Another year, another @whumpuary! Click the 'Keep Reading' for all the fanfics I've written for each prompt this year, and their fandom/summary. Clicking on the title will take you to the fic/chapter the prompt inspired :)
Day 1: Memory Loss
Title: I Can't Remember
Encanto (2021)
A year has passed since Casita fell and was rebuilt, and everything is going better than ever for the Madrigals. That is, until the family discovers Bruno has large gaps in his memory that not even Julieta's cooking can heal.
Day 3: Caught
Title: Maybe We Should Just Fight Now
Bottoms (Movie 2023)
PJ struggles to properly express herself while navigating her newfound post-kiss feelings for Hazel. Hazel takes PJ for her word. But as the two heal from the brawl against Huntington, fist fighting each other may be the only way to clear the air.
Day 5: Ransom
Title: As It Should Be
Brooklyn Nine Nine
Jake comforts Amy after a hard day at work.
Day 7: "Something Isn't Right"
Title: There's Nothing in the Walls
Encanto (2021)
Everything is going terribly for young Dolores. Her Tío Bruno has run away, she keeps hearing these strange sounds coming from the walls, and no one is willing to listen to anything she says. aka How notorious secret-teller Dolores Madrigal learns to keep Bruno's non-exit to herself.
Day 9: Phone Call
Title: Leave a Voicemail After the Beep
Wreck-It Ralph (Movies)
When Vanellope calls Ralph for their weekly catch up and he doesn't answer, she can't help but worry that something bad has happened. But despite the distance between them now that he's at Litwick's and she's in Slaughter Race, they're still best friends, and she'll do everything she can to help him.
Day 11: "Please"
Title: Alone Together
Mean Girls
The now joint friend group's plan for Regina and Janis to spend some quality time together (and hopefully stop hating each other) goes wrong when the two of them are caught in an avalanche.
Day 13: "Hold Still"
Title: Hold Still
Mean Girls
After a makeover gone wrong, Janis and Regina come to an understanding of each other.
Day 15: Breathe
Title: Leave a Voicemail After the Beep
Wreck-It Ralph (Movies)
See Day 9's Summary.
Day 17: "Is this real?"
Title: Is This Real?
Do Revenge (2022)
Drea and Eleanor sit down to try and work out what was real and what was just part of the revenge during their senior year. Will their relationship survive the truth?
Day 19: Shivering
Title: Alone Together
Mean Girls
See Day 11's summary.
Day 21: Red
Title: Leave a Voicemail After the Beep
Wreck-It Ralph (Movies)
See Day 9's summary.
Day 23: Numb
Title: Leave a Voicemail After the Beep
Wreck-It Ralph (Movies)
See Day 9's Summary
Day 25: "I Don't Believe You"
Title: One Last Paradox
The Umbrella Academy (TV)
When people start mysteriously disappearing, Claire is left alone to take care of her younger cousins. What is causing everyone to disappear? And could it have something to do with their mysterious parents who no one can seem to remember?
Day 27: Pinned Against the Wall
Title: Leave a Voicemail After the Beep
Wreck-It Ralph (Movies)
See Day 9's summary.
Day 29: Secret Reveal
Title: There's Nothing in the Walls
Encanto (2021)
aand we are done with january! this has been really fun once again, loved seeing everyones wonderful creations, and i hope you all had a good time too :D
you'll have time to finish everything and submit the completionist form (if you like) until 3rd of february and i will also reblog some more posts until then.
These are all of the fills for Whumpuary 2026!
January 1st
Prompt: Winter
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Ship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
The Cold's Got a Hold on Me - While driving back to Montreal from Ottawa, a white-out blizzard comes out of nowhere, trapping Shane. Cold, alone, and afraid, Shane calls Ilya, wanting to set the record straight on a few things...just in case.
Janauary 3rd
Prompt: Broken Glass
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Ship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Pieces of a Clock That Lies Broken - When a picture of Ilya's mother falls, the frame shattering, Ilya is pulled back, as he has been so many times, to the horrible memory of finding his mother's body. This time, though, he is not alone. This time, he has Shane to pull him back to reality.
