What Does This Mean?
A fandom genre and trope centered on a character experiencing significant physical or emotional suffering, sometimes with no 'comfort' payoff at all, distinguishing it from pure hurt/comfort, and often enjoyed for its own sake by readers and writers.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The whump blog posted a whole thread just for the caretaker aftermath scene, no comfort included."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coinage is contested: it is most commonly credited to Stargate SG-1 fandom, where FanFiction.net user 'OXBastedXO' coined 'Danny whumping' in the early 2000s, but there is a competing claim it was used as early as 1996 in the Earth 2 fandom, predating SG-1. The underlying practice, though not the word, traces back to 1970s Star Trek 'get 'em' fic. The popular 'onomatopoeia for being hit' etymology is a plausible folk etymology, not a confirmed origin.
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