i remember researching in great detail how being put in liquid cement would kill you, like is it suffocation? is it hot enough to kill you before that? how dense cement is... google still recommends me articles on cement density
@@riccardozanoni2531 Wait, what were the answers that you got from it?I wanna know since now I’m getting an idea for something that I’ve been writing for Social Studies and I want to get creative for some of the deaths- My teacher said writing death was alright as long as we didn’t get rid of everyone, I swear that’s what she said!
@@crystal_storm2874 apparently the chemical burns and general high temperature of the cement as it solidifies are pretty bad but don't kill you. Basically you would suffocate, because, even if you manage not to get it in your mouth, it solidifies around you, preventing your lungs from expanding... It takes time though, i remember reading about a guy who fell in a construction site and was covered in cement, they saved him after something like thirty minutes, and he survived, despite suffering quite serious injuries due to the chemicals in the cement and the fall.
I once read in an author's note that they had signed up for a CPR class so they could realistically write out the scene and I think about that everyday. Imagine having a heart attack and the person who saved you knew how to do so because they wanted to write realistic hurt/comfort. You know what, if that's my life that gets saved I am okay with that. 😂
I have once read about how an author was taking notes for their fanfiction while being rushed into ER. Another one got into a trunk of a car for a kidnapping scene. Apparently it was surprisingly comfortable and from the rest of the replies whether you find it comfortable or not depends from person to person. One had to write a character being whipped and to see how many lashes can be given to the character, they had a friend whip them in their school bathroom with a belt.
Probably the two oddest things I've discussed with a friend of mine for the sake of accurate fanfiction have been whether or not Arkham Asylum would have liquid soap for a fic based on one specific episode of the Harley Quinn animated series, and whether or not a contract tattooed on someone's body would be considered legally binding in Japan for an Ace Attorney fic that may or may not even end up being done. Nowhere near as odd as some things people have looked into, but still not the most normal conversations to have with a friend.
As an AA fan I can't help but think wow. this is a lot more normal to read to me than it should be. May I ask what on Earth you're writing? Or, well, may or may not be writing.
@-»eclipse☆♡ AUs are so exhausting,, I've got a modern AU with the TGAA characters I've been working on and it's hard balancing the differences in their lives while still carrying their canon personalities
Not a fic, just a book. But I was ✨ traumatizing ✨ a character and wanted to do it properly. My search history was: 'can a child get evicted?' 'what exactly can CPS do?' 'who can call CPS?' And 'what colors go well with dark skin tones?'
I found this. I don’t write fics, I write books. However, aside from my original lore, I also write little AUs that branch off into other AUs before I find the most interesting one. For one of them, weirdest thing I’ve ever researched was probably: “Does an Autistic person get treated differently in juvenile?”
I swear the FBI agents that watch our history have an internal crisis everytime this happens wondering if the person they're watching is a writer or a serial killer
I once helped a friend determine a cause of death for a character in a fic she was writing. We decided the best way to do it would be as a result of medical malpractice, and narrowed it down from there to a mistake from improper anesthesia administration. We then debated addressing the consequences of said character's death with something like a court scene or whatever, but ultimately decided it wouldn't add to the fic in a way that would advance the plot, since the character was getting resurrected anyway and the paperwork alone would be a headache to research. We had this cavalier conversation over lunch. At school. *In seventh grade*
@Charmaine Olac Long gone, most likely. Who knows how many page purges the LEGO website has had since that contest. Bonus fact: It was also the first story I ever wrote, as far as I can recall.
Not a fanfic writer but I did research to find out how much blood a vampire would need to consume if they need the same calorie intake as a human. The answers is just under 2 liters. Also you know how in vampire fiction they'll commonly say: 'The bodies were completely drained of their blood.'? The capacity of a stomach is 3-4 liters and the human body has around 5 liters of blood in it, so their stomach should’ve ruptured.
Ohh, I also looked into this. I also searched for the reverse, in how much blood the human body can lose, and how often, to not kill or even harm the person's health and safety, and how many people would realistically have to get together to regularly donate enough to a single vampire to keep them fed.
I simply searched "What was the worlds view on homosexuality in the 80s" for a fanfiction. that led to spending 5 hours researching LGBTQ+ history, events, etc. from the 50s all the way to current times. It was very helpful for my fanfiction though Edit: I'm surprised this is getting likes lmao
1. Dragons, destiny, prophecy 2. Cats. prophecy, war 3. Spoopy killer animal robots 4. Borderline Yandere bug superhero 5. Superpowered highschoolers, secret evil older brother 6. Crazy chick with hyenas 7. 14yo web-slinger 8. Pups that save people 9. Golden Retrievers 10. Dinos go nom 11. Mermaid 12. Long live teh king 13. Giant monke 14. Large lizard 15. Theory 16. Poppy flowers Guess those.
@@pinklights9712 the first one is either Wings Of Fire or Dragonriders of Pern. Edit: also could be Eragon. second is that Warrior Cats book series i havent read yet seven is Spooderman twelve is Lion King thirteen is King Kong and fourteen is Godzilla. couldnt guess the rest.
@@endarus6053 You be correct! Here the ones you couldn't guess 1: It is in fact Wings of Fire, never heard of the others actually- 3: FNAF (Five Nights at Freddy's) 4: MLB (Miraculous Ladybug) 5: MHA (My Hero Academia) 6: Harley Quinn 8: I forgot, but I think it's super pups 9: Any of the buddy movies 10: Jurassic Park/World 11: The Little Mermaid 15: Game/Style/Movie/Food/GTLIVE Theory 16: PP (Poppy Playtime)
Oh, I have a lot of these. I've googled how long a human can survive in freezing temperatures (depends). If oxygen bleach can get rid of bloodstains (yes). If preventing a lawful burial (ie hiding bodies you didn't directly kill) is a crime in Japan (no). Edit: For those asking, the fics were a "Bruce lives" AU for Punishing: Gray Raven (for those not in the know, Bruce is a backstory-exclusive character who died after being mauled by a machine in the snow), a FE3H modern AU where Count Varley gets mcmurdered, and a DRV3 UTDP-verse fic that I have long since stopped working on and have forgotten the context for respectively.
Okay so here are some of the things I've researched: -How switching for people with DID works and how it can affect them. -Countless amounts of obscure Youkai. -What does tearing metal sounds like? -Several different mythologies -What does it feel like to be somewhere that's burning? -Different parts of a computer -What does an out of body experience feel like?
I swear, a03 authors scare me. Currently reading a fanfic where the author posts chapters with 1000 or so words *daily* , and I honestly dunno how they keep up the pace.
Could also be that they have chapters stocked up, that's what I'm trying to do before I start posting anything I write publicly again because the pressure of writing on a schedule gets to me lol
@@RinkuChan333 if I ever decide to finish my fanfic (which I started around a year and a half ago and only wrote the prologue and ch.1) I plan to write the whole thing first then upload daily. I was trying to write a story that uploaded Friday's but it was too hard to keep up lol
@@RinkuChan333 same fam. I have a lot of trouble with staying motivated so I have a hard time consistently updating. I once had the first ten chapters of a story before I put it on the internet bc I knew I would instantly loose interest in it lol.
@@wisvai279 Yeah, something about putting a fic online officially kills inspiration (at least for me), or maybe it's the fact that there are Expectations now and that's intimidating lol
I once had to look up what the penalty was for throwing someone off a bridge in Japan. This also included looking up various penalties for odd crimes, and also how fast broken bones heal in various places. All for an mha oc fanfic.
I had broken bones from surgery on my legs (the bones in the grew crooked for the first 16 years of my life) and it took me six weeks in non weight bearing casts plus six months of PT for me to fully walk again. That being said, healing time depends on age and health
It's amazing how much of this kind of thing you can pick up just watching CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, etc. I mean, I know the shows dramatized a lot of things, but still...
Horror content creator here, a lot of experience with this kind of stuff. Final Fantasy x Pokemon fanfictions lead to some pretty wild searches: - elevator breaking and falling - animal attack sound effects - abandoned factories near me - glow in the dark hallucinations - psychedelic glow in the dark - pokemon gore art ( this one's actually really awesome) - how much does it cost to buy an abandoned factory Recently got into Devil May Cry which gave us such gems as: - who is nero's mother - cult beliefs - am i in a cult quiz - religious sacrifice - how to start a religion - when does a religion become a cult - healing crystals - healing crystal deaths For context, I wanted to flesh out the character of whoever Nero's mother/Vergil's love interest is, she's a cult leader.
I once had to ask on quora “what kind of bulletproof vests are issued to FBI agents and can they stop an arrow?” I was very careful to include the the fact that I was writing an isekai fic in the question.
The answer is probably no, because bullets and arrows require different types of armor. An arrow is basically a flying knife, and knives go right through kevlar, which is standard bulletproof armor.
i'm a criminal minds fanfic writer, so i've looked up stuff that has definitely put me on a watchlist: - what happens to a dead body if you submerge it in water - how long does it take poison to kill you (this got me a helpline number) - can you poison tattoo ink - can you stab someone with a tattoo gun - how to orchestrate a prison break - how to build a bomb
@@Maria.Mirabella listen man i really just needed the basics on the components so i could explain how the bomb a character used worked 💀🙏 being on a watchlist is just a small price to pay /joke
I imagine you’d have to research a lot of other random shit for weird Reid facts as well Edit: Also, are you on ao3? I’d love to check out some of your work if you don’t mind.
@@pharaoh4064 oh yeah absolutely! i know a lot of weird facts due to it lmao and i am on ao3!! my account is speedreiding (i thought the pun was funny)
It wasn't for a fic, but it was for my novel: "What does human flesh taste like?" sometimes with the addition of "according to real cannibals" I found many great resources. One was a reddit post from a guy who kept his amputated foot and cooked it up and ate it. Others were direct interviews with famous cannibals such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. I also, because of this, recalled Albert Fish's letters. For those who don't know, human flesh tastes like a sweeter, tougher pork. Also, apparently the eyeballs are the sweetest, and the buttocks cook the best.
As a guy that loves to write I've made 4 fanfics in my 14 and a half years of life. One of them I researched stuff like how much pressure it takes to break the human skull, how much would an adult male if a bleed if they were impaled in every place imaginable, what is the scent of blood, what is the smell of a rotting corpse, and much more. Another I was looking into what it'd really look like for a human body to morph into another being, the symptoms of pregnancy, what it'd be like to be above 3 dimensional beings and other stuff as well though a lot is slipping my mind. And in many others I've looked up some weird crap, even more so for non-fanfic stuff I've written, I think I've got to be on some watch lists, by now.
Did your researches into morphing, lead you to the fact that humans are deuterostomes, whereas insects are protostomes, so while turning into an insect, your mouth and bottom would change places?
@🌈 gummibeari subliminals I watched this video on if 2d beings existed, how we could alter their world, makes this mirror versions of themselves, and more, I would've left a link but can't find the video now sadly.
"Are deer antlers made of bone?" "Are deer bones more fragile than human bones?" "Could the average person stab through a human skull?" "Could an 18th century dagger pierce the skull?" “Old timey terms for PTSD” “History of PTSD” “Chionophobia” “Astraphobia” The first two were part of me trying a roundabout way to find out the two after it before giving up and just googling it straight-out. I'll let you guess what fandom this is for. Edit: I’ll give y’all a hint: it’s an animated show. New edit: Screw it, it’s Tangled the Series. It’s also a murder mystery fic, hence the concerning stuff. 😅
"No FBI, I swear I'm not trying to become a hitman, I just write fanfiction" That sums up practically everytime I've done a Google search for my Katekyo Hitman Reborn fanfics xD
Watching this i feel like I need to tell all fanfic authors out there "Thank you for your service... And for being the bane of the FBI and the NSA's existence." Lmao
For me, probably the most obscure thing I've researched for a fic was what sort of camera a character could have had in the early 1920s and how much it would cost (i don't remember the camera model off the top of my head, but it would cost $21, or around $300 now)
That seems too expensive, if i remember correctly, 10$ of 1940s money was 200$ in todays money (from a cultural mishmash of a wedding scene i had to write)
not for fanfiction, but character creation: i'm currently in the midst of researching the anatomy of different aquatic creatures in order to design a plausible human-like sea creature. this has included having to research the reproductive system of an octopus, alongside various other things like what causes certain animals to have their specific blood color. Her name is Cordelia Marii, and she's a lesbian, and i love her. I made her character a long time ago, but i've decided I should probably properly revamp her alongside all my other OCs in the past i've also done: -botulism -cyanide and other poisons -bird anatomy -brood parasitism among birds -bird calls -other random science questions
i’ve researched poisons extensively for a story i was working on that i probably won’t ever continue. pretty difficult to find a poison that’s only detectable by taste, makes you sleepy, and slowly kills you over time if you keep ingesting it. and also has a gas form. maybe that was too much to ask. for a story i *will* be continuing, i am also making fish people! Figuring out how to give them arms is a struggle, because sea creatures don’t really have those. also, you’ve made me realize i hadn’t thought about organs yet. or anything internal really. i was too caught up in how they look, and especially how they would move. only sea mammals have tails that swish up and down, and my fish people are fish, so they have to swish side to side.