January 5th, January 7th, January 9th, January 11th, January 13th, January 15, January 17th, January 19th
Prompts: Ransom (Chapter 1 & 2), Gagged (alt prompt for January 7, Chapter 4), Phone Call (Chapter 5), "Please" (Chapter 6), "Hold Still" (Chapter 8), "Breathe" (Chapter 9), "Is This Real?" (Chapter 11), Shivering (Chapter 12)
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Ship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Would It Make You Feel Better to Watch Me While I Bleed? - Strung out and desperate for money, Alexei Rozanov flies to Boston to shake Ilya down. What he doesn't expect to find when he breaks into Ilya's home is Shane Hollander. Seeing a chance to score a huge pay day, Alexei abducts Shane, leaving Ilya to make very difficult choices while Shane's life hangs in the balance.
January 21st
Prompt: Red
Fandom: Motorheads
Ship: Zac Torres/Harris Bowers
Red - After pulling Harris out of his burning vehicle, Zac faces guilt as Harris recovers in the hospital. When he goes to visit Harris, to apologize, things take a turn that he could never have expected.
January 23rd
Prompt: Wrist Grabbing
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Ship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Somebody Made You Cold - After a nasty interaction with his father at the Sochi Olympics, all that Ilya Rozanov wants is Shane's warm embrace.
January 25th
Prompt: Limping
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Ship: Scott Hunter/Kip Grade
We Wait for Little, But We Want Too Much - When Kip calls Scott out for hiding a limp, it leads to a discussion about what comes next in their relationship, and Scott's future.
January 27th
Prompt: Haunted
Fandom: Liberty House Series (Rogue Community College), Adam Binder Series (White Trash Warlock, etc).
Ship: Isaac Frost/Vran
Haunted By the Ghost of You - After a long day working for the elves, Isaac returns to Vran's room at Rogue Community College and tries to reconcile his life, his future, without the sea elf by his side.
January 29th
Prompt: "I Need Help"
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Ship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Living In a War With Time - In the midst of a deep depressive crash, Ilya finally reaches out to Shane for support and help battling demons that, until now, he has always fought alone.
Share your favorite whump creation someone else made.
For this most I'm going to share a few of my favorite Whumpuary 2026 submissions.
A Useless Sacrifice by @mirrormurmur - I'm really digging the royal whump here (I need to read some more of that), the characterization of whumper and whumpee, and the plot twist at the end!
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
can't speak/caught/broken glass submission by @angeygirl -This is such a creative use of all three prompts. I was stunned when I read it.
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · @whumpuary 2: Can’t speak/caught/broken glass
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Crack!
Evan froze. He had been coming around the corne
Unbearable Noises by @mirrormurmur -I like the overall theme and the source of inspiration is rather funny. Quite the clever way of using a real life experience in writing.
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
This gifset by @triwhumphant -Seriously want to know what happened here, really piqued my interest. Also, it reminded me of my own nostalgic whump scenes from media.
💬 3 🔁 2 ❤️ 19 · Day 21: Poison · Attacked from behind | Poison | Red
Power Rangers Samurai 01x17
Various fanfic submissions by @side-shuffling-hyperfixations -I'm not part of the TMNT fandom but I know enough to get by and I really enjoyed a lot of these submissions. The characterizations are really good I especially like how the relationships between the brothers are written.
Whumpuary 2026: My Own Worst Enemy- Full Version (for tumblr)
For your reading convenience I will be posting the story both on tumblr and ao3. This is the tumblr version.
Title: My Own Worst Enemy
Rating: T
Fandom: Once-ler Fandom
Brief Description: The Once-ler has a face to face encounter with his sinister alter-ego, the Greed-ler.
