Okay since the post about death in whump is going around quite a lot and I'm seeing different statements in the comments, I am curious as to how the percentages balance out

For me personally, definition wise, the aftermath of a whump scene is not relevant to the whump part (the injury, or getting sick) before it. That's because I define whump as solely the hurt part in hurt/comfort. Even though I pretty much only consume whump content with a good ending, and vastly prefer it

I know that there's absolutely something to be said about how death of a character can be whump material for someone else, but in this case I'm just solely talking about the character the scene is about.

This poll also assumes that whatever happens before the death is an injury or illness of some kind, and the scene is not solely character dying.

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nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer

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we should call it this again

I see a man (fictional), I am generally like "okay". I see the same man (fictional) being put in a situation, covered in dirt and blood, perhaps soaking wet, actively sobbing and shaking like a chihuahua, and I am saying "yay" and "yippee" and things of this nature

That one tweet that’s like “oh that’s gore… that’s gore of my comfort character” but in the absolutely most positive sense u can imagine, with rainbows and dolphins in the sky etc.

Whumpee, limp, beaten, and half conscious bound up on the hard floor. Whumper kneeling down in front of them and grabbing whumpee's chin, pulling their face up to look at them without resistance as whumpee's head lolls and their eyes fail to fully focus.

literally me every single night

That scenario when a character is badly hurt or sick, either way they're extremely out of it and whoever is taking care of them isn't someone they would expect to take care of them, and when they blearily look up at their caretaker they mumble something along the lines of "am I dying? You're never this nice to me"

being aromantic and into whump is like. shoutout to whump for being a great opportunity to engage with stories about intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. what would i do without you.

i truly love seeing both aro and non-aro people reblogging and agreeing with this sentiment. join me, let's appreciate intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. i love you whump genre.

[RUINING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT REAL] i am playing. With my touys

The villain, about the torture the protagonist: “Oh, I’m going to enjoy this.”

Me:

we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

back in the day you could write about the most sickeningly vile atrocious war crimes happening to your blorbo and everyone was like. kyaaaaaaaa >w<. they just got it. they understood

What the fuck is whump

i see you have replies but they’re a little innocent. whump as i personally have seen is borderline fetish content and sometimes outright fetish content. for example amputee sex. your character has a disability, serious physical illness, or has become so wounded they can’t take care of themselves so the other person in the ship has to do it. only it’s extremely condescending and very creepy. just search #whump on here and read one single text post it will make you shudder

whump is when a character is harassed and beaten and dominated and tortured and victimized and used and abused and humiliated and tormented and maltreated and molested and brutalized and wounded and maimed and martyred and persecuted and amputated and burned at the stake and crucified for your sins and their whole family is killed in front of their eyes and their village is burned down to the ground and they're flayed alive and they are bruised and bleeding and crying and sobbing and throwing up and asking god why he has forsaken sorry i got so horny i forgot where i was going with this

how do we feel about "I'm worried about you?"

said by a friend who normaly never worries about anything. said by a teammate who hates them. said by the last person on the planet they'd want to make worry.

"I'm worried about you."

and what do they say back? don't be? everything is going to be okay? i'm sorry?