Roundup: Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023

Hurt/Comfort Exchange (hurtcomfortex) is for fanworks using the trope of one or more characters being hurt and receiving care, physical or emotional. This is its fifth year as a full exchange.

Over 300 works were posted in 175 fandoms this year.

I wrote Adar/Halbrand from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Who's comforting whom? Good question...

I got three wonderful treats! A story about a noir detective and the ghost of his former partner, an artwork about a noir detective being comforted by his cop frenemy, and an artwork about Persephone comforting Hades.

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A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar: The New Guest (John Wick movies/The Innkeeper Chronicles)

I participated in A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar (intoabar), which is a crossover challenge. You sign up with a character you want to write and 1–4 other fandoms. The mods assign you a character from one of them. You write a story in which the two characters meet in a bar.

This is the fourth year I’ve participated. This year my character was John Wick and the fandoms I chose were American Gods, Innkeeper Chronicles, Jessica Jones, Umbrella Academy.

Title: The New Guest
Author: firecat
Prompt: John Wick goes into a bar and meets... Gertrude Hunt (Innkeeper Chronicles)!
Fandoms: John Wick (movies), Innkeeper Chronicles - Ilona Andrews
Word count: 2348
Rating: General Audiences
Contents: No warnings needed
Author’s Note: Story takes place after John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum. Does not take into account anything from John Wick: Chapter 4.
Summary: The Gertrude Hunt Inn receives a new guest whom, she determines, has some special service requirements.

The New Guest on AO3