#analog if possible

[cultivating-wildflowers]

Furnace tech: And we'll replace your current thermostat with a wifi--

Me: Absolutely not. Stop right there. No. Hard. No.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[mareastrorum]

An annoying part about any fandom discourse is the push to categorize characters, populations, and factions as representations of actual groups IRL. The most annoying one (to me) is insistence that a particular group is Indigenous Peoples and the other is the White Settlers.

Like a lot of people in the U.S., I'm mixed race. Many who are mixed race don't identify as such; they pick one or another. Why? Because mixed race identities are systematically ignored or erased on multiple levels of government and political influence: census records, diversity reports, financial aid qualifications, membership in political groups, etc. Choosing one identity alone is rewarded with greater voice and resources in different spheres. Acknowledging that this split isn't real is offensive to groups in power, both for the dominant hegemony of Whites and the coalitions of minority groups. Each group benefits from enforcing this exclusionary practice because it allows specific people to justify their leadership based solely on their heritage: a new aristocracy.

All this fake dichotomy nonsense in fandom is a replication of that mentality. Like, some media like The Terror really, truly are commentary on colonialism. There's no need to hide the ball about it. If your favorite media has nothing to do with conquest, exploitation of land and resources, or the subjugation of populations for the benefit of foreign powers, then it's not about colonialism. There's other themes to explore.

[serpentface]

Here's a heavily improved Imperial Wardin map, with a focus on climate and geography (uses the Koppen Climate Classification). This is an attempt to infuse pre-existing lore too established to retcon with a degree of realism, but there's only so much I can do.

The majority of the climate falls under the hot mediterranean and semi-arid classification, with small pockets of warm mediterranean and arid climes. The entire region experiences a rainshadow effect from the eastern Blackmane Mountain range, which blocks northeasterly winds from the eastern ocean and starkly divides the Sub-Viper landmass between its humid east and dry west.

Most of the interior is grassland, savannah, and scrub. Savannah heavily coincides with a history of human occupation and controlled burns, and is mostly based around oak. Grassland, scrub, and semi-desert dominates the semi-arid regions. Small pockets of high desert and salt flats occur in the arid zones.

A forest originally spanned much of the north, consisting of predominantly oak. This was gradually eliminated due to multiple factors- a warming climate, low intensity human intervention (hunter-gatherers and pastoralists clearing land with controlled burns), and high intensity exploitation (deforestation for timber). Additional woodlands found along the major riverways have been wholly eliminated by logging within the past several centuries.

The largest remaining span of woodland occurs within and north of the Highlands, and in the sparsely populated northeast, where a major and mostly intact oak forest stretches to the Blackmane mountains. A smaller pocket of woodland occurs in the volcanic highlands of Lobera. Other pockets remain, but are isolated and insignificant on the map.

Most of the geography is flat, divided by a range of hills that are the heavily eroded remains of an ancient mountain range. The highest peaks of this range comprise the contemporary Highlands, which have the highest elevations and coldest climate in the region. This is the only territory that regularly receives snowfall, and is the source of several major rivers. The rest of the range is too low to drastically affect the climate, save for the Red Hills east of the Cholemdi basin, whose rain shadow effect (heavily compounded by the basin's low elevation) renders this valley the hottest and driest part of the region. This range once formed a land bridge across the Viper into Finnerich (though this was prior to anatomically modern humans Existing) with its only remnants being smatterings of islands.

The province Lobera holds a small range of volcanic highlands, composed of a network of mostly dead volcanic craters. The volcano Odatoche is the only active site in the region, though has been dormant for centuries and has not had a major eruption in millenia. The other major geological feature is the Sons of Creation, which is the fabled site of God’s self-sacrifice from which the world was made. This is the eroded range of a very large impact crater, consisting of two impact rings (visible as a circular formation of hills) a ring lake, and an elevated center.

The most fertile land is found in Ephennos, owing to the presence of the Black River and its highly fertile delta (which contains the only major semi-permanent marshes outside of Highland river valleys). This is the second largest river in the region, being a confluence of two major river systems out of the Highlands (the Urbin/Erubin and Troibad/Nedachemi rivers). Erubinnos has the largest river, the Kannethod, which originates in the Blackmane mountains.

Agriculture around some of the other river systems is mostly or entirely dependent on their post-rainy season flooding. The most prominent is the Yellowtail river (flows south past Erub). In the very distant past, this was the longest river in the region, and carved out the Cholemdi basin and reached the sea. In the contemporary, it dries out long before even approaching the sea (though occasionally still floods the basin in abnormally rainy years). The Brilla river system out of the Red Hills (flows to Wardin) reaches the sea year-round, but has been known to run dry in exceptionally severe drought, and irrigation along its length depends on its flooding.

