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I'm Curious...

#depends on the blorbo i think fits the whump best tbh #i put ‘it changes’ bc of that #but honestly 99% of my blorbos / ocs are female #(also like. ‘whumpee’ to me is not a character?? #like if i see a prompt or whatever and it just refers to them as whumpee then they just kinda‚‚‚ don’t exist in my head??? #they’re just an abstract concept at that point #i Have to apply a blorbo or existing oc to it so i can imagine the scenario properly)

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So, with NaNoWriMo in full swing, and unfortunately having already seen some examples of this, I just want to say:

If you see a Tumblr post by a disabled person talking about their disability, and they aren't specifically posting it as a prompt or writing resource, do not reblog it with tags like #whump inspo or start talking about your OCs. That is so, so fucking inappropriate and weird.

It's one thing to write about disabled characters, but it's not okay to take a post by a real person about their own experiences and make it about your OCs. Just don't.

#i have issues with this in non-whump-specific media too #like movies that’re “based on a true story” #bc when they say that they really just mean “hey look we took this person’s trauma and made it ✨marketable✨!!” #and that just feels so icky to me

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i have a collaborative whump playlist in case anon (or anyone else) is interested! it’s currently around 27.5 hrs long :)

I'm working on a playlist, is it ok if I ask you what songs give you whump vibes? Can be from the whumper, whumpee, loved one, or caretaker POV… it's all good!

Hmm I don't really listen to a lot of music tbh... the main things that come to mind are Sucker for Pain, Believer by Imagine Dragons... that's all I've got rn (and tells you the era when I stoppped being exposed to new music lol)

I do have a tag for whump type music that should have lots of other people's favourites though - whumpy music

Sorry I can't be of more help and good luck with your playlist!

#whump playlist #whump songs

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i would Happily be called this tbh

If you were a pet whumpee, what would your whumper 'loving new master' forcibly rename you?

If you hate what you get at first you may have ONE reroll but no more than that. because pets don't get to choose their own names after all. 🙃

I know some of the names are less dehumanizing than others, but the human names on here were from lists of the most popular names for pets. so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#look at me actually posting to this blog #whump #pet whump #random generator #whump game

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haha yes you can trust me with your fictional men. I will be normal with them and torture them the usual amount

#for me it’s already traumatised blonde women #or occasionally already traumatised brunette women #but yes

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Betrayals

Have your Whumper give Whumpee and their team an ultimatum.

"Give me Whumpee or I'll raze your base to the ground and put a bullet in anyone standing in my way."

And let your Whumpee break down with each little betrayal. Because it's their team, they'll have their back. Right?

But when they look around the room, their hopes are shattered. Friends look away and refuse to meet their eyes. Teammates whose eyes now contain an anger and fear that they've never seen. No one speaks up.

And they are fully ready to turn Whumpee over.

Or Whumpee won't even let it come to that. The message is clear. And so they step forward and say in the smallest voice: "I'll go turn myself in."

And their heart breaks when no one stops them when they step forward. And no one comes after them when they leave the room.

Bonus, however, if Caretaker steps in front of them: "We are not giving them up."

But the damage is done and even if they fight Whumper off, Whumpee knows they can never trust their team again :3

#o o f #whump #emotional whump #whump prompt #team whump

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noice

Yeahhhhh…… that tracks 😂

#not whump #uquiz

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Please reblog this post if you are a whumper/member of the whump community.

Let the experiments continue.

#not whump

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Prompt (based on me having a headache):

Whumpee is trying to do their job, and everything is very chaotic for the team right now. As Leader, they are constantly working, and right now, the stress is... A LOT.

One day, probably due to stress, Whumpee has a horrific headache, plus some chills, maybe even a fever or cough if you're so inclined. Normally, it wouldn't be a big deal, but given their lack of sleep, it's excruciating.

They try to power through, but at some point, they just curl up on the floor between tasks and squeeze their eyes shut. Caretaker finds them like this and quickly gets them a blanket, some medicine, and a soda to give them some relief.

