after the storm

putting the "comfort" in hurt/comfort (she/they, adult. Christian, storymaker, autistic, slightly broken optimist) ko-fi for dog treats and Crow treats now exists:

[comfort-questing]

Here is your new card for Bad Things Happen Bingo. Happy writing!

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all right, crew! let’s go!

if anyone has any suggestions, I’m open for bingo requests regarding (UPDATED 12/24)

- No. 6, my new obsession (most familiar wi anime but planning to read manga)

- Dungeon Meshi (UPDATE: now finished the manga)

- Yona of the Dawn (I’m almost caught up in the manga, can’t believe I missed that one)

- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (anime)

- Genshin Impact

- Fire Emblem Three Houses

- Fate/Stay Night or Fate/Zero (idk the other fate series stuff v well) wi some reservations because some characters are Kinda Icky for me

- Critrole campaign 1 or 2 or TLOVM

-  early or mid RWBY (I haven’t kept up since the end of v6)

- Lord of the Rings (familiar wi other Tolkien stuff but I don’t think I can match the Silm fandom and I don’t follow ROP) ALSO ABSOLUTELY The War of the Rohirrim which I saw an loved so much

- generic/nonfandom scenarios

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REQUESTS IN PROCESSING/PROGRESS:

- “stitches,” Genshin, Wri and Neuvilette

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REQUESTS COMPLETE:

- “guilty conscience,” Dunmeshi, dragon!Falin

- “sword fight,” Genshin, Furina experiences a brush with her newfound mortality one night by the docks

- “poisoned weapon,” TLOVM

- “Headache/Migraine,” FE3H, Claude helps out Dimitri (possibly getting a part 2 sometime heh)

- “hiding an illness,” Genshin, the tone-deaf bard gets a cold

- “Friendly fire,” FE3H, Edelgard and a stray arrow from Claude

- “Falling through the Ice,” FE3H, requested by a discord friend :)

- “get it over with,” generic nonfandom

- “Barely Conscious”/”Cradling someone in their arms,” TLOVM (at blinkin last, sorry, heh)

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"are you... all right? can you keep going?"

"for a while at least. for now."

[comfort-questing]

which critrole 4 character do you most want to hit with the whump beam (seekers edition)

Thaisha

Occtis

Vaelus

Julien

their suffering does not move me/they've suffered enough already/see answers

Voting ended onMay 30

soldiers here

schemers here

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which critrole 4 character do you most want to hit with the whump beam (schemers edition)

Hal

Bolaire

Murray

Azune

their suffering does not move me/they've suffered enough already/see answers

Voting ended onMay 30

soldiers here

seekers here

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which critrole 4 character do you most want to hit with the whump beam (soldiers edition)

Tyranny

Kattigan

Wick

Thimble

Teor

their suffering does not move me/they've suffered enough already/see answers

Voting ended onMay 30

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18. place to rest

outside, the bells had already rung for dawn, and the clatter of footsteps up and down the stairs and clamor of voices in the courtyard below strengthened from a trickle to a river. the sunlight snaked its way through the narrow window; Seskia buried the heels of her hands in her eye sockets, seeking the stillness and the darkness instead.

the bone-deep ache in her legs, the leaden density of her body as she rolled over in the tangled blankets, the tremor in her arms as she tried to push herself up to her elbows - she got one look at the festival garb slung over her chair and the open clothes-chest before she fell back light-headed on the pillow again, and it was no more than she expected.

she'd given them two days. two days up on the festival dais with the others, two days mixing with the crowds with a smile on her face, proving to the people that the Lord's eldest daughter did still exist somewhere after all. two days she'd paid for each night, with blank and dreamless oblivion as soon as she'd been allowed to disappear to her chambers, but now -

"my lady?"

it was Corinn. she didn't need to knock by now, her voice was enough, and her soft touch on the knob just so that the hinges didn't even creak.

Seskia felt more than heard her approach, like a shadow on her awareness, and forced an eye open to see her maid standing over her bed with quietly narrowed lips.

"will you be dressing for the hall today?"

she breathed in, choking back what felt like a sob. "I - I don't think - "

with a rustle of skirts Corinn knelt down by the bedside, hands folded on her knees.

"I'll tell your father you're tired. I'll tell him - you don't have to."

"yes. yes. it's a tired day again, Corinn. I'm sorry."

"it's not a sorry thing, my lady."

it was such a sorry thing, she thought sometimes. such a sorry thing. but Corinn helping her sit up against the pillows, bringing water in a basin, lifting her achy exhaustion-weighted arms with gentle hands to help her wash away the sweat and stickiness of the night, was as ordinary as so many mornings in the last months, and Corinn had never made her ashamed of any of it.

and as Seskia let herself relax again finally into the bed, blankets pulled up again over her, her last sight before her eyes closed was Corinn latching the shutters over the window, dulling the clamor and returning the room to shaded stillness once again.

[tenderwhumps]

whump dialogue prompt #13

“i’m sorry i can’t save you. i’m sorry this is all i can do.”

[paws-with-a-blog]

Give me protective knight and chronically ill prince. Knight who stands at the door day and night to make sure his prince is only interrupted when absolutely necessary.

Knight who makes sure the kitchen knows what to accommodate that day (head pain means soft food, jaw locked means soup, fatigue grants him a smoothie). Knight who will feed him if needed, and always sits with him while he eats because he eats better that way.

Knight who has no problem telling other nobles that their meeting with the prince has been canceled because he had a rough night and needs extra sleep.

Knight who does stretches with his royal so he feels less alone. They do breathing exercises and stretches every morning and night. It's just routine now, it's normal.

[peachbrine]

team leader character dizzy from blood loss, overwhelmed and struggling to stand but shouting orders even as their legs give out. the team medic catches them, feeling them scramble for purchase. they can't find their feet.

medic can feel a warm, wet patch spreading across their clothes. their captain isn't trying to stand anymore, being held entirely upright by their arms. they're still insisting they're fine, even as they slump forwards.

[tenderwhumps]

(after watching a joyful loving movie) yeah it was good and all but i just wish a character had gotten stabbed five times and left for dead in an alleyway and then found by their loved ones at the last minute so they could be fussed over

[clgx]

thinking about a character who hates having their injuries or illnesses being obvious to others, but also, very deep down, longing for that gentle affection and tenderness and care when they’re feeling terrible

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in honor of my dear critrole friend Azune Nayar let's all appreciate the endless pathos of "don't leave me"

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Thinking A Lot about delirious characters lately (can't you tell?) and I'm now Fixated on that moment when things finally improve for a whumpee who's been feverish and tossing and turning and hallucinating for hours; finally, finally they quiet down and roll over in their bed, their breathing gradually evening out as they drift into a genuinely restful sleep, whoever is watching over them breathing a sigh of relief for the first time in ages.

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injuries that a character doesn't fully feel bc they're too numb with cold. looking down at themselves going hm. that is probably bad, isn't it?

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1702

Write those painful moments in which the caretakers wait for the doors to open with the whumpee the other side.

Maybe they're on a space station, waiting for the ship to dock. Maybe they're waiting for a horse-drawn carriage to arrive. Or maybe it's the doctors in the calm before the storm, as they wait for their friend/whumpee to arrive via ambulance.

[comfort-questing]

busily reminding myself that just because *I* love symbolic dream sequences doesn't mean *everyone* loves symbolic dream sequences

(in other words yes I'm working on my next LOTR fic chapter)

[ghostlychill]

Man I fucking love characters passing out from overusing their magic