Excellent post. You've really captured one if the biggest problems in any fandom: people just don't research before they write.
But on broken bones, I guess it's different for every person. I've only broken bones once and that was my arm when I was in kindergarten. I fell off a bar chair onto my left arm and it hurt like *hell*. I was crying like crazy. Then again I was in kindergarten so I was pretty young then. Wrapped knees car hurt like a mother at that age.
But I've done plenty of other stuff: dislocated fingers playing basketball, bruised ribs flying backwards off a swing, strained my neck, sprained my ankle twice in the span of three weeks, gotten tendinitis in the arch of my foot, and gotten shin splints. So I have a lot of experience in those areas. First time au sprained my ankle hurt like hell and I couldn't walk for almost a week. About three weeks later sprained the same ankle *again* and it hurt even more when I got it, but I was able to walk on it again within a couple of hours without really feeling much of anything. Bruised ribs suck and moving is hard but totally possible. Shin splints make you feel like someone is repeatedly stabbing your shins with white hit knives. I didn't even feel my fingers were dislocated until my dad and I were halfway home from the court and I was all like "I can't really feel my fingers. Kinda hurts to move them." Then my dad just took them and put them back into place. Which hurt but not overly so.
I once feel out of a tree, about 25 feet off the ground, hit every branch on the way down, got my nose smashed on a thick branch and it barely hurt. I've sliced my finger open with a knife and it didn't even start hurting until 20 minutes later after I had already wrapped it and then not even that much. There's a pain delay when slicing body parts open.
It's surprising how many things people get wrong when writing injuries not just broken bones. It's different for different people but still. A lot of fanfiction authors tend to write their characters as either extreme weaklings, or superhuman, unfeeling macho men (or women). Or maybe it's not so surprising since a lot of people fail to actually take the time to research injuries and how they really feel and all that.
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Broken Jones and Other Injuries
Date: 2013-05-17 03:40 pm (UTC)But on broken bones, I guess it's different for every person. I've only broken bones once and that was my arm when I was in kindergarten. I fell off a bar chair onto my left arm and it hurt like *hell*. I was crying like crazy. Then again I was in kindergarten so I was pretty young then. Wrapped knees car hurt like a mother at that age.
But I've done plenty of other stuff: dislocated fingers playing basketball, bruised ribs flying backwards off a swing, strained my neck, sprained my ankle twice in the span of three weeks, gotten tendinitis in the arch of my foot, and gotten shin splints. So I have a lot of experience in those areas. First time au sprained my ankle hurt like hell and I couldn't walk for almost a week. About three weeks later sprained the same ankle *again* and it hurt even more when I got it, but I was able to walk on it again within a couple of hours without really feeling much of anything. Bruised ribs suck and moving is hard but totally possible. Shin splints make you feel like someone is repeatedly stabbing your shins with white hit knives. I didn't even feel my fingers were dislocated until my dad and I were halfway home from the court and I was all like "I can't really feel my fingers. Kinda hurts to move them." Then my dad just took them and put them back into place. Which hurt but not overly so.
I once feel out of a tree, about 25 feet off the ground, hit every branch on the way down, got my nose smashed on a thick branch and it barely hurt. I've sliced my finger open with a knife and it didn't even start hurting until 20 minutes later after I had already wrapped it and then not even that much. There's a pain delay when slicing body parts open.
It's surprising how many things people get wrong when writing injuries not just broken bones. It's different for different people but still. A lot of fanfiction authors tend to write their characters as either extreme weaklings, or superhuman, unfeeling macho men (or women). Or maybe it's not so surprising since a lot of people fail to actually take the time to research injuries and how they really feel and all that.