I Hate How You Get Desensitized To The Cool Stuff In Your WIP If You've Been Writing It For A Long Time

Hold up wait this such a good concept this is being added to the list of Ideas That I'd Like To Write (but never do)

Entirely stupid Valgrace concept of Leo meeting Lupa again, chapter titled “my boyfriend’s family decides whether or not to eat me”

sorry I love this painfully mid media so much I could throw up

I've always wondered why I and so many others crave to see our favourite characters bloodied and beaten to near death, choking on vomit, collapsing to the floor in what may seem like senseless torture but may actually be some sort of coping mechanism, and I have thought of a few reasons.

You crave the vulnerability that comes with physical and/or mental trauma.

It's not the whump itself, but rather the comfort that comes after it. Fainting and waking up to worried faces, wet cloths and hushed whispers of a family that you yourself will never experience so you project it onto a fictional character. You just want to be seen and taken care of.

You're suffering from a physical/ mental illness and want some form of comfort or solidarity.

If you write, you revel in the control you have over another where you have no control in reality.

If you write, you're expressing your own inner pain through writing.

You want to feel something.

You're just horny in the sex-repulsed way and whump is your smut (?? What does this even mean)

You're just horny.

*(sighs morosely and stares out the window)* When will Valgrace Week 2025 prompts drop?

Caretaking prompts for when Whumpee trusts nobody except one person (Caretaker)? 🥺

oooh this is such a good trope.

Obviously, there’s always “make that one person unavailable to them so they have to make due with the others, making them scared and upset.” Caretakers who just have to keep reassuring a delirious whumpee who keeps forgetting that their trusted person isn’t there. 

Or, if you want a much darker version, whumpee forgetting that caretaker is dead and has been for some time. The team not having the heart to tell them that, so they just keep promising that caretaker is on their way just to get them to relax.

Caretaker finding out that whumpee is sick or hurt and rushing back as fast as they can knowing that whumpee isn’t going to be able to rest until they’re reunited.

Whumpee struggling to get up and not settling down until caretaker takes their hand and soothes them, which makes them instantly relax. 

If you want a little carewhumpee action: carewhumpee is sick or injured, too, but won’t stop and rest until whumpee is recovered, leading to them worsening their own condition. 

All emails are evil unless they’re AO3 comment notifs

I think I need to write some sort of piece about this. This is so profound

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

Me reading another person's writing: Oh they missed a period there, no worries mistakes happen :) Three adjectives in a sentence? Adverbs for days? No worries I love descriptions and this story is fire.

Me seeing the same thing in my work: Wow am I illiterate? Am I actually ok? Who the actual fuck told me I can write so I can go and curse their entire family for the time it took for me to carefully craft this GARBAGE.

“what’s your writing process” i put a pathetic guy in a blender and blend blend blend