#and honestly its fine if you like a blorbo in media and would not be able to get along with them irl

[usaigi]

On the subject of "People don't really like pwTrauma/Mental Illness," people's "activism" is so fucking transparent. Characters like Steven Grant are praised and coddled because his mental illness is cute and uwu look at his little bear paws aw he's so nervous vs character like Marc Spector are perceived as "bad" because he's a liar or rude or violent. Or on the other side, the "Marc has never done anything wrong, he's just a wet cat" people who attribute all of Marc's violence to Khonshu.

You can like Steven and think he's endearing and also acknowledge he called Marc a parasite and punched Marc after seeing their trauma.

You can like Marc and recognize he is a liar and is extremely guarded because of trauma. You can recognize he likely only became a mercenary because he was kicked out of the army and it was likely his only option while also acknowledging that he killed people.

Matt Murdock is a depressed man who lies and manipulates his friends and is also an earnest person who wants to protect his community.

Jessica Jones is an alcoholic to pushes everyone away but she gives a shit.

Wanda Maximoff was so hurt and lost her grief exploded and created a fantasy where she could be with her husband and have kids.

None of these characters are good or bad. They're people. And sometimes, people with trauma are assholes. People with trauma are bad friends sometimes. They can be manipulative, liars, clingy, insecure, aggressive, and violent. But guess what. Acknowledging the times they're "problematic" is not an attack on the character nor is it stigmatizing.

But, if you hate a character for exhibiting behaviors typically associated with pwmental illness, maybe you're not as good of a person as you claim to be.

[whumpy-wyrms]

are u in any fandoms? what are ur interests besides whump? u don’t have to answer i’m just curious!!

someone’s asking me about my interests i can’t NOT answer

this got a bit long tho so i’m putting it under the read more for people who don’t care/are only here for the whump

OKOK. so i’m kinda in the starkid/nerdy prudes must die fandom rn but i know for a fact if i finished adventure time and started watching fiona and cake, that would quite literally become my entire personality for the next 3 months because simon and prismo (and marceline and princess bubblegum and all my other favorite characters) make me insane. but i haven’t done that because well. i’ve gotta write tllr yknow..

anyway, my absolute most favorite pieces of media of all time are undertale and deltarune guys. i cant put in words how much those games mean to me holy shit. as i’m writing this i’m sitting next to my jevil and sans and spamton plushie and they are saying hi. anywayyy yeah i was in the deltarune fandom for a bit it was fun. spamton is silly fucked up creature. jevil is my all time favorite tho

AND THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES… my favorite thing ever fr. y’all. LISTEN TO TMA SERIOUSLY YOU’LL PROBABLY LIKE IT!! it’s a horror podcast and it’s seriously the best fuckinf thing ever it’s so amazing seriously. it’s a bit hard to get into at first because season 1 is less story driven BUT HOLY SHIT. AHHHH ITS SO FUCKING GOOD. jon is one of my favorite blorbos ever and so is michael because he’s a silly distortion guy. just trust me and listen to TMA it will actually change your life.

also i love the amazing world of gumball so fucking much. i wasn’t allowed to watch cartoon network as a kid (idk why??) so i first watched tawog last year and holy shit holy shit it’s my favorite thing ever. rob. ROB!!!! ROB IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE CHARACTER. SO IS MR SMALL. AHHHH!!!! anyway i love tawog i’ve drawn a lot of fanart and even wrote a 60k word fanfiction (about what happens after The Inquisition because that ending fucked me up) that i’ve Never and will probably never show anyone because it’s probably Not that good. but it was sooo Important to me back then. tawog just means so much to me it :))) it changed me as a person. nobody’s a nobody and everybody is weird like you and me.

