bluehairedspidey

[bluehairedspidey]

Yay, unsolicited advice time! Or, not really advice, more like miscellaneous tips and tricks, because if there's one thing eight years of martial arts has equipped me to write, it's fight scenes.

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Fun things to add to a fight scene (hand to hand edition)

It's not uncommon for two people to kick at the same time and smack their shins together, or for one person to block a kick with their shin. This is called a shin lock and it HURTS like a BITCH. You can be limping for the rest of the fight if you do it hard enough.

If your character is mean and short, they can block kicks with the tip of their elbow, which hurts the other guy a lot more and them a lot less

Headbutts are a quick way to give yourself a concussion

If a character has had many concussions, they will be easier to knock out. This is called glass jaw.

Bad places to get hit that aren't the groin: solar plexus, liver, back of the head, side of the thigh (a lot of leg kicks aim for this because if it connects, your opponent will be limping)

Give your character a fighting style. It helps establish their personality and physicality. Are they a grappler? Do they prefer kicks or fighting up close? How well trained are they?

Your scalp bleeds a lot and this can get in your eyes, blinding you

If you get hit in the nose, your eyes water

Adrenaline's a hell of a drug. Most of the time, you're not going to know how badly you've been hurt until after the fact

Even with good technique, it's really easy to break toes and fingers

Blocking hurts, dodging doesn't

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Just thought these might be useful! If you want a more comprehensive guide or a weapons edition, feel free to ask. If you want, write how your characters fight in the comments!

Have a bitchin day <3

#writing

[bluehairedspidey]

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

[bluehairedspidey]

the circus was in town that day 🤡

[bluehairedspidey]

I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist

#mythbusters

[bluehairedspidey]

Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.

#film #JAN SVANKMAJER ON THE DASH LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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[bluehairedspidey]

Screw it,,,, Screamer Kabal

(I’m actually obsessed with Kabal it’s not funny anymore guyss😭😭)

#mk #KABAL #<33333

[bluehairedspidey]

horror movies arent scary. things like. emails. and schedules. those are scary

[bluehairedspidey]

911 operator who is also a redditor: i'm sorry but you should've noped the fuck out of there. play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[bluehairedspidey]

really? another album? didn't she just make one??

[bluehairedspidey]

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

[bluehairedspidey]

controversial but if you are going to give that man a happy trail, might as well give him some chest hair. some armpit hair. arm hair. leg hair

#PLEASE

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[bluehairedspidey]

since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

#ert #PLEASE #ive been wanting to write a gay cowboy and samurai story so bad #(i Do want them to be gay for each other tho) #(and i have a really cute idea for the cowboy's name)

[bluehairedspidey]

a stud in black leather on a black motorcycle just revved their engine at me and thank god I tore my demonic uterus out ages ago because I think that would have finally knocked me up

#queer #stories #the world is so beautiful ❤️

[bluehairedspidey]

#about me #LOST MEDIA HERE I COME #prev is pretty good too tho >> #None of These! I'm going to the future to look at a retropsective view of current art trends

[bluehairedspidey]

I just think it would be funny to switch things up and lead with "popular far-right online blogger, Joan Rowling" once in awhile.