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Many shows, books, movies, and other media that depict a real-world activity (police procedures, military procedures, wilderness survival—hell, even hobbies like playing video games)—often get it totally wrong, with plenty of glaring flaws that anyone who has engaged in that activity could quickly point out. If you're not careful, you might even get Falsely Advertised Accuracy. Some people avoid this problem by Doing the Research, and some even go so far as to Show Their Work, going out of their way to show off facts that they learned while researching the activity. But some people don't need to Do the Research, because they already know. It's their life. The story they tell is their former profession. The world they build in the work of fiction is the world they actually grew up in. This is because some writers write what they know. And if they know their subject well, this puts them in a unique position that gives them an advantage over people who would have to go out of their way to research the subject instead. A police officer who writes novels on the side can depict police procedure and what goes on in the department realistically. Someone who has to research it second-hand might be able to as well, but will still be missing the life experiences that the actual officer would have. Same with any other profession. A writer who has primarily worked as a professional writer can also do this, but it results in Most Writers Are Writers. (Ever wonder why so many characters in fiction are authors, screenwriters, or journalists? That's why.) See also Write Who You Know, for when writers grab from their circle of family and acquaintances to create their characters. Can also pop up in Written for My Kids, where an author writes a work specifically with their own child or children in mind. Note: This is NOT just about people who write about their current interest or hobby, but instead is about whether or not the interest or hobby is depicted very realistically because the author does it for a living or grows up around it, etc. If it is, then it's Write What You Know. If it isn't depicted realistically, then they're no different from any other author. For when the author writes about something because it speaks to them, regardless of how much they know about it, see Author Appeal. As this trope is often also used (and misused) as a piece of writing advice, it should perhaps be noted that Tropes Are Tools, and that Writing What You Know is not an ironclad rule which automatically guarantees that you will produce superior work over someone lacking that experience. Having first-hand experience of what you're writing about may give you an advantage over someone who does not have the same experience when it comes to research and life experience, but that doesn't automatically mean that you will also possess superior writing skills. Nor does it mean that someone who must rely on second-hand research instead of life experience cannot effectively write a story set in a world that they are unfamiliar with. Finally, it doesn't mean that someone cannot convincingly write, say, a Science Fiction or Fantasy story set in other worlds involving creatures and experiences that are a bit thin on the ground. The idea is that a writer can draw on their own personal experiences to inform their story and give it life and verisimilitude, not that the writer can only write about things that they have direct personal first-hand experience of. This said, as the page quote suggests, if you don't know about something you intend to write about it's usually a good idea to find out more about it somehow, if only to make sure you avoid any glaring errors. Compare I Should Write a Book About This, when a character in-story realizes that their experiences might make a good book. Author Avatar is when a writer goes the whole way and writes about a thinly fictionalized version of themselves. |
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The Underdogs series features a group of teens from a special school. The author, Chris Bonnello, is autistic and works in special ed. | |
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Dream Theater have done this often, but the clearest example has to be the Twelve-Step Suite, written about Mike Portnoy's recovery from alcoholism. It consists of five songs and twelve movements; each movement corresponds to one of Alcoholics Anonymous' eponymous twelve steps. The entire suite is dedicated to the group's founder Bill W. "and his friends" (i.e., the other members of the organisation). | |
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Some of the gags from Super Troopers are based on events that happened to Broken Lizard such as the college student eating pot and Farva dumping gasoline in the garbage can to get a free hot dog. | |
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Malcolm & Marie: Malcolm's film about a young female drug addict trying to get clean strongly draws from his girlfriend Marie's story (among others), and she's upset with him for not involving her as much as he could have or crediting her properly afterwards. | |
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Dave Davidson was inspired by his time working in the morgue of a hospital (where his job mostly entailed moving bodies down to the basement) for the lyrics of "A Debt Owed to the Grave". At face value, it's about the deceased taking their journey with Charon, but it was just as much about his realization that his job description was essentially "ferryman of the dead". | |
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The sense of anxious dread and the intense physical and emotional distress that comes from it in Trilby's Notes is so compelling and accurate because the game's creator, Yahtzee, suffers heavily from anxiety himself. He's made several comments to the effect of how anxiety and the resulting effect on fear affect him. It also explains Trilby's convincing social confidence tactics; Yahtzee himself does something very similar in social events by keeping people at a comfortable distance with his public persona, reserving more of his self-described neurotic behavior for private spaces with friends, or sometimes letting it slip through when interacting with Gabe on Let's Drown Out. | |
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Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs writes the original novels, Bones (later used to create the TV series of the same title). One guess what Temperance "Bones" Brennan does for a living. | |
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Dr. Ken is loosely based on Ken Jeong's own experiences as a doctor before his Star-Making Role in The Hangover film series. Jeong really is a licensed general practitioner, and his real-life wife and friends are also doctors who occasionally help him fact-check the dialogue. | |
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Doc Nickel of The Whiteboard fixes paintball markers for a living, just like his Author Avatar but with fewer railguns and Funny Animals. | |
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Twistwood Tales: Some of the comics are based on real experiences from the author, the ones involving the art school for example are based on the creator's experiences as an artist. | |
