#maps in fiction

[mapsontheweb]

Mythical and Submerged land of the World.

by Breakingerr

[machiavellianwaffles-blog]

Map of the Solar System from Signalis

[shevvys-pictures]

'Studies Show Study Shows' from June 17, 2024. I really, really, really, really adore this piece.

[jcollinswrites]

New update 27/09/24

The Captain of the Guard is playable!!! WOOOH! It was a big work, and currently only a very linear path is playable with the captain through Chapter 1, but I will add the rest of the choices later.

GOOD NEWS: It's the path that will definitely redeem poor Captain {instert-clever-insult} in the eyes of those who read the thief origin ❤️ So please give the captain a chance to do some good deeds to our resident little thief ✨✨✨

What the update includes:

Captain of the Theban Guard origin is playable! Lots of choices are still greyed out, but you can read through chapter 1 as the captain now.

16k words added to the demo, so that makes the total word count 185k.

I made a map! Well... I translated a map from my native language that I made ages ago for a similar book. It took me forever last week to find the English names for certain cities, and I'm not sure if some of them are correct or not but fuck it, it's good as it is. You can find the map in the Codex page in the Stats!

Did lots of bug and code fixes

Fixed some grammar and spelling errors

Next week, I'll add the missing choices in the captain route. Not sure if I'll have time to add all of them by the Friday update, but I'll try :)))

LINK TO DEMO

Hope you'll enjoy it! I'm especially interested to hear the opinion of those who've read the thief origin before 👀

❤️

[cutiepieautistic]

Caregiver! Leon scott Kennedy

(Re4 version)

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[elbarkla]

I'm obsessed with Flat Earth conspiracy maps so I made my own, I hope it catches on 😇

[wings-of-ink]

Hello, my dears! Just checking in and letting you know where things are at.

1. Chapter 4 has been edited! Only, now I've decided to add just a little bit extra to it. There's a final choice at the end, and depending on what you pick, chapter 4 may continue (basically, you stay in the forest a longer). The other choice takes you out of the area and towards the city (to chapter 5 when it comes about). Each choice has its own benefits and consequences, too.

2. I promise to get to asks soon. I've had little energy or motivation for them lately. But no worries, I'm good. I've been in the story zone, and it's warm in here, and I don't want to come out just yet, lol.

3. I've also been in the map zone! Inkarnate, my source for all things map, has a 10 day free trial of Pro going this summer (no credit card needed!). I've taken the chance to make a couple of new things and remake the little map for the chapter 3 camp (see below). There's so many goodies to play with. It's great fun, and I highly recommend trying it!

4. I have been so absorbed in chapter 4, that I have not done the last 2 bonus scenes for chapter 3 yet. I have gotten them planned though! Once I'm happy with 4, it's next on the list.

Take care, everyone! ^_^

[toasterdrake]

do you ever think about hiccup not being able to find valka for a bit and having an initial burst of fear that she's left him again even though he knows, really, that's an irrational conclusion to come to so quickly, but a little voice in the back of his mind is yelling that it's not impossible

do you ever think about valka feeling stifled and uncomfortable being among people again so, overwhelmed, she allows cloudjumper to take her to peaceful respite in the sky, too desperate and too urgent to tell anyone. do you ever think about it weighing on valka -- after the first time, after thinking she'll 'only be a moment, he won't even notice' -- that it isn't right to do that to hiccup, but she has to juggle a burning need to take herself away before it all gets worse or a fear that can be soothed later

do you ever think about valka's autism and hiccup's abandonment issues clashing

[alltoounwellll]

Sirius could watch a sleeping Remus all night long. Forever even. Evading sleep himself in favour of indulging in something only he had the privilege of.

Tracing his fingertips along the scars on Remus’ face, turning silver from the light of the crescent moon that shone through the gap in the velvet draperies hanging around their bed. Watching as his brow furrowed and then relaxed from the touch of Sirius’ fingers. Listening to the rise and fall of his chest, and the quiet thumping of his heart through his shirt.

“Mmm,” he hears from Remus, eyes still closed. “What are you looking at?”

“You,” says Sirius, placing his chin on the other boy’s chest, watching him. “Just you.”

Remus cracks an eye open, “like what you see?”

“You are a treasure to behold, Remus John Lupin.”

[darwuzhere]

give this article a look please!

[cruciatusforeplay]

Map Of Whickber Street (Good Omens Soho around the bookshop)

I had a lot of fun watching the entire series again and working out where all the shops were in relation to one another. Some of these are mentioned in canon, some are just shown. I've taken some liberties with scale and the like. It wasn't clear which of these streets is Whickber Street, but I suppose there must be some mystery left in the world.

I'm adding some photo references and some more information about the various shops below the cut. If you can make out any more names, I'd love to know.

