#approximate knowledge

[rynekins]

May, 2023

October 2024

[teamkrissy]

This cat is my spirit animal and I think about them Everytime I almost remember someone's name or mix up 2 bands that have similar names but wildly different genres

[deviathan]

This but TV Tropes.

My Friends: have you seen this TV show?

Me: no, but thanks to tumblr,

[rocketbirdie]

Cloud Strife

1 in 3 chance for each played 7 to create a Planet card when scored.

[saccharinescorpion]

the new episode of My Adventures With Superman was a hell of a way to learn there’s more than one DC character that is a villainous hyper intelligent gorilla

[chibigaia-art]

played lethal company for the first time yesterday so here's a couple doodles of me dying and one time i got really scared for something stupid

[urgentkettle]

Okay this is just getting funny now

[animentality]

archive of our own has taught me so much approximate knowledge about fandoms I'm not even in.

[peekychu]

Japanese speakers, help needed!

Okay. So. For my Rodfellows transcription project, there’s this one line in Japanese. I’m assuming it’s really broken Japanese. I tried typing out the syllables I recognized, hoping to put MY broken romaji into google translate, but it’s proving difficult 😹

I’d like to have this part as closely transcribed and translated as I can! If you have enough knowledge of the Japanese language and u want to help my silly project, please DM me!

[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.

[ailurinae]

transmigration story where instead of going to a story you’re a fan/anti-fan of you go to a universe you’re only familiar with via dashboard osmosis

[anheliotrope]

I've been told that the devil is in the details, which is why as a God-fearing woman I only read the abstract.

[kibibarel]

Ever play Danganronpa?

god no.........i'm not....strong enough (my tolerance for Anime Bullshit™ has lessened greatly with age)

[divorcedwife]

and people in my family have been kind enough to entertain my history reading and ask me questions about it even, but when they ask « why » im doing all that reading and research i don’t know what to say. isn’t learning simply very fun… i never have reasons for anything i do, im not built like that

[flightyquinn]

me on a distressingly large number of topics

I am absolutely ignorant of these issues, so I apologize if I made any mistakes in these discussions

[thedeafprophet]

you mentioned in your big CC post that each of them is tied to a quirk – do you happen to know which member is which quirk?

I do indeed!

Jan: magnanimous Feb: daring March: subtle April: forceful May: melancholy June: hedonist July: N/A (had the es quality instead) August: ruthless Sept: steadfast Oct: heartless Nov: austere Dec: N/A

Shout out to @house-of-mirrors who actually acquired this information for us awhile back lmao

Now, the calendar code was from 2016 so the data may not be fully minded by newer writers for the game, but I do think they have some really interesting implications. (Like, Of Course May is melancholy, but June being hedonist is fascinating)