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Ozark: Bill Dubuque was inspired to set a show on the Lake of the Ozarks after working there as a deckhand in his youth. | |
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Vápnthjófr saga takes place in the Swedish province Jämtland, which also is where its author grew up. | |
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Euphoria: Rue's struggle with her drug addiction is transposed from series creator Sam Levinson's own experiences with addiction in his teenage years. | |
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In the There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton story, Like a Puzzle Piece, Tulip Olsen decided to scrap her Space Invaders clone game and instead decided to create a Choose Your Own Adventure game based off her experiences in the train. | |
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Toned down slightly in The Grimnoir Chronicles, though John Moses Browning serves as the organization's Q and one of the side characters is an accountant. | |
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Meet the Robinsons director Stephen Anderson is adopted and drew on his own experiences of growing up with that knowledge when developing the character of Lewis. Like Lewis, as a child Anderson wanted to find his biological family when he grew up, but eventually realized it didn't matter because he already had a family. | |
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F is for Family is inspired by comedian Bill Burr's childhood in the 1970s. | |
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Lampshaded in I Remember Mama as Katryn's work is analyzed by a famous professional authornote played by Florence Bates and probably meant as a Mary Roberts Rinehart Expy, this character doesn't appear in the original book who advises her in those words, since her own best stuff has always focused on the people and places she's familiar with. | |
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James B. Garfield became blind later in life and had a guide dog named Coral. This experience gave him the idea to write the children's book Follow My Leader, about a boy named Jimmy who loses his sight in an accident and learns to navigate the world with the help of a guide dog named Leader. | |
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Tom King used to be a counter-terrorism officer in the CIA, and a lot of his works feature terrorists or espionage. His run on Omega Men re-imagined the team as a group of rebels/terrorists and had political commentary on America's involvement in the War in the Middle East, Sheriff of Babylon is about a sheriff in the Middle East and is also hugely based on King's own experiences, and Strange Adventures (2020) imagines Adam Strange as having retired from superheroics but dealing with the fallout of his controversial past, mirroring the heat King got when he retired to become a writer. Amusingly enough, he was brought on to Grayson partly so he could add authenticity to the spy antics, but King went out of his way to eschew the realism in favor of sillier, pulpy sci-fi antics à la Nick Fury and James Bond because it was a lot more fun to write. | |
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Averted by Pink Flamingos. John Waters got the idea for the film by driving around and looking at trailer parks and wondering about the lives of the people who lived there. | |
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G.I. Joe: Stanley Weston, the franchise's creator and the inventor of the original 1963 12-inch toys, fought in the United States Army during the Korean War. Larry Hama, who created many aspects for the 1980s revival, served in the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Vietnam War. Tunnel Rat, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist, was based on Hama himself. |
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Ira T. Berkowitz, the author of A Wolf in the Soul, lives in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, so its geography is very accurately depicted. Even the jackals that can be heard from the forest at night actually exist. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal isn't just about what Zach Weinersmith knows, but since returning to university it's about everything he knows. The majority of strips are physics and math jokes, but jokes can be based on topics from any course he's taking. His classes must be full of fodder — since returning to school he hasn't made any jokes about meeting his deadline, or failing to, and often produces more than one a day — or one long equivalent to a week's worth of strips. | |
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The novel The Sun Also Rises was an account of life experiences while living in Spain after WWI. | |
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Beverly Cleary's job as a children's librarian undoubtedly gave her lots of insight into children's lives and thoughts. Additionally, being the mother of boy-girl fraternal twins provided her with both the inspiration and the understanding needed to write Mitch and Amy. | |
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Discussed In-Universe in the Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note novel The Birthday Blues Knows. Aya's senpai at the Literature club recommends her doing this to start creative writing. It is all implied that this series is Aya following this advice to heart. | |
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Melville went on a couple whaling voyages (and wrote books about them - Typee and Omoo) before writing Moby-Dick, which was originally going to be a true account of his adventures, before he decided that making it a narrative tragedy would be more interesting. | |
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Brent Butt grew up in small-town Saskatchewan. The show Corner Gas, which he created and stars in, is set in the small town of Dog River. It's even more authentic since it was filmed in Rouleau, Saskatchewan, and featured many locals as extras in it. | |
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Scott Adams has often said that the cubicle experience and corporate behavior in Dilbert come straight from his experiences working at PacBell. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Played for Laughs in one strip where Calvin is writing a novel about a guy who flicks through TV channels with a remote. Hobbes is puzzled by that premise, and Calvin yells that he's been told to write what he knows. The whole thing is of course another of the strip's Author Tracts on the banalities of television. | |
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Animaniacs. The episode "Bumbie's Mom" centers around Slappy taking Skippy to see a Bambi expy called "Bumbie," and poor Skippy becomes traumatized after seeing Bumbie's mother get killed by a hunter. Writer and producer, Sherri Stoner (who also provided the voice of Slappy) claimed that she based this episode on her own traumatizing experience when she first saw Bambi as a child. Another Slappy segment, "I Got Yer Can", where Slappy feuds with a neighbor who takes offense when she tries to dispose of a can in the neighbor's recycling bin, is also based on something that happened to one of the writers. |
