#maps

Edit: I have not seen Nosferatu, and the comments assuming that's what this post is about are getting fucking obnoxious. As are many of the additions very rudely pointing out the fact that the actual range is *slightly* bigger and includes parts of Europe, so they could potentially be in the setting of the film I haven't seen and wasn't talking about. And talking as if I'm somehow to blame for someone else's map being incomplete on a meme I made in a few minutes that ended up getting tons more notes than usual. You can correct people while being polite about it.

This post is about Poirot. Quite a few episodes set in various locations, but especially Death on the Nile because that's the one I've watched most recently, and no matter whose map you look at there are no loons in Egypt.

Edit #2: There, I updated the map, are you assholes happy now? Still no loons in Egypt, nor anywhere near the city of Brussels. I will concede that there are some in the UK that I did not know about, but you probably wouldn't hear them in a city, and in any case the point still stands that TONS of productions use loon sounds no matter where they're set. Look at the map in this Vox video that someone linked in the comments of this post. They're all over the place!

Settings on every continent except Antarctica, and that's just the instances this one person found!

Perhaps it would be more accurate for me to say this post was inspired by Poirot but is about lots and lots of different movies and shows, because if I'd only ever heard one stray loon sound in one film then I wouldn't have made it.

The many streams of a humid region in central Kentucky. Physiography. 1919.

Rivers love to split at random places. Make sure to include as many splitting rivers as possible.

Speaking of rivers, it's well known that rivers are unaffected by gravity and thus will flow uphill and ignore the terrain.

Mountain ranges are formed by a bored god doodling, and that god is you.

When you place a settlement or city, make sure it's got all of the essentials: A cool landmark it can be named after, a treacherous terrain to banish misfits to, and a source of enemies to threaten the population.

Borders before the industrial revolution were extremely rigid and well defined, so make sure your map reflects that.

A common mistake is trying to imagine underwater geographical features like mountains. But those things don't actually exist. The land is land and the sea is the sea and they have no relation to one another.

What about islands, then? Islands should be placed randomly, like the gods sprinkled some land on the sea.

No continent is complete without a massive forest that's a day's walk from frozen tundras to the north and a sandy hot desert to the south.

What climate could allow for such a combination? We're climate deniers here. Weather is to set the mood, not to design the map.

Don't forget to populate your map with many interesting cultures like: hippie people, working class people, cold barbarians, hot barbarians, and normal people.