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Fun little fact about my cats that even I forget: While Sammy has white flecks in her fur just, all over, Lizzie straight up has a decent-sized white patch. You just can't see it 99% of the time. Because of where it's placed on her belly unless you're looking for it you can't really tell it's there unless she's laid full-up on her back.
It is very precious of her.
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your knees would not "reverse" if you transformed into a digitigrade animal, your feet would get longer and become the lower segment of your legs while ur thighs get stouter & higher.
sorry ive just experienced this happening in 2 pieces of media now and it bugs me.
Quick ficlet, just some chill Kevin and Argit moment.
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I did not sit here for years listening to trans women about how violent "anti-man" sentiment hurt them, and uplifting their voices, just to turn around and throw that out the window just bc some loser 4channers who cant stop using racial slurs, the r word, and nambla talking points say different
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What Is RubbleRousers?
A browser simulation game about the cats who outlived us.
(Here for the demo? Click here, or read on to learn more)
(Art by @thewisestdino, read on to learn how RubbleRousers supports artists!)
RubbleRousers is an upcoming free browser game (with a free demo out now!) about a clowder of feral cats clawing out survival in the ruins of a city that has fallen under the weight of a zombie apocalypse. Explore, hunt, and raise the next generation.
My name is Finch, and this is a game I've been working on for close to three years now. Let me give you a run down :3
Why be excited about RubbleRousers? Let me give you a few reasons:
Real cat genetics. I spent a year developing the genetics system of this game, working with domain experts to make things as realistic as I possibly could. Punnett squares, sex-linked traits, they're all there!
Survival Game and Petsite. RubbleRousers isn't just a survival game, and it isn't just a petsite. It's the kind of genre combination I always dreamed about as a warrior cats kid, naming my Lioden lions after my fanclan. Bringing new life into the world is just as much of a part of the game as dying in combat. There's injuries, illnesses, and sudden tragedy, just as there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
A city to reclaim. Every map you explore is procedurally generated based on a custom algorithm. Fight everything from zombie cats to vicious foxes.
Build your colony. Build dens, watchtowers, a nursery, a healer's den, and many more. Grow a base from scraps of moss, twine, and metal.
A story to uncover. A full narrative campaign with a cast of strange characters and a final choice that's yours to make.
Support Artists. One of my main goals when I started this project was to support artists in (and outside of) the warriors art community. I am an abysmal artist myself, but the game is full of beautiful art by many paid and volunteer artists. Every dollar donated either goes to server hosting costs, or directly to artists and graphic designers. As grateful as I am for all my lovely volunteers, I want to make sure everyone gets fairly compensated for their time and effort.
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Experience a taste of the game, and play around endlessly with the genetics system. Find it all at https://rubblerousers.online/
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Contact: [email protected] or join the server and tag me
Reblogs help more than you'd think, and every bit of support counts!
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Hello friends, I'm Sahar! Lia & I are friends of the Ashours & Shehabs, and we'll be helping them run this campaign. Both families have had
For every $1 donated, I will create a public domain character with a design of your choice!
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Hey! My commissions are open. For a lot of reasons I need more money than I’m currently able to make at my job. I would be incredibly grateful if you commissioned me.
Contact me via private message or ask through @thenixart or via my email: [email protected]
Payments through Paypal or kofi (ko-fi.com/nixkat > accepts card payment). Products are digital and will be emailed in .png format unless otherwise specified.
Extras!
-Additional characters are $5 per character. -Simple backgrounds like colored rectangles or circles or polka dots cost nothing. Complex backgrounds are $15. -Saucy/Suggestive art (T&A mostly and some kinks) has an additional charge of $25
I draw:
-Monsters, aliens, fantasy creatures -Animals and Furries/Anthros -Humans
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[id: Art of a tumbleweed made of human arms. /end id]
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Behind him is a red-orange rectangle as a background. /end id]
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Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.
