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[(Anonymous)]

hahaha Oh my God, I'm running out of words to describe pain or pain sounds or screaming. Does anyone else run into this problem? ^^;

[(Anonymous)]

WELL WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO OUR POOR BABIES, ANON?

[(Anonymous)]

CURRENTLY 4000+ WORDS OF VANESSA & FISK DOING VERY BAD AND WRONG THINGS TO MATT.

(look at my life, look at my choices. i need an intervention, or a thesaurus hahaha)

[(Anonymous)]

CURRENTLY 4000+ WORDS OF VANESSA & FISK DOING VERY BAD AND WRONG THINGS TO MATT.

*sheds a single joyous tear*
you're doing the lord's work, nonny.

[(Anonymous)]

XD

okay but like, I'm going to have to go back in after and replace all ten billion occurrences of "moan" or "scream," hahaha.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man... this entire exchange has me crying with laughter. I love this meme so, so much. Just... joy right now.

[(Anonymous)]

Merriam Webster Online has a pretty good Thesaurus. Word does too. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

For the vocabulary of pain, escalation might be your best bet for avoiding repetition. Matt's a pretty disciplined kind of guy, given the right context, so perhaps you could start with low-key descriptions?

For instance: he hissed in pain, gritted his teeth, choked back a whimper, uttered a low broken sound, bit back a curse, twitched or jerked etc.

Then after a while: he couldn't stifle a yelp, his voice cracked, he uttered a sharp, pained sound, he cried out, jolted,

And then go for: he screamed, made an animal sound of distress, sobbed, his face twisted in agony, writhed, thrashed, etc

Perhaps finishing with: hoarse screams, his throat shredded, opened his mouth in a soundless scream, broken whimpers, etc

Yelled might be an option, but I don't know when you'd use it. Groaning works as a reasonable synonym for moaning. Especially if you mess around with different framing verbs and adjectives.

...Well, this has been both a fun and disturbing writing exercise. I hope that helps in some way (I also suspect I know which fill you're working on and I am super-keen to read it).

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh, yes, some of those are very helpful indeed, anon!

It's extra challenging because I've (spoiler) had them gag him, so I've automatically limited myself to certain sounds, haha ^^;

It's this one, if that's which one you were thinking:

http://daredevilkink.dreamwidth.org/2760.html?thread=5691080#cmt5691080

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Glad to help! (spoiler) gagging makes for a difficult obstacle, so good on you for working around it.

That was indeed the prompt I was thinking of (and keeping an eye on).

[(Anonymous)]

I started posting the fill, nonny. :3