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- Spent a few years living in rural Japan. My Japanese is decent.
- Taught K-6 (in Japan)
- Currently work as an ER nurse (though I’m just out of school)
- SCUBA divemaster (Dove around the world for fun and professionally in Mexico both leading dives for tourists and in a research capacity)
- Worked at a raptor rehabilitation center (birds-of-prey raptors, not dinosaur raptors)
- Biology (Happy to help with it, but it looks some real Bio pros who already posted here)
 

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At this point I think it's fair to say I know a hell of a lot about children's books and YA. Also, the LA art scene and Australian Cattle Dogs.
 

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I'm a professional welder, studied a good amount of metallurgy (particularly ferric, i.e. steel and iron), and do blacksmithing as a hobby (mostly blades, tools, and other things that require heat treating).

I'm also a history buff, though not a name/date kinda guy. My areas of interest are ancient and medieval technology, ancient and medieval military, and medieval eastern Europe.
 
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Happy to help with info on

Scotland particularly the west coast and islands, hiking, kayaking and camping, culture, customs, dialect etc.
Father of autistic child and potentially having ASD traits myself
Honours Degree in Psychology
Body Image issues in young children
Psychological therapies in practice (UK)
GIRFEC Principles and Flaws
Severe and Enduring Mental Health Support
 

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Forgot to mention

Alaskan Malamutes,
alpine climbing,
Some Himalayan and in general other long spells of trekking including to Everest basecamp.
Travel by train around Europe on the tightest of budgets
 

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New here, but thought I'd toss my specialties in the ring in case they'd be helpful.

- Sailing (25- to 45-foot range, coastal and Caribbean deliveries, club racing, living aboard)
- Firearms (I'm a pistol instructor, specialize in teaching women, but also more than passing knowledge of most handguns, modern rifles and shotguns - and please please please do not allow your characters to use the term "assault rifle" or "machine gun." Let me help you be accurate and specific!)
- Marine sciences (coastal ecosystems, critters, flora, what I don't know off the top of my head I can get you an answer on in 24 hours)
- Raising boy/girl twins (mine are now 27 and I lived through it. So did they.)
- Raising a non-twin (it's tough being the only kid in the house not having a birthday, and other struggles in feeling left out. Mine is 25)
- Understanding and communicating with a deaf dog (King Charles Spaniel, age 10, deaf since he was 6 mos. old)
- Hormone hell - women approaching 50 (to some degree as I'm still navigating this and sometimes have questions too, sorry for the TMI)
- Most things military (Mother was a WAC, my other half is a retired Army Ranger, brother-from-another-mother is active duty career Navy, another career AF, retired; marines you're on your own)
- Searching for a missing biological parent
- Small circulation/regional magazine publishing
- Coastal Georgia (have also lived in Florida, Missouri, and spent time in Ohio, Indiana, California, Ireland, Grenada, Bonaire, and Aruba)
- Hurricanes (been through a few, stayed)
- Volunteering with the Red Cross in disaster services

Happy to help as I will likely call on several of you!
Things I'm going to need help with - paternity testing, 14 yr-old-girls in today's world, FEMA hurricane damage claims (can probably get locally, but easier from other writers who understand "what if" questions), police response to a domestic shooting, and some general psychology questions so I can be more accurate in what drives my antagonist.
I noticed that others haven't posted their potential areas of need so if I'm out of line in doing so, I'm sorry. Let me know and I'll edit.
 

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Hiya,

I am an expert in microbiology, molecular biology, genetics, and I do passably well in some geological and planetary topics.

Personally I can tell you about losing a child, the midwest, being raised catholic in a big family in the '70's.

