#whumpzone

[newbornwhumperfly]

whumpmas in july day 7: favorite whump fic!

well, i could not possibly just choose a single favorite whump fic from this beautiful community, so i took this prompt's suggestion of making a list! 💖💖💖😍😍😍 (NOTE: please mind these stories' requisite CW's, as some of the content is both good and rough)

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@much-ado-about-whumping's entire gorgeous Déomas and Rhys series about my beloved Déomas Overbridge is eternally bookmarked in my soul but this installment - Déomas Settles In - really seized me by the throat and never let go 💔😍😭💖

@whumpzone's heartwarming and wrenching Thomas and Rowe series lives in my heart fondly and there's something about the beautiful and haunting final chapter - Thomas and Rowe: The End - that has lived in my head rent-free for years now 😍💖😢

@whump-tr0pes's Honor Bound series is, of course, a community classic and i would die for each and every one of them, with this installment from Honor Bound 5 - Honor Bound 5: 32 (Verbal Abuse) - being a constant reread for me simply due to how utterly devastating "hallucination of loved one saying your worst fears about yourself" is depicted here 😭😭😭

@haro-whumps's Group Whumpees series will always be close to my heart, for all of their characters are my beloveds, and one piece from that series is this chapter - Group Whumpees 6: Breaking Point - because i love me a good devastating misunderstanding that results in a breakdown! 😈🥰🥺

@whumping-every-day, absent but never forgotten, first got me into writing vampire whump with her gloriously brutal Ash and Callum series, of which, this piece - Vampire Whump: New Beginnings - is a favorite still 😰😈🥺

@ashintheairlikesnow, the patron god of whump, has too many iconic pieces in the BBU canon to name here, but the piece where Kauri (my beloved) attempts to write poetry again post-mind-wipe reached directly into my chest in a way very few pieces of writing in recent memory have been able to do, heartbreak and healing hand in hand 💔💔🥺🥺💖💖

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have a very merry @whumpmasinjuly everyone! 💖

@whumpmasinjuly-archive

[secretwhumplair]

Little thank you/fanart sketch for @whumpzone <3 It's Rowe, happy, healed and wearing the hair clip Luca gave him! It's been a while but I still love their story.

Had the urge to add (organic, free-range, hand-drawn) sparkles which is not an urge one should ever try to resist :D

[whump-for-all-and-all-for-whump]

I commissioned @whumpzone to do a portrait of Vlad, the villain protagonist from my series Of Heroes and Villains and omg I could not be happier with the result!!!!

look at him!!!!! :D he looks so shifty and mean that’s my little bastard right there <3 i love how he resembles his faceclaim and yet more than that looks like his own unique person!! i have trouble picturing my own characters sometimes but when i saw this piece finished i was like oh yeah that’s him!! that’s my boy!! the background and linework is so amazing, i love his highlighted outline and the vibes of the background are so perfect :)))

also OH MY FUCKING GOD THE COLORING!?!? LOOK AT THAT DETAIL!!!! THE JACKET?!?! what is this absolute witchcraft holy fucking shit !!!

i just. love absolutely everything about this :,) thank you cerys you outdid yourself!!

P.S. Cerys is still accepting commissions!! Go check out the link in her pinned post for more info, could not recommend her more!!

[ezwhump]

1 & 11 🤠 -whumpzone

1) What are your favourite whump tropes?

oh damn, this is a tricky one. broadly speaking, pet whump, more specifically a whumpee accidentally breaking a rule or doing something to the caretaker and then expecting a punishment, going so far as to aide the caretaker in preparing for their punishment 👌🏻

2) How and when did you discover the whump community?

A few months ago when I read through all of @deluxewhump s content and absolutely fell in love ☺️

[whump-me-all-night-long]

the "always on my dash with that good shit" mutual (and the hardworking student!!) -whumpzone

aww, yay!! i love this!

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

12 and 26- please translate "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts", I absolutely CANT stop saying it and I'd love to see it in ASL!! congrats on the followers!!! -your pal whumpzone

Lol, I know I said I would post these tomorrow but work schedule changed. Coming at you tonight!

Here you go @whumpzone

[cupcakes-and-pain]

Current mood: Rowe from whumpzone. Constant fear and confusion because this is a strange place and I don’t understand the rules. Like seriously what is going on??

@whumpzone

[newbornwhumperfly]

whumpmas in july day 19: fav whump blogs

aghhhh, i've been so excited for this day because i get to celebrate this beautiful, talented community!!! 💖😍💖😍💖 rubs my little gay hands together gleefully...

@much-ado-about-whumping because they can settle into a character's headspace like its his home, building the beautiful furniture of reaction, justification, trauma, interests, and calculations around that space until each hurt feels like watching the hammers being taken to the boards of a beautiful house. his compassion for his characters is what makes them full, rich, and realized, in all of their crystals and cobwebs, their windows and cellars, and the gift they give to their readers is the ability to feel how they feel and what they feel as surely as if you lived in that house. 💖

@whump-tr0pes because every character they write is jagged and flawed with broken edges, no easy answers or clean lines, where most all of them have hurt and been hurt, they still can get better. when their stories, as langston hughes says, “cuts the world in two to see what worms are eating at the rind”, there are also seeds and despite the worms, maybe even because of the worms, a new tree is planted. their stories say that love and hope and trying are never ever wasted, no matter how ugly or cruel people get or the world becomes. even with worms, nothing is worthless or unable to grow and change. 💖

@haro-whumps because their stories often bear a sharp edge of dark camp, pulpy and vivid, the absurd in the nature of horror itself which, through all of their macabre delights, reveals so often a person just trying to carve out a pocket of stability. the effort reveals the world they live in as absurd. through forging relationships with fellow sufferers, through dutifulness, through healing or maintaining dignity or helping others, there is always a trying at the heart of their characters to make the impossible possible. their villains and victims, whether it’s “i’m a god” or “i’m just a slave”, are all just people at the end of the day, stupid and messy and layered, a thing that horror at its best employs to make its subjects more lovable and more hateable. 💖

@whumpzone because her sense of tenderness serves the underlying traumas in her stories. since most of the horror lies in the pasts of these characters, it is always mind-blowing how well the characters reactions and bodies tell a story about what happened to them, from how they react to the gentle efforts of their caretakers or a perceived harm, so often these boys will break your heart through how thoroughly beaten-down they are and how obvious it is when they don't expect to be safe anywhere. the utter humanity with which the whumpees are treated highlights their past dehumanization all the more and that linearity in storytelling is so damn effective. 💖

@ashintheairlikesnow because what is there to say about her that hasn't been said ad nauseam by writer after writer in this community, for every aspect of her writing? so what i will restrain my praise to the specifics and say that her world-building is a rare and beautiful talent. her worldbuilding serves the themes of her story at every single turn, the tapestry of horror that capitalism wrecks on the world and the shape of the tools trying to cut those threads. there is no corner unexplored in the halls of institutions - she shows us exactly how fucked things are and the manual for how its done. never stop writing because i am hard pressed to remember a dystopia that felt so immediate and so realized. 💖

there is so much talent on whumblr that i could name bloggers all day, these authors just happen to be at the top of my list. your brilliance awes and inspires me and pushes me to higher standards with every new read and reread 🥰🥰🥰

have a very merry @whumpmasinjuly everyone! 💖💖💖

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