what's the strangest thing you've searched for-

Posted 5 years, 10 months ago (Edited 5 years, 10 months ago) by zinnia

while writing/worldbuilding/drawing/whatever ?

like. you know when your writing and youre like 'hey would it make sense for this character to wear this outfit' but then somehow it ends up with you 6 feet deep in ancient greek fashion and customs . or sometimes its just 'how much and how effective would gasoline be to burn down a whole office building please im not an arsonist im just writing'

yall get what i mean right. righ

ANYWAYS i really like hearing about weird things people have researched for oc/writing stuff, just know that if it's something sensitive, black it out like this or put it under a spoiler tag


both the above are things ive done and lemme tell you. the gasoline thing wouldnt work irl but who cares it looks COOL in the story, or at least thats what i like to think. also i cant draw ancient greek outfits so im still here with one of my characters wearing period-inaccurate clothing 

edit: aaaaaand of course i get the ic posting glitch . cant believe ramiel is google searching about arson

RadiantRaindragon

- World's longest earthworm

- Are snails born with shells

- Why are bumblebees fluffy

- Bullet ants

- How fast is a bullet

- What happens if you drink toilet cleaner

Thornheartless

"How fast does someone die from exsanguination"

"Slit-throat scarring"

"How does albino skin scar"

In that order



Ytonide

how to draw a roomba

Is there a nerve injury that can lead to a still usable limb but weakened?

Holds to choke someone

looks down definition

Licorictus

For me, it's not so much my search history as my Wikipedia history.  I'm a big nerd with a lot of morbid curiosity and I spend a lot of time crawling through Wikipedia articles on things like...

health effects of fluorine gas
radiation poisoning
Clostridium botulinum
nfpa 704 fire diamond
hydrogen cyanide
phosgene
the Bhopal disaster
white phosphorus

etc. etc. can you tell i've got chemistry in my major ((i sure hope the NSA doesn't think i'm planning to poison everyone around me or something))

Architeuthid

how could I leave out "which body part is safest to freeze"? (as in frozen cryokinetically inside the body) I don't know why I expected to find an answer but at least I learned about which body parts are safest to shoot. ( the buttock, of course)

some more mildly concerning ones:

"human branding"

"can you take Ibuprofen for a gunshot wound"

"bombs you can make with household chemicals"

"human shock collar" 

would you believe it if I told you the branding and shock collar ones were from two completely unrelated projects

KnightOfSpring

Well, I'm sure I searched even weirder stuff but here's a list that's under a spoiler because it MIGHT make some feel icky...

  • radiation poisoning
  • botulism
  • basically anything about viruses and stuff
  • decomposing of a still living human
  • burn wounds, especially those caused in the face
  • if FBI agents can carry guns on a plane
  • quick ways to snap someones neck/how to quickly kill someone without weapons
  • how electricity affects the human body
  • how extreme low temperatures affect the human body
  • how flesh dissolved in acid
  • mutations
  • how to make bombs with common household items
  • that's all I can think of off the bat...
qualityghost

“Can a trowel stab someone”

It was for writing a Danganronpa murder and it’s such a random question I was almost expecting the FBI to kick down my door oof

Ater celestiials

“Do priests get paid”
“Can priests use the internet”
”Can priests sing”/“Do priests sing”

Blame this guy lmaooo; there might be more weird priest questions later haha

Yameyela

the only recent one i remember is "how much itching powder would someone have to consume to die" never found a solid answer for it either lol

purgatorism

everything under the cut is potentially triggering so be careful

- aftermath of torture

- does it hurt to die from sleeping pills overdose

- can you survive a bullet wound to the lung

 - how long does it take for someone to die of suffocation if they're put in a chokehold

- how to write reports of death

- how does prostitution work

- how does human trafficking work

- how long does it need to take for solitary confinement to be severe to your mental health

@ the fbi agent assigned to me im a writer not a criminal i swear

MotherRat

looking up how warm it must be to melt human/flesh boil blood as well as taxidermy humans oop lmao 

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Cant forget the "how to cook children" which was a joke,,,, I did find lots of recapies which was,,, a surprise 

Discordia

The radius of atomic bombs

Luckyee

Current stuff for character moodboards-

- Knife aesthetic

- Revolver

- Graveyard aesthetic

- Trust nobody quotes