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Woken from a Deep Slumber

Hey whumpers!

In case you all haven’t already been annoyed by the askanswer spam that’s been all over your dashboards tonight, I, DW, have broken a long absence from tumblr with a brief visit to clean out my inbox. Apologies to anyone who asked me a question months ago which is no longer relevant. I tried to answer everything anyway.

I found myself breaking my self-imposed exile mostly to prowl for canon whump recs. I have been terrible about hiatuses and letting suggestions and requests slip my mind, so I don’t know how many of you missed me (I might not miss me if I were y’all, frankly) but I can say without a doubt a doubt that I’ve missed this community. These days I feel a little like a ghostly presence in the whumperverse, just fading in and out of existence and eavesdropping on the goings on.

To be totally honest, while I’ll pop my head in the door every once in a while to answer asks, and will post writeups here and there if the stars align, life commitments will probably keep me from updating the Daily Whump on any regular basis ever again.

I know. It bums me out too, my friends. Deeply.

But to be equally honest, I’m not so sure I’m needed anymore. I surf around on the #whump tag these days and I see so many amazing, dedicated people working for the community, collating canon whump, trading fic recs, sharing h/c writing reference guides, and chatting in really cool and intelligent ways about the whumping instinct, what it is, and how we should feel about it.

I look at all that and say

I remember wondering a few years ago if I should even bother starting this blog. Would I announce my weirdness to the world and find I was the only one? Would folks even be interested in this sort of content? Who would openly participate in a community centered around something so stigmatized and misunderstood? Since then, I’ve had a lot of folks write me echoing all these same sentiments. We felt alone. We felt weird or wrong. And we felt like we could never share this aspect of ourselves with anyone.

I am so ecstatically happy that what started as a little project to distract me from my schoolwork has helped create and/or expand a space where whumpers can just be whumpers. And I am even more grateful that, now that I’ve exited stage left in most regards, there are so many amazing bloggers out there keeping that community alive for everyone.

Whump on, my friends. Whump on.

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Guest Whump: A Mini Farscape Season 1 Whump Bible

Crichton is the best for whump. Here’s an incomplete list for the first season to get started.

First episode: his ship gets sucked into a wormhole and lands in the middle of a battle, brought aboard a prisoner ship and knocked out and beaten up a bit

8th episode: Crichton is pitted against Crais, who believes that Crichton killed his brother (happens in the premiere)

11th episode: Crichton wears a gauntlet that eventually causes him to pass out.

13th episode: Crichton and Aeryn ship gets stuck in a net and it gets damaged, Crichton has to repair the ship, but gets knocked out and Aeryn has to perform CPR (which Crichton taught her how earlier)

20/21: (this episode sets up the plot for the rest of the series and a lot of the whump) After Aeryn gets injured Crichton and team go a board the enemy space base, there Crichton is captured and tortured for information (*Big Spoiler* he get a chip placed in his head at this time unknowingly, which leads to major whump in later seasons)

The best storyline (and also whump) comes from the story arc taking place in S2E19-S3E1

This is magnificent! Merci beaucoup, mon ami(e).

~ DW

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A lovely trailer for a whumpy House/Doctor Who crossover

Short but sweet! See Ten and House inhabiting the same dimension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yyDXDLrmKg

~ DW

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An ask entitled “You're the bomb dot com, yo”

Ok, hi! So…I’ve been stalking this page for -like- hours now.  I never comment on anything, but I just had to break my silence to tell you how awesome you are.  Let me enumerate why:  1-The content of this site is just fabulous. Like others’ posts, I, too, thought I was a sadistic nut and waaaaay too obsessed with whump (as in, that’s essentially the only reason I watch anything.)  A holy cats–a site dedicated to it!  Just great stuff–keep it up.  2-Your responses to folks’ posts and questions are just so nice and genuine and hilarious.  A+ for spot-on gif use :)   And 3 (I’m sure your awesomeness exceeds a mere 3 items) - I just read your fanfic, “Learning”, aaaaaand wow.  So I’m super new to fanfic, and maybe I’ve been looking in the wrong places but I haven’t been super impressed thus far.  Not amazing writing and fairly contrived whump.  But yours was so great!  And I should know, *snootily pushes glasses up the bridge of her nose*, I was an adjunct instructor at a university and whew, did I correct countless papers that ran the gambit from poor to excellent writing!  Your imagery is so vibrant, your style is smooth and most importantly (haha), your whump hit on all the good stuff, e.g., eye rolling, head lolling, the works– haha!  And come on–I hope others noticed your great line, “The Time Lord was running out of time.”

Anyway, am I getting creepy now? I’m getting creepy.  I’ll stop.  But just keep doin’ what you’re doin’, and know you made a new fan today!

S

Since you asked in the three parts, I shall respond in three parts.

1) 

2) 

and 3)

Though I, like many of the denizens of the tumblrsphere, do indeed have a fanfiction account, now long abandoned but brimming with Supernatural fics I wrote when I was fourteen, I never wrote one called “Learning.” It sounds like a  great one - particularly for all the Doctor Who Ten!whumpers who send me desperate asks in the wee hours begging for fic recs I have not the expertise to give them. But unfortunately I can’t take credit for it! So... yeah. That happened. Whoooops.

Nonetheless, I am very flattered by the ask and I hope to see you around the whump neighborhood in future!

~ DW

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A message too long for the askbox

Hello! This is the first time I’ve spoken to you, but it is not the first time I’ve been here. I turn up here at Dailywhump once or twice a month hoping for new whumps to watch. Thanks to Daily Whump I have discovered The Flash, Arrow, Forever…and I really appreciate everything you do. So I’m writing now to share one of my own whump discoveries. From Marvel’s Daredevil. Spoilers be here so here’s your warning and stuff.

So Matthew Murdock, played by gorgeous Charlie Cox (You may recognize him as Tristan from Star Dust), is a blind superhero, which is super cool. In Season 1 Episode 2 “Cut Man” well, quite a beautiful title with so much promise and they sure do deliver. Matthew ends up in a garbage bin and is rescued by the lovely Claire. She tries to help him, he pulls out the whole “No hospitals” line and well Claire decides to doctor him up right in her appartment. Do you see all the beauty I am trying to lay out? On top of that we get flashbacks from Matthew’s youth, when he had to patch up his dad.

There are other episodes with plenty of whump, both physical and phsycological. Later we get the whole scenario where his closest friends are on the brink of discovering the ‘truth’; always very entertaining, that.

Anyway, to conclud you should totally review Daredevil and rate it and stuff. Also I’m terrible with the whole gif making thing. So if you make any gifs from Cut Man I would be thrilled <3.

Daredevil has such a special place in my heart for so many reasons, but the biggest one is that it is a show filled with excellently redered, fully realized, multifaceted friendships, and friendships like that make for excellent whump. Any show can throw their stoic character under a bus, but it takes a show with reallly compelling and touching character relationships to tug my hurt/comfort heartstrings. For these purposes, the Matt/Foggy bromance is just the pinnacle of great writing and acting, and it gives the show’s whumping of Daredevil such pressing emotional stakes.

I mean, look at them. They are too goddamn adorable.

What’s even better is that our protagonist isn’t the only one to entertain really compelling friendships. The energy between Wilson Fisk and his consigliere, James Wesley, is amazing to watch because when we think of comic book villains, we tend to think of monologues to the effect of

and not so much scenes like this:

The last time I remember being so oddly compelled by a villain/henchman relationship was in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows where the sniper character, far from being yet another paid thug, actually seems to care for Moriarty on a personal level. It just adds something really special to a show (and I think it’s particularly true of Daredevil) when the ‘bad guys’ can inspire such dedicated companionship. It makes for better whump, but it also forces us to ask - if someone is so devoted to this person, can they and their mission really be so bad?

Anyway, after a long answer to a short question: YES. I definitely need to review Daredevil and will try to do so. That review will look something like this post, I expect, only organized.

I must disappoint you in one small way, which is that I don’t make GIFs. I have no moral objections, I’m just gloriously unskilled at that sort of technical labor and can barely work the tumblr machine well enough to put out my text reviews. However, given the breakout popularity of the show and the embarassing lag time between when you probably asked this ask and when I’m answering it, I guarantee at least a dozen whump-friendly GIFfers have GIFsetted the crap out of “Cut Man” by now, which is perhaps the only silver lining to it taking me this long to answer.

Thanks for your patience, and for your ask!

~ DW

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fellow whumpers

Hello, lovelies! 

I decided to write something up really quick with a list of other delightful whumpy tumblr blogs. These are *fantastic*, and a lot of these sites are where I get many of my gifs, and resources. Go check them out, and give them some looooove. ;]

dailywhump

whumpersunite

medwhump

fyeahvulnerablemen

more whump coming soon, i promise! i have been away from home for the past 3 days, and before that, i had family visiting. 

-WG