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Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

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Anton, while the kambal were still kids: No senseless murder, ever, from now on. Say it after me

Basilio and Crispin:

Basilio and Crispin: Me it

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Trese Memes (1/?)

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*announcement of Trese Netflix show*

Normal brain: Yes! Finally, Filipino mythology will be known to a greater audience!

Monkey brain: Maliksi is gonna bring all the werehorse fuckers to the yard, isn’t he

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i watch this show for the plot

the plot:

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Wanna feel old?

This tikbalang

looks like this now

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me last night:

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In preparation for the upcoming Trese animated series being released on 11 June 2021 on Netflix

under the cut are the links to almost all the Trese Komiks/Stories that have been posted online by the creators for free:

These are all in order of release:

Trese Case 1: At the Intersection of Balete Drive and 13th Street. Sadly, the original print is not available online anymore and has not been physically reprinted either. So this link leads to the story with remastered artwork on Penlab.

Trese Case 2: Rules of the Race

Trese Case 3: Our Secret Constellation

Trese Case 4: The Tragic Case of Dr Burgos

Trese Case 5: A Little Known Murder in Studio 4

Trese Case 6: The Outpost on Kalayaan Street

Trese Case 7: The Embrace of the Unwanted

Trese Case 8: The Association Dues of Livewell Village

Which are the first two books of Trese. Sadly, the third is not online. I have a physical copy but I won't be scanning that and posting without the permission of the authors. Sorry about that.

If you don't mind skipping forward, these following stories are from Trese Book 4:

Trese: Cadena de Amor

Trese: Wanted Bedspacer

Trese: Fight of the Year

The following are prose stories compiled into Trese: Stories from the Diabolical

And some side stories from Precinto 13, the police dept that helps Trese. Sometimes they manage to get pulled into the shenanigans. They can never catch a break, these boys.

BONUS: Verdugo Takutan! a story about Alexandra Trese's oldest brother.

You can also find some extra stories and lore on the Trese Komiks blogspot.

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OKAY BUT I JUST GOOGLE TRESE AND IT LOOKS SO COOL??? AND IT'S ON NETFLIX?? HOLY FUCK

-silently adds to my ever growing watch later list-

ALLOW ME TO SHOW U SOMETHING EVEN COOLER:

on the boards: "SIYUDAD NAMIN ITO," "LAYAS"

translation: "THIS IS OUR CITY, "GO AWAY"

these are REAL billboards in the philippines, and they weren't...........vandalized before

.......they're afraid of her.

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I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT I STILL HAD TUMBLR HDKSJSJ

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@kaidasen is a murderer, hide your children yo oml

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iwaizumi really went into sports science to learn how to prevent injuries in athletics that could potentially ruin careers and it was probably bc of oikawa.......... goodbye

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Iwaizumi asking Ushijima to take a selfie with him just to piss off Oikawa is fucking hilarious.

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The Signs as Hinata Shouyo Ships

Aquarius: Hinayachi

Pisces: Aohina

Aries: Oihina

Taurus: Sugahina

Gemini: Yamahina

Cancer: Tsukkihina

Leo: Kurohina

Virgo: Kenhina

Libra: Ushihina

Scorpio: Kagehina

Sagittarius: Nishihina

Capricorn: Bokuhina

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Reblog if you say "fuck" more than 5 times a day.

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