A guy just living life.

bro I just reblog and some times post stuff (he/him, my gender in yes boy, with left girl!

[gaylordcinderace]

One second of every (English) Pokemon Journeys episode

[hacvek]

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

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

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!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

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.

[roach-works]

this is because, as clouds are forced upwards by rising land, they cool and dump their rain. so the side of the mountain facing the ocean (or an inland sea, or a great lake) gets all the rain as the clouds are squeezed out, and the opposite side gets nothing.

my favorite thing is the american great lake snowbelts! so, the 'flow' of weather across north america, in very general terms, blows from the northwest on down south and east to the gulf of mexico.

so the wind is blowing from west to east, and in the winter it's a dryer wind than in the summer because it's colder. but after blowing across a great lake for a hundred miles, the wind is wet again. and that wet turns into snow. so for all of these lakes, the big cities are on the west side, not the east sides, because the east sides absolutely suck to live on.

the sole exception is buffalo, NY, which literally has to be there because, unfortunately, that's where all the important canal stuff between lake ontario and lake erie is happening.

also this always strikes me as cool, check out where cleveland is:

it's right at the edge of that snowbelt. and you see way more cities west of it than east, too.

[beatrice-otter]

#but again. mordor looks like that becaue sauron made it#and he's an ass

On a Watsonian level, sure.

On a Doylistic level, Mordor looks like that because plate tectonics was a fringe, ludicrous, laughable theory that nobody outside serious geology nerds had ever heard of until scientists proved seafloor spreading in the early 1960s. The first edition of the LotR trilogy was published in 54-55. We literally did not know that plate tectonics was real until almost a decade after the book was published, so obviously, it was not something Tolkien could have been considering as he made his maps.

I don't know enough meteorological history to know when white people figured out about rain shadows and added it to geology classes, or what would have been taught about volcanoes and such. But any education Tolkien got on the subject would have been in childhood/adolescence; his college education focused on the liberal arts, not the sciences, and his professional study was linguistics and the middle ages. So anything Medieval and earlier European authors wrote about he had a pretty good chance of knowing about. But not much exposure to modern science. So his science knowledge was probably limited to "what English schools taught at the turn of the 20th Century."

[whetstonefires]

I mean, it's true he didn't know about plate tectonics, but he did know what mountains look like, and that it's not normally That. And it wasn't his style to break that kind of norm without cause.

LotR has recurring themes of the reckless imposition of one's will on the natural world creating ugliness, an order you thought was inherently an improvement that in fact is inferior to what you have displaced. (Typified by reckless tree-felling; a reflection of the despoiling of the English countryside and the world by Progress.)

Mordor is a rectangle because Sauron is an asshole.

[beatrice-otter]

#the rain shadow thing otoh was undoubtedly total ignorance#but those mountains were made as the fortress of a demigod#too steeped in evil to understand beauty#it's *supposed* to look like something that Shouldn't Exist#like quite often this is something that happens in worldbuilding yes#things are arranged Wrong because a person doesn't grasp the underlying logic#but mordor is a bad example for the same reason it's an obvious one#it's So Very Wrong because it was designed to be wrong#to give you a bad feeling with how much it shouldn't look like that#if he just wanted it unapproachable on all sides it could've been in a caldera formation it didn't *need* corners#the corners were a choice#tolkien's job involved lots of looking at maps and things okay#meanwhile people whose lives revolved around the weather generally knew where the rain happened#long before it was formalized into 'rain shadow effect'#people not having The Science doesn't mean they don't have eyes and brains

[maryellencarter]

I wrote an entire paper in college analyzing the geology of the Misty Mountains and to a lesser extent the White Mountains (the Misty Mountains are easier because we get a cross-section via Moria). One thing I discovered that still knocks me for a loop when I think about it is:

Moria is the only place in Middle-Earth where mithril is found, right? That's kind of a big deal. So, why? What makes that location so special? Is it just random?

I found a paper that had just been published *that year*, 2011 or 2012 as I was writing it, that studied the locations of precious-metals mines in the Pyrenees, the similarly long skinny mountain chain that divides Spain and France. This paper discovered that where there was a bend in the mountain chain, from one of the continental plates having an awkward corner in it that got subducted under the other plate, that had dug deeper into the mantle and caused precious-metal-bearing ores to flow up to the surface in ways they didn't do anywhere else in the Pyrenees.

