#Port Lands

[solchrom]

Team Ford goes Godzilla on the waterfront: this ain't your grandpa's conservatism

I’ve tried to avoid the easy snark in reaction to Doug Ford’s musings about turning what’s left of Toronto’s waterfront into a megamall-themed, monorail-adorned, Ferris-wheel-festooned amusement park. It doesn’t do any good, after all, to get all riled up and turn into indignant sputtering caricatures of Left-Wing Kooks every time Brother Doug has a brain fart. But it turns out it wasn’t just a…

[alexsbrain]

[thepermanentrainpress]

New Music Video: “Get It Right” - Diamonds Dye (featuring Rose Shiku)

[gummi-ships]

World themed command menus in Kingdom Hearts 2

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Port Town

Artist: Kamila Szutenberg TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[ssaraexposs]

Will Atsushi ever learn to land properly?

[loriache]

Notes on the World Map: Melini

I'm kind of annoyed the complete World Bible doesn't have a version of the World Map with Melini filled in... unless it does and I missed it, but I literally bought it and looked at the relevant pages for this post! Anyway, I think this is the closest we have. I'm looking at this and -- Kahka Brud literally doesn't have a coast anymore. No wonder they're pissed!! Any industry involving the sea, trade, fishing, etc. is basically impossible now - you'd have to get to the coastline on the west side of the continent. That's probably miles!

Speaking of miles... how big is Melini?

This is where I got... really unwell. So first off, let's assume the official Dunmeshi World Map is a Mercator projection. I think the stage cartography in the Dunmeshi universe is at, it's going to be most important that maps are useful for marine navigation. So we can't just drop an approximate scale onto the grid and leave it at that; we have to work out where the equator is.

The way I've done that is via two places that seem like they have a close(ish) real world equivalent - in terms of climate and culture - Utaya and the Island of Wa (Toshiro's home). The Island of Wa is obviously Japan, and I've seen plausible arguments that Utaya is probably a climate/location similar to Nepal.

So, here's the (approximate) location and latitude of those places on a Mercator map of Earth:

If we arbitarily superimpose the two maps, asssuming they're the same size, we can draw a theoretical equator line that puts the two places at the same latitude, though on a different side of the equator. Putting them on the same side as Earth made the equator really low. I feel like that's ... unlikely, so we're going with this.

That puts Melini at a rough latitude of .. ~55? which would, using the same scale as the previous map, make two squares (at that latitude) about 600 miles. Very roughly calculating the size as given on the map based on that, that gives a width of (approximately) 250 miles and a length of 400, coming in at a bit less than 100,000 miles² due to the shape. Probably it's between the sizes of the UK and Aotearoa.

That really helps me visualise what Laios is working with here when I think about post-canon. Though I reckon what I've done here is "Just enough research to really annoy an expert". Sorry if you're that expert. I really don't know much about cartography <3 It's like that xkcd comic:

On distances, as someone who lives in the UK; with a car, you can get almost anywhere in a day if you're prepared to drive until late. But they don't have cars, so getting from one end to the other would take multiple days of travel. It'd take about 7 days to walk the approx "length", 400~ miles (from the top of Scotland to Liverpool) (according to Google Maps) and 2 days cycling, so probably 3-5 days with horses, depending on how you pushed them. That'd vary a bit depending on terrain, of course.

[redbean-nom]

now that i think about it the empire probably developed those anti-droid ports from rebels because of echo

[gagedraws]

FNF Mario’s Madness (V2)

[new-aged-love]

Anyone who claims that puckabrina isn't their favorite part of the Sisters Grimm is a silly goose and a liar

[discordiansamba]

Takashi Shirogane is a free man.

...probably.

If he's being honest, he's kind of at a loss as to what's going on. The Galra kid that's been talking to him after his matches all this week helped him break out of the ship he was being held in. Which is great! But it's also confusing. It's somehow both less and more confusing when they pull down their hood and the mask that's been covering the lower half of the face to reveal they look... almost human.

Almost. The eyes are definitely Galra.

He takes him back to what Shiro can only describe as some kind of delinquent's hideout. There's other Galra there, who look as bewildered by his presence as Shiro feels. There's some rapid fire discussion between the maybe human kid and the Galra that Shiro can't even begin to follow.

Then the kid turns to him, and in broken English, asks him if he can take him back to Earth if he gets him a ship. Shiro knows a ticket home when he sees one, so he agrees. He needs to get back and warn everyone about the Galra.

The kid seems satisfied with that. Someone scrounges up Shiro a change of clothes. Over the course of a few hours, he learns that the kid he's been talking to is a.) half-human and b.) his name is Keith.

(He has another name the Galra gave him, but he doesn't use it anymore.)

They make plans to steal a ship. Keith's delinquent friends (they really are a gang of delinquent teens) helps them secure it. Shiro still has so many questions.

At least he has all the time in the world to ask them now.

[pickleweed2]

Beautiful pair of Leopard Lilies, Lilium pardalinum vollmeri, with many inflorescences.

Found in a wet seep, amongst Port Orford Cedar.

Six Rivers National Forest, California

[kodasea]

Cape Falmouth Map (2021)

[somerabbitholes]

the bus changed routes because of some road work, and now it goes right through what used to be the city’s dockyard — abandoned warehouses, buildings crumbling, tram tracks overgrown with moss, the whole deal and i’m currently living my best life with this change

[whoblewboobear]

Some days, Jace wondered if Porter could swallow him whole, would he? In this moment, Jace wouldn’t mind if he did.

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Chapter 3 is now live! Strap in for a beefy chapter, gang ✌️

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Port Town

A haunted fog known as the Nebelgast shrouds the cities along Nephalia's coast.

Artist: Kamila Szutenberg TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link