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Elaborations on the different options below the cut.

Leather Collar

Old reliable. If it's good enough for your dog it is good enough for your whumpee.

Metal Collar

Heavy and Sturdy. Your whumpee is going to feel the weight of this one. But more importantly they won't get out of this one as easily.

Shock Collar

The perfect choice to teach your whumpee some obedience. A painful jolt of electricity at the press of a button will quickly remind your whumpee of who is in charge.

Explosive Collar

The extreme option. Your whumpee better does what you say if they value their life because if they don't. BOOM!

Enchanted Collar

Don't like your whumpee having free will? With this collar your whumpee will be compelled to follow your every comand once it is locked around their neck.

Magic Collar

Collar your whumpee with magic. This ethereal collar might not exist physically but it is real nonetheless. And with enough imagination and mana it can practically replicate any attributes.

Subtle Collar

Barely more than a necklace. But as long as you and your whumpee know what it stands for the difference is practically negligible. It does have the benefit of not drawing too much attention if you like to take your whumpee out in public.

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i know the trope is usually demonic possession but currently thinking about angelic possession & it feels like a really good mix of cosmic & body horror.

like. imagine:

this pure, angelic being chooses a human as its vessel & burns their body from the inside out in order to fit inside it, using it like some kind of costume. holy light pours from their eyes, blinding in its brilliance, eroding their eyes into nothing & leaving burn marks trailing down their face from their tears. their body twisted & contorted, arms made into a facsimile of wings, a smattering of eyes growing & spreading across their body, their face morphed to reflect not just a human but a lion, a bird, an ox. their skin torn from their bones & spun around them like wool, melting at their feet from the heat. the angel speaks with a human mouth & tongue, but the sheer volume shatters ribs & causes lungs to burst. and in the end, the angel has the perfect body to begin their work on earth--all while their poor vessel is dragged along, subjected to terrifying visions of the world beyond until they can barely make sense of the world around them, experiencing every horrible second of their transformation without any way to stop the ethereal being pulling the strings.

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we should call it this again

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thinking about a whumper with psychic abilities

whumper telepathically communicating with whumpee, whether in public (to avoid drawing attention to them) or in private (to remind whumpee just how vulnerable they are to whumper's powers)

whumper reading whumpee's mind & using what they find against them, or in general just scrambling their thoughts until they can't make sense of them anymore, always leaving them questioning when whumper will intrude on their inner-most thoughts

whumper messing with whumpee's memories & altering them however they see fit

whumper messing with whumpee's emotions until whumpee is entirely dependent on whumper to regulate their emotions

whumper using their powers to alter how whumpee perceives reality around them, forcing whumpee to remain in proximity to whumper in order to sift through what's real & what's whumper's influence

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Obsessed with vampires but specifically when they're really pathetic

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A proposal

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)

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The difference is that a fetish is bound to the floor while a kink is suspended from the ceiling

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we live in a world where marriage as an institution exists and is unavoidably ingrained into almost every aspect of life politically, socially, and economically however when you talk about 'romanticizing problematic power dynamics in a way that harms people' the poster child for that is erotica that involves sensitive subject matters. it's crazy because over the past year and change i've been privy to the romantic expectations of hundreds if not thousands of people and let me tell you, middle to upper class men just still straight up think of women as either household servants, brood mares, or both. whatever sort of sexual degeneracy you think is being normalized in society because of triggering erotica is an absolute drop in the bucket compared to the fact that the current standards and norms of romance and sex are barely one degree of separation from what they were when women were explicitly considered property. sorry guys the bottom up approach of attacking horny fiction for being too morally degenerate never has and never will do anything to reduce sexual violence or spousal/partner abuse

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List of Ways to (FICTIONALLY) Torture Someone

I genuinely have no idea how to make a content warning for this- just don't do this stuff irl ig

Caning

Electrocution

Stress Positions

Sensory Deprivation

Degradation

Water boarding

Strangling

Choking

Flaying

Skinning

Nailing

Drugging

Sleep Deprivation

Nudity

Shaving away the hair off their head

Plain ol' beating/manhandling

Public humiliation

Keeping them in a cage

Keeping them in a small dark place

Cutting off a body part

Carving them out with a knife

Whipping

Breaking their bones

Burning them with cigarettes

Poking holes into them with needles

Burning them in general

Forcing them to drink alcohol

Burning off their soles and forcing them to walk

Starvation

Dehydration

Sensory Overstimulation

Forcing them to scream their throat raw

Gagging them

Muzzling them

Crushing them w/ a hammer/mallet

Killing off their loved ones in front of them

Torturing their loved ones in front of them

Burying them alive

Hypothermia

Hyperthermia

Forcing them to hurt a stranger

Forcing them to hurt their loved ones

Forcing them to stay completely silent

Feel free to suggest additions!

