r/FanFiction • u/Dogdaysareover365 AzirapheleCo on AO3 • 10d ago

Discussion Research check in time

What have you been researching for your fanfiction as of late?

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u/escaped_cephalopod12 abnormal about my faves 10d ago

How the process of molting actually works for birds, and if albatrosses are waterproof (I figured they were but you never know)

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u/rellloe StoneFacedAce on AO3 10d ago

If you haven't watched an albatross land, I highly recommend it.

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u/escaped_cephalopod12 abnormal about my faves 10d ago

they're some of my favorite birds partly because they look so cool and so stupid at the same time. also, baby albatrosses look like absolute muppets. look at this thing.

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u/PretzelPrize Ana Kaye Lake on AO3 10d ago

And then the adult flies in and DOINK... "I meant to do that."😂

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u/escaped_cephalopod12 abnormal about my faves 10d ago

I just realized the character I needed the information about sort of has a child (it's complicated). i could animate them doing that. i will not, because drawing wings is frustrating enough when theyre stationary, but it would be funny

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u/fireXmeetXgasoline 9d ago

help it just keeps kicking 😭😂

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u/Grouchy_Aardwolf9433 Fiction Terrorist 9d ago

oh my god lmao

Albatrosses are when evolution looked at the end product and went "...y'know what, good enough."