An Empty Pot [opening]
Ultimately, Kai is a slave to his own nature. A beast in the shape of a man cursed with unending hunger by festering hate and magic pollution. A Mission etched into his mind and soul ever since he clawed his way out of Ai Coleman's coffin: Consume, Grow, Return, Die. His purpose in this world of sorcerers being primarily to glut himself on as much magic as he can get his knives and hands on. Preferably, good quality powerful magic.
This has on occasion led him to a meal that he would regret. Like trying to consume Risu's curse magic leading to having a curse cast on him. Him being brutalized by a creature he could do nothing against. Curse killing him. Being trapped as Kaiman for two years… Not a bad distraction per se but a distraction none the less. Cost him years of work. Cost his pets so much more [Part of him that lives in the past around fires and fur pelts hates how skinny his pets all got while he grew fat as that lizard].
And as he steps out of the dark hall towards that naive little sorceress, Natsuki, he knows that he'll regret this meal. No matter how wonderful the kill will feel… No matter how wonderful her Protection magic will be… She's his boys' pup. He can see it in their smiles, in their protectiveness, in their care of the girl. She's theirs and thus one of the fold. One of the tribe. It would break their hearts if they knew what he was about to do.
He doesn't want to do it of course. But Kai is hungry, starving even, and only her magic will soothe his cravings. [For now, of course, only for now because as long as he exists he will Hunger] Natsuki is a good girl, he'll be as merciful as he can.
But he will still kill her. Still Consume her. He must.
Natsuki runs up to greet him, beaming at the sight of him. Guard down. This isn't even a hunt, it's just shooting fish in a barrel. She takes her eyes off him for a moment in the middle of excitedly talking about the mission Dokuga gave her [that he gave her to get her to safety where Kai's knives and hunger couldn't reach] and about her magic and that's opportunity enough. Faster than she could react, his combat knife separates head from shoulders. He chops the rest of the body to pieces before it can even hit the ground. Then spits Mushroom Transformation smoke on the leftovers for good measure.
Actually to be sure he should hide the corpse too…
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Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
Random because because: Okay, so Gwen, Ben, and Ken have green eyes. We know this to be true.
I mentioned in a reply to a post, last week I think, that that's a whole thing. Basically eye color in humans- so far as I understand it I am not an expert by any means I just read shit- is mostly controlled by one gene that either says 'you have a lot of melanin in there and have brown eyes' or 'you don't have a lot of melanin in there and have blue eyes'. With blue being recessive against brown. Eyes' color is also determined to a lesser degree by a load of other genes that essentially go either 'make eye more melanin-y' or 'make eye less melanin-y'. This is why you can have two people with blue eyes have a brown-eyed kid and vice versa. Green and hazel, meanwhile, are tied to a whole separate gene that basically determines whether or not the eye makes yellow pigment. I don't know the dominance structure of it, but I'm gonna assume recessive because green and hazel are rarer than the others.
"Achi why-" listen I'm rolling
So, Gwen, Ben, and Ken have green eyes. This means we can assume they're all fucking... (gods I can't remember the proper designation for the gene...li? maybe?) We'll just call it y/y for this. They have the 'make yellow' gene turned on.
Now, Max, Carl, and Frank? All seem to have brown eyes. So more likely than not they all have a B. There could be 'make color darker' genes at play, but I don't think that's too likely given how much brown we see in the family (seriously, Vera, Gordon, Joel, Betty-Jean's eyes are blue but otherwise? it's a lot of brown in the family and so probably a B gene). What else Max has doesn't really matter, just that he passed that B on to his sons.
Verdona, meanwhile, things get interesting, because in her human shape her eyes are blue. A pretty dark blue too, she may be making herself some 'make color darker' genes. But what's interesting here is that this means while her sons likely both inherited a b gene from her (especially if she's got 'make color darker' genes it's more than likely she's going with b/b and so they're both B/b), they could have gotten a y from either her or Max. And, I would kind of have to assume it's Max, I mean how likely is it that she would, in taking human shape, give herself a carried recessive gene?
