[clgx]

love it when a character is like,, well on the way to recovery from whatever illness/injury/etc. has just been ailing them, but then they still have moments of weakness/vulnerability that necessitate caretaking from the people around them—like a reminder that, although healing, they aren’t quite at 100% just yet

[more-whumpy-things]

I don't think I've seen anyone mention this but, when you sleep a total of fifteen hours with a fever then you sort of lose your balance after such a long time. Imagine Whumpee is finally out of their fever but when they try to get up, their knees just buckle.

[warmblanketwhump]

okay I know I just reblogged something about this but there is something just so gut wrenching about a whumpee who is absolutely flattened by illness. like, we’re talking so achy they can’t move, let alone get out of bed, so feverish and delirious that they can’t string a sentence together, so miserable that they can’t do more than stare up at the caretaker with a glassy, half-lidded glance, hoping that they’re able to intuit their needs so they don’t have to force their words through their burning throat. everything’s heavy, and blurry, and just off enough to make panic twist in their gut, but they’d be too sluggish to flee these percieved threats anyways. so they stay under their mountain of blankets and covers, praying one thing over and over to caretaker: don’t leave. please don’t leave.

[spinzolliii]

Warning: dubious medical accuracy. I’m not an expert.

Something to note about fevers; they’re like running a marathon for your body even when you’re stationary.

Think about it: increased heart rate, panting, sweating, muscle aches, soreness, exhaustion, high metabolism. Fighting a virus is like cardio, except your body is working hard regardless of what you do. Your body can’t stop. Basic tasks are monumental for your feverish whumpee because they’re doing it on top of the equivalent of jogging non-stop for hours.

The same principle can also apply to healing from injuries, or anything else where the body has to work overtime. Something to think about.

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Popular aesthetics: whump edition. Part 2!

coquette: tea that's warm but almost too sweet to stomach; recovering in a room clearly once lived in by someone's grandchild long moved away; a sinister captor treating you like a doll, an inhuman plaything; biscuits and little sandwiches -- are they poisoned or drugged?

dazecore: taking a feverish nap halfway through the day and waking up after sunset, the whole house dark because you forgot to turn on the lights; stumbling disoriented through a dimly lit street in the early hours of the morning; someone found unconscious late at night tucked away in an alleyway and brought to safety; dull bluish light seeping through the blinds, making it hard to sleep

steampunk: nightmarish torture contraptions you can't understand how anyone thought up in the first place; pneumonia and other lung problems from breathing in smoke and dust; an inventor forced to work themselves into exhaustion; Gear Accidents; inventive restraints

weirdcore/dreamcore: too-bright overhead lights; fever dreams that are unsettling and nonsensical and somehow terrifying; familiar faces and locations turned nightmarish; hallucinations of eerie music and swirling colours; weirdly nondescript doctor's offices and clinic waiting rooms, empty of people -- how long have you been waiting?

[anigst]

The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons - Ep 11

He's bedridden with fever and the first thing he thinks about: i gotta prepare breakfast for my younger siblings.....

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Fever dialogue prompts!!!

*feels forehead* "so either my hands are freezing, or you need to go back to bed right this minute"

"Sorry...could you help me up? My legs really don't want to do anything right now and the floor is becoming a weird texture"

"My bones are so cold...skin is cold...organs are cold..." "Now you're just being gross on purpose."

"...To be completely honest my head feels like it's about to explode and I can't stand up without my legs giving out so yeah it's. it's not great."

"I promise if you just lie down and close your eyes for a minute everything will stop spinning eventually"

"Do you want anything?" "Hmfmmff." "Gonna need you to be a little more specific."

"Hon I know you've got the chills, but if you don't get off of me I'm going to melt"

"Just pour ice over me or something. I don't even care anymore."

"I can't sleep...dreams suck"

"Does your head still hurt?" "My *everything* hurts."

"I know the water's cold, but you need to stay hydrated"

"How can I be sweating??? I was freezing minutes ago"

[whispsofsmokee]

Question for the masses: in your opinion, what show or book has the best sick episode?

[more-whumpy-things]

I don't think I've seen anyone mention this but, when you sleep a total of fifteen hours with a fever then you sort of lose your balance after such a long time. Imagine Whumpee is finally out of their fever but when they try to get up, their knees just buckle.

[sickfictropes]

Yoooooo characters who rush recovery. Passing out because they’re trying to run around the day after a high fever breaksssss 💖

[swooningdelirium]

they wake back up and their fever has spiked again because they should have been RESTINGGG💗💗

[ghostlychill]

Characters standing up and getting lightheaded because they’ve got a fever or they’re so congested it gives them a head rush and they have to hold onto something for a minute. Bracing themselves with both hands on a table or chair or another person. Being asked if they’re okay and they say in this distant voice, “Yeah, just need a sec.”