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My Neighbor Totoro is also based on his own childhood as he grew up in the post-war redevelopment of Japan with a chronically ill mother. The protagonists of the film are two sisters whereas he's one of four boys. He felt like it would have been too similar to his own childhood if Satsuki and Mei were boys and kept it to two siblings to save time. His mother had tuberculosis from the time she was very young until she was cured with antibiotics in the mid-1950s and was in and out of the hospital for a good chunk of his and his brothers' childhoods. It's implied but never outright stated that this is also what Mrs. Kusakabe has. Like Mrs. Miyazaki, she survives and gets to come home to her kids. | |
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The Oatmeal is focused on numerous subjects that have bugged artist/writer Matthew Inman over the course of his life, most famously a Take That! rant towards his clientele when he worked as a web designer for 14 years. | |
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Christina Strain, writer of The Fox Sister, grew up on the Yongsan military base in Seoul, on and around which the comic takes place. | |
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David Simon worked as a journalist in Baltimore, and spent a year embedded with the homicide squad as research for his book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. This was adapted into Homicide: Life on the Street, which he also produced, and he later created The Wire, another police show set in Baltimore, which also includes a storyline about newspaper reporters. | |
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Garfield: Garfield wants to write a book and claims "a writer must write something he knows about" while trying to decide on a theme. He picks "night indigestion". | |
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King of the Hill: In "Yankee Hankee", Hank Hill is horrified to learn that he was actually born in New York City instead of Texas like he'd always believed. This was inspired by Mike Judge learning he was actually born in Ecuador instead of the United States. | |
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A lot of Discworld's magic seems akin to theoretical physics. Pratchett also wrote extensively on how prolonged exposure to magic can affect a place or person, the general lesson being that the price of magic is usually never as small as it seems. A lot of this made sense when you realize he used to work as a Press Officer to three nuclear power plants, around the time of the Three Mile Island incident. | |
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The Author has also said that the part where Cody made Heather watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail mentioned in chapter 32 was based on a memory where he and his cousin did the same thing, and just like Heather in the story, his cousin laughed at the first gag of the film. | |
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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Kirk and Spock are on a bus where they encounter a punk loudly playing his boombox before Spock nerve-pinches him into unconsciousness when he refuses to turn down his music. According to Leonard Nimoy, this was inspired by an actual incident while visiting New York City, where he saw a punk loudly playing his music while walking in the street, saying afterwards, "[I was struck] by the arrogance of it, the aggressiveness of it, and I thought if I was Spock I'd pinch his brains out!". | |
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Helen Reidy, the co-creator of one of the earliest sandbox games Skool Daze (and its sequel Back 2 Skool), was a primary school teacher, which inspired the setting of these games. | |
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Boring Girls contains a detailed account of the leads' metal band touring, clearly informed by author Sara Taylor's career as lead singer of The Birthday Massacre. | |
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Feed (2017): Troian Bellisario has said the film (whose screenplay she wrote) took inspiration from her own struggle with an eating disorder, and overcoming it. | |
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Boys Run the Riot: Akiko Sunada's interview with Keito Gaku reveals that the manga is based on the latter's experiences as a transgender man. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): "The Hellgramite Method" was inspired by the chronic alcoholism of William Selby's father. In "Acts of Terror", J. Michael Straczynski based Jack Simonson's abuse of his wife Louise on his father Charles abusing his mother Evelyn and the rest of the family. |
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Sharon Lee has worked several positions in academia over the years, including administrative aide to a dean. This might help to explain why a number of Liaden Universe stories are set at colleges or schools of one kind or another, and why those settings all feel so authentic. | |
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Like her heroine Laura, the book's author Vera Caspary also began her professional career as a stenographer in an advertising agency. | |
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Turning Red: Domee Shi is a member of Canada's sizable Chinese-descended population, and the film is focused on them, just like her short Bao. Moreover, the film as a whole is based on Domee's own childhood experiences, particularly her changing relationship with her mother. | |
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Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder and the subsequent Jake Grafton series of novels, served in the U.S. Navy as an A-6 Intruder pilot in the Vietnam War. | |
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In Cabin by the Lake, Stanley writes a horror movie script by covertly putting his own murderous depravities in the story. The murders he carries out are all 'research' for his story. Not a terribly smart move if he wanted to keep the fact that he's actually a serial killer a secret. | |
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India Sweets And Spices: Director and writer Geeta Malik partly based the film on her own experiences growing up Indian-American in Aurora, Colorado. | |
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Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade was written by Barthe Declements while she was an elementary school teacher and a school psychologist. The result is one of the most realistic depictions of fifth grade (and under) kids both in AND out of school. | |
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The running gag in Club Dread about Juan thinking Penelope's name is pronounced "Peen-uh-lope" after reading it off her name tag: One of the members of Broken Lizard attended a screening of Carlito's Way, and when Penelope Ann Miller's name appeared in the credits, another audience member incredulously shouted "Peen-uh-lope? What kind of a name is Peen-uh-lope?" | |
