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Hello and welcome to TheKnow Database Round-Up 7! Thank you so, so much to everyone who’s become a member or watcher, or added to the database since last time
Here are the latest submissions to the database:
Travel and Home
Grew up in a haunted house: anapests-and-ink’s childhood home is haunted by five individuals. She has personally seen two of them, but has had experiences with all five. Her college dorm room freshman year was also haunted.
Education
I went to Catholic school: SadisticIceCream attended Catholic school for grades K-8.
Personal
Single Mother, Addict, Shooter, Jail Bird,: ladyshadowrage states: “I'm more than half Native American, Blackfoot mostly with some Cherokee mixed in; I'm also German. I have twenty tattoo's, three of which are around my neck, I have fourteen piercings, two of them are hidden by bra and underwear. I have lived the life of a wife with three small children, I have also lived the life of a single mother of three. I have had many lovers, of both sex and even a tranny, I have experience in most all sexual situations. I have had the misfortune to know what it is like to have my children taken from me and placed in foster care (very bleak time in my life) Because of losing my children I've become a recovering addict with still borderline alcoholism. I have a DUI and a drug charge on my record. I served a few months in jail and the one thing I think I may have expertise on is the fact that I shot a guy in 2009, in the crotch area (I put the bullet through the original hole) with a 9mm Kaltek Hollow Point. He was trying to rape my then 7year old daughter. I can still remember that day very clearly and can even describe the smell of the gun going off, the splatter of the blood.”
Culture
I’m Chinese-American: SadisticIceCream was born and raised in the US and so was her mother, but her father was born in China. She states: “Feel free to bombard me with questions about my culture, but please keep in mind that I can't read or speak any kind of Chinese (although my family is Cantonese).”
Miscellaneous
I have a neck tattoo: SadisticIceCream has a small tattoo on the back of her neck, so can tell you what a tattoo might feel like in that area. She can also just generally discuss what it's like to go to a tattoo shop, what they do there, etc.
If any of those areas would be useful for your writing research, please contact the submitter directly by sending them a note. If you want to make a submission to the database yourself, the information is on our profile. Incidentally, if you’re considering adding something to the database, please don’t feel it has to be something greatly unusual—just any personal experience that you think may be useful for other people’s research.
Requests
We take requests for information too. If you need someone else’s personal experience or knowledge as help with your writing research, and it isn’t in the database, leave a comment here. We’ll gather all the requests together and put them out as another journal, asking if anyone can help. Though if someone reading this journal sees a request in the comments they can help with, please feel free to contact the requester immediately.
You can make a request at any time—leave a comment on whatever is the current journal or on the group profile, or send us a note. It isn’t necessary to be a member or a watcher to make a request, but it would be lovely if you joined in.
Favourites
If the database or requests system helps you in writing something, we would like to put the finished article in our favourites. So, if you post your piece on dA and would like it to feature in our collection, please send us a link! We’re thinking about featuring the stories in our journals too.
Watching TheKnow
A note for anyone passing by: we understand some people may not want their details permanently on show in the database, but may feel comfortable talking to requesters privately via note. In that case, please consider watching TheKnow so you can keep an eye on the journals and what’s being looked for.
