#weird research

...And how weird/random some of it was:

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The dark lighting of this scene made it hard for me to really notice it at first. Now I’m sure the collar was loose for the scene to make it easier to pull away, but in reality on the back of the shirt there’s kind of button hole for a stud to go that holds the clergy collar in place there and then another in the front. (Short video on clergy collars)

Of course

Are we talking 17th century or mailman?

Turns out that setting up an adventure can cause even weirder search history than writing can.

Right now it’s a personal thing, but it’s also got a lot of research and a bunch of info I’ve gathered from everywhere in time - which makes so much sense, considering that I’m a freakin’ geek who can’t let things go. 

So I’m kind of going through topics, trying to figure out chapters and shit. The worst part of it all is that I’m used to writing fantasy, and fantasy is simple.

Not in the sense in which it’s easy to write fantasy, but people come in suspending their disbelief. I tell them, “There was a castle made of sapphire and it floated above the desert” and people will believe me that this is what everyone in the story sees.

This book is hell because people come in judging. I know that if I say things, they won’t believe me. They will challenge me. They won’t believe that the people in this book really saw things that way.

Anyway. 

Once upon a time, there was God, who was the one and only God, who is the God in Christianity, although not in the finer detail. And God had many aspects, of which some were male and some were female. The supreme male aspect is called Shiva. There are ten supreme female aspects, and they’re all called Shakti, and they’re Kali, Tara, Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshvari, Tripura Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Kamalatmika, Chinnamasta, Bagalamuki, and Matangi. And men were to try to be Shiva, and women were to try to be Shakti.

In order to become akin to God in any aspect, these people were to burn their karma through spiritual practice - and spiritual practices were many. Some were yogic asanas. Others were meditations. Yet others were volunteering to work for free. They were to dedicate their days and all their actions to an aspect or another of God, so that he would take the karma created by those actions from them, so it wouldn’t be visited upon them in another life. At the end of karma, they would reach spiritual Liberation and become one with God, so they were to burn karma as quickly as they could.

And they would have to become better people and to change their bad ways. They were to love, and to be kind and compassionate, to be brave and wise. By becoming perfect beings, the world would be theirs and their suffering would be ended.

10 Strange Research Projects Done About Sleep

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Short answer: Nope

Long answer: The human itselfe is not the problem. Because a body that died out of the water is decaying. That means the body becomes carbon dioxide, water and urea. None of those are harmfull to persons in resonable amounts. A water-corpse on the other hand is not decaying, but rotting. The key difference is the oxigen, that a water-corpse doesn’t get. So instead of water, carbon dioxide and urea it becomes a lot of other things, including propionic acid, acetic acid, butyric acid and ethanol, but also substances like cadaverin, which is btw also found in sperm and is kinda toxic, or putrescine which is really toxic. That means, that eating a water-corpse, or drinking the water it has lain in, is definitely worse then eating a normal corpse. You should be aware though, that because humans are relatively big beings, the oxigen doesn’t reach the inside of the body. Meaning that in the middle, there is the same procedure going on as  everywere in a water-corpse.