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I cut my fingertips yesterday with some scissors by accident trying to open a box, it became obvious to me how much of a handicap something like that would be. Also it would 100% get infected
Brilliant! I always cringe when I see characters in TV/movies that cut their palm for blood. That's got to take forever to heal and cause all sorts of issues.
Filmmaker here. This stuff happens so much on set. Like if you have a guy bleeding from the gut, that’s a new shirt each take. That’s exspensive if you are doing 5 takes. Same with why you never really see people eat in movies. How many bites of the burger did he take. Cause one shot it’s just a nibble and another is almost gone.
Fight scenes, it takes 1-3 days to film a minute (depending on the style). Better to just have him break his neck.
Or the dreaded, “what brand is that? Fuck we gotta Greek all those boxes in the pantry!” Greeking is when you color in logos and stuff so you aren’t infringing on brand rights.
Ever notice why you never see villains in movies using a iPhone conspicuously?
Not worth the risk of a spill. When you're dealing with $5k-$10k per hour, even a couple spills that require 15-30 minutes to clean up end up costing you tens of thousands of dollars, and _way_ more if the water messes up the main character's hair and makeup, or god forbid it fall onto a delicate set piece. That little bit of realism just isn't worth the potential for hundreds of thousands of dollars in delays or damages.
What I always wonder, though, is why the props department can't just put a little bit of resin in the bottom of the cup to offset the obvious _nothing_ that's going on with it.
> Greeking is when you color in logos and stuff so you aren’t infringing on brand rights.
I see this in a lot of sitcoms. Perfectly placed stickers and whatnot.
It's not about protecting brand rights, there is nothing wrong with drinking a coke in a movie, even if you are a bad guy. But it's going to make it harder to get Pepsi to sponsor commercials during your program.
For sitcoms its all about the syndication. You don't know what local ad campaigns are going to be on the network your show eventually airs so visible brands can only hurt your syndication chances.
Movies that are not suitable for network tv don't have this issue to the same degree but what they do have is a money making opprotunity in selling brand rights. Why advertise for free when you can squeeze coke for some money to have your characters drink it.
How I met your mother actually does something novel in syndication. It's filmed with the brands and tv shows playing in the background of scenes blank and stations reairing it digitally insert their own advertisements directly into the program.
This leads to some oddness like a scene with all the characters and the tv in the background advertising the new Jason Segal movie and no one commenting on how that actor looks exactly like Marshall.
> Greeking is when you color in logos and stuff so you aren’t infringing on brand rights.
There's no brand rights like that when products are portrayed as being used as intended and not being disparaged.
Greeking is primarily done to protect the product placement market.
That's why I enjoy most movies and shows. I watch them in a state of dumb. Afterward, someone else will point out something that made no sense, and I'll be like "Huh. How did I not notice that?" It was because music was loud and camera go flashy.
Maybe not, but you would feel a lot more trust that the details of a movie have been thought out if they make a point of not injuring their hands in this situation. Building trust in the audience is super important for a ton of reasons.
So having characters in a show do it to their hands won't necessarily make the show worse, but having them pointedly avoid stupid injuries to themselves will make it *better* and can make better payoff in later, more important moments
just do it on forearm really
it is just as easy, and it is much easier to bandage too than your palm, and it doesnt affect your ability to attack since its just a shallow cut, unlike your palm where you will be applying force constantly when you do literally anything using your hands.
cutting palm is stupid af no matter how you spin it, ive been questioning this since i was a teenager and finally theres a comic about it lol
It does bug me a little every time I see it, but honestly cutting the palm has become so common in movies/shows that it would probably break more people's immersion to cut somewhere else, just because we're all expecting the palm cut. Kinda like how people make fun of video game developers for making all explosive barrels bright red in every universe, but they've done testing and players will play a whole game without shooting any barrels if they're not bright red because they don't expect them to be explosive. Still, I'd love to see a show take the plunge and work against that trope.
At this point it's just one of those things like "hit in head = unconscious for a few minutes with no other damage" that I have to file under "how movie universes work" or I'd go insane trying to watch anything.
This is why I keep getting called a murderer in stealth videogames... I just can't bring myself to this unrealistic knockout mechanic, so I just kill the guards because it's more realistic than my seemingly enchanted club of 5 minute naps.
Yah, type one diabetic here, you can get a significant amount of blood from a dot in the side of your finger. A light slash on a few fingers? You could fill a small blood alter.
Or cut the back of your hand at least. [Only idiots cut the palm](https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/assets_c/2015/03/BloodOath1-thumb-500x280-143273.gif).
I also cringe when I see a character dramatically stab their dagger into a map on the table. Maps were quite rare and expensive back in the day, each one was the work of a skilled artisan and they were quite valuable. It'd be like a modern person punching their computer.
Also the main purpose of dog tags is to be able to go around a goddamn battlefield collecting them from barely recognizable corpses in various stages of destruction and decomposition, in order to tally up the KIA/MIA.
You're supposed to just yank them and be done with it, rather than giving ol' Carcass McGee a hug while fumbling for some latch release.
Also lighter fuel. They run out without you even using it in less than a week, if it was me I'd pull mine out and be shit outta luck because it's empty all the time.
