#on research

[lookninjas]

One thing I feel very strongly about, when it comes to writing:

No, research isn’t writing.  But damn it, if you want to do the thing right, sometimes you have to do the research first.

[christinaroseandrews]

Where’s the lie? 

This also applies to traveling and picking up new hobbies.

However I draw the line at stuff that’s illegal. There’s a reason imaginations exist, you know?

[dungeoncrawlerdonut]

I needed one tiny fact about a video game that came out on NES in 1987 and instead fell into a wormhole of my favorite childhood videos game.

And all for three lines of dialogue in a fic.

[christinaroseandrews]

This ecard is so on point it hurts...

[katerinaaqu]

Huh, I never thought about it like that. It's certainly going to be hard to find sources that stayed true to the origins, but I'll try my best to research both! Thanks!

Like I said you do not need to think that in this pessimistic manner unless of course is something very very rare that was not studied before. Otherwise I believe there are many good researchers out there that might be useful to you. You can only try and see how it goes.

[relentlesserudition]

a useful effect of living with an academic bioscientist is that i've become verrrry skeptical of claims made by medical research. like, literally, if places like harvard are forging data (including for clinical trials), plagiarising, and generally being sus, one has to be extremely careful about what can be believed. of course, this isn't new information; there is literature — including the interesting Irving Kirsch book, "The Emperor's New Drugs" — warning us about this. but i still used to be far more trusting of knowledge from "official" academic sources before this year. not anymore. must remember that everything can be perverted given incentives that are skewed enough.

[stargir1z]

designing accidents: advocating aleatory research in new media pedagogy