So Very Geeky

“Who are you to stand so fearsome

With your wavy locks of auburn hair and eyes of emerald green?”

STUDIO GHIBLI + RAIN 

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) ONLY YESTERDAY (1991) KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE(1989) THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (2010) SPIRITED AWAY (2001) PONYO (2008) HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004)

This one was a smooch meme request for me because these two are canon imo and I miss them! 💜

Got two requests for Datasha for the smooch meme, proving once again that y’all get me! 💜💜💜

Kuroro + 2D for the Smooch Meme as requested by the lovely @soverygeeky 💙 Now I just want to watch X2 again 😭

As for the greater picture…well, I thought there’d be nothing to it.  Slap down a few additional continents.  Fretwork some fjords.  Sprinkle on some cities, steppes and forests.  Jot down the traditional features that Terry referred to as ‘the good old wiggly river between the pointy mountains,’ paste on the names, and I’d be home and looking for a clean towel.  In fact, it took a lot more time than that.

I showed draft number one to Terry, who looked at it for some time and said, ‘Do you know what a rain shadow is?’  This was new to me, who took raffia instead of geography.  I was given a short lecture on mountain ranges and prevailing rain-bearing winds, which gently led up to the fact that I’d put the Great Nef the driest place in the world, in what would have been a very large swamp.  I spent some time reading up on the subject until I could bore people on the subject of plate tectonics and even knew what a drumlin was.  Then I tried to make it all work.

–Stephen Briggs (taken from “Terry Pratchett: His World”)

(Photos are of the final DIscworld Mapp from 1994, designed by Briggs and illustrated into this form by Stephen Player.

Terry Pratchett: *mentions the Forest of Skund a couple times in canon, making it sound like it’s in two very different places on the Disc, then decides retroactively that it’s magic and kind of moves around in order to account for this apparent inconsistency*

Also Terry Pratchett: You can’t put mountains there and a desert there because the winds go in this direction and that would make the desert wet.

I’m still quite proud of my tribute to Stephen Brigg’s map that I made as a gift for @lysislien​ (even if I did make an error in lettering that someone pointed out to me far too late… but I did put that it was an inaccurate map in the title block, so really what can you expect?)