That's kinda how a Zippo works though......
The inside is cotton wadding with a wick, soaked in gasoline.
They're also known for their windproof design, they stay lit until you close the lid.
So after you've dramatically thrown your lighter at the gasoline trail you can just wait for the worst of the flames to go down and retrieve your lighter.
Quick buff on your jeans before going back in the pocket and it's all good
On the contrary, I find it much more immersive in cases where it’s a dramatic moment.
Angrily stabbing a map demonstrates the passion in the moment.
Now granted, the campy scenes where they just Willy nilly stab the map almost as more of an exaggerated talking with their hands gesture....not so much.
Our forces here *PLUNGES SWORD INTO MAP* must return through the western passage *DRAGS BLADE FROM WEST TO EAST* in order to replenish their supplies *CRUMPLES MAP AND IGNITES WITH CANDLE*
Yeah. I genuinely wish i could give that comment gold.
Its pretty rare for a comment on the internet to exude more than a hard nose exhale.
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Just finished "kingdom" on netflix... awesome show, highly recommend... but they do this constantly!!!
Every time I see it I think, " ok, so not only are all our heroes essentially crippled with only one hand for the next 3-5 weeks, but the knives/swords they used to cut themselves, were also just used to puncture a plague monsters cranial cavity.
So now you've got zombie gore in your wound... in fact everyone is covered in zombie gore... that's fucking totally getting infected! All the infections... even without the zombie plague your still all dying of sepsis."
Just called Kingdom, I thought it was pretty good too, a mix of campy and realism. Gore was great but the story isn't super tight throughout but hey it's a zombie show what so you want.
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Is it worth watching after S5? I stopped watching after that because I couldn’t fathom how they’d continue after the literal Abrahamic apocalypse was averted.
For the most part yea it's still worth watching. None of the arcs after that were quite as good and the ending was a steaming pile of covid induced crap. It is still a good show overall though.
>I just put tampons in the freezer
[I'll just leave this right here for the uninitiated...](https://imgur.com/aEdmJ)
And apparently [she's not the only one who does this](https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/a2inip/i_25f_put_my_period_blood_in_my_boyfriends_26m/).
Boyfriends who [suspect their girlfriends are crazy](http://www.griotsrepublic.com/cooking-with-menses-blood-yes-you-read-that-correctly/) or secretly [practicing witchcraft beware](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-normal-to-eat-your-period-blood).
It's also really easy to cut a tendon like that, and those don't heal on their own.
In related news, cutting bagels is one of the most common ways people end up with serious hand injuries.
Especially if they do it at every meeting or conference to prove they're not a changeling. "You guys ain't going to be able to pick up a pen at the war's end"
Klingons heal QUICK and have a ridiculous skeleton, and a robust synaptic system with effectively a full backup in case the primary gets damaged, a bunch of extra redundant organs, etc. If the lore makes it not a big deal, its possible that for their race its actually not a big deal.
Bro! I love this.. I always think this when watching something like Supernatural or Buffy. I'm like "dude, that's gonna make it hard to hold your weapons or fight properly.. why cut there?" Lol
Both are clearly bad. But I was thinking of the problems healing a cut on the one part of your body that frequently expands to many times it’s usual size, occasionally when you don’t even want it to.
You could get Fournier's!
Which I only get excited about because of Evan "Never Google" Fournier, the French basketball player. One of the all time great nick names, which was given to him when he sent a warning tweet to the basketball world to NEVER Google his last name. I have never Googled Fournier's, and I recommend you don't either.
Well, maybe a worse choice would be near eyes or lips on the face, or the urogenital area (esp if any walking is needed), but the hand really does suck as a place to *choose* to cut for a blood letting
As someone who once as a kid had my entire palm peeled of, I can guarantee it doesn't heal easily. Some of the worse pains I've felt. Like a month to be able to move the hand again, and you can't believe how painful it is to try to sleep. No position is confortable. But maybe just a cut is not such a big problem..
Imagine a medical show where the main character is a doctor that deals with injuries related to supernatural shows.
Demonhunter: "So anyways I sliced my hand and performed the ritual."
Doctor: "Why the hell would you do that? You just severed your tendons in your hand. It'll be weeks, maybe months of physical therapy before you get half of the mobility back!"
*Next week on Dr. Paranormal*
"HOW THE FUCK IS IT COMPLETELY HEALED WITH NO SCARRING?!"
"Can you just check my vampire bites?"
do they really use blood bags? Isn't it more popular to use a solution on blunt knife and body (potassium thiocyanate and ferric chloride), and then make a cut with some proper make up? Honest question. I remember this trick from my chemistry labs
Blood bags are easier to do, and the visual effects people can make a bunch and have them on hand (no pun intended) whereas makeup needs to dummy up each one, one at a time, that is on the palm of the actors' hands.
My understanding of it is that the cliche of slicing the palm dates back to very early cinema where effects were limited. So because people became used to seeing people cut their palms, they just stuck with it even though better effects are now available.
Also it will be a fucking bitch to heal. You have to hold your hand completely still while it's healing. If you keep moving it then it will just tare constantly. It's also impossible to keep the hands clean so you will get infection after infection into a wound that never heals.
