#North Coast Regional District

[rabbitcruiser]

Forest (No. 9)

Mehan Lake, BC

[twstfanblog]

Some Info of the Manhwa AU

The empire is cut up into five 'districts'.

East is ruled by the Kingscholar Duchy. They handle most of the foreign relations that funnel to the royal family. While the issue of the very easy move to poison the relations of the royal family with other foreign nations is like...blatantly there. It's kind of stupid to betray the royal family that has access to magic that could force the truth out of them.

South is ruled by the Asim Duchy. The south is a merchants hot spot since it's right against the empire's coast line. You pay top dollar to open a shop in this area. They handle all of the export and import of the empire. Work closely with the East Ducy since they have the highest concentration of foreign visitors and immigrants. The empire's largest export is textiles.

West is ruled by the Shroud Duchy. The West is a mixing pot of the artists and the scholars. They host the most festivals and contests out of any duchy, plenty of new talents appear every year so the competitions are tense. Crewel originally lived in the West but moved to the north after marrying Crowley. Vargas lived in the North but moved to the West to be with his 'hunting buddy'

North is ruled by the Crowley duchy. They are where the highest percentage of people who join the royal army. It's an open secret that Northern children in public schooling receive extra military training before they graduate. Crowley normally kept to himself, his only major move was adopting Malleus’s father into the family which is what lifted him to the title of Grand Duke.

The capital is nestled in the middle of these four regions. It's the hub of high society, and most nobility has a property in the city when the social season rolls around. It's also where the empiral palace is. It's closer to the north, but it's counted as part of the capital.

Glad to get all of this out of my head! Send an ask if you got a question 🥰

[dream-world-universe]

Bush waterfall, Kapiti, New Zealand: Bush waterfall is located in Mangaone Valley, Kapiti, New Zealand... The Kāpiti Coast District, is a local government district of the Wellington Region in the lower North Island of New Zealand, 50 km north of Wellington City. The district is named after Kapiti Island, a prominent island 5 kilometres offshore. Wikipedia

[gatheringbones]

[“Though Seattle has its own ugly history of redlining, which deserves far more attention than it currently receives, the process of segregation started much earlier, with the founding of the city itself in the mid-nineteenth century, and did not involve the federal government. At that time, white settlers removed the Duwamish people and segregated them in the southern fringes of the city, eager to take their lands but also to make them available as workers. Settlers even blocked efforts by the federal government to create a reservation for the Duwamish on their ancestral homelands because it would interfere with the city’s access to a steady labor supply. Seattle did not have reliable land-based transportation until the late nineteenth century, and even then water remained a primary mode of transportation, making the Duwamish and other Coast Salish peoples a valuable source of labor.

Marked as a disorderly slum, the south end became a container for all of the city’s racialized and marginalized populations, which, in turn, served to further mark them as undesirable and unworthy for inclusion into urban society. This included Asian migrants, who were also restricted south of Yesler Way, and single male laborers, whose deviation from normative family life also made them racially suspect in the eyes of the settler elites. Seattle’s urban landscape developed around this north-south orientation, with the north as a “residence district” for white families and the south as a stigmatized slum district for the city’s heterogeneous workforce.

This example reveals the colonial roots of racial segregation, as well as the function of racial segregation in forming the urban and regional economy. The south end was not a stable district with a racially defined population, but one that constantly changed according to the needs of the broader economy and the kinds of workers available at that particular moment. In this way, Seattle shares historical commonalities with Vancouver, Melbourne, and other cities across the Anglophone Pacific world that developed in the mid-nineteenth century around resource-based economies reliant upon Indigenous lands and the mass influx of Asian and European labor. In these contexts, segregation occurred as part of a colonial project to remove the Indigenous inhabitants and establish the city as a pure space of white domestic life.

As Asian and European migrants, many of them single men, arrived to work in extractive economies, spaces such as reserves and slums served to contain Indigenous and racially mixed populations and mark them as unruly, troublesome, and antithetical to modern urban life. As sociologist Renisa Mawani has discussed in the case of Vancouver, settlers relied upon a racially mixed workforce to build the economy but also feared the possibility of the interracial solidarities and alliances this mixing could generate. She calls this the “deep paradox” of a colonial society rooted in both capitalist accumulation and racial purity. In Seattle, the north-south spatial orientation served to smooth over this tension between, on one hand, racial heterogeneity as demanded by capitalist accumulation and the ever-expanding search for labor and, on the other, racial purity as envisioned by white settlers. It allowed settlers to maintain an exclusionary white district while also accommodating an Indigenous and racially mixed labor force.”]

megan asaka, from seattle from the margins: exclusion, erasure, and the making of a pacific coast city, 2022

[bestworstcase]

i am asking you about tdt! remnant with particular interest in unhinged climate

it is so kind of you all to enable me (@meltedintoair @froginboillingpastawater @lemon-embalmer @blakistan)

don’t mind the unfinished continent i’m still (through gritted teeth) figuring the strandlines out… also if you’re wondering why solitas looks like that it’s because for narrative reasons i needed land at the north pole here’s what she looks like Put Together

ANYWAY you will notice that i’ve moved things around. anima and menagerie north by a solid 30’ and rotated sanus a little bit counter-clockwise for the sake of not having vale and vacuo on almost the same latitude. mostly this is for the sake of bringing the various climates of these places into more reasonable bounds for an earthlike-ish climate—except for vale, which has a maritime climate with cool summers and coldish winters at 6’N, because i fixated on the puzzle of “earthlike climate except for this One Region” like you would not believe.

but before we get to Refrigerated Vale we have to talk about

✨the moons✨

yes moons plural. because i looked at the broken moon and heard the siren call of THE TIDES. tdt!remnant has three moons: mar, the original, which is (like the canon moon) not tidally locked and has a massive dark crater on one side (THE MOUTH OF THE MOON–), and the much smaller anthe + ogmios, which formed through the accretion of debris flung away when the god of darkness exploded the moon and are smaller.

INCIDENTALLY the hegemonic calendar is a lunisolar calendar with months correlating to mar’s cycle and 8-day weeks (octs) correlating to ogmios’ much shorter cycle; anthe is culturally associated with the god of animals and khimerism—that’s the monotheistic worship of the god of animals practiced by many fauni—has an anthean lunar calendar that is wildly different. the vytali common calendar has 12 months divided into 8-day octs (with some gnarly intercalation going on to align the calendar with the solar year); the khimeric calendar has 17 months divided into 9-day enneads with an intercalary month and handful of three-day-long leaping festivals that rotate the calendar through the solar year in a fifteen year cycle. it would be remiss of me not to plug fantasy-calendar for all your batshit calendar making needs. i have a spreadsheet where i pin down all the math and then just set everything up in FC it has never let me down.

back of napkin math:

on average the tides are about +/- 3.9 m. neap tides where all three moons pull against each other, +/- 3.7 m. spring tides where they line up, +/- 4.2—these are the open ocean tidal range, coastal tides are highly variable but as a very rough estimate tidal ranges along the (habitable) coasts are probably somewhere between ~2 and ~16m, with significant amounts of uninhabitable coastline where the tidal range is much larger and building on the high tide coast means your settlement is several kilometers inland at low tide. riverside building is also quite difficult because tidal bores are. pretty extreme

port cities don’t have harbors the way we think of them. they have either sprawling, complicated systems of locks operated by konurgists (=professional practitioners of dust-based magic) or they have cliffside dry docks designed for lightweight vessels to ride in and out with the tides. vale’s wharf district is a maze of locks and caissons. argus and kuo kuana have dry harbors.

the other thing about multi-moon systems is you get more significant tidal flexing ergo more volcanism

so where earth experiences ~70 volcanic eruptions per year on average, remnant the triple moon tsunami tides planet gets to have a “statistically there is always a volcano erupting somewhere in the world” trivia question, and all the air quality problems and acid rain you get from that.

