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Oh, you shouldn't have come here, Blondie.
MIAMI VICE 5x04 Bad Timing
#this one's for the whump enjoyers#two things: 1) he looks so good in jeans 2) when I saw that first shot of him tied up I made an indescribable noise#sonny crockett#don johnson#miami vice#give him a break... he's on holiday :(#blood tw#flashing#red hot gifs
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Just watched one of the whumpiest films of all time, 2099: The Soldier Protocol.
A parapalegic prisoner is entered (read: coerced) into an experimental program under dubious circumstances. He's experimented on (including mild lab whump) and tortured repeatedly to turn him into a ruthless living weapon. As he gets stronger and more lethal, one of the scientists overseeing the program (and directing his torture) starts to feel the more-than-dubious ethical issues getting under her skin.
Is it a good movie? I wouldn't say that. Is it a whumpy movie? Absolutely. There are enough whump tropes packed in that I would wonder if someone from the whump community wrote the script. It's low budget with some half-decent acting and LOTS and lots of whump (and overall tropes that this community enjoys).
#it has abysmal ratings yeah#but I am someone who is really not picky with my movies#despite being a film enjoyer generally#I picked this one mostly because the whumpiness of the trailer was intriguing#and the movie did indeed pay off in that respect#2099: The Soldier Protocol#whump movies
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Prev fma post was from my draft backlog but low-key might draw more for it 👀
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just so you guys know, if this is Jay you’ll all be getting endless fanfics :3
#hes so silly#he’s just a silly guy#My favorite blue traumatized pajama man#It’s gonna be angsty as hell#ninjago jay#lego ninjago#so many fanfics#if this does end up being the case expect him to be an amnesiac in more than one chapter of my fic#as a jay fan and whump enjoyer this will be my pleasure#lego ninjago dragons rising#Okay I think that’s enough tags
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I think if I read next chapter I will break apart so I think I need take a few chapter break I'm reading so so so much angst rn
Always put your mental health first my dude. I avoid reading fics if they make me feel anxious at all so you take that break for as long as you need.
#I will say we're over the hump now though and things will be lightening up very soon#We're finally gonna get to the 'to lovers' part of this 'enemies to lovers' fic#I'm a couple chapters ahead and have written one (1) cuddle and I am beside myself with excitement#Sorry to the whump enjoyers but your fun will soon come to an end#Then it's Horse Therapy Time#BMMMSAS#Fic asks
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*posts psychosis livestream about the death of freedom* hey also should i make a bluesky looooooool
#im NOT crazy#idk every time i ovulate i start having really weird thoughts LMAO i just gotta get them out#ALSO i refused to let myself trace references for like almost 2 years now and i finally went fuck it whatever#turns out like. im not fucking proportions guy ONE single hour of tracing refs and suddenly my arms and legs and torsos are. correct.#long story short why did i give so much of a fuck about drawing the skeleton over the ref#i get gesture too now btw turns out those lines arent super long for no fucking reason!!! its the length of the Entire Form ™#i am reconsidering my enjoyment of whump entirely now too it just doesnt hit as good anymore#theres no catharsis in it and now my kinks are like. triggers. so idk where do i even go from there? whats left for me in whump
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what if we did like, whumpo
And on that note, I'm of the opinion that "whumpee" is no weirder a word than the normalized "blorbo", "scrimblo" or "scrunkly", but the non-whump community isn't ready for that point
#is that anything#honestly not a fan of whumpee I’m sorry but I’m a hater on this one#not rlly though like who cares#but i just feel like it needs a better ring to it#whumpster#whumped#whumpy#i uwu ified it somehow#honestly i think the problem is the word whump itself#it fits what it’s used for but it’s like#idk it’s like saying moist for me#ignore me though we don’t need to change it we don’t need to elbow ribbing ourselves to show everyone we know we’re cringe or whatever#even if I don’t like it I do in the way that I appreciate whump writers being sincere and genuine in their enjoyment of it#like it’s kind of adjacent to kink to me#it is kink for some people so like#yeah#idk I enjoy whump and I like that people are more cringe and free abt it than some other stuff#so who cares
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funniest thing about jpad is the way post season 8 it feels like he forgets to Act As Sam Winchester and instead plays "himself in situations"
unless sam is suffering. then he puts his entire spirit and soul into it, he IS the tortured boy-king, formed in suffering, the abomination. he is IN the cage, he is having traumatic flashbacks, he is seeing his worst enemy and saviour, he is unclean in a biblical sense.