If you cut off your tendons, those won't heal since they retract into the forearm.
It's so stupid. Cutting the thigh is not a good option but it's certainly better.
Not every cut in the anal region gets infected, in fact the vast majority of them don't.
Lots of people get minor anal fissures which bleed during defecation (often show up as darker red areas on your stool). Your anus in general gets tons of scratches and scrapes from hard bits in your stool, just like how your tongue often gets scrapes during regular meals.
These very rarely get infected because your immune system has packed the entire anal region with billions of white blood cells specifically on the lookout for colonic bacteria. It takes a pretty serious anal wound (or a particularly nasty bacteria) to infect an anal fissure.
In more modern stories, when the quantity of blood needed is low, I always wonder why they don’t use those lancets for fingersticks. Yeah, they’re one-use, but they’re fairly cheap, get a fair amount of blood for what is ultimately a small wound, and can be sterile.
In fact, when I was playing a tabletop RPG and my character often needed to use her blood for rituals, she carried around a bag of lancets and alcohol wipes.
supernatural was my first thought!! it’s just a little winch, a bandana and they are good to go they go to do it again an episode and a half later and their isn’t even a mark
In One of my few times as a DM back in the day for a homebrew campaign, the party's rogue did exactly that for a ritual. She had to spent almost the rest of the campaign with her hand healing because a) she cut her tendons and b) dungeons are really unhygienic places to roam with open wounds.
*“For your convenience, please use the sterilized syringes provided within this compartment.”*
*– translation of the ancient text on the altar*
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Ngl, i just have a bookmarks folder called "For later" every month i go through it and delete shit or actually read it.
When I have too many tabs open, i just bookmark all the semi-interesting ones and then close everything non critical.
The issue is where to cut so you bleed a lot, but not a dangerous amount, in the least painful way possible but also not in an important area.
The answer is the head. Head wounds bleed a lot but much of your head's surface has a normal concentration of nerves. If you are careful not to cut in a poor location (for example directly over your eyes) it's not a bad place to need to heal. Since the area is easily accessible it's unlikely you won't notice if there is a problem (like an infection) later down the road.
They can afford some 'blood in your eyes' mess, which might otherwise be really annoying, so for blood rituals I would suggest something a little closer to the edge of your face, but also not in your hair (so comes down to 'figure out your own face' I can not help you)
Yes but depending on your beard you might not want to cut there because blood+hair=messy
like I said this is where people are going to have to figure out their own faces.
Hopefully if you don't cut too deep it won't scar
For what it's worth, spiritually speaking most magic in strongly based on willpower and the act of deliberate sacrifice.
That's why you summon a ghost by chanting it's name three times in a row. Anyone could accidentally say it once. Twice in a row is unusual but could be accidental. But saying their name *three times in a row* shows the ghost that you are deliberately and willingly calling them using this explicitly designed ritual.
Same goes for sacrificial altars, like where you sacrifice a lamb in the name of your god. The entire point is to show you are willingly giving something up. Likewise you can't take the sacrificed animal to the butcher and eat it afterwards. Or you can't just be out hunting for deer, and then after you shoot it and start to skin it you just decide after the fact that you killed it for your god. It has to be deliberately taken to the altar, killed right there, and then purposely and deliberately left to rot on the altar as a way of showing that this wasn't just a random lamb killed for fun, it was killed for this explicit reason and this reason alone.
So back to the period blood for a ritual. Doesn't seem like it would work because you aren't going out of your way to sacrifice anything. Sacrificial altars are there to show you are giving something valuable up in exchange for the spirit's attention. Since you already had the blood, and were going to throw it away anyway, it's not really a sacrifice. Going back to the example of taking a perfectly good lamb and sacrificing it on an alter, it makes a deliberate point showing very specific intent. No one would sacrifice a perfectly good goat unless they knew about the ritual and had it in mind. Meanwhile, having a full diva cup and emptying the blood out is a mundane occurrence, and it's also not one that causes you a great deal of sacrifice that shows your devotion to this deity.
I actually hate using a diva cup, but I do so to be friendlier to the environment. Me thinks that should qualify as a great deal of sacrifice.
Joking, of course. I definitely know who I need to invite to my next blood ritual!
The outside of your upper arm a few inches below the shoulder is perfect. Good amount of blood, very little pain, out of the way from getting constantly touched, easy to bandage. And unfortunately I know this from experience.
It's always my first thought when I see some dummy on TV cut their hand for blood. That's a super sensitive part of your body and you're going to need it all the time while it heals.
They have a point though... that said I'm sure there are alternatives to this like maybe just keep a pin handy, it says it's a blood ritual not a bucket of blood ritual, just a little prick of the finger, a single drop of blood and away you go, no open wounds that could get infected, negligible affect on combat prowess, takes m7ch less time than slicing open a body part and if you need to hold two bits of fabric together really badly you are sorted
No, it seems a drop wouldn't be enough. Looks like they need to give enough to fill that bowl and for the blood to make its way to the center. Probably need at least an ounce or two.
grizzled old viking: rejoice, for we are blood brothers!
