#Map and compass

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Inktober Day 29 - Navigator

[pcttrailsidereader]

A Different Kind of Record

There are numerous records associated with the PCT. The most obvious is the FKT or fastest known time. Then there is the variation of FKT* or fastest known time without support. In addition there are such things as the 'Oregon challenge' which is based on how fast hikers can walk the length of the Oregon PCT.

My partners and I have joked about our SKT or slowest known time in reference to how long it took us to complete the PCT and more importantly how we approach each day on the trail. Our style is not to crush miles but to more generally embrace them. We don't necessarily approach any of our hikes with the thought of setting specific records. Our goal is to simply enjoy our time together as that establishes a different kind of record. A record of yet another memorable time together.

Our lives today are absolutely saturated with technology. In 2022, an app monitoring firm found that people across the world were spending an average of 4.8 hours per day on mobile apps. Studies on digital addiction and screen time published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Pew Research Center reveal a lack of choice when it comes to our phones and the places they take us: sites designed, often explicitly, to tether us by the eyeballs to our screens. The impacts can be devastating to our mental health and wellbeing, and may be tied to rising rates of depression and anxiety. 

On the other hand part of the conversation around technology centers on those who have accessed technology in the past generally were those who possessed the financial resources to pursue it. Over the past few decades as computers and later cell phones got more than a hand hold in people's lives technology began to spread its influence. With this spread came inherent privilege. The people who were welcoming technology into their lives could also afford it. As time has passed, affordability became less an obstacle and technology more a tool for a majority of people. But we are not going to further that discussion here as this point of view only sets up where I am going next.

I am sure we can agree technology does offer people many benefits. One appears to be a connection to others. Technology can also provide a link to safety. In the hiking world it provides route guidance and a modicum of connection to others and for potential rescue.

One of my hiking partners has shared that every so often he takes a technology break. He unplugs for a day and experiences life without the 'assistance' of technology. In other words, no phone, no computer. Unplugging gives Jim space for less interrupted reflection. I have admired his determination to free himself from technology even for a day.  

Given the various potential challenges or aka. 'records' that have emerged since the numbers of hikers has continually increased over the decades a different kind of record comes to mind. Consider this a 'throwback' record. How about an attempt to hike all or part of the PCT without technology? You know, paper maps and printed guides...even access to a compass (a former techno marvel). I admit that Halfmile's and later Guthooks and now Far Out have proven useful to me on the PCT. I wonder what a PCT experience would be without actively accessing phone or earbuds but instead fully seeing and hearing the world around me. No online blogs but a pencil and paper journal if one was so inclined. I don't think it would be dis-qualifier to bring a Garmin or similar device in case of emergency as that could be prudent.

To me this could be every bit as meaningful a record as how fast someone(s) walked a section or the whole length of the PCT. It raises some great questions too. Such as, what did it feel like to not be technologically connected? Was it scarier without technology? Was your confidence lifted over time as a result of unplugging? Did going without technology enhance or take away from your overall experience and if so, in what ways? How hard was it to hike unplugged?

In a time when so much of what people do or attempt to do is synonymous with being an extreme sport maybe a throwback record of unplugging is just another extreme form. I don't know to be honest but I do find it intriguing. Back when my partners and I started hiking sections of the PCT we were unplugged as there was nothing to plug into. For example the ski area parking lot at Stevens Pass still had a pay phone that we actively accessed for contact with friends and family. That was technology but it was stationary and now there is no trace of it there or many other places. We checked in, providing someone answered on the other end, and then walked on. Ignorance beyond the trail was some kind of bliss. We had maps and a guidebook to show us the way.

As I write this and read it back I sound ancient. I am not too ancient but just wondering how this might be for someone in the first third of the 21st century? Does it have any appeal? Is it even necessary? To be fair, is it necessary to go as fast as possible between Campo and the Canadian border or from the Oregon-California border to the Columbia River? Isn't the most necessary challenge making your hike the most memorable experience you can plugged or unplugged? It is all a great challenge if to do nothing else but to simply imagine.