It's more than likely that the cousin's get their eye color partially from Max's side. After all, Carl and Frank have to be Y/y for their kids to inherit.
Partially, of course, because their mom's have to play a role.
Sandra, Sandra's simple. She's got green eyes. So, definitely a y/y right there, makes sense she'd pass it on to Ben. Interestingly enough, her eyes seem to be a lighter, more yellow shade than his, so there's definitely no darkening genes going on with her. She still might have some serious lightening genes going on, but still I think it's likely she's a b/b. Ben would then also be b/b and y/y, with potentially some darkening genes passed down from Verdona.
Natalie, meanwhile, she has dark blue eyes again. Meaning, again, probably b/b, this time with potential darkening genes. This also means, that to pass on shit to her kids, she's likely a case of Y/y.
This means that Ben had about a 25% chance of having his eye color (Sandra was always going to pass down her side, but Carl could have passed down a brown or no-yellow gene, which would have left him with brown or blue eyes).
Gwen and Ken, meanwhile, each had a 12.5% chance (Natalie was always going to pass down a blue, but Frank could have passed on a brown, and either could have passed on a no-yellow). That they both do is a 1.5% chance.
All three cousins having their eye color is a 0.39% chance.
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On the other end, Kevin is... Well. For one thing the shade of brown of his eyes varies? In the sequels his eyes are done in black, which would tell us he's not only got a B gene but also probably some 'make shit darker' genes presenting. (Especially since, as stated before, Max and his sons have brown eyes and you can distinguish them as brown around black pupils, at least in UAF, but you can't with Kevin.) On the other hand, in OS and the Reboot his eyes are more of a standard brown.
And this wouldn't really matter as much, but Devlin exists- he may not be canonically canon to the sequels but that he exists in any timeline is enough for this- and his eyes are on the dark end. Which would mean Devlin has some 'make shit darker' genes going on, some of which he probably inherits from Kevin but we can't know how much if we don't have a shade for Kevin's eyes. He could be getting all of them or half of them, or even none they could all come from his mom's side, and yet-
But that's beside the point. We can still get the two basic genes down. Namely, Kevin is almost definitely a case of B/b. Especially if Devlin is inheriting 'make darker' genes, that blue to his eyes has to come from his being b/b. We can also safely assume that both of them have a Y, given their eyes aren't hazel or green respectively. Whether either of them carries a y though, we can't know for sure.
But we can look at the supposed family in UAF. They're not technically canon outside of UAF, but hey, they're something.
And here's an interesting one for you- Devin has the same thing going on as sequel Kevin where the eyes are so dark they're either full-on presented as black or are nearly indistinguishable from black. But his mom, has similar 'visibly brown' eyes to the Tennysons and OS/Reboot Kevin. So literally this boy could be going either way, two only fucking parental eye colors we have (we never even see his only reboot!parent's upper half) and they're 'sequel shade of brown' and 'non-sequel shade of brown'. Motherfuckers. So yeah, shit still stands until we get an actual view of some actual parents (if we ever get an actual view of some actual parents) to compare to.
Kevin is definitely B/b, could be Y/Y or Y/y we can't know, and may or may not have 'make iris darker' genes seriously going on. Devlin, meanwhile, is definitely b/b, could be Y/Y or Y/y we can't know, and seems to present 'make iris darker' genes.
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Fuck, I forgot Kenny.
Actually Kenny is relatively easy. We've been over Ben's eyes, we just need Kai's to get a look at how his shit is set up.
Which is fun in OS because her eyes are specifically a light brown there, meaning she likely has some 'make iris lighter' genes going on, and means that OS Kenny likely receives that shit from both his parents (Ben in OS also has lighter eyes, more like Sandra's are in the sequels, while he and Kai both have more medium-toned eyes otherwise and this passes on to Kenny.)
