whump staples:

• eating disorders
• past rape/non-con
• rape aftermath/recovery
• (sex as) self-harm
• sexual dysfunction

misc. dynamics:

• age gap
• codependency
• dollification, dehumanization
• (extreme) underage
• hero worship
• mentor/protégé
• older man/younger man
• older man/younger woman
• sibling incest
• teacher/student
• total power exchange

horror-adjacent:

• body horror
• cults
• insects, parasites
• psychological horror
• religious imagery & symbolism
• time loop
• unreliable narrator

violence-adjacent:

• amputation
• branding
• cannibalism
• cigarette burns
• corpse desecration
• domestic violence
• gunplay
• murder kink/fantasies
• necrophilia
• porn addiction, extreme porn
• scarification
• snuff films
• serial killers

consent issues:

• bad bdsm etiquette
• coercion
• drugging
• fuck or die (in the rape by proxy way)
• hazing
• rape fantasies
• transactional sex