SapphireSaturn288

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Reblogging to see if it works…?

THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!! PEER ABUSE !!!!! ISOLATION !!!!!!!! RACISM !!! SEXISM !!!!!! MEDICAL ABUSE !!!!!! NONCONSENSUAL SURGERY !!!! POVERTY !!!! SO MUCH MORE !!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

edit: i made this in a high school enduced rage and didnt expect it to blow up like this ?

anyway i love trans people i love intersex people i love people with personality disorsers i love aspec people okkk

The injury bible is a collection of injuries for writers! Each injury has it’s appearance, pain, healing time and treatment! All of them are listed alphabetically and linked to the corresponding post!

Additionally if there is an injury missing, leave it on the suggestion post- here!

(Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor nor have I had the majority of these injuries so if you spot an error please let me know!! Additionally for the same reason these aren’t to be used to diagnose anything irl, talk to a doctor for that.)

The List!!!

Black eye

Blood loss

Bone Fracture

Bruised Ribs

Bruises

Concussions

Muscle Contusion (Muscle Bruise)

Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)

Road rash

Slash wound

Sore Muscles

The injury bible is a collection of injuries for writers! Each injury has it’s appearance, pain, healing time and treatment! All of them are listed alphabetically and linked to the corresponding post!

Additionally if there is an injury missing, leave it on the suggestion post- here!

(Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor nor have I had the majority of these injuries so if you spot an error please let me know!! Additionally for the same reason these aren’t to be used to diagnose anything irl, talk to a doctor for that.)

The List!!!

Black eye

Blood loss

Bone Fracture

Bruised Ribs

Bruises

Concussions

Muscle Contusion (Muscle Bruise)

Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)

Road rash

Slash wound

Sore Muscles

The injury bible is a collection of injuries for writers! Each injury has it’s appearance, pain, healing time and treatment! All of them are listed alphabetically and linked to the corresponding post!

Additionally if there is an injury missing, leave it on the suggestion post- here!

(Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor nor have I had the majority of these injuries so if you spot an error please let me know!! Additionally for the same reason these aren’t to be used to diagnose anything irl, talk to a doctor for that.)

The List!!!

Black eye

Blood loss

Bone Fracture

Bruised Ribs

Bruises

Concussions

Muscle Contusion (Muscle Bruise)

Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)

Road rash

Slash wound

Sore Muscles

Your action hero just got shot in the shoulder, stitched it up in a motel bathroom, and is now running through a forest. I need you to know that a shoulder wound severs muscle, nerves, and sometimes bone, and the human body's response to that is not "mild wincing followed by full range of motion." here is what injuries actually do to peoplee...

⊹ Adrenaline is REAL and it does allow people to do extraordinary things immediately after injury, BUT it is a loan, not a gift. you borrow the function and you pay it back later with interest. Your character might genuinely be able to run for twenty minutes after being stabbed. and then the adrenaline drops and everything the body was delaying arrives all at once. the collapse is NOT weakness. it's biology collecting its debt. write the debt collection. it's more interesting than the heroic sprint anyway.

⊹ Blood loss changes cognition before it drops you. you don't go from "fine" to "unconscious." you go through a whole middle stage of confusion, poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, a strange calm, tunnel vision, difficulty forming sentences. Your injured character making a bad call, saying something they normally wouldn't, becoming suddenly and inexplicably gentle--that's blood loss. use the middle stage. it's dramatically rich and almost nobody writes it.

⊹ Recovery has a timeline and the timeline is long and boring and inconvenient to plot. a broken rib takes six weeks and during those six weeks sneezing is a genuine emergency. a concussion means no screens, no reading, no bright lights, and symptoms can persist for months. a stab wound to the abdomen means weeks of infection risk, limited mobility, and a specific kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. Your character being sidelined and frustrated and useless for a long time is not a narrative problem. it's the story.

i love you all and i need you to stop writing trauma as a single breakdown scene in the rain after which the character is Healed and Ready to Love Again. that is NOT trauma :(

⊹ Trauma doesn't announce itself. it shows up as your character suddenly not being able to eat a specific food, or going very quiet in a loud room, or laughing at the wrong moment because their nervous system decided that was the appropriate response. it's mundane and weird and it makes no sense from the outside. the dramatic flashback sequence is the least realistic part. the most realistic part is your character suddenly needing to leave a grocery store for a reason they can't articulate.

⊹ The body keeps score and it keeps it in the strangest places. a particular smell. the quality of light at a certain time of day. a tone of voice that sounds like someone who hurt them. your traumatised character doesn't think "this reminds me of the bad thing." their heart rate spikes and they don't know why. they feel wrong and they can't locate the feeling. they're irritable for three days and only later, if ever, do they make the connection. write the disconnection. it's more honest.

⊹ trauma also does not make people universally sympathetic and wise. it makes some people controlling. some people funny at inappropriate times. some people very good in a crisis and completely unable to handle a normal day. some people are generously kind to strangers and absolutely terrible to people they love. trauma shapes behaviour in contradictory, inconvenient ways that don't resolve into a lesson. your traumatised character can be difficult to like. that's not a flaw in the writing. that's the WRITING.

the five stages of grief were never meant to be a checklist your character moves through in chronological order across three chapters. Let me save you from writing a grieving character who is simply having scheduled emotions:

⊹ Grief is not primarily crying. i know that sounds wrong but hear me out. a lot of grief looks like doing laundry. cooking something the person liked and then not being able to eat it. watching a show they recommended and never told anyone you finished it. grief goes very quiet and very domestic for long stretches and then ambushes you at completely unreasonable moments like a petrol station or a Friday at 4pm for no reason at all.

⊹ people who are grieving often seem fine. not because they're suppressing or being brave or in denial, but because humans are genuinely capable of functioning and being devastated at the same time. your grieving character can make jokes. can go to work. can have a good day. can feel guilty about the good day. can feel guilty about not feeling guilty. grief has a very active internal bureaucracy that has nothing to do with what's visible on the outside.

⊹ Grief also changes shape over time in ways that aren't necessarily about getting better. the first year is often adrenaline, there are things to do, people around, ritual and structure. year two is frequently harder because the adrenaline is gone and the world has moved on and expects you to have moved on with it. your character being more visibly undone eighteen months later than at the funeral is not a pacing problem. it's accurate.