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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!!

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🤍 Shock in Whump 🤍

The cause leading up to the shock - blood loss, panic attack, a sudden traumatic event.

The intensified feeling of softness. Everything feels soft, even metal. It's like being on a cloud.

Uncontrollable shaking.

Hyperventilation.

So cold. Everything is so cold.

Whumpee looks frighteningly pale.

Caretaker feeling the dangerous speed of whumpee's pulse.

Caretaker keeping whumpee warm with body heat.

Caretaker covering whumpee's eyes to block out light because overstimulation can make it worse.

Whumpee passing out from shock.

That sickly sweet, heady, half-numb feeling that's almost pleasant yet so unpleasant and settles deep in the bones.

A deep, extreme longing to be held and comforted.

Laughing in a strange, airy voice as everything goes distant.

Also, while writing this post, I learned that there are multiple types of shock, including distributive, hypovolemic, cardiogenic, and obstructive shock, according to the NIH. Hypovolemic is what I was picturing, but they're all full of potential.

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Make your whumpees go into shock. Do it.

Symptoms of hypovolemic shock (e.g whumpee has lost a lot of blood):

Hyperventilation

Confusion/anxiety

Sweating

Passing out

Clammy skin

Weakness

Low temperature and blood pressure

Rapid pulse

Symptoms of distributive shock (e.g sepsis, severe allergic reactions, asthma attacks)

Rash

Rapid pulse

Hyperventilation

Warm arms and legs

Skin that starts off warm then turns clammy and cold

Fever

Chills

Stomach pain

Confusion

Cough

Shortness of breath

Nausea

Throwing up

Either way, whumpee is most likely headed to the ICU. ASAP.

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Whump prompts: Neurodivergent characters

Content: Mentioned death, overstimulation, mentioned abuse, mentioned pet whump, captivity, implied stockholm syndrome, hallucinations, recovery.

Click here for my whump prompt Masterlist

Getting overstimulated by the sound of the tools Whumper uses.

An easily manipulated whumpee that gets used by everyone because they can’t see it ahead of time.

Wanting to give up on recovery all together after someone points out that it hasn’t been doing as well as they’d thought they were doing.

People thinking Whumpee’s being abused by someone again because of the random bruises that keep appearing but they’re just clumsy.

Learning how to freely stim again after years of being forced to suppress it.

Accidentally misinterpreting Whumpee’s seriousness for jokes/sarcasm and vice versa. Bonus points if Whumper realises Whumpee can’t tell the difference and using it to mess with them.

Caretaker enforcing Whumpee’s own boundaries for them in public when they can’t.

One of the first thing Whumpee and Caretaker bond over is the fact that they’re both neurodivergent.

Going to desperate measures to get any sort of attention from anyone, negative or positive.

Whumper getting hyperfixated on one of their captives.

Accidentally lashing out at Whumper and getting into even more trouble.

Continuously lying to friends and family without realising because it’s become such an engrained part of them.

Refusing hugs from people during their reunion because of chronic overstimulation.

Caretaker wanting to make Whumpee a fancy, extravagant meal to celebrate finally coming home but Whumpee declines it for a bowl of plain pasta instead.

Whumpee going nights at a time without sleep because they keep having hallucinations that make it impossible to settle.

Whumper doesn’t realise that Whumpee has DID and thinks they’re lying when different alters front and don’t know what’s going on.

Whumpee takes 10x longer than they should doing jobs for Whumper because it’s never quite right.

Alternating between wanting nothing more than to escape and feeling content in their captivity.

Whumpee going to extra lengths to ensure that they’re the favourite out of all Whumper’s pets.

Caretaker becomes Whumpee’s Favourite Person, which puts a strain on their relationship.

Disclaimer: Any add-ons or tags that are ableist towards people with personality disorders in particular will result in an immediate block.

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Whumpscared once again 😞 /j

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Empire Strikes Back has some of the best whump.