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Molly of Denali: "Grandpa's Drum" was based on the personal memories of Tanana Athabascan tribal Elder Luke Titus. | |
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John Dalmas outfitted his character Curtis Macurdy with the same skills he had (minus the magical ones). Dalmas worked in the forestry service for years and trained with the 82nd airborne right before WWII ended. Curtis actually jumped during the war, and when he wasn't fighting, he was logging or using his combat experience and easygoing personality as a sheriff in Oregon. | |
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, the author of A Rebours, wrote a series of novels centered on Durtal, his Author Avatar. Throughout these novels, Durtal would convert to the Catholic faith and become an oblate in L'Oblat. Huysmans himself, who turned away from the Catholic faith when he was a kid, eventually returned to it and spent his last years as a Benedictine oblate. | |
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These Words Are True and Faithful: According to interviews, Eugene Galt has participated in the gay male BDSM community, and his religious background (although he now identifies as an atheist) is a mix of Catholic and independent fundamental Baptist. The novel draws heavily on both of these aspects of his life. | |
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The Owl House's macabre asthetic was inspired by the stained glass artwork at the Catholic high school Dana Terrace attended. And on a more plot relevant note, Luz getting attached to the Good Witch Azura series because her father gave her a copy of the first book shortly before he passed away was based off of Dana reciving a copy of Pokémon Red from her father just before he was killed in a car accident. | |
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Mangakas Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata made Bakuman。, about a pair of mangaka, one the artist and the other the scenarist. The two characters' strength rests in psychological pieces rather than classical shonen...pieces like Death Note for example? | |
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The Red Chord's album Clients was based around Guy Kozowyk's experiences with the various psych patients who regularly walked into the convenience store that he used to work at, as said store was located next to a psychiatric hospital. | |
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A Thing of Vikings: The writer is Jewish and a former science teacher; unsurprisingly, there's a Jewish sub-plot and a lot of focus on science (mostly Hiccup's inventions, but also speculation on dragon biology). He's also a history enthusiast and a lot of details in the story are based on actual historical fact. | |
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When Bethesda Studios took over the production of Fallout 3, they based it in Washington, DC. Their studios used to be based in a suburb of Washington, DC called Bethesda, Maryland. This is why the landscape in Fallout 3 is so detailed: the developers know the area. Gamers who live in the DC metro area noticed and praised Bethesda for it. Of course, the player can also explore a (fictionalized) version of the Bethesda Studios offices in the game. | |
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Xandri Corelel: Kaia Sønderby is an autistic bisexual, like Xandri. | |
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Goosebumps author R. L. Stine wrote the iconic "The Haunted Mask" based on a time when his son was little and put on a rubber Frankenstein mask, then couldn't get it off. | |
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In film Platinum Blonde: Stew's true Love Interest Gallagher tells him that he's suffering from Writer's Block because he keeps trying to make his play about things and places he knows nothing about, like a ship off the coast of Norway. She says that he should make it about his collapsing marriage to Uptown Girl Anne. He does, and he writes the play in no time. | |
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In the eighth of the Haruhi Suzumiya novel series, the author wrote about writing, at some point the titular character states that "anyone can write" and she does in fact recruit almost everyone she knows to write for her literature magazine, while each of the characters ends up writing about a subject they do actually know about, only the ones who have the reading habit write something at least interesting, everyone else just throws random words together (and the ones who read the magazine do realize this). | |
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Even though they are small and relatively obscure fandoms, a surprising amount of the TRON and ReBoot Fan Fic writers work in computer repair, system engineering, programming, and computer science. | |
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The reason for most of the social commentary in District 9. Director Neil Blomkamp wanted to place aliens in a realistic third-world environment. As it happens, Blomkamp is South African, so he knows the particular kind of Crapsack World that South Africa can be. Yes, most of the stuff in the movie, such as the slum, the cannibalism, the deportation, that's all inspired by actual events. | |
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George Costanza from Seinfeld was modeled by the show's co-creator and head writer Larry David after himself and his personal life, something George's actor, Jason Alexander, only realized after they had finished the first several episodes. For example, a storyline where George dramatically quit his job only to show up the next day and pretend nothing happened was based on Larry David's own experience quitting the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live and immediately regretting it. Other Costanza antics reportedly based on Larry David's life include replacing a girlfriend's answering machine tape with a blank one to stop her from hearing his own angry message and participating in a contest to see who could refrain from masturbating the longest. | |
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In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Dys's broodiness is based on Sarah Northway's own struggles with early adolescence. | |
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And, of course, there's The Old Man and the Sea, which is a story about an old man...and the sea... | |
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Film director Andrea Arnold grew up in a council estate and as a result, often sets her works (Wasp, Red Road, Fish Tank) in council estates. | |
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Cuties is about a child of Muslim Senegalese immigrant parents who grew up in France, like director Maïmouna Doucouré herself, and the culture clashes that ensue from that upbringing in modern French society. It was already the subject of her 2015 Short Film Maman(s), though with polygamy as the main focus instead of religious taboos (though the former is present in Cuties). | |