There's a conversation in The Fellowship of the Ring where one of the hobbits -- I don't have my copy handy or I'd get the direct quote -- asks why they can see the Misty Mountains ahead of them at one point if they're still heading south from Rivendell, and it's explained that south of Caradhras (which you may recall is the surface mountain under which Moria runs) the mountain chain bends and runs southwest instead of due south for a while.

Tolkien had absolutely no way to know *why* this particular feature of a mountain range was associated with intrusions of rare and unique metal ores, but he had gone backpacking in mountains enough to know How Things Should Look.

(And as prev excellently points out, when Jirt made screwed-up geology it was very much on purpose. Mordor shouldn't be square! Mount Doom shouldn't be doing any of the things it does! A composite volcano shouldn't even have especially hot lava! Even the Gulf of Udun, the circular feature at the upper left corner of the square, shouldn't be like that -- perfectly round features should be impact craters or calderas, not The Mountains Just Do This In A Suspiciously Convenient Way. These are all the way they are because Sauron forced them to be, in defiance of the laws of nature. Remember, he's akin to Balrogs and was a Maia of Aulë -- he's a volcano spirit in many ways.)

[sunflowergardens-world]

Amazing work by the LoTR fandom, as always.

[mysteryteacup]

This also serves as an excellent example of why worldbuilding needs - more than realism - to be cohesive and work with the themes of your story.

[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this

[fishtrouts]

Always a good time to burn down yet another village!

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[iqdestroyer]

im about to fucking piss myself laughing

[asksakuyathemaid]

best hack award 2014

[fishtrouts]

Avoryx’s plush is available for preorder for a week more! Link:

Plushie

We reached the production milestone a little while ago, which means she is guaranteed to be made! :)

And yes, that is the same knight from the previous comic! Who knows what they’ve endured to reach these two. Weeks of travel, and not once did they stop to wonder if they might be biting off more than they can chew.

[fishtrouts]

Avoryx plush will be available for the final 5 hours, after which it will be retired by Makeship! We’ve reached over 600 orders, and I am so grateful for all the support you’ve shown me. Thank you! :)

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[mxtomituck]

OR.

ELSE.

[monsterpotion]

⋆႔ ႔ ᠸ^ ^ ⸝⸝ |、˜〵 じしˍ,)⁐̤ᐷ

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you're following who reblogged this post didn't pick. if they didn't say in the tags what they picked or if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random instead.

first option

second option

Remaining time: 2 days 14 hours

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[nelc]

Only 12 days left.

[triflesandparsnips]

It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

The note count as of 3:12 PM EDT was 742.4K.

We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

The Bear Nessiecity

You know what to do.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[nelc]

Only 12 days left.

[triflesandparsnips]

It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

The note count as of 3:12 PM EDT was 742.4K.

We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

The Bear Nessiecity

You know what to do.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[nelc]

Only 12 days left.

[triflesandparsnips]

It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

The note count as of 3:12 PM EDT was 742.4K.

We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

The Bear Nessiecity

You know what to do.

[fishtrouts]

Sometimes a comic is born purely because you wanted to draw a ferocious battle between two ancient dragons!

WEBTOON | PATREON | REDBUBBLE

[wholesome-animal-images]

[lonnson]

The feared sting-ray

[bright-cherry-bombzz]

The elusive and mysterious StingRug

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

[cumonthevoid]

[yosoymalk]

I would marry this man

[the-angels-take-asgard-deactiva]

guys we broke another post because this one’s not showing any notes

[lualmu]

When I liked it, it flashed “0 notes”

[iconic-url]

It’s showing -1 notes

[sovietintel]

i’m gonna keep reblogging this and you can’t stop me

[yourbasicaestheticbitch-blog]

I liked it and it said ‘1 note’

tf is this crap?

[bonism]

1 NOTE I’VE ONLY COME ACROSS 3 OF THESE POSTS IN MY LIFE

[creep-ser]

ITS STILL SAID 1 NOTE WTF????? 

