Snowflake Challenge #11 - Recommend Fannish Resources

[jedibuttercup]

Challenge #11 - In your own space, recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Ooo, a chance to go link-harvesting from the scrapfiles scattered on my writing drive! Here is a random selection of online resources I've used to research fanfic details at least once in the last few years (and found interesting enough to note down the link):

General Info

First Aid and Field Dressings for Writers
The Food Timeline
History of Gunpowder
The Internet Movie Firearms Database
Moon Phase Calendar

Linguistic Assistance

The Firefly–Serenity Chinese Pinyinary
Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom
Lists of words having different meanings in American and British English
Spanish profanity

Fandom-Specific Details

Books by Austen, Jane at Project Gutenberg
A Complete Timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (As of March 2018)
The Coolest Cars from the Fast and the Furious Movies
The Encyclopedia of Arda (Tolkien)
The Historicity of King Arthur & Vortigern
Riddick Wiki: The Necromonger Empire
Star Trek: Memory Alpha
Star Wars: Timeline of Canon Books
Transcripts: Person of Interest & Sleepy Hollow & B:tVS & Stargate SG-1
Transformers Wiki - Movie Timeline

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

cool! thanks

[pronker]

Nicely done! I especially enjoyed the moon phase calendar and used phases heavily in a long ago fic ... also nice is the timeline of Star Wars canon books, and what a job that must have been to order everything! Transcripts are particularly helpful to recall those pesky half-remembered scenes.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Nice! Thank you for sharing!

[jedibuttercup]

You're welcome! Hopefully other people can get some use out of the interesting bits I collect like a magpie while I'm writing. :)

[jedibuttercup]

I check that timeline link all the time, to see when new books pop up, and what era they're in, so I know if I want to order them or not. :) And I use the transcripts to find quotes all the time, too, or to make sure I'm getting the voice right.

I don't think I've much used the moon phase calendar since 2007 or so ... but I bookmarked it specifically to check (a) what phase of the moon someone was looking at in Never Look Back, and (b) when Remus Lupin might be recovering from/about to suffer from a full moon in Back Again, Harry. And I always figured it might end up being useful again. :)

[jedibuttercup]

You're welcome! I often have at least as much fun researching for a story as I do writing it, and it'd be nice if someone else can get some use from that, too.

[cornerofmadness]

I should be better at it