i also really like hollow knight! i haven’t played it in a while but i was at 111% completion on one of my playthroughs (CURSE YOU PANTHEON 4). i’m also super fucking excited for silksong obviously and i will say this now: WHEN SILKSONG FINALLY RELEASES… i will probably go on hiatus here LMAO. sorry but guys. SILKSONG…. honestly same for new deltarune chapters. the second chapters 3, 4, and 5 release it is sooo over for me. i probably won’t post much here for a few months during that. but that’s fine!! i’ll never abandon tllr but sometimes some things are more important to my silly little brain :3

gravity falls quite literally changed my life in 2018. like i can’t even explain it, but it’s how i was introduced to online fandoms and fanart in general. dipper LITERALLY made me trans (not literally but pretty much). it’s how i started watching other amazing cartoons and series i love, it’s literally what made me get into drawing art and writing and stuff. it’s what made me start making ocs. it literally made me an artist guys. which is how i started writing. without gravity falls and it’s effect it had on me, this account might have never existed?? i’m being super dramatic but wowww. i was so autistic about that silly cartoon

minecraft i love. i’ve been playing minecraft for over a decade and won’t stop because it’s like, probably a special interest of mine? i’ve watch minecraft youtubers forever too, hermitcraft and the life series are my favorite. i’m a huge grian fan too, been watching him since the evo days. anyway if u play minecraft and wanna play with me sometime, feel free to ask!!! :D i love making new friends and playing video games with people!!! let’s make a world together!!!

also i like terraria and stardew valley, and animal crossing new horizons but i haven’t played that in a few years. hmm other games i like are oneshot game, NITW, omori, celeste, cuphead, fnaf (although i’ve only played the first 5 games and am super super behind on the lore), ori, dead cells, untitled goose game (this is for u anon), and probably more i’m forgetting! feel free to recommend me some video games and we can even play together :3

other series i love are the umbrella academy. soooo autistic about this show it’s fucking AMAZING!!!!!! klaus is my favorite character. anyway i also like what we do in the shadows. it made me super autistic about vampires (before i watched this show i kinda thought vampires were cringe IDK WHY I’M SORRYY). the netflix show lucifer made me insane a few years ago and is what probably indirectly inspired me to give Dew wings. i also like our flag means death, breaking bad, moon knight, and camp here in there (another podcast i HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend, will wood made the soundtrack!)

i LOVEEE FINAL SPACE!! avocato has been my pfp on this account forever and now i feel like i can’t ever change it (i don’t want to). final space is seriously amazing!!! but it was cancelled and basically got fucked over by the networks- infinity train style. idk, stuff happened and it was removed from hbo max so there’s not really anywhere to watch it (legally) except for netflix international iirc? but it’s getting removed from that too i think. super fucking sad :( it ended on a huge cliffhanger too BUT there is a graphic novel being made!!!! super excited about that!

other cartoons i like are over the garden wall (dressed up as wirt for halloween last year), the owl house, adventure time, regular show, steven universe, infinity train, bojack horseman, rick and morty, mlp, the midnight gospel, and so much more i’m forgetting. OH anime i like are death note, demon slayer (haven’t caught up yet on the latest seasons tho), and MOB PSYCHO 100!! vampire in the garden on netflix is really amazing as well.

this is sooo long but now i gotta talk about my favorite music artists. WILL WOOD (AND THE TAPEWORMS) IS MY FAVORITEEE. I ALSO LOVEEE JHARIAH!!! AND HARLEY POE!!!!! top three of all time. i also like toby fox obviously, and glass beach (LITERALLY GOING TO SEE THEM IN MARCH AND I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!), mcr, shayfer james, weezer, mitski, lemon demon, set it off, tally hall, gerard way, and probably more i’m forgetting. i also like musicals!! (i was in the spongebob musical earlier this year for school! i was larry the lobster :))

so guys. GUYSSS. IF YOU LIKE MUSICALS, GO WATCH NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE!!!! OR JUST WATCH THE ENTIRE HATCHETFEILD TRILOGY!!! WHILE UR AT IT, WATCH ALL THE STARKID MUSICALS ACTUALLY!!! this is my current hyperfixation. the lords in black are amazing, npmd is amazing. i love everything about it. go watch it seriously, it’s fucking awesome and the soundtrack is AMAZING!!!