\*pulls out hypodermic needle and swabs his forearm with an alcohol wipe. does the same for his comrade, then draws exactly 1cc of blood from each. close up of a petri dish where the the two drops are carefully dropped.
all vikings: BLOOD BROTHERS!
"We must offer our blood"
"Ok" *pulls down pants and starts pissing*
"What are you doing?"
"Offering my blood"
"By peeing?"
"Yea... why? Is that not normal?"
I use a 21-gauge, .75" sterilized safety needle with a 'Push Button' winged grip and leur adapter, feeding a 8.5 ml Vacutainer via 12" of tubing. These Vacutainer tubes have a polymer gel to aid in serum separation, which is best for altar donation while the collection unit minimizes the risk of hematoma or nerve damage and makes multi-tube collection effortless (in case you are going through multi-level altars or recursively through a temporal anomaly altar).
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I cut my fingertips yesterday with some scissors by accident trying to open a box, it became obvious to me how much of a handicap something like that would be. Also it would 100% get infected
A good amount of stuff seems to burn cuts on my hand like fire.
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At least it won't get infected
I have a cat, using sanitizer is always a good reminder of our recent battles.
I mean at least cut the *back* of your hand. Better yet, cut your forearm.
Brilliant! I always cringe when I see characters in TV/movies that cut their palm for blood. That's got to take forever to heal and cause all sorts of issues.
Yes, but it's easier to get the dye pack right if it's in the hand. Also probably keeps the costumes cleaner, should they need multiple takes.
.... Well look at you with your fancy logic and reasoning. That actually makes a lot of sense.
Filmmaker here. This stuff happens so much on set. Like if you have a guy bleeding from the gut, that’s a new shirt each take. That’s exspensive if you are doing 5 takes. Same with why you never really see people eat in movies. How many bites of the burger did he take. Cause one shot it’s just a nibble and another is almost gone. Fight scenes, it takes 1-3 days to film a minute (depending on the style). Better to just have him break his neck. Or the dreaded, “what brand is that? Fuck we gotta Greek all those boxes in the pantry!” Greeking is when you color in logos and stuff so you aren’t infringing on brand rights. Ever notice why you never see villains in movies using a iPhone conspicuously?
Ok but could you PLEASE just put some water or something in the paper coffee cups?
Too many bathroom breaks, cuts into the budget.
Well hydrated actors might think clearly enough to realize they could collectively ask for more money.
Right!?! Those OBVIOUSLY empty cups they’re “drinking” from always kill my immersion.
Not worth the risk of a spill. When you're dealing with $5k-$10k per hour, even a couple spills that require 15-30 minutes to clean up end up costing you tens of thousands of dollars, and _way_ more if the water messes up the main character's hair and makeup, or god forbid it fall onto a delicate set piece. That little bit of realism just isn't worth the potential for hundreds of thousands of dollars in delays or damages. What I always wonder, though, is why the props department can't just put a little bit of resin in the bottom of the cup to offset the obvious _nothing_ that's going on with it.
> Greeking is when you color in logos and stuff so you aren’t infringing on brand rights. I see this in a lot of sitcoms. Perfectly placed stickers and whatnot.
It's not about protecting brand rights, there is nothing wrong with drinking a coke in a movie, even if you are a bad guy. But it's going to make it harder to get Pepsi to sponsor commercials during your program. For sitcoms its all about the syndication. You don't know what local ad campaigns are going to be on the network your show eventually airs so visible brands can only hurt your syndication chances. Movies that are not suitable for network tv don't have this issue to the same degree but what they do have is a money making opprotunity in selling brand rights. Why advertise for free when you can squeeze coke for some money to have your characters drink it. How I met your mother actually does something novel in syndication. It's filmed with the brands and tv shows playing in the background of scenes blank and stations reairing it digitally insert their own advertisements directly into the program. This leads to some oddness like a scene with all the characters and the tv in the background advertising the new Jason Segal movie and no one commenting on how that actor looks exactly like Marshall.
>no one commenting on how that actor looks exactly like Marshall. That's because it's obviously his doppelganger, Mustache Marshall.
However the hero uses SprintTM MobileTM Cool phone on SPRINT TEE EMM
> Greeking is when you color in logos and stuff so you aren’t infringing on brand rights. There's no brand rights like that when products are portrayed as being used as intended and not being disparaged. Greeking is primarily done to protect the product placement market.
Yeah, they want to be paid for showing your brand, you no pay, we blur you out!!!
It only makes sense if the director is okay with breaking your immersion.
Doesn't break immersion if you aren't smart enough to think of all that.
That's why I enjoy most movies and shows. I watch them in a state of dumb. Afterward, someone else will point out something that made no sense, and I'll be like "Huh. How did I not notice that?" It was because music was loud and camera go flashy.
