Weird Things You Researched for Your Erotica
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What the official name for those "stripes of black paint football players smear across their cheekbones" is. Turns out it's "eye black" which seems very unimaginative.
I should've known capitalism would have an alternative to good, old-fashioned grease paint!
Ironically, the jury is apparently out on whether it actually makes a difference to things like sun glare. It might just be one of those things that people think looks cool
Ironically, the jury is apparently out on whether it actually makes a difference to things like sun glare. It might just be one of those things that people think looks cool
Sports is packed with pseudoscience, at least here.
Lots of NFL (American football) players wear these rubbery black bands on their upper arms. It's pretty much proven that biceps bands do nothing except make the biceps look large, but you can't convince players or fans that they don't prevent musculoskeletal injury. The wide white tape some players wear on the triceps side and the underside of the forearm at least serve a purpose, minimizing scrapes.
Lots of NFL (American football) players wear these rubbery black bands on their upper arms. It's pretty much proven that biceps bands do nothing except make the biceps look large, but you can't convince players or fans that they don't prevent musculoskeletal injury. The wide white tape some players wear on the triceps side and the underside of the forearm at least serve a purpose, minimizing scrapes.
I mean, this could be important. For my fiction, at the very least.
"Oh, what big biceps you have!"
"You ain't seen nothing yet, baby. Check me out on game day."
Today I began light research on the exclusionary high-end features of cruises, where the wealthy do not have to hobnob with their lessers. They have their own portion of the ship, its corridors unsullied by the hoi polloi, their quarters suites rather than rooms, swimming in their own pool, and no doubt more.
"You ain't seen nothing yet, baby. Check me out on game day."
Today I began light research on the exclusionary high-end features of cruises, where the wealthy do not have to hobnob with their lessers. They have their own portion of the ship, its corridors unsullied by the hoi polloi, their quarters suites rather than rooms, swimming in their own pool, and no doubt more.
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Do you know what all those fancy ballet terms mean? Jump. Turn. Bend over. Bend to the side. Kick. Not at all imaginative. If I would to do the same for eye black, we would call it oeil noir - much cooler.
We should never miss an opportunity for Fancy Branding™
And nothing says 'Fancy Branding™' like French words! (At least in English. Which leads me to wonder what the French use for fancy words/names?)We should never miss an opportunity for Fancy Branding™
But most of North America would be calling it 'oil noir', and then 'noir oil' or 'eye oil'. And then to 'eye grease'.
(Most of us only know 'noir' because of the novels and movies. And even among them, I'd bet a lot pronounce it 'no-er')
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LOL I don’t know why this is making me chuckle, but I think it is the Minnesotan and Mississippian in me at odds with the vowels lol It would be noir oeil in French, I think. However, my accent would just butcher this: “Nawrr Oool”.
This thread derailed much like my research does. So currently I’m down the rabbit hole of what is the likelihood of a woman of color defensive coordinator in professional football (American football). I am not even talking a head, just an assistant. The answer, not likely. Then you begin to research how would they even get in that position. Luck is the answer. I know this isn’t a sports thread, but in my research it seems like defensive coordinators just kind of stumble into it. I started looking at Brian Flores, guy didn’t even coach college, just ended up on the Patriots? HOW?! But the frustration in researching this made my plot perfectly plausible on why a woman in this position ends up being a FemmeDom.
The uptake speed of drugs through rectal tissue into the bloodstream, and are there chemicals that accelerate tissue absorption and help deliver compounds through the various protective layers of nerves (getting them to the pudendal associated nerves, specifically).
Also, inspired by the Massospora cicadina fungus which infects cicadas and turns them into hypersexual fungal spreading 'zombies' (the scientists slang term, not mine), and also produces psilocybin (term LSD also used), amphetamines, and cathinone (which promotes the behavior), I looked into human based fungal infections for something similar. What I looked for was a fungus (which helps it spread) that affected specific skin tissue (lips, nipples, genitals (external) and anus). I then studied what human fungal infections affected where and for how long. Finally, could a fungus be manipulated to affect the areas I wanted, cause inflamation (to promote rubbing due to tingling and itching), and produce the same chemicals plus enactogens as a lab created, genetically altered, fungal STD.
