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⌈ Secret Post #2823 ⌋

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I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[elephantinegrace]

And I'm thinking of my Criminal Minds, Dexter, CSI and related crime drama fics, and realizing that if I'm ever suspected of a murder, I'd be screwed. I literally looked up "is feather boa strong enough to strangle person to death" earlier today. And I mean literally.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

...
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... Is it?

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

I imagine it varies from boa to boa.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

The ones I've played with snap pretty easily.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

I don't usually write in modern crime fandoms, so I'm mostly safe there, but I do tend towards either older crime fandoms (Sherlock Holmes) or historical AUs, which has led to me looking up things like the historical names of acids (oil of vitriol, aqua regia, aqua fortis, spirit of alum, spirit of salt, spirit of nitre), what sorts of plants you'd find in poison gardens (nux vomica for strychnine, foxglove, belladonna, hemlock, castor plants for ricin, laburnum), the history of various occult movements, historical serial killers, things like that. Not immediately damning, but possibly it wouldn't help opinions of my mental health/morbidity levels any.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

It's a curious thing, though, the idea that people could be searching for such information for perfectly legitimate reasons - research, writing, fan or otherwise - and yet create a mistaken online impression of having some *very* inappropriate, to say the least, interests.

Makes you wonder/fear how far anyone doing background checks actually bothers to consider the context of such things. How far can you go for accuracy when even asking the question potentially looks suspicious?

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I should rephrase that to sound slightly less paranoid - "when even asking the question MAY potentially look suspicious" - I've no experience with background checks, so I can't comment with any certainty, only speculate.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

If it helps, that can't be used against you in American court of law. The Freedom of Information Act covers that kind of research. I know because one of my favorite authors, Libba Bray, tells a pretty hilarious story about research for one of her books. She went to her librarian to find out how to make a bomb because she was too afraid to google it. The librarian told her that it was perfectly legal to look it up online. Libba went home, typed into the search engine and the screen blacked out and then she spent like three days offline, terrified that the black helicopters were coming for her.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

Was the screen blacking out just a coincidence?

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

It was, yeah.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

I often think the same thing when I'm researching for my stories. The things my Google searches would bring up...

(No, officer, I'm not planning on kidnapping a child. This character in my story did!)

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[alenxa]

This is one reason I keep everything on the cloud. If they care enough to look up my searches, they can damn well snoop a little further and find out why I'm searching. The other thing I do is search for something tangentially related, pick the Wikipedia article, and wikiwalk to the stuff I really want to know about.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

I'm currently in the editing stage for one of my soon-to-be-published novels and I had written about a real place that I thought would be a great place to dump a body and I felt like I had to put in the notes that I hadn't actually ever dumped a body there and please don't call the cops if one ever shows up there. Now I'm kind of worried that someone might get the idea to dump a body there and I'll be in trouble for it.

Re: I'm in the process of plotting out a Hannibal fic

[(Anonymous)]

and now I'm going to go google that myself, but just off the top of my head I would say it would have to depend on the quality of the boa. I've owned really good ones that I would 100% say are strong enough to strangle someone with, especially if they were wearing it wrapped around their neck a couple times, and then I've had super cheap ones that fell apart and while you could probably still strangle someone with it, it might suffer a structural failure mid-act giving them a chance to escape.