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Because who doesn't like a little bit of whump? (Or a lot...)
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3-2-whump

As much as I love Whumpee x Caretaker...

Rb if you think Caretaker can be a brother, a friend, or just some guy who found Whumpee at the right place, right time and stay that way

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Homegrown, Organic, Certified “Whumper-Free” Whump

I was going to say “cage-free” up there too but then I realized that’s not always the case…

Anyway. Here’s the thing, folks. It could just be the blogs I happen to follow, but I’ve noted a fairly recent trend of people lumping torture fic in with whump fic, or using the terms interchangeably. Specifically, I’ve seen posts implying that there needs to be a “whumper” character hurting a “whumpee” for a fic to be considered whump (and while this isn’t inherently torture, most of how it’s interpreted as prompts and fics tends to be).

I just wanted to set the record straight. There is no need whatsoever for one character to purposefully/personally hurt another character in whump. That’s just limited thinking. Heck, the only thing “required” for a whump fic is a situation in which one character accepts their vulnerability in a situation (and, arguably, overcomes it with or without help), which usually involves an injury or illness. *Old man voice* back in my day, “whumper” was a term exclusively used for a person who enjoyed consuming/creating whump content. 

Can torture be a part of the injury or the cause of the vulnerability? Sure! Is is required? Absolutely not! In fact, I’d argue that torture is only a very small segment of the whump world, and similarly, the presence of torture does not a inherently a whump fic make. (Straight up non-whump torture fic exists, and that’s fine to use/enjoy as it’s own tag/separate category!)

So, what other situations can you use to create whump without using a “whumper” or torture?

Accidental

  • Falls- tumbling off a cliff and breaking a bone
  • Burns- saving another character from a fire and ending up with their own injuries
  • Bites/stings- sticking their hand somewhere to accomplish a mission, ending up envenomated
  • Poison- accidentally eating something not meant for eating/surviving an assassination attempt
  • Friendly fire- character ends up accidentally shooting his friend
  • Lost- hungry, tired, cut off from all communication or resources

Environmental

  • Storms- whumpee gets hit with flying debris
  • Floods- whumpee gets swept away from friends and injured
  • Lightning- whumpee gets struck by lightning
  • Cold- falling into an icy lake or being stranded in the cold with no way to warm up
  • Heat- dehydration, heatstroke, hyponatremia from needing to do hard work in the heat
  • Collapsed building- getting trapped when a building collapses
  • Low-resource setting- something that would be perfectly treatable is now possibly deadly due to not having the right equipment/medication

Violent

  • Active shooter- whumpee catches a stray bullet and has to wait for the building to be cleared to get help
  • Bombing- getting caught up in a blast, losing hearing or vision, catching shrapnel
  • War- high stress, bullets, bombs, desperate people, getting trapped behind enemy lines without help
  • Bank hostage situation- busman’s holiday-type situation where the whumpee just happens to end up trapped and needing rescue without being the target- possibly injured, ill, or slated to be killed

Emotional

  • Fear- specific phobia or just plain situational fear
  • Another characters death- mourning, grief, disbelief
  • Mental illness- specifically ones that mess with the ability to regulate emotion
  • Trauma- acute or PTSD
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FULL WHUMPS LIST;

Shows, movies, anime, & cartoons (pinned) - Message me if any of this is outdated!

LIVE ACTION

Ray Palmer | Arrowverse Jake Peralta | Brooklyn-99 Richard Castle | Castle Johnny Gage | Emergency! (1979) John Carter | E.R. Peter Bishop | Fringe Simon | Firefly Malcolm | Firefly Mike Schmidt | FNAF Movie Tom Mason | Falling Skies Hawkeye | M*A*S*H Steven Grant | Moon Knight Thomas Shelby | Peaky Blinders Shawn Spencer | Psych Daniel Jackson | SG1 Trip Tucker | Star Trek: Enterprise William Riker | Star Trek: TNG Rodney McKay | SG: Atlantis John Sheppard | SG: Atlantis Sam Winchester | Supernatural (S1-S15) Hughie | The Boys Rust Cohle | True Detectives Shaun Murphey | The Good Doctor Cordell Walker | Walker Ryan Gosling | Multiple movies Owen Strand | 9-1-1 Lone Star