#spn#and one of the writers is clearly a sam whump enjoyer because he sure is suffering every other episode!#btw this isn't a jp diss i imagine he was just busy at home and was fed up with how it became sooo dean focused#and the character development was wildly hit and miss i'd lose my motivation too#but the way he's always in the background with his gum like 🧍♂️#iconic actually
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the lords in black are so interesting to me because. they’re so us. we’re watching the citizens of hatchetfield suffer for our own entertainment just as much as they are. we’re their accomplices in all of it
pokotho made hatchetfield into a musical because musicals are entertaining. and we ate that shit up! it’s soooo fun watching a little man scramble as the world around him bursts into song. the musical genre is satirized because pokey knows how the genre conventions work just as well as we do. we like watching musicals so much that black friday and npmd are musicals, too, even though they don’t revolve around pokotho’s plans as much as tgwdlm. we want them to sing. pokotho does too.
bliklotep is the audience and the audience is bliklotep. trail to oregon calls the audience “the watcher with one thousand eyes” and that’s not all, in watcher world blinky seems to be able to see through the eyes of anyone and everyone who loves spectacle. he wants to see the characters go through angst because WE love angst. it’s fun to watch alice and bill express their buried frustrations. blinky wants it to end in bloodshed because he loves tragedy, and let’s face it, so do we. it’s like that one post about how hamlet is aware of the audience and is angry that we don’t do anything to intervene because we want to see how it plays out. personally, I think blinky could have stopped the woodwards if he really wanted (he’s an elder god, after all) but alice shooting him shifted the narrative so that the emotional payoff would be more fulfilling if they escaped. and blinky loves a good story.
t’noy karaxis has blorbos. we joke about it, but that’s really what it is, isn’t it? he’s the fan who watches the movie again and again and again and again to see his favorite character’s dramatic death scene. he’s the guy who writes and reads angst fics by the hundreds because he likes to see his faves cry. he’s the hatchetfield enjoyer who’s on the edge of their seat waiting to see how ted kicks the bucket this time. the bastard’s box is pretty much just an ao3 account filled with whump and hurt no comfort. he’s sadistic AND he genuinely adores ted, because we fans are often cruelest to the characters we love the most. he puts ted through character growth— the realization that his life went the way it did because of his own mistakes, his inability to be vulnerable with jenny before it was too late— and he does that by writing a 56-chapter angst fic that’s still updating to this day
nibblenephim is the fan who voraciously devours every scrap of content that a creator produces and demands more, more, more. let’s face it, the fandom will never let starkid rest until we see this story through to its end. and then someone will demand a sequel series. nibbly is hungry because we will never stop yearning for more stories. he’s simple because that desire itself is simple— as humans, we need creativity like we need air to breathe. nibbly wants more because we want more. and we will never be satiated.
wiggog y’rath is the ruler and the king because he’s the self-inserting writer. I think jon matteson plays paul *and* wiggly for a reason— wiggly is the only lord in black to be played by the same actor in every single show, and that actor also plays the protagonist of tgwdlm. wiggly wants to be the protagonist. he tries to force himself into the human world of hatchetfield because he wants to participate, dammit! he wants to be the bestest ruler that the earth has ever seen! everyone has to love him because he’s going to be their bestest fwiend! when he appears in human form he’s gonna be the prom king! he’s the ebony dark’ness dementia raven way of the hatchetfield multiverse. he wants every human character to bend to his whims and to love him and to put him at the tippy-top of planet earth because he’s the writer and the writer’s main character, you fuckheads, and he can make whatever story he wants, whether the other characters like it or not! if you’ve ever written a self-insert story? congratulations! you’ve been wiggog y’rath.