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This includes that one time he wrote a Batman novel and comic book, subtly titled The Ultimate Evil. | |
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Time to Disinfect: The fic's depiction of autism is based on TheOtherRed being autistic themselves, with the author's notes and comments readily admitting that many of Mari's symptoms and habits are based on them projecting their own experience with the condition. | |
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Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus: Mallow's mentioning of different types of Burmese dishes (and being Burmese) is based on the author herself (Who is half-Burmese) currently staying in Myanmar. | |
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Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, the creator of the Chalet School series, was a teacher herself. She actually tried to start up her own school (in Hereford, which became one of the Chalet School's locations), although, unlike its fictional equivalent, the school was unsuccessful in the end. Like Joey, the series's heroine, she also converted to Catholicism. | |
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Satirized in a The Onion article about a tow-truck driver who has a great idea for a thriller set in the world of tow-truck driving. | |
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Tokyo Revengers, a manga about teenage delinquents, is created by Ken Wakui, who revealed that he's actually a former gang member in an interview, even mentioning that for a month he was expelled from school and worked as the host of a women's bar. Wakui stated that he wanted to portray the delinquents of his youth, with principles and ideals who would only fight other gangs and remained respectful and polite towards civilians. | |
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I Want to Be a Cute Anime Girl is about a 15 year old transgender girl named Cheryl discovering her identity. The Author Azul Crescent is a trans woman herself. | |
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Robert Jordan, author of The Wheel of Time series up until his death, was once asked at a convention panel, along with several other writers, what influenced how they wrote combat scenes in their books. Because he had served in The Vietnam War, his response was that he knew what it was like to kill someone, and what it was like to kill a lot of people, and how that changed a person and how they viewed not just fighting, but themselves, afterward. | |
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Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish fantasy author (known, among other things, for his Jakub Wędrowycz stories) graduated in archaeology, and some of his stories that involve archaeology show true expertise on the subject. | |
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One plotline in Swamp Thing involves Liz Tremayne, formerly an Intrepid Reporter and novelist who befriended Swamp Thing and the gang while doing some investigative reporting on the enigmatic creature, becoming a paranoid, dependent, and cloistered shell of her former self as a result of her boyfriend Dennis Barclay using the specter of them supposedly being constantly chased by one of their enemies (who had actually been killed by Swamp Thing in the issue immediately following their initial flight) to gradually make her utterly reliant on him. Alan Moore based this arc on one of his own cousins who went through a similar experience with her husband, and many of the specific details of Liz's plight (wearing sewn-up towels instead of proper new underwear, never immersing herself in a bath for fear of drowning, never plugging in the TV for fear of electrocution) are almost exactly the same as those of the cousin. | |
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Deltarune: According to Toby Fox in the 6th Anniversary livestream of Chapter 1, the scene where Susie bullies Kris before they enter the Dark World was inspired by what a real bully did in Toby's life, who was familiar with his mother. | |
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Servant × Service is a Work Com surrounding a ward office. Its author Karino Takatsu worked in one before becoming a manga artist. | |
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The Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels contains some instances of this. The ghost of Barbara appearing to Myra Rutledge is based on the author's claim that her house has a ghost in it. Fern Michaels is not the author's real name, it was taken from an imaginary friend she had as a child. The book Final Justice has a character named Marble Rose explain that she took that name from an imaginary friend she had as a child. The author is a Southern woman and she's not afraid to use that knowledge in this series! | |
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The British Railway Stories: It's been hypothesized that Simon A.C. Martin, the creator of the series, chose Copley Hill sheds as the main setting from being inspired by his grandfather, who actually worked there. | |
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Le Carre's ""A Perfect Spy'' was about a spy whose father was a professional conman-just like Le Carre. | |
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BREAK THE BORDER is loosely based on Ayumi's experience being on an all-girls basketball team in school, as well as being a transgender man. | |
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The Brady Bunch: Robert Reed would have likely disagreed many times, but in Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz's autobiography (and in various other retrospectives of the show as well), they came up with many plotlines for episodes of the iconic show from their own experiences. Two examples: "Eenie, Meenie, Mommy, Daddy" — Sherwood's daughter, then 10-year-old Hope, had a classmate who was upset that the school was limiting admission to one parent to a school presentation (due to the school's small auditorium), because he wanted to invite both his mother and new stepfather, together. When he was developing the series' first Season 1 scripts, Sherwood recalled the incident and gave the problem to Cindy. "The Slumber Caper" — When he was in elementary school, Sherwood scrawled scribblings on a piece of paper and called it "George Washington." A classmate got ahold of the drawing and wrote the name of a teacher he didn't like (along with a very inappropriate remark). Not long thereafter, said teacher saw it ... and yelled at young Sherwood and punished him, despite Sherwood insisting his innocence in that he did not write the remark. The situation was used to frame the episode's initial conflict of Marcia being blamed for insulting a teacher. |
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Toy Story 2: John Lasseter, an avid toy collector, based Al's obsession with toys on how he would try to keep his kids from playing with his collection when they visited his office. He realized that it was absurd to not use a toy for exactly what it was made for. Andrew Stanton included the joke about Rex and his video game guide after his son repeatedly made him read similar guides to him in place of bedtime stories. |
