#bbuing bbuing

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

POV: you're into STEM/research and something happened in your field of work that gave you trauma and memory issues.

[yet-another-heathen]

On conditioned whumpees...

Y'know, I think one of the things that people get wrong with conditioned whumpees is their rules. Specifically, when a whumpee was in long term captivity/training and they later get released or escape.

Most people write them as latching onto a caretaker or new whumper, and begging for new rules so they know they're doing something right. A new set of laws to live by, a new framework to behave to.

And that's... not really how conditioning works.

Conditioning means automatic reactions. Your body doing something that was trained into you without consulting your brain first.

There is no decision making. There is no choice. The trigger hits, and you are immediately performing the correct action regardless of anything else.

You're told to kneel? Your knees have already hit the ground. You're supposed to be standing in one part of the house when a certain noise is made? You've launched into movement before you even realize what you heard.

These rules are woven into the fabric of your body. And they are insurmountable. The conditioning overrides emotion, internal conflict, hesitation, beliefs, wants... everything.

Your whumpee may very well hate what is being done to them, and after the moment has passed they're cursing themself and their whumper. They're still a person on the inside. And that person is still very much alive. Most of the time, they will have some level of awareness that what's being done to them is wrong. They'll be angry. They'll be hurt. And they will hate that there is nothing they can do about it.

But the next time that trigger occurs, the response still hits them exactly the same.

So now take your whumpee out of that situation. They ran away, were rescued, were sold. They got out. Now they're with new people, a new caretaker, a new whumper. Or they're on their own and trying to make their own way in the world.

But those conditioned responses are still there.

There's no turning them off. You don't just replace them with new rules. They are in your every fibre. They have been built into the very framework of who you are.

The next time someone says the word "kneel", your knees are on the ground again. No matter where you are, or who you're with. The response happens before you can stop it. If they don't know why, everyone looks at you like you're insane. And you feel like you are.

Deconditioning is an agonizing process that takes more effort than I can even begin to describe to someone who's never experienced it.

Every time they hit that trigger, that response will still be there. Over, and over, and over, and over.

Breaking those rules down takes YEARS. And it is a constant effort that the whumpee has to choose to undergo every single time. Progress is measured milimeter by milimeter. You're told to kneel, and you kneel. You're told to kneel, and your mind catches up with the fact that you already did it— but a little sooner than it did before. Then a split second sooner. Then as you're doing it. Then you feel the impulse just before your knees hit the ground. Then you have a split-second of resistance before you go down. On and on and on and on, inching toward progress despite the fact that you're fighting with all your might. And that progress is anything but linear.

You don't just start obeying new rules. You don't latch on to your caretaker's new way of doing things and drop everything that you were conditioned to do before. These rules don't just get replaced.

Conditioning is not a belief system. It's a flinch response. Programmed deeper than the instincts you were born with.

You can be ordered not to obey the old command, and moments later when the trigger comes, you will anyway. Because in conditioning, the action comes before the choice.

These rules, these laws of your existence, come above everything else. And if your new whumper wants to replace them, they are going to have to beat the new rules into you so often and so severely that the pain becomes stronger than the old conditioning. At which point, the newly desired response will very, very slowly start to take over.

You're not swapping out new rules. You're layering new, worse conditioning on top of the old. And your brain will spend time stuck in that split-second between both responses before one finally grows stronger than the other. And even then, the change will not happen quickly.

That is what your conditioned whumpee is up against. That is what makes it such a horrible—HORRIBLE— and powerful tool.

[maracujatangerine]

Playing with the pet - pet whump prompt

I was thinking about how when I was a child - and still now, to be honest ☺️ - when I visited people with pets I always wanted to play with and hang out with their pets and how that was the best part of the visit for me.

What about this, but with pet whump?

There’s often stories about guests borrowing pets to treat them badly, but I don’t often see stories of guests being nice to the pets. (Could still be really dehumanising.)

What about a starving whumpee being hand fed by their owner’s guest? The owner looking on with amusement. ‘You are really spoiling them, you know.’

What about a neglected whumpee being pet and praised and cuddled by their owner’s guests? Someone finally seeing the pet and paying it attention?

What about visiting children playing games with the whumpee? Maybe nice games, or maybe the kids are too small to understand that they are hurting their pet friend?

A guest taking whumpee for a walk - and whumpee usually never even gets to go outside?

A guest noticing whumpee being hurt, and insisting they get medical care?

A whumpee lying with their head in the guest’s lap while they pet their hair and instantly falling asleep. The guest being delighted at the sweet pet and not knowing that this is the first proper rest the pet has got for a good while.

A whumpee proudly showing off their best tricks with guests as a delighted audience.

“He/she really likes you.” Said by owner to guest about whumpee.

A shy or introverted guest sneaking away from a party in full swing to instead hang out with the household pet.

Feel free to add more! And if you use the prompts or already have a post like this, I’d love it if you tagged me! ❤️

I tried to write a post like this, but I want more! My attempt at Playing with the pet can be found here.

[leprechaun-the-tisim-lord]

owlthena by @irunaki

barnaby from Billie bust up

[bbu-fan-blog]

Oooooh, something's brewing...

[jmes2157]

Happy 8th birthday 👀💗

[billiegoated]

can u pls draw lee billie ler barnaby?

not in this community but I did it anyway hehe

I hope I did it right SHDHFDHDHDHHF

[paingoes]

this idea i’ve had stuck in my head in regard to BBU/institutionalized pet whump is that if they have a legal system where people who have been convicted of crimes are funneled into the pet programs and that if all traces of their old life are erased, i assume their owners would be receiving them without any awareness of who they even were, let alone what crimes they might have committed. and rightfully this element is typically a criticism of the society and the fact that people who have committed petty crimes are sent to be tortured. but it could still facilitate a scenario in which people who have committed actually violent and malicious crimes end up with their memory erased and placed into a home with someone who is totally unaware of their history. imagine the specific dawning horror of realizing that the person they took into their home as a pet has killed before. and what an odd fucking dynamic that would be, especially if there are other people or other pets living in the house with them.

[pennywisessideclown]

Hey guys

Zamn I haven't posted in awhile I'm sorry- 😭 Here take some fantoccio doodles yuh

*throws them at you*

[not-the-axolotl]

Billie showing us the correct way to talk to short people.

[silentzepher]

“Lone.”

This took no time at all to make but I’m still VERY happy with it :)

my boi Fanto needs a pick me up 😔

[studio-petrichor]

Again and Again

Featuring FTM Alivaby performing as: seahorse papa! I wanted to do a bittersweet time-lapse,,

I'll probably post the frames eventually! And feel free to share (only) this GIF (with credits and link) ^^ Let me know if the BBU team sees it hehe 👀

[icedbeverageenjoyer]

Billie Bust Up Swap AU animatic!!!

(Please do check it out in the YouTube channel as well!!!🧡💛💞💛 🧡💞💛🧡💛💞💛💞)

[thatonesalmonlingnamedspike]

found some familiar faces in Billie Bust Up!

[shortshowname]

Local owl just Cannot Catch A Break