DR. NICHOLAS RUSH DR. NICHOLAS RUSH DR. NICHOLA— *is put down like a feral dog in a kindergarten playground*
No, but seriously.
Dr. Nicholas Rush from Stargate Universe is THE whumpable man of all time.
First of all, he looks like this:
Don't let his sad wet eyes fool you. This man is a rat bastard asshole liar with a superiority complex (but the skills to back it up). But he gets into SITUATIONS.
Like the time he woke up during open heart surgery (his second in a week's time).
Or the time he got abducted by aliens and no one even knew until they accidentally rescued him (oops).
Or the time his Dead Wife died AGAIN (you had to be there).
Sometimes he accidentally kills people (and then himself).
Sometimes his body gets beat up when he's not even in it (another long story).
Rush's skills include: Begging people not to beat him up! (They do it anyway):
He gets beat up about three hundred times throughout the course of the show:
His general existence is getting whumped, doing crimes, and basically going around looking like an absolute prey animal at all times:
HE IS A BISEXUAL DISASTER CREECHUR AND I LOVE HIM MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF. I CANNOT STRESS TO YOU ENOUGH — even though he is a scheming, lying, Machiavellian jerkass (with a heart of.. well... maybe silver, but not even gold), who trapped 80 people on a derelict alien spaceship with no way home (and no real regrets over it), at the end of the day, though, THIS MAN IS A MATH TEACHER.
All these situations happen to A MATH TEACHER. lmao, fuck his stupid baka life, igss...
u can be boiling alive in your mind for months and then on a random tuesday ur head gets so clear and life is worth living again and you're like damn what was all that about then
TURN is a period drama that loosely follows the formation and actions of the Culper ring, an American intelligence operation during the American Revolutionary War in the late 18th century. They play fast and loose with history at times, but what it lacks in historical accuracy, it makes up for with whump and action. Spoilers below the cut!
Numbers in parentheses represent the minute mark of the start of the whump in question. They're ordered by episode vaguely in the order at which the whump starts, since I took notes as I watched, and I've linked GIFs where I found them. My favorites and major whump scenes are indicated by coloring the text. I've included whump for the following major characters:
Abraham Woodhull ("Abe," Jamie Bell), a cabbage farmer in Long Island, NY, and the first American spy
Benjamin Tallmadge ("Ben," Seth Numrich), Abe's childhood friend and officer in the American Army who runs the spy ring
Caleb Brewster (Daniel Henshaw), friend of Ben and Abe who retrieves Abe's messages
John Graves Simcoe (Samuel Roukin), sadistic officer in the British Army and arguable villain of the show
Benedict Arnold (Owain Yeoman), Continental officer who became disillusioned and joined the British
Simcoe: bullet roughly dug from leg, tortured (throughout)
1x05
Ben: falls into cold river, shivering, unconscious for several days (21)
1x06
Abe: shot in stomach (imagined, start); gunpoint, knocked unconscious (11); wakes up, shivering, kicked in stomach (21)
1x07
Abe: punched in the face, choked, kicked repeatedly, helped to walk (20)
1x10
Abe: punched in the stomach again (20), emotional distress after killing someone (40)
SEASON 2
2x01
Ben: fistfight (27)
2x03
Benedict Arnold: in field hospital after being shot in leg, sweaty from fever (17, 26)
2x04
Benedict Arnold: still in field hospital (13, 35)
Abe: knifepoint, manhandled (25)
2x05:
Abe: punched in the face, bloody nose, arrested (36); tied up + punched repeatedly (40)
Ben: friend killed in front of him, sobbing (37)
2x06
Abe: in jail, pushed down stairs, beaten (10)
2x07
Abe: still in jail: shackled, bruised (10); coughing fit (29)
Simcoe: stabbed in stomach (42)
BONUS: Hewlett: held captive + experiencing hypothermia (throughout), cuts off frostbitten toes (39)
2x09
Abe: punched in the face x3, at gunpoint, manhandled/pulled by hair, sword to throat, forced to kneel (37)
2x10
Abe: shot at, choked from behind with rope (39); tied up + bloodied (44)
SEASON 3
3x01
Abe: mark on throat from choking in previous ep (6); punched in stomach, manhandled, knife to throat (17); vomits (24)
3x03
Ben: gunpoint, pistolwhipped (19); wakes up tied to a horse, shot at, horse bolts, falls off (36); stumbling + clutching side after being shot (41)
3x04
Ben: continuation from previous ep: stumbling + clutching shot side, collapse, bullet removed, wound stitched + bandaged (start); wakes up, sweaty + pained (9); helped to walk (13); whimpering in sleep, feverish (23); clutching side (& you can see the bullet scar from 1x01!) (30)
