#the map to chaos

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Well! End of this long and forsaken chapter: Map to Chaos! :^) It wont be the last time you see Zyto :]

Now soon comes a Special and the next chapter begins!!

[bestjeanistmonster]

Dc au- two bats on a roof

(Rouge finds the whole ‘batman’ thing hilarious btw)

[whetstonefires]

Man sometimes I still think about Alfred's Bandit Anecdote in The Dark Knight (2008).

So, the most straightforward reading of this sequence seems to have been the one Nolan intended, because he is not actually a subtle filmmaker, and the further we got into the series the more heavily he committed to making Alfred a mouthpiece. Old man provides words of wisdom that frame the correct understanding of the situation; you can tell it's meant to be correct because subsequent Joker appearances reinforce its thesis statement.

Intended takeaway: some men (like the Joker) don't have rational motivations, they just 'want to watch the world burn,' and you have to account for that when trying to counter them. Chaos agents, basically unstoppable by reasonable means.

But the thing is. This is not a story that stands up to even mild interrogation. The number of assumptions Nolan wants us to swallow without blinking is kind of stunning.

First of all the obvious timeline questions that arise: the Anglo-Burmese Wars and periods between and leading up to them where this kind of white man's burden 'delivering jewels to local elites In The Burmese Jungle to sway them toward British interests, but getting waylaid by bandits' scenario makes any sense all, happened in the 19th century.

The Burmese resistance in the 1930s was centered on university student protests and that sort of thing; it was reasonably successful in moving Myanmar toward independence by increments, though who knows what would have happened without WWII. But it did not provide anyone with reasons to be hand-carrying huge gemstones through forests.

Even if we assume this was somehow a 20th century event, it has to have been before WWII unless we want to postulate a complete alt-history setting, and since The Dark Knight leans heavily into being a modern 21st century story with like, cell phone networking as a major plot point, this still makes Alfred old as balls. Born no later than 1920, and probably earlier.

But that's whatever; comics time. Batman Begins did some fun stuff (possibly in imitation of Batman (1980)) with making it ambiguous what decade it was supposed to be set in, though the sequels dropped that conceit. And anyway, people can be 90 years old.

So that's basically fine, although good god Wayne hire some more servants, this man should be fully retired already.

More problematic is the unfettered colonialism of it all, the confident proclamation that since this guy's motive wasn't profit, since he didn't keep the jewels, he had no motive. Because 'inconveniencing the Raj and weakening their control over the locality' isn't a Real Person Motive that a real person could have had. During or soon after failed wars to resist colonial subjugation.

Like. Come on??

The place where this story utterly shoots itself in the foot, though, is the clever bit at the end, where Bruce asks how Alfred's military unit solved the 'bandit stealing jewels he didn't even want' problem and Alfred's like: 'we burned the forest to the ground.'

Because this is so punchy! In screenwriting technical terms, it's quite well done. It's useless advice that loops the story back to its themes; obviously Batman can't burn Gotham down to get the Joker. Even in a Batman movie that doesn't like Batman very much, this is still obvious.

But at the same time this totally takes the legs out from under Alfred's words of wisdom about human nature. Because if that bandit 'wanted' to 'watch the world burn' then what his unit did wasn't so bad, right; he was basically asking for it. Burning a forest down with all the inevitable collateral damage and economic and ecological cost, all for the sake of horribly killing a group of people in the name of government revenues was totally okay guys!

It transforms the whole thing into a pretty obvious post facto rationalization of colonial violence. Which makes the Insights Into Human Nature bit real questionable!

But the movie gives absolutely no sign of having noticed this.

[itsnotjustgibberish]

MAP part yippyy 🎉

It’s cause you’re always in that damn time loop 😭😂 It’s cause you’re always in that damn time loop 😭😂 It’s cause you’re always in that damn time loop 😭😂 It’s cause you’re always in that damn time loop 😭😂 It’s cause

[hayweerc]

I was bored and thought 🤔"huh my fanfic doesn't have an official cover for it" so I was inspired to make a book cover/poster for Bound by Chaos.

