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automatopsied · 10 months ago

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flatland ocs!!! cylla belongs to my wonderful amazing girlfriend @rustedtusks but I made the art for both!!! :D

#my art #oc #art #flatland #flatlander #spaceland #spacelander #flatland a romance of many dimensions #flatland oc

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waxdream · 10 months ago

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In flatland, are the irregular shapes a metaphor for disability or being lgbtqia+? Or intersex? Or all of them?

I only ask because the narrative seems to draw inspiration from both. Gender in Flatland is determined by whether or not you're a shape or a line segment. The lower classes of triangles are irregular, and they are dehumanised (deconfigured?) To the point that they are considered to have smaller brains by the narrative based on angle size. I personally think that due to flatland's satire, and hints throughout the text, A square is an unreliable and biased narrator who is indoctrinated fully in the society of flatland. So what he says about the angle of triangles, and the smartness of women, shouldn't necessarily be taken for granted. I would be interested to know if the part about the triangles is a reference to phrenology and how stupid it is, but I digress.

Irregular flatlanders are reconfigured at birth. This suggests it's considered a disability, however, the irregularity doesn't seem to be disabling. In fact, the only effect it has on the person is that it makes their class impossible to determine - something which would have social effects. We also only see evidence of male children being born irregular, which is a common stereotype of autism, and the coupling with 'social detriments' being the result of irregularity, it could lead to this conclusion. However, I doubt that Abbot was commenting on this in 1884, though that doesn't prevent modern readers from taking it in this direction. I just think that he wouldn't have written 'reconfiguration' into the story, a deadly process of creating "regular" children if it was a metaphore for disability - it was often a lot more common after all to hide disabled folk away. Although, if any historians out there know about parallels in victorian society, I'd be really interested.

I'm most convinced by my reading that Abbott was talking about intersex children when writing about reconfiguration. Most of Flatland is a social commentary after all - following the wrongs of victorian society on how classes are treated, with a larger focus on women. Now, with sight recognition in flatland, women are mistaken for squares from certain angles, and sometimes for circles. Imagine if you will, an irregular semicircle - a male who would often be mistaken for a woman. Considering the sexism Abbott talks about in this world, I think that irregularity being a metaphor for being intersex is plausible. Especially since the children are reconfigured at a very young age.

When I first read the book, I read irregularity as a disability and nothing more. But now I'm thinking about it more, I really would love to know other's opinions. The book is old, and I'm not sure if my thoughts are plausible - but then again, it seems implausible that the book is mocking the sexism in victorian society. Yet it does - lots of evidence points to Abbott being a protofeminist writer. It's not a stretch to me that he might hold a stance against the mutilation of intersex children. Or perhaps a stance against conversion therapy. Let me know I guess :)

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meloncholicmonosodium · 5 months ago

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remade spheres design [ because it was bugging me ] & FINALLY making flatlander designs (starting w a. squares wife ) cause ive been slacking off making em designs cause …… spheres ……….. and schools there 22 i guess

anywways i might have 2 make a few tweaks on my king of lineland design .. nothing 22 major though

#flatland #sphere #a frau line #flatland a romance of many dimensions #flatland designs #flatlander #AAAAAA THE SPHERES ARE OVERTAKING MY BRAIN AAAAAAAAAAHHH #also baldsi basics as well AHHHHHHHHH #gijinka #math book vs math game who wins my full attention? lets find out!#0_0 #was gonna say more but 4got oooooopsies

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genuflectx · 1 year ago

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...some yet more spacious Space, some more dimensionable Dimensionality, from the vantage-ground of which we shall look down together upon the revealed insides of solid things...

My piece for @objectumzine !! (Glazed)

#flatland #objectum #conceptum #4th dimension #flatlander #art

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wither-r0se-leaf · 8 months ago

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Drew triangle from flatland fallen angle!

#flatland fanart #flatland art #flatlands #flatlander #flatland game #flatland fallen angle #flatland: fallen angle #flatland #flatland a romance of many dimensions #fyp

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femboyhorror · 1 year ago

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some doodles i made of kryptos for my gravity falls rp! lad is full of anxiety!

#gravity falls #kryptos #flatlander #henchmaniacs #kryptos rhombus #the last name is something i gave him myself #mutt's doodles #lineless art

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vilqyzilpy · 10 months ago

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this isn't art but here are our some thoughts we have on our version of flatland (note it was made at first just for us to see so we reference some personal things that may not make sense without context)

flatland (our version)

- whole plane is a fluid substance, flatlanders in suspension

- flatlanders resemble microscopic images of cells

- flatlanders are not true lines or shapes, but rather come close to shapes with a natural organicness to them, and are selectively bred to be as close to the shapes the higher classes desire

- flatlanders have one eye, on the 'face' of what they consider the front of themselves, usually an edge, the eye is semi 'inside' the body, surrounded by what looks akin to mandible feelers, usually they are kept open, functioning like an eyelid and a mouth. when they talk it's like blinking, and when they eat they can't see for the most part. the 'mandibles' also act as both a shield and a weapon, closing to protect the eye, and forming a hard surface, sharpness depending on the shape.

- around their eye is the openings to their throat/digestive system, which form two holes on either side, similar to a frog, when eating they can swallow to push "down" (south, or whatever direction is the equivalent) their eyes, moving food "down". the eyes are solid on the sides, which face inside and can't see in that direction due to the hard coverings, which form 'teeth', along with their 'mandibles' which have 'teeth' as well.

