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“Sunset never hangs out with anyone.”

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a little cassie before i continue ruin

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Whump Community, can we think about something together?

Listen, I know this is going to be controversial, and I’ll be clear: this is not a judgment, it’s not an attack, it’s an invitation to think about the dynamics in the Whump Community and in Whump as a genre. In no way, the ideas I am going to express are meant to shame you or invalidate your experience, I am talking about MYSELF too in this post.

Now.

Could we think about the fact that, maybe, we prefer male/masc-aligned whumpees over female/fem-aligned whumpees because we do have a huge amount of internalized misogyny?

Women are considered a subcategory of human beings, because socially a human being is a male. Women are able to consume and interact with movies, series, books, and stories that are often considered based on “the male experience”, but the same thing isn’t done by men.

Women’s emotions have always been policed, just think about the idea of “hysteria”, or lobotomy, which was often executed on women. If men can’t cry, women can’t be show rage, cry, be happy (Everyone hates fangirls and teenage girls), be horny, they can’t feel anything.

With that being said, isn’t Whump about empathy? Isn’t Whump about seeing a character that you care for, getting through extremely distressing situations, and being able to recover, and be loved?

So does the justification of: “Women have too much on their plate already, so I’m not going to make them suffer” a bit weak? If we all get extremely angry when screenwriters or authors whump the “wrong character”, because “we have to whump the fav one”, why is the whumpee never a woman? Why is the blorbo who deserves to be whumped never a woman?

Is it because we all, cis women, trans women, AFAB people, have internalized the idea that men’s emotions are deeper, are more consistent, are more human? That in a way, the male experience is going to fulfill us in a much greater way than what a woman’s experience could ever possibly do?

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I’m honestly surprised there’s no “Vanessa has PTSD” tag on AO3. I mean, really.

RIGHT??

but there’s one for Gregory?? like, yeah, the events of SB are probably traumatic, but he wouldn’t develop PTSD THAT FAST

Vanessa has been mind controlled and forced to murder people. pretty sure that’s enough to warrant PTSD.

but, unfortunately, this fandom doesn’t like exploring the trauma of female characters. actually it doesn’t like exploring the female character in general unless it’s for smut.

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Please someone create a machine to take all my thought oatmeal and copy-paste it into a 300,000 page book.

How to be a writer without writing anything

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Keeps my OC’s body count at 9,999 innocent lives so I can write a 100k word coffee shop AU fanfic of her without breaking the rules

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WHY ARE PEOPLE ON TUMBLR SO SMART BUT SO STUPID AND HOW DO I BE LIKE THEM.

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Unbelievably real

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Ik some ppl hate not being popular or whatever but I love having this nonexistent blog because I can just say whatever the hell I want.

PIGEONS ARE GOVERNMENT SPIES, THEY ARE NOT REAL BIRDS.

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HELP ME I NEVER REALIZED HOW SHORT GWEN WAS AND HOW MF TALL SIERRA WAS

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Sometimes I just sit and wonder how the actual fuck my favorite characters are still alive.