Hiya! You can call me Bee. I write series' based in my superhero universe!
If you wanna send asks or leave comments or otherwise interact, go for it, I always love to interact. I'm currently writing my main series with the intent to publish, and posting the rough chapters online along with documenting my progress!
Favorite whump and tropes include:
Captivity/Kidnapping
Lab Whump
Crack whump
Hero/Villain (as you'll find a lot of my stories are)
Whump in musicals (please please please send me recs or talk to me about musicals and music please I will love you forever)
Defiant Whumpee
If its in a good story I can get into pretty much anything tbh
I'm so excited to be here. Y'all don't know how much this community has changed my life.
Most Recent Chapter Posted: (Un)Official Guide Ch. 17: Hermanitos
Masterlists
The (Un)Official Guide to Hero-Keeping; A self-help guide for super-villains and bounty hunters (ongoing) + a note
I see so many good whump posts but god. Whump is such an unsexy word to me. So when they say whumpee I just can’t. I can’t do it. Please. Please. Just say “victim” in the sexy ones. For me. You can keep saying whumpee in the boring ones it adds flavor. But the sexy ones. Pleag
In modern linguistics, "descriptivism" is describing the way that a person or group of people uses language. It's considered the "correct way" to talk about culture and language in general because it simply describes how language *is*, while making specific effort to not pass judgement on it. We do this in order to keep open minds about cultures that are different from our own-- especially ones that we wouldn't even consider cultures-- so we don't accidentally close off our minds to the thought that anything except our own experience is wrong.
Ex: "These people use the word 'whumpee' in place of the word 'victim.'"
"The southern american dialect generally uses the word "y'all" as a second person plural pronoun."
"There's a person over there who has a pen, you can ask him for one if you need it."
Prescriptivism is the opposite. Prescriptivism is using specific language to pass judgement, or literally "prescribe" how those people should talk. This can be very bad, as it is often based on your own direct and biased personal experience. No one is exempt from this bias, no matter how hard they try. That's why we go for descriptivism instead.
Ex: "Can y'all stop using the word whumpee, it sounds so weird, just use the word I'm more used to, "victim," instead"
"Y'all is the best second-person plural pronoun."
"That guy over there always has so many pens, I bet he wouldn't care if you asked him for one."
Prescriptivism can be bad because it sets up an expectation or opinion in the recipient of the information, instead of letting them form an opinion on their own based on information that they see in front of them. I'm sure you can figure out at this point why that is bad, but basically it means that you're forming opinions on something based on someone else's emotions on the matter instead of actually exploring your own feelings on it.
Which straight up means you're more susceptible to propaganda. No, really. Propaganda is quite literally, at its core, a specific use of prescriptivism that the recipient is supposed to mistake as descriptive fact.
If you think this is stupid and pedantic, then you're the exact type of person that this is aimed at, because this sort of shit literally targets people who scoff at it. People should always be aware of their own biases when talking about things that they don't understand and think should change, especially when it's about languages and cultures that are not your own and ESPECIALLY when you think it's small stupid shit like this. Because you're showing that you have:
1) no respect for the Whump community
2) probably no knowledge that it IS its own community
3) the ins and outs of why we use that word (partially to distance ourselves from kink, as they CAN be the same but they can also be completely different)
4) made some weird sort of assumption that we're making our posts only for kink,
5) or for you who does NOT respect our community,
6) or that it's somehow our goal to get our whump posts outside the community and you're somehow helping us by telling us how to do it better???
7) that our "boring ones" are lesser than just because you don't personally like them, and by proxy that we are lesser than for enjoying them (Literally imagine saying that about ANYTHING in any real life culture).
There's even more but just. Yeesh.
Basically what I'm saying is either suck it up or get the hell out of my house and stop insulting me as an academic as well as my community. Posts like these are the exact reason why people think that kink is abuse, that having a southern accent means you're stupid while a british accent is smart and distinguished, that there's only one "correct" way to write a novel, that animation is "only for kids," etc etc etc.
Yes, this EXACT "ugh its just so unsexy" mindset.
(some sources for further research and checking below)
. . . . . . . .
Here's a written college lecture crash course that goes into much more detail on the "why" and with some wonderful sources to back up:
Every time someone complain about how "this choice is not moral, if you chose it/did this in this videogame you are a terrible person!" my mind plays this on repeat
power imbalance in institutional whump my fucking beloved. the fact that whumpee will always forever rely on caretaker's kindness - that if caretaker suddenly hurt them there's nothing anyone could or would do for them.