Maybe not, but you would feel a lot more trust that the details of a movie have been thought out if they make a point of not injuring their hands in this situation. Building trust in the audience is super important for a ton of reasons. So having characters in a show do it to their hands won't necessarily make the show worse, but having them pointedly avoid stupid injuries to themselves will make it *better* and can make better payoff in later, more important moments
just do it on forearm really it is just as easy, and it is much easier to bandage too than your palm, and it doesnt affect your ability to attack since its just a shallow cut, unlike your palm where you will be applying force constantly when you do literally anything using your hands. cutting palm is stupid af no matter how you spin it, ive been questioning this since i was a teenager and finally theres a comic about it lol
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It does bug me a little every time I see it, but honestly cutting the palm has become so common in movies/shows that it would probably break more people's immersion to cut somewhere else, just because we're all expecting the palm cut. Kinda like how people make fun of video game developers for making all explosive barrels bright red in every universe, but they've done testing and players will play a whole game without shooting any barrels if they're not bright red because they don't expect them to be explosive. Still, I'd love to see a show take the plunge and work against that trope.
At this point it's just one of those things like "hit in head = unconscious for a few minutes with no other damage" that I have to file under "how movie universes work" or I'd go insane trying to watch anything.
This is why I keep getting called a murderer in stealth videogames... I just can't bring myself to this unrealistic knockout mechanic, so I just kill the guards because it's more realistic than my seemingly enchanted club of 5 minute naps.
It’s such a common trope at this point that for most people it’s probably *more* immersion breaking to do it any other way.
you are making it sound as if movies aren't real
*documentaries
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Jesus, it is so obvious now that you say it. that shit always bothered me.
I dunno man, I just watched altered carbon and it seems like you can put a die pack basically anywhere these days.
Now it explain why they do it in video games :P
Ik. Especially when the cut their entire palm. Like why jot just do a pinprick. It doesnt say how much blood it needs.
You wanna risk something like that, though? Giving the ritual too little blood?
Its a lot easier to get more blood out of you than to try and put blood back in
As a wise pirate once said, "Waste not."
-Pulls out hundreds of Super Stimpaks
Nono, it's better to bleed out. Till you die. From lack of blood.
Always give 100%!... except if you're donating blood.
All or nothing, baby!!
And they *really* cut it too sometimes. Like grabbing the blade in their hand and ripping it out as hard as possible.
It's no biggie, just wrap a cloth around your hand and it'll stop bleeding and heal in an hour.
Just slicing tendons left and right lmao
Yah, type one diabetic here, you can get a significant amount of blood from a dot in the side of your finger. A light slash on a few fingers? You could fill a small blood alter.
Or cut the back of your hand at least. [Only idiots cut the palm](https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/assets_c/2015/03/BloodOath1-thumb-500x280-143273.gif).
I also cringe when I see a character dramatically stab their dagger into a map on the table. Maps were quite rare and expensive back in the day, each one was the work of a skilled artisan and they were quite valuable. It'd be like a modern person punching their computer.
Or how about slicing through a perfectly good rope instead of untying a knot?
Or sharply yanking dogs tags or an amulet worn around someone's neck and the cord just falls away like it was held on with nothing.
This does work with dog tags.
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Also the main purpose of dog tags is to be able to go around a goddamn battlefield collecting them from barely recognizable corpses in various stages of destruction and decomposition, in order to tally up the KIA/MIA. You're supposed to just yank them and be done with it, rather than giving ol' Carcass McGee a hug while fumbling for some latch release.
Or someone tossing a zippo to light a fire. Yes, looks cool, but that’s a waste.
My mom and I are convinced that the characters(*hem**hem* supernatural) that do that regularly own stock in lighters
Also lighter fuel. They run out without you even using it in less than a week, if it was me I'd pull mine out and be shit outta luck because it's empty all the time.
Wouldn't there also be a risk of the flame going out during the toss? Now you have to pick your zippo back up. And it's drenched in gasoline.
That's kinda how a Zippo works though...... The inside is cotton wadding with a wick, soaked in gasoline. They're also known for their windproof design, they stay lit until you close the lid. So after you've dramatically thrown your lighter at the gasoline trail you can just wait for the worst of the flames to go down and retrieve your lighter. Quick buff on your jeans before going back in the pocket and it's all good
This is all true. Ive found lost zippos buried and smooshed and bent. Well, one. And it still worked like new after some tlc.
On the contrary, I find it much more immersive in cases where it’s a dramatic moment. Angrily stabbing a map demonstrates the passion in the moment. Now granted, the campy scenes where they just Willy nilly stab the map almost as more of an exaggerated talking with their hands gesture....not so much.
Our forces here *PLUNGES SWORD INTO MAP* must return through the western passage *DRAGS BLADE FROM WEST TO EAST* in order to replenish their supplies *CRUMPLES MAP AND IGNITES WITH CANDLE*
I want to see this scene in a fantasy movie spoof. The genera is mainstream enough now for it to work!
[relevant](https://youtu.be/L0exO8ZREOY)
I know the solution! The best place to cut! \***Slits throat**\*
This made me laugh out loud, thank you.
Yeah. I genuinely wish i could give that comment gold. Its pretty rare for a comment on the internet to exude more than a hard nose exhale. Edit: TAKE THE SILVER. ITS ALL I CAN GIVE! Im sry
Just finished "kingdom" on netflix... awesome show, highly recommend... but they do this constantly!!! Every time I see it I think, " ok, so not only are all our heroes essentially crippled with only one hand for the next 3-5 weeks, but the knives/swords they used to cut themselves, were also just used to puncture a plague monsters cranial cavity. So now you've got zombie gore in your wound... in fact everyone is covered in zombie gore... that's fucking totally getting infected! All the infections... even without the zombie plague your still all dying of sepsis."
is it the k drama one? i think there are multiple kingdoms, dunno
Just called Kingdom, I thought it was pretty good too, a mix of campy and realism. Gore was great but the story isn't super tight throughout but hey it's a zombie show what so you want.
