Not for anything I'm posting, but something I'll post next year. I was just looking up 1930's New York and learned some interesting things about speakeasies, the prohibition, and Radio City Music Hall. Apparently, the opening night show was a disaster, with people walking out during the show, and the reviews were basically "all five people at the show thought it was awful, but the place was nice!" lol. And then they just turned it into a movie theater.
I've been looking at Vietnamese myths/history for character inspirations. I moved to the US when I was in elementary school, so I'd forgotten a lot. Recently read about Lady Trieu who rode elephants and was generally pretty badass:
"I'd like to ride storms, kill orcas in the open sea, drive out the aggressors, reconquer the country, undo the ties of serfdom, and never bend my back to be the concubine of whatever man."
I've been studying a bit of Chicago scenery so I can include some familiar places in my webcomic backgrounds! It's been a lot of fun going through old photos I took as well as stuff other people have shared online.
Aside from that, I'm also doing research for a prequel I'm writing! I've done a little research about what classes an undergraduate in a computer science major would be taking.
While watching a wuxia classic such as Jin Ying's Return of Condor Heroes, I suddenly had to look for the origin of 'wuxia'æŠäż for no reason.
But upon watching the video, I noticed something I didn't realized before:
At the roots, my works has some Wuxia elements all along!!
I should've known better! As chinese I was exposed to Wuxia from very young age and didn't have a deeper thought about it. I always thought some of my worldbuilding like magic system was based from the battle shounen power system from Japan-- such as the grand daddy Dragon ball series, but it was the mangaka Toriyama who brought the elements of wuxia(and xianxia too) into his works
I kept week and month as used (technically translated) words. I just let the audience know that an Agalatian "month" is not the same as a usual month. I've already thrown a whole bunch of made up words at my audience, don't want to overwhelm them with more.
As for my studying... I've been studying my own conlang in order to write a bunch of lyrics in it. It's been tough since I'm not a lyric writer in any language at all. But it's important to know a lot of words in order to come up with usable lyrics.
What kind of sandwiches they ate in the Victorian era because there will be a scene where Roy and Ernest are eating sandwiches. Annnnnd
Peanut Butter hasnât been invented yet! I looked it up and saw these.
Tomato and horseradish sandwich
Sardine sandwiches
Baked bean and lettuce
Ham and olive
Potato sandwich?
Jelly and cheese
So in the scene Roy and Ernest will be eating sardine sandwiches as well as jam and cheese sandwiches.
Keep in mind the bread wouldâve had to be freshly made for the sandwiches to be eatable too so thereâs that. đ€Ł
researched chinese and korean names, have a PDF of everything about huli jings (chinese version of the kitsunes), also made research of things like selkies, forges, kitchens, oriental dressing, different kinds of food (have to make a board for pinterest about it), different kinds of weapons and so on
Guitars, mics, amps, speakers, stands, drum kits, and the relative proportions of them compared to the human using them.
A good example is the drum kit. I've grown used to the idea of the drummer buried behind a wall of toms and cymbals like Neal Peart, but..
Ringo begs to differ and Ringo was/ is a king.
At the very moment Iâm trying to look for Irish lullabies. But there is none pre-1980s
Like none from Elsieâs time.
However there is a buttload of English ones. I think I know why, but itâs still frustrating.
I want there to be a scene where Ernestâs mother sings or something. I donât know.
Pitching and its muscle use research
from Armwrestling rsubreddit:
Baseball pitches require extreme looseness in the shoulder ligaments to achieve the ROM for speed and whip. ArmWrestling generally asks for tightness. They would probably be better than an average age and size matched comparison untrained person, or an endurance athlete, but I don't think they'd dominate.
Hammer throwers and shot putters are generally very powerful and strong upper body athletes; I'd love to give one of them a go, probably be pretty good I'd guess. I know from experience that rock climbers are generally very good pound for pound (weaknesses in pronation and cupping but ridiculous tier finger strength usually).
extra:
1) The Bible
2) various blackpilled and redpilled content (faceLMS, wheat waffles, Hamza, Andrew Tate, Naama Kates, etc. )
3) Eckhart Tolle books (already Segway into Hinduism, Buddhism, Spiritual Christianity)
4) stoicism books (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus)
5) "this world is a simulation" theories.
6) coast to coast am shows (particularly on spiritual topics, AI, demons, angels, aliens)
7) Rational Male by Rollo Thomassi
8) Peaceful warrior by Dan Millman
9) Philippine history
10) Marxism, Libertarianism
Yep... research material for AngHell Dela Blackpill...
@kyupol
Just a friendly heads up, per the opening post, OP requested that people not post links to their series.
I usually try to keep up with what's going on in robotics and prostheses developpment to try and make the cybernetics in my story as up to date as possible. I've also got a couple of articles lined up on necrorobotics (exactly what it sounds like) for future reference to read up on.
Also fun fact about the days of the week in english, whereas in other languages like French the days of the week are pretty explicitly all named for Latin gods, English has a couple of weird ones that don't seem to fit like Wednesday is nothing like "Mercurius", Thursday is not Jupiter and Friday is not Venus (where as in French it's pretty obvious: Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi).
That's because in English all days of the week used to be named for the Norse gods, and when the Romans invaded they thought Norse gods were just Latin gods with different names and worked hard in the parts of England them conquered to make that seem true to more easily transition the population from Norse to Latin beliefs. However they didn't conquer all of England nor did they conquer all the days, leading do the English adopting the order of the days but using the Norse God's names, so sun and moon, easy, Tỳr's-day (Tuesday), Odin's-day (Wednesday) Thor's-day
(Thursday) and Frigg/Frejya's-day (Friday) surviving.
It was thought that Tỳr the god of war was Mars' counterpart, that Odin was an analogue to Mercury, being both somewhat gods of knowledge and wisdom as Mercury is god of apothicaires and messengers, that Thor was an analogue for Jupiter with them both having thunder powers, and Venus an analogue for Freyja as they're both goddesses of fertility (though Frejya's probably closer to Demeter in her status of goddess of nature and plenty).
All that to say that in your worldbuilding different parts of naming and speech can come from different influences and peoples in your world as they do ours.