#Support Networks

[wakewithgiggli]

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[thewhumpcaretaker]

To the Whump Community: Against Isolation

CW: discussion of how whump relates to nonfictional people, real trauma, and social isolation.

Hey Caretakers and fellow hopeless romantics: Whumpee exists.

Somewhere, right now, there is a profoundly lonely person reflecting on traumatic memories that have fundamentally altered their mind.

Somewhere, right now, there is a community member being severely bullied by their community.

Somewhere, right now, there is an addict carrying the guilt of the people they hurt.

Somewhere, right now, there is an unhoused person who would do anything for a safe place to lay down.

Somewhere, right now, there is a person struggling with chronic pain.

Somewhere, right now, there is a domestic violence survivor learning to trust again.

Somewhere, right now, there is a widow dealing with the crippling grief of losing a loved one.

Somewhere, right now, there is someone with sexual trauma wishing for a lover with the patience to take things slow.

Somewhere, right now, there is a brave person confronting a phobia.

Somewhere, right now, there is a touch starved person who thinks they will be forever alone.

Somewhere, right now, there is a deeply isolated person contemplating whether to lash out in revenge.

Angry, depressed, pathetic, terrified, physically aching.

You know this, because you've probably been at least one of those people. And you've probably seen them in your community, being hurt, being neglected. At the very least, you know where to find them. But it's not cute when whumpee is real, right? When there's a chance of saying the wrong thing, of asking if someone needs help and being rejected, or worse, loving the "wrong kind," someone too dangerous, too unforgivable, too broken in the ways that aren't socially acceptable. Or, worst of all, doing more harm than good and making things harder for someone who is already suffering.

And that's fine. Everyone has a line, and some things should stay in fiction. But I would call you to reflect on where that line is drawn for you. Because when I reflected on that line, I realized that I use fiction as a substitute for the real love that I felt forbidden from offering, or inadequate to offer. And when I sought out real, lonely men with deeply traumatized backgrounds similar to my own, who wanted support in their lives, I was welcomed. I believe that I was just weird enough to genuinely help people get better. Most of us are.

Are we so distanced from each other that the longing to comfort a hurt person under tender, consensual circumstances is considered outrageously niche and unacceptable to try in real life? Am I crazy or is a large portion of whump just the perfectly natural longing for a human connection that acknowledges trauma as a part of lived experience? Maybe I'm an even more hopeless romantic than I realize, but isn't it a good thing to want to save each other?

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[aphel1on]

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[bisexualbaker]

I want to take this opportunity to say this again:

There is no way that making fandom entirely "adults only" doesn't end up hurting kids.

I'm not saying that there shouldn't be adults only spaces in fandom! There's important ethical and legal reasons for this to be the case!

But being interested in things isn't age-limited, and if fandom exists, then people of all ages will want to join in and have fun with it.

If the primary fandom space is one that tries to enforce adults only, it will only end up with minors lying about their age to get in and participate. However you feel about that, it's something that cannot be prevented, especially not without huge privacy violations on all sides. What will happen as a result, though, is that minors who end up in a bad situation (being taken advantage of or creeped on by actual predators, for example) will end up in a no-win situation: They'll either have to out themselves as a minor and potentially lose their community and online support network, possibly for years, or they'll be trapped by their lies and end up even more entangled in a situation that will hurt them.

Fandom should absolutely have adults only spaces, but if we want kids to be safe, then it needs spaces for people of all ages, as well.

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Something that gets lost in a lot of these conversations is that a lot of fandom is not sexually explicit. Someone asks "should minors be in fandom spaces?" and someone is bound to interpret it as "is it OK to hand a 15 year old your goatse kink fic?".

But works rated T and G on AO3 each outnumber works rated E. Fanworks is a broad and diverse category that runs the gamut from genfic to kink pwp and everything in between, and that in between is what makes up the majority of fanworks, and is perfectly suitable for teens.

So should adults be able to build a grownup table and not invite the kids? Yeah, that's their perogative, if you build a space you get to set the rules and if someone complains about it, well, why would you throw your doors open to someone who wasn't welcome to begin with and is now throwing a fit about it, no matter their age?

Should teens be getting chatted up by random 30-somethings? Of course not, that's creepy and illegal in most jurisdictions.

But should teenagers be allowed in *fandom*? Yes, of course, if they can treat their fellow fans well and not push people's boundaries, why shouldn't they be allowed in?

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Places like AO3 are the grown ups' table even if a lot of fic is not full of explicit sex scenes.

Teens who can handle sitting at that table are welcome.

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