The Whump Stuffs

I like whump. If you're here, you like whump. Let's like it together! Holly - she/her - biromantic/ace - 23- For any non-whump content, follow my sideblog @hollyannelikesstuff! Requests, questions, conversations always welcome!!!!!!

[whooooomp]

I really like it when a character is in so much distress that they start self harming about it. Nails digging into their own skin until they bleed. They might not even be aware that they're doing it, it's like an ingrained automatic response to fear for them.

[petrerpkr]

This was basically bnd peter 🤤

[inkskinned]

my most ungrounded and unresearched fear is that so many companies are pushing AI in part because it builds them a pathway towards a subscription model for a huge number of things that should not be subscription, but theoretically could be:

do you want to talk to verizon's help desk because there's an error on your bill? to access a real agent, you have to pay for Verizon Access+, only 5.99 a month.

want to filter out all the fake job postings from the real ones? subscribe to Indeed: Advanced Tactics and only verified postings will appear on your dash.

sick of the infinite ai slop? buy Google Premium; it'll automatically detect ai within a site and gives it a credibility score. with premium plus, you can shuffle high-credibility results to the top.

do you want a "luxury" experience? well, you'd have to pay for that luxury, and since the company sure doesn't want to pay its employees; the cost would fall to the consumer.

when automation has made every experience unpleasant; the experience of genuine humanity will be commodified.

[marzipanandminutiae]

This is already happening – one of the softwares used by a museum I work at only lets you talk to a human help agent if you have their premium subscription. It's such bullshit

[inkskinned]

the fact you are not the only one in these notes saying "no this is already happening; i have to pay money to speak to a representative" is just... really awesome! you said a software used by museums is doing this shit? okay! great! wonderful!! anybody know where i can scream

[whumpybones]

Whumpee softly hitting caretaker, it takes all their strength but barely affects caretaker. Whumpee’s not mad at caretaker, they’re just in pain / confused / wants to have some control over what happens to them

[fineiguessimintowhump]

nothing as good as restraints whumpee can only slump into. yk? when going limp is uncomfortable but everything else excruciating.

[painwithoutplot]

I love magic that just uses energy from the caster, like, normal style. Not life energy or soul energy or something, just the kind that needs to be replenished with sleep and food. Used to use this a lot for exhaustion whump, and today I'm thinking about one of my OCs losing her superpowers from starvation (in her case, the power is creating and controlling electricity). I think she's canonically gotten to a point where her powers were unreliable to activate and weak when they did, but I also want to make it possible - though she's never been in this state canonically - for her body to just shut off electricity production entirely. Non-essential function, goodbye. And then you're stuck without powers in a situation where you need them more than ever!

[bsideheart]

more characters with psychic powers who get migraines and seizures after they use them. i wanna see someone kill a bunch of ppl with their mind and then lay in a dark room vomiting for two days

[redd956]

More Chronic Pain Whump

(The storms are killing me)

The way sore muscles start to twitch alongside the pain, the contours of whumpee's hands contorting at the slightest disturbance, or thick back muscles rippling while plagued with cramps

Facial jaw/muscle pain from pressure making whumpee wish they could just rip their face open like a snake

Whumpee unable to fight back against whumper due to a flare up

Caretaker tracing their hand over whumpee's skin, only for their handprint to remain in clear red shape.

Whumpee halting mid-run, recoiling suddenly from an invisible wound

Overworked leader whumpee standing up fast, only to faint from blood pressure issues

Villain whumpee having a flare up in front of Hero

Whumpee blaming their trauma/whumper for the severity in their chronic illness's development

[caffeinewitchcraft]

I have too many projects open to write this but:

The girlfriend of a superhero who’s a news anchor. He doesn’t know she knows he’s the superhero (come on, she reports on every hero battle, she knows, okay?). She wants him to tell her so she doesn’t tell him she knows.

Then, one day, she has to report on the kiss her BOYFRIEND and another hero shared after a battle. But after the initial shock, she realizes he wouldn’t and they just defeated a villain with “unknown mind powers”

So she does some investigating and goes to “interview” the villain who they just defeated. Because, according to her investigation, the villain actually used to be a small-time hero with light powers, not mind powers.

(Side note, is she the only capable of face identification? She’s on facebook, for fuck’s sake.)

So she gets into the interview and she’s like “Where did we go on our first date?”

And the guy is automatically like, “the aquarium, you like the sturgeons–OH MY GOD.”

And she’s like “OH MY GOD. I KNEW IT! HE SWITCHED BODIES WITH YOU!”

And he’s like, “yes! Thank goodne–wait, you knew i was the hero?!”

And she’s like, “not super important, right now, give me the location of your team’s HQ so I can stop this guy from destroying them from the inside.”

And he’s like, “You? You don’t have any powers, that’s a terrible idea–”

And she’s like, “I do have a power. The power of INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM.”

And he’s like, “NO!”

and she’s like, “YES!”

So she finds out the base location on her own and marches in and saves the day through good interview questions and, probably, a hammer she found just lying on the ground.

[screamingatanemptyroom]

@caffeinewitchcraft, I saw this tagged as a prompt, loved the idea and had a little fun. please enjoy. 

Do you ever wonder if you’re the last sane person left on this earth?

Because I do.

“HAHA! Justice Man! If you don’t want anything to happen to this pretty little reporter here you need to surrender!”  The masked villain in bright blue spandex laughed loudly, one arm holding me hostage, his superhuman strength making it difficult to break free. It was mildly uncomfortable, but at least this one hadn’t tied me up. I started searching my pockets.

