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ok so for the longest time I felt like I had this fever dream of 2009 twilight craze where there was an alt rock band making the rounds on myspace? cause their whole theme was....Twilight? I’ve literally search for years and I thought I madE it Up but I didn’t. I founD them. here they are in all their glory:
@voidofcitrine they had a song named BELLA that’s....um... it’s better if u see it:
im watching Jurina’s graduation stage for old times sake. fly high jurina.
THE BEST THING EVER
- nina varela
Sooo the 100 is finally over
clarke never getting over lexa is a mood
I will love her forever
all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is
okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao
Cities - go near water! freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there. Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.
for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end. rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat
mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains! mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey). a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half. These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks
Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact. think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies
forests - depends on how warm the area might be. coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too
If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower). if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)
You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)
and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains
tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules
The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.
All my worldbuilding videos
Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:
With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:
Or
Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:
This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:
But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:
Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:
holy shit?
Wow I was all excited I had one video (that I hadnt even watched all of) to add. What an amazing resource.
(here’s my one)
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1922
Me reading this in 2020, almost 98 years after this was published:
I made Gary (my gecko) a tiny Tallis and yarmulke for Rosh Hashanah and he wished u all happy new year
Happy Rosh Hashanah again from OP of the shalomander
[ID: two photos of Gary! He has a Tallis draped over his back just below his head, and a yarmulke on his head. The first photo is a close up of him, and the second reveals him to be at the base of a sign shaped like the Star of David, upon which is written “oy vey!”.]
TWILIGHT (2008) THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY | “Öga for Öga” (2020)
Malcolm In The Middle (2000-2006)
Resident Evil (2002) dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
511: The Low Low Price Job
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hey girls what’s up what’s the hot gossip what’s new what’s the 411
everything is bad and getting worse by the day
Screaming .. what
This person thinking a $200-300 bag means you’re the 1%
yeah
I'm sitting here boggling at the idea of spending more than $30 on a purse, when i could put that money towards so many other things.
$300 is pricey for a bag, but I’ve spent more than that on video games, so it’s hard for me to be judgey about it. They’re good sized bags, with a simple design that you could wear with a ton of stuff and won’t go out of style quickly. If they’re really good quality, they could outlast a number of my cheapo bags, since I go through a few of those a year (when I left the house). You would definitely have to have the money up front, though. (Hello, Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness.) The designer is Liberian-American, though, so you’d be supporting a Black-owned business.
But I haven’t seen any mention of this brand before, memes or no, so why has this suddenly shown up on Tumblr? Especially since it’s pretty low priced compared to a lot of designer names. Let me google!
Ah. AOC bought a somewhat pricey, but practical, designer name bag, supporting a Black immigrant both directly and by providing publicity for his business. Suddenly, a post appears on Tumblr encouraging socialist and communist-leaning people to hate people carrying this particular designer name bag.
She’s up for reelection in two months.
This is what propaganda looks like.
ATTENTION
The US government just killed Lezmond Mitchell, a Native American man.
It is against the law for the US Government to order the death of a tribal citizen without the approval of the corresponding sovereign Nation's approval. The Navajo Nation (to whom Mitchell belongs) actively campaigned against his execution. This is the first execution of a Native American by the occupying US government in modern times.
This is a Big Fucking Deal.
We need to stop missing out information.
These people where advocating AGAINST the execution of a child killer.
The US government ignored the legal system with no repercussions but if they hadn't they would be paying to keep a child killer alive.
That's not the point of the post. The point here is that federal government had no right to decide the punishment against this man. If you allow the government to break its own laws, you're opening the door for that law to cease to exist.
In this case, the Navajo nation has sovereignity, which means that for that murderer to be killed, their approval was necessary.
Native Americans have nations of their own, and that's the real issue here. No one is defending a child murderer, they're defending a nation's right to self-determination and to pass out judgement to their own citizens.
it’s also important to point out the navajo nation weren’t advocating for his release or anything, they just wanted his sentence commuted to life without possibility of parole. America is one of the few western states that still upholds the death penalty, so it’s not all that shocking that people - even the natives the media tries to depict as savages - don’t support the punishment
This sets a dangerous legal precedent. In the future this could be used as an example of ignoring the sovereignty of the Navajo Nation.
It is to be expected, this government is very pro death penalty even if it means ignoring the rights of sovereign nations
“the federal government under the pro-death-penalty president has now carried out more executions in 2020 than it had in the previous 56 years combined.”
