#flat earth map

[dosesofcommonsense]

Flat Earth baby!

[reality-detective]

The evidence is overwhelming 🤔

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

A worldly collection of vintage earth imagery.

[box953]

I have nothing but love for Minkowski lesbian truthers but in my heart she, at the very least, fully believes she’s straight. I might be bisexual but I’m in a loving relationship with a man so I’ve never stopped long enough to think about that. Partially because Minkowski being as straight (ha) laced as possible in comparison to the rest of the team is very funny to me. And also something something minlace Minkowski bisexual awakening.

[seams-unusualbc]

I was literally just saying this. The reason their map is so compelling is because it’s a killer story universe idea🤣 I went down a bit of a rabbit hole a few weeks ago:

It’s beautiful.

Flat earthers are dumb as hell that being said this map is sick as hell and I wish it was real

[gallery-cool]

Flat earther worldbuilding goes way too hard

[saddayfordemocracy]

The world is your flat. Please knock before entering.

"Flat World" by Jan Vormann,

Residence Revisited, Digital Print, 50 x 80 cm, 2008;

[eldetalledelaverdad]

Urbano monte - mapa

Urbano monte, cartógrafo recreó uno de los mapas más extraños y reales en su época, qué tan lejos de la verdad sobre este planeta...

[trilobiter]

I don't understand how he could have been taken in by such foolishness. He has an MBA!

So there's this Flat Earther who said he was traveling to the Ice Wall last September to prove the Earth was flat. He has not posted since.

Here are some theories on his current whereabouts:

He fell off

Too busy partying on the continent of Geminia to post anymore

He discovered a second, bigger ice wall

He died alone in the frigid wastes of Antarctica, aware at last of his folly as he slowly, painfully expired, his body never again to be seen by human eyes

Here be dragons (they ate him)

[adamahosophy]

[seams-unusualbc]

This is a flat earther map and that’s appropriate lololol! 😅

Here’s a “modern” flat-earther map for comparison:

The map of the world according to Anaximander (610-546 BC). He is considered one of the founders of geography.

[geneticallymodifiedshitposts]

today i learned that the earth is flat. i was so shocked. i thought it was round. then i realized i was looking at a map.

[well-maxed-kaiser]

idk what I expected of 2023 but it sure didn't include first a 8yo child and then her mom having a geocentric view of the solar system??

[too-many-muses]

That map is actually not made by flat earthers, they are u/HypotheticalElephant on reddit, its a map based on the idea of the every single conspiracy being real.

why don't flat earthers just get into creative writing

[littlestpersimmon]

Somewhere lost in time, a frustrated trans man mathematician figured out the fifth postulate by falling in love with a map maker; as he watched his cartographer lover (gay) warp the earth's rounded geography onto a flat surface.. I think about the inherent romance that *entire* families in Baghdad had lineages dedicated to trying to solve Euclidean geometry.. continuing a loved one's research like how monarch butterflies have generations that live 4x longer in devotion to completing their great migration.

[writers-potion]

Could you give any advice for "descriptive" writing of any scene or action scenes or mapping out the scenery (Mountains, forests, streets etc) - i believe this is a struggle for Non-English speaking writers due to lack of vast vocabulary.

Common Scenery Description Tips

Vocabulary is clearly an important part of description, but it doesn’t have to be a limit. The most important thing about description in fiction is picking the right details to mention:

How does the details add to the mood of the story? A mountain ridge will be dark, gray and foggy if the overall mood is meant to be mysterious/brooding. In contrast, a mountain can be brilliantly snow-capped, lush green and “smiling down” upon the character if they’re out for a light stroll.

How are the contrasts/complementary aspects being brought out?

Are you using the five senses? You can even combine the senses, ie. blue ringing of the church bells

(If you have the POV character) what 

Some other tips for setting description:

Use similes and metaphors. Creative figures of speech always get my attention as a reader. 

Mention story-specific elements. For example, “The sky was the shade of Zoes’ eyes” or “the mountains looked like a group of trolls sleeping on one another” 

Be concise. Today’s readers don’t want to read paragraphs and paragraphs about one landscape. Outline the larger elements in the scene, their location and general mood. Add some details, then move on. 

If the same location appears multiple times, differentiate the description little by little as you write, instead of trying to lay out one scene in too much detail at once. 