i think this is it. this got super long but i’m super passionate about my interests so yeah. this is pretty much everything. one very important thing (literally my special interest) that i didn’t mention are my other ocs. i have wayyy more ocs that are completely separate from the tllr ones. i don’t wanna post about them here though, cuz they’re not whump related and i want to keep my main account separate from this account. but they’re my favorite blorbos in existence so…

if u WANT to know about my other ocs, u can feel free to dm me for the username of my other fandom/oc account. that’s where i post other stuff that i don’t post here, like my fanart and my other oc stuff. i don’t post writing or anything like that there, so ur not missing out on that.

anyway those are most of my main interests! things i didn’t mention that im also really interested in are reptiles (snakes specifically), and animals in general. i have two leopard geckos named Lars and Alphys and i reallyyyy want a pet snake but my family hates snakes :(( anyway i’m rambling

thanks for the ask!!

[kawhump]

🍏🔮🩸🎀💧🧠!!!

🍏 - How do you get inspiration for whump?

hmmm. I think my whump thoughts tend to be pretty self-referencial. its just finding new ways to combine a collection of blorbos and a collection of fucked up situations and emotions. but! scrolling through whump tags or my dashboard is probably one of the main sources of new ideas into my brain's little ecosystem. usually it's the actual fics but sometimes a prompt will hit me hard.

and of course sometimes random things in completely unwhumpy life or media will stick in my head as having potential.

🔮 - What's a favorite whump trope of yours?

I'm fine with repeating this question bc I've got more answers! I've been thinking lately about begging when its not necessary. mistaking friend for foe in a state of delirium is a classic example. but! I am picky. I don't think it hits the same if its a result of Conditioning™ or meant to show that a character is Completely Broken™. I like it best when its a character that you wouldn't expect to beg, having a little lapse that shows just how fucked up of a state they're in. and ESPECIALLY if its somewhat reasonable; if there's some genuine reason they'd think this person would hurt them. it makes the other person's guilt so much more potent 😈

🩸 - What's a least favorite whump trope of yours?

EHEHEH, TEA TIME. lets seeeee. honestly I'd have to say conditioning. specifically conditioning played completely straight. it's very fun to deconstruct as a concept, but I just find it so bland when it's done in the classic fantasy of Torturer Kidnaps And Trains Whumpee Into Obedient Slave narrative. it's just so disconnected from any real psychology that I find it really hard to get into.

🎀 - Do you know any good songs for whump?

honestly? yes. emo music is really good for whump. so is a lot of dark country, honestly. from a quick glance at one of my favorite whumpee's playlists, I can recommend Grave Digger by Blues Saraceno, honestly almost anything from Everyone Loves A Villain, (warning, too hard for you if you're categorically opposed to metal music) and also anything from Citizen Soldier. (warning, they're basically all about depression and almost all about suicidal thoughts, so tread with caution if you're sensitive to that.)

💧 - What's your favorite type of whumpee?

I already answered this one, but it'll do it again. I'm rly partial to slimy little bastards. real "woah hey I'm just a little guy. just a little fella. and it's my birthday, you wouldn't hit a guy on his birthday? I'm just a little birthday boy" energy

🧠 - What's your favorite type of whumper?

honestly I think whumpers are the part of whump that I care about the least. I had to look through my writing folder to remember my own whumpers lmao. they're a plot device to explore the characters I actually care about. but if I had to take a stance I'd say I've been enjoying lab whump recently, and I find scientist-type whumpers very fun.

[butch-bakugo]

Honestly though, hearing white people telling poc, especially natives who were directly affected by the racism, mysogny and ableist rhetoric put out by technoblade, dream and all the other shit stains in their group, that they shouldn't be happy that a racist, mysognistic ableist is dead is a very white person move. We always have to "take the high road" aka spare their feelings.

Yall celebrate when a racist celebrity dies. Yall celebrate when an incel youtuber loses veiws. Yall celebrate when an ableist politician dies but the second your racist celebrity youtuber blorbo is dead, its sudden macabre and uncouth to celebrate their death?

