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Consider: Formerly suicidal Whumpee who's suddenly found a reason to live, is genuinely improving, finally having something that can pull them out of their depressive haze, and a Caretaker who's taken all of this the wrong way and is worried Whumpee's genuinely about to pass away because they don't know what Whumpee's suddenly so happy about and is assuming the worse
#402
content: suicidal whumpee, bad caretaker, arguments, past trauma, past forced treatment
Caretaker watched as Whumpee twirled around in the kitchen. They were humming a song to themself, making pancakes, with a little bit of batter stuck to their cheek. It would've been idyllic. If Caretaker didn't know them.
Whumpee had been suicidal for years now. Genuinely, deeply suicidal. So much so they had to be hospitalised multiple times for attempts, and to prevent attempts.
And now, suddenly, they were just... fine?
Caretaker wasn't buying that.
And they could only think of the worst.
They slowly stood up and walked over to the kitchen, leaning against the door frame. Whumpee turned to look at them with a bright smile on their face. "Caretaker! Do you wanna try the batter?"
"No," they said, shutting them down instantly. Whumpee's smile faltered.
"Oh. Okay. You don't have to."
"What's this about?" they asked bluntly.
"What's... what about?"
"Don't play dumb. What are you so happy about? Are you happy? I don't think you are. I think you're spiralling."
"Spiralling...? Caretaker, whatâ"
"Don't play dumb. I know you. I've known you for years. You don't act like this."
Whumpee stopped in the middle of the kitchen, bowl and whisk still in hand. The smile was gone from their face. "I thought you'd like it if I got better," they said quietly. Defeated.
"I would," Caretaker said stubbornly. "I would, if it was real. But this? Getting better one day to the next, out of the blue, just being giddy about life after years of depression? After six failed suicide attempts? I don't buy it. You know what this looks like to me? Like a Whumpee who has found some new, creative way to end it, and is making themself one last good meal before killing themself."
"But that's not..." Whumpee trailed off. They put the bowl down. Their mood had been ruined, and Caretaker was to blame. But Caretaker didn't care. They wanted Whumpee alive.
"I think a trip to the hospital is in order."
"No."
"If you don't go of your own volition, I'll drag you there."
"This is so dumb!" Whumpee snapped. They didn't look sad anymore. They looked angry. "I can't even get better without someone wanting to sedate me to all hell? What do you want from me? All these years I listened to you cry about how you want me to get better, and now I am getting better, and it's not good enough? Because I'm not getting better in a way that suits you?"
"I want what's best for youâ"
"No, you don't! If it were up to you, the hospital would never let me out! I'd just be there, rotting away in a room, possibly strapped down so I wouldn't be able to hurt myself. That's what you want."
"No, that's notâ"
"What, am I misunderstanding? Is it hurtful? To be misunderstood? To be made into a caricature of a person? To be reduced to a one-dimensional... thing, only concerned with one thing?"
Caretaker stopped. They looked away. "I'm just worried."
"Well, you don't have to be." Whumpee grabbed the bowl and poured the entirety of the batter down the drain. "I'm going back to my room. Fuck me, I guess. And you know what? Fuck you as well."
They left the dirty bowl and pushed past Caretaker, slamming their bedroom door shut. Caretaker sighed.
What if Whumpee really was just getting better?
What if this altercation was the thing that'd push them over the edge?
What if they were wrong?
They sighed, closing their eyes. "Idiot," they muttered to themself. They'd have to make it up to Whumpee somehow.
Whumpee who escaped their Whumper, after months and months of fruitlessly begging to be released. Now, Whumpee's been captured by a new Whumper, but this time, they refuse to give in, no matter what the new Whumper throws at them. It's almost as if they're psychologically incapable of submitting to their new Whumper, despite all of Whumper's best efforts.
I see so many good whump posts but god. Whump is such an unsexy word to me. So when they say whumpee I just canât. I canât do it. Please. Please. Just say âvictimâ in the sexy ones. For me. You can keep saying whumpee in the boring ones it adds flavor. But the sexy ones. Pleag
In modern linguistics, "descriptivism" is describing the way that a person or group of people uses language. It's considered the "correct way" to talk about culture and language in general because it simply describes how language *is*, while making specific effort to not pass judgement on it. We do this in order to keep open minds about cultures that are different from our own-- especially ones that we wouldn't even consider cultures-- so we don't accidentally close off our minds to the thought that anything except our own experience is wrong.
Ex: "These people use the word 'whumpee' in place of the word 'victim.'"
"The southern american dialect generally uses the word "y'all" as a second person plural pronoun."
"There's a person over there who has a pen, you can ask him for one if you need it."
Prescriptivism is the opposite. Prescriptivism is using specific language to pass judgement, or literally "prescribe" how those people should talk. This can be very bad, as it is often based on your own direct and biased personal experience. No one is exempt from this bias, no matter how hard they try. That's why we go for descriptivism instead.
Ex: "Can y'all stop using the word whumpee, it sounds so weird, just use the word I'm more used to, "victim," instead"
"Y'all is the best second-person plural pronoun."
