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[thecentrium]

What is the layout of the RV interior? (Elliott from Earth)

AKA there was no good reason for me to investigate this so deeply

Was I trying to build the RV as a house in The Sims and realized I had to actually figure out its full layout for that? Maybe, maybe not…let’s get to it though

So we can put together a pretty comprehensive layout of Elliott and Frankie’s RV just by looking at scene backgrounds, plus trying to make sure the recreated layout roughly fits the size of their type of RV. Their RV is what’s called a Class C, which can vary in size

As I tried to put together a layout “map” of the interior, the interior size it ended up reaching put the overall vehicle length at roughly 30 feet (see pic of random example 30 ft RV below)

With an interior length of about 28 feet including the overcab space, and a typical width of about 8 feet, a rough floor map ends up looking something like this:

Now most of these rooms and their furnishings are fully seen and known, since the living room and kitchen/dining area are all together (and there’s plenty of different scenes throughout that space to show it off) and there’s multiple shots of Elliott’s bunk too.

But…we have a few mysteries left. What’s the deal with the bathroom, and the (presumed) bedroom for Frankie in the back there?

Let’s start with the bathroom. In RVs, some models—usually small ones needing to save space, but Elliott and Frankie have a kinda unorthodox design with their RV, and maybe they just wanted the convenience and saved space with their RV too—have a “wet bath” for the bathroom. A wet bath is a small bathroom where the shower space and the rest of the bathroom are combined, so that basically the room itself IS the shower but it also contains other bathroom amenities.

We get only a glimpse of it just once, but enough to see it IS a wet bath:

There’s only that one very limited shot of it, but I think the rest of the room can be estimated, as you can see from the layout map I drew lol

Most wet baths, especially more room-sized ones like that, usually have a sink in one corner. We know it’s not in either of the back two corners we can see in that scene, and it can’t be mounted on the right wall surface there since that’s also the door, so that only leaves one corner where it could be.

From there it’s easy to just use process of elimination again to figure out where the toilet would be too—not visible at the back wall, can’t be against the right wall, and based on typical wet bath layout (and seeing where Mo is standing) it’s likely not on the left wall.

Other than that, looking close at the shot of the room for the other main structures of it, there’s a built-in shower shelf with bottles in it, the shower head and controls, and what seems to be a rounded corner shelf in the back

Overall, in the context of the scene it ends up something like this, with the sink and toilet out of view of the “camera” and the characters standing in front of them. Enjoy my awful drawn-over diagram it’s not pretty or perfectly accurate but it should get the point across lol

But enough looking way too closely at that. What about the other room—(seemingly) Frankie’s room? We see even less, but there’s still a bit of material to go off of: a glimpse of it through the doorway in one shot, and another view from the hole punched in its wall

It’s probably a pretty small area made for just a bed and a bit of storage space/surfaces, considering the look and placement of it within the layout here as well as just how smaller RV bedrooms are usually made. So while there’s not really enough visuals of it to extrapolate a whole layout like the bathroom, there’s probably not that much stuff in this room in the first place.

We can see what’s likely the end of a bed, and seemingly some sort of table surface with it there…

…as well as, in the other shot, a decorated wall and seemingly a shelf or table surface with a picture frame and other stuff on it (I brightened the pic for visibility but that kind of destroyed the quality)

So that gives a rough idea of it being mostly taken up by the bed, with some sort of thin table/shelf surface further in against the back wall, and maybe also an extra table surface by the footboard of the bed there near the door

With those two rooms mostly figured out, probably as best as we can from the material we’ve got, that solves the two big “mystery areas” of the RV layout and gives us a pretty much complete picture for it!

The only other note would be regarding the vehicle cab (where the driver’s seat and controls are)

I could go into more detail on why exactly I think this, but even just for simplicity’s sake it seems to me that while Elliott’s cab-over bed space was generated as part of their habitation pod on the Centrium, the actual vehicle cab part that would be below it isn’t there anymore due to not being part of the “home area” the tech recreated, and the divider wall that separated it just functions as a regular non-opening wall in the habitation pod now.

So that’s pretty much all I’ve got—most of this is honestly the combined conclusion of YEARS spent looking closely at the environments and design of the show for reference or theory reasons, so I hope you enjoyed the results of my long observations all put together!!

[labratboygirl]

BEST WILL WOOD SONG?????

these songs. r like brothers 2 me

[silverspleen]

I think, while in my vague “hmmmmm vampires” mood, that I will rewatch the first episode of Moffat’s 2020 Dracula, madness that it is.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[rittzart]

a fat fluffy femme and her scrawny little butch <3

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[seren-dipitous-art]

I’ve been obsessed with the Olympics for the past week, and obsessed with Dick Grayson for longer, so here’s the crossover we all deserve.

Plus, gorgeous sweaty acrobat in gymnastics poses? Only positives.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

How Bill was defeated and captured by Ford in my Gf AU! He basically just tricked Bill into accepting a deal that trapped him within Ford's mind and under his control :]

He may have gotten a little out of hand though....

>:)

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[cryptocism]

that half-blank, half-apocalyptic look

"i can b ur angle or yuor devil" etc etc "get a man who can do both" etc etc

obsessed with this vamp i think he should get to do whatever he wants forever

[drumlincountry]

I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.

A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."

And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.

All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

[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

[shentheauthor]

CHAOS?

[wormtime123]

his first ever call from his dad. have you thought about it