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14 new followers???

why are you still here

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i am dead

idk if you people have noticed but this blog is dead

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idk if you people have noticed but this blog is dead

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//tap dances thoughtfully

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{send me a symbol for an au starter}

♆ mermaid au

❄ superhero au

❁ ghost au

✘ assassin au

☢ apocalypse au

ღ stripper au

☽ lycanthropy au

☑ hospital au

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Describing Pain

Properly describing pain can be difficult, considering that we tend to forget what various injuries actually feel like after they heal. This is a blessing, as no one really wants to remember the quality and severity of pain as if they’re re-experiencing it. However, it can be useful to know how to describe pain for writing purposes, as writers tend to enjoy mauling their poor characters.

There are various qualities and severities of pain. You can think of them as different flavors and textures of ice cream—ice cream comes in many flavors (chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, etc) and the texture may vary, depending upon the addition of things like nuts and fudge.

Qualities of pain include:

Sharp

Stabbing

Burning

Hot

Tearing—ripping or pulling apart

Searing—brief, intense heat

Crushing—pain feels “heavy”

Localized—the pain occurs in only one part of the body

Radiating—the pain spreads over other parts of the body

Severity of pain can range from mild to moderate to severe, and medical professionals often use a scale of 1-10 for adult patients, with, for example, 1 being a mild headache and 10 being the worst pain the patient has ever felt. Understanding the qualities and severities of pain are useful to diagnosis in the real world, and using them to describe what your characters are feeling adds realism.

Many disorders and injuries have pain that is very specific to them, and it would be wise to research the pain symptomatic of your character’s particular disorder or injury. For example, men having heart attacks commonly experience a crushing chest pain that radiates down the left arm, and appendicitis is often experienced as a sharp, stabbing pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen.

Pain is also very relative. Individuals may report different severities of pain for the same types of injuries. I’ve heard some patients after open heart surgery request as much pain medication as we can legally give them, while others only require a Tylenol.

How patients express feeling pain can be helpful for characterization. For example, a strong and stoic character might have a horrific injury, but only show that they are in pain by clenching their fists. On the other hand, a character unused to pain or injury may whine and grimace a lot about a papercut.

Some ways of expressing pain include:

Guarding—shielding the injured/painful area with hands or arms

Shouting or whispering

Clenched fists

Gritted or bared teeth

Light skinned characters may go pale or gray, while dark skinned characters may go gray or their lips may be purplish

Thousand yard stare

Facial grimacing or wincing

Moaning or crying

Limited range of motion

Decrease in appetite

Other things to consider include whether anything improves or worsens the pain (such as holding an injured limb immobile or flexing it, or elevating it), whether the pain is continuous or intermittent (meaning coming in waves or flashes), and symptoms associated with extreme pain, like nausea or vomiting.

I hope this has been helpful, and remember that the most important part of torturing your wretched characters is to have fun!

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I’m a million years late for Mizuki’s birthday so I just threw the peach prince on a bunch of peaches. I like his Morphine outfit a little bit more than his default (◡‿◡✿)

Click for larger version!

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30 Day Nitro+CHiRAL Challenge - Day 8: A character who you wish had a route

↳Mizuki - I feel like besides Tokino (I have other plans for him) this was the obvious answer. Better luck next time Mizuki, you will get in Aoba’s pants one day.

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Leave "Nightmare" in my askbox

And I’ll generator a nightmare my character has with yours in it. Numbers range between 1- 15.

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My character starts crying during sex, how does yours respond?

submitted by anonymous.

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とわ @ pixiv

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Random Sentence Memes (Sickness Edition)

"Have you seen you?" "You look terrible." "When was the last time you ate?" "Are you sure you can handle that on your own?" "Do I look sick to you?" "Ugh, I think I’m going to be sick." "Are you sure that was supposed to make me feel better?" "Since when do you have medical training?" "I refuse to accept that diagnosis." "You look perfectly fine to me." "I think you might be a hypochondriac." "Well maybe if you actually bothered to go see someone about it this wouldn’t keep happening." "We’re going to the hospital." "Are you afraid of needles?" "You need more blood or something." "Just try not to die, okay?"

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とわ @ pixiv

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いろいろ3 | SAGUA Please do not remove source

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secret boyfriends is having secret music sharing = 7 =