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Okay I was tagged on my horny blog but this is totally the kind of stuff I put on my torture blog lmao.

Qualifications uhhh I was waterboarded in an informal military training exercise ig. And they talked to us about it. I have never waterboarded anyone (yet).

You want the face to be below chest level. This is done because if the air openings on your face are below the lungs, water comes out the face end before it can end up in your lungs. If you have a bent tube with one low end and one high end, and try to pour water into the low end, the water level will never reach the high end.

But how much lower? As you may have noticed, your lungs are not open to the air. This means that as your subject inhales, they may be able to draw water up above the level of their nose and mouth. If you use a bent straw upside down in a cup, and submerge the short end under water, you are able to drink. Your lungs are not strong enough, your body not geometrically simple enough, and your face holes not small enough, so keep the face extra low below the chest works. That's why waterboarding as a technique exists, it still is safer than drowning. I cannot give you a good answer of how low is low enough, that depends on how fast you're pouring the water, and the physiology of the person you're doing it to. They may also lift their head in their struggles, if their head is not held/strapped down. But at the very least, mouth and nose fully lower than the lungs.

I've seen a lot of people describe it in fiction as just, head hanging back over an edge. I suppose that would get the face below chest level, but that is not a risk level I'm personally comfortable with, because it's very easy to lift your head up and not so easy to keep the head still like that.

S knows better than me in terms of first aid stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In terms of safewords, do not recommend using verbal signals at all. It would be hard to hear, obviously. If you're going the releasing a weight for stop route, use something that makes a loud noise when it hits the floor, and is easy to check if it's still in their hand or not. I don't like the release method, because people often clench their hands when struggling. I personally prefer something that makes noise when squeezed, like a squeak toy or something

if you can't find any basics and want literally the ground level not risk managed face-up technique, two layers of tshirt thickness cloth laid over the whole face and then consistently running water anywhere on the nose or mouth is one classic variation (i've seen a large-ish water bottle fairly slowly poured aimed right at the tip of the nose and that seems to work decently well). the water just has to form a "layer" in/on the cloth, so it's fully saturated and flowing through the fabric. i mean and there's holding somebody's face in a bucket of water until they start freaking out but that one's self explanatory. sorry if you already knew this and needed like risk management tactics haha

I appreciate you but I am looking for more like risk management. I’m meeting up with some people to talk about assisting them with a waterboarding scene and I just want to have some knowledge going in. The dom (who I am going to meet for the first time tomorrow) (we are not doing the scene tomorrow) has done it before but i don’t want to just be like. i guess i’ll take your word for it! ya know?

i’ve heard the person getting waterboarded needs to be at an angle to lessen the risk of getting water trapped in the lungs, but i have not been able to find out anything more specific. like angled up or angled down?

the people i do know who invited my partner and me to the scene said something about doing it on a pool table, which

hot (good)

seems like a pun (good)

is not angled (not good)

most google/duckduckgo searches are either “how to survive waterboarding” or are related to the kink but not very informative. i’m gonna have to watch videos of it. for research. i mean i’ve watched them in the past but not with a scientific eye.

the info you provided is still good tho so thank you

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Whump culture is getting too stressed by Extremely Simple IRL Task and escaping into a maladaptive daydream about being shackled to a radiator that’s slowly burning into the throbbing fresh lash marks on your back.

Much preferable.

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anyone wanna lay down on my cool table? yeah haha no those leather straps are from the previous owner. oh that table with needles and medical supplies? oh thats nothing lol thats just decoration. yeah hop up onto my table im not gonna do anything. what do you mean "why are you holding a syringe"? its nothing. yeah no youre fine i just wannaa see your inner elbow, no reason

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soooooo true

Me: I need to write I need to write I'm running out of time I need to write I need to write

Me, doing anything but writing: Hehe making up code alphabet fun

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i don't need to explain myself you all know what i'm talkin about

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Military whump prompts

(because Reddit is down and I’m chronically online)

Hearing the whumpee’s screams over the radio as they’re captured, the rest of the team frozen in horror.

• Patch job in the middle of the battlefield, someone pressing down on a wound with their bare hands, whispering, “Stay with me, okay? Just stay.”

• Post-mission debrief, but the whumpee is barely holding it together, swaying on their feet as the adrenaline wears off.

• The whumpee refusing pain meds because they need to “stay sharp,” only to pass out mid-conversation.

• “I don’t leave people behind,” they growl, limping and bleeding but refusing to abandon the unconscious teammate over their shoulder.

• Waking up in a field hospital, disoriented and panicked, pulling out the IV before being restrained by a firm but gentle voice.

• “We’re not going to make it.” “Yes, we are.” Cue one of them doing something reckless to ensure the other gets out alive.

• Cold, soaked to the bone, huddled in a ruined building during a downpour, one of them feverish while the other desperately tries to keep them awake.

• Hiding an injury to avoid being benched, only for it to get worse at the worst possible moment.

• “You don’t understand—I can’t go back. I can’t be discharged.”

• A high-ranking officer demanding a mission debrief while the whumpee is barely conscious, words slurring, bleeding through their uniform.

• A medic struggling to save the whumpee in the back of a jolting vehicle, yelling for the driver to go faster.

• Post-rescue, sitting by the whumpee’s bedside, counting every beep of the heart monitor like a prayer.

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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Whumper watching their defiant whumpee break down for the first time. They're worn out. They're too tired, in too much pain, to offer more than the weakest of protests.

Whumper tips their head back and gives them a grin.

"Oh, does that hurt?" they purr.

It's just too satisfying to watch - they can't resist teasing them a little bit about it.

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love those old soviet posters that are just advertising like, an activity. not some “go to mike’s hardware for the BEST deals around!” just “hey, you can learn stuff at libraries” or “consider going for a hike in the countryside” big kin

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while you were attending therapy i was studying the blade

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hey man. nice regional dialect. mind if i apply some baseless assumptions about your personhood to it? i was also gonna prescribe morality to it as well. if that’s cool with you

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ok this dni has me sobbing

proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list

this person doesn’t know what they are

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Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

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I try to not watch a lot of youtube shorts but I came across this guy and his face just has such remarkable "twink squadmate who bleeds out in your arms in Bayeux" features that I can hear his 19 year old pregant widow crying when I come to the door and tell her the bad news

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The writer's incomprehensibly nonsexual kink that flies completely under the radar because it just happens to coincide with well established genre tropes and good writing advice

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The “it was real enough to get me through but the shelf life of those fantasies has expired” pipeline is ooooooooooof

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the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.