It's FanChat Friday! This week's prompt is: What do you think about the Hurt/Comfort fanfic trope? What makes it work for you? Can you recommend a fic that does it really well?
Reply or tag your response #FanChats2 so others can see. 
@FandomChats I've always found h/c to be like....perfectly fine. It's not a trope that speaks to me but there's plenty of good fic that makes use of the trope that I enjoy. But I think I don't even notice whether a fic is h/c or not unless it's leaning SUPER hard into the trope; it's just not a framework of thinking about narratives that is instinctive to me!
@soph_sol @FandomChats This is how I feel about it too. It's something a lot people feel passionately about so I feel like should care more one way or the other, but I don't
@FandomChats @Forestofglory @soph_sol i’m also in the neutral club — i feel like it’s such a broad concept that encompasses so many things that it’s difficult to have a firm opinion
fwiw, apparently if i go to the filter options for my ao3 bookmarks it’s in apparently the top ten for additional tags so i guess i’m technically in favor? but also not the first term that’d come to mind if i was trying to rec any of these fics so….
@Satsuma @FandomChats @soph_sol So I went to check my filter options for my AO3 bookmarks and its one of my top ten additional tags too. But I'm not sure how much those reflect my tastes vs what's popular on AO3
@Forestofglory @Satsuma @FandomChats I just checked too and it's in my top ten as well, but from the numbers it only constitutes 4% of the fics I bookmarked as having enjoyed, so I think it's just that I read widely enough that there's not a lot of consistency in the tags of the things I bookmark!
@soph_sol @Forestofglory @FandomChats it’s 33 / 489 for me so i guess proportionally i like it more than you 😆
But that ties it with fanvids which is a *much* less used tag when looking at ao3 as a whole