Nah, yall are hypocrites and i dont soully exist to be this shining untouchable beacon of the " perfect leftist who is completely respectable" im a person and im allowed to be happy and celebrate when someone who directly contributes to my oppressions is no longer able to. Im allowed to happy that a big group of racist ableist incels takes a drastic hit. He ran with some of the worst fuckers, contributed to their bigtory and didnt do a god damn thing about stopping them.

If technoblade had been fine and pewdiepie died of cancer, you would all be celebrating it cause a racist pos is dead but because you think alittle theory that one of them might like dudes and one of them is armchair diagnosed with adhd that it's "too close to home" and " theres no proof of their probelmatic nature" despite the years of fuckin video evidence. No dreamsmp stans even deny their actions anymore. Theyve gone from " gimme a source!1!" To " well its my comfort media uwu". Bullshit.

These are the same people who made roofie jokes. The same people who constantly call other people retarded aka a slur. The same people who used to call themselves fundamentalists. The same people who made a mock native war cry. The same people who made an entire music video on underpaid fan (child) labor to encourage a young audience to throw away their medications aka something REALLY FUCKING DANGEROUS.

These are shit stain humans and i stand by what i said 100%. I am geniuinely a happier native, woman and mentally ill person knowing that technoblade, a cishet white neurotypical neckbeard, is now dead and cant contribute anymore to my oppression and to white supremacist, mysognistic ableist and rape rhetoric. And you should be to.

Fuck technoblade.

[yammoba]

I am still kind of salty that a show that was honestly a dream come true for me got stuck with suck a crud fandom because of shipping culture. I am normally happy to defend shipping culture and i think transformative works and interpretations are extreamly important.

But

original voltron was litterally one of the first shows i remember being obsessed with. And voltron force was such a crushing disappointment, that it made vld really feel like a dream come true. And like, its fine, ultimatly nothing the fandom does actually has any effect on my enjoyment of the show. Everyone should consume media in the way that makes them happy. And now i get to be the fun person who still defends vld. But holy shit. The shipping really ran so counter to everything i gave a shit about with that show, and the ships i did vaugely care about were either declared "problematic" or given zero attention.

It just sucked because it was a show i was actually craving more of and thus wanting to engage in fan stuff, but it quickly became more annoying that it was worth. And the fandom became so toxic and had such a bad reputation, (partly as a result of the shipping culture) that now the widespread opinion seems to be that the show was bad, from people inside and outside the fandom. Which is still not an opinion i fully understand. Probably because the main thing i was watching the show for was cool robot fights and cute character moments. All of which i continued to get until the very end. (The ending was maybe kinda rushed and another season could have been fun but it was fine. It really wasnt that bad guys,)

I know a lot of people said, and still say that they were against "problematic" ships or kids who got queerbaited. Both of which were "issues" that i still think were exacerbated by the shipping culture. I feel like im circling around a point i dont want to say because i really dont think shipping culture is cringe or inherently bad or what ever. It really is just the one point, you really should consider if shipping ends up doing more harm than good for your media consumption. Especially if shipping is the only reason you engage with stuff. It can blind you to whats actually there. And i guess as a creator of some stuff that has some pretty strong ship potential it is worrying. I made it that way because i like it, and i think shipping can be fun, but like... theres other stuff, and I'd be pretty bummed if the other stuff ends up ignored in favor of shipping.

And like, i get why its that way for some folks. Representation is rare and people are hungry, but we also dont need to moralize this stuff. Its fun to imagine your blorbos in different situations and that they hold ands and kiss. And if thats all you care about thats ultimatly no one's problem but your own, but it doesnt need to become a crusade one way or another.

Ugh, i guess tl;dr I wish people would stop moralizing shipping. In both a good way (like, this is good because queer rep) and in a bad way (like, shipping this means you're a pedo). And the shipping culture of the vld fandom seemed particularly prone to both of those for some reason and it made it really annoying for me personally and unfortunatly somehow fucked up the repuation of the show, and also i wish there was fanfic i actually wanted to read.