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What interesting research have you carried out relating to recent stories you have written, or are writing?

caleb35 said:
That medieval nuns would have at least seven different prayer services (masses) each day/night, starting at 2 AM and ending after 7 PM. Details varied a bit but roughly speaking they were (in order): Matins Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline.
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I didn't know nun's were sexting. Seems like a good point for a taboo story. Not incest, but it is sex with a sister.
 
ChloeTzang said:
...Aaaaaand just soent half my morning reading up on coffee from the dutch east indoes for a throwaway paragraph.

I never realized it, but ot was the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that popularized coffee - Dutch merchants sourced beans from Yemen, planting them in their colonies in the east indies and India (Malabar) and Ceylon to feed Europe’s growing coffee craze - they shaped coffee culture worldwide, from Japan to South America. It was dutch sailors than invented cold drip coffee - stuck on long voyages, they couldn’t brew coffee with fire outside the ship’s kitchen. So, they got creative, letting cold water drip through grounds to make a brew that stayed fresh longer. This early cold drip method was a game-changer, especially in the heat of Asian trade routes. It caught on in places like Japan and Korea, where it’s still a specialty today.

I am now a font of useless knowledge on dutch east indies coffee LOL


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I mentioned a pre-colonial Indonesian queen in "The Muse".

Probably the least return on effort of any of the trivial factoids I used in that one. Still, it added depth.
 
ChloeTzang said:
...Aaaaaand just soent half my morning reading up on coffee from the dutch east indoes for a throwaway paragraph.

I never realized it, but ot was the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that popularized coffee - Dutch merchants sourced beans from Yemen, planting them in their colonies in the east indies and India (Malabar) and Ceylon to feed Europe’s growing coffee craze - they shaped coffee culture worldwide, from Japan to South America. It was dutch sailors than invented cold drip coffee - stuck on long voyages, they couldn’t brew coffee with fire outside the ship’s kitchen. So, they got creative, letting cold water drip through grounds to make a brew that stayed fresh longer. This early cold drip method was a game-changer, especially in the heat of Asian trade routes. It caught on in places like Japan and Korea, where it’s still a specialty today.

I am now a font of useless knowledge on dutch east indies coffee LOL


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That almost makes up for the atrocities that they committed in the name of trade - killing or enslaving whole communities in the name of business. I guess not too much has changed in the world!
 
 
My current work in progress is research intensive.
The protagonist is a demon living near Washington D.C. for work, visiting NYC (also in his area of responsibility), and finds a particularly tempting victim to tempt.
His previous assignment was Venice from maybe 500 or so until 1760.
Things that someone who has lived that long, and travel that widely (arrived on Earth "before the pyramids were built" and remember that Cleopatra was chronologically closer to the IPhone than the building of the Pyramids) would casually mention require a bit of research/fact checking for a mere mortal.

Biblical references, religious orders, history of NYC and Venice, demons, angels, Latin, the names of the lions in front of the NY Public Library on 5th Ave (Patience & Fortitude, Patience is the southern one, left as you enter), the premiere of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" (1879, in NYC), and so forth.
15th century Venetian history is awesome. Modern finance was invented, trade, two Venetian popes (related to each other), art, military innovation. I am enjoying that part.
 
Actingup said:
I mean, yeah, but I can aspire to be like my main character, right?

(It was published as Jade and the Unicorn Affair and it was well received. In particular, I didn't have any criticism from real life safecrackers or skydivers!)
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Cautiously.
Aspire to be like your main character cautiously.
Safecracking, especially with explosives is not for the careless.

A Broco torch would be handy.

So there I was and this is no shit (the traditional opening for a military story) ;
I was the Battalion intelligence & security officer (S2), and we had an engineer company. The engineers had just gotten Broco torches, and their First Sergeant (senior non-commissioned officer for the company) was in my office and very excited about his new toys.
"Sir, I could open your vault in minutes!" Pointing to my vault full of classified material.
Needless to say, a policy about the storage and handling of the Broco torches was written and in force before the day was over.
 
EdwardsOtherSide said:
Cautiously.
Aspire to be like your main character cautiously.
Safecracking, especially with explosives is not for the careless.

A Broco torch would be handy.

