- 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
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
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))
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
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...
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