Roselightfairy

Dreamer, fantasy addict, mostly didn't mean for this to happen. Fic on AO3. Occasional 18+ content.

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[whollysensei]

oh how i love them

[loveridden1999]

why is that the moment you make someone else listen to songs you love suddenly everything starts sounding bad like trust me it's usually good it just has performance anxiety

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[mtndewpitchblack]

[hypno-gears]

Because I know I'll find at least two contradictory answers if I go searching, what is "whump" ?

Super valid, lol. That's actually a great question because I think a lot of people wonder the same thing. So, for all those wondering, here's my best description.

What is Whump?

I've heard whump described as "hurt/comfort" but very heavy on the "hurt" part.

In other words, it's a fanfiction trope in which the main character goes through a whole lot of torture and trauma, or just had a very bad day in general.

It's popular along us fanfic readers who love fics with lots of drama and angst. It can also be sweet - for example, after the main character has a bad day, their friend (or love interest, if you like shipping) comforts them, and it's adorable.

For example, maybe the main character gets kidnapped. Maybe they get seriously injured in battle. They might get hit with a terrible disease (there's a trope called a "sickfic" dedicated to that specifically).

Essentially, whump is like a trope dedicated to torturing your favorite little guys.

There's whump-related words that might help you understand, as well:

Whumper: Character doing the whump (causing the main character pain). Often a villain

Whumpee: The character getting "whumped" (having a VERY rough day)

Caretaker: The character who, as the title suggests, takes care of poor whumpee after everything happens.

If you'd like more info, I strongly recommend the videos "Popular Fandom Terminology" (both part 1 and part 2) by Coleydoesthings on Youtube. She goes into lots of fandom terms, including whump, and she's really good at explaining it.

Hope this helps!

[fanlore-wiki]

To find out more about Whump, the history of the term and how its been used in fandom, check out the Fanlore page!

[roselightfairy]

My favorite personal definition of whump is "the sound of an unconscious body being hit with a baseball bat"—utterly gratuitous. :)

[roselightfairy]

get the app. give us your information. scan your document. exactly in the window. not accepted. not accepted. how DARE your hand shake. document accepted. confirm all the information on your document. take a picture of your face. we can be trusted with it. no not like that. no not like that. no not like

[kozh-lucium]

Qui-Gon with his hair down.

Thanks Master and Apprentice (for the idea) 🙏

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[lastvalyrian]

It's not just rude to make me read something you didn't want to write. It is that you expect me to respond to your email written by Claude. You don't even want me to talk to you. You want me to talk to Claude so that you can make Claude respond for you. It is rude to expect me to talk to a chatbot when I wanted to talk to you.

[sacred-portal]

[cargopantsman]

[nojamnojelly]

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[pseudomantis]

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

[pseudomantis]

Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it

Starts running away cutely

[jonnywaistcoat]

[akashicrecord]

starting a foundation that gives disadvantaged children one wild ass night at the club

[overturned-toybox-of-thoughts]

Why the fuck are you suggesting putting CHILDREN in a club?

[akashicrecord]

So they can sip grey goose, maybe have a cig, and feel the rhythm? Are you the fun police?

[pesti-devota-futurae]

lacuna mutata

[... ] a wonderful phrase

lacuna mutata

aint no [... ] craze

it means textual emendations

for the rest of your days

it's a source [...] free

ambiguity

lac[... ]

[lilislegacy]

the concept of percy and annabeth watching a marine life documentary together and annabeth is sobbing because the narrator is discussing climate change effects while sad music plays and percy is giggling because the octopus and shark have been calling each other sea slurs in almost all the footage

[roselightfairy]

The gender stuff in Daniil's story in P3 is making me want to SCREAM btw

[roselightfairy]

Thinking about this again as I try to write some Very Strictly P3 Canon fic and I just. I cannot read this man as cis. like I'm not trying to ascribe any particular Intention to the way he was written but some of these writing choices truly do not make sense to me any other way. absolutely wild.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[sophsun1]

It's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats. And we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and everybody lives happily ever after.

ANTHONY STEWART HEAD as Rupert Giles