The office has recently been published on Netflix in my country. Needless to say, I binge watched it in no time. And as always, that means it's fanfiction time! Unfortunately I hardly found any hurt/comfort whumpy fanfictions. There were two or three about the scene with jim and roy. But that's pretty much it. Do you know some good ff, especially ones with Jim being on the receiving end? (But open to any other character)

Thanks guys!

Does anyone have any recommendations for a food hurt/comfort movie or tv show? I'm so bored and have been scrolling through Netflix, and nothing looks good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AngstFanFiction/

I read and write almost only in angst, and am a huge fan of hurt/comfort, myself! I wanted to find a place to get good angst recs. I feel like sometimes my angst requests get bogged down in other subreddits, though, since there are so many people there for other areas. I made this subreddit to get rid of this issue, and I’d love if people join and grow the community!

what's your favorite hurt/comfort show or even scene from a show or movie? The Fall with Jamie Dornan, season 3 is just incredible

I’m wondering if anyone here might have similar interests and know where to find something like this. I posted on lots of other subs a few weeks ago, but I haven’t found what I’m looking for which is: Percy Jackson medical hurt/comfort fanfic where Percy is sick/injured/lying/scared and Will takes care of him.

Here’s an idea of the kind of thing I’m looking for.

I made a post that explains this better. Click here to see my post.

Please let me know if you know of any good fanfics like this or if you want to write this. I’d love to read it! Thanks!

So I'll begin with I work in a hospital, I only clean but we see and deal with a lot. I control my emotions well and handle certain circumstances well I think but today we had four deaths(none from covid) and all day I feel my normally hidden depression creep up to the surface and honestly feel like crying. I'm home around my family so I cant cry here cause my kids don't need to see that but those deaths of folks I don't even know or knew are fucking me up bad.

I had a crush back in second grade, and she was beautiful. I befriended her and things went well; I soon started to develop feelings. Fast forward to the end of 3rd grade, I tell her, and you know what she says? “Ok.” I’m not surprised but I waited almost two years, and she could NOT give 2 fucks. I’m hurt

I know no one post on this anymore but please I need some good movie or TV show recs! I watched Smallville and it was absolutely amazing (could’ve been more comfort tho). Any tv shows or movies with cute high school/ college boys and hurt comfort/whump? I’ve been looking for something good to watch so please let me know!

In designated survivor the death scene of Hannah Wells is awesome well if she survived it. I am writing a fanfiction of Hannah surviving the poisonous gas and the explosion. This character keeps getting into my dreams and I am so so obsessed.

I could go for any h/c recs of Peter & Tony reuniting that came out of Infinity War too!

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Disaster movie (based on a true story) about a whole family experiencing the tsunami in 2004. Family film. So many desperate familial hugs & cuddles.

PS - found this movie by finding relevant content for my new subreddit /r/disastermovies. join me in there if y'all love disaster movies like i do :)

there's a lot of stuff that's said about this show - the most obvious and shallow being the retro early 80s nostalgia (the show literally takes place in 1983 though) and all the homages/feels to old school Stephen King and Steven Spielberg. i was hesitant about that because that's what was said about Super 8 and i thought Super 8 was pretty snoresville.

but in point of fact, this story is awesome and it has a lot of very sweet, emotional hurt/comfort moments in it. Not as much romantic hurt/comfort though. Rather, more hurt/comfort regarding childhood & teenaged friendship and also parents with their children.

Terrible things happen (and have happened in the past) to the adults and children that're featured in this series and they actually get comforted onscreen many times. That sweet feeling you get watching hurt adults and/or kids getting the reassurance/love/comfort they need is actively present in this series and it's really satisfying and heartwarming.

so definitely check Stranger Things out if you're into hurt/comfort as well as the genre of horror/supernatural/fantasy. the 80s nostalgia is nice but it's not the crux of the show by any means imo.

What I mean is, here's an example:

You walked over to [insert friend's name] and they hugged you BLA blah blah etc. etc.

Where you comforted by your friend or significant other (preferably friend) and whatnot. I just always was wondering if that sort of thing existed at all...

I know it seems confusing, but if you know what I'm talking about, have you seen anything like this? If not, then I'll have to make some myself.

...I feel like I've written something similar to this before but whatever, lol

So: the best romances always feature hurt/comfort.

I'm going to talk about Titanic & why it was great (sorry if you didn't like Titanic but just bear with me)

Hurt/Comfort was the crux of why Titanic was such a successful romance: The Titanic sinking was an external, devastating circumstance ('hurt') that tested both characters' mettle as well as their relationship, continuously bonding them closer and closer together (via the 'comfort' they derived from one another under the circumstances)

• Rose is established as extremely depressed and suicidal. Jack talks her off the 'ledge' of the ship. Literally how they meet was a classic hurt/comfort scenario that bonded them together pretty tightly from the get-go.

