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Nov(emeto)ber Rescheduled Prompt List (February 2024)

Daily prompts typed out below for February, 2024!  You can also find them on the Prompt Page.  If anyone has trouble with visibility please let me know! You can find the Rules Page here.

I highly encourage everyone to check out the linked posts for additional inspiration! However, please also note that you are more than welcome to interpret the prompt separate from the inspiration post.

Sharing a receptacle (submission by @nerdlycharming)

Can’t stop puking

Bad news = bad stomach @angstyaches

Messy @jurassicsickfics

Undesirable caretaker (submission by @danafeelingsick): the sickie dislikes or has a grudge against their caretaker, but needs their help anyway.

Post-adrenaline puking @someonesgrossblog

Too feverish to think

Choose: Loud or silent

Persistent sickness

Ill with an audience @darthhopereblogs

Totally drained/exhausted

Group sickfic

Professionalism failure @fevers-and-emeto-oh-my and @sickficideas

Can’t keep anything down

Free day!

Waking up puking

Sick for the first time

Unfamiliar surroundings

Sick in more ways than one

Late caretaker @feelingpoorly

Sleepy sickie @fluffyllamas-23

Out of character / Visibly Ill @feelingpoorly

Subtle support @emphasis-on-the-comfort

Panic @danafeelingsick

Cranky sickie @angstyaches

Nonverbal illness indicators @emphasis-on-the-comfort and @jurassicsickfics

Head pain/injury/ache @syncope-syndrome

Chaotic body temperature

Fake “Faking it:" Sickie is playing up their illness at first, or faking it all together, until suddenly they're not. Optional "I told you I didn't feel good" dialogue.

Alternative Prompts

If any of the assigned daily prompts don’t work for you, feel free to substitute with the following:

Motion sick

Sick during transit

Unconventional receptacle

Torture (literal or figurative)

Shaky/shivery

Note: If I’ve tagged you here, it’s because I think you’re brilliant and used your content as inspiration, so I wanted to give you credit. If you’d rather I don’t include your @, a link to your post, or the associated prompt altogether, please do let me know and I will remove it no questions asked! And if I missed anyone, please let me know as well so I can fix that.

#i'm so late to seeing this but i'm so honored to be on here as inspiration? #i don't do emeto content much so i won't participate myself but i'm flattered immensely thank you #will tag this so i can look at the other posts later #whump prompts #emeto tw

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Sorry for the unexplained absence there, I became a Whumpee myself and got ridiculously sick with a sinus infection for the past two weeks. But, we're back.

#*shakes maracas* #i've got a story i'm working on in the background for a while now and then i have finesse stuff to work on #i'll be honest i'm struggling a bit conceptually with finesse or what exactly i want to do with my ocs #i think it's because i'm using very old ocs i never really fleshed out and want ocs just for the blog #even though mentally i have a set of ocs i'm currently fixated on and it's not these #so it's like “i should flesh out my finesse ocs but also... my roleplay ocs” #but anyway i'll figure it out #right now i need to finish that prompt for snail :3

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Every time I see something implying that a moderately robust exclusion-based filtering system means that you are able to avoid seeing anything you don't want to see (with a heavy implication of 'so stop complaining about what you see') all I can think is "this person doesn't understand people."

#hot topics #this is why i feel like certain tropes in mainstream YA/NA/the “booktok” scene are the way they are #sorry for the random rant into books but i've been following YA for ages bc i genuinely want to write it #but that's my beef with the “bad boy” boyfriend trope #there's a difference between “hey i know this LI has shitty traits that's the point” and #“this boyfriend has the same traits but omg isn't he soooo romantic?” #the former is going to tag for those triggering/red flag traits and the latter won't #even if both boyfriends read the same #tagging is unfortunately just extremely individual and depends on your perspective of your own work #which is why i wish more people would really know what they're writing about #and own up to what they're writing about #but that comes with its own caveat of “yeah i want this author to be honest about their writing” #“but to them this IS honest and this is the intent and i just have to sit with the cognitive dissonance” #anyway sorry for the rant but this is just a very fascinating thing to think about #intent versus perception

