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SOLKILLERSEEKSAK FEBUWHUMP MASTERLIST

A month of whump-filled standalone stories brought to you by four Irondad authors @midsommersolstice @akillerqueenwrites @blondsak and @pursue-solitude who - you guessed it - love whump.

@febuwhump, Solkillerseeksak style.

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Welcome to Whumptober2020!

It’s finally here!  Happy Whumptober everyone!

A few housekeeping things:

We will be archiving your posts daily.  Some posts aren’t going to make it into the Archive.  There may be multiple reasons for this: 

The post is too long (please consider using “Keep Reading,” it is your friend)

Human error (there are only 3 of us archiving and sometimes we just miss things)

Your post is not tagged properly (we need you to use our tags in order for ease of reblogging on our part)

Your post didn’t show up in the tag (you can mention this blog so we can see you)

With so many participants, it’s not going to be possible to archive every single post. As we explained previously, the archive is random and not a complete list of every work produced for the event

We are not affiliated with the whumptober-2020 blog that has popped up. While we totally support side competitions, using the same name as our event is not appreciated and we will not be reblogging content produced for this parallel event. 

We’re going to start tagging all archived posts with “archive” if you would like to continue following the blog but don’t necessarily want to see all the archived posts on your dash. To avoid confusion with the other event, we recommend using the tag #whumptober2020 without the space.

Please read the FAQs before sending us an ask, especially now that the event is running and we’re swamped.

All the 2020 Event Info that was pinned to the top of the page is now under the cut below so you don’t have to scroll past that big ol post when you visit.

You can also visit our nifty little official Event Info page!

Happy Whumping!

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ATTENTION: For anyone who reads fanfiction without leaving feedback

Here’s a few things you should know:

Fanfiction is a gift. 

Fic writers don’t have to share their works with you. They don’t have to write them at all. They do it and they share it because they’re fans of the show/book/movie etc. just like you, and they want to contribute to everyone’s enjoyment of fandom.

Fanfiction is hard to write. 

You need a lot of creativity and passion to write fic. You need a ton of motivation and drive to write a complete fic, let alone a good one. Fic authors write for hours and hours and hours, often staying up late into the night just to write. They write through job struggles and personal issues, resorting to phones and tablets when their computers are on the fritz, tapping away on public buses and trains just because they can’t find any other time to write.

Fanfiction is free. 

Fic writers give away thousands and thousands of words of pure fandom magic, and you get to consume all of it for the wonderful price of nothing. The only reward writers receive for themselves (besides a sense of accomplishment) is the response they get from you, the reader. Some don’t even feel that accomplishment until they see kudos and comments telling them how much their work was enjoyed. 

Please. 

No matter how much time you have, even just clicking the kudos button takes less than a second. And if you have time to read 5k words at one go, it’s no stretch at all to take a few more seconds to type ‘good job!’ or ‘i loved this!’ in the comment box and hit send. 

Still not convinced?

1. IF YOU’RE EMBARRASSED / SHY,

Fic authors LOVE hearing from you. Don’t worry about whether you think you’re going to phrase your response well. That’s literally the last thing we care about. Just knowing that you had a good time with something we made is EVERYTHING to us.

2. IF YOU STILL JUST DON’T SEE THE POINT,

I have a very special challenge for you, my friend.

Write a fic.

Go forth, and write a complete, well-structured, well-characterised fic with organic, stimulating dialogue interwoven into a proper, fully fleshed-out storyline. 

Publish your work for all the Internet to see.

And then get back to me.

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Someone: hey, if you’re a writer, why don’t I ever see you writing?

Me, a writer who’s been daydreaming about three characters, two unwritten chapters, some scraps of dialogue, and a partial plot that still needs to be heated up in the microwave before it’s usable:

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Holy crap this is so me!!

Daily #2,288! Kind of the opposite of what I was going for.

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I love this so much! 💜👏🏻

Resources for betas

I’m currently an admin on a fandom fic rec blog. We plan to maintain a list of betas for authors who feel they need one. We’ve just asked our followers for volunteers as betas, and the response has been overwhelming.  Many of them have never beta’d before. Can you or your followers provide me with links to resources for betas? I’m thinking about what should be agreed up front, the mechanics, and other useful information. Thank you. I love your blog!

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A year or so ago, I created this checklist for writers and betas to use to help guide their conversation. It’s just a list of some of the more common things that betas can check fics for. It’s not exhaustive by any means, but it’s a great place to get the conversation started - and it’s a conversation that doesn’t always happen. 

Putting the rest behind a cut because this got long. Please share more resources if you have them!

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@whump-angst-fluff-repeat

Blondsak already did an amazing job answering this, but a little thing that I often do (because I also worry about getting accurate characterization through dialogue, mainly with Tony in particular) is to keep scenes from the movies in the forefront of my mind when writing. I look for similar situations that happened in canon and watch his responses to see how he reacts and what he says. Or I’ll think of a scene where Tony is being Peak Tony and replay it in my mind, then mentally insert the conversation I want to write right into that scene. Then just watch him reply. I hope that makes sense. It might sound a bit odd but it works for me, and it might work for you or others too!