SO the first consideration with regard to tdt remnant’s earthlike climate is that the conditions which produce it are very different; i… am That kind of person who back of napkin crunched numbers for all of this (and spent like an hour fiddling to not tidally lock the planet to the star 😭) BUT the numbers don’t matter per se; the salient piece is that the sun is both cooler and a little further away than ours (<- yes this IS me looking into the camera like i’m on the office about the god of light) and the planet is kept habitable by tidal heating, meaning the friction produced by the moons stretching and squeezing the planet as they orbit around it.

the moons stress balling the planet is also what causes The Volcanoes, which release greenhouse gasses (keeping remnant warmer than it would otherwise be) but also semi-regularly you’ll get enough big eruptions in clusters to Deflect The Fucking Sun like it’s 1816 and global temperatures nosedive and climates all over go haywire for a year or two. i think this happens on average about once per century but the current historical period—the seventh era—begins with a quarter century called the forge years when the planet got HAMMERED by four really bad volcanic winters in quick succession. think “14th century black plague” levels of decimation, except it was worldwide famines + just an explosion of conflicts and wars over food sources + grimm, whose populations spike whenever there’s a major volcanic event because the planet’s mantle is a mixture of molten rock and atrum (=grimm juice).

(there are very few true herbivores in this world. there are a lot of animals that eat plants when it’s warm and meat when it’s cold. true herbivores tend to be either animals that store huge food caches or animals that can go a really, really long time without eating. plants mostly either develop super deep root systems, or pump out antifreeze proteins when the temperature drops, or develop cold-mediated serotiny, or a combination.)

BECAUSE OF ALL THAT, remnant’s oceans circulate in a completely different way than ours; tidal heating warms the bottom water at the poles, causing it to rise in strong east-to-west or west-to-east currents, forcing colder surface water downwards and flowing towards the equator. consequently remnant does not have permanent ice caps, although most of solitas is perpetually snowy above its strandline.

(the strandline is where the water is at high tide; as noted in many cases this is several kilometers inland from the low-tide coast. anima, solitas, alukah—that’s the unnamed dragon continent—and sanus are all a single contiguous landmass at low tide, with huge land bridges exposed. it is generally not a good idea to try to walk, with the exception of one specific island chain that is small enough to traverse safely on foot by walking island-to-island over a span of about three days, four if you’re being cautious.)

the upshot of all this is it’s relatively warmer and wetter at the poles and cooler and drier at the equator compared to earth, because the oceans are effectively upside-down, warmest at the bottom near the poles. (if you’re wondering why the tidal heating is distributed this way, the real-world exemplar i’m working from is europa. interesting reading!)

northern anima is a bit of a special case because even though it looks coastal, it isn’t; the sea in between it and solitas is very, very shallow and at low tides is just this for hundreds of kilometers:

so within that curve of the “dragon neck” shape, the whole strandline is functionally landlocked with respect to the warm rising polar currents and during the wintertime can actually get colder than the region of solitas where mantle is located.

and then there’s the impact of dust.

i’ve drifted quite a bit off the basic ‘fantasy elements’ approach taken with dust in canon because the concept of dust as a sort of crystallized energy appeals to me; so there are four basic kinds of dust (thermal, electromagnetic, kinetic, chemical) which can be further divided into subcategories by their specific actions. for example most ‘burn’ and ‘ice’ dusts belong to the thermal family and are distinguished by whether they radiate heat or absorb it. and i say ‘most’ because there are also things like organic-solar/“bog” dust, which forms in peat deposits and produces heat but is classed as an electromagnetic dusts because it’s solar-powered.

large deposits of dust modify the regional climate in often dramatic ways. and this is how we get Refrigerated Vale—the difference between vale and other equatorial regions isn’t as huge as it would be on earth, because remnant’s equatorial band is relatively cool and generally falls more into a ‘warm-to-hot mediterranean climate’ than tropical, but vale is very noticeably cold for its latitude. there are Two Reasons for this.

one is what i’m calling the tarthic koniohaline climate system (TKCS pronounced “ticks”). the tarth sea—that’s the body of water surrounded by alukah, solitas, and sanus—has a huge, several-hundred-kilometer-long seam of variegated dust running along the southern continental shelf, roughly following the curve of the alukite/sanite coastline but further out to sea. (“variegated” meaning it’s a mixture of different types all sort of entangled together.) sort of akin to a barrier reef, but dust.

the tarthic dust formation is mostly a mix of absorptive thermal dusts (colloquially: frost) and kinetic dusts (colloquially: tidal) which together act to cool and desalinate water upwelling against the continental shelf, which is then pushed southward in a clockwise direction along the sanite/alukite coast. that produces a very cool, wet climate along the coastline with frequent thunderstorms as cold fronts coming off the water collide with warmer air rising from the vivax sea to the south (which again: think mediterranean).

vale sits on the southern periphery of the TKCS and is cooled by prevailing winds originating from the tarthic coast. it isn’t as rainy year-round as the vitrine peninsula but it does get quite a lot of precipitation.

the other factor Refrigerating Vale is that there’s absorptive thermal dust in the mountains, too. eastern vale—the counties in the northeast part of the continent, which were contested during the great war and (unlike in canon) not wholly lost to the grimm—has a very pleasant climate, warm summers and mild rainy winters, sometimes snow in the north and at higher altitudes. prevailing winds are fairly dry and warm when they hit the mountains and then rake over peaks that are just covered in frost/ice dusts and act as a giant heat sink, so western vale gets these bitterly cold, super dry winds pouring down the mountains during the summer that collide with warm coastal winds and cause huge storms. in winter the prevailing winds are much weaker, though still freezing, and blow further out to sea so there are fewer storms and infrequent snow but the snow that does fall tends to stick until the spring.

and that’s why the maragda valley is nicknamed the world’s refrigerator and vale’s chief export is various frost/ice dusts :)

OTHER FUN DUST-RELATED THINGS.

the southern part of alukah is called the mordicchiate coast and it’s one of the only regions in the world with a true tropical climate because it’s very, very rich in an assortment of kinetic dusts (mostly different grades of grav) that essentially cook the region by Vibrating Constantly

the other tropical region is in equatorial anima, a big swath of jungle and humid-subtropical grassland in what’s called the palash basin. it’s hot because it’s the caldera of an ancient supervolcano and one of the most volcanically active regions in the world. there are a lot of grimm. there are so many grimm in the palash basin. there’s also a strip of super-fertile land running along the northern rim of the palash region so people keep trying to live there anyway.

