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I always find this question hard to answer, which seems weird, right? Like, what do I like? 🤔 Seems like I should know that one. But I guess it was a matter of never having sat down to try to define it, because I am very pleased with what I came up with thinking about it.

#1: The Walkthrough

The absolute gratification of That Chapter where Whumpee is taken back to the scene of their torture or imprisonment, with Caretakers or Authorities, and explains what they went through. Caretakers are pissed and distraught, Authorities are horrified. Ideally there's an expert among the witnesses who can shed even more light on it, so that Whumpee learns things they didn't even realise or understands motivations that didn't make sense to them at the time.

A decent replacement for this is an intense interrogation or Whumpee being given truth serum or having their mind read to reveal those details, but the walkthrough is best.

#2: Impalement / picquerism / foreign objects implanted

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I think it's just the body horror and invasiveness taking away Whumpee's bodily autonomy, making them realise how helpless they are. Plus the brutality. Yeah, it tells Whumpee things are serious and Whumper has no limits. That part's good.

#3: Revenge

Revenge. That's always good. When it's Whumper's motivation -- maybe Whumpee does deserve something but Whumper is going way too far, maybe Whumper is just delusional, maybe Whumpee is a relative innocent who is being used by Whumper against a third party -- revenge is good.

But just as good -- maybe even better? -- is when it's revenge on Whumper. Whumpee getting to confront Whumper is good, but the best of all, maybe, is when a Caretaker who isn't actually a good person gets revenge in a way that Whumpee-who-is-a-better-person can't. Two of my favourite scenes I've ever written involve Lucius Malfoy being absolutely, delightfully vicious to people who have hurt Draco or Narcissa. Mmmmyes.

@whumpmasinjuly-archive

lol guess who spent 18 hours thinking today was July 1st and wondering if I was ever going to get my @au-roulette assignment. Also explains why I posted my @whumpmasinjuly day 1 early. What a fail

Heyo. I've never made an intro, because... I don't really do community, I suppose. I don't feel comfortable with people knowing me. So here's me going out of my comfort zone. I had to use the template because I didn't know what to say about myself, and changed it up some.

Fun fact: I actually do like more than Harry Potter. I even have whumpy OCs! But the Malfoy family are my neurodivergent super special interest and this blog, aside from prompts, is All Malfoys, All The Time.

WHUMPMAS 2024 INTRODUCTION

❤️ Name:  Tian (in general online) or Wilymi (specifically here)

💚 Pronouns & Age:  Millennial They/thon

A yearish ago, I came back to tumblr for the first time in about a decade, because I had a story that didn't seem right to publish as a *story* because it's more of a universe.

And then, as I was scrolling around my feed and exploring, probably while looking for writing prompts and character questions, I started seeing the word in the context of things which appealed to me. And so eventually I looked it up and found it was what I had been doing since I was about 4 years old.

So an angsty Draco Malfoy x Theo Nott sicfic is to blame =D

My brain can't handle the fact that AU apparently means "setup" or "scenario" or "meet-cute" rather than actually being a description of the universe which is alternate.

<3

I'm amused at all the whump with Adorkastock right in the middle

I have a cat, who is a little bit fat and a little bit clumsy and lotta bit enthusiastic. I like to call her Wompers, because it's perfect.

The person I live with who actually owns the cats insists on calling her "Whumpers". I can't even.

Is anyone else disconcerted by the use of "Whumper" to both mean the character doing the torturing, and the content creator / scenario imaginer?

My Whumpers are either evil sadists or completely delusional stalkers torturing my poor lil guys, I don't want to be lumped in with that group.

No shame if you do, obvs. But I think I'd prefer to be a whumpist.

When you're writing a story with a mystery and readers comment with their wild theories and the clues they've picked up on, and you watch them circling closer and closer to the truth, and you're just so excited for them and also for yourself because your foreshadowing is working(!)

100 Prompts!

That means I've been doing this for 100 days! (Well, actually 99 days, because I got insecure about how bad one of them was and posted a second one that day to make up for it.)

Things I've learned:

Anyways, I figured that if I reblog prompts twice a week, that will have them all see the light of day again inside a year, so I will be doing that. Those will have the tag "vintage prompt" if for some reason you want to filter those.

Also, wanna see something fun I did?

I keep all my prompts in a spreadsheet, and it's pretty easy to randomly generate a bingo card out of them. I think the fun is seeing how many you can use in one story. Super-prompt!

So that's the state of the nation blog. I am still working hard on Saviour which is taking most of my focus, but asks are always open and I have good intentions 👀 I appreciates you all <3

oh no it's time to break out the improvised weaponry and elaborate booby traps

I now realise I've never looked at home invasion from the perspective of whump, embarrassingly, considering it's possibly my favourite subgenre of horror movies. And now that I am, I am all into it. Going either direction, honestly.

What's that, Whumpee, you think this is your safe space? Hahaha~ Never again.

What's that, home invader? Thought you were just gonna rob this unassuming extremely wealthy family? Hahaha~ You didn't know who you were messing with and now it's too late...

Sometimes I want to whump a Malfoy in a way that doesn't fit into @splendidissimus 😔

Sometimes I have some ideas for whump prompts.

So I made another side blog. As a treat. +Intro+

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@ me if you use a prompt for those sweet sweet reblogs.

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