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Reddit user has cracked the code on how to read fanfic and study at the same time

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psychotic-gerard

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

orchidvioletindigo

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

trials-era-sam

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[Image ID: Tumblr reply with username blocked out reading: *volunteering at the soup kitchen, holding a bowl hesitantly to my chest* what do you think about age gaps in ships /End ID]

hacvek

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

olyia-stories

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

dragonpyre

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

serinos-kitt

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

dragonpyre

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

serinos-kitt

So what is a rain shadow?

lethalbutterfly

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

roach-works

this is because, as clouds are forced upwards by rising land, they cool and dump their rain. so the side of the mountain facing the ocean (or an inland sea, or a great lake) gets all the rain as the clouds are squeezed out, and the opposite side gets nothing.

my favorite thing is the american great lake snowbelts! so, the 'flow' of weather across north america, in very general terms, blows from the northwest on down south and east to the gulf of mexico.

so the wind is blowing from west to east, and in the winter it's a dryer wind than in the summer because it's colder. but after blowing across a great lake for a hundred miles, the wind is wet again. and that wet turns into snow. so for all of these lakes, the big cities are on the west side, not the east sides, because the east sides absolutely suck to live on.

the sole exception is buffalo, NY, which literally has to be there because, unfortunately, that's where all the important canal stuff between lake ontario and lake erie is happening.

also this always strikes me as cool, check out where cleveland is:

it's right at the edge of that snowbelt. and you see way more cities west of it than east, too.

beatrice-otter

#but again. mordor looks like that becaue sauron made it#and he's an ass

On a Watsonian level, sure.

On a Doylistic level, Mordor looks like that because plate tectonics was a fringe, ludicrous, laughable theory that nobody outside serious geology nerds had ever heard of until scientists proved seafloor spreading in the early 1960s. The first edition of the LotR trilogy was published in 54-55. We literally did not know that plate tectonics was real until almost a decade after the book was published, so obviously, it was not something Tolkien could have been considering as he made his maps.

I don't know enough meteorological history to know when white people figured out about rain shadows and added it to geology classes, or what would have been taught about volcanoes and such. But any education Tolkien got on the subject would have been in childhood/adolescence; his college education focused on the liberal arts, not the sciences, and his professional study was linguistics and the middle ages. So anything Medieval and earlier European authors wrote about he had a pretty good chance of knowing about. But not much exposure to modern science. So his science knowledge was probably limited to "what English schools taught at the turn of the 20th Century."

whetstonefires

I mean, it's true he didn't know about plate tectonics, but he did know what mountains look like, and that it's not normally That. And it wasn't his style to break that kind of norm without cause.

LotR has recurring themes of the reckless imposition of one's will on the natural world creating ugliness, an order you thought was inherently an improvement that in fact is inferior to what you have displaced. (Typified by reckless tree-felling; a reflection of the despoiling of the English countryside and the world by Progress.)

Mordor is a rectangle because Sauron is an asshole.

beatrice-otter

#the rain shadow thing otoh was undoubtedly total ignorance#but those mountains were made as the fortress of a demigod#too steeped in evil to understand beauty#it's *supposed* to look like something that Shouldn't Exist#like quite often this is something that happens in worldbuilding yes#things are arranged Wrong because a person doesn't grasp the underlying logic#but mordor is a bad example for the same reason it's an obvious one#it's So Very Wrong because it was designed to be wrong#to give you a bad feeling with how much it shouldn't look like that#if he just wanted it unapproachable on all sides it could've been in a caldera formation it didn't *need* corners#the corners were a choice#tolkien's job involved lots of looking at maps and things okay#meanwhile people whose lives revolved around the weather generally knew where the rain happened#long before it was formalized into 'rain shadow effect'#people not having The Science doesn't mean they don't have eyes and brains

maryellencarter

I wrote an entire paper in college analyzing the geology of the Misty Mountains and to a lesser extent the White Mountains (the Misty Mountains are easier because we get a cross-section via Moria). One thing I discovered that still knocks me for a loop when I think about it is:

Moria is the only place in Middle-Earth where mithril is found, right? That's kind of a big deal. So, why? What makes that location so special? Is it just random?

I found a paper that had just been published *that year*, 2011 or 2012 as I was writing it, that studied the locations of precious-metals mines in the Pyrenees, the similarly long skinny mountain chain that divides Spain and France. This paper discovered that where there was a bend in the mountain chain, from one of the continental plates having an awkward corner in it that got subducted under the other plate, that had dug deeper into the mantle and caused precious-metal-bearing ores to flow up to the surface in ways they didn't do anywhere else in the Pyrenees.

There's a conversation in The Fellowship of the Ring where one of the hobbits -- I don't have my copy handy or I'd get the direct quote -- asks why they can see the Misty Mountains ahead of them at one point if they're still heading south from Rivendell, and it's explained that south of Caradhras (which you may recall is the surface mountain under which Moria runs) the mountain chain bends and runs southwest instead of due south for a while.

Tolkien had absolutely no way to know *why* this particular feature of a mountain range was associated with intrusions of rare and unique metal ores, but he had gone backpacking in mountains enough to know How Things Should Look.