along the southwestern coasts of solitas (where those free villages are in arrowfell) there are just enormous underground seams of radiant thermal dusts which heat up the land enough that it’s possible to farm there during the summers; it still snows year-round, but the soil isn’t frozen so all you need is tents with clear panels you can uncover/cover to control sunlight.

the nequam desert—that’s the one surrounding vacuo—is also laced with radiant thermal dusts that bake what would otherwise be a warm arid steppe into a parched, burning-hot desert that wants to kill you. there are hotspots all over the place where the dust veins are so close to the surface that you can cook on the ground; nomadic desert peoples notoriously almost never use cooking fires and were instrumental to vacuo’s success in the great war because radar systems were still very rudimentary and no fires at night meant vacuan guerrillas could maneuver undetected until they appeared seemingly out of fucking nowhere to maul enemy supply convoys.

the wildlife in the menagerian interior are unique on remnant because there is a preponderance of electromagnetic and chemical dust formations on the surface—mostly “shock” dusts, which discharge or generate electricity—and the animals living have been in an evolutionary arms race for millions of years with the result that if it can’t generate electrical shocks on its own, it’s gluing electric rocks to itself decorator-crab style or it’s got specialized structures in its mouth that it can pack dust into and discharge shocks from when it bites you. “how can the wildlife be more dangerous than the grimm,” the rest of the world asks. “we have scorpions whose stings deliver an electric shock at a high enough voltage to kill you before you hit the ground,” says menagerie. “and lightning snakes. and an electrical tortoise. and storm bears–”

there’s a volcano called mount halog on the northwestern dragon-head peninsula of alukah that began to erupt in 332 VE—twenty-five years ago—and has been more or less continuously oozing lava and half-formed grimm ever since.

acid rain (and snow) is a worldwide issue because of the extreme volcanism and in rainy climates settlements exist in a more or less constant state of repair and reconstruction; once a settlement is abandoned it will fall into ruin very, very fast unless the climate is extremely arid. the most volcanically active regions in the world are northern alukah, the palash basin, and the east coast of anima; volcanic smog blows north to kuchinashi from the palash basin fairly regularly.

black rain is a very dangerous weather phenomenon caused by ateric ash—the stuff grimm disintegrate into when they die—floating up into the atmosphere and then precipitating down as liquid atrum. which. coagulates into new grimm. the drippings from the wyvern in canon are the same in principle but much more severe; typically black rains will spawn lots of small grimm—think rat- or cat-sized—and may not leave puddles large enough to form something like a beowolf at all. but a swarm of rat-sized grimm is still no picnic, and black rain is difficult to forecast, so within the vytal league it’s standard practice for huntsmen and grimm extirpation forces to be kept at the ready whenever heavy precipitation is expected, just in case it’s tainted.

the oceans are also quite a bit more acidic than earth’s and tend to be very nutrient-rich near the poles and barren with pockets of life here and there in the equatorial regions—which, as discussed in the Whale Post, in combination with the relative cold creates selective pressure for VERY LARGE akin to the phenomenon of abyssal gigantism but extended higher into the middle pelagic zones. the greatest diversity and density of oceanic life is around the north pole.

(the MONSTER WHALES are called hafgufa, females live in pods around the north pole, males are solitary and range worldwide.)

also,

because atrum does not freeze above absolute zero, and because the planetary mantle is atrum intermixed with magma, every spreading rift in the ocean also constantly pumps out rivers of atrum, which 1. plays an important role in moving and mixing waters to sustain those pockets of nutrient-rich waters where marine life flourishes in the equatorial regions, and 2. slowly but steadily spawns diluvian grimm. the VAST majority of grimm in the world are sea monsters born from these underwater rivers :)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Environment Canada has issued 25 air quality alerts for British Columbia, amid raging wildfires and a provincial state of emergency. The federal weather agency is warning that the smoke will last another 24 to 48 hours. Even in low concentrations, wildfire smoke can be harmful to human health. The alerts cover virtually all of Vancouver Island south of Port McNeill, all of the Sunshine Coast apart from Howe Sound, the entire Lower Mainland, and all of the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon. It also includes the Lakes District, Stuart-Nechako and North Thompson regions, as well everything south of that in B.C.’s Interior, the Okanagan, and the Kootenays.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[saydams]

from the article:

"The state agency is giving the public six days to digest the park plans before it hosts simultaneous, apparently in-person-only meetings across the state. All meetings are scheduled for 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Agendas obtained by the Tampa Bay Times from the parks Tallahassee office are scarce in detail, but show there will be a brief presentation followed by a public comment period."

[...]

Eric Draper, who served as the director of Florida’s state parks between 2017 and 2021, said it appears the state’s environmental agency is skirting the legal process and the parks system’s own internal operations manual for updating park management plans.

“This appears to be something that has been planned in secret, and it doesn’t appear to have involved the hundreds, if not thousands, of people who are volunteers in the parks, the citizen support organizations, or the many people who have been involved in helping to create and develop Florida’s award-winning park system,” Draper said in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times. /end excerpt

if you are in florida, the comment period is apparently this tuesday, August 27 2024 from 3-4pm, in person

locations for the in-person meetings are below the cut, and in the full article

Hillsborough River State Park, Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 2902 W. Bearss Ave., Tampa, Community Room D

Honeymoon Island State Park, The District, 11141 U.S. 19 N., Suite 204, Clearwater

Oleta River State Park, Florida International University, Biscayne Bay campus, Kovens Conference Center, Room 114, 3000 NE 151 St. North, Miami

Jonathan Dickinson State Park, The Flagler of Stuart, 201 SW Flagler Ave., River Room, Stuart

Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park, Downtown Event Center, 416 NE First St., Fort Lauderdale, Lecture Hall, Building C, second floor (enter at Main Entrance B — clearly marked on the outside of the building)

Anastasia State Park, First Coast Technical College, The Character Counts Conference Center, Building C, 2980 Collins Ave., St. Augustine

Camp Helen State Park, Lyndell Conference Center, 423 Lyndell Lane, Panama City Beach

Topsail Hill Preserve State Park and Grayton Beach State Park, The Lakehouse at the Watercolor Inn, 238 Watercolor Blvd. W., Santa Rosa Beach

[katsona-the-katsequel]

P3 Q&A (Part 4)

Junpei Iori (from now on "🧢"): It's Junpei!

Chidori (from now on "🎨"): Chidori.

🧢: Anything goes, advice room! Wow, puff puff puff, keep on keeping on.

🎨: Junpei, you're so noisy...

🧢: ...Ugh ugh ugh... Chi... Chidori! I missed you!

🎨: Kyaaa! Wh-what?

🧢: I never thought I'd meet you alive again. Those lovey-dovey days, once more! Come back my love, once more!

🎨: Well...sorry to interrupt you while you're enjoying the moment, but...I'm a different character from the Chidori in the main story.

🧢: Eh?

🎨: Not in a lovey-dovey direction.

🧢: Do you remember when you showed me your painting in front of Port Island Station?

🎨: Let's pretend one thing never happened.

🧢: What about the days when I visited you in the hospital every day?

🎨: That too was forgotten.

🧢: So then, what about that time you gave your life for me?

