Nietzsche understands the Will to Whump:

“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart? But I mistrust your bitch [sensuality]. Your eyes are too cruel and you search lustfully for sufferers. Is it not merely your lust that has disguised itself and now calls itself pity?” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, “On Chastity”)

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.

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…)

Nietzsche understands the Will to Whump:

“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart? But I mistrust your bitch [sensuality]. Your eyes are too cruel and you search lustfully for sufferers. Is it not merely your lust that has disguised itself and now calls itself pity?” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, “On Chastity”)