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treehuggerthegreat · 3 days
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ugh less philosophical writer and more of a fucked up metaphorical body horror poet right now
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treehuggerthegreat · 21 days
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disturb me, update me, tell me how was your day, I really like your life, I like your notifications
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treehuggerthegreat · 21 days
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the switch from spring break philosopher mindset to silly teenage girl preparing for prom this weekend is giving me severe whiplash…
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treehuggerthegreat · 22 days
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ermmm actually ya mama…
whump inspiration/writing exercise
(A fictional writing exercise, this is NOT a vent post. This is me messing with my ocs)
TW: In depth description of depressive thoughts self doubt, domestic abuse, and passive suicidal ideation
I have friends now, I told myself once I had friends they’d be able to help me. I could get away or at least feel a little happier, but they can’t help. I can’t even ask them for help. Would they even care? What if I end up scaring away the one girl who has ever seen me. Why won’t anyone help me. Am I even worth saving? Is it even worth saving me if i can’t save myself?
I want to leave. I want to move out. But i can’t, can I? She could just… leave. But she doesn’t. She could leave me here with grandma. Yet she continues to suffocate me. There’s not enough from for me here anymore. What does she want?
Why does she hate me so much?
what did I
ever
do
to
deserve
this
Do I deserve this?
What if i just
let her
kill
me
Would any of my friends miss me?
But why would a friend miss a girl
when her own mother hated her enough
To
To kill her
would she really do that?
Would she kill me?
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treehuggerthegreat · 24 days
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whump inspiration/writing exercise
(A fictional writing exercise, this is NOT a vent post. This is me messing with my ocs)
TW: In depth description of depressive thoughts self doubt, domestic abuse, and passive suicidal ideation
I have friends now, I told myself once I had friends they’d be able to help me. I could get away or at least feel a little happier, but they can’t help. I can’t even ask them for help. Would they even care? What if I end up scaring away the one girl who has ever seen me. Why won’t anyone help me. Am I even worth saving? Is it even worth saving me if i can’t save myself?
I want to leave. I want to move out. But i can’t, can I? She could just… leave. But she doesn’t. She could leave me here with grandma. Yet she continues to suffocate me. There’s not enough from for me here anymore. What does she want?
Why does she hate me so much?
what did I
ever
do
to
deserve
this
Do I deserve this?
What if i just
let her
kill
me
Would any of my friends miss me?
But why would a friend miss a girl
when her own mother hated her enough
To
To kill her
would she really do that?
Would she kill me?
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treehuggerthegreat · 24 days
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Oh my gosh. I totally agree 😭 I’ve never envisioned it like that but honestly I love your way of putting it.
If I may mess around with this metaphor a little, I have a few ideas for going further in depth on the ecosystem comparison. I find it could be quite versatile in what you can apply it as well.
Everything in an ecosystem plays a part, just by existing in it. Beneficial or not, every plant, animal and insect are interacting with each other. And in a community, whether we like it or not, we will be doing that exact thing. A community will never be 100% full of positive conversations and pleasant people, but being able to hear and listen to someone who could have a fundamentally different opinion and view than your own makes it run so much more smoothly. Sharing my own opinions on here has always been quite scary (especially if it’s quite different or expresses negative feelings to something that’s common placed), but being able to have friendly discussions like this in communities is something I can admire in anyone. If we aren’t willing to interact with people and things different than us then we can function properly as an ecosystem.
One thing my brain immediately leaped to apply this to, is someone’s own work and creations. Which is a little less poetic than yours, but more so of a different way to approach writing and creating in general. An ecosystem needs so many different living organisms in it to operate. Only having carp in your pond means an unbalanced environment. Without algae, frogs, bass, and other organisms for it to feed on or feed they can’t survive. Which is good to apply to the kind of things one writes. Whether it be diversity in character dynamics, tropes, and atmospheres, all of them are important to challenge and grow one’s skills.
Regardless though, being able to work in tandem as an ecosystem is an important skill in any sort of environment or situation. I really love your point, so I apologize if i went a little overboard 😭 I really love discussing these sort of things with someone who’s willing to share!!! ALL of my posts are open to ANYONE to respond with their OWN opinion. I look forward to more conversations with you!
