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I love the combination of touch starvation and touch aversion, it's such a beautiful vicious cycle. something so terrible has happened to whumpee that they recoil instinctively from even the softest brush of fingers, and yet they've spent so long without that gentle contact that they crave it now more than anything. every time someone starts to get close, their mind and body are at war with each other.

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hii @sowhumpshaped this scene from your series Riot has been stuck in my head ever since i read it so i had to draw it :3 hope u like it!!

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The problems with daydreaming is that you’re going to randomly ask yourself, “Wait… Is this a memory or did I make this up to coped?”

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im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

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Fear in Whump 6

Fear of Small spaces, Claustraphobia

When you own space of motion becomes a privilege

Perhaps Whumpee has been locked in the same space for days

Perhaps they are restrained so tightly in a box that they can barely breathe properly

Darkness, just them exists

When they're out in the open, at least they know what to expect, they don't have to worry about random punishments, or unexpected pain. Whumper will tell them exactly what's happening, it gives them a sense of security, the only constant their life has

But when they're punished they know nothing about what is happening. Being shipped to a foreign place, strapped and gagged in a box with no line of sight.

They can't handle it anymore, they can't be startled or surprised. They hate small spaces, they don't know exactly when it started but they know they will never feel the same about them.

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i wish we knew how to interact with the whump community more without feeling Ashamed,, aghghhg

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[ID: post by @ abhorr reading, "I see a bunch of people discussing maladaptive daydreaming and it's great but I've seen no one mention the common violent nature of the daydreams.

Most posts I see highlight the "idealized life" daydreams that I guess some people have, but it's like everyone is afraid to talk about the violence that is entirely normal for a maladaptive daydreamer to think about. That factor is one of teh reasons it's so hard for me to talk about it to my friends and family. Who wants to tell someone that you daydream constantly about characters being captured, tortured, raped?

If people were more willing to talk about this aspect of maladaptive daydreaming, I don't know, maybe people like me who have violent daydreams wouldn't feel as isolated and "bad"." End ID]

Just gonna leave this here

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controversial writing tip

open a document and start writing

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Defiant Whumpee who has been fighting Whumper at every possible moment, and Whumper who has been trying everything to get them to break. Hurting them didn't work, if the pain became too much Whumpee just shut down, but would be right back up when they had a break. Restraining them didn't work, Whumpee still mouthed them off and spat at them. Starvation didn't work, Whumpee seemed to just accept it. Blindfolding did nothing. The gag did nothing.

Whumper tried so much, and Whumpee's reactions were different and they did get weaker, but they still wouldn't. give. in. Wouldn't show weakness, wouldn't beg or plead, wouldn't do anything what Whumper wanted to see.

Until Whumper tried drugging them. They gave them something that leaves Whumpee dazed, making their body heavy and unresponsive, and their mind foggy.

They untie Whumpee, letting them fall to the floor, and mock them. Telling them that this is their chance, come on, fight me, isn't this what you want?

But Whumpee can't do anything. They try, but their body won't obey them, their mind slips away from them. And it terrifies them. Anything else they can take. External things? They will fight. But they've never experienced this before. Their body completely giving up on them.

And that, that, finally does something. The next time Whumper drugs them, Whumpee doesn't say anything. It's the same the third time. But the fourth... Whumpee flinches back, and chokes out a soft "please". They instantly shut their mouth, as if they didn't mean to say it, but it's too late.

Whumper finally found something that will break them.

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I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

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"How do you brainstorm your ideas and stories?"

Listen, man, I've been using thinking about fictional characters and their problems to avoid thinking about The Horrors since I was single digits in age. I have no idea how to start. Nor do I know how to stop. The inside of my head is constant "what ifs". I just made them fun instead of horrifying.

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