and the funny thing? I don’t think the lords know that they, too, are as fictional as anyone else in hatchetfield. maybe blinky knows— he sees through the audience’s eyes, after all— but I don’t think the others do. if they did, maybe they’d be a little less tyrannical. a little bit nicer.
but then the starkid writers wouldn’t have much of a story to tell, would they?
#the lords in black#starkid#hatchetfield#hatchetverse#npmd#join me in the metafiction analysis hole.#the real villains of hatchetfield are the starkid writers themselves and those of us who want to see the shows!#the only reason the lords in black fuck up the world is because WE want to see that story!!!!!#note: the ‘you fuckheads’ bit was meant to be in wiggly’s voice/pov. I do not think the good people of starkid fandom are fuckheads.
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LESS THAN ENEMIES
1100 words || mild hurt/comfort. injured sylus. pre-relationship. minor blood.
Note: trying out something new and joining a fandom instead of obsessing in silence for once. Please accept some Sylus whump as my humblest offering xx
Sylus’ favorite thing is to watch her on the battlefield.
It started with Mephisto, of course. The mechanical corvid kept tabs on so many of Sylus’ subjects of interest that he’d thought nothing of programming the so-called “special” new Hunter’s likeness into its tracking rounds.
When he saw her evol, he became determined to take her. When he saw her bound in front of him, no recognition in her eyes, he became intrigued. But when she put a bullet through his chest point blank, no hesitation, he became captivated. Enraptured. Obsessed.
After the auction — and when Mephisto’s wing maintenance went from biweekly to twice a week — Sylus decided to spare himself the trouble and started going himself.
He doesn’t get too close, can’t get too close, but he’ll never get enough of her ferocity, her determination, her grace when he watches her fight for her people. For her cause.
Even if it’s in direct opposition to his plans.
Actually, his men could stand to learn a thing or two from her. In wit, in strategy, in combat.
The thought almost manages to pull a smile from him.
As much enjoyment as he takes in seeing her dominate the battlefield, to hear her calling out orders to other Hunters, to witness the shimmering waves of that damn evol, he can’t ignore the tension he feels when he does. The apprehension.
The worry.
Picturing her beautiful body cut down, wounded, bleeding… it isn’t something he likes to think about.
And that’s why Sylus watches the battlefield.
It’s a chaotic dance of guns and swords. Her Hunters and the rogue faction that ceded from Onychinus months ago clashing on the blood-stained streets.
The rest of the neighborhood is dark but calm, filled with the high pitched buzz of the street lamps on the periphery of N109. If he wasn’t scrutinizing her with such focus, it would’ve felt like he was heading out to join her for one of their midnight meetings.
She’s close to the building that’s casting Sylus into the shadows, her singular focus centered on the four men surrounding her. No other Hunters are nearby.
Sylus watches her weave a wave of power around two, freezing them in place, swords locked into a swinging motion. At the same time she turns around and traps a third, his arms get more frantic the higher she raises her gun before he drops like a stone to the ground.
She’ll will win this one, he muses, as the men he’d so generously chosen to oust from the organization rather than kill dwindle in numbers. Most of them are being tracked down by other Hunters, those that remain look like they might flee in a desperate attempt at self-preservation like the roaches they are.
Who knew the Hunter’s Association would become his pest control.
Sylus heightens the rush of power in his veins as one of the men takes advantage of her divided focus, shakes himself free of her power’s hold, and stumbles backwards, running toward Stylus’ alleyway in hopes of escape.
She lets him go without a care — of course she does — letting him get as far as the curbside. He gasps when he spots Sylus, taking an instinctive shot with what looks like a pilfered hunter’s gun just as Sylus unleashes his evol, let’s it hum through his veins to his temples as he snuffs the breath out of the man in front of him and the two next to her.