But, overall she's actually pretty easy. She's probably a B/b, given OV, though in OS especially it's possible Kenny just inherited enough 'make iris lighter' genes to get green eyes even if she's B/B. Clearly whether Ben presents them or not he can still inherit them from Sandra. What Kai definitely is is a Y/y, given her eyes aren't hazel in any series but Kenny had to inherit a second y from somewhere.
So, likely Kai is B/b and Y/y, while Kenny is b/b and y/y. But, taking OS specifically into account, there is the chance she could be B/B and Y/y, and whatever her B situation the chance that Kenny is B/b and y/y, but with enough 'make shit lighter' genes to pull him down into greens rather than hazels.
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The second image shows Andalite heads in varying levels of detail with prices listed: $10 for a sketch, $15 for line art, $20 for line art with flat colors, and $25 for line art with full coloring and shading.
The third image shows a digital painting of the bust of a blue budgie parrot with the caption: $75 for lineless art.
The fourth image shows a dragon standing upright with lines marking off segments of its body listed with prices: No additional charge for the head, +$10 for a bust up drawing, +$15 for a waist up drawing, and +$25 for a full body drawing. /end id]
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Hey! My commissions are open. For a lot of reasons I need more money than I’m currently able to make at my job. I would be incredibly grateful if you commissioned me.
Contact me via private message or ask through @thenixart or via my email: [email protected]
Payments through Paypal or kofi (ko-fi.com/nixkat > accepts card payment). Products are digital and will be emailed in .png format unless otherwise specified.
Extras!
-Additional characters are $5 per character. -Simple backgrounds like colored rectangles or circles or polka dots cost nothing. Complex backgrounds are $15. -Saucy/Suggestive art (T&A mostly and some kinks) has an additional charge of $25
I draw:
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I do not draw:
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Art examples:
[id: Art of a tumbleweed made of human arms. /end id]
[ID: A simple drawing of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi as a wolfman-type werewolf with a tail. He's drawn from the hips up and wearing his plate armor. /End ID]
[id: Digital art of the Pokemon, boldore, a deep blue and orange rock monster with three limbs and two yellow lined ears in the middle of its face in the place of eyes laying down on a simple green grass background bordered with grey. /end id]
[id: Digital art of the character Chur from Magi-Nation seated cross-legged in profile with his face turned towards the viewer. He is bald with scaly green skin, dark green facial hair, orange eyes, and a yellow gem embedded onto his forehead. He’s wearing a brown and grey fur bikini with arm and leg guards that have orange spikes on the shoulders and orange claws on the boots. The tail on his fur bikini is pointed curved upwards and is striped.
Behind him is a red-orange rectangle as a background. /end id]
[id: A digital painting of two women, one tall Black and with red hair and one shorter white and prematurely gone grey, on a hike in a birch-maple forest in autumn. They are on a wood planked path with a split in the path in front of them. The taller woman holds a map folded in one hand and points at the path directly in front of them while the shorter woman looks at her and looks to be speaking. /end id]
It drives me a bit bananas that people don't seem to remember that the phrase tumblr sexyman was literally meant to point out people's racial bias in art.
Even though its been co-opped to mean "popular on tumblr" it just makes it even more glaring when someone tries to make a popular list or game or commentary and they made the new popular, non-human chatacter look like a regular white man. Because again, it was coined to point out that people choose, prioritize, and assume white and male as the default and will often be more comfortable empathizing with non-human things by making them so.
This is also because white people give themselves too many excuses and allow themselves to intentionally fail at their own craft (only white tattooist think its okay to not be able to tattoo Black skin, only white hair stylist make themselves the victim of not being able to do Black hair- only white artist say its okay to bad at their own craft and just use this as a free pass never to try.)
Sorry if this is a mood killer for you but tumblr has been having the same stagnant issue with how it approaches race in art since I started using it 14 years ago and this is a reflection of people's inability to face and address issues of race. They just ignore them because they don't want to feel temporary discomfort and in turn their art will collect their biases like a map.
