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

[executrix.livejournal.com]

A lot of Blakes7 stories are referred to as "BUARA" (Beat Up and Rape Avon), which I believe is the B7 equivalent of a "Get-Spock" story.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! Go add that to both pages. I don't think either the B7 page or the H/c page lists it.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Ah! You beat me (no pun intended!) to the reference.

Torchwood is developing a "Beat Up and Rape Ianto" sub-genre, but I've never heard anyone call it BUARI. And Ianto is a lot more of a fandom woobie, too; I suppose the thing about BUARA is that Avon so obviously is an (the?) alpha male of the show.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I'd argue that, absent or present, Blake is the alpha male of the show, although Avon is far from cheerfully accepting of being subordinate.

[tazlet.livejournal.com]

I'll second that emotion!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

It's like Avon's answer to "lead, follow, or get out of the way" is "No."

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Love that.