#so very interesting

[gogandmagog]

Someone perfectly lovely, called Paul Hendricks, put together this thoughtful map of the Four Winds community. His website, where this map was obtained, is HERE. What follows below the cut are Paul’s own words, detailing how he went about putting this together this map, complete with thorough book citations and explanations of inconsistencies!

“This is the rough map I've put together, based in the clues mentioned below, which are taken from various of the Anne books. (See note on the format of the references.)

The map uses a 'browser-safe' palette, so you should see roughly the same colours that I do. The orange/brown lines are roads. The dark-green areas are woods. The light blue is, of course, the sea.

Reconstructing the setting for the four books based on Four Winds and Ingleside has proved much more difficult than for Avonlea. Beginning with the premise that Four Winds is about 60 miles from Avonlea (AHoD, ch 1, 10th page), I tried a layout based on the area around Sturgeon, Gaspereaux and Georgetown, in the south-east part of the Island. Eventually it proved impossible to put together a consistent map on this basis. What is more, I realised that there was no evidence in LMM's diaries that she had ever been to that part of the Island.

I then tried a construction based on the area around New London, as there were many similarities of detail, and the area was well known to LMM. This fits in reasonably well with the descriptions of Four Winds in AHoD. There are some difficulties and inconsistencies noted below, but alternatives (such as putting the House of Dreams and the Lighthouse on the East side of the bay) have turned out to be unworkable. I have also managed to reconstruct the area around Ingleside, on the assumption that it is in the position occupied by Clifton/New London. Given the basic framework of roads that results, the result is more convincing than I had hoped, and seems to fit in quite well with the text of AoI, RV and RoI.

House of Dreams 'looks to the sunset and has harbour before it'. Dining room looks out on the harbour (AHoD, ch 2, 4th page). Living room windows and front door look towards the lighthouse (AHoD, ch 2, 5th page). There is a brook going through the corner of the garden.

The entrance of the harbour is between a bar of sand dunes and a sandstone cliff. The fishing village is where the sand bar meets the harbour shore (AHoD, ch 5, 1st page).

It is dusk, but there is no mention of seeing the setting sun. This suggests that going from Glen St Mary towards the house they are facing north or east. This is consistent if Glen St Mary is south, and the house is on the west side of the harbour (AHoD, ch 5, 1st page).

There is a chapel on the far side of the bay. The lighthouse is to the north, as they approach the house from the Glen. The house is 2 miles from the Glen, and 1 mile from the lighthouse. Miss Cornelia's house is between the House of Dreams and the Glen (AHoD, ch 5, 2nd page).

Poplars line the lane from road to house; fir trees between house and sea (confirms that the sea is to the 'back' of the house (AHoD, ch 5, 4th page).

Leslie's house is further up the brook, 'among the willows' (AHoD, ch 6, 4th page). The lane of Leslie's house opens onto the 'upper road' (AHoD, ch 9, 2nd page). Miss Cornelia's house is half a mile from the house of dreams (AHoD, ch 6, 5th page).

'From the deceit of the McAllisters...' (AHoD, ch 6, 5th page) is a paraphrase of an actual saying referring to LMM's relations, the Simpsons, the McNeils and the Clarkes, see also page xv of introduction to volume one of selected journals. Confirms the view that the families referred to in the 'over-harbour' area are modelled on LMM's own family in Clifton, Cavendish, etc.

As Anne and Gilbert are walking towards the lighthouse, the house 'up the brook' is to their right (AHoD, ch 9, 2nd page). There is some difficulty in fitting this in with my map. We might perhaps conceive an arrangement where the house by the brook was to the right hand side of the road to the lighthouse, though the road would have to be not so close to the shore as the modern road.

The distinction (AHoD, ch 10, 1st page) between the 'harbour shore', the 'sand shore' and the 'rock shore' is consistent with New London Bay - corresponding respectively to the shore inside the bay, the shore on the north side of the bar, and the shore to the north of the lighthouse.

'North shore' presumably means 'North shore of PEI' (AHoD, ch 14, 1st page). It was this which first alerted me to the possible inconsistency with my original presumption about the location of Four Winds.

'North-western sky' (AHoD, ch 18, 1st page), implies that the lighthouse is north-west of the house of dreams.

The Fishing Cove (AHoD, ch 27, 1st page) must be on the shore by the sand bar (therefore the same place as the fishing village). Anne and Gilbert go there via the lighthouse because intending to row over to avoid the long drive round by road which would otherwise be necessary.”

— Paul Hendricks

[odericevertz]

anyone has thoughts on mm/martin……..because I DO!!!!!!!

[bornetoblood]

Gehrman is like Victor Frankenstein if he was working class and Laurence is like Dorian Gray if you gave him a physician licence send post.