• Jack was handcuffed and about to die, terrified & on the brink of tears ('hurt'), when Rose managed to find him, hug him and give him kisses ('comfort'), before fully resuming her rescue.

• Rose jumped off a frickin lifeboat, forfeiting her odds of surviving, just so she could be with Jack to the very last. So much suicidal angst from Rose and the comfort moment that followed.

By all means, the romance in Titanic could have stood alone as a story. Depressed, cornered girl of status finds a charming vagrant on an oceanliner - he sparks a fire in her, encourages her to dream again, and together they both must overcome the two antagonists (her mean, selfish mother and smarmy, underhanded fiance) so she can finally be/feel "free."

It's got all the makings of a decent (albeit formulaic) romance. It probably would've done pretty well without any disaster occurring in the story at all.

Why drop this into a disaster story?

"Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of." - Kurt Vonnegut

We had to fall in love with both characters and their relationship. And the most compelling way to do that? Make terrible things happen to them.

If there had been no disaster, then all we would've had to fall in love with both characters and their relationship were the following scenes: 1) the talked-Rose-off-the-ledge scene 2) banter about sketching & spitting on the ship's deck, 3) the formal dinner scene 4) the ditching the formal dinner to go party/dance with the lower class scene, 5) that 'I see a fire in you, Rose, but I'm scared that fire's gonna burn out one day' speech, 6) the 'draw me like one of your french girls' scene, 7) foggy handprint on the window sex scene, and probably a few more that I'm forgetting right now.

With no disaster, we probably could've/would've gotten more scenes like these. While they're actually pretty pleasant scenes, they're actually still not enough for most people. It's one thing to revel in the romance of 'new, undying love,' in a story but it's another thing altogether to really convince audiences to believe it's real (and thus become as enamored by it as the characters are themselves).

Dropping this love story into a disaster where both characters and their relationship were actually tested by extremely traumatic external circumstances -- that was the hurt/comfort dynamic getting played perfectly to emphasize exactly how noble they and their relationship actually was.

Most romance films are incredibly formulaic and mundane (anything with Matthew McConaughey)... they can also be quite artsy and/or lighthearted (Amelie, for instance). It's the very rare romance (in mainstream media) that features a plot where the characters and their love are tested by traumatic events - where the characters must rely upon their love to actually survive or sustain horrible/dark circumstances that get thrown at them (which is, essentially, hurt/comfort).

Why? Why do most mainstream romances love focusing on a series of slightly stressful and frankly boring bumps in the road before the two characters finally get together instead of showcasing two characters' love as a fucking force to be reckoned with under terrible circumstances?

To me, it's like if mainstream war stories featured the protagonist entering into the army, getting to know his recruits with a few minor ups and downs, eventually things level out, now roll credits. Like... no. That's not a War story. The war wasn't even depicted. That's a... prologue to a War Story. The war story is where our soldier protagonist(s) gets truly tested by the terrible experiences of war with his fellow soldiers. For mainstream romance stories, everything (at least to me) leading up to the supposed 'happily ever after' ending feels like a prologue to the actual romantic elements of a relationship: getting tested and triumphing over the terrible shit that can and does happen to people in real life. Granted, not as much terrible shit happens to civilians in life as it does to soldiers in war, but I'm talking about compelling stories in fiction here. Make terrible things happen to your beloved characters, whether they're soldiers (easy/realistic) or civilians (difficult/less realistic) so that we can literally watch meaningful love express itself under dire circumstances.

Like I said, doing that to civilians is, on average, harder to do than for soldiers (obviously). But shit, man, it's still pretty easy. Throw them onto a sinking ship (Titanic), have them undergoing some weird memory-erase program (Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), have them dealing with social persecution & bigotry (Brokeback Mountain)

...but... man... I just went through this list and the number of romantic films that're simply about regular people doing regular things, dealing with formulaic love triangles or going through mundane self-discovery/empowerment journeys that eventually finds them a regular, pleasant relationship-? Sheesh. None of those stories are putting the characters or their relationships into any scenarios that seriously test and showcase the strength inherent in a true romantic attachment.

Admittedly I basically only ever write the C, but the C is really just a logical extension of all the H that goes on in my head all the time, and is often much easier to describe. But I have this reputation for being a full-on sadist without even a shade of masochism, and on average, the really horribly mean ideas are the ones that stick with me and get the most mileage and build.

Personally, I get a lot of the same things out of writing whump as some people get get out of writing or participating in BDSM activities. H/C, especially, has a similar structure of control and release, both voluntary and involuntary. Inflicting suffering in fiction as an all-powerful god of the 'verse allows me to "get back" some of the agency I feel like I'm sometimes lacking outside of fiction, and as with a lot of fiction, studying how characters behave when their agency is limited gives me pointers on how I can deal when I feel like I'm lacking in it as well.

Thoughts? Just me?