#haunted houses make me cry

[livelaughlovekny]

Reader x Haunted Houses

a/n: Decided to do this for fun and to practise doing headcanons! This is to show you how I portray/view the reader in my stories!

Before:

100% against it

Hates being terrified and is afraid of horror and gore

Got peer pressured into going

Whines while buying tickets and queuing

“$4 just to piss myself and get ptsd?”

During:

107% shouts as loud as possible from fear and for fun

Will shout the strangest unrude profanities

Totally jumps and clings onto their friends and hits/tugs on them repeatedly

“HOLY SMUTTY FANFICS THIS IS MORE TRAUMTISING THAN INCEST 😭 GOD SAID DAMNIT THIS IS WHY I STAND ON THE EDGE OF ROOFS 🧍WHAT IN THE TOP THIRTEEN REASONS I BLEACH MY EYES 😱 OH MY FLYING LORD OUT OF ALL THE ACTORS THAT COULD HAVE TOUCHED ME I GET THE GYOKKO X UGLY HANTEGU ONE 🤺 GOODNESS GRACIOUS oh i sound like a grandma YOU LOOK ATROCIOUS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WHICH I AM DOING 📣”

After:

Cries/Whines about how scary it was

Claims they just lost 69 years of their life

When asked why they kept screaming weird stuff, they merely brush it off

Refuses to go through it again

Gets asked to go through it again because their friends find their reactions funny/stupid/interesting

“Imagine spending $4 and 3 minutes of your life and not making yourself memorable.”

a/n: i promise im working on actual fics/my requests

[frankieslaboratory]

the haunting of hill house – shirley jackson

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

every once in a while im struck with a sudden grief for lyanna stark bc like. youre 16, your father is dead, your brother is dead, your second brother is fighting a rebellion on the front lines ,all the while your youngest brother is about to join the nights watch, youre pregnant in a foreign land, a continent away from your home, family and the warmth of winterfell, and once your brother finally reaches you enter your labor and the most you can do is scream for him as youre dying and hes fighting your captors and only once theyre dead can he reach you and the last thing you can do is beg for him to take care of your son because you wont be able to

[that-little-bisexual-mess]

Which scene of the Haunting of Hill House made you cry the most ? For me it was this freaking scene :

"- You guys go on without me.

- How could we ?"

[rosemaze-reveries]

i miss MIKE MORTON

[callisteios]

Ehat us ur house md spreadsheet about? I am so honestly sincerely interested

Well since you asked so sincerely….

The prologue

The house spreadsheet began because I had two hypotheses (about the episodic medical mystery show; Sherlock Holmes where the diseases are the murderers (for the lost)). 1. It’s cancer like half the time. 2. The show is known for its patients getting better then worse, this is a trope used gently in early seasons and then overused in later ones.

These answers aren’t just something you can find online. So I decided, ok, should be easy enough. let’s track this…

The fool

So I ran into many problems. It was boring tracking these few things. What if I was wrong and I waste several months of life proving a false hypothesis. So ok I said. We’ve got a good basis but let’s expand.

So I came up with another hypothesis. Those epiphany moments on the show? I bet those are majority sparked by Wilson.

So I created categories which I shall now show you:

Great beautiful wonderful categories. Problem however. It’s still kind of boring and I’m not paying enough attention. So let’s add some more (the fool says)

And now i am nearly 100 episodes into this television show and must keep track of all these factors to keep my spreadsheet accurate.

The point?

There was a point but I can’t quite remember it. Oh! The points! It turned out that giving and taking away points to the characters was by far the funnest part of the experience so I have many graphs planned from that!

The point point though is that the house spreadsheet is an exercise in foolish ambition, boredom, and shame. It’s a fun concept taken to far. It’s something I talk about too often because I have used too much of my time alive contributing to it

I will post it when it is done for the few strange souls who might be interested

[faunandfloraas]

Jeongin having almost no votes on that poll makes sense to me, not because I think he'd do particularly bad but because I'm utterly certain if he ended up stranded with one of us he'd just up and leave and I wouldn't blame him

[unholyhymns]

my brother in law invited us to go on a ghost tour and since i am tragically immune to being scared by the paranormal i am deploying my angler fish strategy. yes i am very small and vulnerable, come closer. i do look like im about to cry yes. come closer.

[i-am-the-balancing-point]

Letter to the Deceased

I wish you were cold when we found you. Instead you were just you, eyes closed, but with an iron cross through your chest. You were still warm though. Still dressed and put together, like you'd pop up and start talking again. Until you, the only body I'd ever seen was in a coffin, cold as leftovers. If you were cold it would have been easier.

