Meaning of h/c | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of hurt/comfort.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang

Examples

“I have⟳ never heard this given as a reason⟳ for writing H/C fanfic from those authors I have⟳ met or spoken to ... certainly, in my case, I am not aware of using my fanfic to work⟳ out personal problems, even though much of what I have⟳ written falls into the H/C category.”

“Both h/c (hurt⟳/comfort stories, in which one or both members of a pair are injured in some way, creating emotional closeness) and AU (alternate universe stories, in which the characters are taken out of the source text and placed in a different time or place⟳) are subgenres in their own⟳ right, but are also commonly found as elements in slash, het (heterosexual relationship), and gen (nonsexual, or general audience) stories.”

“In boys' love⟳ and slash, h/c is also a way to add⟳ a homoerotic dimension to an otherwise ostensibly homosocial relationship.”

CEFR level