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Masterlist
Okay so I don't know what exactly I should be putting here, but! This guide I'm reading about making master-lists for tumb says I can organize it however I want.
Essentially, I just wanna make it easier to fish out my writing dribbles so I might or might not add or edit this post every now and then.
I would love to hear all the complexities of the political subplot of JoR if you're willing :)
ALRIGHTY!
This is barely figured out so humor me
Does anyone actually like me or is my whole life a joke
Reblog to tell prev you actually like them
“If you’re brave enough to say “goodbye” life will reward you with a new “hello”.”
— Paulo Coelho
If your characters share a history (same family, same event, or same loss) give them the same wound running in completely different directions. One goes cold. One goes loud. One performs fine. One disappears into work. They were all broken by the same thing and you would never know it from the outside because people are not consistent about how they fall apart. Put all of them in a room. That room already contains your entire story.
People pleaser flaws!!
˙⋆✮ Changing their opinion mid-sentence because someone's face shifted
˙⋆✮ Laughing at something that made them uncomfortable to keep the peace
˙⋆✮ Never sending food back even when it's genuinely wrong
˙⋆✮ The resentment that builds silently because they never just said no
˙⋆✮ Agreeing to things and hoping they get cancelled so they don't have to
˙⋆✮ Shrinking their own needs down until they're not even sure what they are
˙⋆✮ The carefully worded text that took forty minutes to seem casual
˙⋆✮ Feeling personally responsible for everyone else's emotional temperature
˙⋆✮ Complimenting someone back immediately because receiving one felt dangerous
˙⋆✮ Saying what someone wants to hear and hating themselves a little for it
˙⋆✮ Noticing they have no idea what they actually like anymore
˙⋆✮ The exhaustion of monitoring every reaction in every room at all times
˙⋆✮ Volunteering for things no one asked them to do to feel worthy of being there
˙⋆✮ Being so easy to be around that no one thinks to ask if they're okay
˙⋆✮ Adjusting their personality slightly for every single person they know
˙⋆✮ The anger that only comes out sideways because it had nowhere else to go
˙⋆✮ Apologizing to furniture they walked into
˙⋆✮ Needing to be needed as a substitute for feeling genuinely wanted
˙⋆✮ Realizing they've been performing themselves for so long they forgot the original
I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.
Does anyone actually like me or is my whole life a joke
Reblog to tell prev you actually like them
Okay JoR relationships one by one for funsies
Ronan & Finn
These two are the first two in the team, and the ones who pretty much know each other best. They've both rescued the other, and they have a unique sort of brothers-in-arms relationship where they appreciate the other and the other's combination of abilities, specialties, and even unique flaws.
They're the perfect complementary pair: A young angry long-range fighter who's always ready to fight & An older/wiser Peaceful Melee fighter who's ready to negotiate and talk things out
Their ranges of Cool vs Hot-headed cover a wide spectrum, and allow them to get a variety of things done that they couldn't do alone
Ronan:
Ronan is rescued by Finn when they meet, and he's intensely distrusting at first, though he eventually warms up and asks Finn for his help because he knows that if he gets into a particularly bad fight, he's going to need a retreat strategy, and this kindhearted man who offered to help him is likely his best bet.
Ronan admired Finn's patience & Ability to make intelligent and careful decisions that allow both of them to use their abilities to the fullest extent, and he especially admires Finn's kindness and determination to fight for the good of others. On top of all these things, Ronan was first drawn to Finn when he noticed the man's talent with combat, and he's absolutely obsessed with having Finn teach him better policies for Melee combat.
However, Ronan dislikes the fact that Finn is a bit of a stickler for the rules, and judges his violent habits due to his own goals and priorities when it comes to teamwork and lifelong aspirations. He's also often dissatisfied with how Finn prioritizes keeping him safe over the overall effectiveness of the mission because he doesn't want to be treated like a child, and he just wants to fight.
Finn:
Finn first finds Ronan fighting for his life with a pair of brass knuckles against an ambush by a group of thieves, and he's intensely impressed by the fortitude of this weird kid. He wants to help him instantly, but he never expected this weird 17-yr-old to have one of the most bizarre stories he's ever heard, and he instantly decides that he has nothing better to do, so why not escort this guy around and help him out. It's the least he can do.
Finn admired Ronan's resiliance and competance with his resources, as well as the fact that Ronan is obsessed with properly rationing and preserving resources, namely food and money. It concerns him slightly how resourceful and adept this kid is at using literally anything at his disposal to create tools for survival, but he does admire the determination and sheer energy to fight and consistency to stand with honor, even if he is a little violent for Finn's tastes. Finn was also impressed by the humility Ronan showed when asking him to join him and how instantly he shifted Finn into a higher leader position and was ready to do whatever he asked, though not without sharing his own opinion.
Of course, though, every partnership comes with flaws, and Finn is extremely not a fan of how reckless and violent Ronan is. Every day with him, Finn has to remind him not to act impulsively, and if he wants to negotiate instead of fight, Ronan is more of a hindrance than a productive ally because he's always right behind Finn glaring at the enemy with his hand on his weapon. Ronan's sheer determination is good, but he's sometimes a little too persistent, forcing Finn to grab him by the collar so he doesn't hurt himself. Ronan also isn't the smartest, socially, street-wise, and especially not book-wise, and Finn has to reason with him constantly because once Ronan is on board with a plan, he sticks to the plan.
Overall, these two like one another a lot, Finn & Ronan see each other as a surrogate Father/son but also a reliable combat partner whose opinions and skills they value even if their priorities are very different, instantly bonded by trust and the need for someone to watch their back in combat
This is a ton of fun to fiddle with. :D Q-tips are funny little paintbrushes. XD
This is so pretty
new favorite reddit user
I want to eat that seriously how is it made 😭
It always sounds really basic when I say that my favourite flower is a red rose. You misunderstand, however. I have no love for the picture-perfect, tightly spiraled grocery store bouquet roses. I'm talking about the roses that grow in front of my house. These beauties:
I don't know how long they've been there or the name of their variety. All I know is when I stick my nose by the flowers, it's the sweetest thing I've ever smelled. I love roses for their scent.
Anyway. This is a flower appreciation post. Reblog and tag your favourite flower.
Look up bulgarian Roses
Trust me those things are BEAUTIFUL
Ohh my gosh these are beautiful
Anywho I like any yellow flower, but if I had to choose, it’d be marigolds :3
I think i saw a video where they used that flower to make some kind of fruit tea it looked so pretty and delish
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:
generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.
analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.
game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.
Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.
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.
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.
#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."
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.
#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
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.)
Amazing work by the LoTR fandom, as always.
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.
Moon comic!
