Whump is forever

I'm Gala, adult, she/her, and here I will reblog whump stuff I like and some other random stuff too that I think is interessting. Maybe sometime if I find the courage I will do some original posts but for now it will be purely reblogs.

[gala1981]

Introduction post

Hi I'm Gala and I've been lurking here in the whump community for quite some time now but eventually decided to make this Intro post.

Because eventhough I've been into whump literally as long as I can think I also always felt kind of guilty and/or ashamed of how much I enjoyed it when I saw kidnapping scences on tv or movies were people being tied up and gagged. But I did and I used to spend hours imagining ways to restrain them more because for me what was shown never seems to be enough. But I still thought something was wrong with me...

When I discovered Tumblr and the Whump community I was like ok if there is something wrong with me there are a lot more people with the same wrongness so I cant be that wrong can it???

When I wrote this introduction I said here that I still feel unsure about admitting that I like whump. But after being a part of this awesome community for over a year now I feel that thats not true anymore😊 I mean I still wouldn’t tell anyone I know in real life about me liking whump😉 but the relative anonymity and all the people I met here who were all so open and welcoming made me feel more secure about talking and expressing what I feel and what I love about whump and for that I'm ìncredibly grateful!!!

Last but not least some of my favorite tropes are

Kidnapping

Used as bait

Forced to watch

Interrogation/tortured for information

Friends/lovers being captured/tortured together with one being used as leverage to get information or well behavior from the other

And really anything that contains whumpees being restraint and gagged in any ways

[familiarlyfrigid]

Shoutout to everyone who likes to traumatize characters just for fun

Like, I’m not doing it to cope with anything, I’m doing it for the love of the game

[whumporama]

Whumper who was captured and has been locked up for a long time. They are a smug bastard, enjoying the suffering of others and seem to have no remorse about what they did.

For years, nothing happens. The Team can move on.

Until a problem arises. And soon it becomes clear that the only one who can solve it, is Whumper. Maybe they have a specific set of powers, knowledge, skills, etc. It's just something nobody else but Whumper can do.

So someone has to go get them, and make a deal with them.

Whumper looks different in their cell. Not as strong anymore, not as polished and clean. But that smirk and knowing eyes are still there, and Caretaker hates seeing it. Hates knowing what needs to be done.

"Hello, Caretaker. You seem desperate. Need some help from little old me?"

"What makes you think I'm here for help?"

Whumper chuckles. "Why else would you be here? To have a friendly chat? To kill me? No, you need something. And now you're crawling back to me and break your vow to let me rot here. So," a polite but dangerous smile, "what do you need?"

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I need tiktokers to understand that ao3 has been home for the freaks (affectionate) ever since the day it was created. the entire site was created because “dark and fucked up fics” were banned and removed from other platforms, so us freaks came together and created a site for other freaks — a site where nothing is censored, a site with no algorithm, no capitalism, no ads, and again, absolutely no censorship.

this has been our house for decades. you newbies don’t come into our house and tell us how to arrange our furniture. either be nice and respect our house, or leave and build your own house elsewhere.

[sargeslocker3]

About Military Haircuts

The U.S. military has required short hair for men since its early days, but the standards evolved gradually, with stricter enforcement and very short cuts becoming the norm in the 20th century.

Early Period (Revolutionary War to Early 19th Century) During the American Revolution (1770s–1780s), there were no strict uniform regulations across the Continental Army. Many soldiers had long hair (often powdered, braided into a queue or pigtail, or tied back), following civilian fashion and British influences. General orders sometimes encouraged hair to be kept "short or plaited up" for practicality, but long hair was common and allowed if powdered/dried. In the early Republic (after 1783), the Army forbade beards and required shaving (at least 3 days a week in garrison), but hair length wasn't tightly regulated. A major shift came in 1801, when the Army abolished the queue/pigtail. This pushed toward shorter hair, seen as rejecting aristocratic styles in the new republic, sparked protests (soldiers viewed it as "self-mutilation"), including a famous 1805 court-martial of Lt. Col. Thomas Butler for refusing to cut his queue. By the early 1800s, short hair (about 1” in some rules) began to take hold, though enforcement varied.

