Okay, I am going to preface this with I Swear I am a writer.

I end up on weird rabbit hole Google searches. I feel sorry for whoever ends up having to sort out my search history. I search for things like who voiced certain characters in various anime or cartoons… like most people do. Then there’s the random fact search for stories I am currently working on…or the strange things that spark my imagination.

The last one was how to turn humans into soap. The worst part is that I already knew how… because I learned years ago how ashes, fat, and water in the right ratio created soap. I never thought about humans being a good source of fat before though.

I did not manage to go to college but I have taken so many free community courses or the occasional weird class offered by places that would be considered anything but educational. I have also taught myself things via the Internet and sheer determination to know it.

So my thoughts? Unless you are literally looking up illegal activity… do not be ashamed of research searches. You might be surprised by what you find.

(In 1780, the former Holy Innocents’ Cemetery in Paris was closed because of overuse. In 1786, the bodies were exhumed and the bones were moved to the Catacombs.[6] Many bodies had incompletely decomposed and had reduced into deposits of fat. During the exhumation, this fat was collected and subsequently turned into candles and soap.

In 1787, the French inspector of manufactures Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière reportedly proposed a scheme to the Academy of Lyons for utilizing the bodies of the dead by converting the fat into lamp-oil and the bones into phosphoric acid. <according to Wikipedia>)

Guess Serena has a new story idea. 😹

well you now know what rabbit hole I have been crawling in this week….