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donutsweeper) wrote2024-01-13 08:53 am
donutsweeper) wrote2024-01-13 08:53 am
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Snowflake #4 and #7, 2024 edition
Challenge #4: IceBreaker Challenge!
In most fannish circles people call me donut, donutsweeper or ibble (a holdover from yuletide's irc, but the name I use on some exchange discords). I've been in and out of fandom for a billion years (aka usenet days), often with some sort of donut related username but it's been donutsweeper since early 2007. Outside of fannish things I crochet and make knotted rugs.
Challenge #7: Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I've shared this on Snowflake numerous times through the years, but I have been collecting research and resource links for ages and there is currently over 16k of of them compiled into 11 masterposts:
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, online dictionaries/thesauruses/etc; words + their timeframes; 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- a huge post with info on 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 "modern" (WWII and later) medical info, older info is in the history post. (link)
Useful writing/editing programs 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, etc. (link)
Generators and things that offer prompts - 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, 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 and general writing and podficcing links- Tips and tricks for posting, using and searching AO3 as well as some general writing advice links and grammar and style guides. Also podficcing tutorials and links to sits offering public domain sounds and music.(link)
Hollywood, Clothing (Modern and Historical), History, 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; newspaper archive sites; historical catalogues; historical and modern clothing and more. (link)
Randomness - 200+ links on survival/criminal skills; travel (modern and through history) information and various historical maps; random knowledge sites; accent and dialogue sites; alternate search engines and sites; recipe sites; things to consider when regarding sex and sex scenes; links to numerous 'writer's guide to writing X' posts; artist resources; and much, much more (link)
Historical Chinese Clothing (and 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, royal/status info and terminology, naming resources, relationship terms/slang, etc. (link)
Links occasionally die or need updating so please comment on the appropriate post if any updating or correcting is needed and I am always on the look out to add to the lists so if you have a resource I missed please comment on the appropriate post so I can add it.
For easy bookmarking purposes links to the 11 posts are compiled into this masterpost.
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Oh, cool! I think we've known each other almost as long. :D
And so many excellent resources, yay!
sites with searchable poetry and quote indexes
Thank you for this in particular! Some of the sites I used to use have gone defunct, so this comes in very handy.
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Thank you! This is some amazing work you've done <3
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