#whump prompt #sickness #fever #i forgot how i tagged things #but anyways ye look at me finally trying to revive this blog

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So, You Think You Might Be A Whumpee

Have you been getting hurt a lot lately in new and creative ways? Is it always you who’s getting kidnapped, for some reason? Do you lose consciousness with alarming regularity but with no noticeable long-term effects? Do you regain consciousness to find a loved one looking worriedly over you so often it’s beginning to get a little boring, frankly? Do all the villains you meet seem weirdly sadistic, to the point of torturing you more than they pursue their actual goals? Do you have a faint sense anytime something bad happens that this has, in some universe, happened to you before, and will probably happen to you again?

I have good news for you! And also bad news.

The good news first: there’s a name for your role in fiction, and it’s “whumpee”. (If this is the first time you’re hearing that you’re a fictional character – buddy, that’s a rough one to grapple with. Talk to a trusted spiritual advisor or team leader and get over that hurdle before finishing this quick guide.) Nine times out of ten, being a whumpee means you’re one of the good guys, so take heart! You’re on the right path. (The People In Charge aren’t very excited about exquisitely hurting the bad guys.) Being a whumpee also means you’re  unlikely to die. Most days, this is good news. Some days, this will be terrible news.

Speaking of which: the bad news. The bad news is, you’re going to keep getting hurt. Again, and again, and again. In new and creative ways. If you’re lucky, you’ll just have a weird run of fevers. If you’re unlucky, you might wake up in Maximum Security Evil Prison tomorrow and will spend your next three birthdays slowly losing faith that your team will ever come for you. (They will come for you. You know that deep down, don’t you?) None of this is fun for you, or dignified. The People in Charge know this, but since you are fictional and they are not, they get all sorts of catharsis and proxy comfort and warm fluttery feelings in their bellies when you get hurt. You’re helping them. Really.

If you’re the whumpee, there’s no escaping. Best accept your fate, put on a brave face, and fight with whatever you’ve got. The Narrative is on your side, even when it’s hitting you over the head with the butt of a gun or dragging you down a dark alley with a bag over your head. You can, however, learn to lessen your pain or spot when it’s lurking around the corner. Some things to look out for:

Struggling is good. It’s not going to get you out of trouble, but it might make you feel better and the People in Charge like it.

Are you wearing a white shirt? Bummer! Make your team medic pack the trauma kit because you’re gonna bleed.

No matter how much you think your team hates you, or doesn’t trust you, or doesn’t care about you, you’re wrong. They care if you get hurt. If you get hurt, please tell someone you trust. Don’t keep it in – you’ll think you’re being stoic and dignified, but in fact, you’re likely to pass out right when your team needs you most. It’s dangerous and embarrassing for you and the people you love.

If you’re the medic, pick a trusted team member and give them a tour of your med kit or medical suite. Build up their confidence because one day, it’s going to be you with the bullet in your stomach. (The People in Charge love it when doctors get hurt.)

What you’re capable of while injured may vary wildly depending on what The People In Charge are interested in. Push yourself to your limits, but don’t stress too much about the fact that this week you can’t cook for yourself because you broke a finger whereas last week you pushed a car off of someone with a knife through your kidney.

Being a whumpee is a big job, and a scary one! You’re guaranteed excitement, intense relationships, a deeply personal knowledge of human anatomy, and invigorating enemies. It’ll be painful, it’ll be stressful, it’ll be a whole string of “this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me”, but remember: the People in Charge love you. They’re cheering for you. You’ll pull through in the end.

You always do.

#akfjakyjksgnkd #good post op

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bbc father brown has some nice whump in it, especially after the first three or so seasons. a number of episodes have me fully at ‘rocking back and forth while violently hand flapping and making excited squealy noises’ levels of whumperfly stimming 👀

Do you know any whumpy shows/movies that really give you whumperflies (not anime)??

I haven't watched a movie in years, sorry :( Perhaps some of the people who I've tagged below might know!