A note, found in the Holland Valley region of Hope County. ❇︎ Notes of Hope County

[akkivee]

the mtr dh and bat seiyuu had their group post 9th live funtime vid released last week and in it:

they played this game where given a set of topics, all nine would have to vote on who fit said topic best!!! if they were chosen, they’d move on to the next round and those not chosen lost the game lol. this would go on until the last two standing!!!

hayami-san chose the topic ‘who is the biggest scaredy-cat??’

all of them decided they would appeal to the theme in order to sway votes lol

sakakihara: ooh me!! 👋 i wake up in the middle of night all the time because i’m scared i’m late for something!!

kawanishi: 👋 so i know we’re on the same team but i’m terrified of kuroda-san 💀

kuroda: HEY NOW 💢

hayama: 👋 haunted houses are waaay to scary to enter~ 🥺🥺🥺

iwasaki: liar!!!!!

hayami: 👋 manjuu buns are terrifying

the program: *this is a manzai reference*

totto: 👋 i’m terrified of showing up to a job and there’s no script reading

everyone: yeah

so they vote lol and the ones who move on to the next round are kijima, totto, kawanishi, iwasaki, kuroda and sakakihara (who amassed four votes total lmao)

all of dh voted for sakakihara-san lmao

hayama-san was the only one who voted for iwasaki-san so when asked why he told him, ‘when we performed division rep battle, any time i try to make eye contact, your eyes dart away lol’

iwasaki:🧍‍♂️

sakakihara: our leader is wildly intense 😅

just as hayama-san started to wrap up round one, hayami-san suddenly flipped his answer to takeuchi-san with a drawing that nearly killed him and here’s my artistic recreation of it

hayami-san kept his original choice of kuroda-san tho lmao

on to round two!!!! iwasaki-san chose the topic ‘who do you think will live the longest??’

kijima: 👋 actually my family all have long life spans!! my grandmother is 102 years old 🙂

totto: it’s true!!! it’s that amazing???

kawanishi: why are you acting like you’re representing the kijima family

sakakihara: 👋 i drink a lot of peach wine!!! (peaches are a fruit of longevity in asian folktales)

kuroda: 👋 i smoke a lot 😎

iwasaki: 👋 i laugh a lot and laughter is always the best medicine!!!!!

kuroda: *gestures to sakakihara-san* we’ll drink to that 😎

iwasaki: how about you kawanishi-san???

kawanishi: me?? yeah i wonder about me…..

they vote lmao and kijima, totto, kawanishi and iwasaki advanced to round three!!!

kuroda: man it looks like our drinking wasn’t good enough for this one 😎😎😎

sakakihara: 😅😅😅

hayama-san, with sakakihara-san supporting the choice in his lead up, chose the topic, ‘out of everyone who has the best ass??’ LOL

for this one, tho only votes from the four finalists count, everyone decided they wanted to vote too so they did lmao

kawanishi-san unintentionally appealed by saying he was wearing a thong under his tight pants lol

kuroda-san voted for himself 😎

hayami-san voted for totto and included more art so here’s another artistic rendition

the winners were both iwasaki-san and kawanishi-san!!!!!

all of bat voted for kawanishi-san lmao like why wouldn’t they when he taps that during what a osaka lmao

kuroda-san tried to piggyback on their victory like osaka has the best asses which prompted hayama-san to bring up bat is the ✨ass✨ division as bad ass temple

tho that doesn’t mean their asses are good since it’s bad ass lmao

hayami: *looking at his pic* you know i should put some underwear on this…………

hayami:

everyone and especially totto: THE UNDERWEAR IS SO HIGH?????

totto: *draws the real length on hayami-san’s pic lmao*

[pzos-amiserableidiot]

was watching tiktok and a video had the song michael in the bathroom playing and I was vicerally reminded of being in middle and high school and mom always mentioning how much I looked like my dad (his name is michael) and how I slowly was able to start noticing it too and whenever I sang the song it reminded me of him and I felt like we were overlapping too often felt like id never be anyone but a shadow or his mirror and then i began learning i was trans and now the song makes me think of him even more (he’s not a bad dad he tells me he’s proud of me and stuff there’s just two really big moments he unknowingly failed and one long continuous one but he loves me and he’s proud and he supports me and he didn’t mean it and ive learned to make that enough) and the weird flashback I got when I heard that song and overlapping with his face and how if I transitioned I almost fear I’d be his clone and yeah Anywyas banger song

[lovequinn]

thinking about the haunting and crying again

[pergaias]

here with a psa that any song can be about the inherent tragedy of old friends if you’re delusional enough about it

[dragqueenpentheus]

ough

[bbael]

:D

😁💞

[whumptober]

WHUMPTOBER 2024: PROMPTS LIST

Welcome to Whumptober 2024 — Seventh Time's a Charm!

