Whumptober, 2020

[kateoftheangels]

Borrowed from thisbluespirit: it's October, which in fannish terms means it is time for our favourites to endure all kinds of suffering in service of writerly ids and the wider narrative tropes fandom likes.

In short, it's time for the Whumptober multifandom writing challenge! Favourite fictional characters, be very afraid.

The prompt table:



The alternate prompt table:



The collection on AO3 - - where there are already an astonishing 800+ stories already posted. Now, that's a treasure trove of whump.

Comments

[sailorkitty]

This is tempting! 'shot' seems very fitting for certain fandoms

[kateoftheangels]

Well, being tempting is the point to these prompt tables. I do have an Enemy at the Door draft that fits a couple of these prompts (I am currently looking at Day 7: Enemy to Caretaker, and Day 11's Psych 101, and I am always at home to stoic whumpees and nightmares!). You should play as well, if your schedule permits.

[thisbluespirit]

XD

Hee, good luck!!

[kateoftheangels]

Thanks, I will likely need it!

(You were right about Alfie's Night of the Tanks - it is indeed on DVD. No JM though, alas!)

[thisbluespirit]

That version seems to have disappeared; I'm sure someone actually released it in a different edition, but now I can't find it.

(I noticed when I was looking that IMDB claims that only 14 eps out of 128 are missing, most likely the earliest seasons, so my JM odds are good, if anyone will ever let them out of the archive.)

[kateoftheangels]

Mm, I wasn't really going to rush out to buy it, but it does appear to be no longer available. Perhaps they only printed limited numbers? In any case, I wonder if it would be any good letting Network know there's interest in particular episodes? There's an existing run of this collection that includes Alfie, at any rate, so they wouldn't even need to go hunting in the archives for his.

[thisbluespirit]

No, it's still awaiting a release date, but I'm sure it came out under a different name, I just forgot to take note when somebody linked it. You'll see it has no rating and a release date of 2099!!

[kateoftheangels]

Hmpf, you're right. Well, this isn't satisfactory, why would they do this? I will consider writing in!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, tell them that you can't wait 79 years to see it!!