Hey so I need help writing dialogue, esp banter between Tony & Peter, but really any conversations, I am so terrible and awkward at it, any advice??? I guess it’s just really hard for me to write them in character (snarky remarks, etc) when I personally am a polar opposite of Tony especially. Thanks ilu ❤️❤️ :)

Hi friend!! Thanks for the ask!! I'm not gonna lie, this is a hard question for me to answer because I am honestly so bad at analyzing my own writing. Like, I can edit the shit out of it, but ask me about my writing process outside of general technical things and I become empty-headed very quickly lol. But I’m going to give this a try anyway.

First, for what it's worth, I also don't see myself as much like Tony in real life. I'm not terribly quick-witted, I avoid confrontation like the plague, and I'm fairly open with expressing my emotions to anyone who will listen. People who know me IRL would absolutely say I'm a Peter Parker before they'd ever call me a Tony Stark.

Yet, I find Tony so much easier to write? Maybe it's because he has way more screen time to draw from, or maybe because even though I'm not like him I'm very drawn to characters who do the hard work of confronting and engaging with their trauma, but either way Tony's voice comes to me so easily in writing. So, with that in mind, here are some things I personally head-canon about Tony and Peter when it comes to how they interact. 

For me, the snarky remarks, etc. between Peter and Tony go hand-in-hand with Tony's personality more than Peter’s. Peter can be very quippy on his own, but his relationship with May alone proves that he doesn't need to hide behind banter in order to have a close, loving relationship with a parental figure, let alone any others in his life. This is often why - when I write Tony and Peter having an emotional conversation - you'll often see Peter making quips for Tony's benefit, not because he necessarily needs to relate to Tony that way himself.

The reasons for this are varied, but mainly it’s because Peter recognizes - just like many people in Tony’s life - that Tony hides behind quips and banter as a defense mechanism when he feels attacked or uncomfortable. It’s a familiar fallback for him, and one that can set him at ease in the right situation. This doesn't have to be a direct or intentional attack, it can just be him feeling triggered or threatened in some way. An offhand comment or even an expression can immediately put him on the defensive and have him trying to hide his real emotions. 

As for Peter, well, he’s nothing if not a bit expressive. He often wears his emotions on his sleeve, even if he's not sharing his thoughts verbally-- cues that Tony picks up on pretty quick but often misinterprets, just as Peter sometimes does the same with Tony’s defensive remarks. This creates the potential for a lot of miscommunication between them, even after years of knowing each other.

That said, Tony in my works can be very overly blunt with Peter when he feels Peter needs it-- almost overcompensatingly so at times. Yes, he still gets casually quippy and snarky, but he sees himself as a mentor first and foremost - someone tasked with the responsibility of making sure this incredibly brave and occasionally stupidly self-sacrificing kid survives long enough to become an adult and beyond - and that makes him very willing to impress his opinions upon Peter. He's very protective of Peter and he's not scared to show it, or draw from it to find the motivation to do and say what he thinks is best for Peter even when Peter doesn't agree. This can go well or it can go disastrously, depending on your plot.

Despite all that miscommunication potential, Tony is always trying very hard to overcome his usual defense mechanisms when it comes to his relationship with Peter and be more emotionally available, similar to how we see him emotionally progress in his relationship with Pepper in the films. I think canon supports this view, especially when Tony mentions not wanting to repeat the cycle of his relationship with Howard in Hoco. He is constantly trying to move on from unhelpful learned behaviors he developed as a result of several dysfunctional familial and found family relationships, which for my writing means that for as often as he fucks up, he is always eventually going to try to make amends, and especially with Peter.

Of course, those amends might be a bit fumbled too, but Peter is an intuitive bean who appreciates the effort regardless, so even if one conversation doesn't "solve" an issue between them/nothing is overtly discussed, if it helps them come to an understanding, I'll often let a scene end there. After all, all relationships are constantly evolving, and Peter’s and Tony’s relationship is no different in that regard. 

This is all very jumbled but I hope at least a little of this is helpful for you, friend. I find that in order to write Peter and Tony’s dialogue and interactions the first thing I need to implicitly understand in any scene is their separate motivations, so that’s what I tried to focus on here. 

Thanks again for the ask and good luck in your writing!! <3<3<3

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His expressions!! 😭💖

Mister Stark! My favourite young adult! 

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“So you’re this spider... ling. Crime-fighting spider. You’re Spider-boy?” 💕

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I love this so much

‘The sand storm was kicking up so hard, and I just remember laying there, buried waist deep in all this gear, I remember I was inside the helmet, and I just had this great moment of gratitude. What a privilege it was to be able to be there playing this guy, with the calibre of people I was working with. I just say ‘Wow man, what a cool deal. What a cool suit, what a great crew, what a blast. Tony Stark.’ – Robert Downey Jr –

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I’ve never nodded harder while reading something

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

— Douglas Coupland, Life After God

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Alright kid, good luck out there.

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how can I relax when I messed up so bad?

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How could you not love this kid

I’m not old enough to drink.

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Don’t wait. If you see something, say something.

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This is absolutely what Tony was trying to say 😂

iron dad tried

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This is so cute 💕

I’m baaaaaaccccckkkkkkkkkkk. Been doing commissions, struggling with the law school, and I finally got some time to draw things I wanted to draw TT v TT 

I missed you guys.