Timeline of Hurt/Comfort Meta

This page lists meta and other articles about hurt/comfort, arranged in chronological order.

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• Fanfic Content Intensity Ratings: Rating the Pain and Smarm in a Story, ^{Archived version} by Kitty Woldow (late 1990s? early 2000s?)
• Writing Realistic Injuries by Leia Fee, with additions by Susannah Shepherd (early 2000s)

1976

• To Slay or Not to Slay: Why We Write 'Get-em' Stories -- & Love 'em! by Connie Faddis and [[Becca Oroukin]

1979

• This Deadly Innocence, or "The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome", metafic by Leslie Fish

1981

• "Hurt/Comfort" in Trek Fanlit by Patrica Hintz

1992

• Why Hurt/Comfort by Kay Stagg

1994

• Hurt-Comfort in "Beauty and the Beast" by Elaine Landman

1996

• A Medical View of Hurt/Comfort by Vonne Shepard

1998

• The Mary Sueing of Hurt/Comfort by Leslie Shell

1999

• We Always Hurt the Ones We Love by Lucy Gillam
• We Always Hurt the One We Love ... and then turn him into a sorry-ass, emasculated, mentally unstable, whiny, co-dependent tag-along by Helena Handbasket
• This'll hurt you more than it hurts me.. by The Divine Adoratrice
• Why Does Obi-Wan Get All the Pain in TPM H/C Fic? by Alias Solo

2000

• Hurt/Comfort: A Confession and a Celebration by Renae
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Characters by Lucy Gillam
• The Overuse of H/C by Delle
• Fan Fiction Angst: We Love Them But We Hurt Them by Dasha K

2001

• Oww..oww..Stop that! It Hurts!! by Clio

2002

• Slash and Hurt/Comfort (2002 essay) by Jessica Ruth

2005

• The Less Than Legendary Journeys: Apology Fic II: The Mission, ^{Archived version}

2006

• Theories on why people write Hurt/Comfort Fic by thelana

2007

• The Road to K/S: The Hurt/Comfort Zine Contact by Nancy Kippax

2011

• H/c and me: An autoethnographic account of a troubled love affair

2012

• Femslash and Hurt/Comfort by snowynight

2017

• Bodies in horrifying hurt/comfort fan fiction: Paying the toll, ^{Archived version} Linn, Rachel. 2017. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 25.

2020

• No Less Beautiful (Personal narrative essay); Ryals, Athena. 2020. Wince Magazine, Issue #1.