🎨: Uh... well, that too, for now, well... forget about it.

🧢: So, what are your memories of our first night together in Shirakawa Boulevard?

🎨: There was no such thing! Don't take advantage of the confusion and fabricate memories to suit your own convenience!

🧢: Ugh, I'm going to check out the Q&A about Minato Ward, which is full of memories of me and Chidori.

🎨: Yes, yes.

Q. Are there any locations that have served as inspiration for the image of Minato Ward as a whole?

🎨: Yeah. The atmosphere... it feels a little familiar.

🧢: Chidorita is very sharp. I asked the development staff, and they told me that the visual concept for "P3" was a "city that looks like it could actually exist in real life," and they actually went to towns along the Gulf Coast to do research.

🎨: For example, what do you mean by the Gulf Coast?

🧢: Around Shinagawa, Odaiba, and also around Haneda Airport. Atlus' development lab is in Okubo... Wow, isn't it going to be hard to cover the area multiple times?

🎨: Hey Junpei. Readers outside of the Kanto region won't understand and won't be convinced. By the way, the furthest place is Haneda, which takes about an hour by train.

🧢: Also, they took 500 photos. Wow, that's some guts!

Q. On the overall map, there are some buildings that stand out quite a bit even though you can't move through them. What are they?

🧢: Ah, yes, there is movement in the scenario, but the step of the player moving by themselves was omitted.

🎨: I'd like to know a little more about that.

🧢: The first thing you can easily spot is the tower-like building just above Port Island Station. That is the observatory where the moon is said to have fallen.

🎨: Ah, I see. If that's the case, Gekkoukan Academy is pretty big?

🧢: It's a little exaggerated, but it's actually big. There's a map of Gekkoukan Academy on page 196, so if you look at that, you'll understand. On the map, a little further north from the observatory, the building with a rather dull color is the Tatsumi Memorial Hospital where Chidorita was hospitalized. If I were the main character, I would have gone there after school.

🎨: Okay, okay, let's stop talking about that. So... is there anything else?

🧢: Also, you see the light beige-colored row of buildings just to the upper right of Moonlight Bridge, right? That's also a place that brings back memories.

🎨: A place of memories?

🧢: A high school boy's dream! The love hotel district of Shirakawa Boulevard is right there!

🎨: No, I don't have any memories. Ah, Junpei, you do have memories with Sanada-senpai.

🧢: ...Forget it...

Q. The student dormitories have a very retro design. Do you have an inspiration?

🧢: Our Iwatodai dormitory. It's certainly a retro, luxurious place that makes it hard to believe it's a dormitory. There's a rumor that it was originally a hotel or something, and was renovated into a dormitory. However, the lounge is luxurious in part because of the furniture that Mitsuru-senpai brought in.

🎨: I'm sure that character designer Soejima-san had expressed his wishes regarding the dorm design, right?

🧢: Apparently. He wanted it to look like a brick apartment building in New York. So I asked him about the specific image he had in mind, and he said, "Do you know the movie Batteries Not Included? The one with the little UFOs?" Apparently the building in which that story is set is modeled after Soejima's own dorm.

🎨: I've never seen the movie...

🧢: Well then, let's go see it sometime!

Renting is fine too. Right? Right?

🎨: Okay, okay, let's move on to the next question. As for the movie...well, sometime soon.

Q. I don't think there is a bath... Is the hygiene of the dormitory students okay?

🧢: Hey, that's really rude. I mean, I go in every day!

🎨: Come to think of it, I don't think there was a bath when I infiltrated there either.

🧢: There's a door at the back of the first floor of the dormitory that usually doesn't open, right? Do you remember?

🎨: Ah, you mean the back door?

🧢: That's right. If you leave from there, there's an annex with a bath and an open kitchen at the back of the dormitory. There's also a parking lot in the same place, and Mitsuru-senpai's bike is parked there.

🎨: How luxurious is that dorm?

🧢: Well, maybe the rumor that it used to be a hotel isn't a lie after all. Oh, but there's another rumor about the bathroom. Mitsuru-senpai's room on the third floor is a special three-room apartment, right? That's the only one that has a proper private bathroom. Dammit! I'm so jealous!

Q. I'm curious about what's inside the room. Please tell me the secret of the room that you can't enter during the game!

🧢: Well, I guess there's no other way. So I'll put my life on the line and actually do it...

🎨: Denied. Invasion of privacy.

🧢: Well, there's also freedom of the press, right? Well, I guess I'll tell you as much as I can. First, my room.

🎨: I heard it's really... really dirty.

🧢: No... no, that's right. Well, I think I can figure out where everything is, so it's okay.

🎨: Maybe I should do a surprise visit next time...

🧢: Also, Sanada-senpai's room is, as expected, full of training equipment. And Aigis's room, I don't know much about machines, but how can I put it? It feels like a secret base?

🎨: I'm not sure if I understand it or not...

🧢: Oh, and Amada's room is funny! He's always alone and stubborn, but apparently he secretly keeps a pet. He must be lonely after all. Wow, he has some cute points too.

🎨: Hmm... I also have a pet, so maybe I feel a sense of kinship.

🧢: Huh? Do you have a pet, Chidori? A chihuahua? A ferret?

🎨: Junpei.

🧢: Ummm...are you kidding?

Q. Is there an inspiration for Gekkoukan High? It's stylish, but it's also a school that feels very real.

🧢: "Oh, I'm glad you noticed!" said the design leaders, Wada-san and Yokoji-san, with delight!

🎨: Who are those?

🧢: They are some of the development staff who worked on the overall design. Apparently Gekkoukan Academy was designed through a lot of trial and error to ensure that there was no difference between the image of a new 10-year-old building and the image of a worn-down school that players would normally see. Apparently they struggled at first. It was a bit cold, and they just couldn't get the feeling that people were actually active there. Then one day, one of the staff came up with a great idea and it solved the problem brilliantly.

🎨: What do you mean?

🧢: I don't know if Chidori saw it, but there is a shoe locker right inside the entrance. Apparently, someone put their discarded socks on top of it.

🎨: Wow, dirty!

🧢: No, thanks to that ingenuity, the school suddenly started to have a sense of life. After that, they used the same method to add more small objects around the school, giving it the feel of a lively school life.

🎨: Hmm... small things make a big difference. Hmm, things change.

🧢: Another thing they paid special attention to in terms of design is that most of the design motifs for Persona are based on Greek mythology, right? So to match that image, they placed Greek-style columns in the entrance hall and the corridor leading to the courtyard. It's a job that requires a lot of attention to detail.

Q. I'd like to know the detailed structure of Gekkoukan High. For example, only second-year classes E and F can go to the classrooms, but that doesn't mean they're the only ones, right?

🧢: Wow, here it is! Such a nit-picking question! This is what will get even the most ardent fans going.

Yukari Takeba from now on "🌸"): Hey Junpei! How rude of you to say something to a fan! You answer questions sincerely, that's what being a professional is all about, right?

🧢: Ugh, someone even louder is coming...ugh!

🌸: …I'll hit you.

🧢: Don't say that after you've hit me!

🌸: Well, that's a promise.

🧢: Hey, Yukari-chan! Don't you dare suddenly intrude into our lovey-dovey space... Get out of here!

