okay, so i’ve been wondering for a while but not sure who to ask: what is whump? and how is it different from sadism? use small, non-nietzche words.

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As far as I can tell – because the term seems to have been introduced sometime between my first experience with fandom in 2001-2006 and my re-entry into fandom in late 2015 – whump is fanfictional sadism. (Real-life sadism wouldn’t be called whump; that’s just sadism.) It’s fic that dwells on a character getting beaten up physically and emotionally. In effect, it’s torture porn.

I guess that would mean The Passion of the Christ qualifies as Jesus-whump, because all the reviews were describing it as torture porn, and it’s basically Bible fanfiction.

(P.S. if you have a problem with me using Nietzsche words, you might not enjoy my blog…)

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I jumped ship from Tumblr and this is where I landed. I'm a philosophy postdoc (INTJ, she/her) with a serious thing for Tom Hiddleston as Loki. Sometimes I even write fanfiction about it. Mostly Loki and Thor/Loki (sometimes NSFW), some miscellaneous Hiddles, MCU (Steve/Tony or "Superhusbands" is my secondary ship), occasional Cherik, Game of Thrones, LOTR, Whedonverse... whatever catches my fancy, really.

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