#collapse

[spockvarietyhour]

Severance "Attila" (2025) & Mad Men "The Jet Set" (2008)

[letthewhumpbegin]

King Arthur (2004)

My GIF masterlist

[dying-crying-pining]

yes please run that character into the ground. they need to be swaying and staggering by the climax of the book/movie/episode

BUT

they have to get to collapse after. they need to fold into a heap while their friends/team scramble to break their fall. deprive them of that rest until the very end but then they need to actually get it.

bonus points if they’re delirious/drifting/only half-aware the comfort is happening

[animatedwhump]

"I don't feel right."

Avatar: The Last Airbender | S02E17 | The Earth King

[phakuuu]

a fanart i did for a mootie over on twittah cause their oppy looked so cute with a ribbon on him

[technofeudalism]

here's next weeks forecast, north america

we are in hell

[esbee-daisy]

One of my fave sickfic scenarios:

✨Sickie fainting in the shower or bath✨🥰

Shower has been my lifetime favorite. Sickie with a ragingly high fever (that no one else knows about) wants to take a shower to warm up because they are freezing. They can barely make it from their room into the shower, stumbling and swaying the whole way, but they’re too delirious to be logical. Then unsurprisingly the heat of the shower combined with their body heat and lightheadedness results in them collapsing. (Likely hitting their head on the way down as a major bonus, or injuring something). But the best part is they’re unconscious and under the spray of the shower for so long it eventually turns ICE COLD. And that’s where Caretaker finds them…already terribly sick, now laying fully exposed under ice cold water for an undetermined amount of time.

And now lately I have this totally unrealistic dream scenario of Caretaker getting Sickie in the bath and while laying in the bath, Sickie faints…and in this unrealistic scenario Caretaker is distracted for a moment or goes to get something, and that’s all the time it takes for Sickie to slip below the water. They’re fully unconscious and they inhale water before Caretaker sees what’s happened and frantically has to get a completely limp and soaking wet Sickie out of the bath. Maybe the shock of being pulled out of the water starts to pull Sickie from unconsciousness, but their eyes are fluttering and rolling back and they are terrified and disoriented and suffocating and barely hanging on.

Just so many possibilities 😍🤤

[ives57]

[bengisuedotcom]

AUTOPSY REPORT

Subject: Didion, Joan 

Condition: Deceased (Culturally Immortal) 

Date of Dissection: Irrelevant. The body has been on display for years. 

Examiner: Bengi-Sue (Author)

I. SYMPTOMS OF CONTROL

The subject presented with acute restraint. Manifestations included obsessive structure, ritualized list-making and a documented fixation on packing as psychic preparation. Emotional irregularities masked by clinical prose.

Language patterns: staccato. Syntax: surgical. Purpose: containment.

Observed behavior suggests a compulsion toward organization in response to internal chaos. The sentence became a vessel—not to convey emotion, but to freeze it mid-air.

Control was her religion. She wrote it into scripture.

II. AESTHETICS OF COLLAPSE

External presentation maintained under all circumstances. Weight: slight. Skin: pale. Attire: deliberate.

Symptoms of suffering were curated. Pain was polished. There was no rupture—only restraint. She embodied the art of looking undone while remaining composed.

The body declined, but never without dignity. The prose remained sharp, even as the world blurred.

Collapse was not denied. It was choreographed.

III. FETISH OBJECT: THE WOMAN UNRAVELING

The subject became icon through fragility. She was consumed not for strength, but for her exquisite unraveling. Women recognized the image; men romanticized the aesthetic.

The performance: passive. The effect: powerful.

Her neurosis was not hidden. It was made fashionable. She did not resist the gaze—she redirected it.

The fragility sold.

IV. THE MIRROR OF A NATION

Observed parallels between personal narrative and national disintegration. California, New York, Vietnam, death—all chronicled with the same calm devastation.

Grief became genre. Disillusionment, her dialect.

Subject utilized personal trauma as lens for collective unraveling. The self was not central—it was symptomatic.

She did not heal. She documented.

V. CAUSE OF CULT STATUS

Control as spectacle. Collapse as legacy. The body as metaphor.

The subject ascended through precision. Her silence was seen as grace. Her elegance, a shield.

She died a thousand cultural deaths before the biological one. Each more beautiful than the last.

She was not undone. She was preserved.

NOTES ON PRESERVATION

Handle with care. The subject’s mythology is seductive. Influence: generational. Damage: internal.

She taught how to look immaculate while disintegrating. She taught how to speak eloquently while screaming inside. She did not teach how to recover.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Do not romanticize restraint. Do not emulate silence. Do not mistake elegance for peace.

The subject left no instructions for survival—only a blueprint for aestheticized grief.

Close file. Let the body rest.

[where-is-my-whump]

Criminal Minds 15x09

[tilbageidanmark]

Dystopian Spectrum Venn Diagram.

(Not exact but it's the thought that counts.)

[letthewhumpbegin]

The Walking Dead, s4e10

My GIF masterlist

[spuddy-potat]

small appreciation post for collapsing while still conscious

ok as much as i love a good faint im also a huge sucker for when a character collapses but is still conscious, maybe just dizzy or weak

stumbling or tripping on something and falling to their knees, too weak to stand up again

weak from fever or low blood sugar and failing to get out of a chair, lying on their back or side while the dizziness subsides (i actually had a fic planned for this at one point)

slumping into a chair because they cant stand anymore

reaching out to a table or wall for support and sliding to the floor (!!!)

sitting on the floor already but they slump to the side out of exhaustion

that thing where they throw their arm across their eyes out of exhaustion or dizziness (honestly one of my favorites)

there are probably a lot more im missing rn so feel free to add on!!

[whumpster-dumpster]

Whumpee trying to do the classic "duck into the bathroom so they can treat their hidden wound(s) without anyone finding out" but all the bathrooms are occupied and they're worsening by the second while they wait for somebody to finish up. Bonus points if whoever's in the bathroom eventually comes out to find them collapsed outside the door

[librathefangirl]

@whumpgifathon | Day 14| Exhaustion | Passing Out Voltron: Legendary Defender | S02E08 | Keith

[just-here-for-the-whump]

White Collar 1x8 Hard Sell