(very) occasional musings

@thatwhumplife

Hi. I'm a long-time whumper. And a writer. Though I've found less and less time for it with kids and work and all that fun stuff. But I wanted a place to post that work to share it with you all so here it is! Currently I primarily dabble in One Chicago (a lot of Jay and Will though I've been branching out lately!) but I've been known to write for some other fandoms as well. Main Blog -> heartlikeabomb

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painsthegame

whump is such a strange thing for me. ‘oh im having trouble shouldering the burdens of daily life, let me play scenes in my head of someone getting the shit kicked out of them (fictionally), that’ll make me feel better’ and it DOES

darlingpoppet

divorcedfranklangdon

yeah but they're resting in peace

fic-dumpster

thesweetnessofspring

Me leaving comments on fics.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61109392/chapters/156137083

(This is not my fic but I had to share it because it’s SO FREAKIN GOOD and I need more Tristan whump of exactly this flavor like RIGHT NOW)

#doctor odyssey

acornsandacorns

you know what? Fuck you. *turns your strong and stoic and serious character into a crying, traumatized, whimpering, curled up mess in the floor*

ramatetsu

roboticnebula

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

cynicalone94

So many typos 😳

teh-nos

re-reading my own fic because the author has exactly my taste in tropes, ships the same ships in the right way, and also shares my sense of humour. what a find, what a revelation. i hope they write more of this sort of thing.

foundfamilywhump

allow me to pitch what i, as a sports fiction writer, find to be a wholly underrated and underexplored genre of whump: sports whump

like. think about it. sports injuries can be devastating and gruesome. cultures of pushing through it and ignoring the pain and often re-injuring yourself much worse. Team Dynamics. the rivalries and alliances built into it. the potential for either whumper-free whump (accidents, stress injuries, bad falls, etc) AND whumpers that can exist in it (what if the whumper was a coach or a teammate or a rival? even a parent if it's school athletics? a journalist who has it out for someone? the potential ways for things to go wrong if you get a Bad Actor in any role are endless). the publicity if it's professional, for those of you who enjoy famous whumpees.

sports whump. that is all.

thatwhumplife

Okay 1000% YES. I was just thinking like a week ago that I want a soccer version of Pucking Around (spicy hockey romance) but with less sex and more sports whump and after care.

I was bummed when Ilmari’s injury was basically glossed over and then I remembered…it’s not meant to be that kind of book 😂

Ugh. Guess I’m gonna have to just do it myself.