🎨: ...Lovey-dovey...that's not it.

🧢: H-Huh, even Chidorita...

🌸: Junpei probably doesn't remember the layout of the school, right? He's never even been to the library properly, let alone an after-school club. Leave it to me. First, the main building of Gekkoukan Academy's high school division is three stories tall, as can be seen in the opening movie. What is certain is that there are six classes per grade, from A to F, for a total of 18 classes across the three grades.

🧢: But in the game, if you go up the stairs from the second floor, you suddenly go to the rooftop.

🌸: That's just a production.

🧢: Eh?

🌸: They just skipped over the third floor, which there is no need to visit...seriously.

🎨: Ah, I see.

🌸: Besides, there are plenty of doors that can't be opened during the game, right? Beyond them lies a school building that I haven't seen yet...

🧢: That sounds like a lie.

🎨: These are adult matters, Junpei. Understand.

🌸: However, Mr. Tanaka, who is in charge of planning, said, "I think that the shape of the corridors and the general shape of the bird's-eye view of the high school building were roughly the same... but there is no exact layout of classrooms in each building (wry smile). Please forgive me for this..." Well, I hope you understand my explanation. Oh, by the way, the only setting for the number of classes in the junior high school is the number of classes, which is four, starting from A. In other words, we can see that one third of the students in the high school are from outside the school.

Q. Is the observatory on the school grounds a building of some significance?

🧢: Ah, that's a building that Ikutsuki built for his ritual. In other words, there's no intention of opening it to students at all.

🌸: What is that, it makes me crazy.

🎨: Moreover, the ritual itself was done incorrectly, so it was just waste after waste.

🧢: That's it. In the beginning, although it was called an observatory, it was basically a normal building with a certain height. Also, the reason it was built on the edge of the site where it was hard to find was to avoid being caught up in the Tartarization of the school.

🌸: There is a boy who is desperately researching the observatory, but next time I see him I'll have to tell him to give up.

Q. Could you please tell me more about the club activities at Gekkoukan High?

🌸: I think there are about 60 clubs in total, including hobby clubs. I'm in the archery club, but I think all the sports clubs are pretty strong. Even in some of the sports clubs that were recruiting members at one point, the club presidents and some of the players seem to be able to place highly in the regional tournaments and even participate in the national tournaments. However, it seems like there's a really elite athlete at another school who I just can't beat. Oh, and the ranks are a little thin, so I might be a little weak in team matches.

🎨: What about the cultural department?

🧢: Oh, I'm in the go-home club...

🌸: I guess there's no other way. Ah, Fuuka, come here for a bit.

Fuuka Yamagishi (from now on "🐰"): Hmm? What's wrong, Yukari-chan?

🌸: For this and that reason, I'd like to hear how your cultural club is doing.

🐰: Well, I don't know if my club can be of any help... The club I'm in has a very laid back president, so we've never done anything with the goal of participating in a competition. So I guess that means we don't have any external achievements? But the other day, our teacher persistently encouraged us to apply, and the club president actually won! Hehe, that's pretty amazing, right?

🎨: The difference in attitude between the sports clubs and the cultural clubs is huge.

🧢: It's ok, as long as it's fun.

🌸: Wow, you're a member of the go-home club, but you're acting all cocky.

🧢: Unfortunately, I'm not in the go-home club anymore.

🐰: Huh? Junpei, did you join a club?

🧢: I'm glad you asked! My club is the Chidori and Sketch Club!

🎨: We are not currently accepting new members due to our membership limit.

🧢: Ugh, I failed to create the club. If there's a sequel, I'd love to see a Chidori Club!

Q. Please tell me about places like Paulownia Mall in Port Island, which is a popular hangout spot for Gekkoukan High School students.

🧢: Here I come! That area is my home ground!

🎨: Come to think of it, it was at Port Island Station that I first met Junpei.

🧢: The school, as well as the entire site on the artificial island, seems to have been built with the concept of a “newly built city.” The pillars in front of Port Island Station, like the school, are designed in the Greek architectural style, right?

🎨: Is there any real place that served as the model?

🧢: Port Island Station is based on Harumi Triton Square. Paulownia Mall is modeled after Venus Fort, a shopping mall complex in Odaiba. The square with the fountain is said to be very similar to Venus Fort. You can't see the ceiling of Paulownia Mall during the game, but I'm sure it has an optical illusion of a blue sky like Venus Fort.

🎨: There's no doubt about it... Junpei, have you never seen the ceiling of the Paulownia Mall yourself?

🧢: Well, I was always so distracted by the products in the stores or the games in the arcade that I never even looked up above.

🎨: Wow... it's beautiful, you should take a closer look next time.

🧢: Ah, but I do look down carefully! There might be some coins lying around. Oh, come to think of it, there's a paulownia leaf mark painted on the floor there.

🎨: As it says in the game itself, Paulownia means "Paulownia leaf." It's all funded by the Kirijo Group, right? By the way, what kind of company is that?

🧢: Well, wait a minute. My senior told me about it. The current Kirijo Group is a so-called holding company that has expanded into all fields, but when it was first founded, it was a small company that manufactured machine parts...or so I heard. Um, well...and then...

🎨: ...If you're going to read the notes, read them openly.

🧢: Hehe, sorry. So, the core of the company is Kirijo Electronics, which has developed its machinery parts manufacturing division and is now the largest in scale and market share. So that means that they're doing things like shopping malls on the side of their main business, right? And they're able to build such a big mall, so it's really impressive.

🎨: They were doing some nasty stuff behind the scenes though.

🧢: Well, if my senior becomes the company representative, that kind of thing won't happen anymore.

🎨: That would be nice...

Q. I understand that Amada's house was located on the outskirts of Port Island Station, but which house specifically was that?

🧢: Amada had a hard time too. I only heard about it, so I don't know the details, but when shadows went on a rampage and Aragaki-senpai's Persona went out of control, the house was completely destroyed and remains as it is. Apparently it's now been turned into a parking lot. On the map in the game, it's at the bottom of the screen. The parking lot directly opposite where Aragaki-senpai usually sits would be the site of the house. I see... So Aragaki-senpai was always looking over there... Ugh, it's so frustrating.

Q. What exactly is the new urban transit line "Anezuru" that connects Port Island Station and Iwatodai Station?

🧢: Isn't that the monorail we always use to commute to school? It's a private railway, once again run by the Kirijo Group. This is a new route that was established after the artificial island of Tatsumi was built.

🎨: Is this just a line that goes back and forth between these two stations? Are there any stations along the way?

🧢: There are no other stations between Iwatodai and Port Island. However, in addition to the short line that goes back and forth between those two stations, there is also a direct train that goes beyond Iwatodai and goes further. That's right, the line that runs east-west on land is the Anezuru Main Line, and the section between Iwatodai and Port Island is just a branch line. If you look closely at the station sign, you can see a very small map of the surrounding area, right?

🎨: Could it be that the train that Junpei's real leader was riding in in the first opening movie is...?

🧢: That's right, that would be the main line of Anezuru. And don't even bother calling him the "real thing".

Q. The atmosphere around Iwatodai is much calmer than Port Island, but what is the real inspiration for it?

🧢: It certainly is a relaxed and familiar town. This looks pretty similar to the real thing.

