hc_bingo, once again!

[arduinna]

If I sign up for hc_bingo enough, eventually I will actually manage to pull off a bingo, right?

This year's card:

therapy	whipping / flogging	broken bones	electrocution	cursed
plane crash	poltergeist	brainwashing	runaways	Stockholm syndrome
bruises	confession in desperate situation	WILD CARD	head trauma	unconsciousness
de-age	burns	poisoning	unrequited pining	interrogation
nervous breakdown	disappearing	taking care of somebody	telepathic trauma	grief

Most of this is stuff I haven't written, but hey, it's good to expand your comfort zones. And there are only a couple I'm eyeing particularly askance. Pretty good card, overall!

Comments

[klia]

Oooh, hey, you got a good one! There are really only two that vaguely squick me. \o/

[dorinda]

Yeah, it may not have cuddling for warmth (the holy grail! *g*), but it has brainwashing! ♥ Plus a couple of things I've written in the past, so I know I can manage it.

What are your vague squicks in this context? It would be easy for me to avoid them, at this early planning stage.

P.S. ICON LOOOOOOVE.

[klia]

Brainwashing and amnesia! And nightmares! And hiding an illness/injury! Bullet wounds! Medication! (Heh -- PoI already did those last two. ♥)

I'm vaguely twitchy about self-harm (because it tends to manifest in fanfic as BSOs cutting themselves like teenage girls) and sexual extortion (again, in the context of fanfic, I associate with Aliens/Sadistic Villains Made Us Do It). But I can't see you writing either of those examples, anyway!

Feel free to help yourself to all three, if you'd like.

[dorinda]

(Heh -- PoI already did those last two. ♥)

They diiiiiid. ...and hmm, actually, they did those last three, if we count John in the finale, having been hurt but keeping it to himself for the time being, his arm quietly down by his side... Oh, POI, you are so good to me.

And understood about those squicks! I don't think I'd write them in those particular ways--at least, I hope not!--but it's good to be alert. I think my approach would be more along the lines of... Like, for sexual extortion, how Kelly (and more rarely, Scotty) is sometimes sent on missions to seduce-and-destroy, which may not always end up very well for them. Or, really, any one of my BSOs who might need to go undercover to do that particular deed against an antagonist. If I understand the phrase correctly, I think that sort of thing would count?

Self-harm, hmm. I again suspect I wouldn't have the self-harm be an expression of personal inner depression/anxiety, a la cutting. I feel like I'd be more likely to have the self-harm come from a different place, as when Reese is in the refrigerated truck and bruises/lacerates his wrists so badly from struggling against the handcuffs. A type of self-harm performed in a back-against-the-wall situation, especially to save someone else. (Pause for a moment to run the scene through my head. Ahhh.)

Feel free to help yourself to all three, if you'd like.

Oh oh oh you have a MEANINGFUL GLASSES ADJUSTMENT. Sigh! ♥____♥

[klia]

Oh, POI, you are so good to me.

Truly! ♥ ♥ ♥

Or, really, any one of my BSOs who might need to go undercover to do that particular deed against an antagonist. If I understand the phrase correctly, I think that sort of thing would count?

I guess I tend to interpret prompts as against our BSOs, not necessarily something they do, as part of their jobs, to others? But I don't know enough about the rules to make that call.

A type of self-harm performed in a back-against-the-wall situation, especially to save someone else. (Pause for a moment to run the scene through my head. Ahhh.)

YES! See, I've been so conditioned against it that I never even thought of something like that. (Mmm... yes, that scene.)

Oh oh oh you have a MEANINGFUL GLASSES ADJUSTMENT.

And crinkly-eyed Reese smile! ♥

[dorinda]

But I don't know enough about the rules to make that call.

Me neither, at this point. *g* I'll run it past people who're more familiar with the whole bingo experience. But my thinking at present is that it could count, if the sexual-extortion our BSOs have to perform is the ultimate cause of the H in the H/C. (I mean, the episode "Laya" kind of does that to Scotty already, having his loathing of the whole process spark off a ton of distress, and a fight with Kelly...)

The rules also talk about how the prompt can be related to the H or the C, which seems to indicate some basic flexibility of interpretation (esp. rules 15 and 16 here), as long as the prompt is a central feature of the story and not just a passing detail ("After the mission where they did a lot of sexual extortion, it turns out Kelly and Scotty got lost in the Arctic and had to cuddle for warmth!").

But these are just my guesses, and I'll keep noodging those in the know for their thoughts.

And crinkly-eyed Reese smile!

*falls over* I will never get tired of that scene. Aiiiieeee.

[klia]

*falls over* I will never get tired of that scene. Aiiiieeee.

IKR? *flails*

[arduinna]

Or, really, any one of my BSOs who might need to go undercover to do that particular deed against an antagonist. If I understand the phrase correctly, I think that sort of thing would count?

I think that would totally count, as much as being sexually extorted themselves. Having to do the deed creates psychological harm, and also potentially harm to their existing (or potential) relationship with Other BSO.

And yes, on self-harm in the line of duty! I would think even accidental self-harm would qualify if need be.