That said, here are some helpful words/phrases:

Forests/Mountains

Color: bone-white, phantom-white, hazy gray

Sound: rumbling, booming grumbling, bellowing clapping, trundling, growling, thundering

Shape: crinkled, crumpled, knotted, grizzled, rumpled, wrinkled, craggy, jagged, gnarled, rugose  

Action: sky-punching/stabbing/piercing/spearing, heaven-touching/kissing, snow-cloaked/hooded/wreathed/festooned

Sloping sides, sharp/rounded ridges, high point/peak/summit

Majestic, gargantuan humbling, vast, massive, titanic, towering, monumental, mighty, vast, humbling

Mountains having faces, etc. 

Seas

Color: blue-green, crystal-clear crystalline, emerald, frothy, hazy, glistening, pristine, turquoise

Size: boundless, abyssal, fathomless, unconquerable, vast, wondrous

Sound: billowing, blustering, bombastic

Action: boisterous, agitated, angry, biting, breaking, brazen. Churning, bubbling, changing, brooding, calm, convulsing, enticing erratic, fierce, tempestuous, turbulent, undulating

Alluring, blissful, betwitching, breezy, captivating, chaotic, chilly, elemental, disorienting

Deserts

Sight: A landscape of sand, flat, harsh sunlight, cacti, tumbleweeds, dust devils, cracked land, crumbing rock, sandstone, canyons, wind-worn rock formations, tracks, dead grasses, vibrant desert blooms (after rainfall), flash flooding, dry creek

Sounds: Wind (whistling, howling, piping, tearing, weaving, winding, gusting), birds cawing, flapping, squawking, the fluttering shift of feasting birds, screeching eagles, the sound of one’s own steps, heavy silence, baying wild dogs

Smell: Arid air, dust, one’s own sweat and body odor, dry baked earth, carrion

Touch: Torrid heat, sweat, cutting wind, cracked lips, freezing cold (night) hard packed ground, rocks, gritty sand, shivering, swiping away dirt and sweat, pain from split lips and dehydration, numbness in legs, heat/pain from sun stroke, clothes…

Taste: Grit, dust, dry mouth & tongue, warm flat canteen water, copper taste in mouth, bitter taste of insects for eating, stringy wild game (hares, rats) the tough saltiness of hardtack, biscuits or jerky, an insatiable thirst or hunger

Streets

Dusty, fume-filled, foul, sumptuous, broad, bucolic, decayed, mournful, seemingly endless, empty, unpaved, lifeless, dreadfully genteel, muddy, nondescript, residential/retail

Bleach, flimsy, silent, narrow, crooked, furrowed, smoggy, commonplace, tumbledown, treeless, shady

The blacktop streets absorb the spring sunshine as if intent upon sending heaven's warmth back through my soles.

The streets absorbed the emotions in the air, the city as the steady and reassuring mother.

The streets were a marriage of sounds, from bicycle wheels to chattering.

In the refreshing light of early daytime, the streets had the hues of artistic dreamtime, soft yet bold pastels.

Cobbled streets flowed as happy rivers in sunlight.

Parties

Some extra tips for locations like parties, where lots of action is going around practically everywhere:

Focus on the important characters - where they are, who they’re with. 

Provide some overall description of the structure of the party scene (a pool, a two-storey house with yard?), then move on to details. 

Don’t try to describe everything. 

whirlwind of laughter and music, a symphony of joyous chaos.

It was a gathering that shimmered with the glow of twinkling lights and echoed with the rhythm of dancing feet.

The air was alive with excitement, buzzing with conversations and the clink of glasses.

Every corner held a story waiting to unfold, a moment waiting to be captured in memory.

It was a tapestry of colors, a mosaic of faces, each adding their own brushstroke to the vibrant canvas of the night.

Laughter cascaded like a waterfall, infectious and unstoppable, filling the room with warmth.

The night was a carnival of senses, with aromas of delicious food mingling with the melodies that filled the air.

Time seemed to slip away in the whirl of the party, moments blending into each other like colors on a palette.

The energy of the crowd was electric, pulsing through the room like a heartbeat, binding everyone in a shared moment of celebration.

It was a celebration of life, where worries faded into the background, and the present moment was all that mattered.