The bodies topple onto the dirty asphalt in perfect harmony, joining the other vermin she’d taken care of.
An outraged gaze whips toward Sylus. She’d known he was there.
Before he can wonder at what he’d done to give himself away she’s already marching toward him. Too irritated to make sure other Hunters aren’t following — they aren’t, Sylus has made sure — when she steps in front of him. That magnificent power isn’t quite contained yet, casting a glow around her that makes him want to reach out and…
He crosses his arms in case they make any movements he doesn’t approve of.
“They had information I needed, you overbearing—”
He narrows his eyes, ignoring a twinge in his bicep as he leans it against the building. “They’re your enemies, sweetie. Do you think they would’ve had the same mercy with you?”
“They might’ve,” she bites out. “Now, thanks to you, we’ll never know.”
He hardens his jaw. Her naiveté would get her hurt one day. “Trust me, they weren’t about to help you, they wanted to hurt you. To cut all your little Hunters down and take you with them.” Tendrils of his power wrap around her waist like a vine, yanking her toward him on a gasped breath, branding his chest with her palms.
“And, kitten?” She bites her lip, looking past his shoulder to ignore him, taking the comfort of that gaze from him. Growling low in his throat, he tilts her chin back up, tracing his thumb over the silky edge of her jaw. “I won’t let anyone do that.”
The frosty glare in her eyes melts, taking the last of her anger with it.
“I won’t either,” she murmurs. Stepping back, she takes her face from his grasp. “Alright, let’s get out of here. I don’t need any of the other Hunters catching you.”
Sylus sighs, turning his back to the bodies when lightning pierces through his arm, causing him to cover it up with an annoyed hiss.
“Sylus? Sylus. What’s going on? What’s happened?”
Trying to calm the frantic words that match her frantic hands, he grits out, “I’m fine. Must’ve happened right before I took care of those last three. It’s nothing.”
She’s grasping at his fingers to peel them away, revealing a decently sized chunk of flesh removed from his bleeding bicep.
It’s not the most severe wound he’s ever sustained, by far. Still, he’s mildly impressed that a Hunter’s bullet could pack such a punch. He’ll need to look into those.
“It’s not nothing, there’s no way that’s going to heal on its own. You need… stitches or something. I’m taking you to the base.” Wrapping one palm around his arm and the other around his wrist, she steers him by the arm in the opposite direction of Linkon. “And before you say anything, every Hunter goes through field medic training.”
It’s the same tone she uses with other Hunters, the sound of determination coated in the steel of care and concern.. and it’s for him.
She’s treating him like he’s… hers.
He ignores the sudden balloon expanding in his chest at the thought. “You know you never need an excuse to put your hands on me, kitten,” he drawls with a smirk, deciding to give himself into it, into her.
And despite the most serious injury he’s had in a while tearing into the space between his missing skin and her palm, all he can feel is a fluttering, healing warmth when her cheeks flush and her pace quickens.
#bloody Sylus is my favorite Sylus#sylus x mc#sylus x reader#lads mc#l&ds sylus#lads sylus#sylus#sylus fanfic#qin che#sylus love and deepspace#l&ds#love and deepspace#love and deepspace fic#my writing#nova writing
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i see everyone is learning smth new today
No offense to anyone but I'm laughing my ass off at the people just now discovering the overlap between kink and whump. Sincerely, someone who has seen link blogs and whump blogs reblog the exact same posts for their respective reasons.