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Rain centers on a teenage trans girl who's a massive fan of manga and retro games. Author Jocelyn Samara is a trans woman herself and is also a huge lover of manga, anime, and retro games. | |
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Jilly Cooper loosely based It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling... on her own experiences living with two girls in a flat. | |
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Olga from Olga Dies Dreaming is a wedding planner of Puerto Rican ancestry whose mother is an activist. Gonzalez, also the daughter of an activist, used to be a wedding planner herself. | |
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Some of the authors of Naked Came the Stranger based Gillian's lovers on their own experiences. An ex-Marine from a Pennsylvania coal-mining town wrote about an ex-Marine from a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, a boxing writer wrote about a boxer, an investigative and gangland reporter wrote about a Mafia chieftain, and a writer with a reputation as the most faithful husband in journalism wrote about a man who couldn't cheat. | |
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At the end of the Language Arts Through Imagination short "Do Dragons Dream?", Emma and Jeremy decide to write a story based on their encounter with Figment for their homework assignment. | |
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The creepy apartment in Domu: A Child's Dream is based on the one Katsuhiro Otomo once lived in. | |
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Unbreakable Red Silken Thread The Author has said Cody's story about the nightclub outing with his family mentioned in chapter 26 was somewhat based on an unpleasant part of his own life. The Author has also said that the part where Cody made Heather watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail mentioned in chapter 32 was based on a memory where he and his cousin did the same thing, and just like Heather in the story, his cousin laughed at the first gag of the film. |
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In the Enderverse in particular...why are the Wiggins from Greensboro, NC of all places? And why are the Lusitanians Brazilian? And why does so much of the Ender's Shadow trilogy take place around Riberao Preto, Brazil? Card lives in Greensboro, and did his Mormon mission in Brazil. | |
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Rohan Kishibe of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fame (based partially on author Hirohiko Araki) is a manga-ka that embraces this philosophy as part of his author abilities, believing that "researching reality" helps improve his stories greatly. Unfortunately, he tends to take this to freakish extremes such as torturing and killing a spider to see how it reacts to pain, then licking its corpse just to see how it tastes. His Stand, Heaven's Door, can read minds as well, so he uses it to get more inspiration for his manga as well. Whether or not the participant is willing. Hirohiko Araki himself also subscribes to this idea, hence why many parts of the manga feature in-depth explanations of various international cultures (up to and including Part 3 including a guide on how to barter for cheaply-priced kebab meals). |
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Shiva Baby: Director/screenwriter Emma Seligman, like lead character Danielle, is Jewish and bisexual (who also looks very much like her). It's unknown how much (if any) of the film is based on her own life, but both Danielle's Jewishness and bisexuality are central to the story. | |
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After being an actor and head writer for Saturday Night Live, a comedy sketch show, Tina Fey created 30 Rock, an NBC Work Com which centers around an NBC comedy sketch show (TGS with Tracy Jordan). Furthermore, besides being creator, head writer, and showrunner of 30 Rock, Fey plays Liz Lemon, who is creator, head writer, and showrunner of TGS. Fey's original plan was to center the show on a News Broadcast until NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly suggested she base the show on her own experience. | |
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Mohawk Girls: The series creator Tracey Deer is a Mohawk woman from Kanahwake herself, who's also married to a non-resident. Life there, and the prejudice toward outsiders or the residents in relationships with them, are both focused on throughout the series. A protest against outsiders living on the reserve is even at her house, per a very brief online mention in Season 4. | |
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FoxTrot's Bill Amend majored in physics and won a mathematics prize in college. Needless to say, some of the jokes involve advanced mathematics and physics formulae. One of the more recurring high school teachers is for Physics. He is also a Mac user. The iFruit is...something of an iMac crossed with some Magical Computer elements. Earlier computers in the strip had, for what little we saw, a very Mac OS/Macintosh System Software-like operating system. | |
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Infinity Train: The first season's protagonist, Tulip, is from creator Owen Dennis's home state of Minnesota, hailing from the real-life city of North Branch. In addition to that season occasionally referencing things that only locals of the region would know about, Tulip being an aspiring programmer comes from Dennis' own interest in the subject. All of the school stories that season two deuteragonist Jesse talks about are direct retellings of things that happened to the writers in their school lives, from schoolmates comparing shavings at the end of class to being forced to do the Butterfly stroke in the swim team because no one else knew how. Season four protagonists Ryan and Min-Gi are from the fictional town of Lake Powell, based on the real-life town of Powell River, British Columbia, where storyboard artist Ryan Pequin grew up, with extra research being done to make sure that the fictional town's appearance mirrored that of his hometown during the 1980s. |
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Peter Puck, author of the German comic Rudi, wrote an academic text about punks and got a degree for it. Punks often appear in his comics. | |
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Famously, the British comedy Fawlty Towers and the main character who lends the show its name were based on John Cleese and the Monty Python crew's... "colourful" experience staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon, England. The proprietor at the time, Donald Sinclair, was a retired naval officer and also happened to be completely rude and completely out of his mind. Mr. Sinclair's irascible antics included: loudly berating Terry Gilliam for his "American" table etiquette, throwing Eric Idle's briefcase over the garden wall because he suspected it contained a bomb, expressing disbelief that Michael Palin had pre-booked the TV to catch a show, and starting a loud argument in the reception with Cleese when he requested a taxi. After his wife Beatrice complained to the papers about how the show exaggerated her husband's eccentricities, several witnesses (including Sinclair's own children) came forward and shared their own stories, which suggested that, if anything, Cleese had actually downplayed how crazy the man was. Let that sink in. | |