Please make sure to read the Event Info and FAQ below carefully, as most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else, you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

This year's playlist can be found here.

The 'Anatomy of a Whumptober Prompt' post can be found here.

And our 'Resources for Writing Sensitive Topics' post is here.

We’re very excited to see the community come together for another year of Whumptober! Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators - we wish you all the fun!

Best of luck and happy whumping,

Mods Vanne, Yenn, Kitty and Surro

(Text versions of the prompts, as well as event information, rules and FAQ are posted below the cut!)

Whumptober 2024 Prompt List

No. 1: RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK

Search Party | Panic Attack | "If only we could hold on.” (Icysami x Renegaderr, Strangers.)

No. 2: TRUST ISSUES

Amusement Park | Role Reversal | “You got away with the crime while the knife's in my back.” (Charlotte Sands, Rollercoaster)

No. 3: SET UP FOR FAILURE

Fingerprints | Wrongfully Arrested | "I warned you."

No. 4: HALLUCINATIONS

Hypnosis | Sensory Deprivation | “You're still alive in my head.” (Billy Lockett, More)

No. 5: SUNBURN

Healing Salve | Heatstroke | "If my pain will stretch that far." (Lottery Winners, Burning House)

No. 6: NOT REALISING THEY'RE INJURED

Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms | Healed Wrong | "It's not my blood."

No. 7: ONLY FOR EMERGENCIES

Unconventional Weapon | Magic with a Cost | "It's us or them."

No. 8: SLEEP DEPRIVATION

Isolation Chamber | Forced to Stay Awake | "Leave the lights on." (Coldplay, Midnight)

No. 9: OBSESSION

Broken Window | Bruises | “Frame me up on the wall, just to keep me out of trouble.” (Fall Out Boy, Irresistible)

No. 10: BLOW TO THE HEAD

Slurred Words | Passing Out from Pain | "I can't think straight."

No. 11: SEEING DOUBLE

Convenience Store | Loneliness | “Leave no trace behind, like you don't even exist.” (Taylor Swift, Illicit Affairs)

No. 12: STARVATION

Underground Caverns | Cannibalism | "Just a little more."

No. 13: TEAM AS A FAMILY

Familial Curse | Multiple Whumpees | "Death will do us part." (Set It Off, Partner's In Crime)

No. 14: LEFT FOR DEAD

Hunting Gear | Blackmail | “Because I want you to know what it feels like to be haunted” (tiLLie, kooL aiD mAn)

No. 15: CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

Painful Hug | Moment of Clarity | "I did good, right?"

No. 16: NECROSIS

Swamp | Wound Cleaning | "No, I can't feel anything."

No. 17: NOWHERE ELSE TO GO

Ruined Map | Shipwrecked | "We had a good run."

No. 18: REVENGE

Unreliable Narrator | Loss of Identity | “I see what's mine and take it.” (Panic! at the Disco, Emperor's New Clothes)

No. 19: BLOOD TRAIL

Abandoned Cabin | One Way Out | "Is there anybody alive out there?" (Bruce Springsteen, Radio Nowhere)

No. 20: EMOTIONAL ANGST

Shoulder to Cry On | Giving Permission to Die | "It's not your fault."

No. 21: BODY HORROR

Body Horror | Tattoo Gun | Spirit Possession | “Let the bedsheet soak up the tears.” (Apparat feat. Soap & Skin, Goodbye)

No. 22: BLEEDING THROUGH BANDAGES

Tourniquet | Reopening Wounds | "Oh that's not good."

No. 23: FORCED CHOICE

Public Display | Broken Pedestal | "I'm doing this for you."

No. 24: RADIATION POISONING

Collapsed Building | Equipment Failure | “I never knew daylight could be so violent.” (Florence + The Machine, No Light, No Light)

No. 25: SURGERY

Stitches | Being Monitored | "It's for your own good."

No. 26: NIGHTMARES

Breakfast Table | Parting Words of Regret | “I'm haunted by the lies that I have loved, the actions I have hated.” (Poe, Haunted)

No. 27: VOICELESS

Laboratory | Muzzled | “I have no mouth and I must scream.”

No. 28: DENIAL

CCTV | Exposure | "They caught me red handed."

No. 29: FATIGUE

Labyrinth | Burnout | "Who said you could rest?"

No. 30: RECOVERY

Hospital Bed | Holding Back Tears | "What have I done?"

