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My project is about a time cop unit, that would send teams in time to either observe, or fix issues.

Those are not soldiers, their goal is not to fight wars or kill people, so their guns would only be for self defense. I'm thinking, one long-gun and one handgun.

So, the most obvious choice would be either an AR15 or an AK74, a 9mm semiautomatic, and a few magazines for each.

Knowing that you could use any exotic weapon or ammunition, what to you think would be better for someone that could be thrown into the Roman Empire, the 30-year war or the US Civil War?

I have two countries that have been actively at war for 20 years, and I'm trying to figure out how big the general army should be realistically. I know during WW2 the US had up to about 12% of their population, with numbers dropping during other wars and during peacetime. For an intense war that is continually ongoing, what rough percent of the population would be in the military, including support services like postal and medics? I imagine it would change between the countries, kingdom 1, while focused on the war, would not be as invested as kingdom 2, which is in a dictatorship and heavily militarized. Any advice is appreciated 🙃

EDIT: kingdom 1 pop is around 25 mil, kingdom 2 is around 18 mil

So the character i am writing about falls down a flight of stairs, and the person in question ends up with a severe head injury (+ concussion) and a fractured wrist (she landed on the wrist). The reason she has fallen down the stairs is because she tripped on a beer can, which sent her hurtling backwards, and landing on her left wrist - there was also impact to the head which causes a fair bit of bleeding. now, i've never personally fallen down a flight of stairs myself, nor have i ever been treated for bleeding in that area, so if anyone has any info on this (and how this would be treated) that would be much appreciated.

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i'm not sure if context is required? but i have a few fanfic/art piece ideas in mind for these two characters; a human and an anthropomorphic deer. i'm conflicted on how i think they should die, so i've just been researching both. i mainly just need to know how they would look dead, as i'm both drawing and writing about this. i hope this makes sense, any tips are appreciated! ::)

I'm writing a sci-fi story where 1 of the characters was created artificially via parthenogenesis and has a mother but no father. Hypothetically speaking, would this be possible? I've heard that certain genes need to come from the father so it isn't possible to have a virgin birth, but could you potentially get those genes from only the mother?

In my story, a character suffers sudden, unexplained cardiac arrest and is successfully defibrillated.

Kind of a long shot, but has anyone here suffered cardiac arrest and been defibrillated? What was it like?

Hospital professionals: what are some tests that might be run once he makes it to the hospital?

I have a character who helps solve murders but they are INCREDIBLY squeamish when it comes to blood. He can probably handle photos of crime scenes with some discomfort. What specific job could he have? It’s important that he works to help solve murders

EDIT: It’s also important that he interacts with suspects

I'm in the very early stages of this fic so I honestly just want a bunch of infodump really. A few things in particular that would be helpful, though, are general conflicts and resolutions sailors face, and also as many ways a person can lose a leg on a boat as possible. i want to make sure i write sailors correctly.

(A bit about weapons too obviously but I can't put two flairs at a time)

So there's a scene where a hunting rifle is pointed 2 meters away from two other people, one being held hostage with a 0.4 centimeter thick, 1.05 meter long machete to their neck, and the third person here the wielder of the machete, the bullet is shot at the blade's flat side (angled, probably) and I require a ricochet that causes something from the bullet (or the whole thing) to rebound back to the shooting character. How would this go out? What are the consequences for the characters in question?

I can't specifically say the kind of rifle being used but the caliber is .23 to .25 if that helps; I'm doing separate research for a hunting rifle suitable for my character that owns it. Guns are banned from where I'm from, sorry!

Please ask for clarifications if you need aside from the nature of the gun and thank you for responding!

I'm a woman and I need to write a scene where a number of men does the Loki run (tying a slab of firewood to their balls and racing to the finish line).

I do not, obviously, have any experience of testicular trauma to draw wisdom from here. I'm not going to write this in any major detail but I need to know roughly how long this would hurt afterwards, assuming no serious injury. Hours? Days? How bad would the pain be the day, or days, after? How would this reasonably affect a person?

In my story, a 17 yo girl will be pushed really hard by an angry man in his 40s, hitting her head hard on the ground. I want to know if this can make her paralyzed from neck down or just paralyze her legs but without leaving her mentally challenged (im so sorry if this is offensive, english is not my first language i dont know how to more appropriately say this. thank u for understanding!)

I have a superhero universe where superheroes are essentially high ranking federal agents, given power by the government to go after criminals and in some cases investigate according to similar laws that govern most federal agents or local police. I was thinking of having a scene where a superhero with no mobility powers commandeers a police cruiser, because I thought the idea of a costumed man with a glowing face telling a police officer he needs his car and the police actually having to listen to him would be funny and for the irony of a police being the one to have his vehicle commandeered. In this scenario, there is a very dangerous criminal, possibly with superpowers driving away, and he needs to pursue. Would he be able to make the police follow his orders? Or do I have to drop the joke and have him commmandeer a car from a civilian?