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Also, inspired by the Massospora cicadina fungus which infects cicadas and turns them into hypersexual fungal spreading 'zombies' (the scientists slang term, not mine), and also produces psilocybin (term LSD also used), amphetamines, and cathinone (which promotes the behavior), I looked into human based fungal infections for something similar. What I looked for was a fungus (which helps it spread) that affected specific skin tissue (lips, nipples, genitals (external) and anus). I then studied what human fungal infections affected where and for how long. Finally, could a fungus be manipulated to affect the areas I wanted, cause inflamation (to promote rubbing due to tingling and itching), and produce the same chemicals plus enactogens as a lab created, genetically altered, fungal STD.
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What, Spanish Fly wasn't good enough for induced rubbing? (Joke, in case that wasn't obvious.) Geez, I haven't heard mention of that in a good twenty years, now that I think of it. And it was never meant for humans. It's a cattle thing, as I recall.
Um, psilocybin is not the same as LSD, at least in how humans react to it. Don't ask how I know.
This is definitely an aside, but there's a two-book series about humans and fungal infections that's so awesome I recommend it often. It's M.R. Carey's The Girl With All the Gifts and the sequel The Boy in the Bridge. It won't necessarily help your research, but it backs up that it's not just cicadas...
Yesterday I did some research on patient transport jobs in hospitals, in particular at what age a person can transport blood, medicines, lab products, etc. alone.
Um, psilocybin is not the same as LSD, at least in how humans react to it. Don't ask how I know.
This is definitely an aside, but there's a two-book series about humans and fungal infections that's so awesome I recommend it often. It's M.R. Carey's The Girl With All the Gifts and the sequel The Boy in the Bridge. It won't necessarily help your research, but it backs up that it's not just cicadas...
Yesterday I did some research on patient transport jobs in hospitals, in particular at what age a person can transport blood, medicines, lab products, etc. alone.
The Girl With All the Gifts is so good, definitely worth a read. I haven't watched the movie, though.
So here is another bit of research done for the same work above.
Monkey Trap: A simple trap where a monkey may insert or remove their open hand through a small hole, yet is unable with their fist closed about bait. Basically, the monkey won't let go of the bait and is trapped until it does.
A. a smaller sized woman -A- (5'-0" to 5'-2"ish) with proportionally small hands.
B. an average sized woman, midlife in age, face down, knees parted, hips raised, and abdomen lax (sagging).
Could -A- perform a brachiovaginal insertion--yeah, gonna make you look it up--with her thumb turned into her palm, hand rolled about its axis, and once to -B-s posterior fornix, is able to curl their fingers around their thumb to form a true fist. And if so, maintaining that fist, upon withdrawl, could -B-s pelvic floor muscles restrict extraction (somewhat), and work like a 'monkey trap?'
The answer is: yes.
No small sized women or monkeys were harmed during this experiment.
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Monkey Trap: A simple trap where a monkey may insert or remove their open hand through a small hole, yet is unable with their fist closed about bait. Basically, the monkey won't let go of the bait and is trapped until it does.
A. a smaller sized woman -A- (5'-0" to 5'-2"ish) with proportionally small hands.
B. an average sized woman, midlife in age, face down, knees parted, hips raised, and abdomen lax (sagging).
Could -A- perform a brachiovaginal insertion--yeah, gonna make you look it up--with her thumb turned into her palm, hand rolled about its axis, and once to -B-s posterior fornix, is able to curl their fingers around their thumb to form a true fist. And if so, maintaining that fist, upon withdrawl, could -B-s pelvic floor muscles restrict extraction (somewhat), and work like a 'monkey trap?'
The answer is: yes.
No small sized women or monkeys were harmed during this experiment.
K2
The only thing I know about building outhouses is to know the underlying rock. If it's on limestone? Don't. Stuff perks right through it into the underlying aquafer.
E-e-ew! Good to know.
I guess my next little chore is figuring out when such Texas houses routinely had indoor plumbing rather than a dry sink, maybe a hand pump over a wet sink, and an outhouse. Man, I should just put the dude in a trailer and be done with it, eh?
I guess my next little chore is figuring out when such Texas houses routinely had indoor plumbing rather than a dry sink, maybe a hand pump over a wet sink, and an outhouse. Man, I should just put the dude in a trailer and be done with it, eh?
The problem wasn't the solids, as ew as that sounds. It was the bacteria in the "stuff" that caused problems when people drew well water. That was in Arkansas where there was a lot of limestone, I don't know what Texas geology is like.
ETA: that only applies to outhouses that are not sealed in some fashion.
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