- Flatlanders, having a harder distinction in their dimension with sight, rely primarily on sound, touch, smell, and other possible senses (haven't thought of what yet, if anything more than those senses)

- flatlanders have developed sensory feelers at their front, which work as graspers/hands/fingers, they are somewhere around the 'mandibles'

- flatlanders have hard coverings on each point/edge (forgive us we forgot what the difference is, brain broken from all the dimension stuff lmao), forming protective and defensive natural armor, while their sides are more squishy and vulnerable, but less like skin and more a hard yet fragile surface that can squish.

- flatlanders have smaller feelers all around their body, like hairs, which get longer near the corners before the armor forms.

- flatlanders have 'tails', longer clusters of feelers evolved for locomotion, or the reverse, locamotion evolved into feelers, not sure which way around.

- flatlanders are not humans, but their own species evolved on an alien world

- flatlanders here are not as of risk at injuring or killing eachother, having evolved more sensory ways to manage their environment, but still follow the extremely oppressive system in the book, because of like human and irken society being corrupt.

- flatlanders still percieve things as lines, but they have more distinguishers, colors have always existed in this world, so "chromatisits" or whatever they're called didn't exist, or at least not a movement started with colors, perhaps something else.

- their world also is covered in a fog, that compared to the book covers much more of their planet at nearly all times, with only little spaces lacking fog.

- they have unique sound processing organs, that are similar to a bat's echolocation, and structures around their 'ears' derived from feelers to help with hearing.

- "women" & "men" or the concept of gender as it is equivalent to human's doesn't exist for flatlanders, instead just focusing on the shapes for hierarchy, tho lines are still treated the same.

- in some parts of the world the shapes like lines and triangles are seen more equal, or even greater than circles.

- like earth flatland has many different cultures, although flatland is much more oppressive of individuality and lack of conformity than current society.

- flatlander's are naturally cannibals, they do not require cannibalism to survive but it may have/is considered to have benefits, so when a flatlander dies they are consumed, for families if an parent dies they are given to the children, and criminals are either provided to the community or the higher classes, we aren't sure what determines this.

- irregulars are actually typically normal for their species, but sense they deviate from their ideals of shapes they are punished, often killed.

- higher classes have developed horrific methods to shape their offspring into the correct shapes, or even adults.

- flatlander's are naturally drawn to lights and shiny things, like moths and crows.

- flatlander "females" lines, are actually pretty different than other shapes, for they are similar to siphonophores, a colony of smaller organisms making up a whole, they can split but doing this for long can lead to death. Both 'lines' and all other shapes evolved from a similar in appearance ancestor to lines, but for whatever reason the rest of the 'shapes' evolved to different forms, in a way fusing the colony into one (mostly one) entity, while lines remained the same. the reason why is unknown but given the politics of flatland it could’ve been unnaturally selected to be this way.

- lines are not any more unintelligent than other shapes, but they do think differently, as in literally they have a physically different formed brain, being a shared conjunction of individual organisms. therefor they have more limited ability to store knowledge, and may experience emotions differently.

- things like the behaviors described by lines in the book, where they are considered erratic, violent, and other such demonizing descriptors are because of how society abuses lines, creating generational trauma with their lack of rights, leading to disordered behaviors, they are not naturally any "inferior" to other shapes.

#flatland #flatlander #flatlanders #alternate universe #au

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acrossdimension · 9 months ago

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Flat BBQ (Flat Land)

#flatland #across dimension #spacelander #flatlander #flatland 2007 #flatland art #a sphere #a square #2.3D Art

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disease · 1 year ago

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#audio #death grips #flatlander #andy morin #electro #tech house #experimental #unreleased #rare #A2B2 #codename dancer #techno #electronic #music #u

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sufferbuddies · 3 months ago

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Here in Arizona , it ain’t a compliment either.

#PoopyPeople

MAY 12, 2014 BY MICHELLE CALKINS & ASSOCIATES

12 Signs You are a “FLATLANDER”

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FLATLANDER: {Flat-Land-er}: Noun: A Person who is from the Flat Lands, I.E. The Inland Empire, Orange County, Palm Springs, basically anyone who does not live on or in the mountains.

A term used in the mountains to describe people from lower elevations. EX: Driver: This guy is driving so slow; he must be a flatlander.

Have you ever been called a flatlander? Are you wondering if you are a flatlander?

Here are 12 reasons us mountain folk can pick you out of a needle in a hay stack!

12: You ask us if we have indoor plumbing

11: You call our houses cabins, or say, “we are up at the cabin for the weekend.”

10: You drive 25 MPH on the roads

9: When we ask you where you’re from you say, Orange County and then ask if we know where that is.

8: It’s 60 degreed outside: You = Down Jacket and Uggs, Locals = shorts and flip flops.

7: You put your flashers on when it is foggy (dead giveaway you are not from up here).

6: You are shocked that we look normal.

5: You call it a mountain, we call it a hill

4: You slam on your brakes for squirrels almost causing an accident.

3: You blame everything on the altitude.

2: You get drunk quicker.

1: You think the entire mountain range is Big Bear.

Please note this is all in good fun! I myself was an original Flatlander, I grew up in Corona, so trust me I know all about learning the mountain life! We love you all and we want you to come up more. Lake Arrowhead is a beautiful place and if it’s been a while since we have seen your faces, GET BACK UP HERE!!! Or come check us out, we have so much to offer in our small little mountain town!

Hope to see you soon,

Michelle