Crash by Envy

It had been a long week.  Stress of her classes combined with the upcoming court case had led to sleepless nights staring at the ceiling and it didn’t help that every time she closed her eyes she saw the car crashing into the convenience store, over and over again like a stuck reel. She just

Bloodied, Broken, and Bridal-Carried by Lynn

The concept of putting characters through peril and pain has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. Back when my friends and I explored fantastical worlds in our games of “play pretend”, I was the one to suggest scenes of our characters getting hurt by the bad guys and having to be patched

Interview: Box Boy Universe

Content Warnings: Discussion of/allusions to (and one depiction of) institutionalized whump/slavery, claustrophobia. Editor’s note: The Box Boy universe popped into existence late in 2019 and quickly gained steam in the whump side of Tumblr. While I fully admit that most of the BBU tropes are, in fact, my squicks, I’m fascinated by the phenomenon of

Community History: Whumptober

by Ari, your editor, who has a poor grasp on time and forgot that Issue #3 coincided with Whumptober until the last day in September, then set out to correct that oversight herself. As this issue goes live we’re wrapping up the whumpiest part of the year: Whumptober. Whumptober has been a staple of the

So, You Wanna Write Mind Control Whump?

by June Editor’s Note: this article was first published by June on Tumblr. It was perfect for Wince, I thought, and so I dropped June a line to ask if we could publish it. They agreed, on the condition of adding an addendum.  Mind control might be one of my favorite kinds of whump, both

More than Just a Game by Lynn

This article contains spoilers for the following video games:  Detroit: Become Human, Until Dawn, Baldur’s Gate 2 (major!), Thief: The Dark Project (major!), Fallout 3 (major for ending), Bioshock Infinite (major for Burial at Sea), Outlast (major for ending) and Metro Exodus (major for ending) The spoiler-heavy passages are hidden, please read at your own

Best Whump of 2020

We all know that 2020 had a lot of, shall we say, rough patches. It was also, all things considered, a pretty good year for whump. (What better to help you get through those rough patches, right?) We asked you to nominate your favorite whump published in the past year(ish) — original, fandom, derivative work,

Head on Down to Your Local Whumpapedia!

Tired of consuming the same old whump over and over again? The lack of new whump content from your favorite shows got you down? Well, stop what you’re doing right now and pay attention, because your days of searching desperately for new whump content are over.   Introducing: The Whumpapedia! Created in 2017 by several members

Wince Magazine: Issue #4

This is it, dear readers: it’s been one year since we got Wince off the ground! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who’s submitted fiction, read articles reblogged calls for submissions, and left us helpful feedback. We wouldn’t be here without you. After a year of running Wince as a quarterly magazine, we’ve

Whump as a Genre

Hello. I’m Aramis-Deadshot on Tumblr, Deadshot Musketeer on AO3, and SpaceCowboy on fanfiction.net. And I’ve been a follower and writer of whump for many years, possibly over two decades. Nexus Point, my first original scifi action/adventure novel, is coming soon to all book retailers. My pen name for the Time Ranger series is K. Pimpinella,