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Research and Resource Collected Links Masterpost
Words - links for finding the right one and whatnot - including lists for alternates for said, walk, good, very, look and more; geographic descriptions; words for describing appearances, smells, sounds, touch, expressions, tone; body language and emotion terms; action and sex scene descriptive words; phrase finders, words + their timeframes; online dictionaries/thesauruses/etc; slang (including sexual slang terms); translation websites; etc. (link)
Titles- links for helping to come up with one including title generators, sites with searchable poetry and quote indexes; etc. (link)
Fighting/Military/Police/Forensic Related Things - info on various weapons and fighting techniques with and without them; writing advice for different kind of fight scenes; escaping handcuffs and ties; military and spy info; police, law, and forensic links and more (link)
Injuries, Treating Injuries, and Medical stuff - how to hurt and then treat your characters 'realistically', or at least somewhat. Includes basic first aid info, descriptions of various situations/injuries/maladies/etc, advice on writing various injuries and treatments, manuals and PDFs on various medical topics, and lots, lots more. This post contains mostly "modern" (WWII and later) medical info, older info is in the history post. (link)
Useful Websites and Programs - for writing, editing, planning, paint/photography programs and whatnot - online or downloadable programs for the writing process itself, including ones that are for checking grammar, editing, encouragement, word count, and more. Also ones for planning out stories, diagramming, drawing, creating graphs, doing photoshop, editing photos etc. (link)
Generators and Prompt List Type Things and Various Name Lists - for when you need help coming up with plots, names, spells, whathaveyou including whump, kink and story generators and more. (link)
Folklore, Mythology, Paranormal, Map Making, World Building, Home Building, Name and Language Creation Links - both information and resources on existing things (lore, plants, mythology, superstitions, monsters, etc) as well as links to help you create your own AU/world including planning everything from a house, to language, city, map, world, universe, and more. (link)
Helpful AO3 links, as well as ones for participating in fanwork exchanges, vidding, and podficcing; also general writing links- Tips and tricks for posting, using and searching AO3 as well as some general writing advice links and grammar and style guides. Podficcing tutorials and links to sits offering public domain sounds and music. A vidding primer. Tips for participating in fanwork exchanges. (link)
Historical Chinese Clothing (and much, much more) Resources - Links, broken down by dynasty or eras, for information on hats and headware; general clothing; undergarments; makeup; shoes; belts, jewerly, waist ornaments, and other accoutrements; armor; weapons. Also links for history, crafts and music, tea, lgbtq history, police and law, royal/status info and terminology, naming resources, relationship terms/slang, language resources, etc. (link)
Hollywood, Hollywood, History, Clothing (Modern and Historical), Hygiene Links and Time-frame Specific Research Links - Hollywood/movie/tv links (including costuming, scripts, transcripts, and other IMDB-type databases for things like cars, planes, guns, cartoons, and more); historical research links (hundreds of links to manuscripts and books and other primary sources as well as links for all eras of history from 'ancient' history on through modern days on subjects varying from culture to clothes to medicine etc); food history links; clothing and armor of various eras; hygiene links; lgbtq history; historical and modern clothing and more. (link)
Randomness: Part One - links about the world itself and thinks to do in it, broken down into the following groupings: survival, moving about (maps, travel and vehicles), information on the sun/moon/stars, various calendars and conversions between them, communicating with others (accents, pronunciation and languages), plants and animals and various databases about them, and various places on the web to find things to read and listen to. (link)
Randomness: Part Two - search sites (scientific and general non-google places); places to find articles, books, and more; library, museum and cultural collections; recipe, food and drink sites; random place related sites; building and homes info and terms; people and their shapes and sizes; things to consider regarding sex and writing sex scenes; "writers' guides to..." type links; lots of artists resources; and, last but not least, uncategorized random links. (link)
*Each post was mirrored on LJ originally but I've linked to the DW post here since, due to numerous reasons, those posts are no longer being updated.
*Links occasionally die or need updating, please comment on the appropriate post if any updating or correcting is needed.
*Feel free to comment here or on the appropriate post with links to any useful site I've missed, I'm constantly finding new links to add to these posts and would happily add more.