ANIME

Ciel Phantomhive | Black Butler Ichigo | Bleach Yukio Okumura | Blue Exorcist Rin Okumura | Blue Exorcist Akutugawa | Bungo Stray Dogs Atsushi | Bungo Stray Dogs Yuu Otosaka | Charlotte Allen Walker | D. Gray Man Natsu | Fairy Tale Yuki | Fruits Basket Edward Elric | Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Shoyo Hinata | Haikyu!! Nanase Riku | IDOLiSH7 Kuroko | Kuroko No Basket Cheng Xiaoshi | Link Click Lu Guang | Link Click Deku | My Hero Academia Kirito | Sword Art Online Cid Kagenou | The Eminence in Shadow Naofumi | The Rising of the Shield Hero

CARTOONS

Boimler | Star Trek: Lower Decks Ezra Bridger | Star Wars Rebels Bumblebee | Transformers: Prime Optimus Prime | Transformers: Prime Lance | Voltron: Legendary Defender Robin | Young Justice Blue Beetle | Young Justice Batman | Justice League / Unlimited, JLA + Movies etc

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aceofwhump

I think I figured out why I'm not seeing as many whump gifsets as I used and I think it's because no one is using the #whumpedit tag anymore 😂😭

I just went into the general #whump tag and narrowed down by photo and there's lots of gifsets in it I've never seen cause I haven't gone into the general tag in ages (it's usually full of oc writing which just great but just isn't what I'm looking for so I've not gone into that tag in ages).

Guys why isn't anyone using the #whumpedit tag anymore?!

Gifmakers, artists, visual media creators use the #whumpedit tag to increase visibility! The #whumpedit tag is specifically for that stuff. If you use that it will help increase visibility for your creations. I will for sure see it cause I check that tag almost daily looking for new gifsets.

If you made whumpy gifs I highly encourage you to add the #whumpedit tag to your posts!!

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rapidhighway

But if your favorite character isn't on the floor panting and dying and in horrible pain in a terrible situation then what's even the point

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aceofwhump

Day 3: “Like crying out in empty rooms; with no-one there except the moon.”

The Mentalist 1x07 | Outlander 5x08 | Wandavision 1x08 | Sense8 2x10 | 9-1-1 5x13 | Prodigal Son 1x17 | Broadchurch 2x04 | Merlin 5x13 | Doctor Who 2x13 | The Magicians 5x03 | The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies | Downton Abbey 6x06

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John Sheppard Whump - SG: Atlantis

1x01 Rising - Almost shot out of the sky, angry, scared/confused 1x02 Hide and Seek - Tazed, choked 1x04 38 Minutes - (Wraith bug attached to him) knocked unconscious/jolted, intense pain from multiple attempts to remove it, heart stops 1x08 Underground - Kidnapped by Chief O'brien (🤓) 1x10 The Storm - Alone, worries for friends 1x12 Defiant One - Stuck with McKay + nerd, shot, runs into forcefield (knocked down forcefully) 1x13 Hot Zone - Sacrifices self, caught in explosion 1x14 Sanctuary - Held psychologically captive, angry 1x19 The Siege pt. 2 - Shocked unconscious, almost killed by wraith, passes out, sacrificing himself ---------------------------------------------

2x01 The Siege - Fails to save a friend, guilted 2x02 the intruder - Piloting ship taken over by wraith virus, guilt/depressed about Ford 2x03 Runner - Shot/captured by Ronon, shot in the hand, increased guilt about Ford 2x05 Condemned - Jumper shot down, captured, hurts his knee (by being dumb) 2x08 Conversion - Infected with wraith retro-virus, slowly turns into a bug, shot by Ronon 2x09 Aurora - "Captured," shocked by force field multiple times 2x10 The Lost Boys - Kidnapped/stunned unconscious, threatened by the Lost Boys, poisoned, knocked down by an aggressive-drugged Ronon, guilted, Kidnapped/stunned unconscious AGAIN, weak/sore, taken by the Wraith and painfully 'willed'/torture 2x11 The Hive - Stunned unconscious, painfully willed by the queen, guilted 2x12 Epiphany - Stuck in a place where time moves faster/ages quicker/alone (6 months), evolves into bearded John, seriously injured by monster (unconscious + seriously bleeding) multiple times 2x16 Long Goodbye - Possessed by a bitter old man, shot in the shoulder, shocked unconscious and captured, painful convulsions, weak 2x17 Coup D'etat - Genii trap, collapses, captured/tied up ---------------------------------------------