something i really need to get off my chest even if i just post this privately is That i really dislike ‘caretakers’ in whump writing. or ‘whumper’ i feel like it makes a character (even if they’re just a hypothetical one) feel very 1 dimensional and it makes me so OKAY JUST HEAR ME OUT!!! whumpee i don’t mind much, it makes the prompt or what your talking about a little clearer. But it feels like it’s putting it into a box and making sort of roles which makes it feel less like a prompt and more like we’re in an omega verse fandom and i mean this really lovingly and affectionately and no hate to any of yall. I have a vast amount of characters and i write stories and books and I can say with out a shadow of a doubt, not ONE of them fall under ‘whumper’ or ‘caretaker’ because i develop them as their own individual character. Not even my antagonist are ‘whumpers’
So one of my main antagonists literally burns cigarettes on the MC and abuses the MC. Tries to kill her on her 18th birthday. Shes her mom, and the main character PHYSICALLY cannot leave that situation with out getting the authorities involved until she turns 18. Mom sounds like an ass, she beats ‘whumpee’ up! why would i NEVER call her a whumper? because she’s a whumpee by that logic. Her mom was extremely emotionally abusive, and half the time not fully there. Her shitty ass dad got murdered in front of her when she was just a kid. but Her mom isn’t a whumper either, because she too would be considered a whumpee. She was a world renowned flapper girl, everyone loved her. she LIVED for the fame and her face in newspapers. But behind the scenes she was actively ignoring her distant parents as they continued to try and marry her off. She was then forced into the marriage when she got pregnant with the guy (much so against her will which is why she killed him.) and ever since she’s been delusional and not fully there. It’s generational abuse.
more ramble under the cut + extra clarification on what I’m trying to say
okay but that’s just generational abuse right? There are other whumpers in the real world! Yeah i guess there’s sadists and serial killers, but like, there’s SOOOO much more guys.
I have a mini antagonist, he’s in highschool and he’s meant to be the toxic narcissistic ex of one of my characters. But he’s falling apart trying to get attention, he’s not fully aware of the damage he IS doing. Ass he may be but again behind the scenes he’s constantly fighting with his dad who refuses to do anything around the house and who is also transphobic (she’s bigender but i’ve been using he to make it less confusing right now) and now she has to take care of her little sister and act like a whole ass mom. As a sophomore. In high school. Not only that but her mom died, so she has to struggle with that. She’s just an annoying ass teenager, she doesn’t understand how to treat people or how she’s supposed to be handling what she’s dealing with. But getting attention and being liked at school? now that’s the shit. That’s like drugs for her. But to what lengths does she go to get that extra validation? He uses his boyfriend almost like an accessory. He’s not considerate of his feelings, and most likely doesn’t understand what a relationship is SUPPOSED to be.
Unless you’re making a sociopath character, which i LOVE a good sociopath character, you have to treat them like they also have humanity. Most of the time villains don’t just. Do shit to do it, they have some sort of background that lead up to this!!! And also even then with sociopaths they’re their own individual characters separate from the people they hurt!!! and also NONE of these are end all be alls and all characters must be developed this way!!!!
just my advice and stuff <3 i love all of you out there and i can understand why using certain roles and terms are the go to, and i’m not stopping you!!! i just really wanted to give my two cents so i can possibly help other writers!!!
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treehuggerthegreat · 25 days
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if i had a super power id be Adhd mastery because if i had control over my hypficafions and my attention span I think i could cure cancer maybe. That’s probably not what’s id do though. I think id completely artificially recreate a human, specifically by their thoughts. Which is significantly more evil and malicious so let’s go with cure for cancer.
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treehuggerthegreat · 25 days
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A love letter to those who create
I ramble half incoherently on here for the hope that someone comes across my posts and thinks ‘wow they’re off their rockers but holy shit they have a point’ and something in them changes just a little. I know one post isn’t going to change anyone’s life or perspective. Which is WHY i post so much. Maybe I don’t get on some random person’s dashboard more than once. But a few writers or people out there read my posts, and regardless of whether or not it stood out to them, it changed them. Just a little, and that’s enough for me. I hope one day by writing so much, I change a lot of people, and hopefully at least a few i change by a lot. It’s not a question of can I do something that would completely change the industry or genre of books, its can I help people with stuff i’ve struggled on. It’s can I be that one post someone thinks about while writing occasional, thinking back to MY advice. Even if i have no idea what I’m doing for most other things. I know I can write something new and quite different with time and motivation, but in the meantime, I can share my thoughts and ideas as I go through them. Even if they change. Because I love creativity and creating and most of all. Creators. I love you all, and i love being one.
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treehuggerthegreat · 25 days
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Ugh. I love the trope of a character living with a dead body in plain sight but isn’t mentally able to recognize it. Whether they be too young or they are so far gone that they can’t, it’s so. Horrific. Like the moment you REALIZE that there’s a dead body of a loved one just. Sitting there. And they’ve been living their life without missing a beat as it rots in the living room. Bonus points if they acknowledge it but as someone or something else. Like oh that’s not my dead aunt, she’s alive silly! Or oh aunties been sleeping.
