THEY'LL BELIEVE IT

Yeah, they're baking it into essential compontents now so we'll stop turning it off. Noticed that in several programs. FFS I hate all of these tech bros.

one thing i really try to focus on when i write hurt/comfort fic is tenderness. even from characters who wouldn't normally offer it--maybe even especially them. like yes, cup whumpee's cheek while you pat it to see if they'll wake up. let whumpee lean against your chest because they don't even know what they're doing. lower your voice and speak to them softly. tell them you're worried. scared, even. just like. minimize their suffering even if it's at the cost of your aloof facade!!!!!

I want more chronic pain whump. Give me a cocky, independent character who suddenly can’t walk because a sudden rain storm aggravated their old leg wounds and now they have to lean on a friend to get home. Give me a usually stoic character shaking with pain during a flare up. Give me a character who’s finally healed having their first bad pain day and abruptly feeling like they’re back at square one.

MILD hurt/comfort? nuh uh. torture him. sepsis. swept downstream in a frozen river. 6 month convalescence. commit to it.

booboos on his body AND his soul AND his dignity

humble that man. he should have to be nursed back to health my his romantic interested and accidentally throw up and pass out on them when they try to clean his wounds

he has the sniffles? aww. now have him be thrown from his horse and dragged for half a mile.

I want to see a work of fiction that reverses the "vampires are snobby upper class, werewolves are brutish lower class" stereotypes

Consider a vampire's reliance on blood as a metaphor for living paycheck-to-paycheck and depending on the kindness of others to get by, and the desparation that can make one slip into taking.

a red string of fate can be a leash. if you're enlightened