#just saw this in a show and ughhhh why do writers not look up anatomy

[sanguith]

!!(Needle mention warning ahead if that bothers you.)!!

Tip to writers of horror/suspense whatever: If you want to write a scene where someone tranquillizes someone by jabbing a syringe in their neck, don't. It's a trope I see so often and it bothers me so much! It's physically not possible to inject that way. You'd not hit a vein, not a muscle. You'd jab that needle into their spine or vertebrae or their literal fucking airway lol. Tranquillizers by syringe is either injected into a large vein in the arm/hand (takes precision and slow care) or into a large muscle like the thigh or the upper outer part of the butt. Hell, don't even bring needles into the equation at all but that takes some care too if you don't want to hit a blood vessel or nerve. Have the assaulter smother them with chloroform or some other fluid inhaled on a piece of cloth over their mouth and you'd achieve the same "surprise" effect but much more realistic and less literally impossible.

#needle mention #needles #writing #just saw this in a show and ughhhh why do writers not look up anatomy #i am a certified nurse btw