William Etty - Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828-30)

"ɴɪᴋᴏ..

now normally, your bones should stay inside your body, but I think it's time we made an exception, don't you?

These are all so good, though!

Forced to watch someone else being tortured: good for helplessness and guilt.

Forced to participate in someone else's torture: Good for guilt and messing with the relationship between the one being tortured and the one forced to participate in their torture.

Tortured in front of others (not captives): good for humiliation. Do this to a powerful or highly respected whumpee.

Tortured in front of other captives: good for keeping a stoic/defiant whumpee stoic and defiant (because they won't want to break down in front of the people watching). Also good for messing with the relationship between whumpee and watchers (what if they have the chance to stop the torture, and they don't? What if whumpee selfishly begs whumper to torture one of the others instead? What if.....)

So really, it depends on what I'm in the mood for. But if I absolutely had to choose?... Forced to watch. Because of the intense emotional pain. But that is a tough choice.

"is the crucifixion of jesus christ whump?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

A Whumpee who sacrifices themself to the future Whumper, expecting just to be killed. Imagine the shock and betrayal when they realize it will be much worse. Maybe the Whumper mocks them for it "you gave yourself up so willingly to me, now you beg me to leave you alone? No dear, you have already made your choice."

The damsel in distress slowly starts getting more and more unstable from the unaddressed trauma of being frequently kidnapped. One day they completely snap and the villains start being found mysteriously murdered with increasing brutality.

i think my fav whump trope is the caretaker who learned to be so gentle from their own experience as a whumpee. nobody has any idea how much violence it took for caretaker to become so gentle, but they would sacrifice everything if it meant giving whumpee the love + care they never got themself when they escaped their whumper

@pigeonwhumps Joseph-ey vibes

@whitelightning-9999

Send me a whump pet peeve and I’ll meme-ify it

i love you confident and happy women who used to be none of those things

one of the things thats really, really hard to internalize as a writer is that you have spent way more time in this world than any reader will, which means shit that feels incredibly unsubtle and blatant, shit that sounds like a klaxon going off to you, is going to go right over their heads

*thinks of a whump scenario at work* *thinks of a whump scenario in bed* *thinks of a whump scenario in class* *thinks of a whump scenario in the shower* *thinks of a whump scenario while driving* *thinks of a whump scenario at the grocery* *thinks of a whu

Whumpee covered in healed over bite mark scars send post

something about tragic character archetypes

and this guy

this or that - captivity whump (12)