Hello! I’m Ylan (they/them). I’ve recently learned that whump is a thing that exists, and it’s also a perfect description of 100% of my solo writing and roleplaying from my entire life.
I probably won’t be here extremely often, but I did want to catalog some of my interests and favorite tropes, in case there are other people out there who share them.
I tag discourse as #discourse and my own writing as #whump writing. Feel free to block discourse if you prefer not to see it! I tag for noncon but usually don’t consistently tag otherwise. Please assume that if it’s my fiction, there is violence and that it’s dark.
Favorite whump tropes:
Caretakers who are also whumpees (past or present)
Whumpees who try to be caretakers for other whumpees, but ineffectually
Defiant whumpees who fight back, and sometimes seriously hurt their whumpers, only to face severe punishment/retaliation
Older whumpees who’ve had a lifetime of nonstop whump or mostly nonstop whump with only brief reprieves that never last, especially if it started in childhood
Whumpers who have also been whumped
Whump that transcends individual/interpersonal relationships and reflects or is exacerbated by broader sociopolitical/cultural conflict or tension
Multiple whumpees being used against each other to amplify the whump (like turning siblings, partnered couples, prisoners, or friends against each other, or forcing them to watch or participate)
Caretakers who get whumped alongside whumpees they try to rescue
Whumpees who have been whumpers, either unknowingly, unintentionally, under coercion, or with great remorse
Multiple generations of whumpees in the same family
Whumpees who remain isolated and relatively distanced for most of their adult lives, resisting attempts at caretaking
Whumpees who seem powerful, socially connected, or very well respected such that others wouldn’t believe they’ve been whumped or could be whumped - or this makes them even more of a target for whumpers
Whumpees who believe they deserve it even though they’ve never actually done anything seriously wrong
Whumpees who believe they deserve it because they’ve been whumpers in the past
Whumpees who try to be caretakers by sacrificing/martyring themselves, thus only leading to further whump
Whumpees who try to be caretakers for each other after or while being whumped
Hurt with little to no comfort, or only ineffective or rejected comfort
Types of whump I prefer to write/read:
Emotional/psychological whump
Collective/simultaneous whump
Interrogation/torture whump, including espionage and prison whump
Whump involving war, government or organized groups (like cults, rebels, or gangs), or geopolitical conflict other than war
Religious/spiritual whump (This is hard to explain. I mean when whumpers use religious or spiritual doctrine or practices to whump their whumpees. So a specific form of emotional/psychological whump)
Abandonment whump
Intimate/creepy whumpers
Betrayal whump
Whump as part of whole narratives and arcs, and as the overarching theme of an entire work of fiction (I write short stories, novellas, and novels)
Whumpees of all genders, often marginalized in one or more ways
Whump in more realistic settings (modern or futuristic)
Whumpy playlist (work in progress):
“Monster” by Jacob Banks
“Marble House” by The Knife
“Hollow Like My Soul” by Emilie Autumn (also much of her discography, though with a giant content warning for CSA and SV, plus institutional abuse/medical violence)
“Pretty Polly” by Vanderveer
“Big God” by Florence + The Machine
“FEEL.” by Kendrick Lamar
“Death By A Thousand Cuts” by Taylor Swift
“In Common” by Alicia Keys
“What Did You Do In The War, Dad?” by Sonata Arctica
“I Am A Rock” by Paul Simon
“Is There Anybody Out There?” by Laura Mvula (and much of her discography as well)
“Swim In The Light” by Kid Cudi
“My Medea” by Vienna Teng
“Liar” by Emilie Autumn
“I Want My Innocence Back” by Emilie Autumn
Okay all of Emilie Autumn’s Opheliac and Fight Like A Girl albums
Some favorite whumpy books:
Shatterpoint by Matt Stover (in Star Wars, during the Clone Wars)
Traitor by Matt Stover (in the Star Wars New Jedi Order series)
The Poppy Wars trilogy by R. F. Kuang
The Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman
Jude by Kate Morgenroth
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Whump outside my boundaries:
Intense/detailed medical/sickness whump, including extremely graphic gore (severe injuries are fine; I can’t handle extremely graphic descriptions though)
Whump involving possession or haunting by demons, ghosts, or other supernatural presences/entities/beings
Insects, spiders, or parasites of any kind used to whump someone
Writing on here:
(please let me know of any broken links)
2023 Year of Whump prompt guide / A03 collection for 2023 Year of Whump
Most of my writing involves lady whump, cults, military whump, spy whump, interrogation whump, and/or prison whump. Many of my characters are disabled, queer, trans, POC, older, not conventionally attractive, or fat. If you are uninterested in any of this, there are many other whump blogs out there that focus on everything else.
Kariman Mehta, Peta Messere, Girmay Tigist, Đỗ Thảo Lan (yes all four of them are POC)
Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four | Part five | Part six | Part seven | Part eight | Part nine | Part ten | A later preview/drabble (you could also read that last one first, I guess) | Part eleven | Part twelve | Part thirteen | Part fourteen | Drabble here
Kohat verse (worldbuilding with @lumpofwhump)
These are ordered chronologically. I’m very bad at summaries and thus context but please ask me questions! Some of my characters here also appear in other RP/collaborative worlds, and in my (as yet unpublished) novels, in very similar roles but with different… outcomes.
Two short drabbles - one from Drulović's 20's and one from her 90's
Drulović’s failed escape from Madden
Jeff returns home from Sunnyvale, also gets a job
A Someone comes back to rescue a Nobody
Embassy attack, part one | part two | part three | part four | part five
After the embassy attack
Reluctant help
Waiting (arrival to Crater Hill)
Drulović arrives in Springfield
Two weeks after arriving in Springfield
Drulović loses her eye
Usalmy goes into a box (RP written with @lumpofwhump)
Destruction during the Völrùshelan invasion
Drulović is taken to Taresknul | part two
Gateway verse:
How barren the vineyard must be (co-written with Nemo)
From my solo writing universe:
Tahira Ali remembers
Yanessa Ōta-Calixte’s troubles:
Introduction | Part two | Part three | Part four | Part five | Part six | Part seven | Part eight | Part nine | Part ten | Part eleven
Other writing
Be careful what you fucking wish for
About me: I’m in my 30's, very neurodivergent and disabled, asexual and aromantic-spectrum, nonbinary/agender/genderqueer trans, a survivor of transracial adoption, Jewish and East Asian. I live in the nation currently known as the United States. In real life, I’m very “professional.” I’m also a longtime activist and community organizer. I was once claimed by a cat, but alas, no longer.
I originally joined Tumblr circa 2012, which… probably says a lot.
I’m probably missing some things but I’ll add them if I think of them. Thanks for reading!
