#reposting from my insta

[te4k3ttle]

Sammeth and maximus if telltale wasn't fucking around

[impulse-control-not-found]

World-building Islands

-from someone who lives on an island

Everything Influences EVERYTHING which is technically the case everywhere but usually islands are smaller which means more intensity I guess?

Really it's all about the location because the location of your island will influence the weather, the plant life & animals and the resources. Then the weather will also influence the food available which in turn influences the plants?, animals and people. The location will also influence the resources of your island which also influences the people which then influences the plants and animals once again and over the years this all happens under a period known as development which is an infinite term technically and and I am getting carried away. Look at this chart which explains hopefully better than me..

Basically the cycle of life happens and evolves with or without us.

Now let's talk about Weather because I assume you have the general location already set in your head (the middle of some sort of body of water hopefully)

Why? Because islands are everywhere! The question is: where is your island located and what will the weather be like due to its location? For example, the island I live on is smack dab right above the equator which means hardly any season changes. The temperature stays at an average of 75-95 degrees all year round and in school we have tsunami drills rather than tornado drills. Hurricanes can hit some parts of the island hard but other parts can barely be affected at all while the winds can get strong enough to usually leave the sky cloudless almost all year round.

How did your island come to be? Is it a volcano? Or a piece of land that broke off from a bigger piece of land over years of world development? Is it flat with large cliffs or is there a beach with tall mountain(s)? Does it snow on those mountains? Even though I live on a island with high temperatures, it does still snow at the top of the volcanoes which sounds strange but it does happen! When it does, the government shuts the area down for reasons I'm not entirely sure. Also with the plants and animals! There's a reason all the native food from my island has barely any spices. Because there are no spices that originally grew here. All the native food that we eat nowadays that is spicy was brought in from other places. For example, kimchi is very popular here but it obviously didn't originate here. And with animals, what birds and fish live on your island? What foods does the island provide that feeds them? For example, I live in a place that has no snakes, an extinct species of bird and an abundance of fish.

Almost always the culture on islands will be significantly different than other places. Whether your island is small or big or whether it has one culture or multiple spread around, the people are what make up the most importance. Remember, a lot of islands are pretty isolated so until they're "discovered" or travel is commercialized, they have virtually no influence from other places and build entirely on their own. This can make technological developments slower or faster then other places. Speaking of isolation, how did people get there? They certainly didn't spawn there out of eggs (unless it's a fantasy race in which case you're on your own for that one). The history of how people got to the island I live on is not 100% concrete yet due to no one writing things down at the time but it's pretty much unanimously agreed upon that people from other islands decided to discover more and set out on journeys to find other islands. That's how more islands were discovered, inhabited and grew on their own. It's why Polynesians, Hawaiians, Samoans and Maori are different and yet from an outside eye, can be thought as very similar.

Also consider visitors. How would people react when first coming to the island? How would the natives react? To be most historically accurate for example, when people from the mainland came to the island I live on in the 1700's they killed half the population alone, not with their guns or swords but with disease. Disease that the natives had no immunity against because they didn't have measles on the island until the foreigners came. Would people from other places try to take over your island?

And finally... Whether your story takes place in modern or medieval times, it doesn't change the fact that SHIPPING IS EXPENSIVE. Which is obvious because it's an island and resources are far less reliable (depending on your population count). Isolation plus the need for resources from other places makes for shipping and tax to be higher because of the long cargo ride, either by plane or boat. And what about warfare? If a war broke out and the island I'm on was targeted for a bombing, I'd have nowhere to flee to. I'd have to accept that I might die. Would your islands be safe havens? Would they be an exile?

And for a more fantasy effect: Would they harbor unique magic only resourced on that island? Would it be a place to train soldiers and magic users? A place for royalty only? A place where the worst of the worst are sent for punishment?

I hope these questions help round out your islands! Good luck <3

[lyzpuffs]

Them = me heppi ✨🥹

[erinwantstowrite]

ok now is the time where i admit that alighterwood got into my head and now i have a batfam rewrite au plotline sitting in my outline drafts

[beaglesbites]

phoenix wright if he was even cooler (and cosplayed steel samurai).. ohoho...

[ghastlygrimz]

Old drawing

[dazedeye]

happy 50 years Charles!!!! hope you remembered your face by this point

[virenkinnie]

what’s up guys i’m back at it with another epic awesome au!! on todays menu we have an au i literally forgot about for 2 years until today 👅👅

it’s a “what-if” type of thing where callum leaves without a word to study magic instead of rayla leaving to find viren, and rayla and ezran kinda tweak out and spend those two years looking for him. very fun! i will make an actual storyline soon but for now i’m just fucking around with some silly doodles

[kyosaya-enthusiast]

Fem reigen ily...

First actual mob psycho fanart blehhh

[mercifullymad]

Radical compassion is a will to care for, a commitment to feel with, a striving to learn from, and an openness to be vulnerable before a precarious other, though they may be drastically dissimilar to yourself. Radical compassion is not an appeal to an idyllic oneness where difference is blithely effaced. Nor is it a smug projection of oneself into the position of another, thereby displacing that other. Nor is it an invitation to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes and amble, like a tourist, through their lifeworld, leaving them existentially barefoot all the while. Rather, radical compassion is an exhortation to ethically walk and sit and fight and build alongside another whose condition may be utterly unlike your own. Radical compassion works to impart care, exchange feeling, transmit understanding, embolden vulnerability, and fortify solidarity across circumstantial, sociocultural, phenomenological, and ontological chasms in the interest of mutual liberation. It persists even and especially toward beings who are the objects of contempt and condemnation from dominant value systems.

Most urgently, mad methodology primes us to extend radical compassion to the madpersons, queer personae, ghosts, freaks, weirdos, imaginary friends, disembodied voices, unvoiced bodies, and unReasonable others, who trespass, like stowaways or fugitives, in Reasonable modernity.

How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce

[vanimation7]

Reposting some Lackadaisy art from my Instagram ^^

[pjshermann]

The A Little Life book Instagram page reposted my vanity fair Willem art that’s it ive peaked this is the absolute prime of my ALL fanbase contributions it’s all downhill from here lads

[mush-crossing]

gonzo’s cabin ♡

[bigredsartt]

‼️PROSHIP DNI‼️

hai encanto tumblr!!!!! haiiiii!!!!!!!

[beaglesbites]

always an angel never a god... (more beanix under the cut :3)

[someones-there-1]

hi hello welcome to my new account. it will mainly just be fanart and yelling about the magnus archives. i’ll be posting art under #pey-art and any essays under #pey-rambles :)

(edit: now that i’m doing tma spiderman au stuff that’ll also be under #spiderjon hehe)