CW: Non-graphic violence
Prompts used (in order): Exhaustion (alt prompt), Winter (sort of), Flashbacks (alt prompt), Not Good Enough, Something Isn't Right, Cornered, Shaky Hands (technically), Trapped, “Please...”, “Hold Still”, Possession, Came Back Wrong (sort of), “Is This Real?”, Shivering, Seeing Double (sort of), Broken Glass (older prompt), Attacked From Behind, Red, Wrist Grabbing, Numb, “I don't believe you.”, Limping (sort of), Fatigue (sort of), Pinned Against The Wall, Failed Escape (alt prompt), Exhausted (old prompt), Memory Loss (old prompt).
I tried to use either a main prompt from each day or an alt prompt with the goal of being a completionist, but even if I didn't get it these prompt were really fun to work with! I hope you enjoy!
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Once-ler let out a heavy sigh as he signed yet another document. Although the Thneed factory had already closed for the day a few hours ago, Once-ler was still working away at his desk. Trying to catch up on some paperwork he had fallen behind on, becoming all the more tired and frustrated as the minutes ticked on by.
After Once-ler placed the document inside its proper folder, he sighed yet again as he shifted in his office chair, only to immediately wince. For the chair, much like most of the other furniture in his current office, was rather old and uncomfortable. Although Once-ler had intended to upgrade and “bigger” his office and furniture at some point, along with the rest of his factory, he hadn't gotten around to doing so yet. As he was simply too busy managing the day to day operations of running his new business, while struggling to make the right decisions on how to run it.
The latter issue was made all the more complicated by the frequent visits of the Lorax, who would often stop by the factory and lecture Once-ler. The forest guardian would repeatedly tell Once-ler how bad biggering his business could possibly be, and warn him that continuing to do so would not only lead to the destruction of the truffula forest, but also himself.
“The Greed-ler is what you're going to become if you don't stop this!” the Lorax had scolded him one evening. For some strange reason, Once-ler could not get that particular encounter, nor that particular nickname out of his mind.
Thinking about all of this only caused Once-ler to become even more frustrated. So, with an irritated groan, Once-ler got up from his desk, having ultimately decided that he had done enough work for the day. Once-ler then began to make his way out of his office, with the intention of heading down to his penthouse attached to the factory, where he lived, in order to get some rest. But, before Once-ler even made it halfway across the room, he suddenly felt a strange chill go up his spine, the sensation similar to that of a cold winter breeze, which caused Once-ler to close his eyes and shiver as he felt his body freeze.
A moment later, after the feeling had passed, Once-ler opened his eyes again, and began to look around the room, trying to figure out where the sudden sensation had come from. Until his gaze fell upon the full-length mirror just a few feet away from him, where Once-ler now noticed something rather unusual about his reflection.
For the man in the mirror was not wearing the same striped jeans, white shirt, gray vest, and fedora that Once-ler was. But he instead donned dark gray dress pants, a sharp emerald-colored suit jacket, long green gloves, and a large black top hat. It was an outfit Once-ler had recalled seeing somewhere before, although he could not recall exactly where.
Once-ler continued to stare at his reflection, fascinated but also frightened. Although the image in front of him carried a certain allure, as Once-ler had often dreamed of wearing something so luxurious and stylish himself. He also could not shed his sense of unease, for there was something about the man in the mirror that seemed sinister.
Once-ler's suspicions were soon confirmed as his reflection flashed him a wicked grin. As disembodied laughter, similar to his own but with a malicious twist, filled the air. Along with anohter sensation of a cold winter breeze, which caused Once-ler to suddenly fall down to his knees, then the floor, as he collapsed from both fear and exhaustion.
Then as Once-ler lied unconscious on the office floor, he began to experience dreadful flashbacks of his past.
“Oh, Once-ler, I just don't know what to do with you.” his mother told him with a disapproving shake of her head “If you keep spending all your free time knitting, playing that guitar, and coming up with all these crazy ideas, you're never going to amount to anything.”
“Yeah, the truth is, you're just a total wimp.” His brother Chet teased him one winter day.
“I am not!” Once-ler protested, his face flush with embarrassment.