@@slugcatpotatoes well you see, an octopus dies shortly after mating due to a disadvantage in their biology (which causes them to have short life spans) so I was trying to pin point the exact reason for it, so it doesn't end up interfering with the plot.
Not a fanfic writer, but an aspiring spy thriller/sci fi author nonetheless: -Ballistic specs of a .308 round and how those might be affected by custom handloads. -The logistics of quickly and noiselessly dispatching someone with a knife and moving the corpse. Turns out, edged weapons are actually quite hard to efficiently kill with, and quickly moving dead weight unassisted is quite a skill to learn. -I also fell into the dimensional travel rabbit hole like one mentioned here. -Potential for directed energy weapons. We actually have some that we use to fight drones, but we aren't quite at laser rifles yet. -Combat knife throwing for fun and profit. -Classes of IEDs, how to build them, how effective they would be at destroying structures, where could materials be sourced (I *swear* I'm not writing this from Guantanamo Bay) -Improvised firearms, how to build them, etc. (I SWEAR) -Real life spy gadgets. Beyond various tools of clandestine assassination, there's really not much that wouldn't be available to regular militaries. At least that I could find -MK ULTRA -MK NAOMI -Soviet special forces deployments in any of the conflicts they were involved in -Chinese intelligence operations (would you believe me if I said I can't find what their agency is called? Like the US has the CIA, Russia has the KGB, Britain has the MI6, Israel has Mossad, but China? It's just referred to as "Beijing" in the international community from what I could gather. Thats spooky as hell. I abandoned this particular plotline because of that.)
I am also a thriller (organised crime, corruption and espionage) writer, and have done similar deep-dives... Weird stuff about the KGB/FSB and real life shady deaths of oligarchs especially!
Japan just calls theirs Bureau [number I forgot], and IIRC it's split into three bureaus-- and it follows an incredible pattern of just IDing things with how it's organized and then a number. I'm not sure if the nameless one or the sterile anonymity one is scarier, both are just... weirdly unsettling but at the same time make so much sense
this wasn't for any writing but me and my boyfriend decided to research if stabbing your eye could kill you due to a mutual omori interest. the answer is it depends, if it goes straight through your eye (which given what we were researching, that's most likely what happened) it'll only blind you. however, if it goes towards your brain you will probably die. we also realised that violin bows (the thing that stabbed the character's eye) are extremely fragile and probably wouldn't have even gone through.
Things I’ve looked up for the sake of stories: - What do deer symbolize in Mexican mythology - How does ketamine affect pregnant rats (unrelated to rest of searches, it was a different story) - What happens when someone with DID gets pregnant - Are conjoined twins always identical - What is the meaning behind the name Dolores, Eddie, and Alex - Are there any curse words in the Hawaiian language (has to do with the pregnant rat thing)
I spent a _lot_ of time researching gossip. I watched shows about teen drama/gossip, I listened to podcasts, I read books revolving around gossip, hell, I even _made friends_ with some of the biggest gossipers in my school so I could get real life gossip. (And I made some hella friends from that lmao) All for a fic I would abandon after 3 chapters due to not being in the fandom anymore It was fun though!
I searched 'Nightmare on Elmostreet' recently because I wanted to make an entire parody on Nightmare of Elm Street after my friend forgot the name of it and called it Nightmare on Elmo
@@BarelyAHuman I didn't write it because there is a movie by that name. Elmo is a children's character from Seasame Street and Nightmare on Elm Street is a horror movie tell me if I should write it
This makes me feel better about researching weird things. I haven't had the need to do much since I usually write about dragons, but I'm working on a story with humans in it now and I want it to be accurate.
i've searched up how people handled having periods before the 21st century. i found out an old slang term for having one; being "on the rag" because before modern hygiene products existed, they used old rags.
A couple of my favorite things I’ve searched up are “How to kill someone with a sewing machine” “What organs can you lose and survive” “Is it safe to drink a liter of your own blood” “How to remove an appendix” “How big is an appendix” “Do you need you appendix to live” I’m writing a Slenderverse fic that involves mainly EverymanHYBRID so it makes sense but Still can catch ppl off guard to find it in my history out of context
stuff I’ve researched and then not used in my writing: - way too many specifics of tall sailing ships - how far a human body gets thrown when you get hit by a car - ancient Roman funerary practices as compared to modern American funeral practices - an unbelievable amount of Biblical angel minutiae - whether or not mummies still have eyes - the ABV of British Navy rum rations - if you’re stabbed in the lungs, what actually kills you? - how dead bodies feel when they’re carried (this one was actually a direct conversation with a friend that works for a funeral home)
Some things I've researched recently: - Tried to look up how to insult someone in Angloromani but didn't find anything useful. - What does the foreskin actually look like? - Was capital punishment in the UK abolished before or after the moon landing? (before) - Fascism in the UK - How did real hippies dress? - History of autism - How do escort agencies work? - Archeological sites in Florida
Definitely the age of consent. I was/am exploring predatory relationships and trauma in a story I’m writing, and the things I have to look up for that make me look really bad 😂
I googled a lot of things for my most recent fic. Including (but not limited to); 1) how asphyxiation works 2) how you can determine if the cause of death was from suffocation 3) what it looks like when someone slices your throat open (tho I got a lot of suicidal websites) 4) how bird wings work 5) how long a sprained wing takes to heal 6) how many birds there are and what they symbolize 7) how cauterization works 8) when jeans were invented 9) how Phoenixes work (mythologically) 10) how long it takes for blood to congeal And so many more things. Yes, all from the same fic. I swear, the FBI must be so confused, bc one day I’ll be googling a lot of really dark stuff, and then the next day start googling the most random thing that’s not even correlated
I once fainted and couldn’t wake up for 30 minutes while researching frostbite and cryotherapy for a fanfiction-related assignment I had in a college creative writing class
- The origin name for assassins. - Werewolves - Little Red Riding Hood - steraline pronunciation - green wallpaper in the victorian era - grey magic - Sirens - Witches - kleptomania - reincarnation - Azriel name meaning - annual twins - silver fulminate - Van Helsing - 1875 English men's fashion I found out that haemophilia & haematomania are two different things
Somehow "Green wallpaper in the Victorian Era" and "1875 English men's fashion" is the weirdest in the list. Are you perhaps researching about Jack the Ripper?
@@sureindubitably3771 If you're into horror movies & the like, Coraline is based off of a book, Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Both the book & the movie are good.
Haven't really written fanfic in a while. I have plenty of ideas but no motivation. But if we're talking outrageous ideas, it's gotta be me searching up about the Y2K scare, which was the time where people in 1999 thought the world would plunge into chaos and electronics would wreck havoc as soon as the year 2000 hit, because the computer calendars would may or may not be putting the year "1900" instead of "2000"... IT'LL MAKE SENSE ONCE YOU SEARCH IT UP TRUST ME!!
I think the Y2K scare is interesting because even though it was definitely blown *way* out of proportion, a lot of the concerns were actually legitimate. There could've potentially been some severe consequences of Y2K had there not been a concerted effort to pre-emptively fix important infrastructure. I doubt it would've been as world-ending as some people claimed, but it could've caused a lot of serious problems and put a lot of people in danger. Y2K seems silly and quaint today because people took the issue seriously and fixed the problem years in advance before it could actually become dangerous (and thus, by the time the public became aware of it and started screaming their heads off about it, the issue was essentially already solved and all the panic was for nothing.)
A former friend’s dad is an engineer. He was an engineering student during 1999. He got invited to a New Years party at his friend’s house. He had a very good time, and he also had a plan. Shortly before midnight, he slipped down to the basement and over to the circuit-thingy where the house’s wires connected to the town power grid, and got to work. At midnight, right after the ball dropped, he uncoupled the wires, therefore (temporarily and reversibly) cutting the house’s power. According to him, the screams were audible from even down in the basement. (I say former friend at the beginning, but nothing bad happened, she just moved away)
Love how everyone has looked up weird (in a funny way) stuff and then there's me I never learned much social communication as a child, I was taught to keep quiet and only speak when I'm told to, so naturally, I'm socially not able to function correctly. So sometimes I have to literally look up how to answer to the simplest things when I write casual dialog in my stories 🗿 Like, someone opens the door to the mailman. What do they say to each other, how do they react, what's the usual small talk with the mailman, do you say thank you when you say goodbye? Or how to react when a character vents to someone about a breakup or smth, I'm the absolute worst at giving comfort, aside from silently listening to the person venting lmao 💀
To be fair to yourself, most writers (in the spaces I've been to) also struggle a lot to write natural-sounding dialogue, even if they're well-socialized. It does sound like you have a unique issue, but just know that you're not alone in struggling to make "simple" conversations sound real. :)
oh my god me too. i struggle so much with natural dialogue bc i was heavily isolated and socially restricted as a child (aswell as being homeschooled) and possible autism so its the main reason why im so scared to share anything ive done (and why ‘anything ive done’ is just one conversation without any sort of actually storyline aside from what the characters are saying, usually pretty short, sometimes to the point i forget the context of it after coming across it a few months later) bc like i know how _i_ talk, but i also have a tendency to talk rather formally in casual conversation at times ESPECIALLY in situations where i feel the need to be serious or straightforward like in the case of writing. so i have like an irrational fear that if i showed ppl stuff ive written theyd point out how weird they speak lol or how sarcastic/fancy it is, cause i also have a tendency to write every sentence with heavy sarcasm
SO REAL fortunately i developed most of my early perceptions on socialization from fiction so it's much easier how to write how an established character would act than how a real person would
That feel when you're writing Community fanfic or similar and are only good at our socially maladjusted spirit animals... (But for real, shutting up and listening is sometimes a better support method than the neurotypical reaction.)
Whenever I'm researching something weird for a fic I always google stuff about writing advice as well just incase anyone is keeping track of my search history just so they know that I'm a writer not a killer. Have learned some really cool things about hallucinations though. Writing a fic with the main villain being a goddess who can make people see illusions, decided the closest thing would be hallucinations and sleep paralysis demons (don't ask I'm not sure I'd be able to explain all the lore behind it plus my own creative licencing). After researching a lot about that also made sure to throw in 'how to write creepy horror scenes realistically' and 'how to write hallucinations' and the like. Those were surprisingly helpful though and also sent me down a path of the mental and physical effects illusions and hallucinations would have on the mind and body and potential mental illnesses that could stem from or cause hallucinations. Very interesting but considering the story has literal gods and like magic and potions and all that I'm realising I might have gone a little overboard. Like for crying out loud in canon we had a fatal magical illness be cured by a potion made of a magical flower grown planted by a god in hell from a piece of a cursed goddess's soul. Also the cursed goddess is the mother of the person who had the fatal illness. I am realising things do not have to be accurate in the slightest.
I usually write original, but I did research if mute people could laugh. My thought was that, well, they can't make the necessary sounds for talking, so would they able to produce the sound of laughter? Yes they can and that mute character didn't have to stay silent as all his friends laughed, so it was a fully happy scene that time.
Something, something, cannibalism, octopi biology, human anatomy, effects of nuclear radiation, and stuff that I don't even remember anymore. I'm probably not gonna get on a list, but it would definitely raise some eyebrows, as to why I searched up all those things for. And no, it was for multiple stories, not all at once. XD Edit: And I'm definitely going to hell for reading that Wikipedia article about legalities of "close family relationships" in different countries.