I have a few hobbies and can explain the difference between a turnip and a rutabaga, or between a knit and a purl. :)
 

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  1. Development (esp. software) of unmanned interplanetary spacecraft for NASA in the early 2000s -- Mars 2001 Odyssey, Genesis, Stardust, Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter
  2. Familiarity with spacecraft development, the Deep Space Network, JPL, launch practices, and mission support
  3. Familiarity with software needed by pilots to get their planes to, from, and around airports
  4. Familiarity with mass-produced PCs and software development in the 1990s (Compaq)
  5. Software engineering, programming

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  1. Corpus Christi / Padre Island
  2. Texas Gulf Coast
  3. Houston (esp. U of H, Spring/Tomball)
  4. Denver (esp. Littleton, Centennial)
  5. Rocky Mountains (Colorado)
  6. Nebraska

Other topics

  1. Homeschooling, esp. classical
  2. Emotional maturity, emotional destructiveness, etc.
  3. Healthy diets for improved function (Whole30, Bulletproof)
  4. Making PCs sit up and dance -- really utilizing their potential for fun and work
 

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* New Jersey

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*First Responder/EMT
*ED Nurse
*Attorney
*Lab Scientist
*Server

Hobbies/skills:
*Politics and Current Events
*Electronics
*Disaster Response, Community Emergency Response
*Board games
*Computer games


General experience:
*Dad of two boys
*First Aid, Medicine, Nursing, Emergency Response
*Disaster Management
*Being an introvert
*Growing up with family issues (alcoholic parents, divorce, drugs, poverty)
 

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Although usually for background story information, I can help with flying.

Airline pilot:
2 years instructing
2+ flying night cargo
13 years as "regional" pilot (nothing regional about the regionals today except the paycheck)
2 at a major US airline so far...
plus, I have many many friends across the industry in corporate, some military, etc.

PM for details that can fill out your scenarios.
 

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Love this idea!

I can help with research on:

Plants--where and how they grow, what they look like and smell like
Herbal magic, Green Witchcraft, etc.
Arranging flowers (did it professionally for several years)
Gardening
Forest Settings
The basics of herbal medicine (Caring for colds, flu, cuts and bruises, that kind of thing.)

Also the city of Portland, Oregon, neopaganism, knitting, hand embroidery, and fundamentalist Christianity (I lived that Jesus Camp documentary, y'all.)
 

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Thank you to the person who pointed me to this list!

I suppose if you want to know anything about moving (14 times and counting - all within the last 17 years) or life as an expat - 4 years in Germany and 2 years in London. Feel free to ask :hi:
 

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These are some very niche, almost-anorak subjects, but I do know them pretty well:

MUSIC
- Vocaloid (the software and the culture of the fandom)
- modern Japanese music (they're more similar to 80s pop than you think)
- the inner workings of music production (in music production, a speaker is called a monitor)
- The difference between Western and Eastern video-game music

GAMES
- How Eastern and Western collectible/trading card games work (contrary to popular belief, card games are much more than who can slam the biggest Egyptian god first)
- Building a gaming PC
- The history of the first-person shooter genre
- How fighting games and fighting game culture work (It's surprisingly similar to wrestling)


RELIGION
- The origins and doctrines of Protestantism
- Similarities and differences between the Abrahamic religions


PLACES
- Tangerang (Where I live)
- Depok (Where my university is)
- Jakarta (Where the train crosses by twice a day)

CULTURE
- Weaboos (I was one for Christ's sake)
- Indonesian-Japanese relationships
- The Indonesian obsession with foreigners
- Institutionalized pedophilia in Japan (even in the West people treat it as a laugh)
- Chinese people in Indonesia (they're basically Jews)
- Indonesian Transsexuals (unlike in the US, they ain't got the money for those fancy sex operations and hormone pills)


FOOD
- Indomie (also the national food of Nigeria)

CARS
- Japanese sports cars
- The Hot Hatch
- Why a Honda Civic Type R costs the same as a Mercedes-Benz E Class in Indonesia


HISTORY
- Indonesian history (the only country that stole its independence right under its colonizers noses)
- History of Christianity


​I'll edit this list whenever I learn of something new.
 
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Photography: Studio/Wedding/Portrait/Event/Corporate/Product/Food
-Currently employed (5 years) as a Corporate Photographer. I shot weddings for 10 years, portraits/events for 14, and food for about 2 years. Weddings were various: Indian/Spanish Catholic/Atheist/Pirate/Etc.

