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mamawasatesttube · 8 months ago

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🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

HMMM. well, depending on your definition of weird, there's probably several. i went down quite the rabbit hole looking up facts about albireo (a star in the constellation cygnus) while plotting out the core four space adventures fic i have yet to post, but i mean who doesn't love astronomy wikipedia pages???

the most fun big research deep dive i've gone on anytime recently though was the blue-banded goby one. i was thinking about ways to write kryptonian biology as different from human, and then started thinking abt how a lot of mammals have largely bimodal models of sexual dimorphism, but other parts of the animal kingdom do it differently. blue-banded gobies are really cool because they're bidirectional hermaphrodites, so they just change their sex to whatever's more convenient, and can undergo that change multiple times in their life cycles!!!

i skimmed a few papers, but this one ("Structural changes in the ovotestis of the bidirectional hermaphrodite, the blue-banded goby (Lythrypnus dalli), during transition from ova production to sperm production") was my favorite. there's a set of fish in there who both transitioned from producing ova to sperm and i think about them often. it's just so funny to me. this is so funny to me. oh we're both girls so neither of us can fertilize eggs? not to worry i'll grow some spermatogenic tissue-- wait. what are you doing.

overall i just love doing scientific research, especially in biological fields (im a bio student with preclinical laboratory experience so like. its my jam!!!). i also did a whole bunch of reading on various melliferous plants before writing a sex pollen fic. the research in question influenced all of one (1) line in said fic. BUT!! it was still fun fhjkds

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#answers #radioactive-earthshine #ive also thought way too hard about oceanic gyres and plate tectonics while trying to worldbuild #concluded one time that i accidentally worldbuilt myself into having the sun rise in the west #because my subtropical gyre in the northern hemisphere was counterclockwise #which would indicate the opposite direction of planetary rotation as earth has.#and i was like OH NO!!!!! bc in-text i was pretty sure i'd already described sunsets in the west so i'd have to go look for all of it #<- you can probably see the tolkien influence #but t hen i was like man this is an anime fanfic i Cannot be assed #if i just don't mention it hopefully no one will notice #and no one did notice. but it does still bother me to this day even tho ive long-since abandoned that fic ksdfhjhs

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