thirty days of fanfic, day twenty-six
(list of questions can be found at day one)
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26 - What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
This is I think the toughest question because I never know what other people are going to think is odd or funny. I keep track of dates a lot and timeanddate is totally bookmarked. I'll look up maps for how to get from one place to the next-I just looked up the automotive routes from Paris to the French Riviera, and also where the French ocean liners docked. I read a biography of Natalie Clifford Barney as research.
I've looked up old NYC subway lines, the timing of various cultural events including the entire Hollywood awards season in January-February, the time of sunset on a specific date in a specific place, the proper use of pyrex sex toys, when the Dodgers and the Giants left New York and when the Mets had their first season, makes and models of cars, a lot of fashion, the specifics of the evacuation at Dunkirk, what movies premiered in the summer of 1977 and famous defections of Soviet scientists.
But mostly I look up dates and timelines.
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26 - What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
This is I think the toughest question because I never know what other people are going to think is odd or funny. I keep track of dates a lot and timeanddate is totally bookmarked. I'll look up maps for how to get from one place to the next-I just looked up the automotive routes from Paris to the French Riviera, and also where the French ocean liners docked. I read a biography of Natalie Clifford Barney as research.
I've looked up old NYC subway lines, the timing of various cultural events including the entire Hollywood awards season in January-February, the time of sunset on a specific date in a specific place, the proper use of pyrex sex toys, when the Dodgers and the Giants left New York and when the Mets had their first season, makes and models of cars, a lot of fashion, the specifics of the evacuation at Dunkirk, what movies premiered in the summer of 1977 and famous defections of Soviet scientists.
But mostly I look up dates and timelines.
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