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tasty tasty little whump detail: someone gently adjusting an oxygen mask to hospitalised whumpee’s face, while cupping their face, caressing the straps, and stroking their hair. bonus points if whumpee is all sleepy and delirious and caretaker looks at them so so lovingly

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Members of the Whump community looking for books packed with whumpy content!! I have provided:

This list focuses on books in various genres, tagged with their most prominent Whump tropes. It also focuses on queer inclusion.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding a book’s content, please message me! If you wish to add a title to the list, send me an ask with the book’s title, author, and trope tags. This list is ongoing.

Please note: titles highlighted in light grey have been added to the list by others in the community. I will likely not be able to answer questions about their content, as I have not yet read them.

Last updated: 7 January, 2024

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Please reblog this post if you belong to the whump community.

Let's see how many reblogs this gets!

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FEBUWHUMP 2024 PROMPT LIST

this year's prompts were chosen through a suggestion poll (in which we recevied 2,281 prompts) and a subsequent vote, where over 1,000 people voted for their favourites. the top 29 make up the core prompts, and a mixture of the next most popular - and this blog's personal favourites - have become the alternates

i’m so excited to see what you all create with these prompts, and hope they’re inspiring enough to trigger a whole month’s worth of creativity for you! if you have any questions, please check out the blog's faq before sending an ask, or check out the previously asked questions on the blog!

please note: this year, notifying the blog of completionist status will happen through a google form that will be released closer to the end of febuwhump.

full write-up of prompts and rules under the cut:

FEBUWHUMP 2024 PROMPTS:

DAY 1: helpless

DAY 2: solitary confinement

DAY 3: "bite down on this"

DAY 4: obedience

DAY 5: rope burns

DAY 6: "you lied to me"

DAY 7: suffering in silence

DAY 8: "why won't it stop?"

DAY 9: bees

DAY 10: killing in self defence

DAY 11: time loop

DAY 12: semi-conscious

DAY 13: "you weren't supposed to get hurt"

DAY 14: blood-stained tiles

DAY 15: "who did this to you?"

DAY 16: came back wrong

DAY 17: hostage situation

DAY 18: too weak to move

DAY 19: "please don't"

DAY 20: truth serum

DAY 21: unresponsive

DAY 22: "you weren't meant to be there"

DAY 23: presumed dead

DAY 24: "i'm doing this because i care about you"

DAY 25: waterboarding

DAY 26: "help them"

DAY 27: left for dead

DAY 28: "no... not like this"

DAY 29: not allowed to die

ALTERNATE PROMPTS:

is there a specific day’s prompt you don’t want to fill? here are ten alternatives you can switch them out for!

ALT 1: human shield

ALT 2: "i love you"

ALT 3: found footage

ALT 4: human weapon

ALT 5: cpr

ALT 6: immortality

ALT 7: last words

ALT 8: killing game

ALT 9: lightning strike

ALT 10: last man standing

RULES:

SOFT RULES:

prompts should be answered in the form of whump

creators can produce whatever kind of media they want

you don’t have to complete all the prompts! you can create however much you want to

you can use the prompts after the event ends and can complete them in tandem with any other event

you can post on any platform you want, however this blog will only be sharing those posted on tumblr

if you want to be featured on the hall of fame then you have until the 3rd of March to inform this blog that you completed all the days

if you have questions consult the faq before asking

HARD RULES: (specifically for being featured on the blog)

when uploading febuwhump content to tumblr, please use the tags:

febuwhump (i’ll also be checking febuwhump2024)

the relevant day’s tag e.g. febuwhumpday1, febuwhumpday2…

nsfw (if relevant)

and any trigger warnings that may be important!

you can also tag the blog, @febuwhump

i cannot guarantee your work will be archived on the blog because I have no idea how many participants there will be. a random selection of works tagged in accordance to the rules above will be reblogged every day of february.

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reblog if you want a whump ask in your inbox

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Maybe it’s just because I write historical and use a lot of weird words, but there’s just something about underused, obscure whumpy words.

