Our official policy shall be as follows: All public posts are public and free to be linked to. All members-only posts must NEVER be linked to.  If you link to a locked post, you will be banned. ...only or have it done.  If you have any questions or concerns, please comment here and I'll do my best to answer them.  All comments to this post will be screened. Thank you for your time and attention

Good news, everyone! Changes have been made to Rules 4, 14, 15 and 18, so if you haven't read them lately , please do so - thanks!  The biggest change is that everything below headers must be under ...story or seen a TV show or movie that dealt with trauma recovery well, please share it with us via a recommendation post . Thank you to everyone for your time, consideration and participation! 

...that it not be, please comment here and it will be removed. Rules on icons - Here If you need a beta reader or would like to be a beta reader for a hurt/comfort story, please comment here For posting guidelines, please go here .  What Fits Here  or  *posting/tagging guidlines If you are searching for a fic please go here to see how to format your request The prefered format for Rec posts is...

I know there are a lot of tags and to make things easier I'm posting this. The 'groups' of tags consist of: * (this is for community/mod-related things), author , contains , fandom , genre ,  rating  & warning When tagging any entry please include author, fandom, rating & appropriate warning tags. Example (REC): "A Transformers fanfic with Shockwave's first meeting with Megatron that...

Show: Lie to Me Episode: React to Contact (Season 2, Episode 14) Originally Aired: 6/28/2010 Summary: A decorated war hero who is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder claims that someone is trying...does an amazing job of bringing Sgt. Turley's pain to life. Mod Note: This will also serve as an example for anyone who wishes to recommend other television episodes that deal with trauma recovery.

Recent issues in other communities have forced me to make changes to the Rules.  From now on Rule 15 is as follows: Icons must be neutral. Neutral will be defined by the maintainer. If you are asked...  This community is going to be a positive, safe environment where trauma recovery in fiction may be discussed freely.  Please help me to keep it that way. Thank you for your support and attention. 

Good news, Everyone! This will now be the permanent post for all discussion of tags that are needed or that are not needed.  From now on, please comment here to have a tag added.  This post will also...continue to be listed, or I'll put a link to every tag in the community sidebar and that will be the only 'tag display'.   Please give me your thoughts as to which is preferred and why. Thank you! :

Yay or Nay?  And if it's yay, which rating system should be used?  Please vote in comments. I'm leaning towards MPAA - G-NC-17, just because that's the system with which I am most familiar, but I am willing to entertain other options.  Also, are they really necessary?   Please let me know. Thanks! :)

...or user-friendly. On recs : If you post your own story here, you aren't 'reccing yourself'.  I mention this because a couple of different authors have mentioned that they didn't feel comfortable posting their stories because they didn't want to 'rec themselves'.  This community is for all hurt/comfort stories, not just ones that a third party recommends, so please, if you have a hurt/comfort...

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