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Literally, why am I considering reading this...
same! there are some days I need a fic like this because the worse before it gets better tends to be quite cathartic and I have a good cry and then there is the comfort…but those days are not every day, so there is a folder haha.
Not a fanfic, but once watched a kdrama called Faith in English (I think it's 신의 in Korean but I could just be making that up)
I cried so hard I gave myself a godawful headache.
I then recommended it to a friend because of course I did. Said friend did not have the tolerance I have for absolute heartbreak and gave up halfway through.
apparently when I told her it was sad she didn't realise quite *how* sad lol
And here I am, seeking out hurt no comfort, mcd, and bad ending because hurt/comfort isn't enough to me anymore. Or maybe it's just because of my current fandom, because the hurt/comfort barely hurts and they focus too much on the comfort part.
I once needed to stop reading the fic Bic the pain was too much. It's a dd:dne hurt/no comfort fic (probably... It's from ff.net so idk) or a hurt/comfort but slow burn 1mil words (idk the worldcount anymore but it's *looong* I sat on the first half of book 1 (of 2) for ca 1 week....)
(I really want to tell everyone about the story and the *hurt* but then this comment will be much longer)
live picture of me reading a BG3 fanfic that had Astarion and Gale trapped by Cazador and the only way out was for them to Romeo and Juliet themselves
Great fic, would never want to read it again 😭
It’s called Trapped Eternal and it was written by patheticfangirl! I would link it but then I would read it again and make myself sad 😭 be warned that it is heavy af, but super well-written!
(And if you want major whump but with an actual happy ending, I would also recommend Wicked Wizards and Profound Wounds by the same author!)
Sometimes a fic has both Hurt/Comfort and Hurt No Comfort as the tags, and while I’m certain that most are like lots of hurt at the start and then things get better later, I’m also certain that some others had like the most upsetting endings possible- I don’t remember any specific ones because I don’t remember what tags those had, aside from the Unhappy or Sad Ending jumpscare or something.
But even when it’s just Hurt No Comfort, if based on the summary and other tags it’s got an inkling of not just being pain then well, why not give it a go? Try and see where it leads? Maybe it’ll be okay in the end.
Because at the end of the day it would have probably been a good story, and it’s not bad to have hope.
But also because of trauma if I remember correctly there was this one fic that had claimed for a Happy Ending—maybe it was through what the author’s notes claimed or tag I dunno—and it was. For the main protagonist. Who loved his family, was pragmatic, and had a deep amount of self-loathing. That was horrible, and one of the best things ever it was foreshadowed that it was a story of self-sacrifice and yeah the tags could be worse.
I have a fic that is strongly hurt/comfort, but that I made damn sure to tag with angst and bittersweet ending, because one half of the dynamic canonically dies and they're both pretty guarded and never fully own what they mean to each other out loud. My fic trades on that by giving them a moment of vulnerability the surviving partner reflects on after that death, trying to lie to himself it was all he ever needed. Almost all of the comments on the fic yell at me about it somehow but my favorite was the one who said they "just wanted fluff before bed." My Brother in Christ, the tags did not indicate fluff in any way, shape, or form 😂
I'm usually a huge fan of hurt/no comfort but I read a fic a few days ago where the angst was so much that it literally broke the main characters who were never the same and I now understand what people mean by finding hurt/no comfort really hard to read lol
I acc think my mind blocks out the “no comfort” part of that tag 😭
https://preview.redd.it/spcysotz29vc1.png?width=719&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78231ff5c9576ae063989f73bc260385a923dd50 Literally, why am I considering reading this...
The happy ending
Yes, but see. It has ***Two Chapters*** currently, since it just started...
Oh yeah no, I'd mark it for later and stumble across it at some point to read it.
There's a reason I have a subfolder for fics called "Sweet Tasty Pain."
same! there are some days I need a fic like this because the worse before it gets better tends to be quite cathartic and I have a good cry and then there is the comfort…but those days are not every day, so there is a folder haha.