“Sure you are! I'll prove it!” His other brother Brett exclaimed before he suddenly pushed Once-ler down in the snow as the two twin brothers both laughed at him.
“You still haven't stopped that knitting nonsense yet? Don't you think that's a bit unmanly?” His Uncle Ubb asked him on another occasion.
Yet despite the discouragement from his family. Once-ler refused to give up.
“Well, here I go, Mom. Off to change the world with my Thneed. I'm actually doing it!” Once-ler told them excitedly as he set off to leave home.
“Yes, but just remember, Oncie,” his mother began “If somehow your invention ends up a failure instead of a success, oh, it wouldn't surprise me at all!” she exclaimed before the entire family broke out into a fit of laughter.
Unfortunately for Once-ler, his troubles would not end there, as success would not come easy. Before the thneed eventually took off and became a must-have item, Once-ler spent several days trying and failing to sell his invention, as the gathering crowd threw tomatoes at him, booed in disapproval, and even broke his guitar at one point.
Back in the present, Once-ler, still unconscious, writhed on the floor as his mind continued to be flooded with memories, all of them terrible reminders of the dark days before his business took off. Back when nothing he ever did was ever good enough.
Then, finally, Once-ler woke up. But he would soon discover that his nightmare was far from over. The first thing Once-ler noticed was the unusual scent of smogulous smoke. Then, after he had gotten up from the floor and turned around to investigate, Once-ler found himself face to face with the image of the man in green once again. Only this time, he was no longer a mere reflection in the mirror, but was instead standing right there in front of him.
“What?” Once-ler whispered to himself in disbelief as he took a step backwards in shock. “This can't be...something isn't right.”
“Indeed...something isn't right...but I'm here to change that,” the green-clad man stated as he took a step closer to Once-ler.
“W-who..who are y-you?” Once-ler stammered as he continued to back away, his entire body trembling.
“I'm you....the person you both aspire and fear to be,” the man in green answered, as he kept moving closer to Once-ler, until he eventually had the latter cornered.
Now trapped, Once-ler, still trembling and terrified, looked up into the other man's icy blue eyes, identical to his own, as he slowly came to a realization. “Are you...are you the Greed-ler?” Once-ler asked him.
“Yes, I am.” Greed-ler answered.
Remembering the Lorax's warnings, Once-ler's fears only grew as he continued to look up at his counterpart's piercing gaze. “Please...please just leave me alone.” Once-ler begged.
“Absolutely not.” Greed-ler told Once-ler with a smirk and a shake of his head. “On the contrary, I have every intention of staying here permanently!” Greed-ler exclaimed as he began to emit a toxic green glow, which soon also enveloped itself around Once-ler. “Now hold still.” Greed-ler ordered with a sneer as the noxious green energy began possessing Once-ler with his own power.
Once-ler, completely helpless, struggled to breathe as the scent of smogulous smoke grew stronger, and Greed-ler's power surged through his veins. Until finally, after several agonizing moments, the surge of energy abated, along with the smell of the smoke, and Once-ler soon found himself, along with his office, completely transformed. Although Greed-ler himself had seemingly disappeared, Once-ler was now wearing his clothes, and the office was now much larger and featured several luxurious furniture pieces, including a much bigger desk and chair.
“Wow...is this....is this real?” Once-ler breathed as he looked down at himself and around the room in disbelief, astonished by the luxury that surrounded him. That was until Once-ler took a glance out of the now much larger office window and saw the state of the forest outside of the factory. Where, under the light of a full moon, numerous tree stumps sat underneath a smoggy sky, and the nearby river ran black with schlop.
“It can be...all of it.” Greed-ler's disembodied voice answered from inside Once-ler's head. “So long as you don't let your doubts get in the way of your potential success...”
At the sound of the haunting voice, Once-ler backed away from the window in fear. Only to look towards the now much larger and luxurious full-length mirror, where he saw yet another terrifying sight. For the glass in the mirror was broken right down the middle, splitting his reflection into two different images. On one side, Once-ler wore his old striped jeans, white shirt, gray vest, and fedora. While on the other he donned the clothes he was currently wearing, the same slick green suit of his alter ego, the Greed-ler.
