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10 Non-Lethal Injuries to Add Pain to Your Writing

New Part: 10 Lethal Injury Ideas

If you need a simple way to make your characters feel pain, here are some ideas: 

1. Sprained Ankle

A common injury that can severely limit mobility. This is useful because your characters will have to experience a mild struggle and adapt their plans to their new lack of mobiliy. Perfect to add tension to a chase scene.

2. Rib Contusion

A painful bruise on the ribs can make breathing difficult, helping you sneak in those ragged wheezes during a fight scene. Could also be used for something sport-related! It's impactful enough to leave a lingering pain but not enough to hinder their overall movement.

3. Concussions

This common brain injury can lead to confusion, dizziness, and mood swings, affecting a character’s judgment heavily. It can also cause mild amnesia.

I enjoy using concussions when you need another character to subtly take over the fight/scene, it's an easy way to switch POVs. You could also use it if you need a 'cute' recovery moment with A and B.

4. Fractured Finger

A broken finger can complicate tasks that require fine motor skills. This would be perfect for characters like artists, writers, etc. Or, a fighter who brushes it off as nothing till they try to throw a punch and are hit with pain.

5. Road Rash

Road rash is an abrasion caused by friction. Aka scraping skin. The raw, painful sting resulting from a fall can be a quick but effective way to add pain to your writing. Tip: it's great if you need a mild injury for a child.

6. Shoulder Dislocation

This injury can be excruciating and often leads to an inability to use one arm, forcing characters to confront their limitations while adding urgency to their situation. Good for torture scenes.

7. Deep Laceration

A deep laceration is a cut that requires stitches. As someone who got stitches as a kid, they really aren't that bad! A 2-3 inch wound (in length) provides just enough pain and blood to add that dramatic flair to your writing while not severely deterring your character.

This is also a great wound to look back on since it often scars. Note: the deeper and wider the cut the worse your character's condition. Don't give them a 5 inch deep gash and call that mild.

8. Burns

Whether from fire, chemicals, or hot surfaces, burns can cause intense suffering and lingering trauma. Like the previous injury, the lasting physical and emotional trauma of a burn is a great wound for characters to look back on.

If you want to explore writing burns, read here.

9. Pulled Muscle

This can create ongoing pain and restrict movement, offering a window to force your character to lean on another. Note: I personally use muscle related injuries when I want to focus more on the pain and sprains to focus on a lack of mobility.

10. Tendonitis

Inflammation of a tendon can cause chronic pain and limit a character's ability to perform tasks they usually take for granted. When exploring tendonitis make sure you research well as this can easily turn into a more severe injury.

This is a quick, brief list of ideas to provide writers inspiration. Since it is a shorter blog, I have not covered the injuries in detail. This is inspiration, not a thorough guide. Happy writing! :)

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(you will not be thought bad of @dsabian , i also wish them stealth but i also wish they were more obvious. my neurodivergent brain is stretching. but also i wish my brain to work. so. There are two wolves and all that.)

(and thank you for the ‘never piss this lot off’. means a lot :D /gen)

Case File 081: The Unmasking of the Aussie Anon

(Catalogue by Det. C. DoesThings)

Case Description:

On July 12th, 2024, 0108 (AEST), CygnusDoesThings received a message from an anonymous asker, claiming that they were Australian. CygnusDoesThings then proceeded to try to figure out the identity of this Australian Anon- often shortened to Aussie Anon.

From there, multiple people have joined the case as we have investigated.

This is a long post. You have been warned. It may be a little overwhelming. I will reblog this post with status updates.

Investigators:

@cygnusdoesthings (Codename: Cyg or Cygnus) as Lead Detective

@igotthisaccountunderduress (Codename: Iggy or Rosie) as Assistant Detective

@quotidian-oblivion (Codename: Quo or Quotidian) as Lead Investigator, Organizer, and Catering

Involved Suspects and Identities:

@brb-on-a-quest (Codename: Birb) as scribe,

@walkthruthewords (Codename unknown) as Birb's Mutual (Adjacent Role: Lawyer)

@gracefulchristiangirl (Codename: Gracie) as informant.

