Dispatches from the Whump Archives

by Ari One of my beloved pastimes is falling down wiki rabbit holes. TVTropes is an eternal favorite, Wookieepedia will sometimes do it for me, but in the past year I’ve been spending more time on Fanlore.org, an OTW-run wiki for cataloging 50+ years of fandom. Often, I start somewhere in the “whump” corner. I