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HI I'M DOING INCREDIBLY JANKY PSYCH RESEARCH ON TUMBLR WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

basically i'm doing a paper and trying to really dissect and understand the experience of having and coping with depression. while i've thought about this, i've sort of been extrapolating off my own experiences, but i just realized i have no idea if anyone other than me has had this experience:

do you ever feel depressed emotionally and physically, but not cognitively and like, morale-wise? like you have no energy, and are really sad, and nothing seems interesting or can hold your attention, and you're just kind of a lump who wants to curl up in a ball under a desk somewhere and melt into the floor.

but at the same time, you're not like,,, deeply existential or mentally spiraling or having self-hating thoughts about it. like your internal monologue isn't depressed, too. somewhere in the back of your mind, you're sitting there like "hey, man, i know it's rough right now. just hang in there, okay?" maybe your brain produces the thought "what's the point?" and you go "dude. no. there are so many points. don't talk like that."

i'm sort of imagining an army that's been losing a war but still has high morale, if that helps at all. like you're not winning. you're not okay. but in a sense, some part of you is okay, because you still have hope. in short:

i couldn't have as much specificity/put as many options as i would have liked so please feel free to elaborate in the notes/tags if you want, but i know it's personal so no pressure. also don't worry about if you're Officially Diagnosed or not—if you have a reasonably strong suspicion, go with it for this.

THANK YOU EVERYONE ILY!!

#polls #i have persistent depressive disorder and mdd so that “low energy” state is... my default #i'm always kind of like that #also for now i only have anxiety/double depression/adhd but #i need to get tested for other things that are sounding quite a bit like psychosis #so take that as you will op

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Not being into pet/torture whump is my Atlas's boulder.

#a heavy burden to carry... #really it's just that for torture whump i can't really get into it much unless i know what the stakes are #like why is this person being tortured and what is the context #and pet whump is just... squick territory #but so many whump prompts revolve around both concepts #and to cover my tracks in case someone reads these tags and gets all in their feelings #this is simply my Opinion #i'm not Censoring You #Relax #it's just not my thing and i'm expressing so on My blog #it feels pretentious to assume someone's going to get mad but #i've been a tumblr and twitter veteran even if you have 2 followers someone will find a way

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I am going to make a few polls about whump stuff. I am bored

#accidentally misclicked but: no #you don't need a whumper #you don't “need” any element except for some kind of whump #and arguably i prefer content that doesn't have whumpers #so much whumper-incl content is torture and pet related and i'm frankly not into either so #whump community

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PARALLELS PARALLELS PARALLELS

PARALLELS PARALLELS PARALLELS

#linked universe #linked universe wild #linked universe twilight #linked universe legend #someone put in the replies “gone redhaired girlfriend whose name starts with M” i'm ill #i'm ILL

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what do you mean that word doesnt exist mr dictionary. its in my head its real. what do you mean no results. im going to start gnawing my computer screen

#admittingly is a word #fuck you dictionary

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Genuine question: do any writers have a personal discord just for their writing? Obviously because of the character limit actually writing in the Discord isn't super feasible but things like references, links, photos, notes, etc.

#writeblr #whumpblr #i feel like tagging discord is going to cause problems but like #genuinely curious because i'm about to make one but idk how to lay it out for myself

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I have a question for the Zelda LU fandom people

In most LU posts and fics I come across,

Why is Legend sour and grouchy? Like he’s sarcastic and curses a lot. He seems hot headed and annoyed?

I’m just curious because I’ve played Link to the Past, the oracle games, and Links Awakening.; and he wasn’t like that…?

I thought he was very sweet. Especially when going through Link’s Awakening. He seems like a guy that’s been through a lot and I’d think he’d be one of the most humble?

To my normal followers, I’m just really passionate about LoZ sorry 😅

#linked universe #linked universe legend #this is such a good question because i've been wondering that too #for a lot of them actually #like why is time considered the leader or the old man #the bulk of his adventuring was done when he was like... 10 #and yes he's a shade in twilight princess but surely sky should be considered the “old” man right? #unless it's just about how they act and who's most responsible #idk #i just got here i don't know much

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Me: Yeah, I don't think I'm going to really do fandom whump unless requested... I'm just not that into fandoms anymore and want to curate my own space.

Linked Universe: Hi.

Me, shoving that sentiment aside immediately: Hi!

