h/c bingo, here I come

[dorinda]

I have been gently and encouragingly peer-pressured into playing in this round of hc_bingo. My goal is to get some practice writing shorter pieces more comfortably--although, damn this awesome card, there's a row or two that suggests itself as one of the "5 prompts turn into one story" extras, which urges me to go long, go long...

bullet wounds	loss of job / income	blood loss	fire	medication
rejection	comfort food or item	sexual extortion	amnesia	self-harm
depression	brainwashing	WILD CARD	drowning	nightmares
panic attacks	archaic medical treatment	hiding an injury / illness	burns	extortion
homesickness	stranded / survival scenario	forced to participate in illegal / hurtful activity	planet destruction	hostile climate

I'm presently mulling over the squares, mixing and matching them with fandoms I'd like to write. arduinna and I were talking about how certain characters are just so flexible, h/c-wise--Kelly Robinson from I Spy, for instance. I mean, plenty of these things happen to him in canon. So if you're stumped for someone to get amnesia while hiding an injury in a hostile climate? GIVE HIM A CALL.

Comments

[thaccian]

Hm-m-m. The the exception of "planet destruction" I'm pretty sure ALL of those happened to Kelly at one time or another :-)

He does suffer so very, very, prettily.

[dorinda]

Heh. I figure, just give him time and maybe he could complete the whole set! :D

I was wondering what I could try to write for planet destruction, if I chose that square and didn't write in a science-fictional fandom... and then I thought, for fandoms like I Spy that are about espionage during the Cold War, maybe an imminent threat of global thermonuclear war? Granted, the planet would not actually be destroyed (and I'm not much for writing unhappy endings, anyway), but it feels like it would be pretty H on the H/C scale if there were nukes/the threat of nukes involved.

[movies_michelle]

Yay for peer pressure!

That looks like a great card. Most of it looks right up my hurty/comforty alley. :-)

[dorinda]

(Ignore my first mistakenly-placed comment...that was for the person above you! Or, I mean, you don't have to ignore it per se, but no worries if you read it and go, "...?")

How often do I celebrate peer pressure! But this seems like a good byproduct. Rather than me, like, taking up smoking, or jumping off a bridge.

Most of it looks right up my hurty/comforty alley. :-)

Mine too, as I suspect you are aware. Although there's no "cuddling for warmth," which is a big fave of mine as well...but I can always write it for the Wild Card square, if I have a bingo that uses the center.

[terrio]

It seems like "stranded/survival scenario" could easily include cuddling for warmth....

[dorinda]

Now that is the kind of can-do, efficient thinking we need around here! :D I mean, being stranded, sooner or later they're gonna get cold. And where there's cold? OH YES THERE WILL BE CUDDLING.

[klia]

Corporal cuddling?

[movies_michelle]

I think you know my stance on cuddling for warmth. (Hint: VERY PRO!) I also think Terri is on the exact right path with this: go, Terri! Way to enable! :-)

[giglet]

there's a row or two that suggests itself as one of the "5 prompts turn into one story" extras, which urges me to go long, go long...

I see no downside to this. Ditto I Spy's versatility.

Let me know if I can aid or abet in any way.

[dorinda]

You have already both aided and abetted! I am mulling over memories of a bit of discussion we had, some time back, that might help me complete one of the squares...

[klia]

So if you're stumped for someone to get amnesia while hiding an injury in a hostile climate? GIVE HIM A CALL.

Eee hee hee! Oh, Kelly. ♥

*rubs hands in eager anticipation*

[dorinda]

Reese, of course, is also a champion getting-hurt-er. I feel like this card is calling to him. As we've discussed, whenever anything happens to him--punch in the face, razor to the hand, cuff around the wrist(s) against which he struggles, not to MENTION other events!--it leaves marks. (Lovely, lovely marks. *cough*)

[klia]

Indeed he is! There are marks, and actual hurt -- that canonically last a while, too. He definitely needs someone to look after him and offer comfort. ♥

[dorinda]

He definitely needs someone to look after him and offer comfort. ♥

WELL I JUST DON'T KNOW WHO WOULD VOLUNTEER FOR SUCH HAZARDOUS DUTY.

("Use the cushion.")

[klia]

AND HE'S THOUGHTFUL, TOO.