Some time ago I made a GIF compilation about men comforting men, and I always wanted to make another compilation with women comforting men. So now I finally got to it.
GIF are from following Shows:
Emmerdale Episode 7415
Manchester By The Sea (2016)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles S02E19
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Ever After (2014)
The Shack (2017)
Transfers (a.k.a. Transferts, French TV Show) S01E01
Brothers & Sisters S02E02
Six Feet Under S02E13
Patient Zero (2018)
Anonymous:
Do you have any more examples of men comforting men because GAH I love that old set of yours so much 😭
Warrior (2011), No Man’s Land (2020), A Million Little Pieces (2018), True Blood S02E06 (Hard-Hearted Hannah), Southland S05E09 (Chaos), Rambo (1982), Fringe S03E19 (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), Banana Fish S01E22 (As I Lay Dying), Farscape S01E20, Breaking Bad S02E13
You can also find all the GIF sets for the shows under the tag #comfort.
These are the things that just…don’t do it for me. I can read them, but they’ll never give me whumperflies and, more often that not, I don’t end up finishing it.
- Dehumanization. I don’t like it. Break the character down to pieces but let them remain human.
- Master/slave, pet, box boy. Not all the time - I prefer master/slave when in-universe rules are more similar to boss/employee. I dislike characters broken down to simpering loyalty and a desperate desire to please.
- Anytime anything becomes sexual. That’s slotted in a different part of my head.
- Character death. Offscreen, in the past, flashbacks are all fine. Side character, perhaps, though it’s not my favorite. But main character, no. I want them to get hurt and then I want them to get better.
- Institutionalized whump. This relates to the master-slave and bbu, and extends to any setting where the whump in question is normalized and accepted. I don’t mean torture and interrogation. I mean whenever a society accepts the whump as a part of life. This is partly because then the whump drags on for a long time, and partly because the comfort is temporary as it is against the natural order of things and I don’t like when comfort can be (and usually is) snatched away at any moment.
- Drawn out whump. Whump that goes on for years and years. Whump that continues after the characters break. I want whump that is either quick and intense, a rising wave of pain that crashes down, or whump that took place in the past, before the story starts.
- No comfort. Partially relates to the above, and this is more what I’ve discovered on tumblr than in fanfiction, because usually when I read fanfiction, it’s complete. It has hurt and comfort both. But I cannot keep reading a series of posts or a story where the pain gets worse and worse and worse and there’s not even a drop of comfort in sight. When it’s finished, when the tension builds and then drops, then yes. But when there is no end in sight, no.
A post in which @iwhumpyou somehow reads my mind and puts in to words for me to share so I don’t have to write them.