@@jflauto3917 Funny enough, it's not Hannibal. It's for a cartoon kids show. XD Should I mention I plan to include brainwashing? More specifically brainwashing someone into cannibalism? Oh and let's not even start on the insane ramblings this guy is gonna have, alongside some really questionable feelings for his sibling. Now if I could only figure how to write all of this. XD
@@jflauto3917 Sorry for the late reply. Odd how I never responded. Funny enough, at the time of the comment, I haven't even seen Hannibal. Now that I have, I could honestly see how that would relate haha I don't really have any fanfic ideas for the show though so, sorry about that.
@@ivorywizard No, actually. Although I was thinking of writing a self-indulgent crossover with the fandom I do write for! Don't have plans for posting it though.
I haven't done much research for fanfics, I'll admit, I just kinda come up with a plot and it ends up existing-- or not, depending on how I feel. However I'm pretty sure I have had to look up how long it takes to die from being stabbed in the stomach just to prove a character's death in a game innacurate
I also did research on gaslighting! And other related forms of emotional abuse. It was for a D&D character’s backstory, so close enough to a fanfic (I write D&D characters instead of writing fanfic; I probably would’ve dipped my toes into fanfic if I didn’t play D&D tbh). I think I did _too_ well because the DM (the dungeon master; the person who runs the D&D game for the players) got very upset while reading it and almost cried due to my incredibly realistic depictions of manipulation, gaslighting, abuse, and my character’s anxiety and tendency to spiral into panic attacks (thankfully, her emotions were the only thing I was writing from experience. I didn’t have to suffer through any of the rest personally). Also for that same backstory: “Can you break a human skull with a wooden bat” “Sound of breaking skull with wooden bat” (couldn’t find anything. Wonder why) “How to write a useless lesbian” “How to write someone who has a crush but doesn’t realize it” She’s honestly become one of my favorite characters because of how much effort and love I poured into writing her backstory. Edit: oh! I just remembered another! I use a site called Hero Forge to make depictions of characters and NPCs. I once wanted to make a town in a D&D game which was magically frozen, people included. But I wanted to make it _realistic._ So I looked up real ice mummies and the effects freezing has on corpses and made the models as accurate as possible, then gave them a bit of bluish whitish highlights and smooth texture to make them appear glazed in a coating of ice. ‘Twas fun. One of them was a mother holding her infant. Some of them were animated and attacked the party in an attempt to freeze them too.
I have a lot since I tend to write for darker plots but this one was just a little amusing to me : I wanted to figure out how hot coffee is meant to be made at (which took me down a very long rabbit hole with lawsuits and everything), what degree of burn that temp would inflict on the human skin, how long would pouring take to become fatal or super super serious, and adequate burn treatments.
Most of mine have to do with either specific animal biology/behavior or human psychology. I find it funny that someone mentioned "the effects of drugs on spiders" because I went down that exact same rabbit hole looking for information on black widow spiders. As it turns out, they're really interesting creatures! I also went down the cat genetics hole during my obligatory warrior cat fanfiction phase. I still get nostalgic for it, maybe I'll come back one day lmao.
I have searched things about various mental disorders and the science of alternate dimensions. I have also searched how mental stress can affect your health. But the weirdest thing I've looked up is "can stabbing someone in the shoulder kill them" *I'M WRITING A POKEMON LEGENDS ARCEUS FANFIC*
I've once written a fanfiction where a lot of my characters are placed in an 18th Century England setting and I really tried to make it fit into the story. So while researching about what bathtubs look like in the 18th Century and what does their tea look like back in the day (they look like chocolate bars btw) I found one peculiar thing. ***YOU CAN BUY A WIFE BACK THEN***, *HUSBAND TOO IF AVAILABLE* **I WRITE HILDA FANFICTION*
Stuff I've researched! - Epilepsy and specific brainwave patterns regarding certain types of seizures. - Gyaru fashion and substyles. - Sedative overdose symptoms. - The specifics of bipolar and all of its episode types. - Canon backstories of the THH cast and Gundham Tanaka. - Are Kiyotaka Ishimaru's and Masaru Daimon's mothers still around? (No idea. There's nothing about either one). - Japanese family law. - Recovering from a serious car accident. - Junko Enoshima's natural hair and eye colour (red for both). - Can one survive internal decapitation? (depends). - Everyone's blood type in Danganronpa plus blood type genetics. - Eye and hair colour genetics and how that would work in a universe where the entire rainbow is considered natural eye and hair colour to have. - Twins. (Apparently, Kaede Akamatsu has a twin sister. Junko and Mukuro are fraternal twins). - Hearing impairment and the Deaf community. - What happens if you do literally everything they tell you not to do in pregnancy and have no prenatal care whatsoever (depends but often ends badly). - Mobility aids of all kinds and the pros, cons and usage of each type. - Can you go up and down stairs in a wheelchair? (Down, yes. Up, no). - What happens if you get rubella during pregnancy? (again, depends. The earlier in pregnancy you contract it, the more severe the outcome). - Were Nagisa Shingetsu's parents involved in the Kamukura project? (No info but I have a feeling that they were). - Anorexia effects on an amab person. - What age do you start introducing certain foods to a baby, specifically what the Japanese health authorities recommend. - Anaphylaxis symptoms in someone less than a year old. - Are epipens available in Japan? (yes). - Can there be more than 16 students in a class at Hope's Peak? (still don't know). - Does Hope's Peak have a middle school division? (Couldn't find anything but probably yes).
Actually, I can confirm there is a middle school division - apparently it's brought up in the Byakuya novels. Not much is known about it, but it does exist
I once spent a week researching tea flavors, because I have never had tea, but everyone unanimously agreed that this character did, so I needed to know what kind he would drink and how to describe it. This resulted in roughly three paragraphs of two characters drinking tea in mostly silence.
Off the top of my head, I think I spent about an hour researching the Salem witch trials just to figure out what hair accessories existed then, if formal suits existed then, what metal working knowledge and tools they had, and if their wedding bands would have survived being burnt lol.
Being a writer, fanfic or original (not based from a fandom), comes with being on at least one watch list, doubting everything you know, and getting side tracked with another article about something entirely off topic. Or you spend at least three hours reading up on a small thing in the story just so you can get it accurate, whether important to the story or not. Not the weirdest thing I’ve ever searched for a fic but it would probably be one of the things I went most in depth too; Marie Antoinette Syndrome. People originally thought it was caused by stress and could make all of your hair white in one night because of a Queen by the name of Marie Antoinette. The night before her execution it’s said that all of her hair turned white, or something along those lines. There is a science behind it but I couldn’t find any confirmed reason for it, just a bunch of very similar theories. I was writing a fic where a character has it but I’ve lost motivation on it before even publishing it.
Call me naively optimistic, but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of writers out there who AREN'T on any watch lists, simply because the things they write about wouldn't raise any flags when researched. Plus, I'm sure that by this point, the FBI's gotten so used to people looking up weird crap that they've developed a system to figure out whether or not somebody would need to go on a list.
This made me feel better researching weird stuff for writing. Weirdest thing I’ve researched is types of gags for a fanfic. If your interested I can add the whole search list for this fanfic.
Examples if stuff I've looked up for art (cause I am not really a effective fanfic writer) "Good weapons for clowns" "Clown fashion" "Cows" "What do fish look like" Also a general curiosity one "Are geese lactose intolerant "
I own alot of animals and sometimes feel like going on art communities offering animal drawing help even tho i can hardly even draw... and also i can geuss no one will respond, like with pretty much anything i post abt animals
@@whatTFisThis I mean, TBF most animals that don't drink a type of milk tend to be lactose intolerant (even then, some can presumably be differently intolerant? Like cats can drink cat milk but not cows milk. Neat!)
things i’ve had to look up: - the entire history of michigan (specifically detroit) - when the color orange was created - when the fruit orange was created (& its ancestors) - were there bears in 4000 BC - the eye color of the olsen twins - average height of women in 1700s canada - violent ways to describe rain - the history and specific effects of electroconvulsive therapy (& what happens if it goes wrong) - 1700s equivalent to a truck - what happens to a body just after death (specifically what happens to the eyes) - can flamingoes be yellow - what a starling looks like & how it sounds - can chickens fly - the phases of the moon during september 1704 (specifically what day the new moon was [for anyone wondering it was the 17th])
Kind of on the milder side, but I once spent an entire history class looking up if you could dream in a coma (You can) Ironically, I didn’t consider this before starting the fic. The whole fic takes place in a dream, while our protagonist is comatose.
"All of this was promptly used for a passing line." Really felt that one. I used to spend so much time looking up things for throwaway gags and small details that never got brought up again. My weirdest was probably that time I looked up moon phases in the '40s to see if it would be feasible for a Pokemon to evolve under the light of a full moon.
As someone who writes a lot of weird aus, ironically the most tame thing I’ve written has the most weird crap searched. - common health issues in dairy cattle and how to treat them, down to what drugs and how to administer and how often - in the same vein, hoof illnesses in horses - how big alligators can get, then prehistoric alligators, then estimates of how much they’d eat, and that then became a rabbit hole that ended on some weird conspiracy forum - me wandering my own state and then seeing if stuff I knew of as common was in other places too and then figuring how to incoperate that Yes, it’s a couple fics set in the south/with characters who are cowboys/etc. Yes, this means lots of bumf***-texas-adjacent crap
I wrote at length about an oversized talking alligators who was friends with a cowboy so I had to stop by and say howdy 🤠🤣 I have way too much knowledge about alligator biology as research for making an anthro character 💀
I'd say the most extensive research I've done has been in relation to Homestuck troll biology and what could be realistic for it. For example, what human melanin is made of (so I could try and figure out what the troll equivalent that colors their blood might be comprised of), what kinds of metals work best in blood cells (iron carries oxygen far better than copper, even if copper comes in quite a few colors and is actually a component of insect blood; decided that iron covered in the previously mentioned coloring agent is probably the most likely composition), and whether or not chitin in humanlike beings is a viable alternative to keratin (quite possibly; keratin and chitin are functionally the same, but the former is made of protein while the latter is made of sugar :3). But probably the oddest search had to do with whether or not aliens (specifically searched for Vulcans) can take ibuprofen. Sadly that research was inconclusive and I still have no idea if human medicine is safe for aliens lol (guess it's up to the author then)
For me, it was the Catholic wedding process, the anatomy of the female genitalia, the anatomy of hermaphrodite genitalia, what could possibly happen if a demon had a baby with a dragon, genetics(like punnet squares and such), and what leg braces and glasses looked like during pirate times.
I think my weirdest one was "how to remove blood from a body", due to a murder mystery thing I was writing. For fanfic specifically, "how long does it take for a person to freeze to death in space?"
This one wasn't even for a fic but I spent like an hour reading about how geckos stick to things ( basically a very specific electrostatic force) because I was having a conversation with someone about wether or not it would be super out of place for a character with the ability to control electricity to wall crawl like Spiderman. That and way too much information about crows.
"The rate of speed a car would need to be going to break a bone but not seriously injure someone." I would consider a broken bone to be a serious injury... 5:15
i write small fics for myself (i dont publish them anywhere) and i always make sure to throw in a few "best writing tips for fight scenes" "writing tips for violent scenes" "how to write fictional violence" etc searches in along with my 'suspicious' ones. even if theres no fbi watching my history it still gives me peace of mind lmao
not for a fanfiction but for a character i used to roleplay as, the most recent examples i can think of are symptoms of pyromania, how pyromania can be triggered in a pyromaniac, as well as the different levels of arson and the difference between an arsonist and a pyromaniac. if anyone's curious, pyromania is classified as an impulse control disorder and has not been put into the DSM at the time of writing this, and pyromaniacs are people who have been diagnosed with pyromania. pyromania is usually triggered by feelings, such a boredom, stress, depression, etc. and pyromaniacs are different from arsonists, since arsonists usually have external intentions for why they burn things (insurance, revenge, etc.) but pyromaniacs do not have that factor in mind and burn things for the sake of releasing stress, gaining satisfaction, etc. from watching / setting fires. pyromania, from what i read, is very much like a spectrum in terms of what symptoms a pyromaniac can have. they can go as simple as to just watch fires, to collecting fire-related items (i.e., fire extinguishers, match books, and lighters) and even hanging around firefighter stations so that they can follow the trucks to watch more fires. this is all off the top of my head right now, so if i missed anything or i got something wrong, feel free to correct me! i don't consider myself an expert in this field at all but i'd highly recommend that if you feel like some of these symptoms apply to you, either talk to a medical professional about it or do your research on it before you dive into saying you have this disorder. self-diagnosis is completely valid however just please know what you're getting yourself into. this goes for just about anything to be honest. thanks for reading this long comment on a video about what weird things people researched for their fanfictions.
