Whumptober: failed rescue attempt
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philomythaLoosely on the theme of failed rescue attempts, or at least rescue attempts that the rescuer believes to be a failure, a Looks Back missing scene for today's Whumptober.
No. 15: “You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts.”
Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture
( Looks Back ficlet, gen, 900 words )
No. 15: “You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts.”
Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture
( Looks Back ficlet, gen, 900 words )
Whumptober 2025 Day 13: Insignia
Oct. 13th, 2025 08:08 pmrosanicusNo 13: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished."
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement
Just a touch of King's Kittens angst, teetering on the edge of their demob.
( Copper & Trapper, 200 words )
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement
Just a touch of King's Kittens angst, teetering on the edge of their demob.
( Copper & Trapper, 200 words )
Movies!
Oct. 13th, 2025 09:21 amsholioI am traveling and sightseeing with helen_keeble and having a LOVELY time. I've also watched about as many movies in the last three days as I normally do in six months. It's been great! I figure I'll just write them up quickly here. The end of spoilers for each movie are marked, so you can pick and choose which to read about.
Thunderbolts - watched on the plane, really enjoyed it!
( Thunderbolts details and spoilers )
Kpop Demon Hunters - what fun, I can see why it's so popular!
( Kpop Demon Hunters details and spoilers )
We also rewatched the first two X-Men movies from the early 2000s. I don't think I've seen them since they first came out!
X-Men (original 2000 movie) - This held up really well.
( X-Men details and spoilers )
X2 - Most of it was a great time, but then the end happened.
( X2 details and spoilers )
helen_keeble and having a LOVELY time. I've also watched about as many movies in the last three days as I normally do in six months. It's been great! I figure I'll just write them up quickly here. The end of spoilers for each movie are marked, so you can pick and choose which to read about.Thunderbolts - watched on the plane, really enjoyed it!
( Thunderbolts details and spoilers )
Kpop Demon Hunters - what fun, I can see why it's so popular!
( Kpop Demon Hunters details and spoilers )
We also rewatched the first two X-Men movies from the early 2000s. I don't think I've seen them since they first came out!
X-Men (original 2000 movie) - This held up really well.
( X-Men details and spoilers )
X2 - Most of it was a great time, but then the end happened.
( X2 details and spoilers )
Whumptober 2025 Day 12: Sacred Place/"It'll be for nothing."
Oct. 12th, 2025 07:48 pmrosanicusNo 12: "It'll be for nothing."
Cardiac Arrest | Sacred Place | Withholding Medical Treatment
Struggled mightily today so here is a drabble about the saddest little man in the Jamesian canon, amateur archaeologist Paxton from A Warning to the Curious.
( Paxton, 100 words )
Cardiac Arrest | Sacred Place | Withholding Medical Treatment
Struggled mightily today so here is a drabble about the saddest little man in the Jamesian canon, amateur archaeologist Paxton from A Warning to the Curious.
( Paxton, 100 words )
Whumptober 2025 Day 11: Laceration
Oct. 11th, 2025 07:54 pmrosanicusNo 11: "Can you get through all the pain inside you?"
Hidden Injury | Laceration | Forced Reveal | Alt Prompt: Concussion
It's Ted Scott! He's a fantastic pilot! A fearless mailman! A bearer of plot armour so thick he could jump out of a space shuttle and land with barely a scratch! And today I gave him a concussion <3
This is a sort of alt-canon for an early scene in Flying Against Time, the NINTH Ted Scott book. God. There's too many of them.
( Ted Scott & Walter Hapworth, 1047 words )
Hidden Injury | Laceration | Forced Reveal | Alt Prompt: Concussion
It's Ted Scott! He's a fantastic pilot! A fearless mailman! A bearer of plot armour so thick he could jump out of a space shuttle and land with barely a scratch! And today I gave him a concussion <3
This is a sort of alt-canon for an early scene in Flying Against Time, the NINTH Ted Scott book. God. There's too many of them.
( Ted Scott & Walter Hapworth, 1047 words )
Whumptober: there's nothing you can do, nothing you can say
Oct. 10th, 2025 11:31 pmphilomythaThis one is part of the Marie/Erich married-with-children AU I wrote last year for FIAB. And I apologise for doing this, but the trouble is I wrote the story in the wrong order and this was part of it in my head before I wrote the scene where Leo was born. So now it's extra horrible, but here it is.