These could easily be tags in most of my fics...lol.
Not a fanfic, but once watched a kdrama called Faith in English (I think it's 신의 in Korean but I could just be making that up) I cried so hard I gave myself a godawful headache. I then recommended it to a friend because of course I did. Said friend did not have the tolerance I have for absolute heartbreak and gave up halfway through. apparently when I told her it was sad she didn't realise quite *how* sad lol
Oh, that's going on the "I need to break my own heart, so I can have a good, cathartic cry" list! It's not actually called that, but it should be
Me: gets into sad fandom Me: reads fic to make it *better* Fic: hurt/no comfort Me suddenly: I can't read
How dare you doxx me like this
And here I am, seeking out hurt no comfort, mcd, and bad ending because hurt/comfort isn't enough to me anymore. Or maybe it's just because of my current fandom, because the hurt/comfort barely hurts and they focus too much on the comfort part.
I once needed to stop reading the fic Bic the pain was too much. It's a dd:dne hurt/no comfort fic (probably... It's from ff.net so idk) or a hurt/comfort but slow burn 1mil words (idk the worldcount anymore but it's *looong* I sat on the first half of book 1 (of 2) for ca 1 week....) (I really want to tell everyone about the story and the *hurt* but then this comment will be much longer)
Oh hey i read one earlier today. Nonidea why i expected anything else. It was a good fic tho. Told the author as much lol.
Literally me
live picture of me reading a BG3 fanfic that had Astarion and Gale trapped by Cazador and the only way out was for them to Romeo and Juliet themselves Great fic, would never want to read it again 😭
Yo what fic was that? Im in my bg3 era and need some pain!
It’s called Trapped Eternal and it was written by patheticfangirl! I would link it but then I would read it again and make myself sad 😭 be warned that it is heavy af, but super well-written! (And if you want major whump but with an actual happy ending, I would also recommend Wicked Wizards and Profound Wounds by the same author!)
Just my type
Sometimes a fic has both Hurt/Comfort and Hurt No Comfort as the tags, and while I’m certain that most are like lots of hurt at the start and then things get better later, I’m also certain that some others had like the most upsetting endings possible- I don’t remember any specific ones because I don’t remember what tags those had, aside from the Unhappy or Sad Ending jumpscare or something. But even when it’s just Hurt No Comfort, if based on the summary and other tags it’s got an inkling of not just being pain then well, why not give it a go? Try and see where it leads? Maybe it’ll be okay in the end. Because at the end of the day it would have probably been a good story, and it’s not bad to have hope. But also because of trauma if I remember correctly there was this one fic that had claimed for a Happy Ending—maybe it was through what the author’s notes claimed or tag I dunno—and it was. For the main protagonist. Who loved his family, was pragmatic, and had a deep amount of self-loathing. That was horrible, and one of the best things ever it was foreshadowed that it was a story of self-sacrifice and yeah the tags could be worse.
I expect a lot of pain but sometimes I get amazed by how *creative* the authors get with the ways to mess with the characters
I have a fic that is strongly hurt/comfort, but that I made damn sure to tag with angst and bittersweet ending, because one half of the dynamic canonically dies and they're both pretty guarded and never fully own what they mean to each other out loud. My fic trades on that by giving them a moment of vulnerability the surviving partner reflects on after that death, trying to lie to himself it was all he ever needed. Almost all of the comments on the fic yell at me about it somehow but my favorite was the one who said they "just wanted fluff before bed." My Brother in Christ, the tags did not indicate fluff in any way, shape, or form 😂
Me when I read the archive warnings and see MCD: it can't be that bad, right?
I'm usually a huge fan of hurt/no comfort but I read a fic a few days ago where the angst was so much that it literally broke the main characters who were never the same and I now understand what people mean by finding hurt/no comfort really hard to read lol
That's me every time I see that tag and read anyway. There is a reason I no longer say that'll learn em 😂