An arsonist is doing it with a purpose (fraud, murder, hiding evidence, etc.). A pyromaniac does it because they like fire to an unhealthy extent. Self-diagnosis IS NOT VALID. Go to a doctor if you suspect you have some sort of disorder. You are not a medical professional.
Not a fanfiction writer but I once read a fic out of curiosity, skipped to the end and the writer said “I had to google how sex workers/porn actors work/form a contract with their clients, I swear FBI I’m not trying to become one”
I needed to research what human meat tasted and felt like because I wanted to write a horror short story, surprisingly though I found a pretty helpful article that went into detail about the misconceptions and the fake stories about human meat tasting like either pork or unlike anything that one could eat.
I **frequently** research ancient Egyptian culture and history for my Yu-Gi-Oh fics. I spent hours trying to find a breakdown of the ancient Egyptian calendar just to determine when Atem’s birthday would be on the modern calendar for basically no reason other than it was mentioned in passing in one line of dialogue and never brought up again.
Not for a fic, but for my own ocs: I spent 30 minutes researching how fast it would take to bleed out from various gunshot wounds and how fast someone could escape from me with said injuries, the technicalities of a couple war crimes, and how best to keep criminal activities and important secrets hidden from the government/other organisations
I've researched a lot of strange things ranging from "how does a body decompose" to "types of places least likely to be a front for murder" however my favourite isn't exactly a search but instead a pipline of searches. from oldest to newest (all in one writing session) they are; - translate - is kotaro tatsumi without sunglasses - family restaurants in japan - does bleach get rid of blood? - what get rid of blood - can you die from getting stabbed by a fork - family mart in tokyo I am unable to explain any of them,,
To be fair, in middle school a friend taught me out to make a very pointy and deadly object from a plastic fork and then told me where to stab it depending if I wanted to kill, maim, injure, or inconvenience. Not kidding.
As horrifying as it is to have this knowledge in my brain, it was fascinating and is semi reassuring to know that I could easily defend myself in any public setting with any sharp object or plastic fork.
@@rachelmr24 i actually know the same trick, i believe they're called shanks but i may be incorrect. however I was looking for a very sepesfic type of fork that can easily be obtained from a conbini or resturant in japan and I had to know whether they could be used for murder without causing a large scene. plastic forks, for how good they are as weapons, create quite a scene by the snapping and the time it takes to kill due to the fact it is plastic and may have issues digging into skin depending on how hard you stab !
5:23 you can, you just have to be veryyy gentle to not disturb their coating! My dad owns koi fish, and I even hand feed them from time to time. They’re very lovely fish.
Here, have a list. - The most recent thing I researched was what kind/strength of microscope you need to be able to see sperm in semen. You could easily see it with a normal hobby microscope by zooming in x400. I also found out that having a microscope that zooms in x1000 is generally considered useless because you won’t see anything but a blob. - I’ve also looked up how big a tree would have to be to crush your spine, then also researched how to treat a crushed spine. - I have very extensively researched pregnancy. I know more about pregnancy than I should considering I’m not a gynecologist and I’ve never been pregnant. - I’ve looked up the fine for public indecency in Japan. Answer? ¥300,000. Which is about $2.2k in USD. - I’ve also looked up the legal gambling and drinking ages in Japan. Legal gambling age is 18 and legal drinking age is 20. Can’t think of anything else right now but. There are a few things I’ve researched for fanfiction.
Holy shit In my country you're allowed to be naked whereever as long as you're not on private property that explicitly says against it, or you're harassing people.
@@tipherethscrub982 The first one involves a robot having unprotected sex with a non robot and had the idea that said robot is able to reproduce, so I looked up how strong of a microscope you’d need to be able to see sperm (as nobody knows he can reproduce, but they’re nervous about it so they check if he produces sperm). I also looked up whether or not synthetic sperm is a thing that exists for the same fic. The second one was researched because I had a telekinetic character that accidentally flew himself full force into a tree and knocked it down, and ended up paralyzed from the waist down. Idk if context makes these better or worse lmao
Actually, gynecology relates to the female reproductive system. Its Obstetrics is for pregnancy. I also did a really deep dive into pregnancy and childbirth for quite a few fanfics.
I spent a significant amount of time looking at Google Street View, Google Maps, an apartment listing, house listings, museums, a B&B, and parks near Manchester to write a House of Anubis fanfiction that has yet to see the light of day
I haven't written so much myself yet, but for now the weirdest thing is probably "How much force would it take to decapitate someone and is it greater than the force of braking down a standard door?" I needed to know if one of the characters' Rube-Goldberg machine could realistically work. Also, for the same story I searched for symptoms of CO poisoning and "What injuries can you get in a fist fight that will come close to killing you but not actually kill you?".
I once researched about demons and 7 princes of hell only to moments later do a complete 180 and research about archangels. I went from satanic to religious in the span of like 5 seconds.
I once tried to figure out how much various horse breeds would weigh after removing their bones, which took me down a really weird path. I now have an uncomfortable amount of knowledge about platypus anatomy and frog poison.
I like writing fics about trauma (both physical and mental, but mostly the latter) that superheroes would realistically have after all their hero-ing, so I do a LOT of medical googling, my favourite one was trying to figure out which particular injuries I needed to give the character to paralyse them in a specific way, so I read a shit ton of things about trauma to the spine, neck and head
One I'll always remember is researching hardwoods and their life cycles for a bow material that would be magically modified anyway. This went on for thirty minutes. Not that craziest or the longest I realize, but an instance that I've never forgotten even if the facts are a little fuzzy now.
“What constitutes aggravated assault in the state of Illinois” “What happens if you take 700mg of diphenhydramine” “How much capital does it take to start a business” “How to launder money”
Not for a fanfic, but a while ago I was listening to The Whole "Being Dead" Thing from Beetlejuice the Musical. There's a line where BJ mentions choking to death on Triscuits (unsure if i spelt that correctly) and decided to Google whether there are any actual reported cases of people choking to death on one. All i found out was what Triscuits were. Idk, it's just that my brain went "Something like that has got to have happened before if a line like that exists."
This is just the life of a writer: Being on every single FBI watchlist.
i remember researching in great detail how being put in liquid cement would kill you, like is it suffocation? is it hot enough to kill you before that? how dense cement is... google still recommends me articles on cement density
@@riccardozanoni2531 Wait, what were the answers that you got from it?I wanna know since now I’m getting an idea for something that I’ve been writing for Social Studies and I want to get creative for some of the deaths- My teacher said writing death was alright as long as we didn’t get rid of everyone, I swear that’s what she said!
@@crystal_storm2874 apparently the chemical burns and general high temperature of the cement as it solidifies are pretty bad but don't kill you. Basically you would suffocate, because, even if you manage not to get it in your mouth, it solidifies around you, preventing your lungs from expanding... It takes time though, i remember reading about a guy who fell in a construction site and was covered in cement, they saved him after something like thirty minutes, and he survived, despite suffering quite serious injuries due to the chemicals in the cement and the fall.
And an artist… the FBI probably has a list of people who are artists or Writers
I'm on their watch list for posting Babylon Bee articles to Facebook. Trust me, they'll come after me before they come after you.
I once read in an author's note that they had signed up for a CPR class so they could realistically write out the scene and I think about that everyday. Imagine having a heart attack and the person who saved you knew how to do so because they wanted to write realistic hurt/comfort.
You know what, if that's my life that gets saved I am okay with that. 😂
Then it's like your own little hurt/comfort story
@@chloe._. hhaa
I have once read about how an author was taking notes for their fanfiction while being rushed into ER.
Another one got into a trunk of a car for a kidnapping scene. Apparently it was surprisingly comfortable and from the rest of the replies whether you find it comfortable or not depends from person to person.
One had to write a character being whipped and to see how many lashes can be given to the character, they had a friend whip them in their school bathroom with a belt.
@@helena_8478woahh, that’s wild 😂
Oh look that's exactly the kind of thing I'd do. To be fair it's a thing I've been meaning to do, writing aside, so
Probably the two oddest things I've discussed with a friend of mine for the sake of accurate fanfiction have been whether or not Arkham Asylum would have liquid soap for a fic based on one specific episode of the Harley Quinn animated series, and whether or not a contract tattooed on someone's body would be considered legally binding in Japan for an Ace Attorney fic that may or may not even end up being done. Nowhere near as odd as some things people have looked into, but still not the most normal conversations to have with a friend.
As an AA fan I can't help but think wow. this is a lot more normal to read to me than it should be.
May I ask what on Earth you're writing? Or, well, may or may not be writing.
I'm really curious about how your fic will look like. Is it about Kristoph and Phoenix perhaps?
@-»eclipse☆♡ AUs are so exhausting,, I've got a modern AU with the TGAA characters I've been working on and it's hard balancing the differences in their lives while still carrying their canon personalities
if you ever finish that AA fic... drop the link please
@@wildlylucky comment in here cuz I'm also waiting for that link
Not a fic, just a book. But I was ✨ traumatizing ✨ a character and wanted to do it properly. My search history was:
'can a child get evicted?'
'what exactly can CPS do?'
'who can call CPS?'
And
'what colors go well with dark skin tones?'
wait, but CAN a child get evicted?
warm tones usually go best with dark skin
I found this. I don’t write fics, I write books. However, aside from my original lore, I also write little AUs that branch off into other AUs before I find the most interesting one. For one of them, weirdest thing I’ve ever researched was probably:
“Does an Autistic person get treated differently in juvenile?”
CPS can be absolutely useless if you want them to be. Just make the person working for CPS not care about their job.
@@my.fav.no..is.12.point.9do they?
I swear the FBI agents that watch our history have an internal crisis everytime this happens wondering if the person they're watching is a writer or a serial killer
Why not both? 😉
I once helped a friend determine a cause of death for a character in a fic she was writing. We decided the best way to do it would be as a result of medical malpractice, and narrowed it down from there to a mistake from improper anesthesia administration. We then debated addressing the consequences of said character's death with something like a court scene or whatever, but ultimately decided it wouldn't add to the fic in a way that would advance the plot, since the character was getting resurrected anyway and the paperwork alone would be a headache to research.
We had this cavalier conversation over lunch. At school.
*In seventh grade*
You say 7th grade as if it should be surprising
i mean i once discussed how to hide a body, how long it would take to decompose, etc etc at lunch in 4th grade-
I once wrote a 500-words-or-less LEGO World City/Titanic crossover fic in first grade for a LEGO Magazine writing contest...and it _won._
@@SupersuMC id like to read that tbh lmao-
@Charmaine Olac Long gone, most likely. Who knows how many page purges the LEGO website has had since that contest. Bonus fact: It was also the first story I ever wrote, as far as I can recall.
Not a fanfic writer but I did research to find out how much blood a vampire would need to consume if they need the same calorie intake as a human. The answers is just under 2 liters.
Also you know how in vampire fiction they'll commonly say: 'The bodies were completely drained of their blood.'? The capacity of a stomach is 3-4 liters and the human body has around 5 liters of blood in it, so their stomach should’ve ruptured.
One assumes that they somehow shunt it into their circulatory system too, which is otherwise unused probably.
Wait isnt blood just mostly water? I tought it would need waay more blood to just not die, let alone living out of it in a daily basis
@@DarkJusn2020 so maybe, like vampire bats, vampires rapidly, er, evacuate the water
Ohh, I also looked into this. I also searched for the reverse, in how much blood the human body can lose, and how often, to not kill or even harm the person's health and safety, and how many people would realistically have to get together to regularly donate enough to a single vampire to keep them fed.
Taking a screenshot of this bc this is very useful and I might need to refer to it one day- thank youuuu :)
I simply searched "What was the worlds view on homosexuality in the 80s" for a fanfiction. that led to spending 5 hours researching LGBTQ+ history, events, etc. from the 50s all the way to current times. It was very helpful for my fanfiction though
Edit: I'm surprised this is getting likes lmao
was it a gay stranger things fic by any chance?
@@ameliahigh3357 nope; not really into stranger things lol
Psychonauts then?
clicked onto your channel, guessing it was a fnaf fanfic?
