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Please reblog this post if you are a whumper/member of the whump community.

Let the experiments continue.

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A closeup of the painting The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, circa 1705 #whump #classical #art

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Oh yes, and thank you.

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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Dying Achilles at Achilleion, Corfu. Ernst Herter, 1884

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The Dying Tecumseh by Ferdinand Pettrich 1856 #classical #whump

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My boyfriend just said "I feel like you love me, but I feel like you love me more when I'm sick or hurt". Shit! I think he just figured me out! #whump

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The Dying Gladiator 1779 Pierre Julien

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I'm not really sure what to do with about the new tumblr rules. I haven't had much time to devote to my blog because of other commitments but it does mostly feature classical art... Which is full of naked people. No sex of course, but still, lots of butts and boobs. What does the new rule mean as far as classical works of fine art? Is our art history now taboo? #art #classicalart #whump #thissitesucks #thisrulesucks

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You might drown if you can't swim. If you actually die in the water, you've drowned. THERE IS NO DROWNEDED.

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

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A duel between two women #classical #art #whump

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Andromeda struggles against her chains. #classical #art #whump

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The flaying of Marsyas #classical #art #whump #tied #bound

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A water nymph has been caught in fishing nets #classical #art #whump #captured

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Hyasinthus being soothed by Apollo after being struck in the head by a discus #classical #art #whump

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Saint Sebastien tied to a tree and shot with an arrow #classical #art #whump

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This young man swam right into a trap, as sirens loved wrecking ships full of men buy luring them close to rocks with their overwhelmingly attractive songs and drowning any sailors who survived. #classical #art #whump

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The Knife Fighters. In the city of Goteborg. #classical #art #whump #knife #struggle