So there I was and this is no shit (the traditional opening for a military story) ;
I was the Battalion intelligence & security officer (S2), and we had an engineer company. The engineers had just gotten Broco torches, and their First Sergeant (senior non-commissioned officer for the company) was in my office and very excited about his new toys.
"Sir, I could open your vault in minutes!" Pointing to my vault full of classified material.
Needless to say, a policy about the storage and handling of the Broco torches was written and in force before the day was over.
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My husband did an engineeing course n demolition and blowing things up - and towards the end of the course two of the studemts were arrested. Turning out they were putting their training to pactical use and theyd done some breaking and entering and blowing safes. Obviously they didn't go far enough from the base LOL

Actingup said:
That almost makes up for the atrocities that they committed in the name of trade - killing or enslaving whole communities in the name of business. I guess not too much has changed in the world!
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No shit. They were brutal, and it took them over four hundred years to complete the conquest of all the territories inside their colony - Aceh didn't surrender until 1912. Southwestern Sulawesi was occupied in 1905–06, the island of Bali was subjugated with military conquests in 1906 and 1908, as were the remaining independent kingdoms in Maluku, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Nusa Tenggara. Up to four million deaths, and millions of slaves - and their treatment of their slaves was brutal.

And this - In the late 19th century, increasing numbers of Dutch immigrants arrived in colonial Indonesia, leading to a shortage of available women, as most immigrants were men. The Dutch then bought the "Njai", who were indigenous women who officially served as maids but were often also used as concubines. While officially contract workers, these women enjoyed few rights. They could be bought and sold together with the house they worked in as so-called "Indigenous Furniture" (Inlands Meubel). Njai were also not allowed custody of the children they had with their Dutch masters, and when they were fired, their children would be taken away.
 
ChloeTzang said:
My husband did an engineeing course n demolition and blowing things up - and towards the end of the course two of the studemts were arrested. Turning out they were putting their training to pactical use and theyd done some breaking and entering and blowing safes. Obviously they didn't go far enough from the base LOL
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12B?

Oh yes, they are fun loving folks.

I remember my old 1SG hearing about a soldier up on charges for banging another soldier's wife.
He just shook his head and said "Two terrain features back. Never on base."
 
People who deliver Christmas/winter presents around the world. Looks like the only female ones are St Lucia (under age) and La Befana (a witch) and Baboushka, which wasn't quite the party I had in mind with Father Christmas, Santa and St Nicholas, Black Pieter, the three Magi, the Iceland Yule Lads, etc. On the other hand, there could be a majority of female elves and Julenissen who just haven't been reported in the literature, right? Most will be partying on the 25th after midday GMT, though St Basil and a few others will be having to wait for their big work day.

What happens at the North Pole stays at the North Pole. Particularly the Joulupukki and the Julebock, the Finnish and Swedish goat creatures, who go off to a stable and never talk about it...
 
ChloeTzang said:
No shit. They were brutal, and it took them over four hundred years to complete the conquest of all the territories inside their colony - Aceh didn't surrender until 1912. Southwestern Sulawesi was occupied in 1905–06, the island of Bali was subjugated with military conquests in 1906 and 1908, as were the remaining independent kingdoms in Maluku, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Nusa Tenggara. Up to four million deaths, and millions of slaves - and their treatment of their slaves was brutal.

And this - In the late 19th century, increasing numbers of Dutch immigrants arrived in colonial Indonesia, leading to a shortage of available women, as most immigrants were men. The Dutch then bought the "Njai", who were indigenous women who officially served as maids but were often also used as concubines. While officially contract workers, these women enjoyed few rights. They could be bought and sold together with the house they worked in as so-called "Indigenous Furniture" (Inlands Meubel). Njai were also not allowed custody of the children they had with their Dutch masters, and when they were fired, their children would be taken away.
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When we look back at history I think it can help to put current world events in perspective - not in terms of 'oh well, it's a jungle out there', but to understand that we don't necessarily live in a just society unless we work to make it so. But I suppose I should take that over to the politics board!

I've spent a fair bit of time in Indonesia, although I haven't made it to some of the smaller islands in East Nusa Tenggara. It's such an amazing place. Jakarta has just become the world's most populus city, although I definitely don't want to ever live there (the area around Bandung is much nicer, being in the mountains).
 
