#Administrator's Note

[rolorules]

Administrator's Note: Thank You!

A little shoutout and thanks are due to all rebloggers, commenters, likers and lurkers on and of this blog, particularly to @roloko-karlstein , who made it reach that 10,000 reblogs milestone and has been a follower for ages.

[studylabs]

16.08.2024 / friday night

i have three finals tomorrow at 2 p.m. and didn't study at all. procrastination is no joke.

anyway— i will study for as long as i phsically can.

#nowplaying 🌷

[couldtheycatchkira]

[loriache]

Notes on the World Map: Melini

I'm kind of annoyed the complete World Bible doesn't have a version of the World Map with Melini filled in... unless it does and I missed it, but I literally bought it and looked at the relevant pages for this post! Anyway, I think this is the closest we have. I'm looking at this and -- Kahka Brud literally doesn't have a coast anymore. No wonder they're pissed!! Any industry involving the sea, trade, fishing, etc. is basically impossible now - you'd have to get to the coastline on the west side of the continent. That's probably miles!

Speaking of miles... how big is Melini?

This is where I got... really unwell. So first off, let's assume the official Dunmeshi World Map is a Mercator projection. I think the stage cartography in the Dunmeshi universe is at, it's going to be most important that maps are useful for marine navigation. So we can't just drop an approximate scale onto the grid and leave it at that; we have to work out where the equator is.

The way I've done that is via two places that seem like they have a close(ish) real world equivalent - in terms of climate and culture - Utaya and the Island of Wa (Toshiro's home). The Island of Wa is obviously Japan, and I've seen plausible arguments that Utaya is probably a climate/location similar to Nepal.

So, here's the (approximate) location and latitude of those places on a Mercator map of Earth:

If we arbitarily superimpose the two maps, asssuming they're the same size, we can draw a theoretical equator line that puts the two places at the same latitude, though on a different side of the equator. Putting them on the same side as Earth made the equator really low. I feel like that's ... unlikely, so we're going with this.

That puts Melini at a rough latitude of .. ~55? which would, using the same scale as the previous map, make two squares (at that latitude) about 600 miles. Very roughly calculating the size as given on the map based on that, that gives a width of (approximately) 250 miles and a length of 400, coming in at a bit less than 100,000 miles² due to the shape. Probably it's between the sizes of the UK and Aotearoa.

That really helps me visualise what Laios is working with here when I think about post-canon. Though I reckon what I've done here is "Just enough research to really annoy an expert". Sorry if you're that expert. I really don't know much about cartography <3 It's like that xkcd comic:

On distances, as someone who lives in the UK; with a car, you can get almost anywhere in a day if you're prepared to drive until late. But they don't have cars, so getting from one end to the other would take multiple days of travel. It'd take about 7 days to walk the approx "length", 400~ miles (from the top of Scotland to Liverpool) (according to Google Maps) and 2 days cycling, so probably 3-5 days with horses, depending on how you pushed them. That'd vary a bit depending on terrain, of course.

[midnight-els]

For All Mankind | Margo & Aleida vs NASA Administrators

1x10 - City Upon A Hill 3x10 - Stranger in a Strange Land

Bonus:

[the-uncanny-dag]

The fact that the Helen/Pauling ship doesn't have a funny secondary name is an astronomical failure on TF2 fandom's part. We have to brainstorm ideas for it now, I prefer "Chain of Command"

[ravenrambles6229]

Making the administration a place within the realm of madness was fucking inspired actually

[okaybooner]

(you know you can block people you don’t want in your inbox, right?)

-@a-fellow-courier

is that in the same place i found the pdf

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

Here's my wonderfulxstrange work for @faggotwalkwithme!!! I hope you enjoy! Based off the Twin Peaks/Reanimator prompt.

[cendiar]

Good to see USICH putting out guidance in favor of NOT criminalizing homelessness. This is your daily reminder that administrative policies matter, and if we want to keep doing boring, mediocre-effectiveness, but good policy change - as opposed to destructive criminalizing-homelessness policy change - we need to vote!!

[no27-autonation-honda]

yall have GOT to start being more normal about people from different countries

[rolorules]

Administrator's Note

Things Don't Always Work Out as Planned

To give you a few examples: I had intended to resume the How Rolo Sells series in earnest for the blog's tenth anniversary, but this will have to wait till 2023. A new short story for Christmas also didn't happen. Sorry about that.

Last but not least: I still have too many King Rolo keychains left that were a giveaway to celebrate this blogs tenth birtday. So if you live in the EU or the UK and still want to get one (as long as supplies last), PM me.

Thank you for your attention. See you next year.

[0954]

Rightt so because of college and everything, im not sure if ill be able to post a lot of edits but i did find some of my old edits from yulessu/wiinkya backed up here and there so im wondering if anyone would be interested in reposts ???

[masterofmaagnetism]

help ??

[toytulini]

reeeeeeally wish. it didnt feel. like the needs of my body vs the needs of my brain were actively in fucking conflict with each other in a way that makes it impossible to function or exist

[gravitasmalfunction]

my controversial opinion is that the risk of discovery and consequences for a business that edits timesheet data should be greater than the consequences for the business for just admitting the scheduling error and paying the overtime that results.