The split images further reminded Once-ler of his inner conflict between both his past and possible future, and so he backed away from the mirror in terror, shivering as another gust of ominous wind swept through the office, which blew Once-ler's new top hat off of his head and caused the spirit of Greed-ler to leave him temporarily.
But Once-ler would not be free for long. As Greed-ler, angry at Once-ler's hesitation, suddenly lunged forward and attacked him from behind. All while the full moon outside began to turn blood red, bathing the office in a crimson glow.
“How dare you!” Greed-ler spat as he took a firm hold of Once-ler's wrists, gripping them tighter and tighter until the other man's hands went numb. “How dare you even think about trying to resist me! Greed-ler snarled as Once-ler desperately tried to squirm away. “You need me! You have to become me! You'll never make it in the world of business without me!”
After struggling for a while under Greed-ler's grip, Once-ler eventually broke free and limped away, Although the fight against his counterpart left him tired and fatigued, Once-ler refused to give in to Greed-ler...at least not yet.
“No...I don't believe you.” Once-ler gasped in a weak attempt at resistance.
But this small act of defiance angered Greed-ler even further, and in his rage, Greed-ler quickly lunged forward again and pinned Once-ler against the wall. “You're just lying to yourself and we both know it!” Greed-ler sneered. “But eventually you will realize the truth, and that truth will set you free, finally casting away your doubts, and allowing you to ultimately become me...the person you've always wanted to be!” Greed-ler exclaimed before he grabbed the front of Once-ler's shirt and tossed him on the floor.
Still weakened and disoriented from the fight, Once-ler could only turn his head to take one last glance at Greed-ler as the latter vanished in a cloud of smogulous smoke, before the world faded to black.
Eventually, Once-ler woke up on his old office floor, in the exact same spot he had passed out before, only to see that Greed-ler was seemingly no more. With a groan, Once-ler slowly stood up as he inspected himself for injuries. Feeling both relieved and a touch disappointed that he saw he was indeed still wearing his old gray outfit. For there was a part of Once-ler that still admired Greed-ler's slick and stylish attire, despite his fear of him.
After Once-ler concluded that he was uninjured, and had likely just collapsed with exhaustion. Once-ler finally made his way down the hall to his penthouse to get some real rest. There, Once-ler put on his favorite cozy bunny pajamas, warmed himself up some dinner, and had a cup of tea as he tried to relax. Yet, as the evening wore on, Once-ler still could not help but feel uneasy, so he went over to his bedroom closet and pulled out his knitting bag, hoping that working on a little something would soothe him.
As Once-ler fished around the bag for some material to work with, his fingers brushed against what felt like two strips of velvet fabric. Curious as to what was inside, for it had been a while since he had knitted anything by hand, Once-ler pulled the items out of the bag. Only to discover, much to his horror, a pair of green grovvulous gloves, completely identical to the ones Greed-ler wore.
Once-ler's eyes widened in shock as he realized what the pair of gloves, one of his old knitting projects, symbolized. For they were a ominous reminder that he had failed to escape his eventual fate. Now filled with terror, Once-ler shoved the gloves back in the bag, which he then tossed back in his closet. Afterwards, Once-ler stumbled over to his bed, where he lied down and trembled until he eventually fell asleep.
When Once-ler woke up in bed the next morning, he had almost no recollection of the events that took place during the previous evening, dismissing them a simply being part of a forgotten dream. But unbeknownst to Once-ler at the time, his dream would one day become a living nightmare.
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Notes:
I had Once-ler lose his memory at the end in case I wanted to add this to the main canon because there are certain details that come into conflict with it. But at the end of the day this was made for the purpose of participating in the challenge so we'll see how that works later on. Regardless, I hope you all liked it. Also, If you did like this story and haven't checked out the main Visions of Greed yet, please consider checking it out for much more whumpy and angsty goodness!