It has nothing to do with any fandom and honestly the fact that you can always see the exact same issues if racism, sexism, and homophobia in any given fandom is all you need to figure out that these issues are always caused from something bigger than whatever character you just can't imagine with Brown skin no matter what cause cause cause cause he just feels more "accurate". It's just not meaningful if you've never drawn Black ppl or Black features, of course you will draw a white man you have intentionally limited your skill and choices long before this point. You were never going to be able to imagine other perspectives no matter how dynamic the art you are engaging with is cause you are the one with the limited and lacking range.
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Okay, we're working out the size of the Northern Continent utilizing the Atlas of Pern, because something is wrong with me. We won't be going whole hog, I am literally cutting up the Northern Continent into six parts (High Reaches regions, Tillek's peninsula, Fort's regions, Ista's regions, the Nerat Peninsula region, and everything the fuck else), leaving out the northernmost part of the map up past the likes of the Weyrs and Crom because nobody fucking lives there, maps are annoying, and the end goal is to get a decent read on the arable land of the Northern Continent as compared with how many people you need to run the Weyrs.
In the interest of transparency, I am telling you now that I am not being exact with my measurements, but the way I am cutting things up not removing areas of water should account for the areas of land that I am otherwise not accounting for.
200 miles on this map equals 379 pxls, so we'll be working off that...
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Fort region- 386 x 515 x 302 x 239
Tillek Region- 448 x 138 x 79 x 468
Nerat Region- 257 x 465 x 336 x 661
Ista Region- 292 x 176 x 297
High Reaches Region- 263 x 481 x 154 x 712
Other- 1612 x 1500 x 794
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Fort region- 204 x 270 x 158 x 126
Tillek region- 236 x 72 x 42 x 246
Nerat Region- 134 x 244 x 176 x 348
Ista Region- 154 x 92 x 156
High Reaches Region- 140 x 254 x 82 x 376
Other- 850 x 790 x 418
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Fort Region- 37,446 sqmi (96,984 sqk)
Tillek Region- 17,352 sqmi (44,941 sqk)
Nerat Region- 73,080 sqmi (189,276 sqk)
Ista Region- 6808 sqmi (17632 sqk)
High Reaches Region- 74,072 sqmi (191,845 sqk)
Other- 164,004 sqmi (424,768 sqk)
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Again, I'm being very inexact to allow for land areas that are too finicky for me to properly account for, so none of these are truly accurate to the landmasses I'm measuring (especially Ista, poor fucking Ista, more like 4/5 of that number), but I'm leaving out enough landmass that this final should be close enough to accurate.
Northern Continent- 372,762 sqmi (965,449 sqk)
So so far as the Northern Continent, seems like we're looking at something about Egypt-sized in total, a little smaller in actual area people use.
Now, I said above we're looking more at comparing this with my 'supporting a Weyr' numbers from this post, and for that we've got to look at shit like farmable land. I've stated elsewhere, I think given how mountainous the place is we can probably safely cut 3/5 of the landmass as 'unsuitable for farming'. Probably a little much, but it's easier than trying to account for what can grow at what elevation and in how much rock.
So, with that we get a number of 149,104 sqmi (386,177 sqk). Which is all well, all good, except now we have to convert that to acres to better work with our numbers from before. Which gives us a total of 95,426,560 acres in the Northern Continent suitable for our purposes.
Now, for the purposes of this math, I'm pulling out two different numbers. The first is our midline estimate for a minimum civilian population and acreage to support a single Weyr.
Midline Minimum- Pop: 38,794; Space: ~173k acres
The second we'll be assuming that supporting the Weyr takes a lot less of the workpower going into things. The number up there assumes that half of all able-bodied non-farmer adults are focused on supporting the Weyrs so far as their profession. For this second number we're going to go for a more realistic minimum, I think. Namely a 'tithe', historically, is supposed to be a tenth. Tenth of worth, tenth of labor. So, we're going to get another set of numbers with the goal of having 10% of the abled, non-farming adults focused on Weyr support. This will, hopefully, better better imitate what's needed with proper tenth tithes.