19th Century to early 20th Century Through much of the 1800s (e.g., Civil War era), longer hair, mustaches, and full beards were fashionable and often allowed or even common among soldiers and officers. The Navy issued its first service-wide grooming rules in 1841, requiring hair and beards to be cut short (with some allowances for sideburns/whiskers). Short hair wasn't universally mandatory or extremely short until later.

World War I (1917–1918) – Turning Point for Strict, Very Short Hair This is when very short hair (including buzz cuts or close crops) became widely required and standardized across the U.S. military 1)  to prevent lice and disease in crowded trenches/camps, and 2) clean-shaven faces and short hair ensured proper gas mask fit and seal against chemical weapons. Shaving and short hair became mandatory for the first time in a major way. This set the precedent for the induction cut (buzz to near-skin) given to new recruits.

World War II and beyond By WW II, regulations explicitly required soldiers to "keep your hair cut short" (often medium-short tapered styles like crew cuts). Short hair was the norm across branches for practicality under helmets, in heat, and for discipline. Post-WWII, the iconic induction haircut (buzz cut to the scalp) became standard at boot camp/reception stations. Styles like the crew cut, high and tight, and buzz cut dominated from the 1950s onward, with very short hair remaining the expectation for men in uniform.

Short hair was encouraged or partially required as early as the late 18th/early 19th Century, but the strict, very short haircut requirement such as the buzz/crew cut styles we associate with modern military grooming started during WW I for hygiene and gas mask reasons, then solidified in WW II and later.

Army regulations today still mandate neat, tapered short hair for men, emphasizing uniformity and low maintenance.

[deerslayer14]

I like it when Whumpee's hands are tied in a way that leaves their stomach open and vulnerable, unable to cover up, unable to curl after a punch.

Behind their back. Above their head. Spread to the sides.

All they can do is clench their teeth and groan.

[letthewhumpbegin]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, s7e11

My GIF masterlist

[immramarchives]

I’m watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time rn and I like how towards the end of season 1 everyone in this school is just in silent agreement that Buffy handles all supernatural stuff. No one even questions her anymore when she’s asking them about the monster that attacked them & it’s kinda funny. I’m convinced that everyone has accepted the fact that she handles all the weird shit but they just don’t say it out loud cause that makes it more real or whatever

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

Let’s just say that this idea gets developed quite a bit in season 3

[nowitspersonal]

God, I need to rewatch that show. So so good. Childhood fave right there.

[kitcatling]

It really is!

I do too.

[whumppromptoftheday]

"i think they're going to kill me this time"

[janetm74fics]

@whumppromptoftheday

@gala1981

~

It’s the last sentence Scott scratches into the wall of his cell with the remnants of the tiny screw he’d found.

It goes under the rough images of the farmhouse and the imagined pictures of his family.

(He dare not actually sketch them just in case they’re found and used against him.)

He can hear the guards approaching, a slow march designed to increase his nerves.

It’s not working. He’s stronger than that.

(It’s absolutely working.)

They pause outside his door and for a long minute nothing happens.

In a last minute panic Scott puts the minuscule piece of metal under his tongue and prays he doesn’t swallow it.

And then the door swings open.

Four guards march in. Two haul him to his feet and hold him steady. One shackles his wrists in front of him. The other is covering him with a handgun.

Once he’s secure a fifth man enters and Scott straightens as much as protesting injuries and his guards allow him to.

The man looks him over. There is distain there, but also a kind of approval. Scott knows he’s the only one who resisted every time. That he’s the only one left who didn’t break.

(Which isn’t saying much, Scott thinks, as he doesn’t know anything anyway.)

The man steps closer. Lifts Scott’s chin even higher with the swagger stick pushing his chin up. His distain turns into a sickening grin.

‘Time’s up, Lieutenant Tracy.’

[gala1981]

@janetm74fics thank you so much for the tag!!! That was exactly what I needed right now to lift my mood a bit. It made me involuntarily grin and squee because it’s so perfect and the essence of what I love about POW Scott😍😍😍 the atmospere you created with so few words...so good!!!!

[afterdarkwhump]

A hand on their back as they're bent over the desk. Breath trapped in their throat, body trembling. Nails scratching into the wood and stomach tight with a rising dread as Whumper caresses the curves of their body...

