I suppose if Iām gonna commit to this being a more whump-centered blog I might as well go all in, so I guess an introduction is in order
Hello, my name is Aspen, Iām 22 as the time this was posted but alas due to the relentless march of time that shall change. I do write but I probably wonāt post on here too often. Iāve been a lurker for a few years now but Iāve decided I want to contribute a bit to this lovely community
Some whump tropes Iām a fan of are:
- held for ransom/used as bait. Any sort of transaction between two parties involving whumpee is always good shit
- kidnapping whump (restraints, blindfolds, gags, all of it. I eat that up)
- multiple whumpees/caretaker captive with whumpee
- torture whump, although it depends on what the torture entails. I donāt mind things such as beatings/whippings, drugging, or verbal/emotional components
- occasionally nsfwhump
Things I donāt do:
- heavy gore (eyes, stomach, or neck) or, it will only be implied/I wonāt go into detail
- lady whump. Not my cup of tea, sorry. I simply prefer the guys suffering
I have hatred in my heart so every time I see that ugly fucking armor they put on Agamemnon (boo) in Nolanās Odyssey movie Iām adding on to this post
Shit looks like the armor version of a cybertruck.
I am not going to go watch the new Odyssey movie by Christopher Nolan (mainly cause I can be really pedantic about these sorts of things and that will make me angry and miserable throughout the movie), but I do have one thing to say about it
Justice for Draft Dodger Odysseus, this man faked insanity to get out of going to war
Ever since I was a little girl I was filled with a deep, chronic loneliness that still fucks me up to this day and then I wonder why Iām so Bad at being a person
I wasnāt going to derail the disability pride month post for people with peanut allergies but in relation to that topic
I have never seen another allergy that has been so viscerally hated and mocked by people working in education like nut allergies. Iāve seen fellow teachers cringe that their classroom was the ānut freeā classroom that year. Support staff that are trained and willfully donāt follow cross contamination protocol in the lunchroom because itās too ātediousā or ātime-consumingā. Full preschools + childcare centers that refuse to accommodate nut allergies. Schools where the only free lunch is a PB&J. Before/after school programs and summer programs whose food curriculum has nuts and doesnāt provide an alternative activity.
Allergy discrimination is so so insidious and prevalent. Itās happening behind their back and it is everything from the exposure joke to possibly causing someone to go into anaphylaxis from willful ignorance.
Also other parents in the classroom are guilty too. The ānot my child not my problemā brain rot means that those lunchboxes are like bombs for airborne exposure allergies
A 22-year-old woman said Lufthansa staffers were not sympathetic to her condition when she tried to explain her life-threatening peanut alle
I was not downplaying this. The stigma is real, and people are 100% willing to let people with allergies die.
This woman was laughed at for asking for allergy accommodations at multiple points in her trip, and was denied to the point that she was practically told sheād be refused care in the event of anaphylaxis.
I work in healthcare. I cannot get my coworkers to consistently change their gloves after handling a PBJ. They literally do not think of it, and I donāt understand why. I also donāt know how to make it stick in their brains that this is a thing they need to do.
I grew up in the early 2000s with severe allergies to not just peanuts, but ALL nuts as well as beef, pork, shelfish, seeds, kiwi, and some food dyes. The resistance that my family faced from educators in the early 2000s is frankly bananas, not to mention the shit other parents and kids got up to.
When my mom tried to enroll me in preschool, the school principal refused any basic accommodations like asking everyone to wash their hands after lunch before re-entering the classroom, not bringing straight up peanuts to snack time, etc. There was no such thing as a nut free classroom at the time. The principal told my mom and me (I was 4 at the time and definitely in the room when this happened) āif sheās so sick, she belongs in a bubble, not at school.ā THE FUCKING PRINCIPAL! My mom had to threaten legal action under the ADA to get them to comply.
