#amresearching

[pandabatman]

My favorite moment from the GameChanger: Crowd Control episode on Dropout

[furiouslywriting]

I want to hear all about your favourite things about the found family/squad trope! Please feel free to gush about anything found family related; from favourite type (eg. Master-apprentice) to aspects (hurt one learning to love again). If you have examples, tell me about it! Drop that favourite book/movie/scene/ character. This is an open invitation to gush!

[lobsters-on-their-heads]

Researching styles and trends of the late 1890s, I came across this picture of Frances Benjamin Johnston:

Captioned: Self Portrait (as New Woman), an 1896 self-portrait taken in her Washington, DC studio

Me: Damn, look at how she’s sitting. Look at her facial expression. Hell, look at her props - a cigarette in one hand and a beer stein in the other. If she wasn’t queer I’ll eat my damn hat.

Wikipedia, hearing my thoughts: “With her partner, Mattie Edwards Hewitt, a successful freelance home and garden photographer in her own right, Johnston opened a studio in New York in 1913.”

YUP.

Oh, and,

“Her mother and aunt moved into her new apartment.” With them.

Doesn’t that sound cozy.

[adapembroke]

I’m doing some research on ancestor work in witchcraft/paganism/etc.. Does anyone have any resources they would recommend? @maddiviner?

[lkhofficial]

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[adapembroke]

Sometimes you stumble on the most bizarre stuff doing research:

Even Henry More, who accepted that the soul was an immaterial substance, capable of assuming some aerial vehicle, nevertheless believed that medieval priests used to tie candles to the backs of crabs and set them loose in churchyards to simulate the souls of the dead. 

(Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic)

And it looked like this:

Right?

(HT @sorensfw for the video.)

[lobsters-on-their-heads]

How the hell did anyone research anything for their stories before the internet? Like, I just found the location of the Tim Hortons inside the Bioengineering building at the University of Toronto, and I never left my Washington, DC house! Within five minutes of that, I learned what biosensing is and determined the average cost of a used motorcycle. 

Screw flying cars, this future is way more useful.

[lobsters-on-their-heads]

I swear, researching these chapters of Continuing Travels is going to get me put on all kinds of weird government watch lists...