A fighting whumpee needing to be held down. Arms wrenched behind their back in handcuffs, head pulled up by their hair and face slammed into the desk, so that they're seeing stars as Whumper spreads their legs apart. Or maybe there's someone else, and Whumpee is held down by others, biting back tears as the edge of the desk painfully hits their hips with each movement.

Maybe held down by caretaker, who is crying themselves as Whumpee's tearful eyes stare up at them, filled with desperation, or even betrayal, skin chafing against the desk with the rocking back and forth...

Whumpee being afraid to enter any office after. All words drowned out by the memory of being bent over in that uncomfortable position, bruises covering their hips, the helplessness of being trapped between a desk and a person and the burning humiliation of it all.

[redstainedsocks]

There’s not enough characters with their hands tied behind their backs, honestly

[uuuhshiny]

yeah…

[memesomething]

is it about being able to see people scared, is it about fearing alongside them and getting the relief without having to suffer it yourself, is it about the vulnerability and the way people respond to it (helping and not harming), is it about knowing where characters' lines are (how far can you push them with pain before they break? how far can you push them with threatening their loved ones? how far until they snap?), or is it simply because you just sorta like torturing them

[snuffhimout]

guns

a gun digging into their back when they’re caught somewhere they shouldn’t be,

pistol-whipping,

using a gun to tilt their head, brush hair out of their face or pull the hem of their shirt up,

pulling a gun on them when words don’t do the trick,

the outline of a gun on their clothing,

the subtle flash of a gun under a coat/jacket when they sit down and they just want to talk,

shoving the gun’s muzzle against their lips to shut them up,

the steady pressure of the muzzle on their skin as a reminder not to say or do anything stupid,

a gun just lying on the table as a silent warning.

[thotsuggestion]

taking care of yourself really is a full-time job 

[wompwhump]

which is the best whumpee fear response? NO NUANCE you have to pick one

fight

flight

freeze

fawn

Voting ended onMar 10

[whumporama]

I do love me some characters who won't stop fighting. Trying to punch everyone, bite, they don't stop struggling even if they're held down. They keep pulling on the restraints. I love it.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who hasn't been held in a decade: oh I'm pretty low maintenance, yeah honestly I think I'd find that overwhelming or something, can I just hold your hand instead? If that's okay of course?

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who feels ill at the notion of taking up space: yeah I can stand. Yeah honestly it's no biggie I like standing. Do you mind if I lean here? It's okay to say no.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who would rather die than be considered selfish: I'm really sorry to ask I'm probably just being annoying but could I ask for another pillow? Yeah there isn't one in the room. Yeah no worries I can just bunch up some towels if needed.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who's most outlandish and fantastical fantasies are a coffee date and seeing a movie with someone: oh I don't get out much. Yeah I don't really like being around people. I'm pretty much an introvert. Or something like that yeah.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who would break down screaming and crying if someone showed even a hint of affection in person, who would fall apart at the seams if you held her still and asked her if she was okay, woman who if allowed too would wrap herself around you and sob and weep until she became severely dehydrated: oh yeah sorry I spaced out for a second there. Yeah I'm doing alright.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who hasn't been held in a decade: oh I'm pretty low maintenance, yeah honestly I think I'd find that overwhelming or something, can I just hold your hand instead? If that's okay of course?

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who feels ill at the notion of taking up space: yeah I can stand. Yeah honestly it's no biggie I like standing. Do you mind if I lean here? It's okay to say no.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who would rather die than be considered selfish: I'm really sorry to ask I'm probably just being annoying but could I ask for another pillow? Yeah there isn't one in the room. Yeah no worries I can just bunch up some towels if needed.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who's most outlandish and fantastical fantasies are a coffee date and seeing a movie with someone: oh I don't get out much. Yeah I don't really like being around people. I'm pretty much an introvert. Or something like that yeah.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who would break down screaming and crying if someone showed even a hint of affection in person, who would fall apart at the seams if you held her still and asked her if she was okay, woman who if allowed too would wrap herself around you and sob and weep until she became severely dehydrated: oh yeah sorry I spaced out for a second there. Yeah I'm doing alright.