( double drabble, WW2 and child death warning )
( double drabble, WW2 and child death warning )
Whumptober 2025 Day 10: Secrets
Oct. 10th, 2025 07:19 pmrosanicusNo 10: "There's nothing you can ever say, nothing you can ever do."
Without Consent | Lips Sewn Shut | Secrets
So in the Steeley book Murder by Air there's a side character called Helene who is [SPOILERS] almost immediately supposed (by Steeley) to be a man crossdressing as a disguise. However, within the canon of the book there's plenty of opportunities for Helene/Constantino to pull back the curtain and return to dressing in a socially expected way, and they don't! So I have adopted the headcanon that Helene/Constantino is exploring some transgender feelings, which is the point of this fic.
( Helene, 743 words )
Without Consent | Lips Sewn Shut | Secrets
So in the Steeley book Murder by Air there's a side character called Helene who is [SPOILERS] almost immediately supposed (by Steeley) to be a man crossdressing as a disguise. However, within the canon of the book there's plenty of opportunities for Helene/Constantino to pull back the curtain and return to dressing in a socially expected way, and they don't! So I have adopted the headcanon that Helene/Constantino is exploring some transgender feelings, which is the point of this fic.
( Helene, 743 words )
Whumptober 2025 Day 9: Touch
Oct. 9th, 2025 07:39 pmrosanicusNo 9: "We'll make it alright to come undone."
Touch | Flashbacks | Scalding
Thanks to Tweague I've developed a Max Carrados interest! This is based on the episode of the Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and its featured physical affection between Carrados and Greatorex, but I have also been reading the short stories from the beginning and enjoying the Max Carrados ride while it lasts (there's not quite as much canon for this as Biggles, lmao).
( Max Carrados, 632 words )
Touch | Flashbacks | Scalding
Thanks to Tweague I've developed a Max Carrados interest! This is based on the episode of the Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and its featured physical affection between Carrados and Greatorex, but I have also been reading the short stories from the beginning and enjoying the Max Carrados ride while it lasts (there's not quite as much canon for this as Biggles, lmao).
( Max Carrados, 632 words )
Whumptober 2025 Day 8: Self-Inflicted Injury
Oct. 8th, 2025 07:56 pmrosanicusNo 8: "Oh horror, oh horror, what did you see?"
Self-Inflicted Injury | Held at Gunpoint | Dissociation
Last year Sholio wrote this great fic which includes a mention of Biggles self-harming during WW1 and since then the concept has lived in my hindbrain like a crouching little gremlin. Obvious warning for self-harm in this one!
( Biggles, 266 words )
Self-Inflicted Injury | Held at Gunpoint | Dissociation
Last year Sholio wrote this great fic which includes a mention of Biggles self-harming during WW1 and since then the concept has lived in my hindbrain like a crouching little gremlin. Obvious warning for self-harm in this one!
( Biggles, 266 words )
Amperslash, and new B5 fic
Oct. 8th, 2025 12:03 amsholioI have a bare-bones signup in for amperslashexchange, which I will try to add to over the next few days! Fandom selections are unsurprising.
Completely unrelated to that or Whumptober, I posted something new for Babylon 5 over on AO3 just now: Balance in Duty, a slightly canon-divergent missing scene for 5x06 "Strange Relations," in which I lean into the episode's completely averted presumed-dead potential.
amperslashexchange, which I will try to add to over the next few days! Fandom selections are unsurprising.Completely unrelated to that or Whumptober, I posted something new for Babylon 5 over on AO3 just now: Balance in Duty, a slightly canon-divergent missing scene for 5x06 "Strange Relations," in which I lean into the episode's completely averted presumed-dead potential.
Whumptober Day 5: Dream Journal | Phobia
Oct. 7th, 2025 07:28 pmsholioNo. 5: “My panic’s at the ceiling, but I’m face down on the carpet.”
Quivering | Dream Journal | Phobia
Babylon 5, post-canon, Londo, gen (700 wds)
This is the one I was having trouble with a few days ago. Set in some kind of nebulous fixit universe.
( 700 wds under the cut )
Quivering | Dream Journal | Phobia
Babylon 5, post-canon, Londo, gen (700 wds)
This is the one I was having trouble with a few days ago. Set in some kind of nebulous fixit universe.
( 700 wds under the cut )
Whumptober 2025 Day 7: Trapped with the Enemy
Oct. 7th, 2025 07:38 pmrosanicusNo 7: "Tell me that you're okay, and I'm fine."
Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point
It's.............. the Daemon AU! I struggled mightily with the prompts today, then I thought, hey, Foreign Legionnaire exists, and then I subsequently thought, I miss my silly daemon OCs.
( Daemon AU, 389 words )
Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point
It's.............. the Daemon AU! I struggled mightily with the prompts today, then I thought, hey, Foreign Legionnaire exists, and then I subsequently thought, I miss my silly daemon OCs.
( Daemon AU, 389 words )
Whumptober Day 7: Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator (Biggles)
Oct. 6th, 2025 11:23 pmsholioContinuing to use the Whumptober prompts basically as general prompts ... (I already wrote Algy & EvS in an elevator a while back for a different prompt fest.)
No. 7: “Tell me that you’re okay, and I’m fine.”
Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point
Biggles & EvS, 1950s era, gen (570 wds)
( 570 wds of elevators under the cut )
No. 7: “Tell me that you’re okay, and I’m fine.”
Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point
Biggles & EvS, 1950s era, gen (570 wds)
( 570 wds of elevators under the cut )
Dear Amperslash Creator
Oct. 5th, 2025 06:02 pmsholioThank you so much for creating something for me! I'm excited to receive any of these fandoms, and I love these characters so much, I know I'll love whatever you make.
General likes: hurt/comfort, forced proximity (one bed/tent/hotel room/escape pod, etc), plotty fic, domestic fluff, angst with a hopeful ending, enemies to friends or lovers, banter, prickly bonding.
Amperslash likes: complicated relationships, characters being incredibly significant to each other even when there is no formal description of the relationship they have, emotional and physical intimacy (including things like emotion-sharing, psychic bonds), smarmy h/c, characters who aren't formally in a relationship doing relationship-type things (comfort cuddling or comfort sex, sharing domestic living arrangements or other hallmarks of being together), sex/cuddle pollen, being undercover as a couple, brief flings/friends (or enemies) with benefits, kissing, traumatized characters seeking out more than the usual amounts of physical touch or not wanting to be separated from each other; generally ambiguous closeness of any sort.
DNWs (do not want) are in the individual fandom sections.
Individual fandoms
( Babylon 5 )
( Biggles books )
( Murderbot (TV) )
General likes: hurt/comfort, forced proximity (one bed/tent/hotel room/escape pod, etc), plotty fic, domestic fluff, angst with a hopeful ending, enemies to friends or lovers, banter, prickly bonding.
Amperslash likes: complicated relationships, characters being incredibly significant to each other even when there is no formal description of the relationship they have, emotional and physical intimacy (including things like emotion-sharing, psychic bonds), smarmy h/c, characters who aren't formally in a relationship doing relationship-type things (comfort cuddling or comfort sex, sharing domestic living arrangements or other hallmarks of being together), sex/cuddle pollen, being undercover as a couple, brief flings/friends (or enemies) with benefits, kissing, traumatized characters seeking out more than the usual amounts of physical touch or not wanting to be separated from each other; generally ambiguous closeness of any sort.
DNWs (do not want) are in the individual fandom sections.
Individual fandoms
( Babylon 5 )
( Biggles books )
( Murderbot (TV) )
Fic: Lime Jello and Other Dangers
Oct. 6th, 2025 10:34 pmphilomythaI started this earlier in the year, inspired by the 'stabbed and pinned to the wall' tag in the h/c exchange, and also by watching MASH and thinking that if someone was impaled to the wall in a serious way they would need some really good trauma surgeons really quickly. It's been sitting around unfinished for a while, but today's whumptober prompt is also 'pinned to the wall', and so I have taken the hint and finally written an ending for it and posted it. Whumptober seems to be doing well for getting me to finish longer things that I haven't quite had the impetus to get done, long may it continue.
Title: Lime Jello and Other Dangers
Content: impalement, blood and gore, h/c, MASH crossover, canon-typical relationship dynamics, whatever the h/c equivalent of PWP is, not medically accurate, 7800 words
Summary: Von Stalhein is seriously injured. Biggles won't leave him. Algy knows a guy who runs a field hospital. And Hawkeye just wants more sleep.
( Lime Jello and Other Dangers )
Title: Lime Jello and Other Dangers
Content: impalement, blood and gore, h/c, MASH crossover, canon-typical relationship dynamics, whatever the h/c equivalent of PWP is, not medically accurate, 7800 words
Summary: Von Stalhein is seriously injured. Biggles won't leave him. Algy knows a guy who runs a field hospital. And Hawkeye just wants more sleep.
( Lime Jello and Other Dangers )