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seeing them around again and wanna make another one bc i love these

#whump without a whumper lol #i also think this blog is 6 years old too but idk. i had it in high school at least #is whump without a whumper niche? thats honestly all i care about sfsdfds #polls

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For members of the Whump community looking for book recommendations packed with whumpy content, I have provided:

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

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

Last updated: 29 December, 2023

#oooooh #books

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If you have another reason not listed, please comment or reblog with your answer. Also please reblog for a bigger sample size

#voted intimacy bc my general media enjoyment in any genre usually boils down to character interactions #tho emotional probably works too #bc i do not really care for whump that isn't environmental/circumstantial #polls #whump community

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a genuine question since I’ve seen this being debated a lot

feel free to give your reasons / thoughts on this but please also remember to respect other people’s opinions

#i think calling it morally reprehensible is pretty extreme but yeah it makes me uncomfortable and is a big No #bc most rpf in this context is about real people who are currently alive and have the possibility of stumbling upon it #it's not like historical fiction which is interpretation of people long dead and which still makes attempts to adhere to actual history #also what stays in your own head vs what you choose to write and share in a public space #like i don't think having fantasies or imagining things about real people is Bad but it's how you act that can have consequences #idk. i think rpf has always Existed and kinda always will but the internet has blurred so many lines and its very. yikes. rn #polls

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Me learning that not only are cishet people into whump, but hardcore conservative Christian transphobes are into whump:

#i mean it sounds wild but have you Seen the bizarre obsession christians have with gore and violence #unfortunately it makes sense jdkfjfj #anyway transphobes are Not welcome here!! gtfo and perish <3 #whump community

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blood is the prettiest accessory a boy can wear

#text

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#for me it's like. all hurt/comfort is whump but not all whump is hurt/comfort #like it's one specific Flavor of whump #but its also bc i see 'hurt/comfort' as being fully about physical hurt #if it's purely emotional then it's just not whump at all to me #polls #writing whump

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FAQ

Please submit no more than TWO names at a time!

What is this? Let's Talk Whump is a series of interviews with whump bloggers aimed at spotlighting the amazing writers here in this community. It aims to promote and support whump blogs by providing a unique way of talking about the whump experience.

Who can be interviewed? Anyone who writes whump.

How are interviewees selected? They are either nominated or I reach out to people randomly.

Can I nominate more than one person? Yes. Absolutely!

Can I nominate myself? Technically, you can. Should you is a different question though.

Where do I nominate someone? In the askbox please!

Does the nominee need to have original work? Yes. It doesn't need to be a series/ OCs (ie. prompt or generic whump blogs are fine) but they do need to have some original work. I do apologise, however this blog aims to spotlight creators and a lot of the questions are aimed at writers and their writing processes. If you do want to discuss a specific situation, please DM me.

How long does the interview process take? Around 48-72 hours. It all depends on how soon responses are received, the editing time and sometimes unexpected things do crop up.

What does an interview involve? It involves answering series of questions talking about the experience and love for whump and it's community. At the moment the questions are standardised but there's a possibility of customising them in the future. After I receive the answer, I edit and format and then work with the interviewee to ensure they're happy with the results. Once they are, the interview is published!

Can I suggest interview questions? Definitely! Please do.

Can visual artists/gif makers be included?A couple of people have asked this and it's definitely been something I've considered carefully. Unfortunately, at the moment, I'm unable to include visual artists, gif makers and such simply due to the sheer scope. It's something that could possibly be done in the future if there was extra Mods.

I sent you a DM, ask, I commented, and you didn't respond? This simply means I didn't see it. Try sending it again :)

#whump community

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does anyone else here struggle with their depression affecting whump enjoyment? I find that the worse my depression is, the less whumperflies I get. I can read or watch whumpy parts that would have me flailing on a good day, but on that day it just feels... like nothing.

It just sucks because I feel like I'm wasting the good and rare whumpy scenes on bad brain days. But I don't know I'm gonna be numb to it until I get there, ya know?

Fuck it, I'm making a poll.

#polls #whump community #sick brain makes it more enjoyable usually #tho sometimes im so numb and tired that nothing can emotionally resonate with me for more than 2 minutes

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huge fan of this guy i hope something bad happens to him

#whump memes

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being a writer is like *gets injured* oh cool now I can describe this character's suffering more accurately

#whump memes

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I am generally curious when this realization happened for people. Please reblog to get the most amount of people to see it.

I was around 10 when I knew I liked it, but 13 when I knew what it was.