"i just wanted to write a story, but now im the most pro lgbtq person in existence"
i love being able to recognize a fandom from a very bare bones description of a species and one single other word of context
1. Dragons, destiny, prophecy
2. Cats. prophecy, war
3. Spoopy killer animal robots
4. Borderline Yandere bug superhero
5. Superpowered highschoolers, secret evil older brother
6. Crazy chick with hyenas
7. 14yo web-slinger
8. Pups that save people
9. Golden Retrievers
10. Dinos go nom
11. Mermaid
12. Long live teh king
13. Giant monke
14. Large lizard
15. Theory
16. Poppy flowers
Guess those.
@@pinklights9712 the first one is either Wings Of Fire or Dragonriders of Pern. Edit: also could be Eragon.
second is that Warrior Cats book series i havent read yet
seven is Spooderman
twelve is Lion King
thirteen is King Kong
and fourteen is Godzilla.
couldnt guess the rest.
@@endarus6053 You be correct!
Here the ones you couldn't guess
1: It is in fact Wings of Fire, never heard of the others actually-
3: FNAF (Five Nights at Freddy's)
4: MLB (Miraculous Ladybug)
5: MHA (My Hero Academia)
6: Harley Quinn
8: I forgot, but I think it's super pups
9: Any of the buddy movies
10: Jurassic Park/World
11: The Little Mermaid
15: Game/Style/Movie/Food/GTLIVE Theory
16: PP (Poppy Playtime)
@@pinklights9712 okay, heres my own list for you then:
1: bugs and nails
2: dont touch my child
3: rip and tear
4: Flood and Rings
@@endarus6053 I dunno any of those actually-
Maybe 4 is Lord of the Rings?
I can imagine the one time they were serious and the FBI agent would be like "Oh there they go, writing their fan fiction again."
Oh, I have a lot of these.
I've googled how long a human can survive in freezing temperatures (depends). If oxygen bleach can get rid of bloodstains (yes). If preventing a lawful burial (ie hiding bodies you didn't directly kill) is a crime in Japan (no).
Edit: For those asking, the fics were a "Bruce lives" AU for Punishing: Gray Raven (for those not in the know, Bruce is a backstory-exclusive character who died after being mauled by a machine in the snow), a FE3H modern AU where Count Varley gets mcmurdered, and a DRV3 UTDP-verse fic that I have long since stopped working on and have forgotten the context for respectively.
Can I ask what the story(s) where about?
Sometimes does fanfic include torture cause I see ALOT of murder relate stuff on here.
@@mossy1148 i sense some creepypasta vibes here😭 but i think it’s for an anime or something, maybe bongo stray dogs if the name is even correct
Its def ace attorney, because of their pfp 🤔🤔🤔
@@grungjy plot twist: it's both
Okay so here are some of the things I've researched:
-How switching for people with DID works and how it can affect them.
-Countless amounts of obscure Youkai.
-What does tearing metal sounds like?
-Several different mythologies
-What does it feel like to be somewhere that's burning?
-Different parts of a computer
-What does an out of body experience feel like?
Are you the person who wrote the Turtles meet turtles fanfic?
Because if you are . . . I'm a huge fan and I love your work!
Moon Knight fics?
YOUKAI WATCH FAN⁉⁉ i mean probably not but that’s pretty cool if yes
Twilight?
Fate Grand Order fan?
I swear, a03 authors scare me. Currently reading a fanfic where the author posts chapters with 1000 or so words *daily* , and I honestly dunno how they keep up the pace.
Could also be that they have chapters stocked up, that's what I'm trying to do before I start posting anything I write publicly again because the pressure of writing on a schedule gets to me lol
@@RinkuChan333 if I ever decide to finish my fanfic (which I started around a year and a half ago and only wrote the prologue and ch.1) I plan to write the whole thing first then upload daily. I was trying to write a story that uploaded Friday's but it was too hard to keep up lol
@@RinkuChan333 same fam. I have a lot of trouble with staying motivated so I have a hard time consistently updating. I once had the first ten chapters of a story before I put it on the internet bc I knew I would instantly loose interest in it lol.
@@wisvai279 Yeah, something about putting a fic online officially kills inspiration (at least for me), or maybe it's the fact that there are Expectations now and that's intimidating lol
@@RinkuChan333 every time I upload a fic I lose determination. Its sad asf so I totally get what you mean
I once had to look up what the penalty was for throwing someone off a bridge in Japan. This also included looking up various penalties for odd crimes, and also how fast broken bones heal in various places. All for an mha oc fanfic.
I had broken bones from surgery on my legs (the bones in the grew crooked for the first 16 years of my life) and it took me six weeks in non weight bearing casts plus six months of PT for me to fully walk again. That being said, healing time depends on age and health
@wildcatntgd5264 link plz
What IS the penalty for throwing someone off a bridge, BTW?
What’s the name of the fic? I’m curious now
Commenting here in case the fic name gets dropped lol
My googling ranges from "are owls waterproof" for a fic with a character with wings to "signs of dementia" for angst
It really isn’t too bad, but I’ve looked up how to easily dispose of blood without being caught and how not to leave traces of blood
Not too bad at all.
It's amazing how much of this kind of thing you can pick up just watching CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, etc. I mean, I know the shows dramatized a lot of things, but still...
i personally never have but i think hydrogen peroxide might do the trick?? that one yandev video taught me tha5
Cool mate
@@forkymety Oh god not yandev.
Horror content creator here, a lot of experience with this kind of stuff. Final Fantasy x Pokemon fanfictions lead to some pretty wild searches:
- elevator breaking and falling
- animal attack sound effects
- abandoned factories near me
- glow in the dark hallucinations
- psychedelic glow in the dark
- pokemon gore art ( this one's actually really awesome)
- how much does it cost to buy an abandoned factory
Recently got into Devil May Cry which gave us such gems as:
- who is nero's mother
- cult beliefs
- am i in a cult quiz
- religious sacrifice
- how to start a religion
- when does a religion become a cult
- healing crystals
- healing crystal deaths
For context, I wanted to flesh out the character of whoever Nero's mother/Vergil's love interest is, she's a cult leader.
Yea you're definitely on a watch list
I think the "who is nero's mother" is what got me put there, damn DMC creators want to keep their secrets so bad they hired fbi agents
give me some crystals rn 😾
@@shea9632 no you will die from too much power and motivation
@@orwellianwiress I SAID GIVE ME THEM NOW
I once had to ask on quora “what kind of bulletproof vests are issued to FBI agents and can they stop an arrow?” I was very careful to include the the fact that I was writing an isekai fic in the question.
Your FBI agent probably had cold sweat as he saw that haha
The answer is probably no, because bullets and arrows require different types of armor. An arrow is basically a flying knife, and knives go right through kevlar, which is standard bulletproof armor.
Being a doctor who loves writing fanfiction (where guns and violence are a prominent theme) im glad i can find the answers rather quickly
Personally, I think you do the jimmy neutron thing to find your info
@@Thepeanutcollector i like to think i do lmao
I had to look up how to be a therapist so I could write a scene in a fanfiction. Now I can be my own therapist
i'm a criminal minds fanfic writer, so i've looked up stuff that has definitely put me on a watchlist:
- what happens to a dead body if you submerge it in water
- how long does it take poison to kill you (this got me a helpline number)
- can you poison tattoo ink
- can you stab someone with a tattoo gun
- how to orchestrate a prison break
- how to build a bomb
That last one probably set off some alarms.
Oh, wow… I don’t know if I should fear for you or be amazed by your courage to actually search for an instruction for building a bomb
@@Maria.Mirabella listen man i really just needed the basics on the components so i could explain how the bomb a character used worked 💀🙏 being on a watchlist is just a small price to pay /joke
I imagine you’d have to research a lot of other random shit for weird Reid facts as well Edit: Also, are you on ao3? I’d love to check out some of your work if you don’t mind.
@@pharaoh4064 oh yeah absolutely! i know a lot of weird facts due to it lmao
and i am on ao3!! my account is speedreiding (i thought the pun was funny)
It wasn't for a fic, but it was for my novel:
"What does human flesh taste like?" sometimes with the addition of "according to real cannibals"
I found many great resources. One was a reddit post from a guy who kept his amputated foot and cooked it up and ate it. Others were direct interviews with famous cannibals such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. I also, because of this, recalled Albert Fish's letters.
For those who don't know, human flesh tastes like a sweeter, tougher pork. Also, apparently the eyeballs are the sweetest, and the buttocks cook the best.
Human flesh was called 'long pork' back in the 18th century. So I knew this.
Thank you for making me hungry.
@LizzyDizzyYo fic
Short for fanfiction. Not the same as a novel.
boutta take "eating ass" to another level
I'm not eating a butt no matter how easy it is to cook.
As a guy that loves to write I've made 4 fanfics in my 14 and a half years of life.
One of them I researched stuff like how much pressure it takes to break the human skull, how much would an adult male if a bleed if they were impaled in every place imaginable, what is the scent of blood, what is the smell of a rotting corpse, and much more.
Another I was looking into what it'd really look like for a human body to morph into another being, the symptoms of pregnancy, what it'd be like to be above 3 dimensional beings and other stuff as well though a lot is slipping my mind.
And in many others I've looked up some weird crap, even more so for non-fanfic stuff I've written, I think I've got to be on some watch lists, by now.
Did your researches into morphing, lead you to the fact that humans are deuterostomes, whereas insects are protostomes, so while turning into an insect, your mouth and bottom would change places?
@🌈 gummibeari subliminals I watched this video on if 2d beings existed, how we could alter their world, makes this mirror versions of themselves, and more, I would've left a link but can't find the video now sadly.
@@Mecharnie_Dobbs It in fact did.
"Are deer antlers made of bone?"
"Are deer bones more fragile than human bones?"
"Could the average person stab through a human skull?"
"Could an 18th century dagger pierce the skull?"
“Old timey terms for PTSD”
“History of PTSD”
“Chionophobia”
“Astraphobia”
The first two were part of me trying a roundabout way to find out the two after it before giving up and just googling it straight-out.
I'll let you guess what fandom this is for.
Edit: I’ll give y’all a hint: it’s an animated show.
New edit: Screw it, it’s Tangled the Series. It’s also a murder mystery fic, hence the concerning stuff. 😅
Can I have the answer to the third one? I'm writing a Walking dead fanfic and need to know that but i'm too scared to look it up lmfao.
@@FigmentPigmentCrosserTosser From what I read, it seems the answer is yes, if enough force is exerted.
@@YouveBeenMegged Thanks for responding!
@@FigmentPigmentCrosserTosser Np 😁
Idk is this about the wendigo?
"No FBI, I swear I'm not trying to become a hitman, I just write fanfiction"
That sums up practically everytime I've done a Google search for my Katekyo Hitman Reborn fanfics xD
Watching this i feel like I need to tell all fanfic authors out there "Thank you for your service... And for being the bane of the FBI and the NSA's existence." Lmao
For me, probably the most obscure thing I've researched for a fic was what sort of camera a character could have had in the early 1920s and how much it would cost (i don't remember the camera model off the top of my head, but it would cost $21, or around $300 now)
hey, i did something similar for a tf2 oc! his head is a minolta repo :)
That’s pretty much what a standard professional camera costs today. Although that’s the cheap ones.
That seems too expensive, if i remember correctly, 10$ of 1940s money was 200$ in todays money (from a cultural mishmash of a wedding scene i had to write)
not for fanfiction, but character creation: i'm currently in the midst of researching the anatomy of different aquatic creatures in order to design a plausible human-like sea creature. this has included having to research the reproductive system of an octopus, alongside various other things like what causes certain animals to have their specific blood color.
Her name is Cordelia Marii, and she's a lesbian, and i love her. I made her character a long time ago, but i've decided I should probably properly revamp her alongside all my other OCs
in the past i've also done:
-botulism
-cyanide and other poisons
-bird anatomy
-brood parasitism among birds
-bird calls
-other random science questions
Poison buddy!
@@astoroidea6502 eyyy poison buddy!
i’ve researched poisons extensively for a story i was working on that i probably won’t ever continue. pretty difficult to find a poison that’s only detectable by taste, makes you sleepy, and slowly kills you over time if you keep ingesting it. and also has a gas form. maybe that was too much to ask.
for a story i *will* be continuing, i am also making fish people! Figuring out how to give them arms is a struggle, because sea creatures don’t really have those. also, you’ve made me realize i hadn’t thought about organs yet. or anything internal really. i was too caught up in how they look, and especially how they would move. only sea mammals have tails that swish up and down, and my fish people are fish, so they have to swish side to side.
