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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. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

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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How the Musical Identity is Missing in Marvel Films

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Character Flaws

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chapter 12 is like almost done, getting its last beta pass and hopefully be posted this weekend with the first and maybe second chapter rewrites.

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WHEN U SPOT A MISTAKE ON A DRAWING IMMEDIATELY AFTER POSTING IT

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Finn aka Big Deal

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concept: everything in civil war stays the same except hawkeye wearing this shirt

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Thanks for the advice, terrifying butterfly demon

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“He is so intelligent and yet so broken. He’s still selfish and vain, and arrogant and proud, but he’s also elegant and amusing, and he’s so full of charisma. That’s why I love playing him, there is an element of delight and joy at being bad.”

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some reminders for artists

it’s okay if you can’t speedpaint like the people on youtube do

it’s okay if it takes you longer than an hour to finish a piece

it’s okay if it takes you longer than a week to finish a piece

it’s okay if it takes you longer than a month to finish a piece

it’s okay to take however long you need to finish a piece

it’s okay to never finish a piece (unless someone commissioned u and u got money for it. then u need to pick it up, but communicating with the person you’re working with is always better than not! 9 times out of 10, they’ll be understanding)

it’s okay if your art gets 5 notes

it’s okay if your art gets 1 note

it’s okay if your art gets 0 notes

it’s okay if you paint on thousands of layers

it’s okay if you paint on one layer

it’s okay if it takes you hours on one part of the picture to get it to look right

it’s okay if you spend more time or less time on certain parts of the piece than on others

it’s okay if you draw lots of fanart

it’s okay if you draw just for fun

it’s okay to take breaks between drawings that last long, long times

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Reblog if you’ve ever read fan-fiction that actually set the bar higher.

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I think I spend more time on this than my actual thesis this summer.

Yeah so in my free time (that I apparently have too much of) I am writing a Loki/Sigyn fic and around chapter…7 I started to dislike the description for the Shielding Uniform. I decided before I get to rewriting I should probable draw it so I know exactly what I am thinking about.

Clear out the idea for I get kinda obsessed with details.

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by puppytrip

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What the hell is that?

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