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People surviving being swallowed by giant creature.
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RE: People surviving being swallowed by giant creature.
(May 16, 2018 at 9:27 am)Chad32 Wrote: Where do stories like this come from? Why do people make stories of someone being swallowed, and not promptly suffocating or dissolving in digestive fluids?

Perhaps it is related to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorarephilia
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RE: People surviving being swallowed by giant creature.
(May 17, 2018 at 5:22 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(May 16, 2018 at 11:58 pm)Losty Wrote: They’re really bad but I love them

I watched about 15 minutes of the original one.  I didn't get it.  I thought they were supposed to be funny.  Not funny at all.  Just stupid.

You have to have a joy for stupid movies, I think
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RE: People surviving being swallowed by giant creature.
(May 17, 2018 at 8:45 am)Losty Wrote:
(May 17, 2018 at 5:22 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I watched about 15 minutes of the original one.  I didn't get it.  I thought they were supposed to be funny.  Not funny at all.  Just stupid.

You have to have a joy for stupid movies, I think

I know I do.
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RE: People surviving being swallowed by giant creature.
(May 17, 2018 at 1:26 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(May 16, 2018 at 9:27 am)Chad32 Wrote: I'm watching a Let's Play where the main character has to go inside a giant snake to get something, and it made me think about all the stories where you have to go inside some creature, and you're able to survive. That's pretty much the opposite of what's supposed to happen when something gets swallowed.

Where do stories like this come from? Why do people make stories of someone being swallowed, and not promptly suffocating or dissolving in digestive fluids?

It's usually a metaphor for hitting rock bottom, so you can eventually rise above it, the way I understand it. TVtropes calls this trope "Getting Eaten is Harmless." At least, That's the way it usually goes, with one notable exception:





Although that was largely for thematic reasons itself.

That may be it. Or the Voraphilia, or something. I just figure there must be a reason for it to be a common theme in stories.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

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RE: People surviving being swallowed by giant creature.
(May 16, 2018 at 9:27 am)Chad32 Wrote: Where do stories like this come from? Why do people make stories of someone being swallowed, and not promptly suffocating or dissolving in digestive fluids?
-because that would terminate the narrative rather abruptly.
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