[victonrevival]

sik n snoo's approaches to their enlistment were so different. Snoo poured all his heart and feelings and felt his emotions and wrote and performed the saddest songs ever. Meanwhile sik is like no it must be happy. my fanmeeting has to be fun. We'll be happy. Who is leaving? Me? What are u talking abt. I'm not going anywhere (actual quote from today's live)

[allagashed]

whenever i say “screaming crying throwing up” this is what i mean

[exhausted-undead]

she... oh I love women :')

[13thpythagoras]

apparently this type of cancer treatment is in some cases achieving up to 90% cancer apoptosis in a 14 hour treatment? only side effect is kidney stones, which are harmlessly eliminated by ingesting the powder and/or tincture of chanka piedra?

strong disclaimer, any medical practitioner tainted by the need of patents should not provide input. I am seeking patents as much as the next guy, but it doesn't mean I'm going to stifle science to protect my patents. Plus uh, my patents are so good you could cure cancer and I would still be selling billions so whatevs let's go...did I just disprove my own point and turn it into a bigger stick situation? fuck me lmao #selfAwareness haha nah I'd gladly and proudly be like a bus mechanic if our society was copiously using the technology I'm developing. But we're not even developing what I'm building... plus this new vitamin C thing works for cancer, wow

[circusfishh]

Me, my girlfriend and we both covered in blood

[quixoticmirror]

Could you elaborate on this actually? This made me really happy but honestly I’m tempted to ask “was it bad enough” as if… you didn’t just make a list about that 😭😭😭

This hit my heart a lot because a lot of mine was online and what people would say is “horrific”

Thank you again

Online abuse doesn’t make it “less real.” What happened to you was very real, and you are allowed to have very real feelings as a result.

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[notherpuppet]

Art School AU LOL 🦌🎨 based on true stories hahaha

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[cryptvokeeper]

I don’t go here f1 tumblr did I get this race right

[aikoiya]

Oh, thank you for this. Now my brain is absolutely working!

I think it's be interesting if Drumm was in charge of Summer & Autumn while Holor was in charge of Spring & Winter. I could also see them being very sun & moon or yin & yang coded. Meaning to opposite sides of the same whole.

Maybe they often finish each other's sentences? Maybe they sometimes speak in unison? Maybe they represent equal opposites?

I'm also getting the vice that Labryn might have a lot of pride issues.

I've been thinking that Lorule's Triforce could represent similar virtues, but in a different way. Like, maybe Daring &... 2 other things. Not quite sure yet.

But my thoughts are that Ravio is Daring, in that he's still very brave, but he's more so in a passive, enterprising, almost puppet master sort of way. Very cunning. In this way, he could be considered Courage, but played from a more Wisdom-based perspective. But this would make Hilda Wisdom played from a Power-based perspective, so more of a general & battle strategist. Meanwhile, this would suggest that Ganondorf's counterpart would be Power from a Courage-based perspective, which would be interesting to think about.

So, my thoughts are that maybe Loria could be an example of the opposite of what Hylia was, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Sorry, when I see good ideas, my brain gets moving. Often leaving me behind in the process. 😅

I’ve been thinking about the big deities of Hyrule and decided to make designs for different deity designs.

Hylia is the Goddess of Heroes, ordered by the golden three to watch over the Triforce when they left. She is the goddess of Hyrule, though it existed when she no longer existed because she gave up her immortality to defeat Demise. So really, no goddess protects the Triforce, and instead it scattered after ocarina of time when Ganondorf tried to grab it. But yeah Hyrule is kind of a mess with no Goddess to protect it. I lvoe big bird woman but honestly, I wanted her to look like Hylians so she’s a regular Hylian with some godly designs added. Yayy.

Then there’s Labryn, the war god of Labrynna. He’s focused on war and strategy and so he has the owl insignia to kind of represent Nayru’s wisdom. He’s kind of meant to be a mixture of Ares and Athena. He’s fun! Very rageful and has no respect for Hylia or her heroes. Hope he doesn’t create a labyrinth to test a hero 😳 that’d be crazy tho

Then we got Hollow and Drumm, the dancing gods of Holodrum. I want that kingdom to be focused on entertainment so I gave them the comedy and tragedy masks which is fun. Their designs are loosely based after the oracle Din too and yeaaaah. Idk what they do but they just kinda vibe and do their own thing.

Then there’s Oshus, king of the oceans. I feel like the ocean is its own domain, it’s own kingdom. I mean in our world, the ocean is its own world, so it makes sense for the ocean here to be separate from the kingdoms on land. So Oshus is doing his own thing and watching over the world of the ocean. And I also just love him. Def adding a ton of power to him, putting him on the same level as Hylia but idc it’s what he deserves. Now, if he was so powerful, why couldn’t he defeat Bellum? Well… Hylia had Demise so…. And she didn’t survive that battle sooooo…. Tho he’s not involved with Hyrule, Oshus has a lot more respect for Hyrule and its hero after phantom hourglass :3c

And idk, I wanted to draw Loria. Idk how her world exists she’s just kinda there vibin.

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Into the pit? More like into the daddy issues

[notbecauseofvictories]

"I am going to get a good grade in ___________, a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve" drifts through my brain with positively alarming regularity.