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It's Harrison's birthday🎂

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Prompts for AI-less Whumptober 2024

As promised, we're bringing you the official prompt list of AI-less Whumptober 2024 today!

We have 31 days of excellent whump prompts, with three prompts per day to pick from, fun themes, and 10 alt prompts to play around with. We hope you enjoy! Additional info + plain text versions of the prompts can be found under the cut.

FAQ and Rules

What sort of content can I create for this event?

You can create whatever you want (fic, art, edits, etc). Any fandom is allowed, as well as OC stuff. NSFW is allowed, but please tag your content accordingly! The only thing not allowed is AI-generated content.

Do I need to make 31 things to participate?

Oh heavens no! You can make as much or as little content as you like, skip days when desired, or combine prompts (so for example, write something that covers a prompt from day 1, 2, AND 3). You don't have to do the days in order either, go wild! To be considered a 'completionist', you only have to make sure that at the end of the month, you've covered 31 prompts from 31 different days, but whether you do that in 31 works or just 1 is up to you.

What are these alts about?

If none of the three prompts of a particular day are your cup of tea, you can swap them out for an alt prompt of your choice.

What are these themes about?

Just a little bit of extra fun for the mods. Like last year, we'll be handing out various badges for people participating in the event. A full list will be posted later (and linked here once that happens), but perhaps there will be a special badge or two for people who can't be completionists but who do manage to finish every single day of a specific theme ;)

How do I tag and is there an AO3 collection?

It suffices to tag your work with #AIlesswhumptober2024 for us to see and reblog it! Please also tag nsfw, since we'll be using that tag too. Tagging the day is optional but does help the mods along.

There will be an AO3 collection for the writers to share their works in, this will be made available once we're closer to October (and linked here once that happens).

That should be all. If you have any additional questions, check our pinned or hit us up in the ask box. Or join our discord maybe, whumping can be a great group activity!

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Plain text versions of the prompts:

October 1 - Torture Tuesday

public torture/public use, stress position, “If you cry, we’ll go easy on you.”

October 2 - Whumperless Wednesday

Unfortunate fall, car accident, “Don’t move. You’ll be okay.”

October 3 - Trauma Thursday

Shared trauma, survivor’s guilt, “It’s not your fault.”

October 4 - Fright/Freaky Friday

Painful transformation, non-consensual body modifications, “You’re a monster.”

October 5 - Sensory Saturday

Overstimulation, migraines, “I can’t take this anymore.”

October 6 - Surprise Sunday

Multiple whumpees, self sacrifice, “I’m the only one who can do this.”

October 7 - Medical Monday

Field medicine, running out of supplies, “Hold on, we’re going to have to improvise.”

October 8 - Torture Tuesday

Rope burns, gagged, “You’re so much prettier this way.”

October 9 - Whumperless Wednesday

Hypothermia, heatstroke, “You look pretty pale.”

October 10 - Trauma Thursday

Self worth issues, pushing away a loved one, “You don't need to earn this.”

October 11 - Fright/Freaky Friday

Hallucinations, truth serum, “Why would you even say that?”

October 12 - Sensory Saturday

Isolation, sensory deprivation, “Can you feel me? I’m right here, whumpee.”

October 13 - Surprise Sunday

Whumpee using themself as bait, defiance, “Take me instead.”

October 14 - Medical Monday

Seizures, concussion, “See if you can follow my finger with your eyes.”

October 15 - Torture Tuesday

Waterboarding, removing body parts, “Don’t break down on me yet.”

October 16 - Whumperless Wednesday

Drowning, hostile environment, “I don’t know how anybody could survive that.”

October 17 - Trauma Thursday

Abandonment, misunderstanding, “Why did I even think you cared?”

October 18 - Fright/Freaky Friday

Mind control, possession, “Everybody will end up despising you.”

October 19 - Sensory Saturday

Disassociation, losing a sense, “I wish I could get you back.”

October 20 - Surprise Sunday

Enemy/Stranger to caretaker, accidental de-aging, “I’m absolutely not qualified for this shit.”

October 21 - Medical Monday

Drugged, ambulance ride, “This will make you feel better, okay?”

October 22 - Torture Tuesday

Forced (to kneel/watch/hurt somebody else), whipped, “Do not look away.” October 23 - Whumperless Wednesday

Fever, passing out, “Hey?! Stay with me, okay?!”

October 24 - Trauma Thursday

Deconditioning, relapse, “It’s normal that you need more time.”

October 25 - Fright/Freaky Friday

Humiliation, betrayal, “How could you?!”

October 26 - Sensory Saturday

Electrocution, burning, “This is going to sting.”

October 27 - Surprise Sunday

Before vs after, Alternate universe, “Well, there’s a first for everything.”

October 28 - Medical Monday

Internal bleeding, needles and stitches, “I didn’t think the wound was that bad…”

October 29 - Torture Tuesday

Ownership, branding, “Everybody will know that you’re mine.”

October 30 - Whumperless Wednesday

Poison, delirium, “You’re not making sense.”

October 31 - Trauma Thursday

Panic attack, facing a phobia, “You need to get out of here!”

Alt prompts:

1) Pistol whipped

2) Co-dependency

3) Animal bite

4) Zombies

5) White room torture

6) Shock collar

7) Pulling teeth

8) Kidnapping

9) “You always make everything worse!”

10) “If you weren’t around, I’d be long dead by now...”

[faofinn]

I'm just... tired

Are you alright, honey? You've barely put your blorbo in situations

[faofinn]

This blog feels as if filled with wasted potential.

I have some writings, of Harrison and Finn, The Cunningham-Cole clan and the Daniels, but I don’t know what I'm supposed to do with them; it almost feels like I need to be asking permission to write about them - and hell, even thinking about them half the time. Which, while I'm aware how daft it all sounds, is what is continually putting up roadblocks in my path and why nothing has been posted (at least Ev's side, I can only speak for myself; there is no communication or desire to).

I tried using other characters, tried making new ones, but there's nothing behind them, and a few paragraphs in, we're back to Harrison and Finn but with different names.

I used to use writing as an outlet, a crutch for my failing mental health. As much as I feel like a dick to admit it, having only myself to think about has allowed me to save a huge part of myself that was atop a crumbling cliff's edge and barely hanging by a thread. I didn't realise how many things I'd stopped doing or enjoying. I've found a spark for things I thought were long gone, what I thought was lost to the long hours at work but, apparently, was not.

Now that my spark is me, I've found myself writing when I get the muse, not when I'm rock bottom and burnt out and trying to find a distraction. The new characters feel like the boys wearing a pair of fake glasses and a mustache and expecting me not to notice. For the record, they're very noticeable. I'm trying to work a way to keep my boys going, to get them from my brain into a decently readable piece of writing, but trying to do so and keep all toes un-stepped has left me a little stumped.

Maybe I should just get it out here, or maybe a different blog would be better? If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to let me know!

Anyway, I just wanted to drop back in and say hi. I hope y'all are doing well, because I am. And that's something I can say wholeheartedly. Or, at least, wholeheartedly mentally. My body regularly attempts to give up the ghost, and I've had far too many ambulances and pre-alerts to resus over the last months. It's much more fun when you're writing about it, a lot less fun living it.

Take care, y'all. Keep whumping.

Ev

[faofinn]

I'm sorry but this is 1000% Finn and (I was gonna say fao, but i think it's just finn with every single person in his life )

[faofinn]

Huh.

I just realised I'll need to change the blog title.

I also found the jar of teabags in the cupboard, sitting next to the sugar.

I still don't understand how we can have five years with never a day having not spoken, to a complete no-contact order and a fuck u from people I thought were friends..

I mean, at least it was just a dead pet this time. Last time my grandma pulled this stunt was six months after my mum's death and *on* the day of my (dads side) granddad's funeral.

But fr.

tf am i supposed to do with all the tea?? I can't stand the stuff.

At least the presents and crap (aside from the scrapbook of us🥴) can be donated, but I'm p sure you can't donate opened tea bags

[faofinn]

NEW FIC INCOMING!

1 - Fred and She pre-partners (in crime), Sheila has a shit upbringing and Fred is a lot more privileged.

Both She and Fred get hurt, they fwll in love, and their family and future collapse around them.

2 - Steve has a tragic history, we've seen that before, but it's never explained how he actually ended up with Fred.

3- The only way to keep Finn and Hars outta trouble? Have them babysit the other in the basement.

The back-to-school illness season had been through the entire family, and had returned to kick Finn's arse. Much to Steve’s frustration, Hars is working with a broken wrist, too. He's also the reason Steve’s turning grey.

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I'm currently just shitposting on here, but I promise I'm trying to get stuff done!

But this is why Finn isn't allowed to run hostage drills with Harrison any more.

[faofinn]

For the first time in two months, I had muse last night, and actually wrote three pages. I've got my fingers crossed it continues 🤞

In the meantime, here's Fred. Being the university prof for history etc, this most defo happens. Also, Finn defo does this with Apollo and nobody can tell me otherwise.

[faofinn]

MediWhumpMay will no longer be continuing.

Unfortunately due to the breakup of Shiv and myself, and the breakdown of our relationship/any communication/writing, I'm unable to continue with it by myself.

Apologies for the continuing disappointment.

[faofinn]

And, with all this, I've got to admit that I feel like I've let everyone down. While it takes two to tango, I feel an awful lot of blame for it too - shiv has other works and fics with either him or him with a different name, but all of my stuff is on here. We'd not written half of what we wanted to, and I can't see it wver being written, whereas Fao appears in multiple other things, y’know? The Daniels don't exist out of here and is just a lot

A question.

We're in a situation where there is no more Fao and Finn.

Shiv has left, taking Fao and Ely (epoch's, but too much to talk to both of us), and leaving all our fics frozen still.

As mentioned previously, you can find shiv on ao3, but all of my work has only ever been on here.

Would people be interested in a rewritten situation where the Daniels etc remain (but without Fao obv)? Fao left in prev works but removed from future? Leaving the blog frozen with no changes or additions? Completely new characters on a new blog that has zero to do with the boys?

If anyone has any tips etc, they'd be appreciated.

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A question.

We're in a situation where there is no more Fao and Finn.

Shiv has left, taking Fao and Ely (epoch's, but too much to talk to both of us), and leaving all our fics frozen still.

As mentioned previously, you can find shiv on ao3, but all of my work has only ever been on here.

Would people be interested in a rewritten situation where the Daniels etc remain (but without Fao obv)? Fao left in prev works but removed from future? Leaving the blog frozen with no changes or additions? Completely new characters on a new blog that has zero to do with the boys?

If anyone has any tips etc, they'd be appreciated.

[faofinn]

Harrison and SOULS

Mentioned previously in a comment, this was our final writing together, and, as one of my faves, it deserves to see the light of day.

I'll be working on chopping the doc down and getting it put on the in the next few weeks.

[faofinn]

"Finn, you've done nothing but sit and look at your phone all afternoon. The hell are you watching that's so important?"

*Sheila then asked Fred and Finn the same question a while later*

[faofinn]

I'm sorry did you say :

Alex and Fao’s backstory?

Finn's TBI?

Harrison’s BTK amputation?

Steve/Hars/Fao/Finn's PTSD?

Harrison's capture by SOULS (it's written a bit but I'm not sure where we stand rn)?

Steve losing his family, only to repeatedly face losing his new son

the thing is, i WANT to read stories where The Bad Thing happens. you know, the narrowly-avoided outcome, the thing where the protagonist and friends are like "phew! glad THAT didn't happen!" i want to see it happen. i want the protagonist to get held captive and experimented on, maybe for a prolonged period of time. i want them to make a deal with the devil and live with the consequences. i want them to be forced to work for the enemy. i want the bad things to Happen, and i want to see them Happen for more than a single scene.

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Not whump and idgaf.

I(Ev) stand with Palestine.

I'm with Hind Rajab. 6 years old.

I'm with Dunia Abu Mohsen. 12 years old.

I'm with Sidra Hassouna. 12 years old.

They're just kids. They should never have had to be a part of it, to witness it, to even hear about it. They deserved better. Their names won't be silenced, and the only absolutely tiny piece of good is that they're no longer suffering through a war zone, no longer in pain and grieving. But none of this should ever have happened.

They deserved better.

They deserved to live.

looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.

and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:

(ANERA donate link)

my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.

it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.