Small(ish) town 911 Operator (employed for 2 years)

Coastal Life (lived on the TX coast for 38 years)

Bartending (employed for 3 years)

Scuba Diving (I have an advanced open water certification through PADI)

Life Threatening mysterious infection that baffled hospital staff (I'm ok now, of course) :)

Pulmonary Embolisms

Premature Surgical Menopause (at 35)
 

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Some stuff I know a lot about:

I have a black belt in Taekwondo + knowledge of kickboxing, ju jistu, and karate
I've lived in Pennsylvania, Southern California and Nashville TN if you need regional context
Abstract Art
Graphic/web design
Social Media and SEO marketing
Video games(mostly RPGs)
Comics books, I know more about DC than I do Marvel and very little about indie publishers
I work retail and customer service jobs as well.


Could tell you a lot about Social Anxiety
 

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Hi All,

This is a great idea, and I am happy to help anyone if they need some quick guidance.

My areas of knowledge include:

Grammar
Ministry (I am a pastor's wife)
Teenager mentality (my husband's a youth pastor) :)
Tactfulness (ie, I know how to say bad things in a way that won't offend someone)
Optometry (to a degree; I am an optometric technician, not an optometrist)
Secretarial work
Printing & finishing (a la FedEx Office)
>>and for that matter, shipping
Dancing: Ballet, Modern, Pointe, Jazz, Irish step

Aaaand Harry Potter. But that's probably not relevant :)
 

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My areas of so-called expertise include:

First Aid (I teach first aid up to the level just below HCP - health care provider)
Biology
Anatomy
Greek and Roman culture and myths
microbiology
 

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I'm a student of HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) and while I'm not a historian by any means, as such I've done a fair bit of research into Renaissance and Medieval arms and armor, and have some practical experience with actually using them (freebies: "chainmail" is redundant, "studded leather" is not a thing, fighters in full plate armor would rarely use a shield, and a longsword is a two-handed sword).
 

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I am very familiar with the Californian criminal justice system, can reasonably advise on the California civil system and other states criminal justice systems. I work as a defense attorney.
 

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I'm a third year veterinary student, so I can help anybody out with anything related to vet med or general medical information (I might be a bit fuzzy on some things like discharge times and human protocols, however). I also can help with biology, psychology (especially related to trauma), Catholicism, general Internet trends, living in the Midwest, animal behavior, general agriculture relating to swine/cattle/dairy, and horror movies.
 

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Homeschooling & public elementary school, Puget Sound region, old time/traditional music and musicians, Lutheranism (origins, current practices and beliefs). Happy to help out!
 

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-Game Tester, and in general I've been in the electronic game industry for well-over a decade. I'm highly qualified to answer questions about the game-creation process, less-so about actual programming (if I could be a programmer I wouldn't be a starving artist!) but I lived with a designer for several years as well and I have a grounding in game-design theory.

History
-British History. I studied English/British history fairly extensively while at college though I am obviously inferior to a great many actual UK citizens who had British history as regular curriculum throughout their lives. I can do in a pinch!

Science
-Paleontology. I don't have a degree in paleontology but I've studied it EXTENSIVELY my entire life. I used to brag that I could answer any dinosaur question my friends could ask. Then one of them asked "What color were they?" That shut me up for a while. :p But in all seriousness I do know a lot about extinct fauna in general, not just dinosaurs.

Hobbies
-Gunpla/Plamo. This is going to be very specialized but I've worked a lot with Japanese model kits for two decades, and I worked for a table-top game store for a time where model miniatures were a big thing. I don't know how you would work this into writing but there it is! And no, sadly, I don't know how they get those ships into glass bottles.
 

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I'm autistic so happy to answer questions for people writing autistic characters (although bear in mind I just have one individual's experiences of autism, which might not be the same as anyone else's - as the saying goes 'If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person'.)

I'm also British so can advise non-British authors on life here, British English etc.

I work as a journalist (primarily in the UK magazines market) and know a lot about genealogy research.
 

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Medical research

As a registered doctor I am happy to help with book-related medical queries, but for ethical reasons am not able to provide personal advice. I often see inaccurate medical howlers in novels I read and sometimes throw things at the TV (Dr House in particular) when unrealistic diagnoses are pulled out of no-where. I'd love to help anyone avoid those!
 
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