I've read that empaths will sometimes take on the emotional states of people around them, or at least lean toward them. How strong can that sort of thing realistically get? Like if someone else is frustrated but hiding it, could an empath also become frustrated too? Will they potentially calm down if someone else is calm, even if they don't specifically interact? Will negative emotions overwrite positive ones easier than positive ones overwrite negative ones?

I don't actually know any twins or triplets, but my story involves identical triplets that are grieving for the loss of one of their triplet sisters. I imagine they would take offense to anyone calling them twins, even if that person had no idea they lost a sister. Does that sound right?

Related to that, would new friends that learned about the triplet's lost sibling refer to them as triplets or twins to their faces or behind their backs?

“Armory” implies weapons and armor. Is there a term for where uniforms are stored, maintained, and given out?

I need to poison a character (her name is Jackilyn but she goes by Jack). It has been way harder to find the right poison than i was expecting. So i was wondering is y’all had any suggestions; it doesn’t matter if it’s a pill or something you’d inject or a gas or whatever. I’m just gonna do a billet point list of stuff you need to know…

•(Ideally) noticeable symptoms present 3days after poisoning

• (Ideally) symptoms include light-headedness, disorientation and fainting

•Jack is poisoned by a serial killer, all past victims died but Jack survives (this could be because the dosing is somehow interrupted, for example; If the killer crushed up a pill and put it in Jack’s food but then for whatever reason Jack doesn’t finish it)

•Location: This world (not fantasy), L.A

•Time period: 2020-2021

•Jack is a 18-19 year old female

•Jack is a firefighter (not a paramedic), she is friends with 5 other firefighters (1 fire captain, 1 ex…just about everything including Navy seal candidate {he dropped out because he couldn’t ‘turn off his emotions’} [her brother], 2 paramedics and 1 ex army doctor) and her sister is a 9-1-1 dispatcher who used to be a nurse. So when it becomes obvious there something wrong with her she will be in the vicinity of several people with varying degrees of medical training.

Please don’t suggest hemlock! Sorry if i left out any important details, feel free to ask questions. Thank you for the advice😄

I'm an American woman writing smut for a British fandom and I've only ever been with circumcised men. What do I need to know that's different when it comes to various sex acts or just in general?

I don't know why I was dumb enough to not say this initially: I will be hitting ignore on all DM requests.

Hi everyone. I am working on a screenplay and need some help assessing how realistic (or unrealistic) my idea for part of the plot is. It is centered around adoption, the foster care system, and social work—something I am not very familiar with.

I have a character (28 years old, we’ll refer to them as “OS”, short for “older sibling”) who was adopted as a young child and has never contacted any biological family. They have a younger sibling (probably 17 years old, we’ll call them “YS.”) YS was born after OS’s adoption, therefore OS does not know they exist.

YS was never adopted and has grown up in and out of a struggling parent’s care, as well as many foster homes.

I am toying with the idea that the siblings meet because YS’s social worker decides to find and contact OS, tell them about their sibling, and discuss the possibility of OS caring for them temporarily (maybe just until YS turns 18?)

This might come after their bio parent (the one YS was with on-and-off) passes away, and other foster homes don’t seem to be working for YS.

I know very little about the laws, standards, and culture of this world. Would this behavior from the social worker be totally inappropriate or nonsensical given the situation? Is there a world in which this is realistically possible, or is it unusual to an unbelievable degree?

I am also super appreciative if any and all insight anyone might have about the world of foster care, adoption, or social work. Anything helps! :-) Thanks for taking the time to read.

Edit: Forgot to mention a few details. OS’s adoption was open. OS is unmarried but stable, educated, and financially secure. This takes place in the US.

How do police investigate a person if they live in another state? Maybe there's evidence in their home in another state but the crime took place in the officers home state? Would they need evidence to get a warrant? When involved fbi?

For some background my character is a bounty hunter/anti-hero. During one of the flashbacks she finds out she’s pregnant at the hospital from an injury she received during a fight. What kind of injury (nothing to serious) could she receive where in the process the doctors find out she’s pregnant.

I am writing a story, in which Dogs gain temporary red vision, that is , they can now see red colour. (Dogs can only see yellow and blue spectrum). So now something happens due to which they get scared of the red colour. And I truly do t know what that something could be. Please give me some ideas about that 'something'

I mean this seriously wondering the geographical terms to help me explain my own world. I want to write my childhood mock up an imaginary world one of the continents. The continent I made was pretty much like Paldea. Except my world the differences was simpler geography decent for what I needed to work with later. I have civil huge ant kingdom that up on land before water flow that cracks the land into two. Front of that land is fair foresty with a swamp in the middle to travel through the second part be farm land, but the middle is open like Paldea to be picture esc spot for a magical tree that lives there. However my spot is smaller to enclose up close over the tree of serenity or my mother tree relocation spot. Anyway I don't know what that form of land in the middle is called. I need to know to define the planet for my bible from a form I got from ChatGPT to have it help me organize my world. Seriously, What is that area called?

For a little bit of context, this is a hospital associated with a government facility. Due to circumstances, the people in the facility have a very deep bond and staff know that news like this will shatter them. How do doctors normally tell family/friends? Would they bring out a social worker or some kind of mental health person?

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My story is a very similar to Percy Jackson, as a mythological fantasy set in the modern day. The core theme of the story is the battle between nature and nurture. My main protagonist is a descendant of a historically evil species, and struggles from the discrimination that comes with it, despite not believing that way themselves. My question is: is there a weapon that, on it's surface, seems more dangerous than it actually is?

One of the characters in my story is a young priest. The religion is fictional, not based on Christianity or any other big today's religion; however, priests are usually addressed as “father”. I wonder, would it be weird for a young priest to be called “father” by someone who is old enough to be his own dad? This guy became a priest six months ago; is it realistic that he would still feel it strange?

The character is somewhat nerdy, socially awkward, but not too much.

Update:

One of the members of my writers' group pointed out that someone who, presumably, trained to be a priest should be OK with that, or become OK rather quickly; but I'd really like him to be a bit nervous about it. I do have a backup plan (maybe the older character who addresses him like that was his own dad's drinking buddy, so, getting such respect from him is really strange), but I'm curious how it works in the real world.

I personally do only yoga movements without actually looking into its philosophy. My understanding is very minute and I hope that someone here very smart can lead me down the right rabbit hole for research. My character is a manga ninja that hopped into our world haphazardly, exchanging places with her manga creator. To switch back, she needs to find “humanity” so that a soul can be exchanged with another soul. I was thinking that by doing this, she needs to open up her chakras and have the ability to let go. With only a vague understanding of what chakras really are, I found that I written myself in a corner. Please help me and give some examples of how she can achieve unblocking all seven of her chakras.

Note: I am open to other suggestions as well to make my story simpler.

Thank you so much!

Something a bit more indepth than What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens Knew, or the Guide to the Regency and Victorian Eras. It could be on line or a readily available book. (please nothing that costs $300 secondhand). Something that includes everyday life, not just a young lady's first season. Suggestions, anyone?

I'm makeing a book set in the mid 18 hundreds and I'm having trouble designing and describing uniforms

I'm working on a suspense thriller about revenge. For background, there are some family members who live together. One is verbally and emotionally abusive to the MC (becoming physically abusive too). And another character is an enabler.

So the MC is timid and nonconfrontational, more passive aggressive than anything. Whenever the abuser does something shitty to MC, they get some kind of petty revenge but it can't come back as being obvious revenge. It has to look like coincidence, someone else's fault, or natural.

Think of tit for tat. You do something shitty to me, I do something shitty to you.

Also, the MC can't be obvious about it because if the enabler or abuser figures it out the MC will be kicked out and homeless and they have no place else to go.

I have some ideas already but I need a list of plausible petty revenge ideas. I have been lurking in revenge subs for ideas but nothing seems applicable so far.

This is the scenario of what's been going on until the stakes get higher and the revenge plot goes off the rails.

Poison hemlock tastes like herby, grassy, mildly lemony dirt. Not strong or pungent at all like some sources claim. The smell of the plant is sour and musty but the taste is just a mild vegetable flavor.

I am creating a game, but I need help writing the story to this game. It's about about two worlds, completely unrelated to each other, and they didn't even know each other existed until this point of the story. Suddenly, the main character from world 1 is able to summon people from world 2 (this being the main plotpoint of the game. To obtain new party members, you need to summon characters from this world). What I need to figure out is, for what reason would the summoned characters from world 2, have to fight for the main character? The main character is summoning the characters from world 2 in order to fight against a new horde of monsters. I know this kind of sounds like a crummy story, but that's mostly bc I came up with it today. Any help is appreciated lol.

The story I'm currently writing is a mystery-esque plot set in a small fictional town in Oregon. Think Stranger Things but a bit less supernatural and a bit more grown up. The majority of the plot takes place between 2008-2014, and the main characters' ages range between 15/16-22/23 as the story goes on. I have the plot completely figured out, but as I begin to try to write more specific interactions between the characters, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out the social climate of the time. I'm 21, so I was a teenager in the tail end of the 2010s, and I know the pop culture climate has changed a LOT since then. If any of you have any insight into the types of spaces these characters might get into, I'd really appreciate it. I know this era included the emergence of a lot of the technology/social media we still see today (Tumblr, iPods, Reddit, YouTube, laptops as mainstream computers, etc.) because these are all things that I remember as a kid, mostly because they stuck around. However, I'm stuck worrying about all of the things that I don't remember due to them losing popularity, dying out, or being discontinued. I've done a lot of research to try to paint a better picture of the technological climate of the time and I have a grasp on a lot of the general, larger things due to said research, but I fear I'm missing out on some real firsthand experience here, as I was too young to actually be in these spheres around these times (or at least remember it, considering I was under 10). If any of you were a teen or young adult during this time, I'd greatly appreciate any general information or personal anecdotes you might remember from around these years, whether that's related to social climate, friend activities, the usage of technology, high school age hierarchy, pop culture, anything else, I'd greatly appreciate it. What tools might be useful to keep in mind when writing younger people in this time frame?