Whumpee being pressed back down mid trying to get up. And I don't even know what's better, face up and boot to the chest, or face down and boot to the upper back
"don't mass reblog/like :/" coward. fool. somebody just went through and liked and reblogged 64 things from my blog in the span of half an hour at most. and i've never felt more alive in my life
"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.
I see so many good whump posts but god. Whump is such an unsexy word to me. So when they say whumpee I just can’t. I can’t do it. Please. Please. Just say “victim” in the sexy ones. For me. You can keep saying whumpee in the boring ones it adds flavor. But the sexy ones. Pleag
In modern linguistics, "descriptivism" is describing the way that a person or group of people uses language. It's considered the "correct way" to talk about culture and language in general because it simply describes how language *is*, while making specific effort to not pass judgement on it. We do this in order to keep open minds about cultures that are different from our own-- especially ones that we wouldn't even consider cultures-- so we don't accidentally close off our minds to the thought that anything except our own experience is wrong.
Ex: "These people use the word 'whumpee' in place of the word 'victim.'"
"The southern american dialect generally uses the word "y'all" as a second person plural pronoun."
"There's a person over there who has a pen, you can ask him for one if you need it."
Prescriptivism is the opposite. Prescriptivism is using specific language to pass judgement, or literally "prescribe" how those people should talk. This can be very bad, as it is often based on your own direct and biased personal experience. No one is exempt from this bias, no matter how hard they try. That's why we go for descriptivism instead.
Ex: "Can y'all stop using the word whumpee, it sounds so weird, just use the word I'm more used to, "victim," instead"
"Y'all is the best second-person plural pronoun."
"That guy over there always has so many pens, I bet he wouldn't care if you asked him for one."
Prescriptivism can be bad because it sets up an expectation or opinion in the recipient of the information, instead of letting them form an opinion on their own based on information that they see in front of them. I'm sure you can figure out at this point why that is bad, but basically it means that you're forming opinions on something based on someone else's emotions on the matter instead of actually exploring your own feelings on it.
Which straight up means you're more susceptible to propaganda. No, really. Propaganda is quite literally, at its core, a specific use of prescriptivism that the recipient is supposed to mistake as descriptive fact.
If you think this is stupid and pedantic, then you're the exact type of person that this is aimed at, because this sort of shit literally targets people who scoff at it. People should always be aware of their own biases when talking about things that they don't understand and think should change, especially when it's about languages and cultures that are not your own and ESPECIALLY when you think it's small stupid shit like this. Because you're showing that you have:
1) no respect for the Whump community
2) probably no knowledge that it IS its own community
3) the ins and outs of why we use that word (partially to distance ourselves from kink, as they CAN be the same but they can also be completely different)
4) made some weird sort of assumption that we're making our posts only for kink,
5) or for you who does NOT respect our community,
6) or that it's somehow our goal to get our whump posts outside the community and you're somehow helping us by telling us how to do it better???
7) that our "boring ones" are lesser than just because you don't personally like them, and by proxy that we are lesser than for enjoying them (Literally imagine saying that about ANYTHING in any real life culture).
There's even more but just. Yeesh.
Basically what I'm saying is either suck it up or get the hell out of my house and stop insulting me as an academic as well as my community. Posts like these are the exact reason why people think that kink is abuse, that having a southern accent means you're stupid while a british accent is smart and distinguished, that there's only one "correct" way to write a novel, that animation is "only for kids," etc etc etc.
Yes, this EXACT "ugh its just so unsexy" mindset.
(some sources for further research and checking below)
. . . . . . . .
Here's a written college lecture crash course that goes into much more detail on the "why" and with some wonderful sources to back up:
Content: whipping, restraints, food deprivation, belt, injuries, sadistic whumper, defiant whumpee (a little), forced to self-harm, kicking, forced to kneel, conditioned whumpee
Whipped to "purchase" what they want/need
Want to be unchained? That'll be five lashes
If they asked for anything whumper deems excessive, the punishment becomes dramatically worse. Ten strikes with the belt just for asking for a full meal.
Need to go to the bathroom? You are asking for it.
Covered in welts by the end of the day, and they haven't even broken the rules
"I swear you just like hurting me."
"There are rules in my house."
Glaring as they thump to their knees, forced to kneel for an hour for asking whumper to stop touching them like that.
"Maybe. Try asking politely."
"Go ahead. Ten strikes. And I want to see welts."
Sent to their knees by a kick to the gut. As they kneel there clutching their stomach reaching, "and stay there until I tell you to get up." "Yes sir," whumpee chokes out.
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