Whump

1.Stories where characters go through (a) physical or (b) emotional pain or distress.
2. A muffled dull thud sound
3. Make a whump sound
4. Strike someone/Something with a whump
1. "(a) The hero went through so much whump, I felt bruises in my body reading it"
"(b) The hero went through so much whump, I emptied the whole tissue box, and I only 5 pages!"
2. "I was sleeping in class after eating until my stomach full, and I woke up to a heavy whump sound"
3. "Ron threw a snowball into the air which whumped into my window"
4. "The teacher whumped me in my spine for saying 9+10 was 21"
by DictionaryDecimator July 7, 2024
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Space Whale Aesop

When a story has a moral or message that is either too simplistic for the complexity of the story or so strange that it doesn’t quite fit. The term is a writer slang and has nothing to do with Aesop becoming a space whale (boo!) other than it's derivation of name
Publisher: .. And what's the ending of the story?
Writer: Uhh.. the Octopus King donates it to an alien in Saturn who is very poor and owns a space pizzeria moral is "always donate to the poor".
Publisher: You made a total of 2874 wars and 78 billion universes destruct and a total of 420 trillion people die and the Octopus King to lose all his friends and family, be alienated by everyone, locked in a prison for 5 centuries, become blind and get the cold side removed from his pillow just for him to donate the treasure that could have made him the all-powerful universe ruler to an alien he has no relation with

Writer: Yessir
Publisher: that's such a Space Whale Aesop
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vsauce question

A Vsauce question is a question that questions reality, derived from popular and arguably the best YouTuber VSauce who commonly says it (Examples include: "Or is it?" "Or is he?" "Or was it?")
VSauce: The nuclear codes are with you, Mr President
President: Yes, yes
VSauce: OR IS IT?
President: OH NO ONE OF THE VSAUCE QUESTIONS!! WAIT WHERE IS IT!!!
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The ideology that states pillows should be manufactured without a cold side
"The essay was full of mistakes, but not as much as the Anti-schmimagtanimonstralequedepestrikilovoquiertuhghskiqiqiconologianism manifesto"
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White Room Syndrome

A lack of any detailed description in stories, novels or plays that leaves the setting vague and undefined.
Mortimer: "The novel's first chapter had such White Room Syndrome, I didn't know if Jim was in a store looking for a DVD of the Emoji Movie signed by Obama or voyaging through space for it"
(The above example is exaggerated for humor/humour)
Mortimer: " 'She ran inside the beautiful room, and waved to her friend in the room' This lacks any description about the room or her friend, therefore it has what we writers and readers call, White Room Syndrome"
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Heel-Face Turn

When a character who was previously an antagonist becomes a protagonist.
The villain's heel-face turn was so sudden, one minute he was plotting world domination, the next he was baking cookies for orphans."
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Canon Sue

A character in fan fiction (typically the author themselves) who is inserted into an existing universe and is unrealistically perfect. A fan-fiction version of Mary Sue: A term for a character who is unrealistically perfect without any flaws in (original) novels (Male of Mary Sue: Gary Stu)
"When she wrote herself into Harry Potter as the best witch ever, becoming the headmistress of Hogwarts while being a student, defeating Voldemort with itching powder and a single sponge, she created a canon sue."
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