[princey-must-slay-deactivated20]

legendary

[xlilmermaidx-deactivated2019040]

What the fuck

[vintage-cartoonz-deactivated201]

YES BUT DID HE GET HIS CAMERA BACK?? WE NEED TO KNOW!

[na7hank-deactivated20211112]

WE WILL NEVER KNOW… =((((

[noya-sunflower]

IT still says 0 notes?? WTF!!

[softmushie]

This is the first thing I saw on my dash

I’m shook

[bookerdwitt]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKERY

[freddie-duchess-of-shipping]

WTF-

[preciousgaby]

SAME HERE!!! I JUST GAVE IT A LIKE AND IT DIDN’T STAY

[lizzy7064]

1 note WTF.

[t0rd5ki-deactivated20180819]

@foolishly-snowy

[itisriv]

3rd time and it’s still broken. This lovely cursèd post.

[furioussharkkitten]

THERE IS ANOTHER ONE?????

[melon-official]

still not-works

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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[sighinastorm]

Portmanteau Bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop.

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P͐́͋O̐҉R̨̲̰̀T̼͖͚ͮ͘M̵͍̯͉A͉̦N҉̛̩T̶̗́͘͠E̥A͑U͍͛ͤΙ̙ ҉͟B̛͎̀͡Ő̽ͫT̹͓̀́͞ ̛͍̔HͯA̫͍͘͜P̵͎P͓͏̷̕ÈD̮̜ͨ̽̉ ̸͍͗͝ U͋̏ͤ̀͞P͢O̯̳̍͝N̨̲ ̺́͡A̡ ̛̆ͯ̈͞N̷̩͇͠Ù̉L̦L͕-͕N̴ͬ͜O̸̽͝͡T̩E͢S̷͎͐̅ ̐P̸̩̹̣̑O̢S̡̼ͣͬT̶̸ͣ ̀̒Ả̛͛ͬ͠Ņͪ̓D̜̰ ̢̣̽ G̛̬̪͍O̅T͐ ̵͇̞͛ŜͩT̸̢̬̰Ū̪̊C̭̘͒͞K̝͈͎͍ ́I̧N͝ ̶̛̭ͬ͘A̽̈ ̨̻̀L͎͈͒O̧O̼͇͡͞P̛̭ ͈͊

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portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

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portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

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[haiku-robot]

portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

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[your-local-emo--goblin-deactiva]

A day will come when i won’t reblog this…

But it is not today

[cookieknights18]

What the fuck is even happening with this post??? Also it’s got 1 note again.

[foolishly-snowy]

I got a notif saying I was mentioned in this post but I clearly wasn’t

HeY tumblr what the FUCK

[link-the-feral-anon]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[frogrights]

Did the man get his camera

[calvin-reads-problem-sleuth]

I have seen posts that broke the notes. But this is the first time I’ve seen a post that broke the bots. 

[happy-quack]

I know this is long but holy hell I love it when bots run amok

[the-haiku-bot]

I know this is long

but holy hell I love it

when bots run amok

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[hebbic]

I think I saw somewhere that the man got his camera back. Also what the fuck tumblr.

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

[reffitt-blog1]

What Tumblr eldritch horror did I find

[rain-droplet]

the 0 notes thing isn’t too rare now but the bot loops are fun

[scratchy-archive]

I ate the notes

[good-girl-gock]

ITS COUNTING NOTES AGAIN

[guess-ill-dye]

HELP IT WONT EVEN LET ME LIKE?????

[00arrow00]

IT ONLY SAYS SEVEN NOTES HELP ME

[vexcite]

the dates these are sent on are broken for me

the top ones say 40 mins but then you got 2018 and 2021 lower down???

[librarychair]

A new fun and interesting no notes ghoast which sometimes shows small amounts of notes

[harvestandhearth]

Ah, Tumblr

[galadriel1010]

For anyone worrying, his camera was probably never lost:

A Pictorial Guide to avoiding Camera Loss - Andrew McDonald

Have you lost your camera recently? Mislaid it somewhere in a national park? Left it in a taxi? Dropped it in the gorilla pit? Anyone can be

[myf-this]

What did I stumble on?

[maybmila]

Teaching Simon and Rocky about Earth

[riotvixen]

My 51 year old therapist mother LOVES Pokemon go

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

my fucking privacy

[puppybeargf]