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Dan O'Bannon, writer of Alien, reportedly based the infamous "chestburster" scene on his own experiences with Crohn's disease, which during a bad flare-up made him feel like something was physically clawing its way out of his stomach. Complications of the disease would unfortunately go on to kill him in 2009, at the age of 63. | |
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Wendell & Wild is about Kat, a troubled young girl who has spent years in juvenile prison who eventually discovers a sinister plot to turn her hometown into a massive private prison that will collaborate with a nearby school to take in other troubled and disenfranchised youth. Henry Selick has said in interviews that his wife's work as an advocate with at-risk youth and special needs kids was what he drew on when approaching topics like the school-to-prison pipeline and Kat's character in general. | |
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Nicholas Snelling based his children's book Barebum Billy partly on incidents where his sons walked around naked after taking their baths. | |
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Delicious in Dungeon is a Medieval European Fantasy except for a Japanese party (or at least their world's equivalent) consisting of a samurai and his retainers. Makes sense that the creator, Ryoko Kui, would want to use some of her own historical tropes in her work as well as foreign ones. | |
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White Hunter, Black Heart is a very thinly fictionalized account of author Peter Viertel's (he wrote both the novel and the screenplay) experience on location with John Huston while shooting The African Queen. | |
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Speaking of Doctor Who, Chris Chibnall has said a couple of elements in his run are based on his personal experiences: Graham being a cancer survivor was informed by Chibnall having been diagnosed with cancer in his early twenties, along with knowing other people who'd been through the same thing, and the Timeless Child storyline was partly inspired by Chibnall having been adopted, particularly the tension between who you are and where you're from. | |
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Journey into Space: Charles Chilton partly based the radio operator Lemmy Barnet, the crew's radio operator, on himself. He had been an RAF radio operator during World War II. | |
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Annie Wilkes of Misery fame was partly inspired by an encounter King had with a man who claimed to be his number one fan...and later murdered John Lennon. | |
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Sorry, Bro: Taleen Voskuni is an Armenian-American like the protagonist Nareh, while the story delves heavily into the community in California where she's from, and Armenian culture overall. | |
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Up: Pete Docter was inspired to do a film about an aggressively antisocial character based on his own social anxieties that came with being an artist. Dug's line "I have just met you and I love you" came from Bob Peterson's experiences as a camp councilor, when one of his campers said this to him. |
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Ed Burns, the co-creator of The Wire. Much of the backdrop of season 4's criticisms towards the education system was based on Burns' experience as a retired-police-officer-turned-teacher. | |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet director Shigeru Ohmori mentioned in a Famitsu interview that he drew on his own experiences of losing his parents at a young age to write Arven. | |
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The developers of Unpacking have stated that the chosen time period for the game (1997-2018) is because that was the time most of them grew up in and knew best. | |
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Shuukan Shounen Hachi is about a very mediocre aspiring mangaka who dreams of becoming a "protagonist" despite his seeming lack of talent. There are obviously some elements that reflect Masuda Eiji's personal experience, as it took him several years and series to become even remotely successful and create his own distinct style. | |
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After Forever's Concept Album Invisible Circles is based on the abused children that guitarist Sander Gommans met working as an art teacher. | |
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Glitch Techs: Both Eric Robles and Dan Milano are avid gamers, with Robles having spent much of his childhood in local arcades (which also served as the inspiration for his previous series). | |
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South Park: The town of Fairplay, Colorado provides both the name and the visual basis for the fictional South Park. Fairplay is located in southern part of Park County and several local institutations such as the school and police station are labeled as "South Park". Matt Stone grew up in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado, and attended school in Boulder with Trey Parker, so much of the local flavor and regional shout-outs originate from those areas. |
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Miranda Hart, the writer and star of Miranda (2009) has said in an interview that the majority of the material comes from her own life, and that there are some incidents (including a very funny one about a train toilet) that she can't include in the show because the audience would think they are too far-fetched. | |
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In The Iron Giant, there's a moment where Hogarth is seen filling a Twinkie with whipped cream before eating it. This was something director Brad Bird used to do when he was a kid, calling it a "Turbo Twinkie". | |
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Ruri Miyahara used to work as a freelance writer before she became a manga artist, and she used her experience as the basis for the main character of Misolala, Misono Mugita, who works as a writer in a design company. | |
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The Railway Series author Rev. Awdry was always a Rail Enthusiast and tried to keep his stories of talking trains grounded. But his discovery on a family vacation of the recently preserved Talyllyn Railway gave him new hands-on experience, as he soon rushed to return to the railway as a volunteer guard (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson would all also volunteer there with time). He created a group of expy characters for the Talyllyn known as the "Skarloey Railway" and wholesale adapted events of real Talyllyn history for his book series, including an incident where on guard duty he caused a train to depart early and abandon the railway's "Refreshment Lady" on the platform. The Skarloey stories proved to be an impressive Shown Their Work addition to the Railway Series canon. | |