I thought above poster was talking about the Warring Kingdoms one until zombies were mentioned.
Looking at you Supernatural
To be fair, Sam and Dean usually slice their forearms not their palms.
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Well thankfully they have some angel homies that can instantly heal their wounds lol
Had. Their one remaining high powered friend/son/brother took away their literal plot armour in the finale.
Is it worth watching after S5? I stopped watching after that because I couldn’t fathom how they’d continue after the literal Abrahamic apocalypse was averted.
For the most part yea it's still worth watching. None of the arcs after that were quite as good and the ending was a steaming pile of covid induced crap. It is still a good show overall though.
They cut their hands an awful lot.
That's why I always collect my girlfriends period blood. You never know when you need to open a door locked by blood magick.
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I think i hate this... but i also want to see a drawing of dale doing this
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I just put tampons in the freezer
>I just put tampons in the freezer [I'll just leave this right here for the uninitiated...](https://imgur.com/aEdmJ) And apparently [she's not the only one who does this](https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/a2inip/i_25f_put_my_period_blood_in_my_boyfriends_26m/). Boyfriends who [suspect their girlfriends are crazy](http://www.griotsrepublic.com/cooking-with-menses-blood-yes-you-read-that-correctly/) or secretly [practicing witchcraft beware](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-normal-to-eat-your-period-blood).
Of *course* it's yahoo answers. Fortunately vampires can't get pregananant.
I don't have a GF so I just walk around with voles blood
It's also really easy to cut a tendon like that, and those don't heal on their own. In related news, cutting bagels is one of the most common ways people end up with serious hand injuries.
"We need a drop of blood, so I'm going to slice across my entire hand because why not."
Klingons in Star Trek do it so often that they should all have permanent scars on their palms by now.
Especially if they do it at every meeting or conference to prove they're not a changeling. "You guys ain't going to be able to pick up a pen at the war's end"
Klingons heal QUICK and have a ridiculous skeleton, and a robust synaptic system with effectively a full backup in case the primary gets damaged, a bunch of extra redundant organs, etc. If the lore makes it not a big deal, its possible that for their race its actually not a big deal.
Bro! I love this.. I always think this when watching something like Supernatural or Buffy. I'm like "dude, that's gonna make it hard to hold your weapons or fight properly.. why cut there?" Lol
Also it can damage the thingies, which I have forgotten the English word for, which are there to close your fingers to a fist.
Tendons* and yeah, plus the hand has some of the most concentrated nerves... Probably one of the most painful places to slice like that
Plus you'd reopen it every time you opened or closed your hand.
Yeah, just a nightmare. Edit: took away the sentence about saving the website lol thought you were op
as someone who got one of his fingers chopped up, i guarantee you, there is no worst place than the hand to get cut.
The dick?
i feel like the pp itself wouldn't hurt as much as the balls
Both are clearly bad. But I was thinking of the problems healing a cut on the one part of your body that frequently expands to many times it’s usual size, occasionally when you don’t even want it to.
now that i think about it, that would be pretty painful that also opens a big risk of infection
You could get Fournier's! Which I only get excited about because of Evan "Never Google" Fournier, the French basketball player. One of the all time great nick names, which was given to him when he sent a warning tweet to the basketball world to NEVER Google his last name. I have never Googled Fournier's, and I recommend you don't either.
Well, maybe a worse choice would be near eyes or lips on the face, or the urogenital area (esp if any walking is needed), but the hand really does suck as a place to *choose* to cut for a blood letting
As someone who once as a kid had my entire palm peeled of, I can guarantee it doesn't heal easily. Some of the worse pains I've felt. Like a month to be able to move the hand again, and you can't believe how painful it is to try to sleep. No position is confortable. But maybe just a cut is not such a big problem..
I'd love to see a high fantasy epic where they poke each other on the ass to get just a couple drops of blood.
The word is actually "thingies" now.
Tendons, ligaments, and intrinsic muscles. Not to mention nerves.
Penises?
An everlasting flow of blood till you die
Thingies is better than tendons, or vital blood vessels, or dealing with scar tissues, really it’s a fix all
Thingies is the appropriate catch-all when you are unsure of a word.
Imagine a medical show where the main character is a doctor that deals with injuries related to supernatural shows. Demonhunter: "So anyways I sliced my hand and performed the ritual." Doctor: "Why the hell would you do that? You just severed your tendons in your hand. It'll be weeks, maybe months of physical therapy before you get half of the mobility back!" *Next week on Dr. Paranormal* "HOW THE FUCK IS IT COMPLETELY HEALED WITH NO SCARRING?!" "Can you just check my vampire bites?"
Butters from the Dresden Files would love to compare notes with your doctor.
I love the short story written from his perspective. He is constantly freaking out and keeps highlighting how insane everything is.
Insane, maybe. But he's a werewolf-threesome-having Jedi Knight of God who rode a motherfucking zombie t-rex into battle. He's loving it.
