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whumpee being told to get up over and over and over and over and being struck everytime. maybe tazed.

Abused angel without the language to articulate their trauma bc "angels never get hurt" 🤝 abused demon without the language to articulate their trauma bc "demons always deserve it"

I love when the funny haha character has a shift in the narrative where suddenly all the funny haha stuff about them becomes gut-wrenchingly tragic

dude wait. what if we got really close together so we feel safe

One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

so does anyone have any psychological torture ideas, just for a whump story I might write. Like I need the whumpee broken beyond repair.

"it's a tv show" "it's not real" i don't care. NO SHOES ON THE BED

okay if this breaks containment I think my asian grandparents would be proud of this post being my legacy. but for their sake i must clarify my personal stance. NO SHOES IN THE HOUSE AT ALL

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.

The truth of the matter is that if you’re going to seriously pursue writing, not every line can go hard. It can’t be hard 100% of the time, or the hard just becomes soft. Sometimes the line just has to get the writing from point a to point b.

awesome when there's a devoted platonic duo who love each other greatly and also one of them is married, and their friend and their spouse are both equally important to them

Martyr Characters. Characters whos heads are stuffed sick with the notion that they are the final solution, the sacrificial lamb, the one who must die to save everyone, restore balance to the universe. Characters who give and give and give of themselves because it's the only way they'll ever be worth anything, the only thing they'll ever be good for, the only way they'll be remembered. Characters who always push others out of the way, always take the hardest punch and the sharpest stab, always throwing themself wherever they know that their loved ones wont be harmed, always secretly hoping that this time will be the time they die, nobley protecting someone they care for, for then their death would mean heroic sacrifice.

i love hidden injury for the Angst, particularly implications about how the whumpee expects to be treated when they're ill or injured, but i'm coming around to characters divulging an injury or illness in a way that carries those same implications. launching straight into a counterargument against something their loved ones would never in a million years say. maybe it's habit. maybe they're triggered. maybe they rehearsed it. let it take a minute for "you don't have to do that here" to sink in.

Casting lightning magic alone in the parking lot

Cops are here.

Casting lightning magic alone in the parking lot

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