The weird places you go for research
I am writing a fanfic, damnit, and only myself (and my beta*) care very much about details outside MCU canon...
So far this chapter I have looked up:
the geography and roads in Seattle
the New York city climate in Fall and, in particular, whether sea fogs affect the city occasionally, with some pictures
first names and family naming conventions in Kenya and Tanzania, with greeting customs
whether Permanent Representatives at the UN are in fact ambassadors (answer: it's complicated)
the full names of the states of Kenya and Tanzania (though I am going with Tanganyika just to make it clear the MCU is a little different)
the proper term for 'kung fu' and, this a recheck, information about the Sykes-Fairbourn fighting methods and the location of Mr Sykes and Mr Fairbourn in 1942/3
and the exact wording of the dead parrot sketch.
*My beta is as anal about this (and grammar and punctuation) as I am, and can be relied on to pick me up every time I don't actually look up something and rely on my memory. *sigh*
So far this chapter I have looked up:
the geography and roads in Seattle
the New York city climate in Fall and, in particular, whether sea fogs affect the city occasionally, with some pictures
first names and family naming conventions in Kenya and Tanzania, with greeting customs
whether Permanent Representatives at the UN are in fact ambassadors (answer: it's complicated)
the full names of the states of Kenya and Tanzania (though I am going with Tanganyika just to make it clear the MCU is a little different)
the proper term for 'kung fu' and, this a recheck, information about the Sykes-Fairbourn fighting methods and the location of Mr Sykes and Mr Fairbourn in 1942/3
and the exact wording of the dead parrot sketch.
*My beta is as anal about this (and grammar and punctuation) as I am, and can be relied on to pick me up every time I don't actually look up something and rely on my memory. *sigh*