#the tragic thrills

[rei-the-head-shaker]

Good night to you all, amazing souls! 🖤🌙

[crystallizedtwilight]

I can’t tell what’s better shuggy angst or happy shuggy. Either way you make it SCRUM. DIDDLY. UMPIOUS

BOTH are so good 😭

[helianthus21]

honestly i hope that, if at all, Daniel gets a super boring mediocre backstory. it would be much funnier to me if he's just Like That for no reason:3

[friendlylocalwhumper]

Hey there whump-fellow! I was wondering if you might help me out a bit. I'm writing an original superhero story for Camp NaNo this year and I want the main character's superpower to come with whumpy side-effects, but I am having a hard time coming up with anything even slightly original in that regard. Do you have any suggestions or examples I might play off of? Also, I am going to ask around to a few whump blogs to cast a wider net! Any suggestions as to whom I should ask?

Telekinesis/mind reading with a side effect of migraines. Agony, sensitivity to light/noise. Days-long pain after just using their powers once, which causes the pavlovian response of an awful headache starting up just at the thought of using their powers.

Fire powers that leave burns, thick scars that hurt less and less the more the powers are used but the nerves die more and more, meaning that the whumpee loses feeling in their fingers, then hands, then arms. They will miss out on feeling gentle breezes, soft blankets, holding hands with a friend.

Ice powers that cause frostbite. They can put out a fire, stop an enemy instantly, catch someone who is falling before they die… but the pain afterward is intense, and they always have to weigh the benefits of saving lives versus potentially losing a part of their own body. Or their powers give frostbite to anyone that the ice touches!

Invincibility that lasts for as long as it’s being used, but after the battle is over, in safety, all the damage hits at once. Bruises bloom in purples and blues, cuts spring forth and leave the whumpee scrambling to apply pressure and soak up too much blood before they pass out.

Invisibility/phasing that is strategically useful because the whumpee can sneak or pass through obstacles, but it makes their body have too loose a grasp on reality and their loved ones lose memories of them. They may be able to sneak into a dangerous place and get out unharmed, but their mother or partner will now struggle to recall their name.

A superpower that was desperately wished for in an hour of need, but now every time that it’s used, something precious has to be sacrificed. For the power to be used, an hierloom has to be chosen to disappear from existence, or a limb has to be chosen to never work without pain again, or a comforting memory has to be forgotten. Eventually this would leave the whumpee tougher, less sensitive to loss, but they would also have so much less comfort to come home to. This power would work great as a “gift” from a deity, fae, supernatural creature, or a naively summoned ghost.

Villain-turned-hero who used to use their powers for evil, but now that they are fighting for good, their powers keep trying to turn on them. They used to melt guards’ weapons and locks off vaults, but now that they try to melt doors shut to keep out storms or villains, the molten metal sputters and hits their skin. Or they used to make their nemesis’ armor, tools, or on their most evil day, that nemesis’ most cherished friend disappear; but now after a long hard day of protecting people, when they come home, they find that their partner is missing. They find that their car keys are gone, their fridge, their shoes. Sometimes it is a small thing they won’t even miss, and sometimes it is something so devastating to lose that they fall to their knees and sob.

The superpower of being able to compel that the truth be given after they ask a question. Very useful for a detective, a hero in a corrupt society littered with propaganda, a spy trying to work their way up in an evil organization. But if they ask a question that someone doesn’t know the answer to, it can drive that person mad. If they ask a question someone would rather die than answer, they will give the truth but then be emotionally broken from admitting that aloud. If that person would rather kill than answer…

Any power which has no direct side effects immediately after use, but which is forbidden or horrifying for some reason. Maybe it is the power to bring the dead back to life for just long enough to answer questions, which is morally complicated. Maybe it’s the power to cause intense agony without leaving physical marks. Maybe it’s the ability to travel through time, which causes alternate universes to sprout up and can cause mass deaths, confusion, or chaos in the future. Whatever the power is, it has to be used for some reason, and hiding its use and its consequences leaves the hero afraid, unable to trust anyone, and devastatingly ashamed. This could lead to angsty confessions, betrayal, abandonment, a public execution, banishment, etc.

A very subtle, pleasant power that is embarassingly weak in a time when more power is needed. the ability to numb pain, which feels useless during war when people are bleeding out and losing friends. the ability to see the future in a time when everyone knows what the horrifying outcome will be and no one can stop it. the ability to stop time, but not to move or change what is happening, which just leaves the hero stuck to think, to rely on their own mind to try to solve a terrible problem while seeing everyone frozen in a moment of pain or fear.

I’m not sure about other whump blogs you could ask, but anyone who sees this post is totally welcome to add ideas! The side effects of the superpower don’t have to be direct or ironic, so any random idea could be perfect for the story! No idea is bad!

