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celestialtrolls · 1 month ago
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Alternian Locations Summary
Contents: A summary of all the Alternian locations I've created, with the full version and all details being visible on >>THIS PAGE<<
All locations will have it specified how well known/accessible they are, please feel free to use the bigger ones in your own worldbuilding/stories, and if you'd like any of your characters living there please please please feel free to ask!
Will likely be edited as time passes, but the most updated version will always be the toyhouse world settings page linked above.
Important context: For real world equivalent locations where I talk about the middle of the ocean, I often treat Alternia like it looks like this: The Inverted World (because I think it's an interesting way to parallel Earth)
Druzhale
Northern North Atlantic Ocean, Very Well Known, High Accessibility
A large military funded city with carefully planned and managed infrastructure, constantly under new development and seen by some as the military capital due to it's fleet-sponsored university and cosmodrome. There is a large police presence divided between currently-serving fleet members and subjugglators that have a very low tolerance for trouble and rebel activity. It is very prosperous with low homeless rates and comparatively good living conditions for all castes due to being a propaganda megaproject to encourage people to join the fleet.
Duskguard Encampment
Romania/Black Sea, Locally Known, Somewhat Accessible
A walled estate with a central castle, enough room for small farms and livestock that is able to be locked down and completely self-sufficient. Acts as a base for a locally known group of undead-hunters and most residents are people who have lost their homes due to the undead or wishing to train to fight the horde.
Ecclesia de Inanis
Algeria/Alboran Sea, Hidden and Inaccessible
An underground cave system of chambers and tunnels created by a deceased carnival, now inhabited by those who split off from Suits Carnival when Solitaire was usurped. The entrance is somewhere in the desert, and extremely difficult to find without assistance.
Enlightener's Bounty
Brazil/North-East coast of South America, Rumoured, Accessible Only to flying trolls
Large settlement spanning across the canopy of a dense rainforest. The base of operations of a religion led by 'the Enlightener', a safe haven for trolls with insect-based mutations like wings and carapace. There are a few tunnels beneath the trees, mostly for storage and emergency medical treatment, but regular flooding prevents access often.
Minanporo
East China Sea, Very Well Known, Accessible
Large and densely populated metropolis with a high crime rate, formerly a prosperous city with major contributions to the entertainment industry, political corruption and gang crime tore it down. Many high rise buildings, but most are in some state of disrepair and some are uninhabitable. The air is thick with smoke and fires are common from the unmaintained infrastructure. A tunnel system exists underground, but it is extremely dangerous, more so than travelling along the roads.
Novahurst
England/North Sea, Unknown
Small European-style suburban village with low population and unusual magical phenomenon.
Palace of Fuchsine
Far-East Mediterranean Sea, Well Known, Inaccessible
Large castle suspended far above the sea, tethered to the ground by magic and featuring a space elevator. The Grand Emperor lives here with his attendants and other people deemed important to have gathered there. It is almost impossible to reach without being specifically bought there via teleportation.
Plegeus
Saudi Arabia/Persian Sea, Regionally Known, Difficult to access due to inhospitable weather and terrain
An arid and mountainous desert region with very little life of any kind, with a small population of dragon-worshipping trolls living among the silent volcanos deep within.
Suits Carnival
West Northern Atlantic Ocean, Regionally Known, Accessibility Varies
Formerly travelling carnival which has now settled into a city with population in the thousands, almost entirely comprised of purple-blooded subjugglators, former subjugglators and those closely affiliated with individuals within the carnival. A large wall surrounds the entire city, with one main road leading in and through to the city centre. There is now standard housing and buildings, but a lot of citizens still have caravans or semi-permanent cabins. Infrastructure is in progress, but everyone has access to running water and electricity. Once a perigee, an event is held that invites those who live in nearby cities to visit for a festival and trade.
[Subject to change]
Tirnan'Maell
Ireland/Irish Sea, Regionally Known, Accessible during Spring/Summer
A large natural area of lake, forests and mountains that was mysteriously restored from a biohazard/waste dumping site. All urban developments on the site since have failed, and it is now a common vacation site for those seeking a break from the city, with small cabins and camping areas near the lake.
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some-pers0n · 11 months ago
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I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery
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rochenn · 10 months ago
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I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh
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bahoreal · 1 year ago
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obsessed with this
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hinamie · 2 months ago
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10 years later
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funkbun · 1 year ago
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go play bugsnax
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ase-trollplays · 3 months ago
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hell0mega · 11 months ago
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people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.
what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.
you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.
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0vergrowngraveyard · 8 days ago
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i think he does this sometimes
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captainjonnitkessler · 4 months ago
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The second you start talking about some mysterious "they" that are controlling society in some fashion, you are engaging in dangerous conspiratorial thinking even if you're being woke about it. "They" did not institute the 40 hour work week specifically so you would be too tired to revolt. "They" did not invent the sleek minimalist aesthetic in order to crush the spirit of art in the common people. "They" are not pushing mediocre media into the mainstream in order to poison people's critical thinking skills.
Your best case scenario after that is you talk to someone who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about and you get embarrassed because you can't answer basic questions about your own ideology because you never learned anything past "the ruling class/capitalists/politicians are making things bad and if we got rid of them the bad things would all go away!"
Your worst case scenario is obviously the woo-to-fascist pipeline and you end up believing Jews are poisoning American food supplies with GMOs in order to turn us all into beta cucks, so like . . . maybe just stop blaming "them" before you fall down that route.
Obligatory round of disclaimers: Yes, sometimes people do bad things. Be specific about exactly who is doing what instead of ascribing it to some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, sometimes things in society are bad. Learn to identify the root causes of complex social issues instead of assuming that they're actually extremely simple to fix and we're just not doing it because of some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, minimalism isn't for everyone. Learn that some people don't share your tastes and get the fuck over it for the love of god.
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hauntedorpheum · 5 months ago
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Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme Se7en (1995) dir. David Fincher Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) dir. Raja Gosnell Zodiac (2007) dir. David Fincher Jennifer's Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) dir. David Fincher Paranorman (2012) dir. Sam Fell, Chris Butler Last Night in Soho (2021) dir. Edgar Wright
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noknowshame · 2 years ago
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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
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skull0pendra · 6 months ago
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i wonder what it is
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castielfucks · 9 months ago
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theres actually no rules to transitioning and youre allowed to want contradictory things for your transition. it's fine if you only want some of the changes that come with hrt and take preventative measures for the rest (like wanting bottom growth but not body hair or vice versa). you can want to have vagina AND a dick. you can be a woman and want top surgery, or wear a packer. you can be a man and want to have a pussy. you can change your transition goals one or a million times or not have any goals at all and just take things as they come or as they feel right.
there are no rules.
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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rabbiteclair · 1 year ago
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i have a brain problem that prevents me from understanding people who need so much specifically newly-released TV shows that they're upset by the prospect of going a few months without new ones being produced
like they could stop making video games and books today and I wouldn't notice until sometime in 2026. honestly if they'd stop making new video games for a while that'd be kinda convenient. everyone take a break and let me catch up. I still haven't even played Persona 5.
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