Strange Things You've Had to Research for Your Writing

Borrow what, exactly? :rofl: Do you need the source, or?

Edited to add the source is an essay called “The Anarchist Feast at the Opera” which I googled and found transcribed in a publicly available book called “Confessions of an Anarchist”. I downloaded the pdf but don’t have it on this computer. I reckon you should be able to find it on google pretty easy tho.

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An unusual research topic for my Young Adult(?) story: Which firearms are best suited for teenage girls, and which would best complement their designer clothes fashion? Ideally something related to their heritage or nationality.

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The inside layouts of WW1 era submarines. Ancient ziggurat construction, layout, and purpose. Nuclear bomb explosions. And How to make friendship bracelets <3

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I’ve seen the custom casing for some of these guns, most common being pink or pink camo. Lots of female hunters out there.

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Doesn’t hold up in court :rofl:.

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What is this story? :eyes:

:dress::rofl:

That last part though! Outlier! :joy:

Wolf and X Bunny ONC 2023, prompt #1.

Have 2 chapters up, will have about 7-8 up today, tomorrow or so? Aiming to keep this at 20K.

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Hmm, Freyja’s favourite colour is midnight blue and Krista’s is dark red. Metallic paint wraps for their pistols could work. Less of a random killing machine, more of a personal statement ~ Q, James Bond: Skyfall.

Had a quick browse through the Chicks Smashing Grunters hunting magazine’s FB page, and there were a few examples of pink camo wrapped rifles…and body armour…There are some big beasties outback.

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Hellsing - Alcard and Victoria Get New Guns - YouTube

And John Wick…

…Since the story’s set in Israel, I’m tempted to copy this scene for Krista introducing Dov (and Freyja) to the villa’s armoury. Krista’s new hobby is teasing Dov, a former commando.

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Our bears don’t get big down here, our deer are more like leggy dogs, but the gators and pigs aren’t always tiny. Things are bigger up north, so more affluent hunters will have a lease out of state.

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I love that you found so many examples :joy:.

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yissss for my reseaarrrrrch

yiiiiisssssssss thank yeuuuu

no officer please :sob:

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Historical weather reports :eyes:
The things you find if you just Google 'em.

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Ooo, sounds cool! Are they very similar to current day ones?

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I’m not very sure coz I don’t keep up with current weather reports :rofl: But I found digitized copies of 1890s monthly summaries “issued as a supplement to the weekly weather report” and they have a very convenient “general summary” of what the whole month was like, along with a paragraph each for pressure, depressions, anticyclones, winds, temperature, rainfall, bright sunshine.

I think they were still using Fahrenheit or something else at the time, because “the thermometer rose to 70” and that…can’t be Celsius :rofl: I’m only interested in rainfall and sunshine, though, to get an idea of how to describe the characters’ surroundings, but it’s a pretty nifty find!

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Cool! Retro lol.

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Vintage :rofl:

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You usually have to be obsessed with climate change (positive or negative) to really get a big picture grasp on how some things are different and some things are the same.

So, there are long term changes:

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/#:~:text=Precession%20–%20As%20Earth%20rotates%2C%20it,the%20equator%2C%20affecting%20its%20rotation.

But long changes are probably a lot more frequent than the estimations–but even if they weren’t, they still happen NOW, not some other random time:

And while there’s theories that the ice sheets melting could change rotational wobble, we have more direct links to earthquakes being the cause:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110316-japan-earthquake-shortened-days-earth-axis-spin-nasa-science

So since earthquakes are regular occurrences (daily), but the big ones are where we can measure it are rare, there’s enough in this to say that there is no such thing as a true weather pattern, it’s only weather patterns for a time, and at least some of it has little to do with us.

But still, there are cycles. Laura Ingalls Wilder recorded in that record year for snow that the NAs were telling settlers that there was a roughly 7 year cycle, and the 3rd one was hell (21 years). I’ve noticed vaguely roughly similar patterns with overall snowfall–not always precisely 7 years, and not always as severe as in the past.

We also have a sense of isolation to our storms. If you asked yourself what the worst hurricane was, you’d likely name recent history.

But storm surge is one of the best indicators of what you’re dealing with, and that’s not a new record:

42 ft, 1899:
https://wmo.asu.edu/content/tropical-cyclone-largest-storm-surge-associated-tropical-cyclone

Compare that to one of the worst storms to hit the US?

28 ft, 2005,
24 ft, 1995, 1969

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/

Don’t get me wrong, these storms are bad and I don’t like living through these things down here, but many of the big ones aren’t even last century, some of them we only have the water marks for.

So there’s a sense that calamities only happens when we can measure them, and that’s a pretty easy mindset to fall into.

So: patterns are real, patterns change over time, and it’s easy to be a little bothered by it all. Shrugs

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