No. 31: ASKING FOR HELP

Therapy | Making Amends | "I'm alive, I'm just not well." (Elliot Lee, Alive, Not Well.)

Alternatives List:

Body Swap

Communication Barrier

Finding Old Messages

Forgotten

Friendly Fire

Motion Sickness

No-Holds-Barred Beatdown

Regret

Secrets Revealed

Shivering

Survivor's Guilt

Time Loop

Used As Bait

Venom

Vermin

Event Info & Rules

WHUMPTOBER is a month-long, prompt-based creation challenge (think: Inktober, but whumpier). There are 31 official themes this year - one for each day of the month - which can be used, skipped, or combined in any way you’d like. They are meant to serve as inspiration without being taken literally (e.g. you don’t have to include the exact wording of prompts into your work). Feel free to run rampant on interpretation. For example, if the prompt is “flame", you could create something with reference to a candle/campfire, your character could have suffered a burn, or the flame could be a reference to an ‘old flame’ - an old relationship. It’s truly down to you!

In total, there are 4 prompts for each day. These are optional suggestions and can be used in conjunction with the theme, or as options/alternatives.  We want to give everyone as much creative freedom as possible, as well as increase event accessibility for folks with triggers and squicks. There is also a list of 15 alternative prompts that can be subbed in for any day, again to give participants as much creative freedom as possible.

Creators can PRODUCE work in any media they choose, including but not limited to: writing, visual artwork, photo/video/audio edits, paper crafts and elaborate recommendation lists (not just a list of links). Creators can PARTICIPATE as much or as little as they want (i.e. you don’t have to do ALL the prompts if you don’t want to) and prompts can be used in any order. They are also free to use even after the event ends.

When uploading Whumptober content to your blog, be sure to tag it with:

#whumptober2024 …..(the event tag)

#no.1, #no.2, #no.3, …..(theme number)

#bruises, #stabbing, …..(the theme or specific prompt you chose)

#altprompt …..(if you use an altprompt, tag the post with the number of the prompt you replace)

#fandom or #OC, …..(ironman, original content, oc, etc.)

#medium …..(gifs, fic, podcast, art, etc.)

#teeth, #etc …..(trigger warnings & any additional tags. Keep in mind not to add “tw” in front but only use the word/trigger itself)

#nsfwhump …..(only for nsfw content)

#your own tags go here

PLEASE BE DILIGENT WITH YOUR TAGGING. Only properly tagged posts are considered for archiving on the official @whumptober-archive blog. They must be tagged in the order above. An elaborate post about our tagging system can be found [here]

Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of participants in recent years, we cannot guarantee your work will be archived. A random selection of properly tagged posts from all genres will be reblogged each day.

Whumpers who produce content for 31 total theme days are considered event completionists and will be tagged in a masterpost at the end of the month. A form will be published at the beginning of November asking you to tell us if you completed. This is based on trust and we will not check this.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please read this before you send an ask!

TIMELINE

July: Trope voting form released. Late August: Prompt list is released for at least four weeks of preparation time. Tropes cannot be posted earlier than August 25th because of Moderator obligations in real life. (But, you know, go ahead and start writing/drawing, and add the themes in later, if you want!) September: Do as much or as little on your works as you want. You can prepare everything in advance or let September go by with vibes and start working in October. It’s up to you. October 1st: Challenge begins! A storm of whump breaks upon us all! During this time, some posts will be reblogged to the whumptober archive blog. We open the yearly AO3 collection for posting (optional). November 1st: The challenge is officially over! Completionist form opens for those who want to be included in the hall-of-fame. Early November: We release completionist and participant badges, solicit feedback, and post a hall-of-fame list of completionists by the 10th.

PARTICIPATION AND COMPLETION

Q: What counts as participation? Create or continue at least one work inspired by one of this year’s prompts. Q: What counts as completion? Creating work(s) inspired by at least one prompt from each day (or alts), for a total of 31 unique prompts. Q: Do I need to create 31 works? No. You can, if you want. Or you can create one work that you add to every day with a new prompt. Or several works that combine prompts. You can also update an existing work by adding new material with the current prompts. Q: Do I need to post my works somewhere to be a completionist or a participant? No. Q: How do you know I actually completed the challenge? We’ll take your word for it! Q: Do I have to finish my work(s) to be a completionist? No, you can post WIPs. And you’re not obligated to finish them in October, but if you want it to count towards being a completionist, you must have completed 31 prompts by the end of the month. So for example, if you’re writing a long fic and you fit 31 different prompts into the writing you did in October, it’s okay if that fic isn’t finished by the time October ends, you’ll still be a completionist. Q: Is co-writing/illustrating allowed? Yes, absolutely, and it would count towards being a completionist for both/all of you. Q: Is there a min/max limit on word count for written works? No. Q: Is there a min/max limit of quality for art? No. Q: Do I have to do something each day to be a completionist? No. You can skip days whenever you want, and as long as 31 daily prompts (or alts) are in your works done in October, you can be a completionist. For example, if you wrote a 1000-word ficlet that covers prompts in days 2, 3, and 17, you can check all three days off your list even though it’s only one work. Q: Is this challenge just for fics? No! Artworks, GIFsets, headcannons, rec lists, poetry, moodboards, or any other creative work is encouraged. Q: Can I combine Whumptober with other creation challenges? Absolutely, as long as the other challenges allow it too.

