A request for the Hurt/comfort and fan history people

[wickedwords]

Hiya!

As many of you know, I am helping with Fanlore, and one of the things we talked about at our last meeting was how we wanted to bring in more fandom-related history. And personally, I can't think of anything more 'fandom' related than the history of Hurt/comfort fandom.

Unfortunately, since it's a panfandom metafandom that has existed since the dawn of time (i.e., back when media fandom first broke off from science fiction fandom), it's way the heck too much for any single person to do. Seriously, if I were the type of person to work on a phd in media studies? This could be my dissertation.

So I'd like to get some people to work on the History of Hurt/comfort fandom. Things I'd like to know would be: What were the big Hurt/comfort stories in your fandom? Did any of them have huge impact? Can someone talk about 'brain damage' stories, and 'illness hurt/comfort'. The Teddy Bear stories in Highlander, "Gentle on my Mind" in Sentinel and it's follow-up by a different author. What was Hurt/hurt called back in the early days? Was it really 'get 'em'?

All I have is oral history, man. And y'all know my memory is crap.

Comments

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

What I want, I guess, is the stories that you think had an impact on the fandom or something? Not just 'good stories to read'--in fact, not necessarily good stories at all! But ones where a trend or idea or something really came through and stuck with the group.

"Snake Oil" by Martha in Sentinel, for example. I'm going to wimp out on you and say 'you tell me what you think or feel was important.'

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

With the wiki, all you have to do is sign up and then you could enter the data. I think this would be a fascinating segment on the Due South page. I am all for more of our stories about what we have done.