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Something I wonder about sometimes: Why is there so little cross-fandom discussion or meta about hurt/comfort in fandom?
It's a genre (or whatever) that has a lot of fans, it tends to be a preference that follows a person from show to show, and I personally, at least, have a number of meta-y questions that I'd love to see thrown out to a diverse group of h/c fans for discussion.
And yet, the couple multifandom comms I've seen here on LJ fizzled pretty quickly or never got off the ground... ( *sniffles sadly at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
theonesyoulove * ) and the one comm on DW also has no traffic. I always wonder if its an advertising problem (word didn't get around to a broad enough group of fans that the comms existed) or if I'm just in the minority, and most fans really have no interest in discussing their tastes outside of a specific fandom environment, comparing notes on fandoms that lend themselves to h/c, etc. It's a bit of a bummer, really.
It's a genre (or whatever) that has a lot of fans, it tends to be a preference that follows a person from show to show, and I personally, at least, have a number of meta-y questions that I'd love to see thrown out to a diverse group of h/c fans for discussion.
And yet, the couple multifandom comms I've seen here on LJ fizzled pretty quickly or never got off the ground... ( *sniffles sadly at
theonesyoulove * ) and the one comm on DW also has no traffic. I always wonder if its an advertising problem (word didn't get around to a broad enough group of fans that the comms existed) or if I'm just in the minority, and most fans really have no interest in discussing their tastes outside of a specific fandom environment, comparing notes on fandoms that lend themselves to h/c, etc. It's a bit of a bummer, really.Tags:
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Yeah, it's a bummer. My gut-instinct is to chalk it up to lack of advertising and/or poorly worded "mission statements" for the comm that don't make it seem inclusive or something. That's why I'm sad "theonesyoulove" never got officially opened. The ladies behind that are rather BNF-y and may have had a better chance of capturing attention.
Ah, well. I did find a *forum* focusing on whump and h/c after my kvetching the other day. I'm not sure yet how alive it is for topics outside of the hugely popular shows like SPN and SG:A, but it's a start...