Recently -- and for the same story -- I've looked up traditional Kalinga tattooing practices from the Philippines, sample Temporary Duty and Permanent Change of Station orders and the formatting/language used by the US military, historical drinking culture within the Royal Air Force, and brandy flavor profiles. That last one led to searching Google for 'brandy,' which, of course, is a product, so Google wanted to push me into its shopping portal.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam's Armenian:

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Very highly rated!
 
Kumquatqueen said:
People who deliver Christmas/winter presents around the world. Looks like the only female ones are St Lucia (under age) and La Befana (a witch) and Baboushka, which wasn't quite the party I had in mind with Father Christmas, Santa and St Nicholas, Black Pieter, the three Magi, the Iceland Yule Lads, etc. On the other hand, there could be a majority of female elves and Julenissen who just haven't been reported in the literature, right? Most will be partying on the 25th after midday GMT, though St Basil and a few others will be having to wait for their big work day.

What happens at the North Pole stays at the North Pole. Particularly the Joulupukki and the Julebock, the Finnish and Swedish goat creatures, who go off to a stable and never talk about it...
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I love the premise of an orgy to blow off steam after the year's work is done.

Re: Zwarte Piet/Black Peter - looking at the timeline of when he appeared, I suspect (with no evidence other than thr timeline and cultural shifts) that he is a sanitized version of Krampus, who is conspicuous by his absence from the big sexy time. I believe the the basic argument was "Krampus scares our sweet little babies! We need a different helper for Saint Nicholas!"
Ironic, because Zwarte Piet is (understandably) in bad odor these days as he is upsetting to many.

Now Krampus, his "endowment" is never discussed, but that might be quite a surprise for a naughty woman.
 
Actingup said:
When we look back at history I think it can help to put current world events in perspective - not in terms of 'oh well, it's a jungle out there', but to understand that we don't necessarily live in a just society unless we work to make it so. But I suppose I should take that over to the politics board!

I've spent a fair bit of time in Indonesia, although I haven't made it to some of the smaller islands in East Nusa Tenggara. It's such an amazing place. Jakarta has just become the world's most populus city, although I definitely don't want to ever live there (the area around Bandung is much nicer, being in the mountains).
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I've been to Jakarta for a few days - and spent a couple of months in Kalimantan when my dad worked there - but that was inland. Met a lot of Dyaks and stayed in a longhouse for a couple of nights with my dad - had my very own bodyguard provided by the company my dad was contracting for. I loved Kalimantan,and the Dayaks were lovely people - just glad they don't do that much head-hunting these days. Jakarta was soooo polluted and the traffic was crazy!!!!! I've been interested in Indonesia ever since. I LOVE Indoneasian food too - and Dutch Indoneasian food too - Rijsttafel is too die for. If you've never tried it and there's somewhere near you that does it, go for it.

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Oh my gosh.
The demon & nun story is almost done, but outside the sex scenes, I have had to stop to fact-check or research every single paragraph.

I've worn ruts in Google maps, Manhattan.
 
Figuring out how and where to put a fictional island in the Karimata Strait. I get to invent it, name it, and decide what it's good for, as well as figuring out how it would have been administered and peopled in 1927. All that requires a good deal of research involving League of Nations mandates, the expulsion of Germans after WWI, the trade routes of the Java Sea, and the economy of southeast Asia during the first quarter of the 20th century.

With emphasis, of course, on how much sex can be had on my island. Because Lit.
 
Recent research tabs: USMC Fitness Reports, Kavalan Soloist whiskey, SEAD mission structure, the Elizabeth Street community garden, bone structure in the human foot, SEQA review in California, Wookieepedia articles tagged as both "Legends" and "fruits and vegetables." Also, several different models of fantasy-themed dildo. Should anyone have experiences with any of them, I would be happy to hear recommendations.
 
YmaOHyd said:
Recently -- and for the same story -- I've looked up traditional Kalinga tattooing practices from the Philippines, sample Temporary Duty and Permanent Change of Station orders and the formatting/language used by the US military, historical drinking culture within the Royal Air Force, and brandy flavor profiles. That last one led to searching Google for 'brandy,' which, of course, is a product, so Google wanted to push me into its shopping portal.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam's Armenian:

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Very highly rated!
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[Look at the photo closely] ... um... [look at the photo some more]
 
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