[radishearts]

Based on a long time joke from unlocked map, I present Floridian Fitz, Aussie Keefe and Canadian Dex!

They’re a boy band, I think,

[neunhofferart]

Not sure if there's anything official- based only on a vaguely similar shape and location and seemingly supported by the map pictures released by Dreamworks TV recently, would Yaz's island be Frank Island in Yellowstone National Park? Only for JWE2 building reference purposes 😁

It's possible it was used for some visual inspiration, but I think the EXACT location in Wyoming was probably meant to be a little vague, as a fictional location.

[adaines-furious-feast]

The Rat Grinders went to the Mountains of Chaos after Spring Break, and I choose to believe this was purely because Gilear was temporarily fired and Jace had to be emergency VP so he couldn't go too far from the school so they had to put it off until after Gilear got back, which only made everyone involve hate the Bad Kids more.

[ibexinious-art]

Bifurcation

[boygirlctommy]

i couldnt upload the audio like a normal person so heres this. gonna try to animate to it tomorrow :P

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it.. has been a while so get a SUUUPPER LONG update!! Havent seen Meowth ower a decade now :D poor home girl having nightmares smh

[1dklikesthings]

i joined an animation map!! this is part 21 of a time machine reprise - chonny jash map :3

heres the link to the map call, check it out!! backups are wanted for this map, but maps are planned for all 27 songs in cccc, as well as thumbnail competitions which you dont need to be an animator for :3c

[xylathesilkwing]

hi!! so I want to put the camp fam (+ assorted other characters if i get to them) as dinosaurs in a park on Jurassic World Evolution 2, so I want to ask if anyone has any ideas for them? I might do them based off narrative/important scenes (Darius = gallimimus/parasaur Ben = anky with bumpy skin of course) or I might just do general vibes, so any ideas and thoughts would be appreciated!!

I have all DLC’s and all maps unlocked so lmk!!

[efagerhag]

In Other Lands Map

I recently did a reread of In Other Lands by @sarahreesbrennan and got really inspired so I decided to attempt to draw up a map based on the book! I tried to take as much as I could from the book and include it in the map, but it doesn’t clarify a lot about how things are located in relation to each other so I had to make up my own interpretation. With that said, this is how I envision The Border Land and The Other Land in the book and I’m pretty happy with how it came out!

For a closer look at some places where events from the book happen, keep reading!

The Wall/Border and the Human World (Aka any random field in Devon, England.

The Border Camp where most of the book takes place and the surrounding areas, including the infamous lake, the nearby farming community and The Elvern Tavern.

The Sunborn Tower, home of Luke Sunborn and his family!

The Forest of the Suicides, where the harpies reside, and the nearby Troll caves.

The Aegle Woods, where dryads live and also where Elliot went (sneaked) on his first campaign.

The village and lake where Elliot first met mermaids(!!!).

The area from the new short story, including the two fortresses and the Dwarven Kingdom of the Diamond Clan!

[arbieroo-art]

Ikeda Map with Associated Voronoi Diagram

...and a lot of colours!

[horuslupercal]

there's something to be said for ugly emperor's child and slaaneshis in general, I think. beauty as a form of mediocrity. sure there's the perfectionism and golden ratio faces and that, in itself, being extremity. no one perfectly fits the golden ratio or whatever, no one is 100% attractive. it's uncanny valley. and so, in a way, "traditional", "researched" beauty can be appealing to them. but I'm far more interested in the inverse and, to my mind, the more common thing they're a fan of -- being ugly as sin. features that might be considered conventionally attractive taken to unattractive extremes (square jaw? try having a head shaped like a cube), visible and intense "undesirable" traits, etc. where's the pleasure in everything looking the same, all monotone shades of golden ratio faces and "ideal" WCRs and WHRs? the researched ideal WCRs and WHRs don't even fall into extremity! too extreme and people don't find it attractive anymore!