@whumpshaped @whumpwillow @whumpsday @a-class-attempter @whumpster-dumpster @painsandconfusion @the-three-whumpeteers @oddsconvert

#yes this show is my current hyperfixation #i love it so much i stg

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Currently obsessed with ‘This is Love’ by Air Traffic Controller

Honestly the whole thing is incredibly whumpy, but to prevent myself copy-pasting literally all the lyrics, here’s just the first verse:

You're no good, you're no good

You could kill me and you should

I'm an idiot for thinking

This was anything but blood

On the wall, on the couch,

On the corner of my mouth

You must like being the victim,

You've done nothing to get out

Of this pattern of pain

Washed away by the rain

You'll forgive me if I promise

And do nothing but the same

This is life until death

Could be my last dying breath

But this is love, love, shut up, this is love

Because I can't be the only one who notices song lyrics that either ARE very whumpy or can be applied to whumpy situations... tell me, what's the most recent (or favourite!) whump song lyric you've heard?

Please, I'm curious!

#side note it’s been so long that i have forgotten how i tagged things on this blog

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so i see this already a+ trope, and i raise you: whumper and whumpee having a conversation in a language none of the other captives understand.

whumper telling the whumpee that they know the captives are trying to escape. giving a threat about what’ll happen to them all if they go through with their escape plan, and a further threat for if the whumpee tells the others about this conversation. then when the whumper leaves and the other captives start asking what was said, all the whumpee can do is shake their head and say they’re not allowed to tell — and then watch with a sinking feeling in their chest as the others go back to planning their escape.

or, whumpee being used as a translator for the other captives. having to tell them exactly what the whumper’s saying, every single threat and insult, the detailed explanations of how they’re all going to be hurt. especially if the whumper can speak the captives’ first language perfectly well, but just likes to listen to the way the whumpee’s voice trembles as they translate. that way, whumpee knows that if they miss out a single detail of what the whumper’s saying, there’ll be hell to pay later.

Today’s aesthetic: when two captives are having a conversation right under their captors’ noses, either by speaking in a language their captors don’t speak, or in coded phrases only the other can understand, all in a casual tone of voice that doesn’t sound at all like planning a daring escape.

#i really need to post on this blog more often

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Effects of Solitary Confinement/Captivity

For all of you writers out there, it’s important to fully understand the tropes/ideas that you’re writing about. Specifically, solitary confinement is a commonly used whump trope that has many more psychological effects than we expect. Not all of these effects apply to prolonged captivity, but many of them do.

Beyond 15 days, solitary confinement usually causes severe psychological harm.

These effects are more powerful among adolescents because the brain is still developing.

Anxiety/Obsessions

Because of the limited activities prisoners are allowed (being inside room, going to the bathroom, showering, sleeping), they often develop intense obsessions for specific things. Some obsess over cleanliness, hygiene, exercise, self-care, while others obsess over self-mutilation, hallucinations, or a particular object. Anxiety can also develop concerning social interactions, hallucinations, psychosis, and soon victims lose the ability to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

Decreased Life Expectancy

Due to lack of exercise and high stress, there is a higher risk of hypertension, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes in victims of prolonged captivity.

Depression

Emotional blunting (lack of emotion) due to loss of social contact and activities often leads to depression. Forced loss of initiation of activities/ideas/interactions combined with a sense of hopelessness about their situation leads to this state, too.

Difficulty Thinking/Memory/Concentration

Victims of solitary confinement or prolonged captivity don’t have to think. They don’t have the luxury of practicing and improving upon their mental abilities. Without mental stimulation, the brain deteriorates, leading to significant drops in thinking, memory, and concentration capabilities.

Disorientation in Time and Space

After extensive periods of time without a clock or without a variety of activities to divide time into manageable segments, victims often are unable to tell how much time has passed. They also can hallucinate distortions of space, or walls closing in on them.

Hallucinations of All Senses

Without the ability to see in far distances, vision fades. Also, when the victim’s surroundings don’t change (especially when captivity is in grey/black/white areas), our eyes can lose some ability to see color. Once outside of captivity, colorful surroundings can fade to grey. Also, victims often have intense hallucinations of sounds/smells/sights/feelings because they are perpetually feeling nothing, so their brain makes up anything it can.

Higher Rates of Harm (Self and Others)

Due to the violent ideation, suicidal ideation, and an inability to experience external stimuli, self-harm and violent actions are common amongst victims, specifically when in captivity. Inabililty to feel (due to emotional blunting) leads to a persistent, ever-growing desire to feel something, and many find that ability to feel through committing violent acts.