Look, I was on a 504 accommodation plan under the ADA for the entirety of my formative education (elementary thru high school). Thatās all 12 years!!! And yet I have had teachers hand me items Iām allergic to as a ārewardā. I have had other kids intentionally try to send me into anaphylaxis. One girl in 3rd grade asked me why I āwasnāt dead yetā when she had put on a lotion with almonds in it and then held my hand. Iāve had other parents write letters to the school saying what a terrible inconvenience it was to them to not be able to send their kiddo to school with PB&J, demanding I be Removed to a special education only class if my āneedsā were such a āburdenā to others. During elementary school āpartiesā held in the classroom on holidays and for student birthdays, I was always sent to sit out in the hallway or go to the library, because even though parents were only supposed to bring safe foods into the room (they had a list of all my allergies) they never once got it right. Administrators fought me tooth and nail for the right to carry my epi pen and other meds on my person at all times. Why they thought I would start dealing benadryl on the playground, I do not know. At lunch, I was always sat at a specific segregated table labeled the āNut Free Tableā alone because who the fuck is going to sit there with the literally segregated outcast? But ONCE notably I was sat on one side of a line of blue masking tape down the table top with the rest of my class on the other. One side was the NUTS side!!! As if allergens would respect that tape barrier. (Spoiler alert: they do NOT!)
Literally from preschool to my senior year of high school, I was āthe peanut kidā. Other parents gave my mom books about how to ācure your childās food allergies from HOMEā by micro dosing with things they are allergic to (please never ever ever even attempt anything like a food challenge with a known allergen outside of the care and supervision of a medical professional, holy shit thatās so dangerous). My mom joined the PTA in my last year of high school so that I could maybe participate in all the senior-focused events like pool parties and breakfast at school on the first Friday of the month. The number of times another parent either (a) decided it wasnāt worth it to care or (b) intentionally brought peanut products to an event to spite either me or my mom??? I literally could not count. It happened constantly.
College was better, but I still occasionally had people BALK when I asked them to please not eat a Nature Valley bar with whole nuts in it right the fuck next to me in lecture, thanks. Work parties and catered lunches were always impossible. A few conferences I went to as an undergrad were SUPPOSED to be nut-free, but always fucked up the catering. At one, they set up snack tables by every exit of the conference auditorium so that when people left after the talk, they all congregated around the exits and opened macadamia nut cookies and granola bars. When I had subsequently had a massive allergic reaction and needed help getting home (Iād walked) after taking like 200mg of benadryl, the staff offered me a stack of napkins and a lukewarm apology.
Food allergy is a disability which touches literally every aspect of a personās life. Everytime I share with someone new about what it was like growing up with my allergies, they have never heard anything like it in their lives. Theyāre always like āholy shit, seriously??? People did that??? Kids tried to kill you??? Parents wanted you kicked out of the classroom????ā Yeah, man. Yeah. My own brother (who doesnāt have any allergies at all) doesnāt understand why I donāt āeat more adventurouslyā and why I wonāt travel internationally. So, saying it REALLY LOUDLY for people in the back:
FOOD ALLERGY IS A DISABILITY FOR WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS ACCOMMODATIONS AND HAVE THEM TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
So this story is less about me and more about an acquaintance of mine. About a year ago some classmates and I were privileged enough to go visit Germany for 3 weeks as a school trip. My acquaintance, who for the sake of her privacy we will call Amy, had a deadly allergy to sunflower seeds and certain other grains. I do not know for certain if the flight attendants were made aware of this fact.
When on the flight Amy was fed bread that contained multiple things she was allergic to. The packaging was completely unlabled and she was never offered an allergy warning before or during the 13 hour flight. She had an allergic reaction and had a very hard time breathing and had to take the ONE epipen she had access to for this whole trip that day. She would not be able to get a new one. The flight attendants did not give a singular fuck about what happened to her and the position she was put in because of their carelessness.
Fast forward to the end of the trip. Luckily Amy had no further incidents during the trip. We get on the plane for the flight home and Amy asks about the food for the flight and if she can have the ingredients list. She also makes it clear to the flight attendants that this is really important because she has already had an incident and no longer has her epipen.
Do you want to know what the flight attendants did?
They kicked her off the plane. They kicked a seventeen year old off a plane and left her behind in an unfamiliar city because they would rather not deal with her disability. She delayed the flight for several minutes begging and crying for them to not leave her there. She told them she had no way of accessing a new epipen here, but they said she couldnāt fly without it. Me and my friend who were sitting next to her held her and argued with the flight attendant to keep her on the plane. She sobbed as she said she could just not eat anything, or that she could eat what she brought aboard. They still kicked her off. Bless the chaperone that chose to stay behind with her so she wouldnāt be alone.
You want to know the most fucked up part after that? The flight attendant who kicked her off was amused about the whole thing like it was some funny joke. Another one complained that āIn all his years of working this job he had never been so disrespected.ā
Amy and the chaperone ended up sleeping at that airport over night before they could get on another flight. I donāt remember if she was able to get another epipen for the flight home but I think she was.