the overlap is soooo big. and yes i do love the kink posts making rounds in the whump community
#ok this rly is a little funny AJSJKSSK#spiderman meme of the whump and the kink community pointing at each other like 'WHAT R U AND WHAT R U DOING HERE'#'WHY R WE REBLOGGING THE SAME POSTS!!!'#as for a serious answer purely whump enjoyers are just here for the catharsis i think#possibly writing abt their own trauma as an outlet#or channeling some unresolved anger#working thru grief#exploring whatever they want in a nice fictional setting#there r soooo many non kinky reasons to enjoy whump#personally whenever i am non kinkily enjoying whump its likely that im after that tight feeling in my chest that borderline physically hurts#it has Nothing to do w kink its just smth i enjoy feeling when reading whump#or well. im one of the ppl channeling anger lol whenever i get incredibly angry i write rage fics#just. gore death violence#its a healthy outlet for me#i also enjoy working through emotions while writing whump. throwing shit at my ocs and seeing how they handle it#i learn a lot from it#I AM SO SORRY I WENT ON SUCH A HUGE RANT. IM JUST SUCH A BIG WHUMP ENTHUSIAST AJDKSKSK
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My drawings for @dreblr-gen-big-bang, I was working together with @x-i-l-verify, and you can check out her fic here! Perfect for all whump enjoyers ;)
In a timeline where players are not whitelisted to the Dream SMP until they reach the age of majority, there is no drug van, no L'Manberg, no Doomsday, no Disc Finale, and no Pandora's Vault. However, in the aftermath of Sapnap's latest bout of troublemaking, the Egg awakens and establishes its empire, and despite the server's admin debugging the virus down to bedrock, the Dream SMP now has a brand-new public enemy number one.
(or: Due to one simple rule change at the Dream SMP's creation, BadBoyHalo is now the reviled and distrusted villain of the server instead of Dream.)
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So I've already seen this one pointed out, but in the new CG, Boothill's older human form doesn't really match what people thought it should. Of course it could just be neglect on Hoyo's part like I've seen speculated, but personally? With the other lore we got from this patch, combined with some of the stuff we already had, I'd love to think there is a possibility that is way, WAY more fun.
(fun for me and all the other whump enjoyers, anyway, RIP Boothill fjkasjkdj)
In Boothill's lc, we see him in the middle of his surgery where he threw away his flesh and bone body for steel and cybernetics. We know it was The Big Surgery and not just like some sort of tune up or modification because of the description attached to the lc:
Which is where a lot of the dissonance comes in, because in this lc, Boothill's hair is much, much longer than in the cg.
And as someone who also has super long hair, I can tell you that it would take like. Multiple years to grow it out to this length.
There's also the fact that these cybernetic arms don't even match, the lc is the one that looks like our Boothill does now. And there's no reason for Boothill's shirt to be ripped up and in tatters like that; it even states he takes off his clothes before the lc surgery. If it were a matter of Hoyo needing to censor nudity, there were plenty of other methods they could have used that would make more sense, like a hospital gown, a blanket, surgical partition, etc
When will I get to see Boothill with all his scars, Hoyo, when, quit cockblocking me!!! OTL
But there was also another piece of new lore this patch that hit me like a fuckin' brick- the fact that Boothill was tortured by the IPC.
He just drops this out of nowhere! Just says it and then moves right along!! BABY, PLEASE. I WANNA KNOW MORE SO GODDAMN BAD.
But anyway as Hydrachea pointed out to me, this means the torture definitely had to happen before the lc surgery, because being whipped with a belt soaked in saltwater (fucking OUCH) wouldn't work on someone with metal skin.
So, we know that the IPC did, at some point, capture Boothill. And this is reaching further back to previous patches, but we also know from the Luminary Wardance event in 2.5 that the IPC also dabbles in cybernetic arms, because of the one they foisted on Luka.
The model there is a new one they're debuting, but we see in a flashback sequence that the IPC has been part of the cybernetics game for at least 700-800 years, because they also manipulated Igor into getting one too, and this could have only happened before the Eternal Freeze on Jarilo-VI.
It's never stated just how old Boothill is, or how long ago the genocide on Aeragan-Epharshel took place.
But I doubt it was more than 700-800 years ago.
I really don't think Boothill is that old, or has been doing this for that long. So he definitely would have been captured at a point that the IPC was manufacturing cybernetic arms, and had a known history of amputating perfectly healthy patients to use them.