Jury Members (If you wish to not be involved, feel free to message me and let me know!)

@auroraofthesun1 (Codename: Aurora)

@book-girl4eva (Codename: Bea)

@thomasstaples (Codename: Thomas)

@myfairkatiecat (Codename: Katie)

Suspects Ruled Out (or not): (unless proven guilty)

Katadastical (Australian, Cyg's Mutual) (i think i got a message from her or smth, not her)

MispeltNostoglia (Australian, Cyg's Mutual) (Lack of Activity)

Iggy (Being Canadian) (And this)

foursixtwonineoh-pieces-of-lego (Evie) (Fitting Criteria)

ah0yh0y (Fitting Criteria) (Denial)

ko1e (Mutual, Australian) (Hasn't done Anything on Tumblr. Like. At All)

its-stairs-time (Stairs) (Aussie Quo Mutual) (Unlikely)

the-echos-error (Echo) (Aussie Quo Mutual) (Unlikely)

foineswoine (Pigeon) (Aussie Quo Mutual) (Unlikely)

godsenther (hasn't responded lmao)

brb-on-a-quest (Birb) (Still a Major Player) (but unlikely to be culprit)

gracefulchristiangirl (Gracie) (Still a major player)

Assistants: N/A.

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Anon Asks so Far

Original. The catalyst. If you want to see how this all happened, this is a good place to start.

Unrelated (Anon 2). Thank you for the well-wishes.

Mysterious Anon Maybe That I'm Just Realising Probably Was The Red Herring. Birb sent a reblog that outlined that we missed a red herring. My theory is that we missed this.

Anon Mentioning The Involvement of Gracie. This is... Incredibly suspicious. Gracie has inserted herself into this case (btw i totally do not mind, we have fun here), and has brought to our attention.. several other suspects.

Gracie In Disguise (Evidence: here)

Matching Fish Posting: Birb, Quo, Cyg, Walking. Fishy Anon is not innocent; but also not necessarily Aussie Anon. We need to find out who they are. (I'm pretty sure it's Gracie.)

Informant, possible code anon. Focusing on the capital letters. Code yet to be deciphered.

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Suspects:

Birb. Sent by someone to give us a red herring. Who sent (i dont know what your pronouns are) Birb? They at least have possibly connections to whoever sent the message, and we would love to know who did, under what circumstances, and, most of all, how to contact them.

walkthruthewords. A mootal lawyer. Is kept in the loop, but seems.. suspicious. Met with cooperation, but passed the blame to Gracie.

Gracie. Possible ally. Will need to interrogate further regarding fishy anon asks and the ask about who she tagged. But.. very suspicious. Multiple people involved with the Innocence Ask have pointed to her, as well as the Fish Ask itself.

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Current Process of Investigation (outlined by Quotidian):

interrogating birb about the details of the red herring

investigating the mutuals who are most likely to find cyg's post (since cyg posts occasionally, the moot would have to meet them through me, so it is possible that birb's moot might also be one of my moots, that'll be easier as a process of elimination)

Go through the notes of each of the unmasking posts and see who interacted and interrogate them

Try and lure kindly convince the anon to send another ask to one of us

Beg the Aussie anon to give us a hint

Drop to our knees and surrender ourselves to the nimbleness and cleverness of the Aussie anon

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> Detective Thread 1.

Last Updated: 14th of July, 2024, 2:11pm AEST, by Det. C. DoesThings.

(Thanks for joining the fun. If you want to clarify things, I'm CygnusDoesThings on most platforms, but Discord is the easiest way to reach me.)

CLASSIFIED ADDENDUM FOR CYGNUS (ONLY!)

Birb is a mutual of Quotidian. Could possibly have sent the message. None of us know what the hell we’re doing.

It could be Quotidian. Once she is comfortable, ask for evidence that it was not her. Be warned: she is good with technology and editing.