Hypersensitivity to External Stimuli

Victims often have a complete lack of external stimuli, other than that created by the prison staff, which is rare. Especially when external stimuli is commonly associated with pain (harm by prison guards, captors), hypersensitivity to external stimuli is common among victims. Long periods of time without any stimuli leads to overinflated terror of stimuli in general, as well as increased sensitivity to it.

Inability to Organize Daily Lives

Because victims’ lives are completely controlled by outside forces (prison guards, captors), their brain begins to rely on those forces to organize their lives. Once pushed out of this systematic organization, they often lose the ability to do it themselves and develop chronic lethargy or apathy in which they spend extensive periods of time without doing anything. Sometimes, they stop behaving altogether.

Insomnia

Insomnia is often caused by the lack of external change of the victim’s environment. Because victims cannot often tell day from night or one hour from another, they are in a constant state of time-related confusion, leading to an inability to sleep for a normal period of time. As sleeping is one of the things they can control while in captivity, it can become a sort of coping mechanism to rely on to escape from their outside world, but they often struggle to sleep for long periods of time due to this inability to discern time periods.

Loss of Social Initiation

When confronted with social situations, victims generally avoid initiating any social contact, whether it be physical, verbal, or nonverbal. This is partially due to a lack of previous social contact (other than prison guards), which leads to a sense of anxiety around all social interaction because they have so little of it. Also, the loss of ability to organize their own lives can contribute to this.

Overt Paranoia

Extreme paranoia is common amongst victims of prolonged captivity, especially when the victim experiences repetitive, severe harm. Combined with an inability to know what time it is, the victim is on constant high alert for any source of possible harm, meaning paranoia can develop with anything they associate with harm, whether it be noises, objects, or sights.

Poor Impulse/Emotion Control

Specifically fear and rage, victims often suffer from an inability to control their emotions and the behavior caused by any emotions they experience. Because they have so little social contact, any social experience they do have is often fueled by hours and hours of pent-up rage, fear, or anxiety. These suppressed feelings explode during social interactions, leading to acts of violence or panic attacks during these experiences.

Psychosis

The symptom of psychosis is often related to the hallucinations that victims experience when in solitary confinement. Due to a constant state of being alone, they tend to hallucinate social interactions with other people, voices, and feelings, leading to a state of disconnect from reality.

Suicidal Ideation

As well as violent ideation (towards others, especially captors/guards), suicidal ideation is relatively common amongst victims because they are isolated in their minds, forced to fantasize about ways to escape their captivity. These fantasies often involve killing the guards or killing themselves. These fantasies often have more violent tendencies due to the withheld rage/fear they experience.

If you’d like any other research-based explanations of any other whump tropes or writing tropes, just ask!

Sources:

What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?

Solitary Confinement: Torture in US Prisons

Solitary FAQs

Why Solitary Confinement Is The Worst Kind of Psychological Torture

Solitary Confinement FAQs

I’m Still In That Box: 23 Years In Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement Facts

#writing reference

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✨being held at gunpoint✨

especially when it’s to get whumpee’s team to cooperate 👀👀

Happy Whump Day!

Favorite trope:

Choking

Reblog and add one of your favorite tropes to keep it going~ I'd love to see how many Whump blogs interact. ✨

#not me reviving this blog specifically to add to this post 👀

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Sorry I haven’t posted for a while, I’m currently hyperfixating on The Mallorca Files (which has some really nice whumpy moments in it, in case any of y’all want to check it out), and therefore probably won’t be able to write anything until I manage to Calm Down About It

#honestly though it’s so good #s1 is definitely the most whumpy of the two #and s2 only has six episodes instead of ten bc covid meant they had to stop filming #but the whole thing is amazing #series one episodes one nine and ten are my favourites bc of the whumpiness #Lei has a physical form #the mallorca files #whump #whump rec

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I had a really whumpy dream last night about getting shot at and kidnapped, then escaping, then getting shot at and kidnapped again. And honestly it was the best sleep I’ve had in a long time, 10/10 would recommend dreaming about cowering in the corner of a darkened room with a gun pointed at you and desperately begging for your life

#I definitely think there’s something wrong with me #but oh well #Lei has a physical form #whump #kidnap #recapture #shooting