3x01 No Mans Land - Captured, tired 3x03 Irresistible - The only one who isn't in love with Lucius, shot unconscious (sleeping so peacefully wtf), imprisoned 3x04 Sateda - Tranquillized unconscious, captured (+ nice talk with Tayla :)) 3x05 Progeny - Fingers in the brain torture 3x06 Real World - Angst for Weir 3x07 Common Ground - Captured by Kolya, life sucked out of him, exhausted 3x09 Phantoms - Trapped on a planet, Afghanistan PTSD, guilt about the death of another friend, apologizes a million times for literally shooting everybody 3x12 Echoes - Ears bleeding, tortured/hospitalized with equally deaf McKay 3x13 Irresponsible - Western duel against Kolya (gigachad) 3x16 Ark - Almost sucked out into space, collapses from lack O2, sacrifices himself, crashes the ship, exhausted 3x17 Sunday - Beat up by Ronon during training 3x18 Submersion - Freaked out, painfully controlled/willed by wraith lady, exhausted/sore 3x19 Vengeance - Gets in a banter fight with Michael face to face, gets smacked around by a huge bug ---------------------------------------------

4x01 Adrift pt.2 - Emotional about Weir 4x04 Doppleganger - Infected and knocked down by crystal, exhausted, in everybody's nightmares (effects relationships), really beaten up/thrown by himself, dangerously high heart rate 4x05 Travelers - Captured, beaten, threatened, shocked unconscious 4x06 Tabula Rasa - Infected, loss of memory/clueless, shocked unconscious & tied up, exhausted 4x10 This Mortal Coil - Bleeding, Ronon caused injury, captured, acts dead 4x11 Be All My Sins Remember'd - Shocked unconscious, captured 4x12 Spoils of War - Shocked unconscious, painfully willed by Wraith queen (another nice talk with Teyla) 4x15 Outcast - Dad died, emotional, choked unconscious, weak 4x20 The Last Man - Trapped in the future, walking through a rough sandstorm, collapse, weak, trapped in a building collapse ---------------------------------------------

5x01 Search and Rescue - Trapped under rubble, chunk of concrete stabbed in the abdomen, denies surgery, in pain the whole episode 5x02 Seed - Injected with experimental drug with high risk, convulsing, in serious pain, flatlines, crashes into the city, stabbed in the stomach by tentacles 5x03 Broken Ties - Punched unconscious by Ronon, captured, 5x05 Ghost in the Machine - Thrown across the room and wall, weak 5x06 The Shrine - Emotional about McKay 5x08 The Queen - Captured 5x10 First Contact - Stargate explosion 5x11 The Lost Tribe - Caught in Stargate explosion, weak, glass shards in the back 5x13 Inquisition - Knocked out 5x14 The Prodigal - Hanging off a building, badly beaten up by Michael 5x15 Remnants - Abducted, knocked unconscious, beaten, arm chopped off 5x19 Vegas - Dies (Alternate reality)

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Greatest Whump Of All Time Tournament

WHAT: A tournament to crown the greatest Whump Of All Time (WOAT)! The most popular, the most resonant, the most formative, the whumpiest fictional scenarios you’ve ever seen a blorbo in. Eventually, we’ll be able to crown the Whump Of All Time (all in good fun, of course)!

WHEN: Open for nominations from now through midnight CST on Saturday, July 22. Polls will be posted over the next two weeks.

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GUIDELINES:

1. Whump is defined as broadly as possible, including sickfick and angst, although the focus is the classic “hurt/comfort, heavy on the hurt”.

 2. Practically all forms of fictional media are welcome: movie, TV, book, music video, RP you found on YouTube, fanfic, vid. Please do NOT submit non-fiction meta in any format. No restrictions surrounding age / gender / NSFW status - submit it all. We’ll do our best to include warnings for submissions with minor characters or NSFW content.

3. A nomination should be for a unit of fiction (scene, short story, chapter, episode, etc.), NOT an author’s complete works, a specific actor, or a specific character.

4. The top 32 or 64 submissions will be included in the bracket, dependent on submissions received. Number of times a whump is submitted will be considered when deciding what to include, along with enthusiasm of propaganda - make your case!

Run by @withalittlebitofwhump 

We’re up to 13 submissions so far and I’d love to hear what YOU (yes, you! and all of your followers!) think is the Whump Of All Time!

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