[whumpetywhumpwhump]

Whumpees with pneumonia. Whumpees bedbound, wheezing, drifting in and out of consciousness because they're so exhausted, having to be propped up every so often by Caretaker when they inevitably fall asleep and sink downwards. The fevers that grip them through the night, that sap them of so much energy that even breathing becomes a Herculean labour.

When they cough, their chest hurts so badly, and they're delirious enough that they don't understand it's better for them to cough it up. Caretaker has to slide in behind them, one hand on their chest, the other on their back, rubbing and coaxing until the coughing becomes productive and Whumpee brings up a small amount of phlegm onto a tissue that Caretaker holds up for them.

"Good job, Whumpee." Caretaker whispers, brushing back the sweat-damp hair from their forehead. "You're doing so well."

All Whumpee can do is groan miserably, too tired to even cry.

[veersnz]

The night is dark and full of fevers 💀 (or what running a temperature above 39°C for several hours feels like: for all of those who are curious and into it xD)

Your scalp and skin feel overly sensitive ? It's like every sense is heightened and everything is too much, light, sound, everything.

The thirst. You'll feel like drinking every 15 minutes.

Sweat, sweat and more sweat- You'll be drenched by the end of it (I had to change my damn bedsheets 💀)

Your heart will be beating crazy fast and you'll be out of breath from just moving in bed (turns out that anime trope of a character gasping for air while running a fever is actually not too far from reality xD)

Did I mention sweating-

Needless to say your head feels like it might explode with every cough or sneeze

The body aches 💀 they're vile (even my hands hurt wtf xD)

Also something pretty crazy, your skin and body feel like they're on fire but you're still shivering (imagine getting goosebumps while feeling hot all over, it's definitely really weird)

Your stomach won't be very calm either, expect some discomfort

Your decision-making skills and overall brain functions are out of order (I couldn't think straight and had to ask my mom to repeat herself several times to make sure I understood what she meant xD also I cried because I dropped a tissue on the ground and couldn't pick it up 💀)

[warmblanketwhump]

re: caretaker who sees whumpee after some time apart

during the ensuing hug caretaker just has to internally do a double check because Why Can They Feel Whumpee's Ribs. which leads to the realization of oh, it's that bad, isn't it?

OH ABSOLUTELY YES. YES.

especially if whumpee’s always been lean, but they look so painfully thin now, and they barely feel like more than skin and bone in caretaker’s arms, and yes, something has gone terribly wrong indeed.

and there are so many potential causes!

whumpee’s been ill and hiding it

a chronic illness that was well managed when caretaker left got way worse

stress/overwork (either by their own choice OR someone overworking them)

they’re not receiving the proper care or food they need from someone caretaker thought they could trust with whumpee

money ran short and whumpee can’t afford their basic needs but was too embarrassed to say anything

in any case, things are Bad

[comfortingcatharsis]

When a character who's been gravely ill or injured is judged to now be 'strong enough' to be permitted to go outside- bundled warmly in extra layers and a scarf and perhaps a blanket to keep them from catching chill, escorted out to sit in the sun and fresh air that will do them good but cautioned not to overtax themselves.

[whispers-whump]

love a good forehead fever check as much as the next gal but like we’re sleeping on so much fever checking potential here

overly warm hands, palms just beginning to sweat

a rapid pulse throbbing under glistening skin

feeling the warmth radiating off of whumpee through a thin t-shirt

even better, cool hands against the overheated skin of a bare, aching back

grabbing whumpee’s forearm and finding the unnatural heat there

a loved whumpee’s legs resting across caretaker’s lap, limbs hot on their thighs

the top of a head, hair damp and scalp burning when caretaker rests their chin on whumpee’s head

the back of a flushed neck, cupped tenderly in a hand

overheated thighs, maybe gripped through loose sweatpants or mostly bare because whumpee felt too hot for anything but shorts

squeezing a shoulder comfortingly and discovering the warmth there

feel free to add on!

[thethumpinthenight]

As someone who has had an 104 (40 for my celsuis folks) fever: I just thought it would be fun to document some things I experienced but never see in fever prompts (also this is all personal experience so I assume it's 'medically accurate' because it literally happened to me but idk do what you want)

-My energy levels were like being on a roller coaster; I would be half dead for an hour or two, laying under layers of blankets and would then have five minutes of energy pumping through my veins. I stayed home from school that day and I remember feeling awful in the morning, I took a nap, and then was up and normal for a few hours. I showered, I worked on school, I scrolled on here, I listened to music. And then it plummeted real fast: I remember trying to focus on an assignment and then getting a massive headache and feeling light-headed so I laid down and covered myself in blankets and I was half-dead for basically the rest of the day

And I think that should be used more often in whump. Imagine Caretaker checking in on Whumpee: who was dead asleep, cold yet sweating, and melting into the bed; only to see them up and about 30 minutes later getting food or a glass of water like they didn't just look like a person on their death bed: then Caretaker's like 'dude what the, get back to bed you idiot, you're sick' and Whumpees just like '???? I feel fine?' and then 30 minutes later Whumpee is back where they started, stuck in a vicious cycle

-I know we've all seen the 'such high fever that they're deliriously emotional' but sweetheart I don't even think I was that delirious and that was probably one of my most emotional days of my life; I would get mad, then angry, then I would want to cry, and then I would just go back to neutral: I think I remember being on the verge of tears because of my covers not cooperating

-I WAS SO COLD. I WAS FREEZING MY BUTT OFF. I always see fevers that make Whumpee feel hot but that was NOT me, I remember literally shivering even though I had MULTIPLE layers on and I low-key don't know why because I also assumed that it would feel hot while being on the verge of being baked alive in your own body but that's just me

And that's all pookies

(If anyone is a medical professional or smth and has the science behind any of my symptoms, please reblog/comment/message me privately about it because I am genuinely curious)

[sirnef-fenris]

Sharing a bit of my own fever symptoms, too, if that's okay!

(Fevers between 100,4°F and 104,9°F)

Usually, my fevers make me feel very, very cold, but I don't let myself get a lot of covers because the cold is a consequence of how hot my body temperature is. So if I use a lot of covers, I will only get my body even warmer, which will worsen the fever. I usually use cold towels on the forehead or neck. (At least, I've been teached those things all my life, don't take my words as professional advice, I'm just sharing my own experience)

I personally never had a boost of energy. Fever always leaves me extremely tired, without appetite, with a headache (especially the temples and behind the eyes), shivering, weak, and usually nauseated. I usually depend on someone else to help me do most daily stuff, even a little.

My emotional state truly goes a bit wild during fevers. I feel the need to cry easily, but I don't think anger is a feeling I usually have during fevers (perhaps because I don't feel it often even when I'm healthy). I get clingy, perhaps because of a natural human instinct to need someone else during a vulnerable state. Besides that, I get very bored (because I don't have the energy or strength to do much) and frustrated with how uncomfortable the symptoms are.

(This is the 104,9°F fever). As far as I can remember, I've only ever had an actual delirious episode once during a fever (if it happened more times, I was too sick or too young to remember them).

- It started at night, when I was asleep. My fever went higher, and my nausea got worse, so I woke up and tried to make myself more comfortable, but my coordination was terrible, the room seemed all wrong (too wide, then too small), the lights seemed dimmer than I remembered, and I couldn't think well.

- I remember that night seemed to last days, because I checked my phone, and everytime, it had absurd numbers that went higher than 24 hours, or that made no sense comparing to the last number I checked (like going back a few hours or show that it was day, when it wasn't).

- I also remember being so out of it that I talked to myself, thinking someone was with me (I didn't see anyone) for some reason, and I didn't even think of calling for someone in the house.

- Other memories were lost on me because of how sick I was, but I remember being so, so distressed and confused that I cried during it, because I knew something was wrong, and the delirium symptoms just kept coming in waves and not letting me sleep. It was one of the most scary feelings I've ever had in my life, because it felt like being trapped in a weird time loop of nausea, weakness, hallucinations and confusion, without being able to even sit on the bed or call for someone.

- (I'm pretty sure I had a lot of fever dreams because I kept waking up and going back to sleep with how sick and tired I was, but the thing is... I couldn't tell when I was awake and when I was asleep. The delirium made it all seem like one thing, so these symptoms I've described could be real life or fever dreams, but it felt like all real to me, and I remember them clearly as a memory. So you can make a feverish whumpee think something happened, and caretaker being like, "ahm, I was here the whole time, whumpee, that didn't happen")

So yeah, those are the things I remembered about my own fevers. I just thought it would be okay to share them, too. Fevers can be a bit different for each person, especially depending on WHY you're having a fever (an injury infection, a virus infection and what type, heat stroke, medications, etc), so the most experiences you read, the better you can write a feverish whumpee :)

Hope this helps someone!