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there's something about characters who never show any vulnerabilities, any gaps, any weaknesses, any exhaustion, being shown sleeping. there's just SOMETHING about it

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Still true btw

Lest ye settle for another year of mostly Pokémon sickfic

Starting my Sicktember planning, which means I'm taking requests/suggestions for prompts you'd want to see filled a certain way or characters you'd like to see assigned to a prompt 🥳

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I looove when this happens: I went ✨️crazy✨️ and started brainstorming prompt fills for Sicktember, and I'm up to 2-5 ideas per day, up to day 16!

The only problem is that now I have some fill ideas for one prompt that I love equally, so I might end up writing two (or more!) fills for some days 🤭

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Character A and character B are dating, and B always feels embaressed whenever they get sick. They hate looking gross and sounding gross in front of other people, especially when they want the other at person to find them attractive.

A and B had a really cute date planned, but B wakes up full of a head cold that no amount of makeup or speaking in a higher register is gonna hide. So they decide to call B, no FaceTime, to tell them they’re not feeling well and they should go some other time.

This sends A, who has quite the sneeze kink but hasn’t told B yet, absolutely REELING.

“I’m sorry, I’m pretty…pretHETTzzccieew! *sniff sniff* sneezy and gross, you do not wanna see me right now.”

And all A can think of is how they very much do want to see them, and take care of them of course ❤️.

After cooling down from getting so hot and bothered with just a phone call, the pervert, A decides to make a quick stop to B’s apartment with all the sick day essentials. B is touched, but immediately embaressed that A has seen them all gross.

“You don’t look gross, you look cute.” And a has to stop themselves before they say anything too suspicious

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I know where I'll be buying a house

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Okay I'm a little drunk and introspecting, but as I'm planning for Sicktember 2025, im find that what I really like is to use sickness as a plot device to explore deeper emotions?? Like, when I write fic that is just "X is sick, Y looks after them," I'm usually bored either the process and dissatisfied with the result

That's not the realization tho

The realization I'm having is: There are some fandoms that I really like to read for (or would like to read for), but I'm incredibly averse to the idea of writing for them, and I'm realizing that the following fact may not be the CAUSE, but it's certain true for all cases— I don't feel like I have anything to say or explore other than "X is sick, Y looks after them"

That's all

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Computer show me sickfic

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something i don’t see much of and want to see more of is the sounds of audibly shivering/being cold

it might be neglected because it’s harder to convey in writing without sounding kinda goofy, but i’m always a fan when something conveys sounds like:

the clatter of chattering teeth.

those short breathy bursts when someone gets a chill and shudders.

the little waver in someone’s voice as they battle the deep shivers in their core.

the rustle of fabric as someone tries to chafe warmth into chilled bones.

pls add more if you have any bc i just really like these details

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Ough this random up and coming model I randomly found on Instagram Reels is a great faceclaim for my favorite OC, but he was just a cameo in someone else's video and idek his name 😭

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gruff caretaker: don't wake me unless you're dying.

sunshine whumpee: *doesn't wake caretaker until they're dying*

gruff caretaker:

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when the character makes the most pathetic, heartbreaking sound after being disturbed - they got moved and it made their injury hurt, or maybe they're just so exhausted and they're trying to communicate "please let me rest" - yeah. yeah. more of that.

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Diego Luna in Open Range (2003) as Button 1/2

GIFS: nealseen Look out for the second part coming up :-) @whumpster-dumpster @justwhumpythings @justwhump @whumpglorious @mostlyhurt @hurtcomfcrt @whumperflies @aceofwhump @whumperfect @whump-galore @set-phasers-to-whump @fyeahvulnerablemen @aceofwhump

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A Regency man possessed with an absolute monster of a cold, forced to host a ball. He’s old-fashioned and kisses every lady’s hand out of politeness/habit when they’re introduced, even though they all shrink back from him when they feel the wet, sickly touch of his nostrils against their skin. Perhaps he even sneezes while still pressed to some of them

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You like the cold-hearted and professional type because you want to be dommed by him.

I like him because the idea of watching a hyper competent man unravel into vulnerability and humiliation brings me sexual gratification.

We are not the same.

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Been thinking really hard about professional men in glasses.

Man in a suit who doesn't usually encounter his only allergy, completely unprepared for it. He tries so hard to keep himself put together, even stifling the first few sneezes between pinched fingers. But eventually he has no choice but to let out a rapid fit. His glasses slip down his nose with each jerk of his head, but he's so occupied with the sneezes that he doesn't adjust them in time and they fall off his face, exposing his watery eyes to everyone.