Case in point, allergies are a serious disability that NEED to be treated with more respect and severity. Regardless of what they are. Someoneās life could be at stake. When someone has a disability they need to be accommodated. Donāt give them a hard time or make jokes at their expense. So what if you have to give up a thing or two to make sure they donāt die. Youāll survive not eating that specific thing for a bit. And as someone who grew up with someone with a serious allergy, I promise you it is not that hard to give something up for the safety of others.
Okay so I made a list of 30 (well, 29 actually) prompts I am releasing into the wild. The point of this is that at least one of the participants are not having a good time.
It has 30 prompts for November but feel free to write and post whenever, but please add the tag #No one nuts November or #NoonenutsNovember wherever you post. You do not have to @ or credit this blog if you use any of these prompts.
(Text version under the cut)
1. Safeword
2. Sub/dom drop
3. Loosing intrest halfway through
4. Trying something that doesn't work
5. Medical emergency (bonus points: it happens during bondage)
6. Bad/failed orgasm
7. Should have safeworded
8. "Wait, it's not supposed to hurt?"
9. "Let's never try that again."
10. Sex so bad they break up after
11. Realistic shower sex
12. Incompatible kinks
13. Threw up on that thang
14. Can't get hard/wet/aroused
15. Says wrong persons name during sex
16: ugly crying/overwhelmed
17: "I remembered you being better at this"/"I'm not impressed."/"I've had better."/"You're not hung chill"
18: Allergic reaction/cut off circulation
19. Dirty talk/degradation gets too real
20. Ignored/missed a safeword
21. Random horny confession that kills the mood for the other person/people
22. "No really, that's not going to fit."
23. Fire alarm goes off/interrupted by a third party
24. Pushing themselves into sex they aren't ready for
25. Sex toy gets stuck
26. Only one person having fun/agreeing to boring sex
27. Couple brings in a bad 3rd
28. Sex in a bad location
29. Sex so bad it kills you/one of the participants dies
At the risk of being a hypocrite, I have something I need to get off my chest. I am so fucking sick with how fandoms behave now. Everything is a controversy. Everyone who disagrees with you is stupid and wrong and ObViOuSlY this interpretation is correct and the only correct way to see it. Iām so fucking sick of the arguments and the discourse and the bullshit.
We (yes I am including myself in this) all need to just calm the fuck down oh my god. Liked a show? Great! No need to harass people who didnāt. Didnāt like a show? Thatās fine too. No need to harass people who do! Show didnāt end the way you wanted? Go write a fan fic where it ended your way instead of pestering creators about it. Get your head out of your ass and chill the fuck out
"What do we have hereā¦? I might have use for these...~ You wanted 200 gold for the dwarf and his map? Fine, but I'm taking this lot too."
....Sooooooo our party bit off a bit more of a fight than we could chew and got TPK'd [shrug emoji] But instead of just dying out in the forest, we were stabilized and restrained before getting dragged off in the clutches of a mysterious (and SCARY) drow woman! Several days of travel without enough time to recover any of our spells or abilities later, and.... We were finally left alone in a cell,,,,
I had a lot of fun making the manacles as nasty and rusted as I could, and matching the gag and blindfold materials to Allanann and Nym's cloaks~ ;pc
More context and rambles down below the cut~
This whole thing stung extra hard for Nym (my drow) bc he'd suggested we try to get the drop on our captor and the bugbear we'd heard her talking too, before she took the NPC and map we'd come for, and, uh.... That really didn't work out. (And this was after he'd lectured our druid, Tia (moon elf), on her impatience and rushing after people multiple times!)
He and Allanann really got the worst of it on the way in (being men and all....) but poor Allanann (our ranger) really got the brunt of it- what with being a half-elf and all. He was already angsty about his heritage and feeling left out with some stuff we'd found, and now he was getting brushed off as trash! (Being incredibly earnest and good hearted did not help his case....) Nym, at least, is from a minor drow House and knows what's expected...
We barely had time to do more than work our gags off and try to come up with any kind of plan (And Nym picked one singular lock for Tia because she still had some spells left, where he could use Subtle metamagic on his cantrips, if anything) before our captor, Lady Vyerith, returned with another drow.
And he was wearing the damn legendary stuff we'd found!