Was going to say "Strange splatoon oc but okay", and then lost you at reproductive system of an octopus
@@slugcatpotatoes well you see, an octopus dies shortly after mating due to a disadvantage in their biology (which causes them to have short life spans) so I was trying to pin point the exact reason for it, so it doesn't end up interfering with the plot.
Not a fanfic writer, but an aspiring spy thriller/sci fi author nonetheless:
-Ballistic specs of a .308 round and how those might be affected by custom handloads.
-The logistics of quickly and noiselessly dispatching someone with a knife and moving the corpse. Turns out, edged weapons are actually quite hard to efficiently kill with, and quickly moving dead weight unassisted is quite a skill to learn.
-I also fell into the dimensional travel rabbit hole like one mentioned here.
-Potential for directed energy weapons. We actually have some that we use to fight drones, but we aren't quite at laser rifles yet.
-Combat knife throwing for fun and profit.
-Classes of IEDs, how to build them, how effective they would be at destroying structures, where could materials be sourced (I *swear* I'm not writing this from Guantanamo Bay)
-Improvised firearms, how to build them, etc. (I SWEAR)
-Real life spy gadgets. Beyond various tools of clandestine assassination, there's really not much that wouldn't be available to regular militaries. At least that I could find
-MK ULTRA
-MK NAOMI
-Soviet special forces deployments in any of the conflicts they were involved in
-Chinese intelligence operations (would you believe me if I said I can't find what their agency is called? Like the US has the CIA, Russia has the KGB, Britain has the MI6, Israel has Mossad, but China? It's just referred to as "Beijing" in the international community from what I could gather. Thats spooky as hell. I abandoned this particular plotline because of that.)
I am also a thriller (organised crime, corruption and espionage) writer, and have done similar deep-dives... Weird stuff about the KGB/FSB and real life shady deaths of oligarchs especially!
Japan just calls theirs Bureau [number I forgot], and IIRC it's split into three bureaus-- and it follows an incredible pattern of just IDing things with how it's organized and then a number.
I'm not sure if the nameless one or the sterile anonymity one is scarier, both are just... weirdly unsettling but at the same time make so much sense
i like your funny words magic man
this wasn't for any writing but me and my boyfriend decided to research if stabbing your eye could kill you due to a mutual omori interest. the answer is it depends, if it goes straight through your eye (which given what we were researching, that's most likely what happened) it'll only blind you. however, if it goes towards your brain you will probably die. we also realised that violin bows (the thing that stabbed the character's eye) are extremely fragile and probably wouldn't have even gone through.
You were thinking of having Sunny stab someone with the violin bow, weren’t you?
Things I’ve looked up for the sake of stories:
- What do deer symbolize in Mexican mythology
- How does ketamine affect pregnant rats (unrelated to rest of searches, it was a different story)
- What happens when someone with DID gets pregnant
- Are conjoined twins always identical
- What is the meaning behind the name Dolores, Eddie, and Alex
- Are there any curse words in the Hawaiian language (has to do with the pregnant rat thing)
*please* tell us the context for the ketamine rats
PLEASE what caused you to need to google the effects of ketamine on pregnant rats
@@thatoneguy9582 Yes we NEED to know
What was the consensus of the conjoined twin thing
remi from ratatouille ketamine au
I spent a _lot_ of time researching gossip. I watched shows about teen drama/gossip, I listened to podcasts, I read books revolving around gossip, hell, I even _made friends_ with some of the biggest gossipers in my school so I could get real life gossip. (And I made some hella friends from that lmao)
All for a fic I would abandon after 3 chapters due to not being in the fandom anymore
It was fun though!
I admire your initial commitment
Any sources for that? Sounds really useful
I searched 'Nightmare on Elmostreet' recently because I wanted to make an entire parody on Nightmare of Elm Street after my friend forgot the name of it and called it Nightmare on Elmo
Could I have the link of the fic? I have no idea what the Nightmare of Elm Street or Elmo is, but I am intrigued by this
@@BarelyAHuman I didn't write it because there is a movie by that name.
Elmo is a children's character from Seasame Street and Nightmare on Elm Street is a horror movie tell me if I should write it
@@Hi-wr3fh ah okay! Cool anyway, thanks for the information!
you better write this, this is the funniest crossover I’ve ever heard
@@genesisofthebetween As I continued walking down the lonely, dusky passage, I heard it. Fear swept over me as it said: "It's me, Elmo"
This makes me feel better about researching weird things. I haven't had the need to do much since I usually write about dragons, but I'm working on a story with humans in it now and I want it to be accurate.
i've searched up how people handled having periods before the 21st century. i found out an old slang term for having one; being "on the rag" because before modern hygiene products existed, they used old rags.
I'm a guy, so I don't really have a frame of reference for that, but I'd imagine it wasn't all that pleasant...
A couple of my favorite things I’ve searched up are
“How to kill someone with a sewing machine”
“What organs can you lose and survive”
“Is it safe to drink a liter of your own blood”
“How to remove an appendix”
“How big is an appendix”
“Do you need you appendix to live”
I’m writing a Slenderverse fic that involves mainly EverymanHYBRID so it makes sense but
Still can catch ppl off guard to find it in my history out of context
Why, with the given context- *would you need to know how kill someone with a s e w I n g m a c h i n e?*
if you want to look up “do you need your appendix to live”, for future readers, the answer is *no* it is vestigial and doesn’t really do anythijg
@@cr0wn_3713 Probably Habit (the character)
Is it safe to drink that blood? (I'm an extremely curious person but I'm not gonna search that, I'm about to go to sleep.)
@@matcha-mooon probably not, I've heard it makes you puke
stuff I’ve researched and then not used in my writing:
- way too many specifics of tall sailing ships
- how far a human body gets thrown when you get hit by a car
- ancient Roman funerary practices as compared to modern American funeral practices
- an unbelievable amount of Biblical angel minutiae
- whether or not mummies still have eyes
- the ABV of British Navy rum rations
- if you’re stabbed in the lungs, what actually kills you?
- how dead bodies feel when they’re carried (this one was actually a direct conversation with a friend that works for a funeral home)
@-»sora.♡ happy to help lol
Some things I've researched recently:
- Tried to look up how to insult someone in Angloromani but didn't find anything useful.
- What does the foreskin actually look like?
- Was capital punishment in the UK abolished before or after the moon landing? (before)
- Fascism in the UK
- How did real hippies dress?
- History of autism
- How do escort agencies work?
- Archeological sites in Florida
History of Autism! That’s me!
Definitely the age of consent. I was/am exploring predatory relationships and trauma in a story I’m writing, and the things I have to look up for that make me look really bad 😂
One time I had to search how much blood can someone loose and not die without treatment
I googled a lot of things for my most recent fic. Including (but not limited to);
1) how asphyxiation works
2) how you can determine if the cause of death was from suffocation
3) what it looks like when someone slices your throat open (tho I got a lot of suicidal websites)
4) how bird wings work
5) how long a sprained wing takes to heal
6) how many birds there are and what they symbolize
7) how cauterization works
8) when jeans were invented
9) how Phoenixes work (mythologically)
10) how long it takes for blood to congeal
And so many more things. Yes, all from the same fic. I swear, the FBI must be so confused, bc one day I’ll be googling a lot of really dark stuff, and then the next day start googling the most random thing that’s not even correlated
What are the answers though?… that would be pretty useful, but i dont want that on my search history lmao
when jeans were invented was so random compared to the vibe of the other questions 💀
Cauterization via phoenix feather?
I once fainted and couldn’t wake up for 30 minutes while researching frostbite and cryotherapy for a fanfiction-related assignment I had in a college creative writing class
wtf?
- The origin name for assassins.
- Werewolves
- Little Red Riding Hood
- steraline pronunciation
- green wallpaper in the victorian era
- grey magic
- Sirens
- Witches
- kleptomania
- reincarnation
- Azriel name meaning
- annual twins
- silver fulminate
- Van Helsing
- 1875 English men's fashion
I found out that haemophilia & haematomania are two different things
Somehow "Green wallpaper in the Victorian Era" and "1875 English men's fashion" is the weirdest in the list. Are you perhaps researching about Jack the Ripper?
@@sureindubitably3771 it's for a Coraline fanfic.
@@ruhilsyazana7214 ah, I never played nor have seen it so I apologize
@@sureindubitably3771 If you're into horror movies & the like, Coraline is based off of a book, Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
Both the book & the movie are good.
@@ruhilsyazana7214 You are an absolutely amazing person for writing that
It wasn't for a fanfiction, but I asked a friend "If you threw a pie cutter hard enough, would it be able to kill someone?"
Anything could kill someone at a high enough velocity. Fun fact: I once got a concussion from a water balloon thrown out of a moving car.
I always love it when people take time to research what they're talking about. It really helps with immersion.
i’ve searched up different types of arson and how much jail time you’d get for committing different types of arson.
“Hey, if we’re underwater, how is there-“ *fire extinguishes*
I've spent a good amount of time looking up wine pairings with different kinds of food, even though I don't drink
Haven't really written fanfic in a while. I have plenty of ideas but no motivation.
But if we're talking outrageous ideas, it's gotta be me searching up about the Y2K scare, which was the time where people in 1999 thought the world would plunge into chaos and electronics would wreck havoc as soon as the year 2000 hit, because the computer calendars would may or may not be putting the year "1900" instead of "2000"...
IT'LL MAKE SENSE ONCE YOU SEARCH IT UP TRUST ME!!
Hey, I lived through that! One of my cousins convinced me that the world would end and i would die at the tender age of 10! Good times.
I think the Y2K scare is interesting because even though it was definitely blown *way* out of proportion, a lot of the concerns were actually legitimate. There could've potentially been some severe consequences of Y2K had there not been a concerted effort to pre-emptively fix important infrastructure. I doubt it would've been as world-ending as some people claimed, but it could've caused a lot of serious problems and put a lot of people in danger.
Y2K seems silly and quaint today because people took the issue seriously and fixed the problem years in advance before it could actually become dangerous (and thus, by the time the public became aware of it and started screaming their heads off about it, the issue was essentially already solved and all the panic was for nothing.)
A former friend’s dad is an engineer. He was an engineering student during 1999. He got invited to a New Years party at his friend’s house. He had a very good time, and he also had a plan. Shortly before midnight, he slipped down to the basement and over to the circuit-thingy where the house’s wires connected to the town power grid, and got to work. At midnight, right after the ball dropped, he uncoupled the wires, therefore (temporarily and reversibly) cutting the house’s power.
According to him, the screams were audible from even down in the basement.
(I say former friend at the beginning, but nothing bad happened, she just moved away)
@@junoniathesilkwing4221 "We do a little trolling" - Friend's Dad.
@@junoniathesilkwing4221 That is the most brilliant trolling ever omg
Love how everyone has looked up weird (in a funny way) stuff and then there's me
I never learned much social communication as a child, I was taught to keep quiet and only speak when I'm told to, so naturally, I'm socially not able to function correctly. So sometimes I have to literally look up how to answer to the simplest things when I write casual dialog in my stories 🗿 Like, someone opens the door to the mailman. What do they say to each other, how do they react, what's the usual small talk with the mailman, do you say thank you when you say goodbye?
Or how to react when a character vents to someone about a breakup or smth, I'm the absolute worst at giving comfort, aside from silently listening to the person venting lmao 💀
LMFAO
I also wouldn't know how to talk whit a mailman, considering that they never come to my home-
To be fair to yourself, most writers (in the spaces I've been to) also struggle a lot to write natural-sounding dialogue, even if they're well-socialized. It does sound like you have a unique issue, but just know that you're not alone in struggling to make "simple" conversations sound real. :)
oh my god me too. i struggle so much with natural dialogue bc i was heavily isolated and socially restricted as a child (aswell as being homeschooled) and possible autism so its the main reason why im so scared to share anything ive done (and why ‘anything ive done’ is just one conversation without any sort of actually storyline aside from what the characters are saying, usually pretty short, sometimes to the point i forget the context of it after coming across it a few months later) bc like i know how _i_ talk, but i also have a tendency to talk rather formally in casual conversation at times ESPECIALLY in situations where i feel the need to be serious or straightforward like in the case of writing. so i have like an irrational fear that if i showed ppl stuff ive written theyd point out how weird they speak lol or how sarcastic/fancy it is, cause i also have a tendency to write every sentence with heavy sarcasm
SO REAL
fortunately i developed most of my early perceptions on socialization from fiction so it's much easier how to write how an established character would act than how a real person would
That feel when you're writing Community fanfic or similar and are only good at our socially maladjusted spirit animals... (But for real, shutting up and listening is sometimes a better support method than the neurotypical reaction.)
