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[QZGS TL] Butterfly Blue's Reflections, Ten Years Later

T/N: On April 28, 2024, for the tenth anniversary of the completion of The King's Avatar novel, author Butterfly Blue wrote the following Weibo post:

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2014 April 28, to 2024 April 28. Ten years. 😲

It’s a bit of a blur, but yes, it’s been ten years. ⁉️

My editor told me in advance that I should write something to discuss my reflections, but I kept refusing on the grounds that I didn’t have any reflections to share. 🥺🙏 After going back and forth for a while, I suddenly thought, "not having any reflections" was itself something that I could share with everyone. 🤔

How come I don’t have any reflections? Because it’s been ten years. 😞

Ever since that day ten years ago, when I wrote that final period. The story of the world of Glory ended there. 🤗 And ever since that day, my thoughts and feelings on this story, this world, and all these different characters have gradually grown fewer and fewer. 😞👉👈

In 2022, as part of a Qidian event, I wrote another prequel chapter. I followed my ideas and thought patterns from my past prequel chapters to write this new installment. But as I wrote it, it was choppy, it was awkward, it was forced. 😫 The forty-plus-year-old me, regretfully, can no longer write well this story that brought me so much joy and delight during my thirties. 😞😞 This is probably the power of time. In the end, I have no way of maintaining my mood and state from ten years ago. 😞👉👈 When I think about this, I suddenly realize that “time” should be the true protagonist of this reflection, rather than anything else I could share about this work. 🥹

With that, I immediately become even more saddened. Ten years have passed, I’m no longer young, my hair is gone, my beard occasionally sprouts some white strands, and I can no longer sleep right after eating due to acid reflux…🧎

And The King’s Avatar, after ten years, is still there. There are still people who see it, there are still people who like it. Through the passage of time, this is, to me, the greatest source of comfort. 🫡

Thank you to The King’s Avatar. Thank you to the past, present, and future readers who pick up this work. Thank you to the many staff of all roles who have kept busy for this work. 🙇

I wish that time could stand still. I absolutely do not look forward to another ten years passing by, but that day will inevitably come. 👋

Then, I will wish everyone happy travels on their life journey! I hope this work will be the flowers that decorate your happy journey. 🫂🫂

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#quan zhi gao shou #qzgs #the king's avatar #全职高手 #tka #translation #mine #synco talks #i have. many thoughts of my own on this #but it's late now so they must come later #i have no idea why he used so many emojis but it made this take 2x as long trying to figure out good equivalents

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somuchbetterthanthat · 3 days

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Thinking about Sam being the Memory of When it was all Alright, even if not everything was as good as Nostalgia makes it look like.

Cute, easily flustered Sam, with his warmth and his bright laughter and his easiness at understanding Alice, the obsessive and stubbornness in his brow when they'd get into yet another adventure for x or y reasons.

Sam the good, sweet boy to introduce to your parents and baby brother, so smart and clearly heading towards a Good Respectable life, Sam groaning about expectations in the bed later on at night, half whining half joking he can't live up to all that, Alice, come on-

Sam your best mate, present everywhere in your life despite different majors, Sam your first real serious proper love, the sort you think will be forever. Sam and his genuine kindness, his desperate desire to help when it all came to shit...

And then Sam is gone, just a name and a few posts on social medias and twitter, few birthdays texts across the years while your life is made of a boring (dangerous dangerous dangerous do Not Look Closer DO not ask questions) job you can't leave cause it's stable enough, it pays enough, you're OK enough in it and Luke needs you.

But of course Sam stays the bright spot, the almost everything, the future that faded away with your mum and dad's death. Of course Sam is meant to be joy and possibilities.

But then it turns out 10 years has passed, whether you want it or not. Doesn't matter you kept the scraps of paper on which you guys had written silly weddings plans on in a bar one night forever ago, Sam laughing into your neck and going 'sure, we can have a dog bring the rings, but mum is going to want my cousin's daughter to do it so good luck convincing HER'. Doesn't matter Sam is still bright and warm and cute with the best puppy eyes in the world, more than happy to be your friend again.

He's had a life and ten years to move on, even if your feet are still suck and most day you're still a 24 year dumb kid who thinks the whole world's going to be her oyster,,

Meanwhile, your insufferabl(y cute) overly ambitious, annoying coworker is absolutely not checking out with those new piercings and pink hair -

#alice dyer #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #As ever I deal with my horrible sadness by throwing it at another character #Take THAT Alice #Love u

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leowo-leuwu · 3 days

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PRESENTING MY OC FROM THE LORAX !!

Ok, I would like to use my profile to present some of my things, as I do some things involving the universe of The Lorax. I have an AU, but I'm going to focus on my oc outside of this AU, which would be a representation of me on a certain way.

Introducing Layla

Layla is a 21-year-old girl who has lived practically her entire life in an orphanage. Her parents died when she was still a baby, so she never really knew them.

