Whumpex 2026 letter
May. 4th, 2026 01:30 amHello and welcome! Thanks for checking out my requests.
I'm open to treats in any medium, if you're so inclined.
I like my blorbos broken, bloodied, and sobbing.
I'm into whump for the physical violence and the helplessness of it all, and the more beat up a character is the happier I am.Grind him into the dirt until you think you can go no further, and then kick him in the ribs while he's down.
I like torture, severe injury, maiming, all the really fun gnarly stuff. I really like it when characters are brought to the brink of death, beg for death, think they're dying, or die and get brought back.
Permanent stuff like maiming and real death is also tons of fun in most cases, and if it's not for a specific character or prompt that'll be noted in the DNWs.
Whumpy noncon is another favourite. I'm into anything that physically brutalizes the character, and sex or sexual torture is one of many options on the table for that.
If you decide to go with rape as whump, I've got an itemized list of noncon likes here.
For the emotional side of things, I like stripping the woobie of hope and power.
I like both completely helpless woobies who never stood a chance against whatever got them, and strong or canny woobies who can easily hold their own but were defeated by something especially powerful or tricky and reduced to helplessness.
It can be fun to have glimmers of hope or tastes of reprieve or thwarted chances of escape to keep the whump hurting, and it can be equally fun to just completely strip blorbo of everything. And it doesn't need to be another character doing that to the woobie, gettin' whumped by a blizard and a random spike trap is just as fun as gettin' whumped by the big bad.
One of my favourite whump tropes is a rescue ending where the woobie is too out of it to realise it's a rescue. Either he's somehow convinced it's all a trick and the rescuer isn't really there (tons of fun with SFF mindscrew stuff), he doesn't recognise the rescuer or mistakes them his torturer, or he believes that the rescuer wouldn't actually help him.
I have a fondness for aggressor PoV, which I know is pretty unusual for whump. I enjoying seeing Blorbo suffer through the eyes of someone who enjoys making him suffer >:).
I also really like the standard whump victim PoV, of course. Who among us doesn't enjoy getting into blorbo own anguish as they experience it?
I like happy[ish] or hopeful endings as much as bad ends, but I don't want to focus on the recovery or aftermath, I'm here for the whump itself. I've only requested noncon and the graphic trifecta, so if you're reading this you get it :P