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@whumpprentice
you know what trope drives me absolutely feral? Repetition. Just :
"Hey, hey, it's okay"
"Shh, you're safe, you're safe, it's alright "
"Look at me. Hey, look at me"
"Stay with me. Come on, just stay with me"
"It's over. It's over now."
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"
"I'm here. I'm right here"
Vampire pirate who feeds on their human crew.
Maybe their crew didn't have a choice about joining them.
Perhaps when the pirates capture a ship the captain samples each of the captured sailors. The ones who taste good are added to their crew and the rest are slaughtered. Or maybe they're sold off at the nearest port.
Of course, this vampirate makes sure their crew is well-fed and taken care of. They can't have scurvy or other illnesses and ailments ruining their collection of hard-working blood bags.
However, keeping people alive doesn't mean they can't or won't get hurt for acting out. You can't have your crew plotting to kill you after they start to think you're getting weak and soft, now can you?
Who would a vampire such as this entrust to be their first mate? Who could this vampire trust to watch over their crew during the day while they sleep?
Saw this stupid ad on my dashboard and now I’m just thinking about a little shit putting this next to the room of a captive whumpee or living weapon
Uppercase / lowercase combination and everything. Really committed to the bit
Saw this stupid ad on my dashboard and now I’m just thinking about a little shit putting this next to the room of a captive whumpee or living weapon
I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Thank you to everyone who commented in their tags or messaged me. Indeed, today is “Martin and Bosco Day”. I originally whimsically blazed this photo on 13 July 2022. I never expected Martin and Bosco to travel so far and make so many new friends. The experience has been such a gift for me.
Whump Prompt #4
Helpless Caretakers. Forced to watch Whumpee suffering and unable to intervene because:
They're separated by a physical barrier (cell bars / reinforced window / forcefield)
Doing so would mean breaking their cover and putting whumpee/the rest of the team/the mission at greater risk
Societal structures/laws don't allow them to.
They're held back by restraints / whumper's henchmen.
They're too injured/weak/otherwise disabled to be able to effectively intervene
They know that any efforts to intervene will make things worse for the whumpee long term.
They're watching a recording/live-stream.
Whumpee's suffering is necessary in some way (Ritual, activation of powers, powers)
They don't have the medical training / equipment / resources to treat whumpee
Their communication is impeded in some way (Gag/language barrier/tied hands)
If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:
1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.
2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.
Model Blorbo Refferences - Masterpost
(Whump, recovery, comfort, affection, angst, sic-fic)
Feel absolutely free to use! And please pleasee tag me so I can see your art!
You can send an ask for what pose/action/angle you want the Blorbo to be! (No nŝfw/sa please)
Also let me know if you want to be in the taglist!
Sickness, injuiry, enviromental etc.
Leg injuiry
Cowering
Whumpee restrained:
Head pushed to the ground while kneeling.
Kneeling with hands behind their back, looking around.
Hanging from the ceiling on wrists, trying to escape by pushing and swinging.
Whumpee whumped, beaten:
Pushing away a sharp tool, struggling on the ground while being cut.
Whumpee comforted:
Caretaker:
Whumper/Villain:
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Disclaimer:
Those prompts are to be used as art/writing refferences and are in no means created to incourage violence in the real life. If you did come to search for real people getting hurt, please, don't interact and please, seek professional help.
nothing online is ever truly deleted. except that one fucking thing you're looking for
Hello.
On the subject of AI, I have a confession to make: I use it. Not to write for me, but to help me check for inconsistencies, to brainstorm ideas, to write outlines, to give me a couple of lines when I've been stuck for hours, to be my beta reader, if you will. Generative AI is bad? Yes, but it also a useful tool if one isn't lazy. I don't ask: write me a story. I go with my story and ask: help me with continuity. Look, this paragraph is clunky, how do I make it better? The demonization of generative AI is fair, but to be honest, I also understand people who use it. Maybe they're afraid of writing themselves, maybe they're insecure and don't trust their prose. Maybe they have brilliannt ideas but they need help to make them become fics.
To me, this is very much connected to my last ask where I was talking about how we don't have enough mentors in fandom to support the influx of people entering it.
All of the things that you're asking AI to do used to be done by a beta reader (or more than one!). A fandom friend (or even a random stranger who volunteered) would read through your work and help you with those issues.
