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Whump prompt #75

Mind games where Whumper keeps their Whumpee in check without even having to think up some punishments.

"Go ahead. Turn around and run. See what happens. "

Whumpee hesitates, conflicted. "Wh- What happens?"

Whumper's smile merely widens. "Try me."

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Whumpee doesn't hate their scars, precisely because they serve as a reminder. Because sometimes Whumpee can hardly believe that everything they went through actually happened. It just feels so wrong, so absurd.

Was it all even real, or just a figment of their sick imagination?

The scars are proof that Whumpee isn't going insane.

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Okay so, everybody talks about how authors love their commentors.

But I wanna talk about the author for the commentor.

I was walking home. My day was hitting a low. I was having a “looks insignificant on the outside, but huge on the inside” kind of issue. And with each minute passing, I was just getting sadder and angrier. So angry. My plans to make dinner gone out the window. No way am I making food feeling pissed out of my mind.

I reached home. Notifications pinged. Ao3. It was a reply to my comment. And let me tell you, my day turned around so fast. I was giddy and smiling like nothing bad ever happened. And it wasn’t even some extravagant reply. Just a simple “thanks for noticing that detail in my story. love ur username btw.” Bro, I fucken got down and made dinner.

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whatever whatever the “dopamine addiction” industry is lying to you the point of life is to have as broad a range of pleasures as you can. the problem with dependency is not that it’s evil to be dependent on something, it’s that it can be unhealthy to rely completely on a singular source of happiness/pleasure/escape. this does not make the desire to escape inherently evil or some kind of inherent weakness. you are not addicted to dopamine you have a habit of relying on one thing for all your needs and that is a habit you can change slowly over time without complete ‘abstinence’ so to speak. and comparing any of this to a substance addiction is unhelpful + unhealthy + will get your local addict (me) to kick you in the shins very hard

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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

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I know the point of being a good writer is having the ability to be flexible in the type of content you write, but I still find it absolutely WILD that these 2 things were written by the same person

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Personality hire

Working Cats

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everyone's all about queer subtext until it's aromantic or asexual

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real yearners miss people BEFORE they're gone

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this is one of the most underrated jokes in atla imo. it relies entirely on the voice acting skill of mae whitman to sound like she’s hacking up bugs, and she does an impeccable job

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the phenomenon of reddit "am i the asshole" situations where the op is pretty clearly in the right having the most unflattering post titles will never stop being funny

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing