#whump rant

[cutwhipburn]

Kinda sad being in a fandom where I'm the only one into whump, even though the source is FULL of whump. Don't even post my shit on AO3 because I'm only writing for me, and since the fandom is so small I know noone would write it or read it, and I don't want people to stumble across it by mistake and get squicked out and not want to be moots anymore.

Seriously though, the show is full of whump GOD I need more whumpers to watch it.

[purple-heart-x]

Love it when the team is so dependent on Whumpee in ways they never realized.

Maybe Whumpee was considered a liability, too soft and kind for their own good. Maybe Whumpee was younger and smaller and less powerful than the others. Maybe Whumpee’s kindness was scorned and pitied by the team knowing it would get them hurt someday.

And when Whumpee is taken from under their noses? Or better, sacrifices themself to the enemy as an apology for all the “problems” they’ve caused with their kindness? That’s when the team begins to realize just how much they needed Whumpee. How they can’t appeal to their enemies with kindness any longer or solve problems so their enemies don’t hurt others. How those enemies don’t hold back anymore because Whumpee isn’t there to ask them to. How even the rescue mission breaks apart because there’s no Whumpee to help the team work with their former enemies. 

And even better, when they finally bring back Whumpee. Beaten, broken... Despite Whumpee being there, their kindness and innocence is still absent. They have no more kindness, having used it all up to no avail on their captors. They lash out at the first inking of danger. they fight and struggle like an animal. They don’t show an ounce of mercy, becoming a more deadly weapon than the team they once begged and fought about being too cruel. And they’re scared, scared of the tiniest of sounds, the first tiny raise in someone’s voice or sharp tone around them.

And when the team tries to bring back the Whumpee they once knew, the kind and gentle one that they so sorely missed... it sure is a shame that Whumpee has no reason to believe their kindness is wanted for any other reason than to use it to crush them again. 

[why-not-ask-me-a-better-question]

I wish I could talk to my friends and family about whump. I found a video of a whumpy scene from a main stream movie and showed it to my friend and they reacted kinda negatively. I guess I thought since it was main stream and more comfort than hurt, it would be “safe” to show. Oh well. Time to slink back into the dark alley of tumblr.

[whumpasaurus101]

Give me the whumpee collapsing. It could be in weakness, fear, sadness, despair.

👏🏼 give 👏🏼 me 👏🏼 it 👏🏼

[whumping-to-conclusions]

Can we talk about comedian whumpees for a second? Because there’s something that just gets me about them. I think it’s just the remarkableness of seeing someone going up against impossible odds, unimaginable pain, and still come out laughing and joking--even if it’s just for their own sanity. It’s seeing a character get bruised and broken, but seeing them get up from the ground and spit blood into their torturer’s face, just to see their expression. It’s seeing them laugh even though their ribs ache and their mouth is dry and their teeth are stained with blood. It’s seeing them find humor in the worst circumstances imaginable.

The hardest thing for me is seeing a comedian whumpee stop laughing, because that’s when you know it’s over. That’s when you know they’re truly broken.

[brutal-nemesis]

We stan Magical Healing

Just felt inspired to rant about how fun and exciting magical healing can be! Ovbs not everyone has magic/advanced enough science in their universe, but it’s still a great concept to play with

Magical healing’s gotta be painful. Don’t give me that “warmth of relief” stuff. I want that itching, crawling pain of your flesh being forced to regenerate. Give me having to be held down as their broken bones are guided back together so they don’t mess up the process

Magical healing and things being healed wrong should go hand in hand. Inexperienced healers end up causing damage more permanent than the injury they were trying to fix. Improperly cleaned wounds having bits of gravel or glass healed inside that have to be painfully dug out later

Make it hurt for the healer. A healer trying to keep the process going correctly as they get dizzier and more exhausted from the amount of power they’re expelling. Maybe they’re trying to heal themselves, trying to deal with both the pain of healing and the energy drain of actually doing the healing

Being able to be healed, but not receiving it. The whumper has the ability to make the whumpee’s pain all go away, but withholds it until some condition is met. The healer is too drained to help heal, so the rest of the team is stuck trying to deal with their injuries for the first time

Being healed time and time again. The whumper can heal anything they do to the whumpee, so why not do crazy painful things like break their femurs over and over again or sewing hungry rats inside them? The whumpee goes back to their cell in perfect condition, the only record of what just occurred written in phantom pains and the memory of their own screams

Some things can’t be fixed. The whumpee being injured and assuming it will be able to be healed someday, and that horrible feeling of finality when they learn that injury will be a part of them forever

[whumpity--whump--whump]

Just a reminder that people really do experience horrible, traumatic things. Sometimes I think some of us forget that a little bit. Lots of us haven’t experienced a lot of what we write (which is good, I hope none of you ever have to go through anything whumpy), and so often in our world we are desensitized to important things. 

I didn’t really notice this until the Hong Kong protests. I was 100% on the side of the protesters. At this point I’m not even surprised whenever I hear about horrible things the Chinese government does. I looked at the protests through a political lens. I don’t want to go into the details right now, but basically China has been trying to limit the autonomy of Hong Kong, and the citizens of Hong Kong weren’t too happy. And I knew that China would start doing horrible things in Hong Kong, and that political oppositions would start “disappearing,” but it didn’t quite connect in my head just how horrible everything was for a long time. China is committing genocide right now (not related to Hong Kong, different story)! But somehow I was so desensitized that I didn’t fully realize for a while. During this same time, there were shootings at two military bases in America. I was surprised because it’s the military, if you try anything like that it will not go well for you. But I also realized that I didn’t care that much when I heard about a school shooting because there’s so many of them it’s almost like I’ve lost a lot of my ability to care.

And I know this is long and wordy and probably could’ve been phrased better, but all of are like this. Our world is chaotic, and horrible things happen. Slavery is more prevalent today than at any other time in history. More than 40 million people were victims of slavery in 2016 (25 million in forced labor, 15 million in arranged marriages, etc). This isn’t just something happening in China or North Korea, this happens worldwide. There are many illegally owned slaves, and in some places, at least some forms of slavery is legal, or even practiced by the government (looking at you, North Korea). If I had a week I couldn’t list every horrible things that has happened to these people. And this is only one example of irl whump.

I just think we should remember this. We need to tag triggering stuff, respect survivors, and do what we can to protect our fellow humans. Whether that is is teaching your loved ones about signs of abuse, donate to a trustworthy organization dedicated to reaching out, or going out yourself and joining the FBI or something, we should all help protect each other. There is nothing wrong with writing whump. But we can’t be desensitized. We have to wake up and realize that all of this does happen. The world is a worse place than we like to paint it. But the first step to improving it is to acknowledge the flaws.

Here’s some sources: https://50forfreedom.org/modern-slavery/#:~:text=FACT%3A%20There%20are%20more%20people,15%20million%20in%20forced%20marriages. and https://www.oxygen.com/very-real/6-countries-where-slavery-still-exists

[99point9percentwhump]

Whump Scenario

How do y'all feel about withdrawal whump?

They've been sweating for a while, you know something is wrong and their friends or temporary allies (aka bad guy turned good guy) start to notice, then they finally have a wicked muscle spasm they cannot hide, followed by them collapsing, then being weak as a kitten and helped/carried to bed, then the shakes and convulsions start, and they are crying and begging for just a little hit, their friends decline which causes them to scream at them, telling them how much they hate them, there trying to kill them, then, the tantrum fades leaving them a balling mess, their friends glance at each other, all knowing, this was going to be rough couple of days.