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Our graphic designer just finished the cover today and I couldn’t wait to share it with y’all!

The Whumpy Printing Press presents: The Whumpboratory

This anthology brings together over two dozen stories that explore the horrors of the laboratory. From immortal lab rats to cannibalistic patients, these stories will be sure to send a shiver down the spine of every scientist. 

So enter The Whumpboratory. If you dare.

50% of all profits from this book will be donated to Dollar For, an American nonprofit that helps people who are struggling with medical debt.

And here are all of the awesome stories and authors!

Cycle(-stys) of Despair by Nemesis @brutal-nemesis

Part of You by Zi Trone @sowhumpshaped

In Prison by Christina Nordlander @nothingofvaluewaslost

Control by KL Massey www.horrorboundheart.com

Rainbow Rock by Devin Oldham

Live by Pier @itmustbeso

Settling the Little Albert Debate and My Heart Beats On by Aiden E. Messer https://www.instagram.com/author_aiden.e.messer/

Human by Konn Lavery https://konnlavery.com/

Pristine by Ryan Breadinc www.breadincbooks.com

Project Touched By An Angel by Kay Hanifen https://www.instagram.com/katharinehanifen/ 

The Boy of Theseus by Zipper @ziptiesnfries

The Blanket by Scarlett Skyes Ao3 - alchemistsarego

Nameless Tune by Kras Nebula @scrawlingmouse

If They Won't Give Us Our Humanity, We Will Take It by Lux Thorn @whump-me

A Song for Galatea by Vanessa Roades @vanessaroades-author

Transmission Received by Nox Spacey @not-a-space-alien

Breath of Life by Mill Cohen @whumpsday

Nervous Intervention by APEX @aapex--predator

Sedative, His Lake, and Project: Valeriana by Booker G. A. Feniks @up-in-flames-writing

The Exchange by Midnight Blue 

Pygmalion’s Folly by Coy Chambers @inscrutable-shadow

Your New Lab Rat: A Guide for Whumpers Scientists and Sunlight by Kailey Alessi @whumpy-writings

We're hosting a giveaway! One of you has the chance to win a free physical copy of the zine - free shipping and all! (we're also accepting international orders, so don't let being outside the US hold you back!)

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ocd.

i have ocd, and trust me this shit turns you into a real life whumpee.

i just feel like this could be used so many ways. (i think at the end of this post i’ll add list of ideas.)

if you have ocd, use that experience to torture your characters!! it’s so therapeutic actually.

and if you don’t have ocd, you could do some research!! ask a friend or someone on the internet with ocd!! (if they are comfortable being asked) read some ocd posts, and et cetera!!

here are the ocd whump ideas/prompts: (trigger warning btw)

whumper exposing whumpee to their triggers

whumpee eliminating whumpee’s ability to do their compulsions

vegetarian whumpee (one who is vegetarian specifically because of their ocd) only allowed to eat meat

whumper worsening their anxieties by telling them that they’re true

ocd tends to get worse under stress, so whumpee’s ocd would likely grow more and more horrible during their captivity

self-harm based compulsions

whumpee needing to do a compulsion but terrified to disturb/annoy whumper, so they just sit there in rising anxiety, forced to decide between enduring the stress or risking angering whumper

whumper laughing at whumpee’s stress and calling them dramatic/sensitive/irrational

after rescue, whumpee having developed new compulsions from their captivity. could lead to them needing to ask permission from caretaker before eating/using the bathroom, or apologizing frequently, or et cetera.

you don’t even need a whumper. whumpee could just be someone with really bad ocd that functions as their whumper, and caretaker is trying to take care of them and help them recover

Because I was aware of my breathing I couldn’t keep a normal breathing pattern and was always either breathing too deep or too shallow. This led to me feeling like I wasn’t getting enough oxygen, which then led to the compulsion of having to yawn or sigh in a specific way to feel like I was getting enough air. At its worst I’d have to do it once every few minutes. All day. Every day. It lasted for two years straight. Every day I’d wake up aware of my breathing before anything else and hating it. It was so bad that I’d literally have to pause a YouTube video or show just to be able to focus on the breathing compulsions or else I’d feel like I couldn’t breathe.

So basically I felt like I was suffocating for two years before I got anxiety medication which helped reduce the cycle of stress that kept me focusing on my breathing. So yeah, OCD can totally be used in whump, no whumper necessary.

Bodily symmetry is another obsession I’ve experienced, to the point that if I walked into a doorframe with my left shoulder I’d go back and do it with my right. Or if someone so much as touched me I’d have to touch the same spot on the other side of my body. So just imagine that with like severe injuries, and whumpee repeating injuries to even out the pain/scars.

"I need a huge favor."

"We're so close to our objective," Caretaker says, "Can't it wait?"

Whumpee can't stop the pain from showing on their face.

Whumpee who isn't allowed to cry.

Whumpee who is punished whenever they show an emotion that whumper doesn't like.

Whumpee who slowly loses connection with all their own emotions and desires.

Oh no, bad dog's covered in blood.

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✧ Bad mutts get the whip ✧

Jesse is property of the lovely @sunshiline-writes (and Xavier). <3

Whumpees who cope with trauma by getting addicted to or continuing to explore the traumatic thing they experienced.

Getting addicted to drugs/alcohol after being forced to practically live on it for extended periods of time (for the sake of experiments, no fighting, etc.)

Self-harm addiction after being conditioned to appreciate whippings, beatings, etc.

Heavy pet regression after living as a pet for someone.

Purposely hurting others after living through the trauma of having to abuse a loved one.

Experiencing hypersexuality after getting raped.