They rubbed it in our faces for a bit- big cat with cornered prey energy, and then.... It was time to start interrogations~ Just for ease of the game (and juicy drama), we just got dragged over towards a big brazier in the corner of the room, one by one, and questioned in front of the others~
To sow distrust? To see who was the weak link? To see who knew what?
Tia got pulled up first, and she was SO SCARED- stammering and deferential and willing to give whatever answers she could! (But.... as a pretty young noble on her first adventure, it wasn't too much off the bat...) They got her name and loyalties, and why was she here? Just looking to help a family friend, honest!
She got some pushback, but not too much, and managed to plead her case with some decent persuasion rolls before getting dragged out of the room.
(This did not go over well with Allanann)
He got pulled up next- same deal, but he only gave his first name, and said his only allegiance is to his Lady (Tia). But he was bullish and curt, did the whole "I'll never give in to you!" thing.... and that pissed Lady Vyerith and Nezznar off,,, Mannnnn he almost got burned for that one,,,, (maybe did get slapped, though) OOC we were SCARED for him but IC, Tia didn't know what he was saying, and Nym was mostly gritting his teeth and trying not to cringe bc WHAT are you DOING, idiot??
Allanann truly doesn't know much, though- he's a simple, young half elf who's served the same family all his life, but he's not privy to their secrets. So, fine. He was pulled from the room.
.....And then it was Nym's turn.
He got pulled up last (our lil kobold bard's player wasn't there last week, so he couldn't be questioned, but he COULD be left in the corner to hear everything~) and ofc he's on edge. Out of spell slots with two other drow of unknown capabilities was not an ideal situation, like,,,,
When asked, Nym gave them his actual name- "Nymhriir Arkhenneld", hoping the fact that he HAD a last name would tip them off to the fact that he belonged to a minor House. (It did not)
When asked for his purpose in the area and allegiances, he told them that his allegiances are to magic and the study of the arcane- he was here seeking knowledge.
Dear reader, they did not like that answer.
The fire ROARED to life and he got yanked towards it, while the other male drow snarled about underestimating surface drow which UHHHHHH (Everyone OOC was freaking out and IC, Nym was caught off-guard because that WAS true [it just wasn't the WHOLE truth]) Nym DID clarify before they could hurt him and admitted that FINE! Yes, there was more! He has allegiances to his family.
....And the cult!
He came to the area seeking the Cult of the Dragon. But he hasn't made contact. He hasn't been active in quite some time. There- was that satisfactory? (Nezznar clearly thought he was seeking the dragon mask they'd confiscated after hearing that, but didn't say much)
They seemed satisfied with that, yes, but how long ago did he leave the Underdark? Was he even a century old? (Being surface drow seems to have given them a height advantage- Nym is on the short side for a drow, but he's still within the average range for a man! [4'10])
Nym deffo took a bit of offense to that and told them that he was 165 years old when he left the Underdark, thank you, and he left Sshamath in the 7th century. (It is, roughly, the 15th century right now)
That took them by surprise (and I fucked up my persuasion roll), but before they could try and burn him again, Nym revealed that he's undead. He left the Underdark to further his studies under Sammaster and was there when the Cult began. Some time after that.... The cult made him undead.
He kinda forgot the 'surface' thing since Lady Vyerith still has a spider motif going on, and spat out (to Nezznar) that his Lady should ask her Goddess if they have doubts.
It worked, though, and Lady Vyerith told him that Sammaster was dead- did he know? (he did not)
He got a few more questions, then.... They offered a deal. A longer leash, of sorts, as we had gotten rid of their 'security' in the nearby town. Nym was wary, but Lady Vyerith proposed he take over deterring people from Phandelver. His undying loyalty would be very valuable to her.... Would he like that?
Nym was tempted (he REALLY wants to keep his freedom, but at this point...) and they offered the dragon mask as a way to keep the town from expanding too far. With a green dragon on his side- keeping one backwater town in line should be easy, no?
(Nym has a bit of hesitation around the green dragon, but... It's better than being, what? Here? Dead?) So, he agreed, and told them that he could get the others to fall in line.
Lady Vyerith loved that answer, gave him a condescending pat on the cheek, and told him to "be a good boy and sit on the bed for now", and once Nym had obeyed, she told Nezznar to bring the others back in.
.....At which point Lady Vyerith revealed that there were two dragon cult members in the party- did they know that? A follower of Sammaster, AND a follower of Severin!
