"Intimate Psychotherapy" *wink wink nudge nudge*

[redbrunja]

Trope Meme:

Comment with a trope and I’ll give you my opinions on it. You can ask questions (as vague or specific as you like!), talk about examples, etc, etc. Then I’ll ask you about a trope.

And while we're on the subject of tropes, can I just say.... okay, look, I know that 'healing cock' gets a lot of dissing, and I understand why, BUT to be honest, I felt the sex is often pretty pivotal to my enjoyment of hurt/comfort (which I love). Like, after the hurt, I really do want to see boning, or some sexually laden act 90% of the time.

For example, I was reading this pretty decent Clint/Darcy fic in which Darcy had past emotional trauma and I was getting super into it, and there was this total slow burn thing going on, and Darcy was trusting Clint more and more, and Clint was being super-patient and expressing his lust and affection in ways make Darcy feel safe and then.... they hold hands. The end. And I was like, 'BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BONING?'

I've recced The Goat's Back before (Steve Rogers, gen, hurt/comfort) and while that fic is amazing, there was a voice in my head that shrieked, at several points, Natasha Romanoff, get on that. (That being Steve.)

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I've read a couple AU I really liked but what I've noticed is that often people don't put enough thought into who would actually be doing what if the characters we know were working in a coffee shop or back in HS.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I think my fandoms are usually weird enough that I don't always see the point of AUs, if that makes sense. Like in sci-fi or comics fandoms you already have so many tropes just...sitting there, kind of for free. And some of them span long enough time spans that if you want high school or whatever, you don't have to do an AU, just, like, a "prequel" sort of thing.

I do like the AU photoset things that people make on Tumblr, though. Those are cool.