Feeble. Timid. Backbreaking. Unmercifully. Wrath. Despair. Wretched. Relentless. Unbearable. Arduous. Grievous. Chastening. Deference. Malevolent. Dreary. Fearsome. Anguish. Excruciating. Torment. Irons. Lament. Hopeless. Fetters. Sorrow. Suffer. Weary. Thrashing. Tearful. Disdain. Powerless. Leniency. Shudder. Pitiful. Sardonic. Lowly. Pitiless. Languishing. Mistreat. Cudgel. Scourging. Cuff. Chastisement. Futile. Drudgery. Shackles. Servitude. Quivering. Travail. Cringing. Subservience. Recalcitrant. Spurn. Meager. Hatred. Malignant. Condemnation. Timorous. Weeping. Sanguine. Pallor. Forsaken. Forlorn.

I could go on.

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I've seen multiple awesome writers worried that people aren't going to like one of their series because it's "not real whump" or some similar sentiment, so I feel compelled to say this.

Some people prefer physical whump

Some people prefer emotional whump

Some people prefer psychological/mental whump

Some people like recovery arcs

Some people like fluff and comfort after the whump

Some people like whump that focuses more on angst

Some people like plot-heavy whump

Some people like worldbuilding-heavy whump

Also, the more niche a piece of writing is, the more happy the people who enjoy that niche will be to find something that fits it

Basically you can write whatever you want and there will be an audience somewhere who loves it.

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Attention Whump Community!

Clogging disability tags is a massive problem that we need to address. Many tags, especially those surrounding permanent injuries, paralysis, vision loss and certain illnesses have become unusable due to being flooded with unrelated things. Yes, that includes your writing. Those tags are not for you. It's isolating, frustrating and depressing to try finding a community and other people who share your issues but all that comes up is whump, fandom shit, gifs, headcanons, etc.

I'm newly paralyzed. I have looked at many tags surrounding paralysis, trying to find support, a community, anything of people struggling with the same thing. Nothing. There's barely anything for us in the general disabilty tags. I am BEGGING you to understand and recognize how AWFUL it is.

So, I have a proposition. A tag you can and should use exclusively for disability content in whump writing. Not any other tag surrounding disability, lest you'll clog it up.

#disabled whumpee

It's tempting to use more specific tags, I get it. Due to being in the whump community myself I know #medical whump is already a tag. You have those tags. Use them. Don't use the disability tags. Don't clog up the few spaces us disabled people have.

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Caretaker teaching Whumpee how to have their own wants and dreams again.

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Person that absolutely refuses to rest and it making them sick + Somebody in their life that helps them recover from their illness = 💕✨💞

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Thinking about two partners stuck in bed with the flu ... A has taken medicine and it's enough to suppress their symptoms enough that they can sit up in bed and work on their laptop; they have to duck to the side to muffle stray little sneezing fits or rasping coughs into their sleeve, and their head sort of aches behind their eyes and in their sinuses, but they're managing.

B, on the other hand, is having the *worst* time despite taking the maximum dosage of multiple medications. They're caught in a half-asleep, low-grade fever haze and feel absolutely miserable; all they can do is curl up tight against their partner, shivering a little despite the blankets. They interrupt the sound of A's typing every minute or so with a barking coughing fit or a heavy sneeze that shudders all the way through them (and gets muffled into the blankets/a handful of damp tissues/A's side), and they're sniffling nearly incessantly despite the humidifier running beside the bed.

A strokes their fingers through B's hair as they work and murmurs hoarse "bless you"s and "poor thing"s, occasionally bending to press a kiss to their partner's forehead.

When a particularly harsh sneeze from B triggers a coughing fit, A's brow furrows. They rub a hand over B's back, grimacing at the raspy wheeze from B's chest as they catch their breath.

"How did you manage to get so sick?" they murmur.

B can only let out a pitiful groan and curl up closer to them.