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nikonikonek000

sea angel

#sea angel #i love the colors

samimarkart

Deep sea postcard print for this month on Patreon!

#sea angel #creatures :)

cephea-cepheus

this little guy can hold so much anger

#one of my faves of yours #i LOOVEEEEE the axolotl being a part of the universe like that

cephea-cepheus

kisses

#THE LIGHTINGGGGG AAAAAAA SO BEAUTIFUL #Your art is always so stunning !!#gravity falls

cephea-cepheus

big wife shenanigans

#STRETCH MARKS MY BELOVEEDDDSSS!!!#such beautiful colors 💗#gravity falls

cephea-cepheus

#love the bowtie that looks like mandibles!#gravity falls

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.

#this is super cool

mevil

sillypibble-deactivated20260119

whats your endgame you sick fuck

World Peace for Everyoneeee ^_^;;;; 🌈⛅️👬🌍🌿⭐️🩷🌎🌱👫🌼🍀🌏🩷🌷👭🌳🐛⭐️

mu-3058

Baila Tobi, baila

#naruto

mayadile

Please I'm begging I need all the help I can get to get a hotel room, I've been outside for a couple of days and it's been raining, I'm getting sick again and we have nothing clean or eat. I want to sleep in a bed and wash my face! I want to be safe.

Ive been outside for a couple of days and it's been harsh out here, like really. I'm struggling a lot from fatigue since we have no food (haven't eaten in 3 days) and I'm sick (I have an eye infection) I need to clean my blankets so I would like to sleep on a bed, I don't want to go to the clinic again so please help 🙏

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mayadile

Update: So the hotel we wanted to go into told us there is a 72 hour waiting this weekend for some reason even though we made a reservation. So we have to wait for three days to go back in it (it's the cheapest one) so we are stranded outside again and none of the other hotels are cheap this weekend. I'm so devastated and tired what the hell do you mean we have to wait 72 hours to get back in.....

im exhausted and tired I just want to be in a bed it's always something going on I have such bad luck 😭

So please we need help PAYPAL we have nowhere to go and I'm literally exhausted and fed up.

thevulturesquadron

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

blo0st4r

Dw, she’s js sleepy (comic).

#sea angel

blo0st4r

Dw, she’s js sleepy (comic).

#sea angel

blo0st4r

I have a question, but do you mind drawing the Sushi Pack in Halloween outfits? It's almost Spooky Season and I always wondered about how the Pack would look decked out in their best Halloween outfits.

COSTUMES :D

Tako - Mona Lisa (while looking in a hand held mirror, admiring the look)

Maguro - Circe (mostly bc my English class is doing a mythology unit and it brought me back to my EPIC the musical phase)

Ikura - Aqua-bot Boy (the design was featured in the episode Yam Yakkers if you wanted to know)

Kani - Probably in the distance not knowing what to wear (okay that feels sad but that might still work)

Wasabi - He's just wearing a ghost sheet costume

That's all :)

BOO!! Happy Halloween Everyone!

For this one, me, along with a friend, Say a huge thank you to @cookie-fan-4-tumblin for requesting this thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you- /ref,

She had a request that the Sushi Pack should be in Halloween costumes! I absolutely love this idea, so I did it! The members are very awesome in their spooky wear! Ready to go Trick-or-Treating- Wait, Kani doesn't have a costume? Oh no... Poor Kani..