Bloody, Bruised, and Battered

[weltenwellen]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

[cartmathieu]

Cart Mathieu. Blood. Photography

[djoslider-deactivated20230802]

Chapter 07: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab

[djoslider-deactivated20230802]

Steve getting bandaged 🥴

[ginger-ale-official]

Jesus, after coming back from the dead: hey guys it’s me Jesus, just look at the scars on my hands

Thomas, a known freak: show us the feet as well please

[ginger-ale-official]

[ginger-ale-official]

Happy Easter everybody

[ginger-ale-official]

Every single Easter you monsters give me a million notes on this post

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Because who ISN'T into fictional men covered in blood? Note: Obviously there is a lot of crossover between types. It's all very fluid. Like

I finally caved to my id and made a uquiz. I hope the whump community is happy!

[justwhumpythings]

You're into men who are too good for this world, too pure, and you will peel all their layers off until you get to their squishy centers where all the frosting is and tear them in half. They don't have to be complete innocents (they can look like a cinnamon roll AND actually kill you!), they just need to have a healthy dose of mental suffering along with the physical. Ideal men: Peeta Mellark, Castiel, any iteration of Spiderman, Newt Scamander.

Well, you're not wrong.

[aceofwhump]

"The Villain. You think the only thing sexier than the villain winning is the villain on his knees, crying, having been defeated and broken by something even more evil than him. The experience can kickstart his road to redemption or it can make him just try to be evil even harder, but either way, it's nice to watch him suffer. Ideal men: Prince Zuko, Loki, Erik the Phantom of the Opera, Hector from Castlevania, Kylo Ren"

Well you aren't wrong!!! Damn that nailed me to a T! I even got a little whumperfly flutter from the damn description. I do love me a good villain and a good villain redemption story. Zuko, Jaime Lannister, Grant Ward, Loki, Killian Jones, The Weeping Monk, Erik Lehnsherr. All my favorites. I can go on for ages. Love my villains.

(Also that question about the Muppet Treasure Island was my absolute favorite thing because that movie is my FAVORITE!!! Its the greatest muppet movie I do not accept arguments. But I only just now realized how whumpy it is!! 🤣🤣 makes sense why it's my favorite. I just always thought it was freaking hysterical. So yeah I loved that question)

[heffawhump]

THIS IS A CALLOUT omg. But like yes?????! How have I not realized????

[blkbird]

[notfeelingverywell]

one of the most significant misconceptions i fear outsiders have about whump is that it's sadistic. If anything, it's masochistic.

I can't speak for everyone in the whump community, but for myself and most of the people i've interacted with, we're empathising with the whumpee, not the whumper. We're experiencing second-hand their pain and catharsis, and also (my favourite part) the concern and care they receive from others

but like... i can totally imagine what it would look like for outsiders coming across our blogs where we consistently fantasise about our favourite characters in absolute agony lol

[aliceinwhumperland]

Yes. This part, right here:

... we're empathizing with the whumpee, not the whumper. We're experiencing second-hand their pain and catharsis, and also (my favourite part) the concern and care they receive from others

This is pretty much it for me. Thank you OP for making the words go.

[w-h-u-m-p]

Aaron Tveit whump from the Moulin Rouge! Musical (2019)

[whumpster-dumpster]

Sometimes you just know what you like!

[fillianore-moved]

that trope when a character has had nightmares for years and years and has basically learned to survive on four hours of sleep, and then they get to sleep through the night with no bad dreams once their so is next to them because they feel calm and safe after so long… it always makes me very very soft :(

[aceofwhump]

American Horror Stories - 1x06

Aaron Tveit in pain compilation.

[aceofwhump]

Covert Affairs 2x01

Annie protects Ben, who is still recovering from being shot in the back, from people who are trying to kill him

[aceofwhump]

Covert Affairs 1x11

[stevcbucky]

Sebastian Stan tied up and bloody in Labyrinth (◕‿◕✿)

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Honestly I love it when a whumpee is found like...literally half dead. They might not have one big life threatening injury or illness, but there are so many little things wrong with them all at once that their body is completely exhausted and the people who find them cannot comprehend how they're even alive when everything in them is worn down so badly. I'm talking like...multiple broken bones, barely an inch of their body that isn't bruised or bleeding, and a rising fever on top of things. They're slipping in and out of consciousness because they simply can't tolerate the constant pain anymore, it's maybe not coming from a severe wound that needs immediate tending on its own, but it's everywhere and it won't stop and they're more tired than they've ever been in their life.

And then of course there's the aftercare; the whumpee finally passing out completely and waking up some time later wrapped warmly in blankets, so sore and stiff and heavily bandaged they can barely move...they weakly ask for water and someone - they have no idea who - brings it to them, and after drinking the only thing they have the strength to think before losing consciousness again is that they're alive, somehow.

[trope-appreciation-tuesdays]

Whumpee is tied up and gagged for the purpose of being used as bait for their friends. They can't warn their friends in any way that they're about to walk into a trap

But don’t you just love it when they try? The pained looks? The screaming begging their gags??