I'm writing a short story. A content creator (think ghost hunting, urbex kind of content) has a video automatically flagged by the Youtube algorithm for graphic/violent content. (There's no evident graphic content in the video.)

Does the video get flagged, demonetized, delisted by Youtube? Does the channel itself get demonetized immediately?

And most immediately, what is the email from Youtube going to say? Does anyone have a screenshot of an actual email from Youtube that mentions demonetization and violent content?

I am working on a story featuring a young woman with a pair of prosthetic legs. I know that skin irritation, socket fit issues, phantom limb pain, mobility limitations, and psychological adjustment are issues.

What do these issues look like?

What are other likely issues?

I might change one of my character's backstories to be that he made a wish to a god to change his body. His new body was extremely distinct and clearly different from his old one. His DNA is also different, changed by that god. He was 27 years old when he made that wish and this is the first incident in human history where this radical body change wish/process happened.

What would happen to him, legal identity wise? Would he be left stateless/without any identity? Does it depend on how gradual or sudden the body change was (abrupt snap of a fingers vs growing into it slowly across months or years)? Other factors?

The setting is modern day Switzerland.

context: early 1900 earth-like world, steampunk tech. scene is the middle of a sahara-type desert. no 911, hospitals, or waiting for rescue. there is a licensed doctor in the group who has experience as a field medic for a nomadic group with a history of clashing with violent gangs.

situation: Local Dumbass consumes a stash of raw opium to ignore pain and hulk smash their way through a fight. leads to overdose respiratory arrest (not breathing).

Simply having narcan on hand feels like a deus ex machina even if it somewhat fits the time period. I thought of going full drama and doing intubation (as risky as it is) but realize it's probably worthless without a proper ventilator (and MacGyver-ing one will likely break suspension of disbelief).

I think I'm left with a manual bag-valve-mask and a team of volunteers operating it in shifts (and the dangers THAT entails) until Local Dumbass starts breathing on their own again - a time window I'm unclear on. A dose of morphine lasts roughly 5 hours. I can't find how long overdose recovery takes without narcan but was thinking in the 12-24hr range (person is also beat to hell, just need to figure when automatic breathing would resume).

Would love to hear thoughts or alternative solutions.

Hi. Writing about a character who had sensory hallucinations including auditory and visual, but they went through and accident and no longer have eyes and cannot hear from ear damage. Would they still be able to hallucinate? Would it just be hallucinations that are like, scent and touch instead?

For added context, a man, who’s honestly not entirely qualified for his job, is tasked with working with chemicals in a shady underground lab. He has the standard equipment for working with chemicals and is combining two (or more) chemicals carefully. He’s distracted by someone entering the room, turns his head to the left, accidentally adds too much of an ingredient and some kind of chemical explosion happens.

It’s pretty important to the following story that he nearly dies but survives as a result of it. I assume he’d likely have chemical scarring on the right side of his face, but I’m not entirely sure since I’m terrible at Chemistry.

Is there any way this would make sense with real life chemicals at all? If so, how would that affect someone between it taking place to around a decade afterwards?

Hi everyone, I have a MC in my story who experiences a motorcycle accident. It’s a pretty bad one where he gets thrown off the bike. I did have him wearing protective gear but because of the impact I had him breaking his thigh bone, shattering his knee and needing surgery. I guess I’m looking for anyone who could shed some light if they’ve been through something like this? What surgery looked like? Was it multiple? I’m also consulting a doctor but figured it couldn’t hurt to post here!

In modern times seasickness is easily treated with medication. Also most people get over it once they get used to the motion of the ship. This is stuff I was easily able to find out from an internet search.

Theoretically, could a person die of seasickness? If the sea got rougher and rougher so they couldn't acclimate, and they had no medication that helped, and they couldn't keep food or water down, could they die of dehydration or electrolyte imbalance?

Would there ever be a reason to just dope someone up so they would stop vomiting/retching, if there was no way to ease their symptoms or get them to shore? I found myself writing a scene where a character has to be sedated so that he doesn't suffer through this for days and maybe burst a blood vessel from the dry heaves, and then I asked myself where the heck I got the idea that that would work or be a good idea.

I know that modern seasickness medications can make you drowsy, but I wanted him out cold for the duration. I have a feeling I read it in a historical novel, either Horatio Hornblower or Aubrey & Maturin. But there's a lot there to dig through, and maybe Forester or O'Brian made that up without doing their research either. :P