claire_cz

 There are some ideas and plans I have for the fics in SEAL Team fandom when I finish writing Still a frog. 

1. I have to satisfy my need for Clay/Sonny. Don't know when it will be set, what happens and how long it will be but I neeed 
2. mission fic and of course hurt/comfort, around 5 chapters, don't know if set in the Frog universe or not
3. funny little idea about a crossover with NCIS: LA. (Yes, it will take place in a hospital, why are you asking?)
4. I'd love to revisit Manila and Clay hurt/comfort, maybe a bit of canon divergence - what if Bravo returned from the Philippines instead of staying on deployment?
5. then there was a bit unclear request for a sickfic, Sonny & Clay or Sonny/Clay...
6. I'm really excited about the idea of Clay and someone (ok, it will be Sonny, who else?) joining NCIS after retiring from SEAL Team, definitely outside of Frog universe, don't know if it will be complete crack or there will be some actual investigation being done :D, probably one chapter
7. Future fic in the Frog universe - after retiring from Bravo, one chapter
8. Future fic in the Frog universe - told from POV of Brian's child, one chapter
9. do you remember my OMC Jack? That 14yo boy with an amputated leg, passionate about climbing? What about a future fic? In what capacity would he meet Clay?
10. Stella and her first book (aka the book she wrote, never told anything else about it and proceeded to write The tip of the spear, the official first book), short meta
11. Then Sonny/Clay, lots and lots of h/c, lots of getting used to career changes, probably multichapter
12. maybe some Clay/Stella fluff, probably in the Frog universe? 
13. and then sequel to Still a frog. There will be a time jump of a few years, there will be h/c (yes, I already know what I'll do to Clay), multichapter, around 10 chapters probably

This originated as a bit of a joke. I was talking to my friend about this fic and how hilarious and confusing for Google it must be when I'm searching "where is Virginia Beach" one minute, "are there sharks in Thailand" the next and "parts of prosthetic leg" the next. And we thought it could be fun to keep track of all my Google searches while writing this fic. 

You know sometimes people say they were writing a fic and then suddenly fell down the rabbit hole and spent a day on researching Chinese calligraphy even though they needed just two sentences about it for the fic... So this is not quite this, this is a list of literally every search I made. Everything I put in Google even if I had the answer in 30 seconds. 

What is the most surprising search? And the funniest? I especially like the absolute chaos in there!

You'll see that not every search made it to the fic and I'm also not saying that my fic is 100 % accurate but I don't want to eg. end up with Iraq being the neigbouring country of Afghanistan. 

Searches:

• Official name of Ramstein hospital in Germany. Does it exist in real life?
• Official name of Walter Reed hospital
• Sniper rifles (in the end kept it as vague as possible)
• Standard reassuring search about what is a.m. and what p.m.
• Where is Virginia Beach?
• Beaches in Virginia Beach
• Are there any hills/mountains/national parks near Virginia Beach (apparently, the highest hill is 18 meters tall flat)
• Do SEALs really train/have base in Virginia Beach?
• Is baby carrier the thing in which you carry the baby on your body or is it only the plastic baby car seat thing?
• SEALs water training
• Zodiac boats
• Is MTB a widely recognized acronym for mountain biking?
• Obstacle course – SEAL Team
• Diagonal of the quadrate (very confused Claire)
• Is limestone soft or hard?
• Protractor (Should I turn the bunker by 90 or 45 degrees? Help.)
• Parts of prosthetic leg
• How do you remove prosthetic leg?
• Footless Jo Youtube channel – video about her taking the prosthetic foot apart
• Split toe shoes
• Flip flops
• When do kids start crawling?
• Jedi
• Converting miles to kilometres
• Special warfare operator – is it a rank, function, what?
• How is called the machine/thing with a lamp for viewing x-rays?
• In which countries in Africa can be found diamonds?
• Femoral nerve
• Cities in Liberia
• Yoruba, Hausa and Mende languages. Where in Liberia are they spoken?
• Liberian surnames
• Methods of door breaching
• Mohs scale of mineral hardness
• Screws
• Pprosthetic leg – are there any screws? What type?
• Bone overgrowth in amputation
• Causes of complications after amputation
• Seal delivery vehicle team
• Can amputees skydive? Is there any difference/problem?
• How do you land while skydiving? What absorbs the energy?
• Common surnames in Mexico
• Mexican cities (close to the US)
• Is a person who cooks drugs called a cooker?
• Botulism
• Clostridium botulinum
• Streets in Casas Grandes
• Is that thing in auctions called hammer?
• Random name generator: American surname
• Malaysian cities
• When does it rain in Malaysia?
• Are there forests in Malaysia?
• Kuantan – city in Malaysia, some details
• Languages in Malaysia
• Thermographic camera
• Message x massage (I always have a vague feeling that I should use the other one)
• Jungle and tropical rain forest – are there any differences?
• Neighbouring countries of Afghanistan
• Phuket, Thailand
• Ok, other tourist destinations in Thailand, that are not on an island
• Neighbouring countries of Thailand
• Can a helicopter fly at night?
• Are there sharks in Thailand?
• Gucci family, who was murdered?
• Fly time Turkey-USA
• C-17 – is the speed comparable with commercial planes?
• Over-the-counter painkillers in the USA
• Patient vitals monitor
• Petty Officer Second / First Class
• E5 to E9
• What is E7? Info about Chief Petty Officer
• CPO induction. How long does it take?
• Does this joke exist in English? Deadliest men illness in xy letters – runny nose.

 

+ searching the exact canon dialogue from various episodes thanks to English subtitles! and German subtitles and Czech subtitles (one has to be thorough :D )

 

+ of course dozens and dozens searches of various English language words and usage related searches