Whump Enthusiast

Professional scientist; perpetual writer; semi professional disaster Somehow in my 30s. She/her | They/them. Icon by @osaamu

[radioactivepigeons]

Things I've written in 2025

(in case you were looking for badly spelled things to read in 2026)

Fandoms: The Pitt, 9-1-1, Batfam

The Pitt

Shendon

Of Sharks and Husbands

Domestic, semi-fluffy one shots about John, his husband(!), their son, and surviving life at PTMC with way too many meddling coworkers.

Blåhaj and other adventures (4K) John just wants to get a good grade in IKEA; his husband has no idea how this works

Underhålla (2.3 K) The second best part of IKEA is assembling the furniture with your weird coworkers and their bad beer

100% Shark Free (3.4K) A love letter to Lake Michigan, as told by a couple who survived Ohio

Card Shark (6K) John is forced to attend the PTMC casino night fundraiser with his husband(!). Who looks hot in a suit

A Shiver of Dogfish (7K) John's husband(!)'s hockey problem is about to be John's problem.

Other Shendon

Some Disassembly Required (1K) Inspired by to @eveningspirit's Inconsistencies. The infamous moving fic.

Frank Langdon centric

Thursday's Child*

Thursday's child has far to go (41K, 6/6; Gen) Frank tries to piece together his life after rehab. Apparently clean underwear are part of that. So are people he can count on.

The child born on the sun's day is bonny and blithe, bright and gay (WIP 18K, 6 ch. Gen) Abbot decides what Frank needs to recover from surgery is to go to Pride. A pretty direct sequel to Thursday's Child

*This exists in the same continuum as A boy will touch the hem of his robes. They're not directly related, but there's lore that goes across.

Other Frank

Deductible (5K, one shot; Frank/Abby) Second person, Frank's back injury pre-series

Knock Knock. What Do You Want, I Can’t Come to the Door Right Now (100 words; Gen)

Trinity Santos, Dennis Whitaker, and Friends

A boy will touch the hem of His robe and beg to be healed (23K, 5 ch, Gen)*. Trinity is trying to survive her intern year, her diabetes, and her farm boy roommate.

Stand me up at the Gates of Hell (3K, Gen) Second person, Dennis needs to decide if he's going to stand his ground or stand on his ground

Instrumentally Inappropriate Arrangements (5K, Gen) Cassie McKay takes Dennis home instead of Trinity Santos. The entire story is an elaborate plot to make you go listen to this song.

Other Pitt Characters

Polyflory (5K, Abbot centric; Gen) Jack Abbot coughs up roses for his dead husband and tries to prevent another case of chronic Hanahaki in the department.

Calcaneus (3K, 1/2 WIP, Gen) Second person; Mel King, and the lies her mentors told her

Childish things (2K, Gen) Second Person; Victoria Javadi grew up too fast. But who will she be when she grows up?

9-1-1

What I have done and what I have failed to do (4.5K) The very Catholic centric story of Bobby's funeral mass, as told by Eddie Diaz. Yes, the title does come from the Novo Ordem, why do you ask? Also, the fic I wrote this year that absloutely no one has read.

Dynamic (WIP, 9K 2/6 or 2/8 chapters; Buddie) The five times Buck has to come out to people as an ambulatory wheelchair user after the fire truck Bombing and the one person who was there the whole time.

Bat Family

Food meant for swine (14K, Gen) Jason's body hasn't been normal since the Joker almost killed him. But this is a whole new level of not normal. ...A continuation of the series where the family finds out Jason has been the Red Hood the whole time.

[radioactivepigeons]

I am legitimately falling apart. I am so tried. So, naturally, I'm going to a conference tomorrow. Because I love myself. Or something.

[martyreddie]

it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[bewareofitalics]

I'm listening to a podcast episode about Ragtime, and in talking about diverse casting the hosts went off on a tangent about Les Mis and one of them said something like, "People kept saying, 'Did black people even exist in France during the French Revolution?' and first of all, yes, and second of all, IT'S NOT SET DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION," which, great, but, then he said it's set in 1938.

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[my-random-fandoms]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

actually a fantastic metaphor because

-derek is fun

-but he is not an adequate mental health support for janet

-once derek started causing concerns for the wellbeing of the 'society' they lived in and the safety of humans he had to get put away in a box in the void

-eventually they figured out some jobs he is helpful for in specific scenarios

-you should not take his word for anything

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"There is nothing wrong with adults living with their parents for any reason and it's actually the norm in huge parts of the world."

and

"People should be able to afford to live independently if that's what they want."

are statements that NEED to coexist.

[radioactivepigeons]

I have 0 coping skills this week, and there were ways to analyze the data smarter.

[upswings]

so unfair and cruel how writing means you have to:

write all the words that go in between the other words

explain where objects are in physical space

[stupidlittledoodles]

He’s not very good but I like himb

[evilsoup]

one day i'll get around to doing some comparison of WWII movies across time... like there's a noticable shift from "films made during the war" to "films made by guys who'd fought" to "films made by the younger brothers and sons of the guys who'd fought" to "films made by people with a strong cultural memory of the war but who hadn't been alive for it" through to "films made by people for whom the war is an aesthetic like 'medieval times' or some shit"

[notahorseindisguise]

this one . i missed this . that great you can go ahead and order it

[eveningspirit]

Cosmic Consequences: A Dark Sci-Fi Anthology

Prepare for take off! This short story anthology will contain science fiction, dark content, and lots of whumperflies. Authors will be answe

Heee! My original story is going to be in this anthology, you guys!

You like my stories? You like me hurting them fictional characters? I get it that you like those characters first, as I play in various sandboxes, smashing dolls created by someone else. But hey, I can make them dolls too!

The story is Ananke, and my pen-name is T. Lane. And if you back Cosmic Consequences anthology, by @thewhumpyprintingpress, you will not only get that story, of about 17k words, you will get a lot more whump... in space!

Take a look at what the anthology has to offer. Maybe you will like it?

Or, just reblog this post, to help spread the word.

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 5 days 8 hours

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.