Gracie has seen the original post and joined. Unlikely to be her, and her jury cases were probably not the original asker, as they were brought in, but they do have the potential to be any askers after the Red Herring.

Evie was online before. Possible false denial, but mostly uninvolved in this case. Ahoy, similarly seemingly uninterested.

Private suspects from Cygnus: Rest on Quo. But I.. do not think she is it. I… I do hope that it isn’t. It would be… disappointing.

And my gut tells me that none of these people I’ve added are the Aussie Anon. Too little too late. None of the new ones are, at least, as they’ve been roped in. But maybe they have information.

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where the fuck did you all come from

I tag ONE post undertale yellow fanart

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hi nerds

Undertale yellow has come into my life so take 3 of the seven doodles that is basically “Clover Eats Inedible Things”

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Bruce is that type of parent who yells at their child in front of the principal, but once in the car, turns to said child and goes “did you win? … good, let’s get some ice cream, she seemed like a bitch anyway.”

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I like cats 

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Altogether:

@quotidian-oblivion hey hey get o'er here goober

Chapter 18:

They stayed that way for a while. His breathing and heartbeat had gone back to normal ages ago and his tears had stopped too. But he didn't want to move. He wanted to stay that way, with his head on Jason's chest, his arms around his waist while Jason's arms were wrapped around his back and head. Tim was curled into the cocoon made by a circle with Jason's legs, and Jason only seemed too happy to curl over him. So he soaked in the touch like a sponge.

Tim finally opened his eyes and saw that they were still sitting on the pavement.

"Do you want to get up now?" Jason asked quietly, his voice softly rumbling through his chest.

Tim didn't answer. He knew that they had to go now. Jason's phone was dead and his was probably too, so Bruce and Dick had no way of knowing where they were. But it just felt so nice…

He still didn't answer Jason's question until he finished counting 60 mississipis. Jason was quiet and patient throughout. "Yes," he finally said.

He didn't break away from the hug. He didn't want to. It seemed that Jason didn't want to either because he was still holding onto Tim as they slowly stood up. He shifted slightly, so that one arm was draped over his shoulders and the other arm was still clutching his head to his chest. Tim still didn't remove his arms from Jason's middle. He held on tighter.

They slowly started walking to the manor. It wasn't too much of a walk now, only 10 minutes. "I kept all the too many legged creatures away when we were down," Jason said quietly.

Tim smiled, "Thank you."

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So. This is.. uh.. how long? Hold on let me check.

26 days late, or if you're looking at when the chapter was posted, 18 days late, but hey, it's here.

Quotidian has been an absolute joy to interact with, a very awesome friend and an beautiful co-writer with many ideas to accompany both of us.

She's very very cool, overworks herself a bit too much, but yeah, we're doing things! So. Quo <333

I'll be honest when I messaged Quo on Tumblr I just wanted to interact with her but I needed a reason so I panicked and just said 'fanart!!!!!'

So here it is :clownlaugh:

Love ya /plat

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as someone who can talk about nothing for hours at a time I could make a crack fic abt this

Jason: see this is why Tim’s my favorite

Dick: what?

Tim: yeah what?

Jason: come on it’s pretty obvious

Tim: no you’ve tried to kill me like a lot

Jason: everyone tries to kill you.

Tim: yeah but still-

Jason: come on we hang out. Like last week

Tim: we were kidnapped together that doesn’t count.

Dick: okay if he’s your favorite what’s his middle name?

Jason: I don’t-

Dick: see, he can’t be your favorite.

Jason: okay smart ass, what’s Damian’s middle name?

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and then Jason hurts Tim accidentally and shot happens

Damian: Breathe, just breathe. Tim, being the literal CEO of Wayne Enterprises: I’ve done nothing with my life! I’m a failure! Jason: Awww, that never bothered you before.

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in this theoretical situation, which would definitely not be a theoretical theoretical for a writing theoretical, tim would also fall asleep in said grip and then subsequently awaken to hear Jason shouting at Bruce on the phone

tim : Hostage or not, it's nice being held

red hood :

red hood : Are you okay..?