#i just discovered this like 30 minutes ago and i'm obsessed #linked universe #whump community #only really tagging to say hi i want in? #let me try and read up on more stuff though it's been a little bit

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It makes me kind of sad when people use "#shut up ___" as their personal text posts tag like... you don't need to shut up, that's the point, don't silence yourself in your own space.

#i know it's a joke but it just makes me :c anyway #especially because so many of us come from places or situations that silenced us #reclaim your voice!

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Gotta love low stakes, domestic whump.

Whumpees who aren't deathly sick, but just really uncomfortable and trying to work through it. They’re trying so hard to hold back their coughs that they’re left in tears from the effort. They’re slumped over their desk, too exhausted to sit upright. Caretaker all but drags them away from their work, ignoring Whumpee’s whining and bundling them up on the couch. Whumpee’s snoring within 10 minutes. 

Whumpee’s who are left out in the sun for hours…because they fell asleep on the beach. And it just so happens that, lo and behold, Whumpee didn’t put on sunscreen despite Caretaker reminding them to several times. Whumpee’s wines of pain are the only thing making Caretaker swallow the ‘I told you so’ that Whumpee has coming.

Whumpee’s who are terrified of an upcoming medical procedure. Not because it’s an invasive, dangerous surgery, but because getting your wisdom teeth removed is embarrassing. Caretaker keeps reassuring them that yes, they're willing to drive Whumpee home, and no, they won't record Whumpee while they're out of it, even if they do say something funny. Caretaker keeps that promise, even if they can’t stop the amused, fond smile at Whumpee’s disoriented babbling. 

I love the hardcore whump sure, but I can’t deny my love for low stakes and gentle comforts.

#whump prompts #yeah! #i love high stakes stuff but low stakes is good too #it's about balance

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Someone recently asked me about the difference between whump and angst, so I figured I’d make up a little diagram about them and where they overlap. Maybe it will be helpful!

#whump community #oh this is nice actually #thank you OP

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a genuine question since I’ve seen this being debated a lot

feel free to give your reasons / thoughts on this but please also remember to respect other people’s opinions

#it's super uncomfortable to me #i bring this up any time it's discussed but please go watch dan from dan and phil's coming out video #cause he talks about how badly that stuff affected him and i'm not even a fan and i was livid for him #keep the headcanons and assumptions and wild theories to fictional characters like it's so invasive #you'd hate it if it was being done to you

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Being in the #whump community bingo! How many do you get?

Full list of squares:

first whumperflies stories

“they have all of my issues lmao”

favourite trope version #3547

everyone knows I love whump vs. nobody can know

posted as screenshots on pinterest

posts that are one line but hit just right

tag games that take 5 hours to scroll past

beloved mutual going feral in the notes

found your new best friend via niche tropes

discussions on improving diversity

“dead. i’m dead. this killed me.”

extremely nuanced, developed characters called A and B

bad things happen bingo never completed

fighting the morality police

fanfic about the character with 0.3 seconds of screentime

ao3 links for the really saucy stuff

“bestie you forgot your readmore” “OH NO”

prioritising fun

one of your OCs is called Sam

sharing irl experiences to inspire each other

gifsets of shows you’ve never heard of

twelve reblogs deep in the au with the mutual

picking the trope to fall asleep thinking about

making a whumpee for your friend’s whumper and vice versa

blacklisting a tag your mutual loves but supporting them anyway

crack posts and shitposting about agony

anonymous asks for the most fucked up tropes <3

monthly challenges for almost every month

realism has no power here

an arcane but extremely detailed tagging system OR nothing

that one trope you will always reblog

misspelling it ‘whimper’

everyone from the discord server knows the plot twist

whumpee who gets every disease

intro post with 200 notes

watching the show from all those gifsets

#whump community #oh this is so fun #but now i want to make an oc named sam LMAO

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is it a universal knowledge that “—” in a dialogue sentence means the character stutters but immediately speaks the next word without a pause while “…” means the character trails off with a small pause before continuing their sentence, or is it something my brain makes up for some reason and I’ve been applying it to everything I read and write on AO3?

#this is exactly how i use both #also “...” in front of the sentence means they look like they're about to speak but don't quite yet #i think that last one may be unique to me though