They’re so out of it that someone literally DYING (especially when they played an important role in the characters life) that they don’t even notice. It doesn’t even concern them. They are SO wrapped up in they’re delusions and hallucinations (for the mentally deteriorating or disturbed trope) that the smell of a rotting body that only CONTINUES to smell worse doesn’t even hinder them enough to be concerned. To them everything is just fine and peachy. They don’t realize their mom slipped and broke her neck, and it’s not even they that they don’t or wouldn’t care, it could plausibly be that they aren’t CAPABLE of realizing this person is dead. they don’t want to. their mind completely reworks their reality so that she’s very much alive but sleeping, or on a trip somewhere. Or just literally hallucinates conversations with them. Ugh this one is just my personal favorite but.
Pr when a character is so young they don’t KNOW what death is or WHY their mom hasn’t gotten up in weeks, even months. They don’t understand why the house continues to smell worse and worse. They’re forced into taking care of themselves, to being their own adult while this person who was supposed to take care of them ‘sleeps’. I don’t like this one as much as the hallucinations one, because with this one the situation is less malleable and more specific. But it’s still so good. It means that the person who was taking care of them made them feel like they were supposed to do it themselves. They’re too scared to try and wake mom or even if they did try when it doesn’t work, they still don’t get someone else. It could either mean neglect, or oversheltering. It’s just them and mommy. The character either doesn’t trust other people or doesn’t even ASK them because how could they help? It’s just them and mommy. But mommy’s sleeping, so they have to be good so when she wakes up she’s rested and is proud! And on the flip side, the character could be scared and maybe doesn’t want their parental figure to wake up because then that means they get punished or maybe they have friends over or the parental figure just isn’t fun to be around. Loud, obnoxious, or maybe negative and constantly drunk, or maybe the kid doesn’t NOTICE they haven’t gotten up. They’re so independent at such a young age that they can get to school, they can get their own food, and when the food runs out that’s when they get a little concerned. But they’re still young. They don’t know how to long term problem solve or how to QUESTION what’s going on around them. The smell? just avoid it. The food? try to ration or get food from friends and school.
my favorite part is REALIZING that the character goes their daily life around something so horrible and rotting. You could probably tell something was off. Whether with the kid they were quiet or antisocial, maybe a little weird, or with the hallucinations character, you could tell they are a little off their rockers. You never EVER thought it was actually this bad. A dead body? Rotting? for weeks? how does someone let this happen? This poor person. This poor kid. Reality either something they avoid, or has become to make no sense. Reality is what the kid has been told. They were never told what death is or what to do.
It hurts so much more when it’s a character you’ve WATCHED become this way. You’ve seen them interact with their late loved ones before. You’ve seen them socialize somewhat functionally. You know who they actually are and you KNOW how much they cared for this person. But something happens. Or maybe nothing did. But they just grew more and more reclusive. As their mental state deteriorates, so did their living friendships. And the less and less people talked to them, the less and less they bothered to attach themselves to reality or anyone who really was. Then you finally get to see inside their mind, their house, and hope it’s not the worst case scenario. But as you turn the corner into a room or a stairway, you see. You see that it’s so so much more worse than you could have EVER thought. and i lostmy train of thoug
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treehuggerthegreat · 27 days
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‘a wise man learns from his own mistakes, but a wiser one learns from others’ is such an interesting saying to me. Because what really defines learning? Because ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink’. I can tell you how I failed somewhere all I want but telling you MY mistakes aren’t going to keep you from making mine. So would ‘give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but teach a man to fish he eats for the rest of his life.’ be another way of doing it? Instead of pointing out what I did so you shouldn’t do it, would telling you how I do it now, a way that ACTUALLY works the right way? But then you wouldn’t learn, so you’re still not learning from any mistakes because you know HOW to avoid them but you don’t know WHY you’re doing it in that particular way. So then should i explain exactly step by step of how i over came the problem? But i’ve already lost half of my audience by now and half of those that are still here probably don’t understand what the fuck i’m saying.
