PSA!

[misachan]

Tomorrow is my sncross_bigbang posting day! So on one hand, whooooooo! On the other, it's a five part story so there will be some flist spamming. I beg your forgiveness as always!

(WOOOOOOOOOOO!)

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Before I go back to coding and just because I'm wondering: What's the strangest/most random thing you've had to research for a fic? Right now I've got a tab open with box scores from a 2007 game between the Cubs and the Mets, because my stupid, stupid brain won't let me wing those kinds of things apparently.

What about all of you? *chin on hands*

Comments

[grasshopr-molly.livejournal.com]

Most random would be the date of the Mythbusters episode that proved you can't dig your way out of a normal-depth grave. (And I'll bet you can figure out why I needed to know, if you think about it.)

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

The exact amount of time a day is on Mars.

Also, physical therapy techniques for children so I could pick which disease to give a character who got about three seconds of screen time. (The research took about two hours.)

Funnily enough, those were both for the same story.

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[alicat713.livejournal.com]

The life expectancy and migratory habits of coyotes. That, and what blunt-force trauma to the back of the head will do re: amnesia & brain swelling. So, nothing really that out of the ordinary I think?

[misachan.livejournal.com]

There are so many reasons for that to come up.:)

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Clint and Phil have the worst taste in baseball teams, and oh God, I have to look up a Wrigley Field seating chart now, don't I?

*sighs* *opens new tab*

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Ha, I've done the head trauma research too. Ah, SPN..L

[grasshopr-molly.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to know whether Dean would be able to contemplate the fact that that geek show Sammy liked had proven he was gonna suffocate before he got out. (Turns out, no. The ep aired in November 2008.)

[serrico.livejournal.com]

How illuminated manuscripts were made and the street-level geography of Paris in the early 1600s.

Smallville was a strange--and oftentimes cruel--mistress. *g*

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Was it an AU? Or was this prophecy shenanigans?

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Season four witch nonsense. :) I'm one of only a handful of people who actually liked the mere existence of Isobel enough to write backstory fic. Which the show then jossed in a rage-inducing manner, but--*hands*. *g*

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Rage inducing? Smallville? You jest!

[serrico.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT? Its ridiculous narrative choices were usually so thoughtful and accommodating!

[peachpai.livejournal.com]

How bad is it that the strangest things I've used for fics were not researched but knowledge I actually use in daily life? Does it make it worse if those things tend toward the macabre? >>;

[misachan.livejournal.com]

You're an archeologist, though. Popular culture has told me that you dodge mummy curses on a daily basis.:)

[alicat713.livejournal.com]

Haha. Actually, I think this was about 4 or 5 years ago for the CSI fandom. :)

[peachpai.livejournal.com]

Totally accurate, except I work the US, so more like evil shaman curses. XD