i'd say it is, because h/c is all about the experience of the viewer/reader. in silent films and b-movies, the heroine/woobie (ie the object of the male viewer's sexual desire) is made to suffer - thus the Hurt - until she is gloriously rescued by the male viewer's self-identification character, the hero - thus the Comfort.
woobie n. (also adj.) originally meaning a child's security blanket (see Linus: Peanuts), has since been adopted by fanfic writers to describe the cute, cuddly, and usually obligingly helpless character in a story who gets most of the suffering and hurt/comfort heaped upon them...generally for the gratification of the writer, the hero, or the audience. (see Dickens: Smike, Little Nell, Oliver Twist, etc)
and that wasn't the typo, btw...i accidentally wrote 'the anals of religion', whereas most persons not pleasantly distracted by slash fiction on a daily basis would recognize the more correct spelling of 'annals'. but the typo rather amuses me, so i decided to let it stand. :)
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i'd say it is, because h/c is all about the experience of the viewer/reader. in silent films and b-movies, the heroine/woobie (ie the object of the male viewer's sexual desire) is made to suffer - thus the Hurt - until she is gloriously rescued by the male viewer's self-identification character, the hero - thus the Comfort.
woobie n. (also adj.) originally meaning a child's security blanket (see Linus: Peanuts), has since been adopted by fanfic writers to describe the cute, cuddly, and usually obligingly helpless character in a story who gets most of the suffering and hurt/comfort heaped upon them...generally for the gratification of the writer, the hero, or the audience. (see Dickens: Smike, Little Nell, Oliver Twist, etc)
and that wasn't the typo, btw...i accidentally wrote 'the anals of religion', whereas most persons not pleasantly distracted by slash fiction on a daily basis would recognize the more correct spelling of 'annals'. but the typo rather amuses me, so i decided to let it stand. :)