Whenever I'm researching something weird for a fic I always google stuff about writing advice as well just incase anyone is keeping track of my search history just so they know that I'm a writer not a killer. Have learned some really cool things about hallucinations though. Writing a fic with the main villain being a goddess who can make people see illusions, decided the closest thing would be hallucinations and sleep paralysis demons (don't ask I'm not sure I'd be able to explain all the lore behind it plus my own creative licencing). After researching a lot about that also made sure to throw in 'how to write creepy horror scenes realistically' and 'how to write hallucinations' and the like. Those were surprisingly helpful though and also sent me down a path of the mental and physical effects illusions and hallucinations would have on the mind and body and potential mental illnesses that could stem from or cause hallucinations. Very interesting but considering the story has literal gods and like magic and potions and all that I'm realising I might have gone a little overboard. Like for crying out loud in canon we had a fatal magical illness be cured by a potion made of a magical flower grown planted by a god in hell from a piece of a cursed goddess's soul. Also the cursed goddess is the mother of the person who had the fatal illness. I am realising things do not have to be accurate in the slightest.
"easiest way to kill someone (for a story)"
Tried to figure out how much a scented candle would cost during Canada's industrial era
Did you get an answer?
I usually write original, but I did research if mute people could laugh. My thought was that, well, they can't make the necessary sounds for talking, so would they able to produce the sound of laughter? Yes they can and that mute character didn't have to stay silent as all his friends laughed, so it was a fully happy scene that time.
Something, something, cannibalism, octopi biology, human anatomy, effects of nuclear radiation, and stuff that I don't even remember anymore.
I'm probably not gonna get on a list, but it would definitely raise some eyebrows, as to why I searched up all those things for.
And no, it was for multiple stories, not all at once. XD
Edit: And I'm definitely going to hell for reading that Wikipedia article about legalities of "close family relationships" in different countries.
what kind of hannibal fic did you write
@@jflauto3917 Funny enough, it's not Hannibal.
It's for a cartoon kids show. XD
Should I mention I plan to include brainwashing?
More specifically brainwashing someone into cannibalism?
Oh and let's not even start on the insane ramblings this guy is gonna have, alongside some really questionable feelings for his sibling.
Now if I could only figure how to write all of this. XD
splatoon?
@@jflauto3917 Sorry for the late reply. Odd how I never responded.
Funny enough, at the time of the comment, I haven't even seen Hannibal.
Now that I have, I could honestly see how that would relate haha
I don't really have any fanfic ideas for the show though so, sorry about that.
@@ivorywizard No, actually. Although I was thinking of writing a self-indulgent crossover with the fandom I do write for!
Don't have plans for posting it though.
I haven't done much research for fanfics, I'll admit, I just kinda come up with a plot and it ends up existing-- or not, depending on how I feel.
However I'm pretty sure I have had to look up how long it takes to die from being stabbed in the stomach just to prove a character's death in a game innacurate
I've also looked up medieval weaponry before but that was just for fun.
I also did research on gaslighting! And other related forms of emotional abuse.
It was for a D&D character’s backstory, so close enough to a fanfic (I write D&D characters instead of writing fanfic; I probably would’ve dipped my toes into fanfic if I didn’t play D&D tbh).
I think I did _too_ well because the DM (the dungeon master; the person who runs the D&D game for the players) got very upset while reading it and almost cried due to my incredibly realistic depictions of manipulation, gaslighting, abuse, and my character’s anxiety and tendency to spiral into panic attacks (thankfully, her emotions were the only thing I was writing from experience. I didn’t have to suffer through any of the rest personally).
Also for that same backstory:
“Can you break a human skull with a wooden bat”
“Sound of breaking skull with wooden bat” (couldn’t find anything. Wonder why)
“How to write a useless lesbian”
“How to write someone who has a crush but doesn’t realize it”
She’s honestly become one of my favorite characters because of how much effort and love I poured into writing her backstory.
Edit: oh! I just remembered another! I use a site called Hero Forge to make depictions of characters and NPCs. I once wanted to make a town in a D&D game which was magically frozen, people included. But I wanted to make it _realistic._ So I looked up real ice mummies and the effects freezing has on corpses and made the models as accurate as possible, then gave them a bit of bluish whitish highlights and smooth texture to make them appear glazed in a coating of ice. ‘Twas fun. One of them was a mother holding her infant. Some of them were animated and attacked the party in an attempt to freeze them too.
I swear, Google needs an "It's for a story" function so people could look up things like this without being put on a watchlist.
I have a lot since I tend to write for darker plots but this one was just a little amusing to me :
I wanted to figure out how hot coffee is meant to be made at (which took me down a very long rabbit hole with lawsuits and everything), what degree of burn that temp would inflict on the human skin, how long would pouring take to become fatal or super super serious, and adequate burn treatments.
Why do I feel like Todoroki is involved
Average enstarrie search history
@@genesisofthebetween Same man-
Most of mine have to do with either specific animal biology/behavior or human psychology.
I find it funny that someone mentioned "the effects of drugs on spiders" because I went down that exact same rabbit hole looking for information on black widow spiders. As it turns out, they're really interesting creatures!
I also went down the cat genetics hole during my obligatory warrior cat fanfiction phase. I still get nostalgic for it, maybe I'll come back one day lmao.
I have searched things about various mental disorders and the science of alternate dimensions. I have also searched how mental stress can affect your health. But the weirdest thing I've looked up is "can stabbing someone in the shoulder kill them"
*I'M WRITING A POKEMON LEGENDS ARCEUS FANFIC*
Radiation poisoning somehow for my legends arceus fic! I'll be adding hallucinogenics used in religious rituals to that list soon.
As it turns out, no - people in Hisui cannot make the antiradiation drug Prussian Blue because it is NOT the same as the pigment!
I think the answer is "technically, but highly unlikely to actually happen"?
Any wound can be fatal if it gets infected without modern medical care 😉😉😉
@@aogasd also if it ruptures an artery. Depending of where and how deep in the sholder it can break the jugular or a near enough branch
I created a whole conlang for a fic that's still sitting unpublished
tolkien behavior
I've once written a fanfiction where a lot of my characters are placed in an 18th Century England setting and I really tried to make it fit into the story.
So while researching about what bathtubs look like in the 18th Century and what does their tea look like back in the day (they look like chocolate bars btw) I found one peculiar thing.
***YOU CAN BUY A WIFE BACK THEN***, *HUSBAND TOO IF AVAILABLE*
**I WRITE HILDA FANFICTION*
Stuff I've researched!
- Epilepsy and specific brainwave patterns regarding certain types of seizures.
- Gyaru fashion and substyles.
- Sedative overdose symptoms.
- The specifics of bipolar and all of its episode types.
- Canon backstories of the THH cast and Gundham Tanaka.
- Are Kiyotaka Ishimaru's and Masaru Daimon's mothers still around? (No idea. There's nothing about either one).
- Japanese family law.
- Recovering from a serious car accident.
- Junko Enoshima's natural hair and eye colour (red for both).
- Can one survive internal decapitation? (depends).
- Everyone's blood type in Danganronpa plus blood type genetics.
- Eye and hair colour genetics and how that would work in a universe where the entire rainbow is considered natural eye and hair colour to have.
- Twins. (Apparently, Kaede Akamatsu has a twin sister. Junko and Mukuro are fraternal twins).
- Hearing impairment and the Deaf community.
- What happens if you do literally everything they tell you not to do in pregnancy and have no prenatal care whatsoever (depends but often ends badly).
- Mobility aids of all kinds and the pros, cons and usage of each type.
- Can you go up and down stairs in a wheelchair? (Down, yes. Up, no).
- What happens if you get rubella during pregnancy? (again, depends. The earlier in pregnancy you contract it, the more severe the outcome).
- Were Nagisa Shingetsu's parents involved in the Kamukura project? (No info but I have a feeling that they were).
- Anorexia effects on an amab person.
- What age do you start introducing certain foods to a baby, specifically what the Japanese health authorities recommend.
- Anaphylaxis symptoms in someone less than a year old.
- Are epipens available in Japan? (yes).
- Can there be more than 16 students in a class at Hope's Peak? (still don't know).
- Does Hope's Peak have a middle school division? (Couldn't find anything but probably yes).
Actually, I can confirm there is a middle school division - apparently it's brought up in the Byakuya novels. Not much is known about it, but it does exist
oh hi fellow danganronpa writer😄
I see you're a danganronpa fic writer
I once spent a week researching tea flavors, because I have never had tea, but everyone unanimously agreed that this character did, so I needed to know what kind he would drink and how to describe it. This resulted in roughly three paragraphs of two characters drinking tea in mostly silence.
Did you consider practical experimentation?
@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts I don't actually have access to tea on a regular basis and didn't have the opportunity,
@@amandaburris1854 A shame, no one should have to endure life without tea.
@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts Well, I don't mind too much. It's actually against my religion to drink most teas.
@@amandaburris1854 Are you a Latter Day Saint?
Off the top of my head, I think I spent about an hour researching the Salem witch trials just to figure out what hair accessories existed then, if formal suits existed then, what metal working knowledge and tools they had, and if their wedding bands would have survived being burnt lol.
Being a writer, fanfic or original (not based from a fandom), comes with being on at least one watch list, doubting everything you know, and getting side tracked with another article about something entirely off topic. Or you spend at least three hours reading up on a small thing in the story just so you can get it accurate, whether important to the story or not.
Not the weirdest thing I’ve ever searched for a fic but it would probably be one of the things I went most in depth too; Marie Antoinette Syndrome.
People originally thought it was caused by stress and could make all of your hair white in one night because of a Queen by the name of Marie Antoinette. The night before her execution it’s said that all of her hair turned white, or something along those lines. There is a science behind it but I couldn’t find any confirmed reason for it, just a bunch of very similar theories. I was writing a fic where a character has it but I’ve lost motivation on it before even publishing it.
Call me naively optimistic, but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of writers out there who AREN'T on any watch lists, simply because the things they write about wouldn't raise any flags when researched.
Plus, I'm sure that by this point, the FBI's gotten so used to people looking up weird crap that they've developed a system to figure out whether or not somebody would need to go on a list.
This made me feel better researching weird stuff for writing. Weirdest thing I’ve researched is types of gags for a fanfic. If your interested I can add the whole search list for this fanfic.
😳😂
Examples if stuff I've looked up for art (cause I am not really a effective fanfic writer)
"Good weapons for clowns"
"Clown fashion"
"Cows"
"What do fish look like"
Also a general curiosity one
"Are geese lactose intolerant "
Now you've made me want to look up clown fashion! :D
Wait are geese lactose intolerant?
You can't just leave me hanging
Edit: they are lactose intolerant
I own alot of animals and sometimes feel like going on art communities offering animal drawing help even tho i can hardly even draw... and also i can geuss no one will respond, like with pretty much anything i post abt animals
@@bubblybubbles09 whoa i own geese and i had no idea lol, then again we dont feed them milk, we feed them grain and let them graze on grass
@@whatTFisThis I mean, TBF most animals that don't drink a type of milk tend to be lactose intolerant (even then, some can presumably be differently intolerant? Like cats can drink cat milk but not cows milk. Neat!)
things i’ve had to look up:
- the entire history of michigan (specifically detroit)
- when the color orange was created
- when the fruit orange was created (& its ancestors)
- were there bears in 4000 BC
- the eye color of the olsen twins
- average height of women in 1700s canada
- violent ways to describe rain
- the history and specific effects of electroconvulsive therapy (& what happens if it goes wrong)
- 1700s equivalent to a truck
- what happens to a body just after death (specifically what happens to the eyes)
- can flamingoes be yellow
- what a starling looks like & how it sounds
- can chickens fly
- the phases of the moon during september 1704 (specifically what day the new moon was [for anyone wondering it was the 17th])
*violent ways to describe rain*
Gotta be one of my favorite questions right there
I presume the Olsen twins have green eyes? I'm a Marvel fan and I know Elizabeth Olsen has green eyes.
