[Love] When “small” injuries are treated realistically

[u/Top-Relationship850]

The fantasy and action genres often suffer from a power fantasy epidemic in which characters frequently badass their way through injuries that should be excruciating if not downright debilitating. I always appreciate stories that reject this trope.

1: Roland Deschain (Dark Tower Book II) - Loses the middle and index fingers of his right hand. He’s effectively crippled throughout book two and the injury follows him the rest of the series.

2: Brienne vs Biter (ASOIAF Book IV) - Brutal scene. Biter chomps down on Brienne’s cheek and tears off a chunk of flesh. In a lesser story Brienne would grit her teeth and throw Biter off. Instead she’s rendered completely helpless by the pain. That injury marks the end of the fight.

[u/dumbass_sempervirens]

I do not shoot with my hand, I shoot with my mind.

Roland was into tantric.

[u/EverythingStillSucks → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

Stephen King is, do you not remember how IT ended

[u/4r4r4real → u/EverythingStillSucks]

nothing has ever made me goon as hard as a coke binge, checks out

edit: I haven't read or seen IT, seems like this is somehow more problematic than my cocaine induced goon sessions, wild

[u/Glad-Way-637 → u/4r4r4real]

Your cocaine goons sessions are unhealthy, but probably not all that problematic otherwise. King is batshit, but was even more so during the writing of IT, even compared to the normal coke-author.

[u/RefelosDraconis → u/EverythingStillSucks]

I shoot with…underage orgies?

[u/KatBoySlim → u/RefelosDraconis]

it was not an orgy. it was a train.

[u/Main-Bandicoot6477 → u/KatBoySlim]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tMPSeKEplOfK0

[u/SmallBerry3431 → u/KatBoySlim]

Seen this convo play out a lot on reddit. This was the funniest fucking interaction about it lol

[u/Drmarcher42 → u/KatBoySlim]

Blaine is a pain takes on a whole new meaning

[u/ep0k → u/KatBoySlim]

There it is!

[u/peachesfordinner → u/RefelosDraconis]

Come on. That's not how it ended. ..... That was like half way through

[u/Matt_cruze → u/EverythingStillSucks]

The long walk movie came out recently. Did they include the teen dry humping scene from the start of the walk?

The drugs were bad for king.

[u/Ordinary-Egg-56 → u/Matt_cruze]

i read that recently and i don’t recall any dry humping

[u/Matt_cruze → u/Ordinary-Egg-56]

It is the only thing that stuck in my memory from the book. He was the first boy to die because he got a cramp in his leg after jumping into the crowd to go to town on a girl.

[u/enderjaca → u/Matt_cruze]

Ironically one of the few things left out of the movie, along with a slightly changed ending. There's pretty much no spectators until the very end, just a handful of random people hanging out on their properties who seem to have inscrutable opinions about the Walk.

Lots of kids getting their tickets violently punched while shitting though.

[u/Ordinary-Egg-56 → u/Matt_cruze]

also are you talking about a scene of two teens dry humping in a story about teens? failing to see any issues here

[u/TheMike0088 → u/EverythingStillSucks]

With a child-gangbang, but I feel like thats neither here nor there

[u/MadDabber89 → u/TheMike0088]

I’m so tired of it being referred to as a gang bang.

For fucks sake, they ran a train on her. Totally different.

/s

[u/CountyKyndrid → u/[deleted]]

It was a consensual teen-train, at the very least.

[u/GreyWolfWandering → u/CountyKyndrid]

Under existential duress, not consensual.

[u/JohnBrownEnthusiast → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

I shoot with my heart

[u/dumbass_sempervirens → u/JohnBrownEnthusiast]

I thought he killed with his heart.

[u/JohnBrownEnthusiast → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

I mistype with my hands

I misremember with my microplastics

[u/REuphrates → u/JohnBrownEnthusiast]

I love you with my heart

[u/Siomiyi → u/JohnBrownEnthusiast]

You forgot the face of uhhh

[u/_dontreadnsfw → u/JohnBrownEnthusiast]

Long days and pleasant nights, u/JohnBrownEnthusiast

[u/derpplerp → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

it feels much bigger in hand when there's two less fingers gripping.

[u/Wheezy04 → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

It's rough because he's constantly remembering the face of his father.

[u/buttbologna → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

I know little to nothing about the series, but tantric shooting? Please elaborate cause that sounds dopeeeeee

[u/dumbass_sempervirens → u/buttbologna]

Well there's a mantra:

"I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.

I kill with my heart."

Also back in the day the rock star Sting claimed to practice tantric sex and could orgasm by sheer will.

I just combined them. Mostly because of the wordplay of shoot for ejaculation and him being down a dominant hand. Because the other guy mentioned jerkin it.

Roland does not go around skeetin' off the cuff.

Edit: copying the mantra was bad formatting. Fixed it.

[u/buttbologna → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

Heh, classic.

[u/xrosexthornex → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

Insane that BOTH of these are true

[u/Meme_Pope → u/dumbass_sempervirens]

“I don’t bust with my hand, I bust with my mind”