Thoreau and Whitman unplugged

[lucabyte]

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and a hardy pocketwatch is an indispensable tool for oceanic navigation

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horsies

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cbee are also at the met gala. eret is unimpressed

reminder my commissions are open :D

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Table with the partinioning of the TREE-WOOD-FOREST semantic domain.

Georgakopoulos, Thanasis & Stéphane Polis. 2018. The semantic map model: State of the art and future avenues for linguistic research. Language and Linguistics Compass 12(2). e12270. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12270.

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local demon so dependent on smart phone, he forgot about his demon powers 💀

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I give you: The Navigator’s Map of Shanties for the Weary Voyager!

So my husband got the idea to make a timeline map of my Shanks x Makino series ("Shanties" for short), so that readers could better see how the different fics are connected, and while I should have been prepared, knowing full well how brilliant he is, I was not prepared for the end result. I mean look at it!!!

Some descriptions of key fics and planned updates below! The fics are listed in the recommended reading order on AO3, but feel free to chart your own course! Beware rogue whirlpools and dangerous straits, and remember that however dark and treacherous the sea, at the end of the voyage is always a safe harbour ♥

Hoist the colours! 🏴‍☠️

Heed the Siren’s Call // Shanks and Makino’s origin story, and the starting point of Shanties. Setting is pre-series to the timeskip.

Sailor's Folly // Siren's Call from Shanks' perspective. Includes the origins of Makino's sword, Siren.

Sea Songs // Sequel to Siren’s Call, set during the canon timeskip and after.

Scylla // Pirate!Makino AU, where Makino leaves East Blue with the Red-Hair Pirates at the start of One Piece.

Charybdis // Sea Songs AU, where Blackbeard destroys Fuschia and Makino goes on a trek across the Grand Line looking for Shanks, who thinks she's dead.

Mnemosyne // Kuja!Makino AU, where after Siren's Call, a pregnant Makino ends up on Amazon Lily.

Andromeda Unbound // Reverie Arc AU, where Makino, the Revolutionary Army, the Red-Hair Pirates, Straw-Hats and the Warlords join forces to crash Shanks’ execution.

On the Water // Pirate!Makino AU, where Makino and her child leave East Blue with the Red-Hair Pirates after the timeskip. Includes Shanks and Makino's floating bar, Siren's Call.

Salt Vows // Arrested!Makino AU, set during the current Egghead arc.

Tethered to Kinder Shores // Makino and the Red-Hair Pirates. Includes the origin of Makino's shanty, "Moored to Her Port".

Moon and Her Maiden // Selkie AU. Canon OP verse but Makino is a selkie.

Tideswept // Royal/Arranged Marriage AU.

Bind Me to the Tide // Soulmate AU, where soulmates feel each other's pain. Canon OP verse but with soulmates.

Love In Good Liquor // One-Shot collection set during the different Shanties verses.

Planned updates

This list is not comprehensive (meaning I have more fics that I plan to continue than the ones listed here), but it's the stories I'm focusing on right now:

Andromeda Unbound // Chapter 9/9 ✅ (Complete)

Bind Me to the Tide // Chapter 5/? ✅

Mnemosyne // Chapter 29/29 ✅ (Complete)

Salt Vows // Chapter 3/? ✅

Tideswept // Chapter 10/10 ✅ (Complete)

On the Water // Chapter 4/5

[theboarsbride]

Wip🩸⚔️👻

My ‘pirates of the Caribbean’ oc Annie with Captain Salazar because their fic has been screaming at me for the past week to begin writing it and so I’ve been thinking of them a lot lately and I just think they’re neat :)

[arlenelperez]

Lost

I feel lost

Like I've wandered off a beaten path

Like a child who let go of their mother's hand

Like a fish out of water

Desperately trying to breath

Like I'm driving without my map

Like GPS without its signal

Like my compass broke in the wilderness

Lost in all this fucked up mess

Someone please tell me,

Which way is north?

Copyright by Arlene L. Perez on October 7, 2024

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Craig of the Creek stimboard

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[ryoryeonggu]

Alina Starkov - The Map Maker

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