[mabledonut]

archive-locking my fics again. please message me here or on discord if you need an invitation to ao3.

[whump-im-serious]

Someone reblogged one of my posts about caretaking, saying: who said comfort was boring? And when I saw it I was like: what! I’m new to the whump community here on tumblr so I haven’t yet come across all the opinions out there, and I was so surprised. Is comfort really boring to some people?

This made me think about how much what we prefer in whump depends on the extent to which we identify with the characters (and which characters). I always identify very strongly with both whumpee and caretaker, and imagining the process of comfort for me is a form of self care. I’m interested to hear other opinions on this.

[mabledonut]

personally i dont think the comfort stuff is boring, per se. like anything else, when it's written badly, it becomes boring. but so does the "pain and hurt and misery" section. it's just that those sections are flashier and sexier and more dramatically loaded, so people can generally get away with weak writing without losing readers' interest.

but tbh i really wish the whump community on tumblr would get back to its roots and write and discuss more hurt/comfort prompts, rather than just hurt hurt hurt.

[rejamart]

tiny chapel

[slutdge]

"make an account to-"

[decidueyeshrine]

[silvermoon424]

[radioexe]

they like to play and draw...🖍️

[swordtit]

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

[sophsun1]

VIGGO MORTENSEN as Aragorn

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson

[butch-tradwife]

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Me: *agonizing over whether a semicolon goes here, what the proper dialogue should be there, other assorted rules and semantics*

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

THAT'S ALLOWED?

[serricoj]

Writing is for communication. Sir Terry knew very well that anything's allowed if it helps you communicate something effectively.

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

[nostalgic-teddyy]

by Star Park Designs

[emoiiiii6]

ゐも on X: “落書き https://t.co/4IJXBQWzZf" 

permission

[importantpics]

[mabledonut]

[sukaiwoku]

[mapswithoutwyoming]

legend tells of a mysterious being called “nuance” that allows multiple things to be true at the same time. some say you can still hear its voice whispering in the trees