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y’all… characters drinking alcohol (in fanfics) is not “dead dove do not eat”

character death alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

angst alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

whump alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

self-harm (in fanfics) alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

suicide (in fanfics) alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

infidelity (in fanfics) alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

BDSM / smut / rough sex (in fanfics) alone is not “dead dove do not eat”

even non-con (in fanfics) alone is not necessarily always “dead dove do not eat”

of course, any of the topics mentioned above can be “dead dove do not eat” if it’s written in extremely graphic details in the nature that will sicken your readers / in a way that can make your readers throw up and say what the actual fuck / if it’s the main plot of your story. but taboo topics alone are not “dead dove do not eat”. I’m saying this because I’ve seen people use “dead dove do not eat” tag in stories that only mention a taboo subject once and it’s one sentence or one paragraph long, and that is… not what the tag is for.

for instance, if your story contains non-con, but it’s not explicitly written in graphic details / it’s not written in a way that can make your readers throw up and say what the actual fuck / it’s not the main focus of your work / it’s only one or two paragraph long, tag it as “rape/non-con” accordingly, but it does not warrant the “dead dove do not eat” tag.

sure, you can say it’s “not that deep” and that it’s all just “made up fandom stuff”, but it can also make it more difficult for people who want to avoid the tag or people who seek out the tag specifically to curate their experiences if the tag isn’t being used correctly the way it's supposed to be used.

I’ve explained what “dead dove do not eat” as a tag means and how you can properly use it here.

but to make it as simple as possible, this is basically the meaning of “dead dove do not eat” tag 👇🏻

(so no, the tag isn’t about character going through a nasty breakup and drowning themself in alcohol or character getting drunk and having sex they end up regretting)

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Did anyone else have parents who pretty much straight-up told you that you are the reason why they can't have anything, they quit having hobbies because kids destroy everything, don't have friends because having kids means you're always too busy for that, that a life with kids is nothing but work, dishes and laundry, where you can't have anything you'd want to have in life because kids take up, destroy, spend, eat, and use up every single morsel of you

and then when you grew up they wouldn't believe you when you said you never want to have kids?

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Omg omg oh my god!

Just saw someone mention the idea of whumper speaking a different language then whumpee and just yes!?

Whumpee feeling like an animal trying to learn human commands, whumpee can't understand a word whumper is saying and just hoping SOMETHING whumpee does ends up being right

"говорити" says whumper, while whumpee desperately tries to remember what that sound means, eyes glued to the bat in whumpers hand. Whumpee tries sitting, WHACK. The word is repeated, whumpee tries again, maybe it was that bow command, whumpee lowers their head hesitantly. They stumble to the ground as that blinding pain settles in their head, wrong again. "Please..." whumpee sobs, almost expecting another hit. Nothing. That's right, That word was speak. Whumpee can't help but melt with relief as whumper mutters praise in that foreign tongue, or at least they hope it's praise, the tone was at least sweet. Whumpee didn't care. They would pretend it was praise.

"тупа собака, одного дня ти навчишся~"

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so sick of people being brought back to life and somehow sustaining ZERO brain damage from the lack of oxygen to the brain for a prolonged period of time??? no amnesia?? no stroke-like symptoms?? no loss of motor function??

give us REHAB and AFTER CARE and THERAPY post-resurrection!! like cmon. It’s not even about being realistic, it’s about giving the character a recovery arc which i know for a FACT 100% of the media consuming population on earth wants. come now

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died and came back right. there was definitely something wrong with me before? resurrection fixed me i think

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I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

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noncon monsterfuckery is so good. you may not be a monsterfucker but you're getting monsterfucked either way and you should probably make your peace with it