I wonder if all their test subjects were willing.
(This part is entirely unnecessary for the new cg showing Boothill being a forced lab rat as part of the IPC torturing him. But it is a fun, delightful, bloodily gruesome twist of the knife nonetheless.
Boothill was also betrayed by his own brothers-in-arms on Aeragan-Epharshel. For the IPC. Just saying.)
#honkai star rail#honkai star rail boothill#hsr boothill#hsr#boothill#hsr 2.6#honkai star rail 2.6#no idea if this is anything but god do I love to think about it#Boothill just casually dropping that he was TORTURED just about fucking killed me AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#screaming crying throwing up blowing up etc etc#KERBLEWIE#Ugh I love it so much#Hoyo did that for ME#And the thought that it might have been his own tribe that sold him out? ough. ough.#and so like. when he escaped the IPC somehow. do you think the cybernetic arm was still attached?#did he have to lug this thing around#did he hate looking at it#imagining him telling the doctor he doesn't even care just take it detach it get it off of him he never wants to see it again#AUGH
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Introductions and FAQ
Well hello! This is @sombersapphic and @goldenempyrean, separately we have sickfic blogs that have been running for 1.5 years and 2 respectively. We created Feveruary as a fun little event for other sickfic/whump writers to enjoy and share their writing. We are both volunteers and hope this will be as enjoyable for you as it was for us to create!
Overall Explanation aka, what is it?
Feveruary is our little event that runs through February, with one prompt for each day. We will have a total of 32 prompts which includes the main 28 and 4 alternatives. You can view this as a challenge to write all 28, you can pick and choose, you can save prompts for later, you can do pretty much whatever you want! After all, this is supposed to be fun!
Who can participate?
Everyone! Dont write? Draw something! Get creative :D
Is this an SFW event?
Yes considering we want this to be open to everyone we have decided to make it a SWF event. This brings us to some...
Rules:
No sexually explicit material
No non-con, pedophilia, incest
No DV or other negative power imbalance relationships. This is centered around hurt/comfort, not pure whump.
What if I want it to be NSFW?
Detach yourself. We cannot stop you from using these prompts as inspiration but if you are choosing to break these rules do not align yourself with our event.
How do I tag?
To tag your works as a part of the event use the tags: #Feveruary and #Feveruary 2025. As well as these please use appropriate tags and content warnings on your fics, we want this to be a safe and fun event for everyone.
Can I Write On Ao3?
Of course! The same tags apply however they'll also be an open collection which you can add your post too!
When will the prompts be released?
We plan to release the prompts in mid October which will give everyone 3.5 months to start writing!
What if I have more questions?
Your best bet will be to send us an ask! If it's something you’re uncomfortable with other people reading (anon asks are on) or you simply don’t want to wait for an ask to be answered you will have to message either @somber-sapphic or @goldenempyrean directly. Since this is a group blog we are unable to receive PMs but if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask! There is no such thing as a dumb question.
Just double checking, I don't have to write them all?
Of course not! You can do as many or as few prompts as you want, if it stops being fun you don't have to continue!
#Feveruary#writing event#writing prompt#prompts#prompt event#Feveruary 2025#whump#hurt/comfort#sickfic
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why does it comfort some people or bring them joy/excitement to imagine their favorite characters in terrible situations and being hurt physically or mentally? wouldn’t you want your favorite characters to be happy and safe?
