Things You Didn’t Expect to Research

[Random_Guy]

It’s all in the title, I’m just curious about the things you ended up researching that you didn’t expect when you signed on.

For me, it’s body types. I was on board for researching guns and cryptids, I didn’t expect to spend 15 minutes hunting for a good list of body-type descriptors.
(Which I did find, here it is.)

[FGC_Checkmate]

I had to look into melee weapons. There are a lot of wild weapons that have been used throughout the years. Makes putting them against each other in certain match-ups a lot of fun.

[IzeB]

I have no idea how long my list are but I've seaech numerous things that I never ever expected to be searching. My comic is in a future setting and since there are things that I need to consider, I've read multiple articles related to energy utilization, new inventions with potential, hypothetical scenarios that is science-related, types of beard, I reviewed the Big Bang Theory and Chaos Theory, types of buildings, bridges and other infrastructure, asked google the blueprints of a ventilation system, and security system, I even studied the medieval period, and my country's old writing system which is rarely being used (used during 16th -17th century). There are still more but I can no longer remember the others.

Hehehehe

[EncryptedWriting]

I didn't expect to dive so deep into all types of monsters. I wanted to find a vampire that wasn't a vampire. So I dug for so long looking for something... exotic.

[Random_Guy]

I feel you there! I needed a word for an undead that wasn’t a zombie to describe Crypto (the MC of Cryptid for Hire) and spent so long digging before coming upon “Revenant”.

[Legendofgenii]

I think I’ll save this list, it’s really useful.

Now I’m trying to spot which best suits my characters.

Gen: “Herculean!”

Weirdest thing I have researched (for refs) are probably Palermo Mummies. And theories/mythologies about the human soul.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Just to draw this stupid unfunny jokes (which I'm sure people may not get it), I read things about wine and wine glasses.

But then on the taste description, I stumbled upon this chart that might be useful for writers to describe taste.

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Hidden because I'm not really confident of this drawing anymore

See this guy's sword? As he is a surviving older character getting developed, some of the edgelord points of my preteen years are preserved in many aspects. His sword's blade are made of charcoal and blood from dead bodies. It supposed to have a property of carbon steel (get it?).

However, charcoal from animals (such as bone charcoal) are less pure in C than those from vegetable source. Bone char is at most 10% C, while the vegetable one is
can be in the range of 90%. I still need more research on how to improve the purity of carbon obtained from the scorched human bodies, or extract them, as I'm bad researching at such things. Or I just need to say it's 'magic' and go with it. Also he probably needs the blood of around 450–500 humans for that sword around.

[KUUPID]

I didn't expect to be researching actual cake/ pastry recipes It totally ruined my plans to start my diet after a year-long quarantine.

Hopefully, I can get back on track after uploading all the relevant chapters

[BlunderingAlbatross]

Some of the more esoteric stuff I definitely expected going in, but what really caught me by surprise was needing a detailed description of what it feels like to be hanged by the neck That was fun...

[wekanian]

Once my internet history looked shady af. I researched about airport security, how to smuggle drugs, which part of the airport that they can get drug smuggler, airport dogs, and types of prison 🤣

[LunarScyphozoa]

Not as serial-killer as the rest of these replies, but I never expected to spend 30 minutes searching for variations that gave little red riding hood a first name

[KilljoyConstruct]

Y’know? I must say, I never expected that I would have to research what would happen to the Earth if the moon were to disappear (long story short, nothing good).

I’ve also had to look up the difference between sirens and harpies, different types of pistols, and what catacombs are (I had an idea, I just wanted to be sure).

[Zin_Trollborn]

Shady things yeah, like various ways for killing people with a bladed weapon, torture devices from the middle-age and bomb making...
Also how carnivorous plants work and weird insects and animals skills. I grew quite fond of treehoppers and sea slugs because of this.

[FafasMcMelt]

Age of conscent in the Holy Roman Empire

PS: Obviously there is no such thing as age of conscent in the Holy Roman Empire, but boys were generaly considered adults by the age of 15, so there's that

[Stargazer31]

Scottish stone circles
Isle of Skye monsters
Viking courtship traditions
Thigh high neon green boots
Swan noises
Types of seal
Seals that look like people

[Tired_Spider]

Mine are great
which is better cloaca or anus?
Can you eat cattails?
How strong are bones?
Most annoying noise in nature
What happens when you eat estrogen?
The layout of men and women
I would say more but at this point I feel like I'm making as much sense as daddyUnion's and Jschlatt's blessed child

[surenlicious]

Uh...well I had to search up on disembowelment for artsy purposes...like the pose and stuff, how it works and...well it was enlightening. Eh.

[AwesomeSoFar]

I had to look into stuff all the way from the size of the observable universe and the speed of light, all the way into the structure of single-celled organisms. don't ask, lmao

[Lirina]

My highlights are

• Lots of things around illegal drug use, how to inject, where to buy etc.
• Neo-Palladian architecture
• Expensive clothes items (some watches cost more than houses )

[Dialusion]

The following (in no order):

• Ancient Egyptian Torture Methods
• Beg Bugs > Traumatic Insemination (do yourself a favor and skip this) > the Rabbit Hole of Reproduction
• Language of Flowers
• Volcanic Eruptions and Hydrodynamics
• Math

Just a few of the things I had to look up the last few weeks