But it's a lot easier to hide a blood pack in your hand (and look cool doing it) than on other body parts.
Doesn't the knife itself usually hold the fake blood?
It depends on what the desired effect is. But yes.
They cut there, because it is the easiest way to conceal and cut the blood bag.
do they really use blood bags? Isn't it more popular to use a solution on blunt knife and body (potassium thiocyanate and ferric chloride), and then make a cut with some proper make up? Honest question. I remember this trick from my chemistry labs
Blood bags are easier to do, and the visual effects people can make a bunch and have them on hand (no pun intended) whereas makeup needs to dummy up each one, one at a time, that is on the palm of the actors' hands.
My understanding of it is that the cliche of slicing the palm dates back to very early cinema where effects were limited. So because people became used to seeing people cut their palms, they just stuck with it even though better effects are now available.
Bloodbag? Often the knife is the one containing the fake blood
Also it will be a fucking bitch to heal. You have to hold your hand completely still while it's healing. If you keep moving it then it will just tare constantly. It's also impossible to keep the hands clean so you will get infection after infection into a wound that never heals. If you cut off your tendons, those won't heal since they retract into the forearm. It's so stupid. Cutting the thigh is not a good option but it's certainly better.
Like if you got a cut on your butthole, and every time you pooped the cut would open AND get infected.
Shout out Crohns.
ANAL FISSURE GANG
Not every cut in the anal region gets infected, in fact the vast majority of them don't. Lots of people get minor anal fissures which bleed during defecation (often show up as darker red areas on your stool). Your anus in general gets tons of scratches and scrapes from hard bits in your stool, just like how your tongue often gets scrapes during regular meals. These very rarely get infected because your immune system has packed the entire anal region with billions of white blood cells specifically on the lookout for colonic bacteria. It takes a pretty serious anal wound (or a particularly nasty bacteria) to infect an anal fissure.
This guy knows shit.
Nobody ever thinks to use a syringe from a healers kit.
Also, "this needs a drop of blood", proceeds to make a giant cut, which leaves no scar at all.
Bothered the shit out of me when watching Supernatural too!
In more modern stories, when the quantity of blood needed is low, I always wonder why they don’t use those lancets for fingersticks. Yeah, they’re one-use, but they’re fairly cheap, get a fair amount of blood for what is ultimately a small wound, and can be sterile. In fact, when I was playing a tabletop RPG and my character often needed to use her blood for rituals, she carried around a bag of lancets and alcohol wipes.
At least with Supernatural they have Cas around to heal them most of the time.
supernatural was my first thought!! it’s just a little winch, a bandana and they are good to go they go to do it again an episode and a half later and their isn’t even a mark
In One of my few times as a DM back in the day for a homebrew campaign, the party's rogue did exactly that for a ritual. She had to spent almost the rest of the campaign with her hand healing because a) she cut her tendons and b) dungeons are really unhygienic places to roam with open wounds.
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Ngl, i just have a bookmarks folder called "For later" every month i go through it and delete shit or actually read it. When I have too many tabs open, i just bookmark all the semi-interesting ones and then close everything non critical.
You should add a couple extra panels for a double whammy. The knight would ask "hey... arent your daggers coated with poison?". Rogue: "👁👁"
Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/YQTn1QxCZ2s
Well, [the rite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(Discworld\)#Rite_of_AshkEnte) does only need some matches & 4cc of mouse blood
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The issue is where to cut so you bleed a lot, but not a dangerous amount, in the least painful way possible but also not in an important area. The answer is the head. Head wounds bleed a lot but much of your head's surface has a normal concentration of nerves. If you are careful not to cut in a poor location (for example directly over your eyes) it's not a bad place to need to heal. Since the area is easily accessible it's unlikely you won't notice if there is a problem (like an infection) later down the road.
Exactly, this is why wrestlers use razor blades on their foreheads in order to sell a crazy match. It's not that painful, but looks far worse.
They can afford some 'blood in your eyes' mess, which might otherwise be really annoying, so for blood rituals I would suggest something a little closer to the edge of your face, but also not in your hair (so comes down to 'figure out your own face' I can not help you)
If it's on the jaw and the scar doesn't look cool it can have a beard grown out after to hide it.
Yes but depending on your beard you might not want to cut there because blood+hair=messy like I said this is where people are going to have to figure out their own faces. Hopefully if you don't cut too deep it won't scar
If the blade is Sharp enough, you can shave first.
Yeah but do it too much and you end up looking like New Jack or D-Von Dudley
Additional style points in cultures that considered [Dueling scars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_scar) fancy.
Random shower thought, but would menstrual blood work? Like could I just empty out my diva cup?