PROMPTS

Q: How do the prompts work? There are FOUR prompts per day: a theme and three ideas. You can use one, two, three, or all four prompts for each day. If you don’t like any of the daily prompts, you can substitute one of the ALT prompts instead. Q: How strictly/literally should we interpret the prompts? As literally or as figuratively as you want. For example, if the theme is WATER, that could mean drowning, waterboarding, raining, swimming, take place underwater, be lost at sea, construct a metaphor about a character’s mood that changes like a flowing river, crying, or whatever else you can think of that fits that theme. Q: Can I combine prompts? Is there a limit on how many? No limit and combine as many as you’d like. If you create a work that checks off multiple prompts, that work will count for a fill of multiple prompts. You need to address 31 different prompts to be an official completionist, but you don’t have to produce 31 separate works.

WORKS

Q: What’s whump? Hurting a character, whether that’s physically, emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, or any other way you can think of. Comfort afterwards is optional. Angst is emotional whump, so it counts. Q: How do I know if it’s whumpy enough? If your character is just mildly inconvenienced, it probably needs more whump. However, no participant has to prove whumpiness to the mods. Whatever you write is up to you. Q: What kind of characters can I create for? Anything. Generic “whumpee,” OC, PC, NPC, major characters, minor characters, or whatever you want. There are no limits. Q: Does it have to take place in a specific fandom? No, you can create works for your own worlds or for fandoms or for both. You can also create more generic or pan-fandom works. You can do cross-overs or use OCs, whatever you want. Q: Can I create AI-created works? We will not reblog or promote any works we know to be generative AI-created. Q: Is there anything we’re not allowed to write? As long as it contains whump and is based on our prompts, it’s fine. Please courtesy tag your works if you post them so people who follow the #whumptober2024 tag can filter according to their preferences. Q: What about sex, minor characters, and potentially disturbing content? You can create whatever works are legal in your country and post them accordingly. Please courtesy tag anything you think might be objectionable if you post to Tumblr so people who follow the #whumptober2024 tag can filter according to their preferences.

POSTING

Q: Where can I post my work? Post where and how you want. You don’t even have to (cross)post it to Tumblr. Just keep in mind if it’s not on Tumblr we will not be able to add it to the blog archive. There is an AO3 archive for Whumptober 2024, as well as the parent collection for works completed outside of the event. Q: Can I start posting early? You can, but this is an October event and wouldn’t it be more fun with everyone doing it at the same time? We won’t be reblogging any work predating October 1st. Q: Can I post late? Yes. For the sake of our hardworking Post Fairies, only a day’s themes will be reblogged to @whumptober-archive each day of October. But you can post whenever. Some of us are still working on and posting Whumptober fics from years ago. Q: Do I have to use your tags? Only on Tumblr and only if you want us to reblog your work on @whumptober-archive. Q: How do I have my works reblogged to the archive? Properly tagged posts will be reblogged to @whumptober-archive. If you want the official archive blog to reblog you, post on Tumblr and tag correctly (see this FAQ link for more info on tagging). Please note not all posts will be reblogged each day. Q: Can we @ you? For questions and comments, of course. We’ll be getting a flood of notifications, so if you really want us to see something send an ask. Q: Can I cross post on other blogs? Yes, multiple platforms and blogs are perfectly acceptable, as long as they allow cross-posting (to us). You can also post different works to different accounts under different names, without posting them everywhere at once. If you post some works under your main and others under an alt blog, that’s fine for completionist purposes. Q: Can I upload/repost my Whumptober content to other social media platforms? Of course! We’ve created an AO3 Collection to archive any fics posted there, which can be found here. The blog is the official archive, so please respect the personal boundaries of any whumpers in your social circle (don’t out anyone as a participant who would prefer not to be outed).

Most importantly, have fun, create, and enjoy all the whump posted this October!