Poor Allanann knew about NEITHER and just got so blindsided (after already recently getting blindsided by Tia being able to wildshape into a dragon wyrmling a few days prior....) but neither Nym, nor Tia, knew about the other- or even knew WHO the other followed sdfghjkl,,,, (Nym was a bit better prepared- he's seen a few schisms in the cult before over doctrine, but he doesn't know who this Severin is)
Tia tried to protest- he's friends with her family, sure, but they're not, like SUUUPER involved! He helps them with research!
....And then Lady Vyerith grabbed her, and pulled off one of the gloves she's worn constantly since we all met up, revealing a twisting tattoo of a red dragon spiraling from her middle finger. (Something Allanann has seen on many a family member, but not something Nym recognises as practice from when he was active)
Allanann did NOT want to swear fealty to these drow, though- he's ONLY loyal to Tia!
...So, she needs to be persuaded, yes? Time to grab her and pull out a knife~! ....He wouldn't want his charge hurt, would he? Tensions SPIKED again! Allanann and Tia are FREAKING OUT while Nym stayed quiet, just sort of.... assessing the situation. (making himself SO suspicious) Eventually he told Allanann it would be in his best interest to accept the "generous offer" of work. (He also doesn't want to work for THEM, but... his loyalty overrode his desire to do good) (Eventually.)
Once he agreed, though, the drow went and grabbed "something" and stuck it in the fire.... Because we got branded, babey!!!
Nym got to choose where his would be placed, because he "was a good boy" while Allanann did NOT (and really did not want to be branded, either)
...Not that it made a difference, because as soon as they'd branded Nym (right above his shoulder blades, where he politely asked for it), Nezznar grabbed Allanann and slammed him up against the wall and pressed that red hot spider brand into the back of his hand. Loud and proud!
And to their credit, neither one passed out from it, but Tia was panicking bc she did NOT want to get BRANDED! She's a noble! (even though Nym is too lmao)
She got backed into a corner, blathering and begging and trying to talk her way out of it under Lady Vyerith grabbed her by the jaw lmaooooo~
She teased Tia a few times about placement, insisting she needed to brand her, and Tia pleaded and pleaded, until she finally gave up and agreed to the branding. But Lady Vyerith kept hold of her chin, and said she could never "ruin" an elf whose beauty is her social credit! But.... How long can she can be a dragon? An hour or two? ....Would she be Lady Vyerith's dragon? Ask for the privilege.
....And, voice still wavering, Tia did. ....Lady Vyerith won't get the others killed, right? If they go and recruit the green dragon... They could trade! And then Tia could go back out with the others! (Her instinct told her that the others were going to keep getting increasingly taxing orders until they outlived their usefulness, though...)
With that, the others were bundled up, blindfolded, and dropped off with MOST of our stuff a little bit outside of town. Dirty, exhausted, and incredibly sore after spending a damn TENDAYS (week) in chains!!
Nym had to talk down Allanann from trying to turn right back around and told him he needed to learn how to kiss more ass before we went to lick our wounds in town,,,
(Leading to "....But I've only ever kissed one ass my whole life!" "...Well, diversify.")
...At least Nym is glad the other drow didn't find out about ALL THIS,,,
Ok this is probably me reading too much into things but like thatās what I do. I have a TADC hot take.
Before the finale (and even before episode 8) was released, there were a few promo art pieces of the entire cast except Jax is kinda isolated off to the side from everyone else, and there was a LOT of fans whoād kinda make fun of her for that like ādonāt be so dramaticā or shit like that.
And, like. Not only was that a really obvious sign that sheās isolating herself from the others and gonna abstract, but, on a bigger point, the fans themselves were just straight up ignoring that. Choosing to mock her rather than recognizing that sheās having a mental health crisis. It seems to me that a lot of fans care about mental health within the context of the characters until itās not pretty. Until the character is a fucking asshole and a bully, and is fighting tooth and nail to keep themselves miserable to avoid facing their problems.
I am in no way endorsing her behavior to the others. She was a piece of shit throughout the show. But a piece of shit character having mental health issues and problems is still someone who needs help and should be treated like a fucking person
Grabbing people by the scruff of their necks and shaking them. You know Jax being a terrible person was the point right. That she pushed everyone away despite having all the opportunity to be better.
It's meant to be tragic. That even after all that she realized she wanted to change as her last words and thoughts. She didn't want to go.
It's okay I understand this is baby's first nuance.
