Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

americans, canadians, etc are so unfathomably lucky how few actual attacks on their state on their soil have actually happened given the decades of aggression towards virtually everyone. any and all “jokes” about ww3 from the west are spitting in the face of the reality of peoples who have lived in a constant warzone their entire lives, and the lives before them. may you get what you deserve.

It's a unique type of frustration when you agree that a character is deeply flawed but other people keep missing what's actually wrong with them and assigning them new flaws that they don't even have it's like free my man he did none of that. He did a bunch of other shit tho.

oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

rich people seeing mount everest

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

No, no, no, you see on tiktok an algorithm feeds you misinformation. On Tumblr I feed myself misinformation from my charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals.

None of that mass market junk. Only artisanal, small batch, sustainably cultivated, fair trade horseshit.

“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem

i’m online and ready to look at a picture!

why can’t things be easy peasy lemon squeezy

TUMBLR IS SO BORING WITH ALL YOU NERDS AT DASHCON

((you all better come back with some amazing tales))

#scrap of bloodstained paper you find in a dungeon #or clutched in a skeleton’s fist (via @beaft)

mutuals we’re not pretentious we’re just always right. not our fault

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

You sold some shitty copper, man, I don’t know what to tell you

okay i'll bite is such a good phrase. like i will

❗ dailyquests Follow

Fun romantic senario: Youre bandaging my wounds and calling me a reckless idiot but youre in a time loop so you are quietly hinting at knowing I was going to be hurt anyways and asking me to PLEASE be careful. Little do you know, I am also stuck in this time loop with you, and I keep injuring myself in the same way every time. Dont get it twisted- Im not doing this to experience your touch or anything, Im just doing this so every time I can say something different and slowly drive you insane. Nobody pays me to do this I do it because I enjoy it. When you finally escape this time loop I will simply find another time-stuck guy and do the same thing. It ain't much but its dishonest work!

Official Time Loop Post

I didn’t realize the pun at first and just thought, “yes, geese with arms WOULD be scary”.

i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal