Whumpmas in July Day 22
Share a link to your all-time favorite whump work
The first long-form serial whump work I ever read, which I stayed up until 1am to read and binged the whole thing in one night.
Ash & Callum by @whumping-every-day
I hope the author is doing well, wherever she is.
Honorable mentions go to the Kane & Jim series by @whumpsday and Nothing Boy by @sadcatjae
i have a thing for vampire whump and whumper-turned-whumpee ahahaha
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heads up! mentions of a past abusive relationship (for reader). this should really go on wooahaes but i'm too lazy to format it rn and i need sleep so take this ig??? i might repost over there some other time....
there's things that are unfair about having a boyfriend like vernon. you think one of them is how pretty he can look when he's sleeping.
of course, he's still human. he ends up with messy hair, and sometimes he drools, and there's about a thousand other things you can list off about him when he sleeps... but he's still your boyfriend. and thus, every little 'flaw' he has is something you consider pretty on him. he would (and will, when he's in a sappy enough mood) say the exact same about you, to be fair. he shifts a little in his sleep, stretching and reaching for you.
you still remember overhearing him talk to his mom the morning after you slept in the same bed as him for the first time. it'd literally only been sleeping, but you heard him quietly say 'they trust me a lot,' to her while on the phone. he'd been unpacking breakfast. when she asked about it, he merely said "they fell asleep next to me. they've never done that before. i think... i think they trust me," in that pensive way, like he's thinking more than he's actually saying.
(i do, you told him later. trust you. i think i love you, too. and it'd been what made him say that he loves you for the first time--something he didn't expect to hear back without that 'i think' to protect yourself. you said it to him a few weeks later, and he teared up--although he'll always deny it when you bring it up now.)
"you're staring again." he pulls you out of your thoughts with ease, and his eyes meet yours in the low light. "what's wrong?"
you saw today's date. some birthdays never leave you, and that's true of the person who hurt you. the person you only told vernon about a few months ago in full, although he knew of the person's existence before then. you remember what that person said to you, too. that you didn't need anyone else aside from them...
"nothing," you say, and it's a half-lie. it'll bother you a little more, but you don't want to have this talk now. not when you're already starting to drift off, safe in his presence. vernon's good at protecting you from ugly feelings that settle into your bones like an unwanted guest. "we'll talk later, honey."
he gives you a uncertain look. "you only call me honey when you're upset."
(it's a mutual thing: he calls you either by your name or a casual dude any other time, and baby and babe and love of my life whenever he's trying to avoid a topic temporarily. the two of you communicate: vernon's good at making you feel safe in that, too.)
"right," you say. "we'll talk in the morning... homie."
it earns a crackling snort from him, and he smiles that cute gummy smile as he hides his face for a moment. "ah, really... god, you're such a dork sometimes, i swear."
"a dork who landed you," you always remind him. yet when his eyes meet yours a moment later, you feel something warm in your chest that washes away that ugly feeling all too easily. you reach out, holding his face. "i think... i won."
"you won?"
"you love me," you say. "my friends love me... i'm loved," you say quietly, and the feeling still feels a little foreign. you are loved, you repeat mentally for a moment: because they see you as you, not the broken mess you feel you are. "so i won."
vernon gets it soon enough, and he nods. "you won," he says quietly. "i'm glad you're here... homie."
you crack up, too, and he quietly laughs at his own little moment with you. his laugh and his smile always make you giggle, too, and he pulls you in to kiss you happily.
"i love you," he mumbles against your lips, "i love you, i love you, i love you--" and he keeps planting kisses against against and around your lips to punctuate every repeat of the phrase, before he draws back, satisfied after being struck with the need to be overly sappy. "alright?"
gone is that bitter feeling that once flashed through your veins and settled into your bones. all you feel now is love, soft and sweet, as you're so openly reminded that you're not alone. that the two of you shoulder these problems together. you won, you think, because you are alive and being loved and learning to love wholeheartedly again.
"yeah," you settle in to sleep, planning to keep to your promise of talking come morning. "i love you, too, you big sap."
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Catch Up
Thanks @noodleslugworth for tagging!! :DD
1. Last Song: Sweet tooth from the Wonka soundtrack; needed some whimsy while doing laundry :D
2. Currently Watching: hmmm not really watching anything? Think tho, that I'm gonna rewatch Wonka again for art inspo :>
3. Three Ships: not really into shipping '^^
4. Favourite Colours: ooh there are so many!! But I think my favourite ones are green, blue and combinations of greens with other colours like yellow :))
All warm colours are very pretty though :3
5. Currently Reading: The picture of Dorian Gray!! First time reading it and man, that escalated quickly lmao. But really like it, cant recommend it enough!! (also fckin lord henry...)
6. Currently Consuming: Had a blueberry cream yogurt and coffee for breakfast :>
7. First Ship: none! (I think??)
8. Place of Birth: Germany
9. Current Location: Still Germany
10. Last Movie: Ooof, I think a soviet comedy I watched w my family? It was about an American mobster coming to the USSR to assassinate some guy but his plans get derailed by over the top Russian hospitality and really bad luck; couldn't tell you its name, if you held a gun to my head
11. Currently Working On: A birthday gift for my friend!! It's very very late, but I warned them, it would take some time lmao (their birthday was in february), also some fanart probably soon :3
Tagging: @sheepbitch, @cover-your-ears, @pealeii, @chaos-corner, @redd956, @dominyk9, @aliferiousraven, @the-pigeon, @pinktheferret, @spider-shoes, @creatureesque
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