If It Ain’t Broke, Then Break It

Non-whumpers: THE HORRORS D:

Whumpers: THE HORRORS :D

The villain, about the torture the protagonist: “Oh, I’m going to enjoy this.”

Me:

Stuck between wanting my Whumpee to suffer for eternity and for them to just be loved

yeah actually my favorite whump trope is when the whump happens and the whumpee gets whumped and then there's whump

Whumpee: Can my life get any worse?

Whumper: Hold my whip.

reminder that you can and most certainly should be self indulgent in your whump writing. no that's not too much blood. yes you should add a whipping scene. you think it's over the top? it's not enough. if you're not giggling and screeching internally and kicking your feet then what even is the point

The villain, about the torture the protagonist: “Oh, I’m going to enjoy this.”

Me:

I love how I can always tell which posts really resonate with the Whump community bc I'll see it reblogged on my dash like twelve different times by every blog I follow. We're all just parrots chirping about restraints and blood while outsiders look upon us in horror.

The whump community passing around a whump post like:

“that’s my favorite fictional character and I get to torture him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😤”

— AO3 fanfic writers

i love when characters don't get to die

this is about villains/antagonists/general horrible people who finally face up to what they've done. especially if they try to pull the good ole "Dramatically Does One Good Thing To Redeem Themselves And Dies," but despite their best efforts they DON'T die. like yes motherfucker there's no easy way out for you, there's only the slow, awkward and painful process of learning to live with yourself. of learning to live with the weight of your mistakes. you get a second chance regardless of if you think you deserve it. you get to try to make amends and do good. you get to live.

this is also about every self-sacrificial bastard of a protagonist who puts themselves in harm's way again and again and again to a wildly unhealthy and unnecessary degree. see, there's something so compelling to me in the unspoken suicidality of repeated heroic self-sacrifice, and the thing about implicitly suicidal characters is that i want them to live. and that can be used to make a death so much more tragic and impactful - noble sacrifices and last stands certainly can and have been done beautifully - but there's also something special to me in seeing such a character make it. because you'd die for the people you love, yes, but would you live for them?

the extra fun thing about writing hurt/comfort is that it's an interactive deal. I am hurting and comforting the characters, sure, but I hope that in equal, metaphysical measure, I am hurting and comforting you.

it's fun! for me.

A kids' show/movie: For kids! Meet all these colorful characters and have adventures with them!

Also a kids show/movie: This character gets kidnapped and tortured for days. Another one nearly drowns in sludge. And the villain dies a horrible death that even the main characters realized they fucked up.

i don't need to explain myself you all know what i'm talkin about

I overuse italics in whump writing bc I need yall to hear it in my voicee

— like I need you to emphasize it correctly, hissing and low and not fucking *boring*

It’s about the emphasis

for 2 years this post has appeared in my head every time I interacted with a customer service live chat. that great you can go ahead and order it.

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