#if you've ever wandered down such rabbit holes for the sake of fiction I'd love to hear about it

[cacophonylily]

I am currently reading a 1990 master's thesis analyzing the birth of the French sports press around 1850 just to be sure my depiction of Booker's life and knowledge is as historically accurate as it possibly can be.

Yep, that's right. That's the level of obsessed I've reached today.

#let's regroup tomorrow and see if I've managed to dig even deeper #no but seriously #can you believe this thesis literally breaks the ground on that topic #it had never been discussed before!! press in general yes extensively but sports press?? nothing #and I couldn't find more recent sources either #but you know what's funny? it's just something I'm gonna mention in a fic where Booker is anything but the focus ahahah #no but for real sports press is almost completely irrelevant to the main focus of the fic #it's just a thought I had and I needed to check and turns out the older the author could go back to was the 1850's #that is to say 38 years after Booker's first/last death and subsequent immortality!! #and truth is I can't fathom what it was like to live back then considering all the entertainment and knowledge that are available #to me just with a keyboard/internet reach #it's wild #anyways I love this and by this I mean spending hours reading weird things and looking for sources and info and getting lost in it #if you've ever wandered down such rabbit holes for the sake of fiction I'd love to hear about it #scribe life #talking scribe #also the thesis was obviously typed and has been digitized and there's just a teeny tiny slant just enough to drive me crazy ahah