Ley's Whump Dump

Whumptober2023 Day 22: Glass shard | "Watch out!"

WhumpmasinJuly 2023: Day 9 "Stay with me"

HI! UM...

My external hard drive died.

My entire livelihood is on there, including my comic Senhyakkin, a lot of files crucial to an RPG Maker Project I've been working on, Commission details, and so, SO much more.

I am arranging to get the hard drive shipped out for data recovery, but I've been told it's going to cost anywhere between $1000 - $6000 USD, depending on file size and urgency. Considering that this is a 3TB drive and the stuff on there is, y'know, my livelihood, I am terrified of knowing what the final amount will be...

but it has to be done. I have to get my files back.

I am NOT interested in starting a GoFundMe-- I do not trust it whatsoever. But if anyone is willing to pitch in for the data recovery fee to, like... yknow... prevent Senhyakkin from being ended prematurely... I have the following options:

KO-FI. Even a tiny donation counts! PATREON. Even if it's just $1 for 1 month! It will still help! COMMISSIONS! I'm completely open for commissions and would be extremely grateful to anyone who even wants a tiny illustration from me!

I'm not sure how things are going to go. I will try to keep updates on the situation going on this blog and on Twitter, if anyone is interested/concerned.

WhumpmasinJuly2023: Day 6 "Deprived"

Whumpmasinjuly 2023: Day 3 "Stitches and bandages"

"I'm sorry I couldn't do anything more."

Questionnaire - İntercultural and cross-linguistic perspectives on whump genre

As part of my research thesis for my Masters of Contemporary International Studies, I am conducting research on "Intercultural and cross-linguistic perspectives on whump genre."

This questionnaire is part of this research!

Survey period: Thursday 1st June 2023 (9pm, NZST) - Thursday 29th June 2023 (9pm, NZST)

For the purpose of this research, participants must:

be at least 18 years old

be interested in, or have an appreciation for, whump in fictional stories

Note: Participants are not required to consider themselves a part of the "whump community" in order to participate in this study.

This questionnaire will take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Additional information:

This research defines whump as, "Whump is a genre of fiction that places emphasis on a character's physical and emotional experience of pain, and often recovery, in a story."

this is an academic research project (Master's research thesis)

Your responses are completely anonymous.

You may edit your response up until the survey period closes.

You may withdraw any information you provide up until the time the survey period closes.

For detailed information, please see here: İnformation sheet - Questionnaire (this is also at the beginning of the Google Form)

This research also has an interview with limited spaces. İf you are interested, see this post here. İnterview participants must be bilingual, and meet the participant criteria mentioned above.

This study has been approved by the Research and Development Committee of IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute. The approval was made on the 3rd of May, 2023.

Whumptober2021 No.10 - Oops, I did it again

hospital | flare-up | ice chips

Kyle's burn scar tissue flares up from time to time, sometimes worse than others.

Hi! In the event that I am unable to message directly from @callaei-researches, I will be using this blog handle (@callaei-researches-interview) for direct messaging for the interview.

I am currently unable to access direct messaging from this blog. It may be a glitch, or perhaps I was marked as spam?

In the mean time, I've contacted support. I'm not sure how long this will take to get fixed - hopefully it will be soon :')

I can now announce more information about my upcoming research on whump / whump interest! ✨✨✨

As part of my research thesis for my Masters of Contemporary International Studies, I am conducting research on "Intercultural and cross-linguistic perspectives on whump genre."

This study has been approved by the Research and Development Committee of IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute. The approval was made on the 3rd of May, 2023.

This research two participation opportunities:

- A questionnaire (open Thursday 1st June, 9pm (NZST) - Thursday 29th June, 9pm (NZST))

- An interview (throughout June-July)

For the purpose of this research, to participate in the questionnaire and/or in the interview, you must:

be at least 18 years old

be interested in, or have an appreciation for, whump in fictional stories

Additionally, as the interview explores whump through the perspective of different languages, for the interview you must also:

be bilingual (i.e. at least conversationally proficient in two or more languages)

Note: Participants are not required to consider themselves a part of the whump community in order to participate in this study.

Interview information ---------------

Interview participants will be given two options to choose between:

a spoken interview, conducted via Zoom; or

a written interview, conducted via Tumblr direct messaging, or an alternative direct messaging application as agreed upon by the researcher and participant.

Spoken interviews will be recorded. Spoken interview participants are not required to have video turned on during the interview. The researcher will contact interview participants following interview participant selection to schedule a suitable time for spoken interviews.

For any written interviews conducted via Tumblr direct messaging, the researcher will use the Tumblr handle @callaei-researches to communicate with the participant.

Interview - Registration of interest form -------------

If you are interested in participating in the interview, please fill in the form below! (same link as the top of the post)

Additional information -------------

This research defines whump as, "Whump is a genre of fiction that places emphasis on a character's physical and emotional experience of pain, and often recovery, in a story."

Important things to note about the research (see the information sheets under the "keep reading" for detailed information):

- this is an academic research project (Master's research thesis)

- the questionnaire is entirely anonymous

- the interview requires a means of direct communication with the researcher, but this information will not be shared. In the research, interviewees will be referred to as "Interviewee 1," "Interviewee 2," etc.

- responses are entirely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time during the research period

- any personally identifying information will be kept confidential and accessible only to myself (the researcher) and my research supervisor.

Detailed information -------------

More information about the questionnaire, the interview, and the registration of interest form can be found here. These will be also given at the beginning of the questionnaire, the registration of interest form, and to all participants selected for the interview.

Questionnaire information sheet

Interview information sheet

Interview - Registration of interest information sheet

I love scenarios when someone's going through Some Crazy External Shit that's really extreme and traumatizing and draining and they're absolutely exhausted and their brain is just not in the right place & they're kind of seeing things.

Like okay if they're in an intense battle that's been going on for hours and they're bleeding and staggering and are still on their feet with adrenaline alone, but then they're hit badly again and kind of bleeding out and there's gunfire or lasers or magical explosions going on all around them and they're trying to stay conscious while also disassociating completely and when somebody grabs their injured body and starts to drag them from the battlefield they look up and all they can see are the shadowy arms of death before they pass out

Or someone on the run through a forest at night with a storm raging overhead, lightning threading through the sky and thunder booming with alarming volume, they're terrified and cold and certain either the storm will kill them or their pursuers will, and suddenly a lightning bolt strikes a tree near them and lights up the whole world for an instant, now there's fire and water and wind all around them at once and their ears are ringing and they're sure they must have already died somewhere in their chase

I have just started my research year of my Masters' degree! I'm currently working on my research proposal and ethics clearance.

This research will have both an online distributed questionnaire and an interview.

I am hoping to have the questionnaire open in June 2023 (pending human ethics approval clearance). The interview* will happen following the questionnaire, and will be limited in spaces - I will update on this later.

I will confirm my focus area of research and the survey period opening dates within the coming weeks!