so, can you learn from someone else’s mistake without EXPERIENCING it? ‘They say experience is the best teacher’ Would maybe be what i’m getting at. Because by making the mistake and overcoming it, you’ve gained not only a solution to what you’ve overcome but you’ve gained general skills on how to approach things similar to it and your problem solving skills have grown ten fold. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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treehuggerthegreat · 28 days
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Yeah i completely understand! I think the fact that caretaker Is a role just gets to me sometimes, because with Whumpee it's referring to who is the subject of angst and Whumper is referring to is a source or influence of the angst, although i don't particularly like the term whumper either :(
Just my own opinion! No hate or any sort of shade being thrown Its just the terms themselves that get to me😭
something i really need to get off my chest even if i just post this privately is That i really dislike ‘caretakers’ in whump writing. or ‘whumper’ i feel like it makes a character (even if they’re just a hypothetical one) feel very 1 dimensional and it makes me so OKAY JUST HEAR ME OUT!!! whumpee i don’t mind much, it makes the prompt or what your talking about a little clearer. But it feels like it’s putting it into a box and making sort of roles which makes it feel less like a prompt and more like we’re in an omega verse fandom and i mean this really lovingly and affectionately and no hate to any of yall. I have a vast amount of characters and i write stories and books and I can say with out a shadow of a doubt, not ONE of them fall under ‘whumper’ or ‘caretaker’ because i develop them as their own individual character. Not even my antagonist are ‘whumpers’
So one of my main antagonists literally burns cigarettes on the MC and abuses the MC. Tries to kill her on her 18th birthday. Shes her mom, and the main character PHYSICALLY cannot leave that situation with out getting the authorities involved until she turns 18. Mom sounds like an ass, she beats ‘whumpee’ up! why would i NEVER call her a whumper? because she’s a whumpee by that logic. Her mom was extremely emotionally abusive, and half the time not fully there. Her shitty ass dad got murdered in front of her when she was just a kid. but Her mom isn’t a whumper either, because she too would be considered a whumpee. She was a world renowned flapper girl, everyone loved her. she LIVED for the fame and her face in newspapers. But behind the scenes she was actively ignoring her distant parents as they continued to try and marry her off. She was then forced into the marriage when she got pregnant with the guy (much so against her will which is why she killed him.) and ever since she’s been delusional and not fully there. It’s generational abuse.
more ramble under the cut + extra clarification on what I’m trying to say
okay but that’s just generational abuse right? There are other whumpers in the real world! Yeah i guess there’s sadists and serial killers, but like, there’s SOOOO much more guys.
I have a mini antagonist, he’s in highschool and he’s meant to be the toxic narcissistic ex of one of my characters. But he’s falling apart trying to get attention, he’s not fully aware of the damage he IS doing. Ass he may be but again behind the scenes he’s constantly fighting with his dad who refuses to do anything around the house and who is also transphobic (she’s bigender but i’ve been using he to make it less confusing right now) and now she has to take care of her little sister and act like a whole ass mom. As a sophomore. In high school. Not only that but her mom died, so she has to struggle with that. She’s just an annoying ass teenager, she doesn’t understand how to treat people or how she’s supposed to be handling what she’s dealing with. But getting attention and being liked at school? now that’s the shit. That’s like drugs for her. But to what lengths does she go to get that extra validation? He uses his boyfriend almost like an accessory. He’s not considerate of his feelings, and most likely doesn’t understand what a relationship is SUPPOSED to be.
Unless you’re making a sociopath character, which i LOVE a good sociopath character, you have to treat them like they also have humanity. Most of the time villains don’t just. Do shit to do it, they have some sort of background that lead up to this!!! And also even then with sociopaths they’re their own individual characters separate from the people they hurt!!! and also NONE of these are end all be alls and all characters must be developed this way!!!!
just my advice and stuff <3 i love all of you out there and i can understand why using certain roles and terms are the go to, and i’m not stopping you!!! i just really wanted to give my two cents so i can possibly help other writers!!!
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treehuggerthegreat · 29 days
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something i really need to get off my chest even if i just post this privately is That i really dislike ‘caretakers’ in whump writing. or ‘whumper’ i feel like it makes a character (even if they’re just a hypothetical one) feel very 1 dimensional and it makes me so OKAY JUST HEAR ME OUT!!! whumpee i don’t mind much, it makes the prompt or what your talking about a little clearer. But it feels like it’s putting it into a box and making sort of roles which makes it feel less like a prompt and more like we’re in an omega verse fandom and i mean this really lovingly and affectionately and no hate to any of yall. I have a vast amount of characters and i write stories and books and I can say with out a shadow of a doubt, not ONE of them fall under ‘whumper’ or ‘caretaker’ because i develop them as their own individual character. Not even my antagonist are ‘whumpers’
So one of my main antagonists literally burns cigarettes on the MC and abuses the MC. Tries to kill her on her 18th birthday. Shes her mom, and the main character PHYSICALLY cannot leave that situation with out getting the authorities involved until she turns 18. Mom sounds like an ass, she beats ‘whumpee’ up! why would i NEVER call her a whumper? because she’s a whumpee by that logic. Her mom was extremely emotionally abusive, and half the time not fully there. Her shitty ass dad got murdered in front of her when she was just a kid. but Her mom isn’t a whumper either, because she too would be considered a whumpee. She was a world renowned flapper girl, everyone loved her. she LIVED for the fame and her face in newspapers. But behind the scenes she was actively ignoring her distant parents as they continued to try and marry her off. She was then forced into the marriage when she got pregnant with the guy (much so against her will which is why she killed him.) and ever since she’s been delusional and not fully there. It’s generational abuse.
