I Wanna Make You Hurt

A Personal History in the Whump Fandom

Photo by Adam Birkett on Unsplash

I recently joined the Red Dwarf fandom — yes, I know that’s a weird sentence for an American to be writing in this, the year of our Lord two-thousand and twenty-three.

My wife grew up a massive fan of the series, and while I had more than one friend in high school who was mildly (or not so mildly) obsessed with it, I had never really…