At the age of 18, she was able to receive the billion-dollar inheritance that her parents left her before they died. Her father owned a canned food company that was very famous in this universe while her mother was a renowned lawyer. However, she only found out about it when she turned 18 and came into possession of her family's fortune.

As soon as she got the money, she wanted to fulfill her dream of seeing the world beyond the orphanage, building a trailer with the help of a car manufacturing company. After traveling through several places, Layla decides to visit the Truffula Forest, making it her final trip, as it would become her new home.

More information about your personality

Layla is ambivert, generally lazy, being more lively when it is something she is interested in doing. She loves playing guitar at campfire circles, gardening, painting and card games.

She can be a bit nosy, especially if she notices that someone close to her is sad, she will bother the person until they are happy.

Her favorite colors are red, black and green.

Her favorite food is Chicken Stroganoff.

Relationship with Once-ler in her history

I decided to say that they end up meeting on the same day that Once-ler arrives in the forest because I thought it would be an interesting dynamic. The first impression between the two is not exactly good, Once-ler finds her annoying for being nosy and Layla finds him annoying for being a bit grumpy. As the days go by, the two get closer, getting to know each other better.

Layla sees him as a good friend until one day when they sit next to the river to watch the stars, they end up talking about life. The view of each other changes, growing a feeling of passion.

Random informations

Layla was created in May 2023 and initially used my real name, but I decided to change it.

She loves striped clothes, so her wardrobe is very striped.

Your Trailer cost a lot because it was assembled from scratch. Inside it has all the rooms of a house, even having a little clutter room to put things you don't use as much.

In this universe Once-ler doesn't "become" the Greed-ler, so yes, a happy ending for everyone.

She is Lorax's best friend, having several philosophical conversations with him in the middle of the night.

Her hair is natural red.

She doesn't like Once-ler's family because of the idea of deforestation and because Once-ler's mother looked at her the wrong way when she saw her for the first time.

She has a stuffed pink bunny that was given to her by her mother when she was a baby, and she still takes care of it.

Once-ler likes to teach Layla how to knit, even though she is terrible at it.

She helps Once-ler sell the Thneeds in the city.

#onceler #theonceler #the lorax fandom #the onceler fandom #art #introducing my ocs #oc x once ler #oc x canon #self insert #the lorax oc #oc lore #my oc stuff #lorax fandom

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exhaustedcatte · 4 months

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Detention, boys!

“–pair of troublemakers, they are,” Pomona Sprout wailed. “I know it was them, but there’s no way to prove it.”

Minerva, who’d just walked in, already knew who the offending duo could be. “Potter and Black?”

“Potter and Black,” she confirmed. “Charmed all of my Mandrakes to sing! Sing! Can you believe it?!”

A smile unwillingly pulled on the Gryffindor House-head’s mouth.

“What did they sing?” Professor Sinistra asked curiously.

Pomona ducked, shy. “I didn’t recognize the song, but Ms Bones said it was a muggle band called—ehem.” She cleared her throat and whispered, “The Sex Pistols.”

Minerva suppressed a loud guffaw, forced it back down her throat, and allowed a small grimace. Sinistra had no objections, laughing cheerfully.

“I bet you that was all Lupin,” she said, still grinning. “I’ve heard him giving gospels on muggle music with such ardor, you’d have thought he was being paid to advertise.”

Minerva didn’t know muggle music, but she knew her boys. This prank definitely had their signature on it, not just the handle on magic, but the careless display of talent.

Charming those noisy crybaby Mandrakes was no easy feat.

“I’ll hand out detention for the weekend,” Minerva said easily. “Potter and Black for the frontline work, Lupin for definitely pointing them towards the charms and Pettigrew for stealing all of your Mandrakes,” she raised her brows.

Pomona sighed, smiling.

The thing was, it was easy to detain them for smaller, localised pranks. It had their magical imprint all over it. While they had stepped into juvenile delinquency and thrown dung bombs, most of their practical jokes were, well, practical. Neatly studied and practiced. Difficult charms and jinxes. Hexes that Minerva had almost forgotten about since her own school days.

They’d made the suit of armours duel outside the Defence classroom, transfigured every single notebook in their class into origami birds, charmed it to fly away and got them all let off class. Hexed the Slytherins to speak in haikus for two full days. They’d also frozen the Lake into an ice rink in the cusp of summer post-exams. Pranks against which Finite Incantatem were useless. They put a lot of effort into their jokes, which somehow turned out just as remarkable as their neglected schoolwork.

But she’d given them many cauldrons and trophies and broom closets to clean for all of those, because she knew only they could be responsible for such intelligent tomfoolery.

What was difficult to pin on them was larger, vastly spread magic, because their trace was faint when it was distributed wide, mingling with everyone else’s magic. In theory she would put all her money on it being the Marauders, but she couldn’t simply accuse them when no one had seen them out of bed, no misbehaving, nothing. Very mystifying.

Which was why she was effectively silenced when she walked into the Great Hall on Tuesday. Everything seemed fine at first, but then she noticed, after hearing the excited tittering.