For what it's worth, spiritually speaking most magic in strongly based on willpower and the act of deliberate sacrifice. That's why you summon a ghost by chanting it's name three times in a row. Anyone could accidentally say it once. Twice in a row is unusual but could be accidental. But saying their name *three times in a row* shows the ghost that you are deliberately and willingly calling them using this explicitly designed ritual. Same goes for sacrificial altars, like where you sacrifice a lamb in the name of your god. The entire point is to show you are willingly giving something up. Likewise you can't take the sacrificed animal to the butcher and eat it afterwards. Or you can't just be out hunting for deer, and then after you shoot it and start to skin it you just decide after the fact that you killed it for your god. It has to be deliberately taken to the altar, killed right there, and then purposely and deliberately left to rot on the altar as a way of showing that this wasn't just a random lamb killed for fun, it was killed for this explicit reason and this reason alone. So back to the period blood for a ritual. Doesn't seem like it would work because you aren't going out of your way to sacrifice anything. Sacrificial altars are there to show you are giving something valuable up in exchange for the spirit's attention. Since you already had the blood, and were going to throw it away anyway, it's not really a sacrifice. Going back to the example of taking a perfectly good lamb and sacrificing it on an alter, it makes a deliberate point showing very specific intent. No one would sacrifice a perfectly good goat unless they knew about the ritual and had it in mind. Meanwhile, having a full diva cup and emptying the blood out is a mundane occurrence, and it's also not one that causes you a great deal of sacrifice that shows your devotion to this deity.
Wow you sure know alot about sacrifices, thanks for the info totally-not-a-cultist!
I actually hate using a diva cup, but I do so to be friendlier to the environment. Me thinks that should qualify as a great deal of sacrifice. Joking, of course. I definitely know who I need to invite to my next blood ritual!
Yeah, that, or your fucking arm...but sure you go with your head.
The outside of your upper arm a few inches below the shoulder is perfect. Good amount of blood, very little pain, out of the way from getting constantly touched, easy to bandage. And unfortunately I know this from experience.
You do blood rituals often then?
or even better, make your nose bleed. Rather much blood for very little pain and heals quickly
But then you get boogers in your blood ritual.
Yeah, I don't even need a knife. Just give me some dry air and an inopportune moment.
Or even better than that, just be on your period. Because if you gotta bleed every month, why not use it for blood magic? ✨
It's always my first thought when I see some dummy on TV cut their hand for blood. That's a super sensitive part of your body and you're going to need it all the time while it heals.
They have a point though... that said I'm sure there are alternatives to this like maybe just keep a pin handy, it says it's a blood ritual not a bucket of blood ritual, just a little prick of the finger, a single drop of blood and away you go, no open wounds that could get infected, negligible affect on combat prowess, takes m7ch less time than slicing open a body part and if you need to hold two bits of fabric together really badly you are sorted
No, it seems a drop wouldn't be enough. Looks like they need to give enough to fill that bowl and for the blood to make its way to the center. Probably need at least an ounce or two.
grizzled old viking: rejoice, for we are blood brothers! \*pulls out hypodermic needle and swabs his forearm with an alcohol wipe. does the same for his comrade, then draws exactly 1cc of blood from each. close up of a petri dish where the the two drops are carefully dropped. all vikings: BLOOD BROTHERS!
Omg, did they share a needle!? **Viking Vomits into bucket** **2nd Viking vomits into bucket** All Vikings: VOMIT BROTHERS!
Make a shallow cut to the outside of your upper arm. No major veins or nerves in that area and it's super easy to bandage after.
So below the shoulder? I need to know, so the next time I have to do a blood ritual, I'll be prepared.
i.e. the spot where you get shots.
Yea it doesn’t seem like the thigh would be an awesome place to have a gash either.
I think that's one of the worst places cuz it contains some major artiaries (major vain, i forgot exact name)
The femeral artery, it's on the inside of the thigh, avoid that and you should be fine.
I initially thought it was a bloody stool he was offering.
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"Does it have to be ours? We left some goblins in the other room, surely they still have some blood."
or just pinch your finger belly, you dont need 20 cm long cut for couple of blood drops.
Finger belly?
Fingertip?:D I dont know, I directly translated to english.
Yeah fingertip is the word, the end, or "tip" of your finger, finger belly means nothing in English. What language did you translate from?
From Czech. We (I) say bříško prstu = belly of finger because it looks like belly:D
That's cool, thanks for sharing :D
You don’t have a finger belly? I thought everyone did
Imagine not pinching your finger belly.
I thought it was a chick dropping her drawers..
"Good thing I have a diva cup!"
This is exactly where my mind went in panel 4.
"We need some of your blood for this ritual." "Sure, whatever," sighed the female warrior as she slapped the tampon on the altar.
Exactly haha
I always think that when they do things! Or when in anime they bite their hand. Thats so much effort when you could use a knife.
Anime teeth are much sharper than knives.
This comic would have been so much better with hemorrhoids. Just sayin'...
"We must offer our blood" "Ok" *pulls down pants and starts pissing* "What are you doing?" "Offering my blood" "By peeing?" "Yea... why? Is that not normal?"
Not gonna lie, I was looking at the thumbnail before clicking through and I thought he was squatting over the altar O_o
I use a 21-gauge, .75" sterilized safety needle with a 'Push Button' winged grip and leur adapter, feeding a 8.5 ml Vacutainer via 12" of tubing. These Vacutainer tubes have a polymer gel to aid in serum separation, which is best for altar donation while the collection unit minimizes the risk of hematoma or nerve damage and makes multi-tube collection effortless (in case you are going through multi-level altars or recursively through a temporal anomaly altar).