There are very few significant lakes in the region (small lakes are unmarked). The biggest is the volcanic crater lake Aganagarre in Lobera, the Yellowtail lake north of Erub, and the ring lake within the Sons of Creation.

[starleska]

(DOCTOR WHO SEASON 2 TRAILER SPOILERS)

GUYS ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

A RUBBERHOSE ANIMATION COMING TO LIFE AND CRAWLING THROUGH THE SCREEN?!?!?!?!?!?!

I AM SO EXCITED I COULD THROW UP

[quackkaz]

Patton : Does he make your heart beat really fast?

Virgil : I am Anxiety, Pat, everything makes my heart beat really fast.

[twinliches]

Considering article XII of the OST, would Mark Watney actually be a space pirate? He's not even using a foreign governments stuff, so does the OST even apply? Is he breaking any laws at all?

for context, this question is about this scene from The Martian:

“I’ve been thinking about laws on Mars. There’s an international treaty saying that no country can lay claim to anything that’s not on Earth. By another treaty if you’re not in any country’s territory, maritime law aplies. So Mars is international waters. Now, NASA is an American non-military organization, it owns the Hab. But the second I walk outside I’m in international waters. So Here’s the cool part. I’m about to leave for the Schiaparelli Crater where I’m going to commandeer the Ares IV lander. Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can’t until on board the Ares IV. So I’m going to be taking a craft over in international waters without permission, which by definition… makes me a pirate. Mark Watney: Space Pirate.”

any i have to disappoint - mark is not a space pirate. first of all, i don't know where this man got the idea that maritime law applies to outer space. that is simply not true - while general law applies in outer space (Art III OST), the law of the sea (UNCLOS) clearly regulates, well, the sea. which space is not! what he is kind of right about is that there is an exclusion of appropriation of celestial bodies (Art II OST) - but he is not appropriating a celestial bodies, he is entering a space object which belongs to the USA, which you can own even in space, and belongs to you forever even if you never interact with it again (Art VIII OST). now, he does not have permission to interact with the object, which would technically be a violation of the USA's right to jurisdiction and control. ...but he is ALSO under the jurisdiction and control of the USA as a NASA astronaut, and international law necessarily requires the involvement of multiple jurisdictions/states to be applicable, so this is a non-issue under international space law and a labour law question more than anything. sorry mark.

[pigeonsyndrome]

moonpaw design on a sketchbook because my dog ate my drawing tablet's pen and i'm now stuck in traditional drawing hell

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[snekmadehorrors]

me and other me possibly in love

[adhd-and-peppermint]

fuck romeo and juliet i want what these two bitches have

soundtrack was stuck in my head. lesbian cannibal brain rot made a quick sketch into a lighting study.

alt and un-filtered shots:

from the 80's film 'possibly in michigan'

@0rley @lastresortacontact hemlo emjoy 🙃

[dimensionallunemoon]

They’ve definitely explored each other’s bodies

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

Urusei yatsura au from a while ago:

Vee’s dad:So…Virgil…um…I suppose this is your new…Fiancé?

Virgil:Nope

Remus:Mhm, yep. Scare bear proposed to me.

Virgil:Ngh…

Remus::)

The phone starts ringing

Virgil:!!

Virgil:Maybe it’s Logan!-

Remus:WHAT?! THAT LITTLE DORK??

Virgil:LOGAN!-

*Virgil tries to jump to the phone but Remus pins him down*

Remus:WHY DO YOU KEEP TRYING TO FLIRT WITH THAT DORK WHEN YOU HAVE AN AMAZING HUSBAND LIKE ME SCARE BEAR?!

Virgil:WILL YOU GET THE HECK OFF ME YOU FUCKTARD-

He shocks Virgil

And just like that Lo's number immediately gets blocked by Ree XD

[rapturekiwi]

Hey! So it's been a while since I've done a magma dump, so here's a huuuugggggeeee one! These feature 30+ artists, some who don't have tumblr/socials or do not want to be credited (I've talked to them personally) I'm gonna link this post in the server and if they wish to claim credit they can!

Anyways time for the mess of a tag system

[aroanthy]

most utena fans are juri coded. like we all get so serious and angry about poll drama because we just want someone to believe in miracles (recognise utena’s merits as one of the greatest works of art ever made) and know our feelings (let utena win something for once). but the rest of the world is sooooooooo shiori coded. Sad

[1800duckhotline]

i think as far as "analog" horror games go the ones i found i really like are amanda the adventurer and home safety hotline because they are actually interesting for utilizing fey folklore as a basis for the horror and not just like cryptids or creepypastas or whatever. like YES now this shit is fucking good!!! now we're cooking with gas!!!!