I’m sure I’ve seen this exact ask being sent to another writing blog before, so seeing one in my own inbox was a little surprising. but anyway, I’ve said this before, but I don’t mind saying it again because lots of people seem to still be confused about this; the enjoyment of imagining or seeing fictional characters in terrible situations in which they are hurt and/or scared is called whump. people who enjoy whump tend to express their interest through art, such as drawings, writings, etc. whump has a community on several online platforms, as well as here on Tumblr. we are simply known as “whump community”.
moving on to your question, “why does it comfort us to imagine our favorite characters in agony?” — there is no definitive answer to the question, because different people enjoy whump for various, different reasons, and all of these reasons are valid. however, what I can give you is some examples of the reasons why people enjoy whump
reasons why people like whump:
some people use whump as a reflection of what they’ve been through, and they let their trauma out by channeling the trauma through fictional characters. to make it as simple as I can, some people use whump as a coping mechanism to help them heal from any traumatic events in their lives.
while whump is indeed about pain, it can also be about the comfort (the healing process) that comes after the pain. I personally known several people who heal by writing whump stories in which their favorite characters went through and survived terrible things that happened to them. the comfort part of the whump was used as a symbol of hope for these people, in the sense that they hold on to the idea that if these fictional characters can survive horrible things that happened to them, they (the writers) can survive and heal too.
some people use whump as a way to let out their frustration, trauma or pain. an abuse victim may fantasize about hurting their abuser back by creating a fantasy world in which their favorite character was hurt, but later healed and/or get their revenge.
it’s also worth mentioning that one doesn’t have go through their own trauma in order to be able to enjoy whump.
some people like whump where their favorite character is hurt because they just Want to Hurt These Little Guys.
some people like whump where their favorite character is hurt because they like the part where their favorite character gets comforted and is nursed back to health after they are rescued.
whump that’s followed by comfort (whump with a happy ending) is valid.
whump that has no comfort (whump without a happy ending) is also valid.
because whump is a genre, just like how lots of people like horror movies just for the sake of liking them.
the term whumperflies is used to describe the euphoric feeling a person experiences while watching, drawing, writing or reading a whump scenario that hits right in the feels. for lack of better comparison, some people experience whumperflies that come close to an orgasm, whether or not whump is a sexual thing to them (some may enjoy whump as a form of kink, while some may enjoy whump for reasons that aren’t sexual at all). for some, whumperflies are these tingling sensation in the chest and/or the stomach, for someone else, whumperflies is like when you ride a rollercoaster and the ride is going down from its highest stop. there's no wrong way to experience whumperflies, as different people describe and experience them differently.
so, yes, some people may enjoy whump just for the euphoria whumperflies bring. and some people — myself included — can’t get whumperflies unless the character that’s going through pain is their most favorite character; it’s like… because you love this character so much, you’re so connected to them, you're so emotionally invested in them that you can only get whumperflies if it’s them going through the torture, meanwhile other characters just don’t make you feel half as strongly.
and that’s explain why people in the whump community prefer their favorite characters to be the ones going through hell.
and again, just like how movies have different genres, whump is a genre — people who like whump aren’t “freaks” or “red flags” in real life, even if they like whump for reasons that aren’t about coping mechanism. whump is a genre and a form of art, and most importantly, whump is fiction. it’s not real.
I do understand why people who aren’t into whump tend to be confused by the concept of whump, and I do understand why these people think being a fan of a fictional character only means wanting said fictional character to be safe and happy, which is why whump is not for everybody, and that’s okay too.
the thing is there is no wrong way to be a fan of something that’s fictional, you can like this fictional character so much you want to see them cry and covered in blood for whatever reasons, and that’s okay. as long as you’re not hurting anybody in real life.
there’s nothing wrong or abnormal about people who enjoy whump, just like how there’s nothing wrong or abnormal about people who like horror movies. it’s fiction and it’s a form of art. and I believe everybody is allowed to express and enjoy their interests through art in whichever way they want, as long as they’re not harming anybody in real life.
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Hie!!
Do you have any johnlock fic recs :3
( or parentlock, it consumes me )
Ooh so you want to go down this rabbit hole with me, then!
These are in no particular order, just fics I've read recently or just a handful of the many authors this fandom has to offer whom I respect deeply.
Parentlock has been all I've been reading for the last several weeks, honestly, been on a real kick & need it like oxygen!