🎨: Is there a model after all?

🧢: The station front is modeled after the front of Yurikamome's Shinbashi Station. It really does look like the art staff's research has paid off. The shopping street side is apparently modeled after a certain building in front of JR Shinbashi Station. I won't tell you the exact name of the building, but just like Todai, there is a building with many shops inside, and the restaurant there, "Tsunime Grill," is said to be recommended by character designer Soejima-san. I want to try it!

🎨: Speaking of Iwatodai, there's always construction going on in front of the station, right? When will it be finished?

🧢: Ah, that place probably won't be finished for a while.

🎨: Is construction halted?

🧢: The area in front of the station was supposed to be redeveloped and filled with new shops, but when they dug up the ground, they found buried treasure. Construction can't be done if ruins are buried, so they're currently investigating. Ahh... The tonkatsu, hamburger steak, and curry rice that I have yet to see! Finish quickly.

🎨: But if you expect that, they'll end up only being able to open a boutique or an accessory shop.

🧢: Wow, it's possible...

Q. There are various mascots such as Chan, Wild Duck, and a mysterious hero whose name I don't know, and I would like to know more details about them.

🧢: Wow, that's a question for the connoisseurs. You really pay attention to the details.

🎨: I heard from Azuki-chan that there was a theme song in the planning stages, is that true?

🧢: This is true. It's more like a spell than a theme song... If you tune it, it goes "Aazuki shaki shaki, aazuki shoka shoka" over and over again...

🎨: It's like an urban legend...

🧢: Well, I'm grateful that it was rejected, but I wanted to hear it.

🎨: Wild Duck stands out quite a bit, and there doesn't seem to be any hidden plot beyond being a mascot character, but what about the plastic doll next to him?

🧢: That is the next generation hero born from Wild Duck Burger! His name is Wild Hero! You can see his adventures around the world on the silver screen in the movie "Wild Hero Never Dies," which will be released soon!

🎨: …You’re not saying you’re making it right now, are you?

🧢: No way! Look at the poster inside the monorail.

🎨: Ah, the movie poster...is it real?

🧢: It is.

🎨: It's not that it's elaborate, but rather that the staff seem to have a lot of free time.

🧢: Please don't say that...

Q. On the left side of the Iwatodai shopping street is a vacant lot where you can see a real estate agency sign, but what is the significance of this place?

🧢: Oops, that's a tricky question isn't it?

🎨: Yeah? How tricky?

🧢: Actually, this sign is related to a certain event that was scrapped, Chidorita.

🎨: Scrapped event?

🧢: In the early stages of planning, there was an idea to set up a lottery booth at the Paulownia Mall, and it was expected that the maximum prize would be 300 million yen. However, no matter how much money you receive, it won't be interesting for the users if they don't know how to spend it, right? So there was an event where if you won first prize, you could buy a house and land from that famous real estate agency. I wish they had kept it... a free life with more freedom than a dormitory, no curfews or anything!

🎨: It only affects the main character, so it doesn't matter, right?

🧢: Damn, women don't have dreams.

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[notwiselybuttoowell]

Temperate rainforest, which has been decimated over thousands of years, has the potential to be restored across a fifth of Great Britain, a new map reveals.

Atlantic temperate rainforest once covered most of the west coasts of Britain and Ireland, thriving in the archipelago’s wet, mild conditions, which support rainforest indicator species such as lichens, mosses and liverworts. Today, it covers less than 1% of land, having been cleared over thousands of years by humans and is only found in isolated pockets, such as the waterfalls region in the Brecon Beacons and Ausewell Wood on Dartmoor.

Two maps released by Lost Rainforests of Britain, and shared exclusively with the Guardian, show both what exists today and what could be revived in the future. The map showing the remaining fragments of rainforest in England, Wales and Scotland was compiled with the help of the public, scientists and geolocation specialists.

The second map shows that more than half of Wales and nearly all of western Scotland – as well as large parts of Cornwall, the Lake District and other pockets north of Manchester – have suitable climates for temperate rainforest.

Guy Shrubsole, an environmental campaigner who runs the Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign, said the 18,870 hectares (46,628 acres) that survive in England could double in size within a generation if they were allowed to naturally regenerate, spread by ecosystem engineers such as jays, which have been shown to support forest regrowth.

“I think the map gives a sense of hope that 20% of Britain has the right climate for temperate rainforest,” said Shrubsole. “It is highly likely that that area would have been once covered with rainforest thousands of years ago. Ultimately, I think that’s something we need to take inspiration from and look to the past to think about what we need to be bringing back in future.

“I don’t necessarily think we could cover all of the 20%. But I do think we could allow those existing fragments that we have identified to expand in size.”

The organisation commissioned a YouGov poll, which found that 93% of the British public support protecting the country’s rainforest, while 85% back its expansion and 80% think public funding should support its restoration.

Ecologists say that invasive species, pollution and grazing by livestock have damaged temperate rainforest in the UK, but substantive protection and careful tree-planting could see the rare ecosystems naturally generate.

Previous analysis by Lost Rainforests of Britain found that 73% of England’s remaining fragments of temperate rainforest are not designated as sites of special scientific interest, despite their importance for biodiversity. Shrubsole has been encouraging members of the public to help him identify and map remaining fragments of rainforest.

The RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust and the Woodland Trust have backed Shrubsole’s campaign, writing to the new environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, last month to urge him to better protect what remains and expand the rare habitat, which is also found in Chilean Patagonia, Alaska and Japan.

[rabbitcruiser]

Alpine Lake

What do you think about my pic?

[districtunrest]

"He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America."

(THG chapter 1)

"In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia."

(THG chapter 3)

Where do you think location of Capitol and Panem's districts exactly?

The Appalachian’s span multiple states. Where do you picture District 12?

How long between this time and Panem rise? 200 hundred years? More?

Thank you so much

@curiousnonny

Panem is comprised of the remains of North America, not the United States specifically. so I do imagine it including southern Canada and northern Mexico.

we know the Capitol is in the Rockies (Denver? Salt Lake City? somewhere entirely new? 🤔 Idk!).

D1 is out west, maybe past the Rockies. wherever there's gemstone deposits - Arizona? or maybe it’s the resurrected ruins of Las Vegas, lol

D2 is also canonically in the Rockies, maybe encircling the Capitol or at least buffering it from the eastern districts.

D3 is in Silicon Valley, lol (I have no idea)

D4 should have access to both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico so I imagine it as a long strip of land that spans SoCal, northern Mexico, to like southeastern Texas. this would also include the Rio Grande, for freshwater fish.

D5 utilizes Niagara Falls, placing it in western New York/southern Ontario.

D6 is in Michigan. why? because cars. 🤷🏻‍♀️

D7 is in the Pacific Northwest.

D8 is somewhere Midwest, maybe Illinois. however way that Bonnie and Twill would have to pass D12 to get to 13.

D9 is within the 'breadbasket' of the US, basically the Midwest. it should span the wheat and corn belt - so, Kansas.

D10 is the southern part of the Great Plains, basically Texas/Oklahoma.