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LFO's "Girl on TV", a song about a man who falls in love with a famous actress, was inspired by the lead singer's Real Life relationship with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt. In case it wasn't obvious enough: Hewitt also appears in the music video. | |
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Peter Beresford Ellis is a professional historian of Dark Ages Irish history; his Sister Fidelma series is set in seventh-century Ireland, and many stories focus on particular aspects of period law, religion, and society. | |
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Miracle Creek: Angie Kim moved from Seoul to Baltimore as a preteen and based many of Mary Yoo's experiences on her own. In fact, after Kim's mother read the book, she called her to apologize because she recognized herself in Young. Also, Kim took her son to HBOT when he was four for neurological deafness in one ear and gastrointestinal problems that turned out to be caused by celiac disease; the chamber they used was a submarine-like tank painted aquamarine, just like the one in the book. | |
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New Game! is about working in the video game industry. The author, Shotaro Tokuno, is a former game developer. | |
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An incredibly dark one occurs in Coco, where Héctor's murderer included a poisoning scene in one of their movies that is nearly identical to how they had killed their victim in real life. The only difference is that the murderer placed themselves in the role of the victim, and in the movie, they of course survived. | |
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Like Raquel Toro in Anita de Monte Laughs Last Gonzalez attended Brown University, majoring in art history and finishing her bachelor's degree in 1999. | |
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A small part of Our Wives Under the Sea, where Miri comes across the "Our Husbands In Space" forum, was inspired by a real-life experience by Julia Armfield, as detailed in this interview. | |
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As ludicrous as the events in most Only Fools and Horses episodes are, about 95% of them were based on stuff that had actually happened to the show's creator, John Sullivan, and/or members of his family. Reportedly, he didn't have to start thinking of any truly original storylines until near the end of the show's run. | |
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Flip Dimensions: The fictional worlds in Lily's mind are all based on their writer Lily's experiences with different cultures and knowledge of various genres of fiction. All the residents of the fictional worlds won't be able to know any information that Lily doesn't know, though Avenir notes that their wisdom in what to do with that knowledge is different. | |
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Ginny and Georgia: Director Anya Adams, lead character Antonia Gentry and show writer Brianna Belser are all biracial women like Ginny. The trio collaborated on giving input to her character on the series. Real quotes were even used from Antonia Gentry's life for things that people say to Ginny. The much-criticized "Oppression Olympics" exchange Ginny and Hunter have is another example. Gentry and Mason Temple (Hunter) largely wrote each other's dialogue as well, based on actual things people have told them. |
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The Witches: The hero's parents die at the beginning of the story, leaving him to be brought up by his grandmother, with the parents' wish that he is educated in England. Roald Dahl's own father died when Dahl was young, with the wish that he was educated in England, saying that English schools are the best in the world. The idea of witches wearing wigs to hide their baldness, and having no toes may have been inspired by two of Dahl's fellow passengers on his two-week sea voyage to Africa, as described in his autobiography Going Solo: the elderly Miss Trefuis hated the sight of toes so much that she could not bear to cut her own toenails, and she made all the native boys on her farm wear shoes. Dahl's cabin companion U. N. Savory went to great lengths to hide his baldness, wearing wigs of different lengths every week, and sprinkling Epsom Salts on his shoulders to make out he had dandruff. The grandmother lovingly describes summer holidays in Norway, which were a staple of Dahl's own childhood. |
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Wishbone: Referenced In-Universe in Wishbone Mysteries #3: Riddle Of The Wayward Books. Joe's working in a used bookstore, which has a parrot - Mr. Faulkner, who keeps squawking the trope name - as a resident. His words help Joe to be Genre Savvy and solve the mystery, linking the current rash of strange events (the store is seemingly being burglarized, but the "thief" is actually leaving rare books for the owner to find, sell and profit off of) with the events of the book The Haunted Bookshop (in which the same book keeps getting stolen from and returned to a store), which Joe is currently reading. | |
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Origami Angel's music contains frequent references to Ryland's time living in the Washington DC area, such as in "My PG County Summer" or "Few and Far Between." | |
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Gravity Falls: The series in general is based on trips Alex Hirsch and his sister took with their grand-aunt. Dipper's (nick)name and birthmark were inspired by Hirsch's childhood classmate having acne shaped like the Big Dipper. Soos is based on a friend and classmate from CalArts, Jesus Chambrot, who had a similar personality. The episode "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" was based on Hirsch attending a Dungeons & Dragons game with Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward and Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale during the trio's time on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. |
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Besties: The director of this lesbian romance drama, Marion Desseigne-Ravel, is a lesbian herself, and she wrote the characters after girls she knew growing up in a district similar to the one in Paris where the film takes place. | |
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Captain America's creators, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, both were first-generation Americans who grew up in Depression-era New York City like he did. Cap's parents were Irish, Kirby's Ashkenazi Jewish from modern-day Austria, and Simon's from northern England. They were also both World War II veterans but he was created before they got drafted. | |
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