(And as prev excellently points out, when Jirt made screwed-up geology it was very much on purpose. Mordor shouldn't be square! Mount Doom shouldn't be doing any of the things it does! A composite volcano shouldn't even have especially hot lava! Even the Gulf of Udun, the circular feature at the upper left corner of the square, shouldn't be like that -- perfectly round features should be impact craters or calderas, not The Mountains Just Do This In A Suspiciously Convenient Way. These are all the way they are because Sauron forced them to be, in defiance of the laws of nature. Remember, he's akin to Balrogs and was a Maia of Aulë -- he's a volcano spirit in many ways.)

sunflowergardens-world

Amazing work by the LoTR fandom, as always.

mysteryteacup

This also serves as an excellent example of why worldbuilding needs - more than realism - to be cohesive and work with the themes of your story.

minimosquitogirl

too many people see queerness as individual personal preferences rather than political existences. my aromanticism actually isn’t just a personal preference I’m asking you to tolerate, or an exemption from the norm I am asking you to validate. my aromanticism is queer existence that demands real change on the societal level.

minimosquitogirl

this also relates to how people—including many leftists I respect on this site—unintentionally infantilize and dismiss asexuality and aromanticism by boiling our points of discourse and trauma down to “personal preferences” which must be kept separate from real issues. my romance repulsion is not a personal preference—frankly, it is a coping mechanism coming from years of trauma being an aromantic girl where romance was pushed on me and expected from me. this is not a personal preference but rather the effects of misogyny, amatonormativity & allonormativity, and capitalism.

hawt-me33

Coming into a fandom late

baxterdamus-deactivated20130513

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

valorious

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

leatherpatches-deactivated20150

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war.

fauxmoux

Accuracy at its best

street-of-mercy

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

my-reylo

all of this shit…lol

nerdsagainstfandomracism

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

not-so-secret-nerd

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

jupiter235

This gets better every time I see it.

sageblackrose95

@fuboos-mess

inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac

Being in a dead fandom…

illogicalarchive

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

erilias

The accuracy hurts.

fanfic-yes-please

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

it-is-bugs

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

sweetferalbaby

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

teaganvamp

This just gets better..

hamboj2

@mi-kleos

thatcrazysonicchick

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

knightofbloodcancer

Fandom hell in general

morathavictoria

Yes.

marvelanimelover

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

stop-talking-babe-deactivated20

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

raise-cain-archived

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

crochanblackbeak

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

kateriverameliawolfe

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

ishipwhatiship247

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

ravenhilarious

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

swanqueen-author

Being in a fandom that actually works together

commanderunhingedmongoose

Why is this so true? All of it.

pillowprincesslexa

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

hangingfire

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

priory-of-stars

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

marianagmt

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

batbyte-alghul

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

tirnel-sutcliff-spears

I love this. and it’s gotten better

cartoonjessie

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

brit-is-bookish

All of these are me. Lol

thehikingastronomer

Being in a fandom on Tumblr

julietsemophase

And it reached its epic conclusion

isa-ghost

I CHOKED ON FUNDIP

van-arts

HISTORY HAS BEEN ENGRAVED INTO THIS POST

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inbabylontheywept

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

popsunner

I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

popsunner

Don’t do this to me

professional-chaotic-dumbass

my brother in christ you made the post

tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors

madame-helen

nonlynear

my high horse is actually awesome and fast like the wind

mad-hare

in love with this Norwegian trotter named Express Go that’s won 7/7 races so far, is only 14.2hh, and has taught herself to duck down her head to give herself super speed (and lengthen her stride I guess)

elodieunderglass

She trots like haaland runs

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thefingerfuckingfemalefury

QUALITY PARENTING

samarallewis86

Thats like me kidnapping my nephew (I have like, four but the one that is the most dear to my nerdy heart is always down for shenanigans) dressing him up as Darth Maul or Vader and dressing up as a Jedi and just taking him random places and having lightsaber fights.

He's 5.

I am officially the coolest person he knows and he brags about having lightsaber fights in the MacDonalds car park to all his friends.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

If my sister and her wife ever become moms, this is the kind of aunt I want to be <3

samarallewis86

Being an aunt is honestly the best, you can get into all kinds of shenanigans and no one can tell you no because your looking after the younglings! Its enrichment! Its fun!

My current mission is finding mini inflatable dinosaur suits so we can have dinosaur races at the local park.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

You should play the Juarassic Park music while doing this :D

samarallewis86

In honour of Sam Niel, im going to get the loudest speakers i can find and just blast the soundtrack and shout "THEY DO MOVE IN HERDS!"

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

IT'S WHAT HE WOULD HAVE WANTED <3

kness

Cute raccoons - a watercolor.

Inspired by the fluffly goblins roaming my neighborhood in Montreal. The next painting will include that tailless blonde raccoon I met in the spring. He's no Jimothy but he's still super special.

This original sold out but I have prints waiting for you on Inprnt, links in my highlights.

funstyle

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

birdplushie

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

linuxbian

DESPERATELY trying to find the source of this image. where do you come from. i need to find you. you're like my dead wife

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sicknastyjr

Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head

whimsical-catacombs

literally every problem i've had in my adult life has been solved by open and honest communication. which is fucking stupid, first of all

whimsical-catacombs

like i can't even just a little bit solve my problems with wanton violence? for real??

whimsical-catacombs

i'm like a caricature in a children's show. "and then Whimsy took a deep breath, made a few polite phonecalls, and everything resolved itself 🥰" fucking hell man when do i get to punch someone hard as fuck in the jaw

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