Hurt/Comfort Poll! And a question.

[amatara]

Just a small question first, that doesn’t have anything to do with everything else: is someone here familiar with the series Crossing Jordan? It’s an NBC crime-drama-ish type of show revolving around a team of forensic pathologists, and I just recently bought the first season on DVD. Bought it in an impulse, one might say, mainly because since my Twin Peaks re-watch I appear to have the hots for Miguel Ferrer   I read that it was pretty good and we needed something new to watch anyway  it was ridiculously cheap in Media Market  Okay, I did buy it because of Miguel Ferrer, right? *blushes furiously* And it was incredibly cheap, but that wasn’t the reason, just a mitigating circumstance. *smirk*

Now the thing is, watching it – I actually am rather enjoying it, for more reasons than the obvious one. *g* For one, the main character Jordan is a kick-ass woman with an attitude, a screwed-up past and great dialogue. Secondly, her two main relationships, at least at the start of the series, are not of the romantic kind, nor do they involve stereotypically young and stunning guys. Instead they’re her dad and her boss. (The boss is Miguel Ferrer, by the way, in a role that couldn’t be more different from Albert Rosenfield except for the being a pathologist too, and he and Jordan have terrific chemistry. Not of the romantic kind, but I love it even more for that.) Anyway, turns out the only season out on DVD is the first one. There are six in total, so I was wondering (A) if it turns out I’m addicted to this by the end of season 1, what do I do? Are there, perchance, any European TV stations broadcasting this? Are there other options? And (B) are the later seasons worth going through all that fuss for in the first place?  Anyone able to answer even part of those questions will have my everlasting gratitude.  

*grins*

All right, that was that. Now for what I really wanted to talk about. Every so often, I find myself drifting back to the topic of hurt/comfort and why I (we) enjoy it. What I keep being amazed about is how personal it all is – not just in whether the genre pushes ones buttons or not, but also what specifically pushes those buttons. Seeing character A be crudely poisoned may well do something for me, but it could send you away screaming. Similarly, if you enjoy characters B and C sharing a room during a vicious flu outbreak, it may give you warm fuzzies, but maybe it leaves me all stone-cold. I’ve posted about this once before, and what I took out of that was that h/c, to me, is a kink, plain and simple. Which doesn’t mean I have no standards for it. J I’m generally a pretty picky person where fic is concerned, and that goes even more for my kinks. And while I have no trouble at all appreciating well-written fics that are about the h/c and nothing else, character exploration is also a big part of it for me. H/C can, after all, be a great trigger for a lot of deep stuff (she says, innocently *g*)

So, what I find very interesting is how different we all are in our, ahem, preferences. In fact, I think nearly every discussion that could be had about sexual kinks, could be applied to h/c as well, and exactly what does something for one person but not for someone else, now that fascinates me. So here’s a little poll for y’all, just to see how different or similar we all are. *g*

Some general stuff first.

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Secondly, just for fun and silliness, and because I'm curious as hell how y'all feel about it. ;) In the following pairings (can be considered as romantic or friendship, however you see them) whom, if any, would you prefer to be the one comforted?

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