It's possible the deli is also part of Francesco's as they're both Italian, but there is a front door by the awning that could lead to the restaurant (not an unusual set up for Soho). Francesco's awning is the victim of Crowley's rainstorm.

Between Francesco's and Give Me Coffee is a shop selling formal menswear that I couldn't make out the name of.

Next to that is the coffee shop, Arnold's (the musical instruments shop), Marguerite's (the French restaurant), and newsagency (the news agents). We get a lovely shot of them from the upstairs of the bookshop (newsagents just barely visible).

Opposite them, we obviously have the bookshop itself and down from that, the record shop (which is called The Small Back Room, presumably in reference to having started at the back of Aziraphale's bookshop). The record shop is the orange shop you can see below. (There's also a clearer view of the newsagents).

The shop one down from the record shop is currently a question mark, but it does have a very bold colour scheme, and at one point we are a candelabra and a piece of fabric in the window display. I can't make out the name of this one either.

Opposite the bookshop we have the pub, the Dirty Donkey, whose front door is also the lift to heaven when summoned. Next to the pub is the doorway that leads you to the brothel (I picked the colour on the map from the new model friendly hands sign on the door), and next to that is Will Goldstone's Magic Shop. The magic shop, bookshop and the pub can also be seen in 1941 London flashbacks. Opposite the magic shop and next to the bookshop is another unknown shop. My gut says it sells lighting or maybe more general electrics, but I couldn't get a good enough shot to really see it.

At the end of this street we can see the Lucky Snake which I believe is a Chinese Restaurant, and just to the left we can glimpse a yellow shop, that I suspect is the herbalist that we see mentioned on Aziraphale's list of local businesses. Soho and Chinatown are geographical neighbours, and it's not uncommon to see Chinese herbalist or health shops in Soho. The red lanterns from the Lucky Snake continue down over the yellow shop, which is what gave me the impression it might be the herbalist.

Directly across the crossroads from the bookshop we have a fruit and vegetable market, that has a flower stand on the corner. That's where the tomatoes roll from when Gabe is walking through naked. (The veggies are obscured in the shot below, but we do see them in general)

If we follow the road between the flower market and the newsagents, I've extrapolated that the stage entrance to The Windmill (the theatre that we see in 1941) is there. We get a moderately clear view of it during the flashback, and the Windmill is a real place (to my knowledge it's somewhere between a burlesque club and a strip club these days), so I figured it would still be standing here too. We get the briefest of glimpses of the stage door still standing in modern London.

If you care for real world geography, then The Windmill's main entrance is on Great Windmill Street, right off Shaftesbury Avenue, on the corner of Archer Street.

I could not for the life of me find Brown's World of Carpets anywhere. Maybe he's not even actually a local business. He seems the type to fake it.

Here's a view of the area from heaven.

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Empire of Long Florida

[lgbtlunaverse]

I'm a contrarian little bitch with a terminal hunger for nuance so while I strongly dislike the convention of "top" and "bottom" being treated as innate, mandatory and mutually exclusive character roles in BL fiction and fandom culture (while not completely absent, I have noticed it's less of a problem in the yuri sphere) I also strife against the most common counterarguments being "real gay couples switch!" or the even worse version "[x character] loves [y character] so much, you really think they wouldn't switch for them?" because people can and do in fact have strict preferences or hard limits in real life and, I cannot stress this enough: someone's willingness to perform certain sex acts is not a measure of love.

Idk man maybe we have misidentified the problem as the superficial lack of switching rather than the actual issue of treating a sexual preference like a signifier for what kind of binary exclusive category person you are. It's not that real people never have preferences but that those preferences generally a) don't cleanly fit into a binary and b) don't say anything about who they are outside of that.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Riot Kings, page 187

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thank you to @bumbling-a-bee (Mickey, loose brown hair), @3-2-whump (Julio, short black hair), @whumpsday (Kane, sitting down), @grizzlie70 (Luke, pink hair), @whumble-beeee (Declan, rolled sleeves),

and @whumperofworlds (Kiefer, bun) for lending me your OCs! :D

[chlogummy]

I'm so proud of this map ;w; Can't wait to receive it as posters!

[shattered-eagle]

Well, here’s what I’ve been chipping away at a while now! While I’m certainly no artist, it’s been fun to work on and a useful reference for my own writing, and I hope you all enjoy it too! I hope it’s clear and readable, I’m not sure if the file will be too large for the game itself as I plan to include it and some smaller versions, so I might need to compress it down further.

This is an in-universe work from a Iudian cartographer (with all the biases and inaccuracies one might expect…) and not a ‘authorial’ view of the Empire and the lands surrounding it. There are quite a few areas I haven’t explored in the text yet, which I plan to append brief explanations (also in-universe) for as well.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!