[unopenablebox]

only two things are beasts. animals and my girlfriend

[earthandsunandmoon]

best day ever when the library has a great lakes documentary narrated by gord downie that I'd never even heard of :D

[manderleyfire]

hello! i don't wanna be rude because i love everything you said about thg and tbosas already but i wonder... what do you dislike about movie snowbaird so much?? i feel like tom and rachel had perfect chemistry and tried hard to give love story justice

you're not being rude, don't you worry <3

the only issue i've with movie!snowbaird is the opposite of what netflix did to 'lady chatterley’s lover' adaptation? i mean, they reduced this tale of class conflict to a simple love story, whereas lionsgate has decreased the romantic aspect of the coriolanus x lucy gray dynamic as much as possible.

the themes the both novels address are so rich?? LCL and TBOSAS examine the sources of class enmity and imagine how it might be overcome through tenderness, passion and intimacy. however, those film versions strip out either the social context and class detail of the book, leaving simply a love story with a happy ending, or the worst flattening of the novel happens in the film’s depiction of the romance/romantic elements. and choosing one side over showing the coexistence of those characteristics in an interpersonal relationship takes away most of the psychological complexity of the characters (to me)!

please, don't get me wrong: there are things to enjoy! the music is magically atmospheric, it hints at emotional depths and nuances that the script skates over. the scene in which they're holding hands in the dark of the arena has a joyous sensual quality and i'm beyond grateful for an opportunity to see such a tiny but meaningful book moment on screen.

but overall the love story feels so dull… that those who have read the novel will be disappointed (one way or another) and those who haven’t will wonder what all the fuss was about.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also if only the physical copy of how to disappear completely & never be found i first encountered & read a few years ago (sort of [roughly avg age ten] reader book, not any similarly titled How To) hadn't disappeared completely & not been found since, probably b/c i put it somewhere i intended to be For Safekeeping, which is also how my binder vanished....b/c it's one of those like. those book for late elementary/middle school readers when they just weave in this unrealism which makes for a delightful range & unpredicability? and with a cynical protagonist girl like off to the races like wow her mom is depressed asf & smoking? and it's about A Family History Secrets Mystery so blatantly a haunting that the inciting incident is basically introducing a haunted [family history secrets mystery] house. and spoilers don't matter like it's stemming from there being this missing uncle who grew up so in contrast to the Winsome Winning Sibling Who Does It All Right while seeing his own affiliation with rats that he tried to disappear completely & never be found which led to this Tragedy which led to this more unintended disappearance of his & he haunts this house & wants to be left alone & only goes out at night with this [ambiguous Is That A Giant Rat Or Weird Small Dog (protagonist affected by these family situations who expresses her preoccupation with an awareness of how fate can Strike and Get you with this interest with roving packs of killer chihuahuas. people think she's weird though she spontaneously befriends this other girl struck with this bolt from the blue & a bit weird / outcast & then Insightful who i wish was in it more)] & plays into the hauntedness danger like playing into the [something's Wrong with you then] until having to take yet more action where the urge to express the truth comes out more both b/c living that hidden is more threatened but also b/c now the niece children are more threatened as well. ft. a sort of preternatural blurring of time b/c of only being communicated with through this uncle via his comic pages (that he paints?) of dubiously accurate translations of irl events that are created so quickly it seems to verge on foresight, imagine like "hmm what's this painting. it's me standing in this room looking at this painting??? as someone ominous lurks in the shadows right behind me?" in both [now how could you know this & paint it really fast ahead of time] and [horror]

[azumasoroshi]

oh of course izaya is an oscar wilde fan. he would definitely use this as his bio for his private discord/twitter account

pulls out the importance of being earnest and the picture of dorian gray. time to analyze these from the psychological/literary perspective of izaya lets go baby (he has his own category)

edit check tags and rbs for some actual analysis stuff lmAOo

[sharpsuite]

guys guys my chishiya cosplay stuff came in ✨ early ✨

[stackslip]

fucking love how togata found this old gay couple fleeing persecution and was like "these bitches gay! good for me" and made them his personal lackeys

[probayern]

trying to process that i got that ken ending and taylor sang clean at my show. in the same night. contact me in 1-3 business days

[cyanastrologist]

I get billionaires aren't great people by any stretch of the imagination but I think it's tasteless to be celebrating like school children at the passing of human life during the Titan sub implosion

A 19-year old lost his life. I don't care what his background is

[birlwrites]

to prove that sometimes i DO think about things other than regulus/evan/rosewater, i was looking in my warmups doc and discovered a snippet of a fic in which regulus had a will they/won't they thing going on with blaise zabini's mother

[midnightthvnder]

TAG DUMP 5 ;;

jackal, etykraks, and iiksiiks

JACKAL:

jackal tag ;; the hunt is not the thrill i’m after

jackal hc ;; dim the lights and lock the door and never set me free

jackal ic ;; i am your power and your pain

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ETYKRAKS:

etykraks tag ;; you know our love would be tragic

etykraks hc ;; my whole existence is flawed

etykraks ic ;; take me to bed and rip me apart

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IIKSIIKS:

iiksiiks tag ;; i’ll come crawling back for more

iiksiiks hc ;; i’ve already got you right where i want you

iiksiiks ic ;; make me believe there’s only us