reminder to worldbuilders: don’t get caught up in things that aren’t important to the story you’re writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this
I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset
What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know
Mordor.
Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.
And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!
So what is a rain shadow?
Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can’t get past ‘em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can’t get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.
Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can’t get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.
May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.
TUMBLR IS SO BORING WITH ALL YOU NERDS AT DASHCON
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((you all better come back with some amazing tales))
#scrap of bloodstained paper you find in a dungeon #or clutched in a skeleton’s fist (via @beaft)
The people in power driving the planet into mass extinction and people spreading hateful propaganda inciting genocide have names and addresses but doxxing is morally wrong and against the rules so ultimately it’s pretty hard to say whether or not it’s the right thing to do
I’ll add they all live within 45 minutes of a weapons manufacturer like Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin.
Additionally I can’t imagine this being hard for Chicagoans to find:
- Boeing CEO David L. Calhoun and his wife, Barbara, paid $2.75 million March 4 to buy a three-bedroom, 3,259-square-foot condominium on the 16th floor of the Palmolive building.
They scrape our data, track our every move, and compile it into people finder sites. Fuck the idea doxxing powerful people is wrong.
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“can i be a hater for a second” girl you can kill someone in front of me and id be okay with it be fr
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They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it’s genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.
Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.
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a just saw a guy call himself a butch queen
Y'all know that gay men have historically… nevermind
pipe down
Fdhhsdv sis….ur literally wrong here…like…don’t be so loud about this…
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with more and more sites & hosting services banning nsfw content, being some sort of pervert becomes a moral imperative
I shall lead us forward, to uncharted territory
Diabetes isnt the ‘ate too many sweets disease’. It just fucking is not. It’s your body slowly losing an integral function needed to nuture and energize it. Its your pancreas shutting down, its your blood cells rejecting your attempts to feed itself, its not enough insulin to go around. Its you slowly getting colder and weaker, gorging yourself with healthy food and getting next to no benefit, its being so exhausted you cant sleep. Diabetes used to kill, straight-up KILL. So no, I don’t think I will be laughing at your diabetes joke.
Do you know why diabetics eat so many sweets? Because we need sugar, and we need sugar FAST. Everyones’ bodies rely on sugars for nutrients and energy, and in a non-diabetic body sugars get absorbed at a normal rate using your normal amount of insulin into your normal red blood cells. This happens to healthy carbs, superfood vegetables, and some proteins!
Diabetics dont have that luxury! Without medication, our body is in a constant crisis where we need more sugar and the sugars that break down the fastest are sweets! But then they dont all get absorbed, then the unabsorbed sugar hangs out in our bloodstream then gets flushed out, and then we still need more. All those healthy things break down too slowly for when we’re in a crisis, and then we STILL dont absorb all of it! And I’m only talking about type 2, type 1 cant absorb anything at all because they dont have any insulin!
You cannot healthy eat or diet your way out of diabetes. You cannot lose weight out of diabetes. Once you get diabetes, even if you manage your symptoms perfectly you HAVE diabetes. You have a chronic illness. And that means its time to see doctors, get on medications, and practice self care.
And sometimes self care means you eat dessert first while dinner is cooking so you have the energy to finish cooking. Sometimes that means eating many small meals to match your body’s absorption rate. Sometimes that means eating at midnight so you have the blood sugar to sleep.
Im just tired of diabetes being seen as a joke or only something you get if you’re 'bad’. And diabetics? I love you, talk to a nutritionist about diabetic eating, and don’t forget your meds.
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