While Mom was having her hackysack* out, Seester and I found ourselves with a lot of time on our hands in a hospital waiting room not overly stocked with amusements. We played Harry Potter Uno** and Steely Hardness***, but exhausted their entertainment value at least an hour before Mommers got out of surgery. That's when we started listing - going back as far as we could - all of our crushes where a fictional character's beauty is augmented by suffering. (Note: this is an obsession with purely fictional characters. Seester and I have explored the erotic appeal of "pretty in pain" IRL, and have concluded - independently - that it is tiresome and unproductive in the long term. Like, 2-3 weeks, max). The list was so long and prominent in our individual and shared histories that we decided to give the matter some real scientific attention.
Pretty In Pain is a blog intended to document our fascination with beautiful suffering things, and if possible, to draw conclusions about the patterns, parameters, variations, and spread within the larger population of our peculiar obsession. A cure is not anticipated, nor sought.
Over time, it is our hope that this becomes a collaborative research effort. Blog readers are invited to contact us with their own PiP candidates. Any supporting documentation - pictures, synopsis, breakdown of PiP criteria - is helpful, though not required.
- Morpho & Seester (2009)
* I don't like the word "gallbladder."
** For future reference, the Invisiblity card blocks plays & the Howler forces one player to reveal hir cards. We had to look it up.
*** The world's most perfect game for airports and waiting rooms, which are always stocked with romance novels. Each player selects a novel from the same series, (to eliminate unfair advantages). The game is a race to find the first figurative reference to the male member, and is named after the first such reference ever found in the history of the game.
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