3x05
Abe: gunpoint, hit in head, thrown down stairs (30)
3x07
Abe: punched in stomach, manhandled, forced to kneel (2)
Simcoe: shot in the ear (35)
3x08
Simcoe: bandages on head from wound in previous ep (14, 36)
3x09
Abe: arrested @ gunpoint, forced to ground with boot on head (42)
3x10
Abe: manhandled, noose around neck + choking (1); hanging but saved (37)
SEASON 4
4x02
Caleb: kidnapped (start), interrogated + punched (20, 23); chest sliced + salt pressed in wound, red-hot sword to chest (30); barely conscious (40)
Abe: staged kidnapping (36)
4x03
Abe: continuation of staged kidnapping in prior ep: restrained + manhandled (0); tied up (throughout); dad killed in front of him, numb (21); fight, smothered, loses consciousness (31); regains consciousness + holds deceased dad's hand (41)
Caleb: unconscious in jail, bloody, groaning, fireman's carry (9); helped to walk (13, 18)
4x04
Abe: kicked repeatedly in dream (1), helped to stand, emotional about deceased father, headache (2)
Caleb: leaves medical tent before wounds are fully stitched (4); falls off horse, wakes up bandaged + tied to bed, imagines seeing torturer (12); weak, coughing, helped to stand (28)
We need to put out periodic reminders in fandom that trying to argue in favor of the divine right of kings or defending wartime atrocities or rich people's entitlement to the deference of indentured servants or whatever is, in fact, way less compelling and far stupider than just going well, that character is hot and this is fiction so I've decided it's all good.
Wanting to fuck the evil demon king because he's gorgeous and tormented is far more respectable than trying to defend his actual policies. If someone accuses you of only liking him because you want to fuck him, you can just say yeah that's true, and then what? Either they kinkshame you or they leave. Checkmate.
btw i love when dubcon is used in fiction as a way to explore characters. i love when characters don’t understand how to “properly” ask for consent because they have never had their consent respected in their lives. i love when traumatized adult characters make potentially unwise choices about what to do with their bodies because they have the autonomy to do so. i love when characters make choices that i personally wouldn’t make, but i can totally understand how they got there. i love when characters have complex, fucked up, unhealthy dynamics, but still care about each other and want to do better. i love when writers trust audience members to read between the lines instead of spoon feeding them moral lessons. i love when characters are allowed to actually fuck up and have mistakes to learn from!
I’m not a fan of ai, but I can accept that if someone chooses to use ai for their fics or their art, that is their choice. not something I agree with. but still not my business, and I will never condone harassment.
if anything, I think it’s better if these people feel comfortable enough to tag their stuff as ai, so that other people can avoid their works if they’re not comfortable with ai-generated contents.
that said, I think ai writers will stop tagging their stuff as ai entirely if people shame or harass them for it.
so now their stuff is still ai, just untagged, meaning there’s no way for others to know if it’s ai.
keep in mind that speculation, accusations and witch hunt harm genuine artists and writers as much as ai does, if not more.
so if you go to the “ai-generated” tag on ao3 just to harass people for using ai, just know that you’re not actually fighting against ai — you’re just being a bully and you’re also making people more wary of properly tagging their ai-generated works as such. so you’re just making sure they no longer tag their ai-generated stuff as ai. also you can be reported for harassment, and ao3 will not take your side. (whether or not you like it, ai-generated works are allowed on ao3, whereas harassment is not.)
the “ai-generated” tag on ao3 is there so people can either find or avoid works with ai (but in order for it to work, ai users must feel comfortable enough to be honest and tag their works properly, that won’t happen if people keep shaming and harassing them for it — the only thing harassment will do is make sure ai stuff go untagged, harassment doesn’t stop people from using ai).
the “ai-generated” tag is not there so that you can freely harass people with no consequences.
not to just post the thirteen most stressful seconds of the movie out of context but I really like the vocal performance here, the shrieks and breathing getting a wheezy sharp quality makes it sound really authentically panicked
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