comfort, but gradually the readers come to realize that the torturer is a lot more vulnerable than he appears on the surface, because of his mental illness. Probably the two most chilling stories in that series which explore the vulnerable part of the torturer are Gee (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/fic/gee.html) and Caged (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/fic/caged.html). And probably the most chilling aspect of the series (aside from the matter-of-fact manner in which the torture takes place in that society) is the fact that the torturer is limited in his capacity to accept comfort.
A more recent work,
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