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The Stargate: SG-1 fandom was the one that chose the word so you’d have to ask somebody there 🤷♀️ I have seen “whump!” used as an onomatopoeia for painful impacts in classic comics, so maybe they got it from that?
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☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ yup that’s pretty much it! People like Daniel getting hurt so much that the term “Danny Whumping” was coined and became so popular that the word whump is what it is now. I think other fandoms around that time (like the late 1990s) used it too but Danny Whumping was veeery popular.
i refuse to believe that fox mulder, extra terrestrial fanatic, would NOT have read doctor daniel jackson’s theory and paper on how aliens built the pyramids.