The hero paused his attack, his handsome face twisted with anguish. “You fiend! Let her go!”

Why were they ignoring me? “Umm… guys?”

“NEVER, HERO! And if you don’t want her to die, you must do as I say!” The villain held me tighter, a deranged grin across his face.

“Guys?” I found what I was looking for and pulled it out of my pockets.

“Evil will never triumph over good, Destructor!” The hero called out, his bluff unable to completely conceal his anxiousness at my situation.

Having tried to get their attention multiple times, I sighed and gave up, lifting my hand and pressing the object in it against the villain’s neck.

“What are you…?”

NOW he notices. I rolled my eyes and turned the taser on.  

BZZZZ! With a quick jerk the villain’s eyes rolled up and he collapsed to the floor. I stepped away from him, making sure to stomp on his spandex covered crotch. That’s for kidnapping me on my way to get coffee, you jerk!

“HANNAH-I mean… citizen! Are you okay!” The hero flew over the remaining distance, his brightly colored costume reflecting the sunlight and giving me a slight headache. Despite this I found myself smiling fondly at him.

“I’m just fine, Justice Man, no worries.” 

“That’s great, good, good.” He trailed off awkwardly, scuffing the ground with one foot, (his super strength making him unknowingly create large divots in the concrete), obviously unsure of what to say. I decided to help him out.

“I was here investigating a new larceny ring that had popped up in Super City, didn’t realize that Destructor was the guy behind it.” At the villain’s name I couldn’t help but snort with laughter. The hero smiled at me.

“What? You don’t like his name?”

“I try not to judge you guys too much.” I shrugged. “After all, there are almost fifty super heroes and who knows how many villains, must be hard to come up with a good original name, but still… Destructor? Sounds like a bad Saturday morning cartoon villain.”

“What about ‘Justice Man’?”

“What about it?”

He looked embarrassed. “Do you like that name?”

“Eh, it’s not too bad.” I grinned at him. “I just like regular names better.”

“…” He was staring at me. I sighed, knowing this conversation was going nowhere.

“Well, Hero, if it’s okay with you, can you take Destructor to the police to be arrested? I have to get back to work, plus I have plans to have lunch with my boyfriend at one-thirty.”

He seemed startled. “Oh yeah, I almost forg-” He cleared his throat. “I wouldn’t want you to miss such an important date, ma’am. I’ll take care of the villain, you may go.”

I waved at him, already walking away. “Okay, thanks, see you later.”

I shook my head as I walked away. The kidnapping this time had taken forty minutes longer than the last time, I was going to be late for work. At least I had thought to hang up some remote cameras before I started my investigation, just in case. I collected the cameras, reminding myself to watch the footage later to see if I got any good action shots of Justice Man and Destructor threatening each other. It could definitely be the difference between a third page and front-page story.

Before I got in my car, I turned back just in time to see Justice Man tie up the villain and fly away with him. I sighed quietly to myself.

“Good work, honey.”

You see, I have a secret.

Justice Man was my boyfriend.

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[grocki]

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

[grocki]

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there

[whumpup]

living weapon who is pampered. living weapon who is spoiled and praised and treated So Well (only when they behave). whumper who talks about living weapon whumpee like they're their most prized possession, the rarest gun in a collection, their favourite thing in the world.

[kawhump]

for your consideration: character who had really shitty parents getting sick or injured, and the team mom/dad deals with it in a normal, sympathetic way, and whumpee has NO idea what to do with that. some potential reactions:

preemptively getting defensive, expecting caretaker to be angry at them, only to get stunlocked by insistence that they go back to bed and rest

trying to brush care off with awkward jokes, insisting that it's not that bad, because they're not used to all the attention and they have no idea how to react

just freezing in quiet confusion while caretaker changes their cold compress, checks their temperature, goes through the usual routine that is completely foreign for whumpee

BONUS: fever! fever induced nightmares about their childhood that have them waking up scared and confused. fevered delirium making them call caretaker mom/dad. fevered delirium making them weepy and they apologize to caretaker for getting sick/hurt and being a burden.

[whumpup]

I love care resistant whumpees very dearly. whumpees who don't think they deserve care, who loathe the thought of anyone pitying them, who physically cannot be vulnerable. constantly fighting with caretaker, frustrating them, hoping they'll give out. until they can no longer run, and the pain catches up to them, and finally relents to being cared for. begrudgingly, unwillingly, filled with shame.

and shockingly? it's not so bad...

[seth-whumps]

panic attacks while injured really hit different. no matter how they try to think logically, they can't calm down, and every sharp inhale leads to more agony--just overwhelmed and exhausted and afraid, all that emotion cutting in like glass and broken ribs, hyperventilating with a hand pressed against the injury and a broken, gasping cry of pain...

[nylarac]

not to be a pedantic hater but i wish tumblr accent wasn't the commonly used term to describe tumblrina typing quirks and phrases bc that is Not an accent it's a dialect!!

[seimsisk]

what's the difference here?

[nylarac]

accents just affect how you pronounce words

dialects also include grammar (like tumblr users' tendency to not captialize except for Emphasis or ending sentences with commas like this,,,,,) and vocabulary (blorbo, devil's sacrament, #mythis, etc)

[deerslayer14]

Playing darts with defiant stoic whumpee

[whumpanini]

Whumper who triggers Whumpee's fawn/freeze response with close proximity and a gentle hand on their face, just caressing them despite the hurtful intent behind it.

Whumpee whose defiance dies as their brain shuts down once they're touched in any manner resembling intimacy, just staring wide-eyed at Whumper who coos unnerving things into their ear