D11 is at least in mainland Georgia. I think that's per Collins? even though the southeast coast would most likely be underwater if sea levels rose enough to flood parts of the country, as Katniss describes. but whatever.

D12, I picture tucked in a valley, somewhere between Kentucky and West Virginia.

D13, I wish could be the former Washington DC, as that could explain all the underground bunkers, but I am sure at this point DC has been wiped off the map, underground bunker or not. nuclear reactors + known graphite deposits would place it in New York/Ontario/Quebec region, but far enough away from D5.

and I'd say there should be at least 200 years between now (well, 2010s) and Panem. there’s so much to precede Panem, what with environmental disasters, nuclear war, and government collapse/upheaval. one day I'll find a good enough reason for someone in a fic to make the passing joke, "you just avoided world war seven," because that’s the general vibe I have of Panem’s presumed point in history.

[beauty-makeover]

Bantwal

Bantwal is a Taluk of Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India, and the headquarters of Bantwal taluk. It is located 25 km (16 mi) East of Mangalore city center. BC Road-Kaikamba of Bantwal is one of the fastest developing areas in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka.

Along with BC Road-Kaikamba, Panemangalore & Melkar regions are also urbanized. They are also developing as the eastern suburbs of Mangalore. Towards east of Mangalore, the stretch to BC Road-Kaikamba region forms a continuous Mangalore Urban Agglomeration area which is currently the second biggest in Karnataka after Bangalore. Bantwal is the fourth largest urban area in Dakshina Kannada district after Mangalore, Ullal (both comes under Mangalore Urban Agglomeration area) & Puttur in terms of population.

It is situated on the banks of River Nethravati on the National Highway 73 (India). The adjacent town of B.C. Road (Bantwal Cross Road) serves as the commercial center.

Previously, the town of Bantwal was known for trade with the Persian Gulf states, being so close to Mangalore. However, flooding caused by the river Netravathi during the monsoons compelled traders and newer settlements to move to the adjacent city of B.C. Road due to its higher altitude. Gradually, most Government offices shifted to B.C. Road.

Top sights in Bantwal

Adyar Falls

Prior to 1852, Bantwal Taluk was the largest taluk in the entire of Canara Province (then comprising North Canara, Udupi, Mangalore and Kasaragod Districts) with 411 villages and a total population of 1,69,416. In 1852, a portion of it was formed into the Taluk of Puttur.[2] Bantwal was an entrepot for the produce of the province on its way to the Mysore Country and had derived a great benefit of late years from the extension of the coffee trade. It contained about thousand scattered houses inhabited by Billava, Bunts, Bhandary, Ganigas, Kulals, Goud Saraswat Brahmins, Konkani Catholics and a few Jains.[2]

Bantwal is located along the coast of river Netravathi. Every year due to heavy rains the river floods. National Highway 73 cuts through B. C. Road. The highway serves as the conduit for several arterial routes leading to neighbouring towns with Mangalore. Mangalore is connected with other cities in Karnataka such as Mysore and Bangalore by National Highway 275 (India) and National Highway 75 (India) respectively. It is well connected to Uppala through Uppala-Mudipu-Bantwal Highway.

[anoelleart]

World Tell-All Tuesday: Maps

I made a map for The Protolith a little while ago, so I thought I introduce some of the locations:

The Empire controlled its own continent, but across the oceans were two more major powers: the Southeast States, a collection of loosely organized governments in the Southern tundra, and the Western Kingdom, a peaceful nation northwest of the Empire.

[The map is not entirely consistent with the text. Don't come for me]

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The Empire

An theocratic, oligarchic state governed by an Emperor, his High Court, and the Church. After Emperor Ambrose the First's assassination, the Empire has entered an era of instability. Currently, the Empress Mother and the Child Emperor rule. The Empire has a temperature climate with regions of mountains and plains.

There are three important cities in the Empire:

Lorenzia

Our main setting Lorenzia is the capital city of the Empire. Lorenzia is a mountainous, coastal city. The city has several neighborhoods including the docks, downtown, center city, the university district, the marketplace district, and uptown.

Key landmarks include the bathhouse, built into the side of a mountain by center city, and the Lorenzian temple, a strange building in the plains north of the city.

Lorenzia is known for its modern and indulgent sexual attitudes despite the strong church presence.

Astriel

A pious city north of Lorenzia

“I’ve been so recently fascinated by the culture wars here in Lorenzia,” Nathaniel explained. “Your Worship, I hail from Astriel.” “A Godly city, of course.” “So you understand! Lorenzia is such a city of contradictions. Historically, the church made many allowances to placate the local culture and that has lived on for centuries. But – as you surely know – the church has recently supported new regulation. It’s quite the departure.” Nathaniel shrugged but his eyes were lit from within.

Harcross

A rural town near the Southern border

There was an inn which sat along a well established path for travelers coming up from the southern Empire toward the cities, Harcross or Lorenzia. Three women ran this inn: Darcy, Clara, and Josephine. Like any mortal, they’d been born somewhere else, found each other, and set up shop in an old building, but it felt like they’d always been there – like they’d sprung up from the earth, fully formed with this inn around them.

The Western Kingdom

A tropical nation north of the Empire. A pacifist nation, the Western Kingdoms resisted advances from the Empire for centuries using only defensive tactics. This kingdom is known for its colorful flora, dangerous fauna, and its illustrious silk.

“Commander Noble? You may have heard of him. Single-handedly, he opened trade with the Western Kingdom.”

The Southeast States

A conglomeration of states run by a weak central power and fueled by serfdom, the Southeast States are currently at war conflict with the Empire.

“The embargo on the Southeast States has led to a shortage of ore among other minerals. I ask the court once again, when will this conflict cease?”

The World Wound and its Surrounding Islands

The World Wound was a crater, formed by an ancient meteorite and partially submerged by ocean water. No expedition to the crater had ever made it there and returned to tell the tale.

Charlotte’s mother was from neither country. Instead, she was born on an island chain off the coast of the Western Kingdom, and just south of the World Wound.

[ausetkmt]

The apartment search website Abodo created a map outlining the most racist areas in the nation. The site used software that tracked over 12 million tweets posted in 2014 and 2016, filtering out tweets with racial slurs.

Based on these findings, West Virginia was revealed to be the most racist state. Maryland and Louisiana were also the most racist states based on racial slurs used on Twitter.

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Most Racist States [Updated May 2023]

Racism is defined as prejudice or discrimination against people of different races. A racist person believes that his or her race is superior, while other races are inferior. While Americans might think that racism is most prevalent in the United States, it is considered more welcoming and accepting than many other countries. Some of the most racist countries are Bahrain, Lebanon, India, South Africa.

Racism in a given area isn’t something that can be measured like population or area. Polls and surveys can be used, but these aren’t always accurate. Other data, such as instances of hate crimes and hate speech, can also be used to determine where racism is most prevalent.

Because of this, it’s difficult to measure what states in the U.S. are the most racist. However, some organizations and publications have attempted to measure racism throughout the United States. The following contains some of these findings.