@@junoniathesilkwing4221 i think mary-kate has blue eyes & ashley has green
@@synodicseason I see
I find "the 1700s equivalent of a truck" weirdly hilarious, I love it
Kind of on the milder side, but I once spent an entire history class looking up if you could dream in a coma (You can)
Ironically, I didn’t consider this before starting the fic. The whole fic takes place in a dream, while our protagonist is comatose.
"All of this was promptly used for a passing line." Really felt that one. I used to spend so much time looking up things for throwaway gags and small details that never got brought up again.
My weirdest was probably that time I looked up moon phases in the '40s to see if it would be feasible for a Pokemon to evolve under the light of a full moon.
“What is the best shoe for bashing someone’s face in” I swear this was for a fanfic
As someone who writes a lot of weird aus, ironically the most tame thing I’ve written has the most weird crap searched.
- common health issues in dairy cattle and how to treat them, down to what drugs and how to administer and how often
- in the same vein, hoof illnesses in horses
- how big alligators can get, then prehistoric alligators, then estimates of how much they’d eat, and that then became a rabbit hole that ended on some weird conspiracy forum
- me wandering my own state and then seeing if stuff I knew of as common was in other places too and then figuring how to incoperate that
Yes, it’s a couple fics set in the south/with characters who are cowboys/etc.
Yes, this means lots of bumf***-texas-adjacent crap
I wrote at length about an oversized talking alligators who was friends with a cowboy so I had to stop by and say howdy 🤠🤣
I have way too much knowledge about alligator biology as research for making an anthro character 💀
I'd say the most extensive research I've done has been in relation to Homestuck troll biology and what could be realistic for it. For example, what human melanin is made of (so I could try and figure out what the troll equivalent that colors their blood might be comprised of), what kinds of metals work best in blood cells (iron carries oxygen far better than copper, even if copper comes in quite a few colors and is actually a component of insect blood; decided that iron covered in the previously mentioned coloring agent is probably the most likely composition), and whether or not chitin in humanlike beings is a viable alternative to keratin (quite possibly; keratin and chitin are functionally the same, but the former is made of protein while the latter is made of sugar :3). But probably the oddest search had to do with whether or not aliens (specifically searched for Vulcans) can take ibuprofen. Sadly that research was inconclusive and I still have no idea if human medicine is safe for aliens lol (guess it's up to the author then)
TIL the difference between keratin and chitin, lol.
For me, it was the Catholic wedding process, the anatomy of the female genitalia, the anatomy of hermaphrodite genitalia, what could possibly happen if a demon had a baby with a dragon, genetics(like punnet squares and such), and what leg braces and glasses looked like during pirate times.
“marijuana use in italy 1890”
“marijuana terminology italy 1890”
for a jjba fic of all things
5:23 you can pet a koi fish, but im not sure if you can pet a coy fish (im so sorry)
“how long does it take for a fully grown cat to decompose in spring” PLS DONT- ITS FOR A WARRIOR CATS STORY- Its 6 months-15 years btw
That’s a pretty long spring.
I think my weirdest one was "how to remove blood from a body", due to a murder mystery thing I was writing. For fanfic specifically, "how long does it take for a person to freeze to death in space?"
This one wasn't even for a fic but I spent like an hour reading about how geckos stick to things ( basically a very specific electrostatic force) because I was having a conversation with someone about wether or not it would be super out of place for a character with the ability to control electricity to wall crawl like Spiderman. That and way too much information about crows.
"The rate of speed a car would need to be going to break a bone but not seriously injure someone."
I would consider a broken bone to be a serious injury...
5:15
i write small fics for myself (i dont publish them anywhere) and i always make sure to throw in a few "best writing tips for fight scenes" "writing tips for violent scenes" "how to write fictional violence" etc searches in along with my 'suspicious' ones. even if theres no fbi watching my history it still gives me peace of mind lmao
not for a fanfiction but for a character i used to roleplay as, the most recent examples i can think of are symptoms of pyromania, how pyromania can be triggered in a pyromaniac, as well as the different levels of arson and the difference between an arsonist and a pyromaniac.
if anyone's curious, pyromania is classified as an impulse control disorder and has not been put into the DSM at the time of writing this, and pyromaniacs are people who have been diagnosed with pyromania. pyromania is usually triggered by feelings, such a boredom, stress, depression, etc. and pyromaniacs are different from arsonists, since arsonists usually have external intentions for why they burn things (insurance, revenge, etc.) but pyromaniacs do not have that factor in mind and burn things for the sake of releasing stress, gaining satisfaction, etc. from watching / setting fires. pyromania, from what i read, is very much like a spectrum in terms of what symptoms a pyromaniac can have. they can go as simple as to just watch fires, to collecting fire-related items (i.e., fire extinguishers, match books, and lighters) and even hanging around firefighter stations so that they can follow the trucks to watch more fires.
this is all off the top of my head right now, so if i missed anything or i got something wrong, feel free to correct me! i don't consider myself an expert in this field at all but i'd highly recommend that if you feel like some of these symptoms apply to you, either talk to a medical professional about it or do your research on it before you dive into saying you have this disorder. self-diagnosis is completely valid however just please know what you're getting yourself into. this goes for just about anything to be honest. thanks for reading this long comment on a video about what weird things people researched for their fanfictions.
I actually looked that up too once!
Very chill of you to add that disclaimer
An arsonist is doing it with a purpose (fraud, murder, hiding evidence, etc.). A pyromaniac does it because they like fire to an unhealthy extent.
Self-diagnosis IS NOT VALID. Go to a doctor if you suspect you have some sort of disorder. You are not a medical professional.
Not a fanfiction writer but I once read a fic out of curiosity, skipped to the end and the writer said “I had to google how sex workers/porn actors work/form a contract with their clients, I swear FBI I’m not trying to become one”
I needed to research what human meat tasted and felt like because I wanted to write a horror short story, surprisingly though I found a pretty helpful article that went into detail about the misconceptions and the fake stories about human meat tasting like either pork or unlike anything that one could eat.
I **frequently** research ancient Egyptian culture and history for my Yu-Gi-Oh fics. I spent hours trying to find a breakdown of the ancient Egyptian calendar just to determine when Atem’s birthday would be on the modern calendar for basically no reason other than it was mentioned in passing in one line of dialogue and never brought up again.
Not for a fic, but for my own ocs: I spent 30 minutes researching how fast it would take to bleed out from various gunshot wounds and how fast someone could escape from me with said injuries, the technicalities of a couple war crimes, and how best to keep criminal activities and important secrets hidden from the government/other organisations
I've researched a lot of strange things ranging from "how does a body decompose" to "types of places least likely to be a front for murder" however my favourite isn't exactly a search but instead a pipline of searches.
from oldest to newest (all in one writing session) they are;
- translate
- is kotaro tatsumi without sunglasses
- family restaurants in japan
- does bleach get rid of blood?
- what get rid of blood
- can you die from getting stabbed by a fork
- family mart in tokyo
I am unable to explain any of them,,
“does bleach get rid of blood?” to “what get rid of blood” to “can you die from getting stabbed by a fork” feels like a story in and of itself
My best guess is someone stabs someone to death in a family restaurant with a fork then tried to get rid of the evidence
To be fair, in middle school a friend taught me out to make a very pointy and deadly object from a plastic fork and then told me where to stab it depending if I wanted to kill, maim, injure, or inconvenience. Not kidding.
As horrifying as it is to have this knowledge in my brain, it was fascinating and is semi reassuring to know that I could easily defend myself in any public setting with any sharp object or plastic fork.
@@rachelmr24 i actually know the same trick, i believe they're called shanks but i may be incorrect. however I was looking for a very sepesfic type of fork that can easily be obtained from a conbini or resturant in japan and I had to know whether they could be used for murder without causing a large scene. plastic forks, for how good they are as weapons, create quite a scene by the snapping and the time it takes to kill due to the fact it is plastic and may have issues digging into skin depending on how hard you stab !
5:23 you can, you just have to be veryyy gentle to not disturb their coating! My dad owns koi fish, and I even hand feed them from time to time. They’re very lovely fish.
Here, have a list.
- The most recent thing I researched was what kind/strength of microscope you need to be able to see sperm in semen. You could easily see it with a normal hobby microscope by zooming in x400. I also found out that having a microscope that zooms in x1000 is generally considered useless because you won’t see anything but a blob.
- I’ve also looked up how big a tree would have to be to crush your spine, then also researched how to treat a crushed spine.
- I have very extensively researched pregnancy. I know more about pregnancy than I should considering I’m not a gynecologist and I’ve never been pregnant.
- I’ve looked up the fine for public indecency in Japan. Answer? ¥300,000. Which is about $2.2k in USD.
- I’ve also looked up the legal gambling and drinking ages in Japan. Legal gambling age is 18 and legal drinking age is 20.
Can’t think of anything else right now but. There are a few things I’ve researched for fanfiction.
What.. what kind of fanfiction would need the first two pieces of information..?!
Holy shit
In my country you're allowed to be naked whereever as long as you're not on private property that explicitly says against it, or you're harassing people.
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The first one involves a robot having unprotected sex with a non robot and had the idea that said robot is able to reproduce, so I looked up how strong of a microscope you’d need to be able to see sperm (as nobody knows he can reproduce, but they’re nervous about it so they check if he produces sperm). I also looked up whether or not synthetic sperm is a thing that exists for the same fic.
The second one was researched because I had a telekinetic character that accidentally flew himself full force into a tree and knocked it down, and ended up paralyzed from the waist down.
Idk if context makes these better or worse lmao
@@JinxedShapeshifter ok, that explains those, but what about the public indecency one?
Actually, gynecology relates to the female reproductive system. Its Obstetrics is for pregnancy.
I also did a really deep dive into pregnancy and childbirth for quite a few fanfics.
I spent a significant amount of time looking at Google Street View, Google Maps, an apartment listing, house listings, museums, a B&B, and parks near Manchester to write a House of Anubis fanfiction that has yet to see the light of day
Anubis House has been turned into luxury flats btw
I haven't written so much myself yet, but for now the weirdest thing is probably "How much force would it take to decapitate someone and is it greater than the force of braking down a standard door?" I needed to know if one of the characters' Rube-Goldberg machine could realistically work.
Also, for the same story I searched for symptoms of CO poisoning and "What injuries can you get in a fist fight that will come close to killing you but not actually kill you?".
I once researched about demons and 7 princes of hell only to moments later do a complete 180 and research about archangels.
I went from satanic to religious in the span of like 5 seconds.
I once tried to figure out how much various horse breeds would weigh after removing their bones, which took me down a really weird path. I now have an uncomfortable amount of knowledge about platypus anatomy and frog poison.
I like writing fics about trauma (both physical and mental, but mostly the latter) that superheroes would realistically have after all their hero-ing, so I do a LOT of medical googling, my favourite one was trying to figure out which particular injuries I needed to give the character to paralyse them in a specific way, so I read a shit ton of things about trauma to the spine, neck and head
One I'll always remember is researching hardwoods and their life cycles for a bow material that would be magically modified anyway. This went on for thirty minutes. Not that craziest or the longest I realize, but an instance that I've never forgotten even if the facts are a little fuzzy now.
IIRC yew and osage orange are some of the best woods for bows
“What constitutes aggravated assault in the state of Illinois”
“What happens if you take 700mg of diphenhydramine”
“How much capital does it take to start a business”
“How to launder money”
I’ve researched a bunch about Spirit Halloween. If anyone finds that fic, you’re welcome, and I’m sorry
Lemme guess, it was about Spirit Halloween renovating the White House
@@BinglesP I'm sorry, *what?-*
@@cr0wn_3713 Sorry I saw an image edit of that and it was so funny that I almost always picture it in my head again when Spirit is mentioned
@@BinglesP Actually, it’s a coffee shop romance, but at Spirit Halloween
@@ella_cupcake This sounds so hilarious that I would read it even if I didn't know the fandom
I'm comforted by how many of us value realism and plausibility in our absurd and/or fantastical fictional scenarios
I tried to research specific road names and crime activity in New York. Didn't end up getting too far with that just made stuff up.
I had to search if theres thunder in hurricanes
turns out, there isnt. there goes my entire plan to cause angst
Not for a fanfic, but a while ago I was listening to The Whole "Being Dead" Thing from Beetlejuice the Musical. There's a line where BJ mentions choking to death on Triscuits (unsure if i spelt that correctly) and decided to Google whether there are any actual reported cases of people choking to death on one. All i found out was what Triscuits were. Idk, it's just that my brain went "Something like that has got to have happened before if a line like that exists."