Hurt/comfort

Hurt/Comfort is a way to get unsuitable characters into each other's arms. It's almost possible to visualise the badficcer's mental processes that lead to this getting written:

1) Like, Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom are SO hot. 2) I should totally write a fanfic where Frodo and Leggy, like, have teh gaysex. 3) But, like, I should have a plot, cos, like, I don't wanna get flamed no more. 4) So, maybe, like, Boromir attacks Frodo! And then, like, Legolas RESCUES him! 5) Cos, like, Boromir is kinda evil anyway, so it makes sense, cos he was possessed by the Ring! 6) And then, teh gaysex! Only not with Boromir! 7) Although, now you mention it ...

Basically hurt/comfort literally means 'one character gets hurt and another comforts him/her/it. It is often coupled with trivialised rape, where the rape scene is the excuse for the confort sex. Badficcers often have failed to realise that being raped would generally mean you don't want to have sex again for, y'know, a while. This is because they are dumb.