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You may recall the Hurt-Comfort Exchange from the Hurt-Comfort Plot Generator based on its tags.
(Telophase, creator of that and other generators, has a Patreon for generators if you'd like to chip in. Her next one will be a Newborn Award plot generator. I've seen the draft version and it is HILARIOUS.)
The Hurt Comfort Exchange Archive is open now! Enjoy!
I wrote an assignment and a pinch hit. And I got two absolutely fantastic stories! Here they are, along with some other recs. I'm still reading the archive, so I'm sure there's many great stories I just haven't gotten to yet.
Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
under this stainless arch of azure sky. Beautiful imagery, great character interactions, very Bujoldian. When Iselle and Cazaril board Chalion's first war frigate for its maiden voyage, they don't expect the mortal danger the two of them will soon find themselves in.
Iron Fist (TV)
A pair of Danny & Ward stories, both funny and sweet and full of satisfying brotherly bonding.
Head for Heights. God only knew how many cases of the flu, how many colds and every other goddamn kind of thing Ward had pushed himself through, because the only kind of sympathy he ever got from Harold was one of those pitying/scornful looks: You can't even keep from catching a cold? Really? Oh, stop complaining, Ward. Be a man. I got a full day's work done while I was dying of cancer. There are things I need you to do; you can get them done with a little case of the sniffles.
The Mind is a Monkey. “Okay,” Ward said. “Great. You have a telepathic fever.”
The Punisher (TV)
Out of the Wastelands. One of my two gifts, and it's GREAT. Wonderful h/c, terrific characterization, and worldbuilding that combines tropeyness with plausibility - it's the sort of apocalypse where there are both mutant monsters in trees and families creating cozy homesteads.
Seafort Saga - David Feintuch.
Haven. I think there's at least one fan of this reading my DW, so enjoy this very iddy helping of whipping and loyalty kink with the comfort canon didn't provide. Tolliver needs just one thing from Nick.
Stranger Things
Better Than Aspic. Karen gives Joyce a cooking lesson, and Joyce reciprocates with some much-needed reassurance about the weirdness in Hawkins. Okay so the cooking lesson involves eldritch horrors, I mean 70s/80s gelatin molds, and THERE ARE LINKS. Hilarious, with very satisfying emotional h/c.
The Umbrella Academy (TV)
Dreaming of Yesterday. One of my two gifts, and it's GREAT - sensitive, touching, and a wonderful look at the whole ensemble and their relationships. Vanya wakes up in her thirteen-year-old body after Five has time-traveled them as the world was ending. None of the others seem to have their adult memories, and being the only adult in a group of teenagers will give Vanya a new perspective on her siblings.
Tailspin. 30K, long and satisfying Five-centric fic but with lots of good stuff for the whole ensemble. Heed the warnings (in tags) though. Five is sure that he's being followed. He knows there's a possibility that the Commission isn't done with the Hargreeves siblings - but he'll protect his family, no matter what.
(Telophase, creator of that and other generators, has a Patreon for generators if you'd like to chip in. Her next one will be a Newborn Award plot generator. I've seen the draft version and it is HILARIOUS.)
The Hurt Comfort Exchange Archive is open now! Enjoy!
I wrote an assignment and a pinch hit. And I got two absolutely fantastic stories! Here they are, along with some other recs. I'm still reading the archive, so I'm sure there's many great stories I just haven't gotten to yet.
Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
under this stainless arch of azure sky. Beautiful imagery, great character interactions, very Bujoldian. When Iselle and Cazaril board Chalion's first war frigate for its maiden voyage, they don't expect the mortal danger the two of them will soon find themselves in.
Iron Fist (TV)
A pair of Danny & Ward stories, both funny and sweet and full of satisfying brotherly bonding.
Head for Heights. God only knew how many cases of the flu, how many colds and every other goddamn kind of thing Ward had pushed himself through, because the only kind of sympathy he ever got from Harold was one of those pitying/scornful looks: You can't even keep from catching a cold? Really? Oh, stop complaining, Ward. Be a man. I got a full day's work done while I was dying of cancer. There are things I need you to do; you can get them done with a little case of the sniffles.
The Mind is a Monkey. “Okay,” Ward said. “Great. You have a telepathic fever.”
The Punisher (TV)
Out of the Wastelands. One of my two gifts, and it's GREAT. Wonderful h/c, terrific characterization, and worldbuilding that combines tropeyness with plausibility - it's the sort of apocalypse where there are both mutant monsters in trees and families creating cozy homesteads.
Seafort Saga - David Feintuch.
Haven. I think there's at least one fan of this reading my DW, so enjoy this very iddy helping of whipping and loyalty kink with the comfort canon didn't provide. Tolliver needs just one thing from Nick.
Stranger Things
Better Than Aspic. Karen gives Joyce a cooking lesson, and Joyce reciprocates with some much-needed reassurance about the weirdness in Hawkins. Okay so the cooking lesson involves eldritch horrors, I mean 70s/80s gelatin molds, and THERE ARE LINKS. Hilarious, with very satisfying emotional h/c.
The Umbrella Academy (TV)
Dreaming of Yesterday. One of my two gifts, and it's GREAT - sensitive, touching, and a wonderful look at the whole ensemble and their relationships. Vanya wakes up in her thirteen-year-old body after Five has time-traveled them as the world was ending. None of the others seem to have their adult memories, and being the only adult in a group of teenagers will give Vanya a new perspective on her siblings.
Tailspin. 30K, long and satisfying Five-centric fic but with lots of good stuff for the whole ensemble. Heed the warnings (in tags) though. Five is sure that he's being followed. He knows there's a possibility that the Commission isn't done with the Hargreeves siblings - but he'll protect his family, no matter what.
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