learned while doing research for your story?

MasterValkyrie 2021-12-21 07:10:30 UTC #1

A portion of my story's power system revolves around something called a Spirit Contract. It allows a person to access the characteristics of any one animal. It doesn't matter if it's living, ancient, or mythical. Therefore I have to do research on literally hundreds of animals (including insects).

Anyway, I've learned that certain species of penguins are the biggest predators on the planet (I'm talking about the Chris Hansen kind). It doesn't matter if they're young, old, male, female, dead, the ground, or a completely different animal altogether. Some penguins will literally stick their pool noodle in ANYTHING.

Now I could go on for paragraphs about the animal kingdom, especially insects. (My God the things I've learned about insects.) But I think I'm happy with ruining your view on penguins.

HonorableTakoyaki 2021-12-21 07:14:32 UTC #2

Ok, that is definitely disturbing.

But what kind of penguin is it? Like, what's the species name?

BLTX 2021-12-21 07:17:02 UTC #3

I've seen plenty of videos and images of recently deceased brains so I can learn how to best illustrate them for my end comic, but, honestly organs do not bother me. AT ALL.

It's INSECTS I have a problem with! And I just recently I searched up "Do Ants Have Antenna" so I could best potray one. I TRIED to be careful not to look at any pictures, but, I failed and literally shook immediately after words. Thankfully, I DID get my answer.

SIDENOTE: I learned about penguins being child kidnappers a few months ago. I honestly just found it pretty amusing.

BLTX 2021-12-21 07:18:12 UTC #4

I beleive it's the famous Emperor Penguins.

MasterValkyrie 2021-12-21 07:18:41 UTC #5

The Adelie Penguin. One of the most common penguin species.

HonorableTakoyaki 2021-12-21 07:19:30 UTC #6

Thanks, I'm gonna look it up and spread the word to my penguin-loving friends.

BLTX 2021-12-21 07:20:03 UTC #7

Well I am penguin lover and loved the information, so tell me how they react.

HonorableTakoyaki 2021-12-21 07:21:31 UTC #8

Thanks, I am off to see the horrors.

HonorableTakoyaki 2021-12-21 07:22:09 UTC #9

I will, if I remember to do so hahahaha

MasterValkyrie 2021-12-21 07:25:09 UTC #10

No problem. You will also learn a disturbing fact about the females too. I won't spoil it for you though.

HonorableTakoyaki 2021-12-21 07:32:40 UTC #14

I can never look at Pingu the same way again...

BLTX 2021-12-21 07:33:05 UTC #15

NOOT NOOT!

HonorableTakoyaki 2021-12-21 07:34:11 UTC #16

God knows what sinister messages Pingu delivered with those somewhat adorable noises.

Shomin 2021-12-21 08:25:24 UTC #17

My research involved human world... and i think i might get reported, flagged or muted if i type them out here without filter...
Everything about child abuse especially female children, around the world that is still happening today.

xstarx07 2021-12-21 08:28:16 UTC #18

Generally speaking: human nature - in itself it's one hell of a contradiction, on one hand complex & unpredictable, but on the other terrifyingly easy to manipulate.

To sum it up, I found it pretty disturbing how "the way to hell is paved with good intentions" is a literal discription of how things usually tend to turn out.

(But penguins of all things, I would've never expected to be like that... That's terrifying .3.")

NickRowler 2021-12-21 12:13:19 UTC #19

I was looking up some outfit ideas for a character and one of the outfits shares its name with a skin disorder. Babies with this disorder are born with no skin, and google images decided to show me some of them.

GumshoeComix 2021-12-21 15:12:29 UTC #20

cw:
considering that my stories about csa and how it affects people; I've researched some shit I've never wanted to see-
Stuff from cartel human trafficking to how a child celebrities day by day goes
Found out Aaron Carter was raped repeatedly and no one cared, a lot of people told him he shouldn't lie, that one just makes me angry ad there's a whole rabbit hole with that one I won't get into or it'll just be an angry rant.
and that's on the lighter end of the stuff I've learned about
I'm not gonna mention the others cause theyre really fucked up

allenT 2021-12-21 15:58:12 UTC #21

Not disgusted, but i was shocked to learn about this rabbit anatomy.

arxianfall 2021-12-21 17:41:50 UTC #22

What a disturbing amount of time and effort is to create clothes if you don't have industrialization.
It's also disturbing how you can actually make really high quality stuff even like that.

Luna's tribe is making bank!

Swamp 2021-12-21 19:14:21 UTC #23

Not counting anything with actual cadavers, learning about bed sores was definitely the roughest.
Text hidden for medical grossness of both the ethical and corporeal variety

Summary

So bed sores come from extended pressure on one part of the body, usually for patients who spend a lot of time in bed. They're most common on elderly people with fragile skin, and, once they develop, can be fatal. Like... 75% mortality rate fatal. But here's what makes them horrific

First, they are some of the more upsetting injuries to see. I won't post pictures, but plenty of people shared loved ones with wound inches across. They look like somebody look an icecream scoop to their body and then let it rot.

Second, they're completely preventable by just turning patients regularly, yet they kill 60,000 people in the US alone. At best, they're the result of a fragile body and an understaffed medical group. At worst, they can be considered horrific neglect.

Just the idea of being unable to move myself and feeling my bodypainfully rotting away, and then knowing this experience is actually a common way to die is... whoof. Also, it's very hard to research them without seeing a lot of photos. I can deal with fictional gore, but real gore gets me.