I also have a follow up question in addition to this: how much might living in a considerably small town affect these characters' interactions with the digital and social world around them during this time of great change? For reference, the town they live in is in Oregon like I said, about an hour and a half south of Portland, with a population of under 1,000. They have access to other nearby towns which are bigger than their own (including Portland), but all of the main characters attend the very small local high school, and are predominantly around people of the same small-town origin as themselves. Most of them are quite involved in the party scene on a local level, and some prefer to drive outside of town to parties in Portland or one of the other nearby towns, as several of them have befriended students of their age at a private school closer to Portland, most of which get into much more interesting shenanigans than their own small town has to offer. Any information on the general life of one who grows up in a small town would also be greatly appreciated! This doesn't have to be PNW-specific, but if it is, then great! :) I'm happy to give more specific information about the story if needed for more context.

TLDR: I need information on growing up/being a teenager in a small town in the late 2000s/early 2010s that Google wouldn't be able to give me. Any level of specificity is welcome!

Hey all,

I'm writing a story about a pro online gamer. One day they are recruited by another pro gamer (who they don't know) who is putting together a team to play a new, very interesting game.

I'm wondering: what are some books, or youtube channels, or forums I can check out to get a non-hollywood sense of what online gaming with a (potentially international) team is actually like?

I'm curious how people determine who to recruit to a team, the ins and outs of building trust with strangers, and any other particularities a non-gamer like myself would find interesting.

Thanks for the help!

I want the alcoholic step dad of my main character to slam his head against a wardrobe multiple times during drunkenness, causing him to develop a psychosis that he will face for the rest of the story. However, except for delusions and occasional hallucinations, I don't want him to face any other physical issues. Is it plausible? Or a head trauma that strong would make my main character nonfunctional?

Hi! I’m writing a novel and I’ve been doing research for the torture aspects of it and I was wondering if any of you might have some insight. Or help with describing, details. One would be a gunshot wound to the knee area. Ideally I would want the character to still be able to walk after the wound heals, but would require a cane and have a limp. The other gunshot wound would be shot from behind and angled down. Almost execution style but the gun would be aimed to the shoulder. I need help really trying to figure out how to have the character still be able to have full functionality to their shoulder. Though I would love for some drama to it, like maybe it nicking a lung and causing the character to cough up blood and lose consciousness. (Obviously resulting in hospitalization) I want it to be realistic even though the big is extremely fictional and has a fantasy vibe. The main character is tortured more often than not and will be extremely weak. I just need some helpful tips to go with the research I have! Thank you in advance!

I am looking for Papers / historical examples of Government Organizations, for instance the CIA, being undermined in their purpose and infiltrated to further ulterior interests by a group outside the Government.

To give a example, some dude takes over the BND and uses it to influence the next German election.

The closest example which came to my mind was the Watergate scandal. It does not really fit though because Nixon was the president.

What i am especially interested in is how you go about infiltrating and "taking over" such an Organization. Obviously it is not enough to be say the director of the CIA. Presumably you would need a lot more influence through puppets in the various management layers.

Hey y'all, I have a sort of complicated question.

I'm writing a YA romance story (the story follows the characters from 13-years-of-age to mid twenties) and I know that the friends aren't going to be perfect/friendly with each other 24/7. All of them have been friends since they were children (two of them since they were literal babies because their parents were friends) and i'm not sure how to write fights/makeups or whatever.

I guess I'm trying to make it realistic but I'm not sure how to go about it.

The instigator of the fight has no prior history of violence up until this point. He also recently survived a major tragedy, so there's reason to believe he may be showing signs of PTSD.

Hi all, I’m hoping you can answer a question that Google didn’t give me a straight answer for. I’m writing a short story where a character is broadcasting the coordinates of their location over the radio, but I don’t really know what the standard is for doing something like that.

I’ve looked into basic latitude/longitude, decimal degree coordinates and even UTM coordinates but I’m not sure how they’re actually spoken over the radio and which one is generally used. Could any of you help me with this?

How many people resources, money and time will it take to build a multiple level bunker for at least 500 people to live in? What are the requirements for environment around such bunker? Can a single person (like, an engineer) create a project plan for such a project? Any information about it, especially technical is very valuable, bc i dont have any acquaintance in construction industry. I feel like some tectical details will be absolutely necessary to make this idea sound in my book as believable as possible.

As the title suggests, I am currently in the process of writing a graphic novel. I read that when developing the overall style and theme, it's recommended that you read graphic novels that are (or close to) the same genre as your own so you can get an idea of what you want it to be like. It's a Sci-fi Thriller with a non human cast so xenofiction as well. I'm taking any and all suggestions, as well as any advice. Feel free to ask any questions, thank you!

I'm writing a story where in the first scene, one character wakes up dope sick and vomits everywhere. The following scenes require some physicality of her, but she will be obviously hampered by the 'hangover.' I'm just wondering if her voiding herself and then showing obvious signs of pain but continuing to do physical tasks (think like a jungle gym or something like that, in an escape room situation) might be within the realm of possibility for a tough individual.

I am intending for this to be a very difficult, enduring task where the internal difficulties are set against an ultimately simple task, but where the character must persevere to complete a difficult task