(Whump Meta Archive) To Slay or Not to Slay: Why We Write ‘Get-em’ Stories — & Love ’em!

Editor’s Note: This is one of the earliest pieces of meta on the whump constellation of tropes, focusing on an angst/deathfic/whump subgenre known as “get-em”. It was written by Connie Faddis and Becca Oroukin and was originally published in Interphase #3 in 1976. We’re so excited to share it with our readers as the first