From Westworld to Bladerunner why are sex robots so damn strong? If you are going to rape something and treat it like shit, do not make it stronger than Olympic athletes.
I’m absolutely obsessed with the reddit side of the Tolkien fandom, in particular, this discussion regarding how Sauron fits the ring on his finger, as well as penal compensation a la Lord Farqaud style
Quarry counselors: What’s that noise? Could be bears. But I thought we had no bears out here? Still, must be bears. Oh shit did you see what attacked you? I think it was a bear. What’s crawling on the roof? Probably a bear. Who cut the phone line? I dunno, bear maybe? And the power? Gotta be a b
Me, on my last surviving nerve:
a lot of people don’t get this but if you don’t say every deranged thing that’s on your mind at all times the thoughts leak into the groundwater and make it bad. Do your part. Just say some shit
why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?
I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail
everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot
this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike?
bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do.
Sociocultural identities within the whump community [Summary of research/results]
Full title: "Sociocultural identities within the whump community: Investigating whump and hurt/comfort genre, whump interest and the whump community, and the application of whump in narrative processing"
About the research: This research was part of "Interdisciplinary Research Project", an undergraduate research paper at IPU New Zealand. It was conducted by Renée Nielsen and supervised by lecturer Mark Hall.
This research considered the fictional genre of whump and hurt/comfort, a genre centred on predominant themes of a character’s experience of pain and often recovery. The study aims to inquire about the nature of whump interest from an academic perspective, and thereby to develop a more informed understanding of the genre and the engagement of the whump community as its primary audience.
This summary of results includes:
Summary of research (overview)
Summary of results (from questionnaire)
Overall conclusions (from entire research)
The full research project will be made available online for public access on IPU New Zealand library catalogue in 2022.
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Summary of research (overview)
Literature review: An extensive literature review explored topics such as the elements of whump genre, whump interest in relation to sadomasochism and asexuality, narrative identity and narrative processing for trauma in order to establish a deeper understanding of the complexity of the topic.
Primary research: In this study, an anonymous online distributed questionnaire gathered responses over a four-week period, and received responses from 810 participants. The findings of this research highlight a diversity in sociocultural identities of whump interested people and a variety of elements contributing to individuals’ personal experiences of whump interest.
Note: "whump" is used as an umbrella term within this research to refer to both whump and hurt/comfort, unless otherwise specified.
Summary of results
The discussion was categorised according to the main focus areas emerging from the research:
Whump community and whump interest
Whump genre and themes
Narrative processing and trauma processing
Future research
Sample of results from Final Viva presentation:
NB: as one core element of focus in this research was whump as a means of narrative processing / trauma processing, a few questions asked about "catharsis". It is acknowledged that this word should have been explained more in the questionnaire (along with words like "narrative processing"). More generalised questions, such as simply asking if one imagines whump scenarios before falling asleep (instead of asking of someone specifically has experienced catharsis in the action), may have rendered different results.
NB: Qualitatitive question responses to quantitative questions of the survey are not shown in the relevant graphs
Overall conclusions
Key findings / points of discussion:
- a majority of whump interested people who participated in the research identified as aromantic asexual spectrum;
- the predominantly preferred subgenre of whump and hurt/comfort genre was found to be hurt/comfort;
- written fiction was the media form of highest frequency for creating and consuming of whump genre fiction, and had the highest tolerance capacity for whump content;
- whump and hurt/comfort genre places significance on emotional intimacy and vulnerability, and expresses characteristics of a comedic genre;
- whump and hurt/comfort fiction is used primarily as a means of entertainment among whump interested people, however, secondary reasons such as character and story development, narrative processing and sexual arousal;
- and finally, whump fiction can be used as a means of trauma processing to give narrative form and linguistic expression to real life hurt that may be unprocessed, unseen and unrecognised.
In conclusion, whump interest can be seen as a form of emotional arousal to a fictional genre which explores the experience, survival and recovery in the event and aftermath of pain, and the experiences and utility of whump interest varies according to individual preferences and background.
Future research exploring the diversity and dimensions of whump and hurt/comfort genre, whump interest, and the sociocultural identities and experiences of whump interest people could lead to the development of an even wider understanding, and subsequent destigmatisation, of whump interest.
Limitations during this research included lack of prior academic research, time constraints, researcher capacity and participant availability.
The full research project will be made available online for public access on IPU New Zealand library catalogue in 2022. When this is available, and if there are any further updates in regard to this research, these updates will be posted here @callaei-researches
NB: for ethical reasons, participants' raw data remains confidential and accessible only to the researcher.
Actually, Google tells me George Jetson’s birthday is August 27, which means his parents are going to get successfully nasty this year’s Thankgiving Weekend.
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