"That guy over there always has so many pens, I bet he wouldn't care if you asked him for one."
Prescriptivism can be bad because it sets up an expectation or opinion in the recipient of the information, instead of letting them form an opinion on their own based on information that they see in front of them. I'm sure you can figure out at this point why that is bad, but basically it means that you're forming opinions on something based on someone else's emotions on the matter instead of actually exploring your own feelings on it.
Which straight up means you're more susceptible to propaganda. No, really. Propaganda is quite literally, at its core, a specific use of prescriptivism that the recipient is supposed to mistake as descriptive fact.
If you think this is stupid and pedantic, then you're the exact type of person that this is aimed at, because this sort of shit literally targets people who scoff at it. People should always be aware of their own biases when talking about things that they don't understand and think should change, especially when it's about languages and cultures that are not your own and ESPECIALLY when you think it's small stupid shit like this. Because you're showing that you have:
1) no respect for the Whump community
2) probably no knowledge that it IS its own community
3) the ins and outs of why we use that word (partially to distance ourselves from kink, as they CAN be the same but they can also be completely different)
4) made some weird sort of assumption that we're making our posts only for kink,
5) or for you who does NOT respect our community,
6) or that it's somehow our goal to get our whump posts outside the community and you're somehow helping us by telling us how to do it better???
7) that our "boring ones" are lesser than just because you don't personally like them, and by proxy that we are lesser than for enjoying them (Literally imagine saying that about ANYTHING in any real life culture).
There's even more but just. Yeesh.
Basically what I'm saying is either suck it up or get the hell out of my house and stop insulting me as an academic as well as my community. Posts like these are the exact reason why people think that kink is abuse, that having a southern accent means you're stupid while a british accent is smart and distinguished, that there's only one "correct" way to write a novel, that animation is "only for kids," etc etc etc.
Yes, this EXACT "ugh its just so unsexy" mindset.
(some sources for further research and checking below)
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Here's a written college lecture crash course that goes into much more detail on the "why" and with some wonderful sources to back up:
People not in the whump community/People only in the whump community for kink content and ignorant about the rest/People ignorant about the history of the terms or even the purpose of the community to begin with: be normal and respectful about the words people have used for decade(s) that exist for very specific purposes in a community you aren't really a part of and stop mocking and disparaging them challenge impossible </3 many such cases đ
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.Â
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, youâll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post â we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out â stay tuned!
Seriously, this is a tumblr-killer feature. This breaks the most fundamental way tumblr is different from any other social network. This makes tumblr just another blueskytwitterthreads. Or worse: An unfederated mastodon clone.
Please, mutuals, post about this, comment and reblog the original post (while you still can without making it your own quote-post). I don't know if staff is looking or if the feedback would matter, but seriously, this is a terrible change that would kill tumblr as we know it. Please, don't roll it out.
look, I can endure any kind of UI changes that are supposed to help tumblr-rookies to understand how this works. They may be a nuisance, but that's ok, we have x-kit or we can get used to buttons being here or there.
But this. This changes the data architecture. This changes the SINGLE THING that makes tumblr the "... yes and" website. This KILLS THE COLLABORATIVE POSTING THAT MAKES THIS SITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS.
Tumblr has explicitly said in the past that they do not look at comments on their updates posts. You have to PUT IN A SUPPORT TICKET AND SELECT FEEDBACK FROM THE DROPDOWN
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Living weapon/guard dog whumpee pledging their undying loyalty to Caretaker shortly after being rescued, and Caretaker thinking that once Whumpee worked through some things, that that would sort itself out and mellow with time, but it doesnât.
If anything, their pledge gets stronger. To Whumpee, Caretaker didnât just save their life, they loved them back to life, they saved their soul. Who or what else would ever compare?
But it's necessary for me to have a roof over my head, even if it's mobile.
I need to purchase a cheap van or class c rv. It'll settle for a van, I can get a mattress for cheap and lay it down on the floor and maybe a military surplus winter sleeping bag. It's better than nothing at all, which is what I seem to be heading towards.
I'm looking for $5000. That will get me the vehicle, registration, gas (petrol, for my UK friends), the aforementioned mattress/sleeping bag, food, and space rent for a week or two when I get to where I'm going (power hookups so I can stay connected with y'all and bathrooms).
It's below freezing here, frequently below 0°F. If that wasn't bad enough, ICE is still doing their usual bullshit and have even begun deploying LRADs in the Twin Cities (Long Range Acoustic Devices, sonic weapons) as well as arresting anyone they don't like.
I'm trying to get to Washington state where my partner is. If I'm going to be homeless and living in a van/rv, I want to finally be able to be close enough to hold them.
Please.
This is the last time I'll ask for help, with it being such a big ask.
Please spread this far and wide, every little bit helps and I am on a time crunch of which I don't know the time limit.
I've seen polls about people's gender preferences in whump, but not a lot exploring why it is that way. I'm curious about the underlying causes regardless of what the actual gender identities are
Do you prefer whumpees who are the gender(s)âŠ
I am attracted to bc I like to be/am attracted to the whumpee
I am attracted to for some other reason
I'm not attracted to bc I don't like to see someone I'm attracted to in pain
I'm not attracted to for some other reason
I identify with because I want to relate to the main character
I identify with because I want to relate to the one being comforted
I identify with because it's cathartic to relate to the one being hurt
I identify with for some other reason
I don't identify with because I want/like main characters different from me
I don't identify with because I prefer to think about myself in another role
I don't identify with because I don't want to think of myself being hurt
I don't identify with for some other reason
Voting ended onJun 8, 2025
Sorry I couldn't add more nuance. 12 option limit strikes again.
Reblogs are greatly appreciated, I'd love as large a sample size as possible!
The overlap (or perceived overlap?) between whump and kink is so fascinating to me as someone who is into both, but my kinks donât usually overlap with my whump preferences.
There was a post going around a bit ago making fun of the word whump along the lines of, âjust say youâre a sadist/masochist.â And Iâm not denying there isnât some overlap in the community between whump and those kinks butâŠthey donât overlap like that for me. Itâs hard to explain, but the feelings I get reading whump are not at all the feelings I get watching/participating in kink. I recognize that like kink it stems from the same dynamics (domination and control versus submission and acceptance) but most whump I read and write just doesnât hit the same buttons as a similar kink scenario would for me. Personally I think I do enjoy the âaftercareâ aspect of whump more, which might contribute to the difference. A whipping scene in kink is sexy as hell but the aftercare of a fictional whipping scene has a âwhumpyâ appeal that I donât get out of kink experiences and scenes.
A different post that was also making the rounds said something along the lines of, âwe need silly words like whump in fandom it keeps us humble,â which isnât incorrect - but I feel like whump as a concept can be divorced from fandom in a way that a lot of other âfandom termsâ canât be. Whump is more akin to a genre with its own conventions and archetypes than it is to being an exclusively fandom-based phenomenon. There are âstock charactersâ like there are in the romance or horror genres. There is no specific situation or setting tied to whump, like a fandom would have with established characters, but it has specific criteria (character is hurt and this is central to the story, the same way a mystery is central to a mystery genre story).
Whump isnât synonymous with sadism/masochism, nor is it as simple as a fandom trope*. Whump is in my opinion a genre. Within whump there are consistent tropes, archetypes, and repeating themes, but whump itself is not a trope or fandom exclusive term. Like any genre, it can be kinky (romance threesomes, horror monster fucking, etc.) but reducing it to âjust a kinkâ is a disservice to its literary potential.**
Idk I just feel like thereâs nuance between âitâs all kinkâ and âitâs all silly fandom nonsense.â
*This is not shade at fandom tropes - they are useful and good, I just donât think whump as a concept meets the criteria of being a fandom trope. Considering the whole breadth of whump to be a âtropeâ puts the term in a very small box, and at the same time warps the definition of what a trope is and how it can be used.
**This is not shade at the kink community. As mentioned I am a kinkster and I just wanted to voice my opinion that while very funny, that post feels a little flippant and dismissive of whump as a genre and the fact that non-kinksters also enjoy whump. You wouldnât call horror aficionados monsterfuckers just for liking monster stories; calling the whump community as whole (some of whom are but some of whom arenât) sadists/masochists seems just as reductive and presumptuous.
Okay, so I want to explore the idea of "brainwashed specifically to be a trophy" in a hero/villain context. (Not like "trophy spouse" sort of thing, I mean literally kept as a symbol of their victory.) Thing is, there are a lot of different dynamics that could involve this, and I'm not sure which one to use. I have four variations I'm trying to decide between.
If Hero is Villain's trophy, the power differential will be more overt. Villain is showing off their conquest and power by bringing Hero to heel. In the first variation of this (and also the og daydream that spawned this post) Hero is basically treated like a showy pet: kept by Villain's side all the time and obviously beneath them, but also kind of pampered and Villain won't let any henchmen be very mean to Hero. In the other variation, it's less pet-whumpy and more blatantly abusive, with Villain physically hurting Hero whenever they feel like it.
If Villain is Hero's trophy, first off I'm thinking Villain will be given to them brainwashed instead of Hero brainwashing them themself. But second off, there will be a layer of sort of hiding or softening the power differential and how messed up this really is, because these are the "good guys" and want to keep that image. One version of this is with Hero as more of a Caretaker type, who's horrified to receive Villain like this but can't really do anything about it. And the last variation is that Hero's happy to go along with this (but with less dehumanization than there would be with the roles reversed.)
Which one would you want fleshed out into a story?
Nah cuz its not sexual for me and also I don't get the same feeling from real people or irl acts of violence. Also mostly I enjoy âwhumperless whump/environmental whumpâ so like sickfics or car crashes or caretaking and such. SoâŠ..
I'm taking this ask in good faith but just so you know its not very nice to label people (especially minors, which I am) as being sadists (not that thereâs anything wrong with s&m itself).
Whumpblr feel free to add on with your thoughts (stay civil and respectful please or I will delete post).