more ramble under the cut + extra clarification on what I’m trying to say
okay but that’s just generational abuse right? There are other whumpers in the real world! Yeah i guess there’s sadists and serial killers, but like, there’s SOOOO much more guys.
I have a mini antagonist, he’s in highschool and he’s meant to be the toxic narcissistic ex of one of my characters. But he’s falling apart trying to get attention, he’s not fully aware of the damage he IS doing. Ass he may be but again behind the scenes he’s constantly fighting with his dad who refuses to do anything around the house and who is also transphobic (she’s bigender but i’ve been using he to make it less confusing right now) and now she has to take care of her little sister and act like a whole ass mom. As a sophomore. In high school. Not only that but her mom died, so she has to struggle with that. She’s just an annoying ass teenager, she doesn’t understand how to treat people or how she’s supposed to be handling what she’s dealing with. But getting attention and being liked at school? now that’s the shit. That’s like drugs for her. But to what lengths does she go to get that extra validation? He uses his boyfriend almost like an accessory. He’s not considerate of his feelings, and most likely doesn’t understand what a relationship is SUPPOSED to be.
Unless you’re making a sociopath character, which i LOVE a good sociopath character, you have to treat them like they also have humanity. Most of the time villains don’t just. Do shit to do it, they have some sort of background that lead up to this!!! And also even then with sociopaths they’re their own individual characters separate from the people they hurt!!! and also NONE of these are end all be alls and all characters must be developed this way!!!!
just my advice and stuff <3 i love all of you out there and i can understand why using certain roles and terms are the go to, and i’m not stopping you!!! i just really wanted to give my two cents so i can possibly help other writers!!!
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treehuggerthegreat · 29 days
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Whumpee with savior complex x whumpee with communication issues
the people around them aren’t capable of taking care of whumpee1, but whumpee1 has to see them struggling to get by constantly. They can’t help the adults around them nor would the adults let whumpee1- so they find themselves looking to comfort their peers. Whumpee2 is very obviously struggling, but no matter how close whumpee1 gets to whumpee2 they don’t want to talk about it. Whumpee2 can’t stand the thought of being viewed as broken let alone being put back together, and whumpee1 just wants to fix everything.
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treehuggerthegreat · 1 month
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we seriously need to bring back the concept of “despite its flaws i still enjoy it” instead of ‘cancelling’ every fuckin thing in sight 
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treehuggerthegreat · 1 month
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this is a good example of the nightmares
forever haunting actions whump
nightmares of what they did or ‘crimes’ they committed or nightmares related to it
going above and beyond in avoiding and worrying about making the same mistake again to the point it’s detrimental to friendships or functioning in general
Refusal to talk about it to anyone even if they know what happened or was there
Completely locking up the memory but random things will remind them of it and they have a severe reaction- even if it’s not a loud or physical outburst. (ex. they could be disassociating and it wouldn’t be noticeable or noteworthy to strangers or people that don’t know them well)
apologizing about anything they do similar to it even if it’s just a small detail
when confronted they just space out or just respond with one word sorrys and ‘i know’
^^ bonus points if person talking to them about it takes this as them not caring at all and that they don’t regret the action (i LOVEE miscommunication)
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treehuggerthegreat · 1 month
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forever haunting actions whump
nightmares of what they did or ‘crimes’ they committed or nightmares related to it
going above and beyond in avoiding and worrying about making the same mistake again to the point it’s detrimental to friendships or functioning in general
Refusal to talk about it to anyone even if they know what happened or was there
Completely locking up the memory but random things will remind them of it and they have a severe reaction- even if it’s not a loud or physical outburst. (ex. they could be disassociating and it wouldn’t be noticeable or noteworthy to strangers or people that don’t know them well)
apologizing about anything they do similar to it even if it’s just a small detail
when confronted they just space out or just respond with one word sorrys and ‘i know’
^^ bonus points if person talking to them about it takes this as them not caring at all and that they don’t regret the action (i LOVEE miscommunication)
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treehuggerthegreat · 1 month
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guitar strings. hmmm
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