Doing that we end up with 52,315 farmers working 511,573 acres to support 237,941 people (plus the Weyrs), who we're estimating would require 304 acres of space themselves. So, add in the space needed to supply the food for the Weyr and we get an adjustment of-
Tithe Adjusted Minimum- Pop: 237,941; Space: ~910k acres
So, looking at the space required, the Northern Continent could theoretically support-
Midline Minimum- 551 Weyrs
Tithe-Adjusted Minimum- 104 Weyrs
Although we should also consider that once you get into a Pass you're going to be trying to minimize the space you use, but even if we said that folks can only farm a tenth of their normal land during a Pass, that would still be enough to support 10 Weyrs and a viable civilian population at minimum with our numbers.
Though of course this only take into account the number of acres farmers would need to farm to support the population, with the tithe-adjusted numbers then they could farm three times the land needed to support the population.
Tithe-Adjusted w/Farmer Max Holdings- 57 Weyrs
With our 'tenth farming capability' low estimate for a Pass bringing us to 5 supportable Weyrs for the continent. So hey, depending on what the actual numbers are for a Pass Anne may not have been off, especially considering that we're using an average multiplied by the number of Weyrs and some Weyrs should need less that others. Also people would have been far better fed and prepared on average, since we're talking farming 3x the space you need for the population.
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Moving away from potential Weyr Numbers, we can use these numbers to give us an minimum estimate of the Pern population.
Midline Minimum Northern Continent Pop- 232,764 (261,300 w/Weyrs)
Tithe-Adjusted Minimum Northern Continent Pop- 1,427,646 (1,456,182 w/Weyrs)
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Feel like I should add here, our estimated workable land is a bit larger than Japan, which in the early 1400s had a population estimated around 9 million, so I think we can safely say a 1.4 million minimum would likely be doable so far as food production for Pern. The big concerns really are management during a Pass and making sure there's space for everyone to be safely indoors during one, which actually shouldn't be that hard if you're thinking ahead, which this planet has had plenty of time to work out construction norms.
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And because I'm still aggravated by one fucker I came across on a forum years ago, assuming a 10% appearance rate (I don't know what the estimate is nowadays)-
Midline Minimum Queer Pop- 26,130
Tithe-Adjusted Minimum Queer Pop- 145,618
And before anyone asks, even with the lower midline number there's only just few enough fuckers for them to all go to the Weyrs, and even then the Weyrs would have to be made of 92% queer peeps.
Okay, so, gonna try to do an addendum to this because, well, as has been mentioned elsewhere you hear a lot about the Northern Continent being supposedly the size of Europe or Eurasia, so...
Let's take a look assuming those numbers, hm?
Europe: 3,933,000 sqmi (10,186,000 sqk)
Eurasia: 21,000,000 sqmi (55,000,000 sqk)
Now for the sake of these things we're assuming 3/5 of the landmass is unusable for our purposes, given how mountainous the whole place is. So, grabbing out 2/5s and converting them into acreage...
Europe: 1,006,806,166 acres
Eurasia: 5,436,318,392 acres
So, based on our tithe-adjusted minimum population and acreage per Weyr from the post above, we're looking at a theoretical potential for-
Europe: 1106 Weyrs
Eurasia: 5973 Weyrs
Adjust for max holdings again and...
Europe: 527 Weyrs
Eurasia: 2846 Weyrs
And then, if we assume farmers can only manage a tenth of the acreage during a Pass, then the final estimates for these areas so far as Weyr potential would be-
Europe: 52 Weyrs
Eurasia: 284 Weyrs
And our estimated minimum populations, in line with the above assumption, would be about-
Europe: 12,372,932 (12,618,684 w/Weyr pop)
Eurasia: 67,575,244 (68,917,428 w/Weyr pop)
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And because I remain salty about that one guy, queer population estimates still assuming 10% occurrence (because I still don't know the modern numbers).
Europe: 1,261,868
Eurasia: 6,891,742
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