Citations:whump

Noun: "(fandom slang) a genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering"

 * 2012, Monna Mette Maria Pesonen, "Introduction To The Terminology Of Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Eastern Finland, page 66:
 * An H/C, or hurt and comfort, a genre about one character being injured and being comforted and taken care of by another character, could be confused with whump, a genre that also involves a character being injured, but which focuses more on the injury and less on the healing process.
 * 2013, Alexandra Herzog, "The Power of 'AH, E/B, Very OOC': Agency in Fanfiction Jargon", Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, Volume 14, Number 1 (2013), pages 6-7:
 * When a sequence of fanspeak terminology like “A collection of Dean!hurts. Ch 11: A little bit of Dean!whump with a side of Frustrated!Sam” (Enkidu07) constitutes the whole summary of a story—i.e. the sole textual stimulus to potential readers—, it becomes immediately obvious how ingrained the use of jargon is within fandom and to which extent is has replaced standard language.
 * 2014, Joseph Brennan, "'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 17, Number 4 (2014), page 365:
 * By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.
 * 2014, Joseph Brennan, "Not 'from my hot little ovaries': how slash manips pierce reductive assumptions", Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Volume 28, Number 2 (2014), page 260:
 * To illustrate this critique of cultural assumptions of intent, I analyse work of mythagowood, who, by embracing dark genres of slash such as squick and whump, purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.
 * 2014, Alexandra Herzog, "'We, the Fans': Power in the Democratic Archive of Fanfiction", dissertation submitted to the University of Regensburg, page 153:
 * Aside from the potential case of whump, i.e. stories in which "physical or emotional pain is heaped on a favourite character, often repeatedly and brutally [...] for the sheer pleasure of seeing the whumpee battered and brused" (Moonbeam)
 * 2017, Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 188:
 * The hurting of a character may also be referred to as "Whump."
 * 2017, Elizabeth R. Edwards, "Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosociality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to York University/Ryserson University, page 67:
 * Bacon-Smith also noted that types of hurt-comfort typically fell into five categories: "get-'em" which has more emphasis on the pain and less on the comfort, which is now usually referred to as "whump,"
 * 2017, Valeria Franceschi, Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers, page 81:
 * Whump indicates stories in which a character suffers physical and emotional abuse,
 * 2017, Katie Wolters, "Why We Need Femslash", thesis submitted to the University of Leiden, page 19:
 * The term 'whumping' (or whump) is a specific form of H/C that amplifies the hurt aspect.
 * 2018, Naja Later, "Quality Television (TV) Eats Itself: The TV-Auteur and the Promoted Fanboy", Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Volume 35, Number 6 (2018), page 540:
 * Narrative devices shared by Hannibal and fanfiction include “whump,” the vivid abuse and torture of a character, a popular convention across certain types of fanfiction: Graham is knocked out, shot, stabbed, gutted, sawed open, and subjected to induced seizures.
 * 2019, Adrienne E. Raw, "Normalizing Disability: Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction", Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, April 2019, pages 202-203:
 * However, further research with a larger sample and encompassing more fandoms would be necessary to confirm this potential explanation of this trend and to explore the impact of other factors, such as assigning characters a physical and/or mental disability or illness for the purpose of whump or hurt/comfort stories.