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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.

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:

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.

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.)

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.

Ive been outside for a couple of days and it's been harsh out here, like really. I'm struggling a lot from fatigue since we have no food (haven't eaten in 3 days) and I'm sick (I have an eye infection) I need to clean my blankets so I would like to sleep on a bed, I don't want to go to the clinic again so please help 🙏

im exhausted and tired I just want to be in a bed it's always something going on I have such bad luck 😭

COSTUMES :D

Tako - Mona Lisa (while looking in a hand held mirror, admiring the look)

Maguro - Circe (mostly bc my English class is doing a mythology unit and it brought me back to my EPIC the musical phase)

Ikura - Aqua-bot Boy (the design was featured in the episode Yam Yakkers if you wanted to know)

Kani - Probably in the distance not knowing what to wear (okay that feels sad but that might still work)

Wasabi - He's just wearing a ghost sheet costume

That's all :)

BOO!! Happy Halloween Everyone!

For this one, me, along with a friend, Say a huge thank you to @cookie-fan-4-tumblin for requesting this thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you- /ref,

She had a request that the Sushi Pack should be in Halloween costumes! I absolutely love this idea, so I did it! The members are very awesome in their spooky wear! Ready to go Trick-or-Treating- Wait, Kani doesn't have a costume? Oh no... Poor Kani..

Umi?

Ooh! Great thinking Umi! I wonder what this one would look like!

Oh my gosh... ITS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!

There we go, Thank you Umi!

made stickers will have a place to sell them eventually first they must go through QA