#10-14 tho i didn't know what whump *was* until 2016/17 i think #polls #whump community

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#mmm nosebleeds babey #polls

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Anyone have good environmental whump blogs to follow? I adore whump with a whumper, and that’s what I primarily write, but I would love to branch out a little.

#might do a bit of self promo here lol #im sadly not super active atm bc i don’t have a whumpy fixation right now #but i tend to strongly prefer environment > whumper so thats what a Lot of my stuff has been here hskdjdj #whump community

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Whumptober 2022

Welcome to Whumptober 2022, in its fifth year of running!

To those of you who participated last year, welcome back! To everyone new, WELCOME!

Please make sure to read the Event Info 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.

With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators, see what juicy whump they’ve created too! We wish you all the fun!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

Keep reading

#events #whumptober2022

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“Hurt/Comfort as The Heart of Fandom” - Fan Studies at the Crossroads: An Interview with Lynn Zubernis and Katherine Larson (2012)

“Hurt/Comfort as The Heart of Fandom” - Fan Studies at the Crossroads: An Interview with Lynn Zubernis and Katherine Larson. A 2012 interview and some responses to Bacon-Smith.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

Excerpt below:

Lynn: H/C seems like the last subgenre to remain determinedly in the closet. Slash has been written about. BDSM has come out of the closet with a flourish thanks to 50 Shades of Grey. Hurt/comfort remains less discussed and more hidden – perhaps because it is less displaced and therefore more vulnerable to shaming. In some ways, H/C is a more primitive drive than even sex. We are all, at some level, still helpless and frightened little children, dependent on others for comfort and, quite literally, survival. H/C fic taps into those primal needs, expresses the depths of pain and fear, and then rewrites the ending of the story to include the healing that may never have happened in ‘real life’ but is continually wished for. The increased ability to comfort and heal oneself seems to result from the unfolding of the narrative, and especially from the willingness to accept the support and comfort of the group after the telling.

While H/C fanfiction carries the built-in displacement of using recognized fictional characters instead of being autobiographical, the genre seems less displaced than slash. In the Supernatural storyfinders community on Live Journal, posters commonly request fanfic about their own physical and emotional afflictions, explicitly seeking mastery through reading H/C fic about their own challenges. Writers in the genre are less likely to tie their topics to their own experience, maintaining the distance that displacement offers, but some do discuss their motivations as the same drive for mastery.  This tendency to consciously recognize the individual writer or reader’s motivation may be part of the need to keep H/C secret.

H/C fic tackles themes that cultural norms strongly discourage us from expressing openly – namely vulnerability and rage/revenge. Acknowledging vulnerability only makes one feel more vulnerable. For women especially, rage is disallowed and unacknowledged, the human desire for revenge something nobody wants to accept. Incorporating all of these themes into H/C fic is both subversive and personally dangerous, but the drive to do so is powerful. Bacon-Smith recognized the role of emotional expression as integral to coping and healing twenty years ago when she identified hurt/comfort as the heart of fandom, but she also recognized her own negative reaction as one of the reasons that heart remained so hidden.

I think the genre’s secrecy has made it less visible to researchers. It seems, at least at first inspection, to be a smaller genre than slash, but that may just be a reflection of the layers of protection that have grown up around it and the fact that fanfiction which tackles H/C themes may not be labeled H/C. It may be labeled slash, het, or gen, yet essentially be hurt/comfort.

Kathy: It’s another one of those things that seems to reflect badly on women – the desire to see our men bloody. It’s a real turn on for (some) women to see men vulnerable, exposing aspects of themselves that are normally so closely guarded.  H/C knocks down those barriers, and it’s sexy as hell. It’s another glimpse into female sexuality.

(Note: As a non-binary person and a whump fan and also ace-spec, I have somewhat weird feelings about H/C being apparently tied to 'female sexuality' and 'sexy as hell'. However, all that is one aspect of H/C. Fascinating interview, have not read the book yet. Also, the 2020 ish update to all that - At least one authors was embracing using "Hurt/comfort" to market their books, so.)

#whump meta

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Come on I want the CARETAKING!! Why show the collapse if you’re not gonna give me Caretaker rushing towards Whumpee in despair?? If you’re gonna leave out their hand grasping the hair in Whumpees neck as they lift their lolling head??? The other hand frantically putting pressure on the wound to their abdomen as they beg Whumpee to wake up

#this is the epitome of whump for me #i love me some desperation!!!! #u got the whumpee in physical pain and the caretaker in emotional pain its perfect. two for the price of onw #tropes