hmm but i feel like most of the things i’ve researched are relevant enough to the fic they were for for them not be weird? i have bookmarks on chinese mourning poems, but that makes sense if you’re writing about specific funeral customs. i did a deep dive on a fictional flower (looking into the flowers it was based on, their significance, the care for them and also some etymological details) but it was for a hanahaki au, so it’s again very logical. the weirdest i can think of is maybe the time i was doing a bird hybrid au for someone, so i sort of ended up finding out more about birds than non-bird owners would like to know i think...