Arizona - 75.16

Hawaii - 74.48

Texas - 74.08

Montana - 73.95

Maryland - 72.84

New Mexico - 72.80

Wyoming - 72.77

Alaska - 72.46

Washington - 72.43

Georgia - 72.35

Kentucky - 71.44

Delaware - 71.28

Idaho - 69.92

West Virginia - 69.45

Virginia - 69.19

Florida - 69.08

North Carolina - 68.18

Colorado - 68.06

Tennessee - 67.77

Nevada - 67.71

Vermont - 65.86

Rhode Island - 65.80

Oklahoma - 65.54

California - 65.30

Indiana - 64.37

Missouri - 63.88

New Jersey - 62.84

Alabama - 62.72

Kansas - 62.11

Connecticut - 61.80

Utah - 61.68

Arkansas - 61.62

Massachusetts - 61.12

Mississippi - 60.55

Oregon - 60.22

New Hampshire - 59.95

South Carolina - 59.88

New York - 59.74

Maine - 59.73

Ohio - 57.66

North Dakota - 55.99

Michigan - 55.32

Nebraska - 54.91

Pennsylvania - 54.69

Louisiana - 54.18

Illinois - 53.13

South Dakota - 52

Minnesota - 49.84

Iowa - 44.68

Wisconsin - 33.01

DC - 28.36

Another study was conducted by data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz using Google search data. Based on this data, the study found that the most racist regions in the United States are the rural Northeast and South, which were slave states before the American Civil War.

Searches containing racial slurs were most prevalent in the Appalachian region from Georgia to New York and Vermont.

High concentrations of racist searches were discovered in areas along the Gulf Coast, the Upper Peninsula region in Michigan, and Ohio.

However, it is important to note that these findings aren’t an official ranking of racist states. These studies give some idea of areas in the nation where racism may occur. Some of the states that have made the most racial progress are New Mexico, Hawaii, and Wyoming.

Here are the 10 states with the highest total racism scores:

District of Columbia - 28.36

Wisconsin - 33.01

Iowa - 44.68

Minnesota - 49.84

South Dakota - 52

Illinois - 53.13

Louisiana - 54.18

Pennsylvania - 54.69

Nebraska - 54.91

Michigan - 55.32

[casimirtully]

WELCOME TO THE RIVER MARKET!

HISTORY

Known to all, the region of The Riverlands is located at a critical juncture of The Realm, bordering The Reach, The Westerlands, The Crownlands, The Vale, and The North, and shares its coast with The Iron Islands. Because of the central location and The Trident, the region is often treated as a pathway for war, and over the centuries has seen a great number of different people and cultures across all corners of Westeros. With this in mind, The River Market was founded three generations ago by the great-great grandfather of King Casimir Tully. Once a central point for trade, The River Market saw a dangerous decline during the Dance of Dragons. While originally funded exclusively by House Tully, funds were pulled from The River Market to relocate them to war efforts, and was then overseen by House Frey. During this time, a black market was established within The River Market, and saw a decrease in traditional commerce. Now that The Riverlands is moving away from war efforts and House Tully has become a Royal House, King Casimir has reclaimed The River Market and opened its trade routes almost exclusively to members of the Green Alliance, though some traders from other regions has been allowed, and the market is on the path back to its former glory. 

The River Market is located east of Riverrun within The Trident where the great river splits into The Red Fork, The Blue Fork, and The Green Fork.

THE MARKET

The River Market has four distinct districts that make up the trading hub. Over the years, each District has developed its own niche, and merchants and tradesmen of similar means have gravitated towards the same location. This has caused each of the districts to have a unique trading culture, individual to each other, and the products available to buy and sell are unlikely to be found in any other district. Merchants and tradesmen from all over Westeros do their business here, and is often the only way some regions have access to delicacies and uniquely crafted items from abroad. Inns and taverns located in the three business districts are available for short term stays. Each of the districts is about a mile from the other, and while trading boats are constantly moving back and forth, passenger ships leave from The Isle of Commerce every hour. After dark, passenger ships leave every fourth hour until daybreak.

THE ISLE OF COMMERCE 

The entrance point of The River Market. It is here that all inventories are reviewed, traders and merchants pay taxes, and prices for bulk goods are set. If someone intends to trade within The River Market, they must travel here first before venturing into the rest of the districts.  All buildings are owned by House Tully, but permanent shops may be rented or leased for extended periods of time via The Isle of Commerce, and owners of temporary stalls, carts, etc must apply for a permit on the Isle. While The River Market is often compared to a small city, private owned residences are not allowed. Instead, merchants, tradesmen, and the occasional noble may rent from a small selection of townhouses located in each district for extended periods of time to oversee their business ventures. Some townhouses have been leased for several decades, creating a sort of “second home” for some individuals or families. 

When leaving The River Market, you must declare all your goods at The Isle of Commerce.

THE RED DISTRICT 

Originally, The Red District was where merchants of medicinal goods congregated. Here, you can still find a plethora of apothecaries, alchemists, and providers of medical tools, but under Frey jurisdiction, The Red District has become the focal point of the rougher side of The River Market. Now, The Red District is home to taverns, breweries, brothels, and when no one is looking? Stolen goods, poisons, and all things illegal. The Red District also sports something the locals have dubbed the Red Docks, where a series of docks on the south end have been transformed into a small floating community where even the seediest of traders are hesitant to venture.

It is from the Red Docks that many illegal goods are smuggled past the Isle of Commerce

THE BLUE DISTRICT 

The Blue District is something of an artistic adventure, for it is here that people with trades have congregated to sell their skills alongside their wares. This district is made mostly of tradesmen such as blacksmiths, jewelers, tailors, glassblowers, carpenters and woodworkers, bronze smiths, painters, and other artisans and the occasional musician’s guild. The Blue District is vibrant in both environment and the people who do business there, though is said to be a touch loud, as it is one of the busier districts out of the three. It even the workplace to a smith who can work Valyrian Steel.

The most notable investor in The Blue District is King Cedric Tyrell of The Reach. 

THE GREEN DISTRICT

The Green District sees the most practical trade of the three business districts, and it is here that you can find grains, exotic fruits, fresh fish and meats, as well as butchers, bakers, spice vendors, and other businesses and market stalls associated with food and animal stock. Food vendors have popped up over the years, as well as more permanent venues for eating, and showcases unique foods from all over Westeros.

[antoine-triplett]

"He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America."

(THG chapter 1)

"In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia."

(THG chapter 3)

Where do you think location of Capitol and Panem's districts exactly?

The Appalachian’s span multiple states. Where do you picture District 12?

How long between this time and Panem rise? 200 hundred years? More?

Thank you so much

@curiousnonny

It’s funny because I’m Canadian and my knowledge of American geography is not great tbh 😬 You got a lot of states down there. I know it’s not accurate to the book, but I imagined it taking place across Canada. Just helps when I’m picturing things because I’ve been to most Canadian provinces but never to the States.

So District 12 would be on the West Coast in BC where the mountains are and the prairie provinces would be the agricultural districts. Power, military, and factory districts all could go in the middle provinces (Ontario/Quebec), the fishing and lumber districts in the north, and then the Capitol sitting on one of the islands on the East Coast.

My brain works in mysterious ways? 😛

I feel like it would take longer than 200 years to come back from almost being wiped out to the level they were when the series started. Maybe closer to 500 for an arbitrary guess? But that really depends on what was left behind before.