Betas are amazing. They can help with grammar and spelling. They can regionalize language. They can provide sensitivity reading if they're from a marginalized community that you're writing about and aren't a member of. They can track canon, help with research, even just be a sounding board to discuss ideas with.
And sometimes, they're just a cheer reader - someone reading your story and telling you how awesome it is because they love it just as much as you do.
I understand turning to AI if you 1) don't know beta readers exist or 2) don't know how to obtain one. The need for that kind of support doesn't go away just because you can't access it.
But for anyone out there who needs this kind of help and wants to avoid Gen AI, you can write a post on your blog, add it to an author's note, check out resources like @needabeta or - if the time of year is right and you have the funds - place a bid on beta reading services during @fandomtrumpshate
Beta readers are often involved in fandom events like big bangs and exchanges, and if anyone is looking to host such an event, it's a great way to get people involved who aren't writers or artists but would love to help out.
I get it, anon. We use the tools that are available to us. But here's another potential tool if you're interested in branching out?
Sometimes it's scary to post a message asking for beta readers, you are putting yourself out there, you have no idea who might respond to your message (if anyone at all) and nowadays a lot of bots are muddying the waters.
I definitely recommend searching a beta reader within the fandom you're writing for rather than someone who knows nothing about it.
And when you don't immediately get a response, ask again. This comes from a person (me) who is now two and a half years into dating the girl who replied to my 'I need a beta reader' post that I was debating to reblog that day.
Sometimes I wonder where our lives would be if I hadn't reblogged it or if she had skipped past the post.
Fandom is a community of people with shared interests. It's supposed to make it easier for us to become friends, hang out and talk for hours.
Not a single AI tool in the world is capable of giving (fandom) writers/artists/creators what they actually need.
Connection.
I would argue that there is a much bigger issue here with this kind of use of AI.
Struggling through a problem is a huge part of learning. Getting stuck, reworking things eighty times, realizing you need to delete half a page and try again, looking up random grammar rules you don't know--this is how you learn. This is also how you develop your own voice. These are necessary parts of the process.
By turning to AI every time something gets a little hard or goes a little slowly or sounds a little wrong, you are hamstringing your own development. You are preventing yourself from growing at all as a writer.
Betas absolutely can help with this growth. It's not the same as turning to AI. Other human beings spark your synapses in a way genAI simply does not. I'm not saying you shouldn't use betas.
I am saying that while struggle might be uncomfortable and it might slow down the process and you might not like it, it is a necessary part of building skills, and by outsourcing struggle to a machine, you are limiting your own cognitive capabilities and your own ability to actually write.
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)
fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle
You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.
To those curious some other keystone library species include:
—the retirees who’ve read more murder mysteries than I’ve had hot meals
—the paperback romance girlies (gender neutral) who check out every single bodice ripper the second it hits the shelves
—the dads very slowly making their way through a ‘1001 movies to see before you die’ list
—the one-man criterion collection who checks out like, three movies per day and brings them back the next. (TV series are only a minor roadblock.)
—kids who like Minecraft
---The new parents checking out 47 picture books for their 7 month old baby who clearly has nothing going on in their head except the Wii Sports Resort theme song
I suggest using your local library!
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official library post
Reblog this and say one nice thing about prev
Trying to inject some positivity
there's this phenomenon i've noticed on youtube which i dub "man math" which is when men STEM-ify hobbies/activities/art forms in order to make them more masculine. it's very noticeable in the cooking video sphere where there's an endless stream of videos made by men along the lines of "the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN best way to cook an egg" (and dgmw, i watch them and find them helpful, but the observation stands), but i notice it also in the way men approach ceramics (a lot of focus on mold-making and slip-casting to perfection, basically reinventing one man mass-production rather than play and discovery), tailoring/sewing/knitting/textile art, gardening and other nature-oriented hobbies, interior decor, furniture making and woodworking, journaling/planning/productivity, even drawing and painting, there's always some man math angle to it that although interesting it often strikes me as some sort of overcompensation to move away from the inherent vulnerability that comes with art making and once you notice it it's literally everywhere
was out here thinking oh my mutuals would love this 💀
Okay, two updates. 1) this has a faster paced sequel. 2) I've learned I'm a sympathy sneezer ( maybe everybody is idk)
"baby names" is a real misnomer because they're often permanent