Titles- links for helping to come up with one including title generators, sites with searchable poetry and quote indexes; etc. (link)
Fighting/Military/Police/Forensic Related Things - info on various weapons and fighting techniques with and without them; writing advice for different kind of fight scenes; escaping handcuffs and ties; military and spy info; police, law, and forensic links and more (link)
Injuries, Treating Injuries, and Medical stuff - how to hurt and then treat your characters 'realistically', or at least somewhat. Includes basic first aid info, descriptions of various situations/injuries/maladies/etc, advice on writing various injuries and treatments, manuals and PDFs on various medical topics, and lots, lots more. This post contains mostly "modern" (WWII and later) medical info, older info is in the history post. (link)
Useful Websites and Programs - for writing, editing, planning, paint/photography programs and whatnot - online or downloadable programs for the writing process itself, including ones that are for checking grammar, editing, encouragement, word count, and more. Also ones for planning out stories, diagramming, drawing, creating graphs, doing photoshop, editing photos etc. (link)
Generators and Prompt List Type Things and Various Name Lists - for when you need help coming up with plots, names, spells, whathaveyou including whump, kink and story generators and more. (link)
Folklore, Mythology, Paranormal, Map Making, World Building, Home Building, Name and Language Creation Links - both information and resources on existing things (lore, plants, mythology, superstitions, monsters, etc) as well as links to help you create your own AU/world including planning everything from a house, to language, city, map, world, universe, and more. (link)
Helpful AO3 links, as well as ones for participating in fanwork exchanges, vidding, and podficcing; also general writing links- Tips and tricks for posting, using and searching AO3 as well as some general writing advice links and grammar and style guides. Podficcing tutorials and links to sits offering public domain sounds and music. A vidding primer. Tips for participating in fanwork exchanges. (link)
Historical Chinese Clothing (and much, much more) Resources - Links, broken down by dynasty or eras, for information on hats and headware; general clothing; undergarments; makeup; shoes; belts, jewerly, waist ornaments, and other accoutrements; armor; weapons. Also links for history, crafts and music, tea, lgbtq history, police and law, royal/status info and terminology, naming resources, relationship terms/slang, language resources, etc. (link)
Hollywood, Hollywood, History, Clothing (Modern and Historical), Hygiene Links and Time-frame Specific Research Links - Hollywood/movie/tv links (including costuming, scripts, transcripts, and other IMDB-type databases for things like cars, planes, guns, cartoons, and more); historical research links (hundreds of links to manuscripts and books and other primary sources as well as links for all eras of history from 'ancient' history on through modern days on subjects varying from culture to clothes to medicine etc); food history links; clothing and armor of various eras; hygiene links; lgbtq history; historical and modern clothing and more. (link)
Randomness: Part One - links about the world itself and thinks to do in it, broken down into the following groupings: survival, moving about (maps, travel and vehicles), information on the sun/moon/stars, various calendars and conversions between them, communicating with others (accents, pronunciation and languages), plants and animals and various databases about them, and various places on the web to find things to read and listen to. (link)
Randomness: Part Two - search sites (scientific and general non-google places); places to find articles, books, and more; library, museum and cultural collections; recipe, food and drink sites; random place related sites; building and homes info and terms; people and their shapes and sizes; things to consider regarding sex and writing sex scenes; "writers' guides to..." type links; lots of artists resources; and, last but not least, uncategorized random links. (link)
*Each post was mirrored on LJ originally but I've linked to the DW post here since, due to numerous reasons, those posts are no longer being updated.
*Links occasionally die or need updating, please comment on the appropriate post if any updating or correcting is needed.
*Feel free to comment here or on the appropriate post with links to any useful site I've missed, I'm constantly finding new links to add to these posts and would happily add more.
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- Dollar Street: https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street? - lets you explore the lives of families from around the globe at various income levels
- Higher Intellect: https://preterhuman.net/ - a server hosting a searchable database of over 750,000 text files on a variety of subjects
- Science Madness Forum: https://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/ - a forum for amateur scientists
- Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/ - a lot of useful statistics with charts and maps
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