I can't reccomend anything by JenTheSweetie on ao3 highly enough - her Parentlock is just deliciously in-character, witty and tangible. instruction manual not included and Immune to Your Consultations (feat. teenage Rosie, which we don't have nearly enough of in my opinion) have been my most recently read and are just *chefs kiss*
@lurikko also has written Ten Years (feat. scheming matchmaker Rosie) and A Weird Place (which is tagged 'Just raising their kid and being confused' and...yeah, succinct, brilliant summary, have re-read this one several times)
@arwamachine has written Indefinite Lines, a gloriously long post-S4 casefic featuring lots of lovely family dynamics between Sherlock, John and Rosie in between (one of the parentlock fics of all time, in my opinion) and I also got done reading Winning the Goat, which is so amazingly witty and comical and just generally wonderfully written.
Swan Dive by @hitlikehammers is 5+1 featuring an emphasis on the relationship between Sherlock and Rosie and is once again, brilliantly characterized and wonderful to read
Keep on Changing by philalethia is a good, spooky post-S4 parentlock fic (read it for Halloween, did not disappoint!)
I know @missdaviswrites has also written heaps wonderful parentlock stories and there are plenty of stories that feature Rosie as a character and lovely domestic/parenthood fluff out there on ao3 that I haven't listed (these are mostly ones I've read recently or that come to mind)
As for general Johnlock fics...! (Most of these, again, are what I've been reading recently or first come to mind)
until we fall asleep by @itsonlytext is set post-TLD and is angsty, tense, realistic, soft, quiet, and in-character all at once and is such a little hidden gem that not nearly enough people are talking about right now!
A Thrill Failed to Deliver by @jbaillier who I know by her dozens of stunning medical realism and angst fics, in my opinion never disappoints. Have never been happier to see an author come back from a hiatus, lol!)
An Ounce of Cure by @bakertumblings is another great medical realism fic, this time with John as the one getting hit with all the angst and whump
What it Can Be by @naefelldaurk is a spin on the end of TLD and offers a much more satisfying end, brilliantly in character and wonderfully paced.
@calaisreno just finished When Harry Met Mary which follows the events of S3/4 through Harry Watson's POV (brilliant fic for those who are sick of Harry getting reduced to nothing more than John's alcoholic sister; her role in this is brilliant, developed and enjoyable). Also read Déjà Vu which is part of her genius Off-Axis series (frankly in love with all of her AUs)
The Fallen series by @engazed is one I've started just recently but has already hooked me!
Thirst by @holmesianpose is another one I've just started, so not too far in, yet, but still wonderfully written thus far!
@gaylilsherlock wrote Cutting Out the Middle Man recently (along with the several other Johnlock fics they've been putting out at admirable speeds), featuring getting-together between John and Sherlock and Greg Lestrade as a wingman and the delicious Watson & Lestrade pub scene!
Double or Nothing by @crowson75 is a study in John's bisexuality, gripping casefic, wonderfully smutty and realistically characterized, post-S4 and finally sees these two idiots figuring themselves out.
Not a Johnlock fic (there is background Johnlock, though!) but instead it’s a Mystrade one, is The Habits of a Lifetime by @out-there-tmblr and is definitely a Greg x Mycroft story but also a beautiful and realistic 54k words of a Mycroft character study and is just too much of a favorite of mine for me not to put on a rec list.
I also highly reccomend anything written by @totallysilvergirl, @the-reading-lemon, @weeesi, and @7-percent.
Realizing so many of these are post S4 or S4 compliant but I just love some good fix-its, I suppose. Hope some of these are to your liking, as they are all certainly to mine :)
#fic recs#i always feel weird doing rec lists because there's just TOO many fics for me to list in one go#but these are all fairly recently written or currently being updated or just authors i really do adore and have done since before being on#hope you enjoy! (and hopefully one day i'll be able to self-rec as i've got my own parentlock fic on the way!)#ask#my rambles#bbc sherlock#sherlock holmes#john watson#johnlock#parentlock#rosie watson
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