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I have discovered an enormous weakness for h/c that's very heavy on the "traumatic life circumstances" h, ala

Hmm, perhaps I could read some of Helenish's HP stuff. Don't know her other fandoms, and have never been into reading fic for fandoms I don't know at all.

Oh FFS. Let's try this again:


Alright, so I was painstakingly un-doing the last few hours' work on some rather finicky lace and thinking about Helenish and h/c and somehow it evolved into a whole big list o' recs. Brace yourself:

H/C heavy on H:

Theft of Assets, Destruction of Property by Helenish, Harry Potter

My favorite of helenish's HP stories.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 all by Greywolf, Star Trek: TOS (not movieverse)

Alright, totally apropos of nothing, but so awesome I had to share. VERY epic- each "part" is actually a self-contained story. Involves capture by aliens, slavery, irreversible physical damage and bureaucratic corruption. Plus bonus!awesome!McCoy. :)

Unnamed Xander-torture story by anonymous author wtf_is_shame. You may have already read this (heck, you may know who he/she really is!) but it is a masterpiece of the very, very heavy H genre. Chapters were posted chronologically.

BDSM-verse (no, seriously, this segue makes sense!)

Okay, so this may require some explanation if you haven't already heard of it. This Stargate: Atlantis author, xanthe, comes up with the idea of a universe where sexuality is determined primarily by whether one is a "top" or a "sub," rather than by gender. Xanthe's stories are basically romance novels set in a BDSM universe. But then, Helenish got ahold of it (thus connecting it to the h/c section above, ha!) and used the concept to critique gender roles, sexuality, personal identity and all sorts of other awesome stuff. I don't read SG: Atlantis myself, but I made an exception for this:

Takes Clothes Off As Directed by Helenish, Stargate: Atlantis

After Helenish's story created some fandom consternation (Xanthe-fans getting pissed that she was making their happy fairytale BDSM-land all gritty and realistic with oppression of subs, etc), more people started writing BDSM-verse fic. If you'd prefer fic in a fandom you watch, these House fics by Aris are fantastic. Personally, I think almost all the House characters make more sense in this BDSMverse, given how much of the show is driven by power dynamics.

Directedverse fics by Aris, House M.D. (best read chronologically)

Phew!

I was going to check all of them, too, but decided that wasn't fair. I'd like to see Buffy comfort Giles (really, really comfort) after Jenny's death. I hate Jenny. But really only because she's not Buffy.

Poor Jenny.
Hrm. This is not the direction of the poll, but I could write this. Should write this. Have planned to write this.

Hypothermia with rain as a comfort would be, uh, rather difficult to write. I think. tick tick tickety tick.

I am going to give you hypothermia h/c with rain in the Iceland story. It'll work, no worries. And after that, there'll be ash falling from the sky.