Whumpmas In July: Day 11

Whumpmas In July: Day 11

I love the way your heart breaks - Again [Flyleaf] Whumpas In July: Day 11 Favorite Whumpee / Whumpee Traits | General Discussions: Not a Story

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The Feral Souls series by Erica Woods has to be one of my favorite (smutty) series. Hope (our whumpee) escapes from the Hunters (the whumpers) to meet a ground of werewolves (the caretakers). There isn’t any real whump that occurs in the series (thus far), but there is a lot of recovery. My favorite part of whump has to be the long-term psychological damage and the recovery from such, and this series explores the recovery of Hope. Some of my favorite traits in a whumpee would have to be: Inner strength. It doesn’t necessarily have to be an external defiance, but just a general resolve to not give the whumper whatever it is they want. In my main whump work, B:MH, Angela is pushed to her breaking point and inevitably disassociates to avoid giving up the information demanded. I like the internal turmoil it brings - if I do X, it’ll have Y consequences; I will let people down if I do X - and exploring how the character deals with the problem with their limited capacity as a whumpee. Reputation. Whether they’ve put themselves on a pedestal (ego) or if others have put them there (a leader of some sort, usually), bringing them down is just so satisfying to me. An ego pedestal would generally be more satisfying, just because it would create more internal turmoil - but I explored a leader pedestal with Angela. The concern of letting down others / hurting others is also a great take on this. Softness. This would be a physical softness; they may have some experience with pain, but they’re not hardened to it in any kind of way. The drastic change between their normal comfortable life into their new painful existence is what I love to see. Closeness. I’ve done lovers-to-enemies in my B:MH series, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be the lover who turns into the whumper / whumpee. One of my favorites is having the whumpee and caretaker to be in some sort of close relationship - lovers or found family, though lovers definitely hits the emotions harder for me imo. Most of these are traits I’ve found in my writing or in those I follow. One of my favorites to read are The Jewelry Box micro stories by Leigh @whump-me-all-night-long. The little snippets that give you insight into the daily lives of the various whumpees (my favorites being Sapphire, Ruby, and Carnelian) are really great!

adult life might be full of pain and suffering but at least we dont have to do PE anymore

I really think Rasputin lucked out, in that being remembered by history as some species of giant unkillable sex wizard is something most of us can only fruitlessly aspire to.

do you ever wonder why sharks never get any visits from the tooth fairy??

teeth fairies are forbidden from visiting sharks because the massive influx of new teeth into fairyland would devalue their use as currency and completely tank their magical economy ✨🦈🦷✨

Spreading the word: DO NOT use Amazon’s Kindle World. To repeat the words in the article - which were repeated again above: “By using the platform, authors give all rights to the work to Amazon, who can then license your elements to other authors with no compensation to the original poster.” 

That isn’t cool. While I might not control my source material, my story is just that - mine. Fanfiction is a community, and Amazon is trying to monetize that. My work will never be uploaded there (by my consent) and I hope that no other fanfiction is, either.

EDIT: Because, like all of us on the internet, I just read the top and hit reblog. When I looked again, I realized it was 8 years old (and I had never heard of Kindle Worlds before now). This WAS a thing - but it was shut down a few years ago (thankfully). Hopefully, nothing similar returns.

Amazon Unveils a [Horrifying] Fanfic Publishing Platform

Today, Amazon announced the imminent launch of its newest endeavor, Kindle Worlds, a publishing platform for fanfiction. When I read the announcement, I was horrified, then angry, then sad. I want to take a moment to explain why this is such a tragedy.

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