What was the strangest/funniest/most embarrassing thing you had to research for your comic?

[SirHellsir]

plants sexuality
how to draw bishonen
nazi's theory of the hollow earth and how could it work (without the planet crumbling)
origins of astrology and how, why it is read the way it is
demonology, hierarchy of angels, the different versions of hell in different religions
physics, quantum physics, meta physics, spirituality
murder scenarios, suicide scenarios, mental ilnesses, psycology

This are just things on the top of my head
recently I was researching if there's a way for anarchy to work even in a small population

[Vanesalisa]

ok there was this one time when I'm trying to research love scenes in youtube , I hard time drawing the make out scenes where the characters would take off clothes and doing nasty, I get the giggles especially when a guy took off his shirt ...damn but when the scene was more intense I was like whoa..that's enough for me to see that

[KSlinger]

plants sexuality

opens google
glances over shoulder
types 'sexy stamens'
Aww yeah.

[NickRowler]

'Flowers Gone Wild''

[Isky]

Where do babies come from?

[Mocha]

OHOHOHOHOHO this was all on YouTube was it?( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[heterodont]

I've got nothing off the top of my head tbh since most of my research already comes from things I know. The best I've got is I've come across forums of people who've stated they've met/they meet with actual angels and went off to describe their physical appearances and etc.

I have no problem with that but it's...interesting nonetheless.

[Vanesalisa]

yeah I was researching the make out scenes the pg 13 ones lol the pretty little liars scene with Toby and Spence...that was hot but not ready to draw to whole nudity sex scene not ready for that

[Rea]

Nothing all that embarrassing. Mostly just mental illness.

[Silerna]

How to draw a cookie. I had no clue ....

[noctuidae]

not for my current webcomic, but for a future comic i took to looking up videos and articles of spiders mating, and after about half an hour of that dreck i had to take a break to scream into a pillow because i am afraid of spiders. after the break, i went back to find visual references of maggots, and almost fell out of my chair.

i know way too much about how bugs have sex and i'm bitter

[Starfestival]

I found a lot of religious stuff(my comic has a lot of religious names) that eerily correlated to my characters and how they acted(based off the meaning of their name and the plans I have for them).

[JessJackdaw]

Uhh, probably "marsupial birth." One of my main characters is a marsupial, and was made such to justify the weird size gap between adults and...uhh... wait would they be called joeys not children? Apparently I need more research.

Also don't google "newborn marsupials." They look like slimey jellybeans with legs, because they're born in an embroynic state and slither into the pouch. Hnghhh...

[Emma]

WELL. My Pinterest feed is all messed up with feminist tumblr posts and emo boys because I had to research signs of mental illnesses (depression, anxiety, etc) as well as emo fashion (because my male main character is design-wise based off of edgy teenagers). So if anyone looks at my Pinterest, they're not going to find cute/goth fashion images or hair references. Just a lot of tumblr posts that end with a gif of a sassy black woman, and a lot of super pale emo boys that look exactly the same, with half of them being shirtless for some reason...

... that's actually really tame compared to THIS

i took to looking up videos and articles of spiders mating, and after about half an hour of that dreck i had to take a break to scream into a pillow because i am afraid of spiders

Because wow, I could never get myself to look at SPIDERS MATING, especially not if I was afraid of them.

[briadawson2014]

Well one character is an intersex individual, so I had to research how a person with dual genitals looks like XD

[Centauuri]

oml saaaaame my search history looks super random I'd be like looking for pictures of magpies one second and then looking for like motorcycles the next. lol it doesn't help either that my phone gallery is just filled up with random poses (especially the vogue ones)

[Centauuri]

What kind of story are you making that you have to search for plant sexuality? loool

[TrustyShamrock]

i had to look up some random sciencey things cuz i dont know poop about science. but the weirdest thing mighta been cuz i had a butt scene so i had to try figure out a good way to google butts refs without findin pics of butts i really didnt wanna see

[NickRowler]

OK, I admit to doing this too.

I was originally going to have a character who was two halfs of two people fused together (male and female) and they had intersexual parts. However the character was eventually dropped.

[Wishjacked]

"do people in Missouri wear flip-flops"

(I couldn't find the answer, regrettably)