The Slytherins were emerald green. Minerva almost marched down to the quartet – the rivalry was telling. But she glanced around and saw the Hufflepuffs drenched in yellow. The Ravenclaws and Gryffindors were not spared either, dyed in their own house colours.

Minerva peered down her table. The other professors were trying to puzzle out how this had been achieved. She was silently proud that they kept glancing at the four boys on the far end, as if trying to read the answer straight from their brains. They knew no one else was capable of such advanced magic while still being playful.

Minerva looked over to them.

The Marauders were maintaining a strong air of ignorance despite the obvious looks being thrown their way from students and teachers alike.

Remus was stirring his likely fourth sugar into his tea, while Sirius kept nibbling the untouched toast from his friend’s hand. James was roughing his hair up and laughing at something Peter was whispering into his ear. They were also painted a vibrant red, probably as an alibi.

“I know it’s them,” Dumbledore said lowly, eyes dancing with mirth. “But I do think it’s rather spectacular, don’t you agree, professor?”

She huffed a laugh. “Yes.”

It was hard to tack this on them, not when Potter and Black, who despite knowing magic straight out of the womb, would vehemently deny everything and call it a fluke of someone’s luck. Not when Lupin, a severely clever werewolf who often downplayed his own intellect, would disagree politely and be off in that quiet way of his. Not when Pettigrew, the most unassuming and yet the sneakiest of them all, would lie impressively through his teeth.

She sat back and sipped her tea, enjoying the humorous sight of the bright morning sun reflecting off of the colourful skins of her students. But mostly she was observing her band of troublemakers.

They were still hanging off of each other’s shoulders like limpets, clingy and supremely codependent, in the best possible way. She watched Sirius proof-read a parchment Peter had given him. Remus was feeding James his scones and cream, who was trying, futilely, to tame his hair with a bottle of Fleamont’s Hair Gel that had just arrived with the owls.

These idiot boys, she thought fondly.

There would be no way to prove it was them other than their excited footsteps and victorious laughter that echoed through her office later that day.

Minerva McGonagall stepped into the hallway, unable to tamp down the pride in her voice when she called out, “Detention, boys!”

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sopekooks · 1 year

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“where flowers bloom, so does hope.”

happy birthday @huhfeatjhope ♡︎

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wiltkingart · 1 year

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so i may be a little bit stupid. as in this isnt the first time i saw your trans leon art of course. it's probably the second or third time. but when you posted your commission art post and reposted the leon pic w it it made me realise that. leon's body looks like me. and usually even no-op art has features that i don't have like pronounced body and facial hair but like... this pic made me realise that i don't have a girl's body i have a body. with tits on top like. i guess like cherry on the cake? like just a feature on top. idk it's a change of perspective that i really like and makes me feel so much better and i would have never come to that conclusion if it wasnt for your art. so thank you

that's not stupid. it's not really a popular perspective. things are getting a little better now i think, at least in trans spaces, about celebrating and loving our non-op non-conventional bodies. but when i was growing up trans (not even that long ago! im 26 in a few days!) there was nothing like this that i ever saw. and my body was a source of just. daily despair. for a long ass time. i'm not saying i don't still have bad days but it wasn't until i started exploring trans bodies in my art that were different from the post-op 'ideal ("acceptable") stealth trans guy' image that i could i start to envision a different future for myself, a possible future, one that's more inline with my present. more in line with me and what my body looks like. this is how i learned to make peace with my body. love it even. tits and all! this took years of work but i am so much more happy and content these days than i ever thought i could be in this body. all thanks to art. and daring to have that first thought of 'what if'.

so yeah. there's kind of a lot of weight behind what i do here and i'm honestly astonished that i have gotten very little backlash for it over the years. sometimes i'm met with confusion, but for the most part its all very positive and enthusiastic, because there are a lot of people out there who have bodies like you and me and i'm so happy i can offer strangers like you a piece of the peace i've made for myself. take care <3

#human bodies are so varied but so so so much more similar than people want you to think #'i don't have a girl's body i have a body' that's it. that's literally it!#ask wilt #especially having to go off T three years ago i thought it was the end of the world. and then i had to keep living #i GOT to keep living and it's been a whole new process of relearning this body #but i'm happy when i look in the mirror these days. i really am #who knows what my future will look like but this is my present and i will love this body while i inhabit it

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chaunceydollz · 4 months

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But anywaysss my new years resolutions for 2024 are

•To master human anatomy (2nd year in a row😭)

•get a scholarship (full ride, stretched but good to hope.)

•do sims renders (ik how to do them but I’m a big procrastinator.)

•Make one god damn real life friend before I graduate🧍🏾‍♂️

#I haven’t had friends since middle school #but I lost them all before I moved we grew apart #you don’t know how many times I was close to killing my self bc of the depression and isolated breakdowns #I haven’t had one those times since September tho :)#I think it’s because of my trauma of how badly bullied I was #that I can’t approach ppl #I literally cannot speak to people if I even manange to walk up to them #all of the friends I did had all happened because THEY approached ME #It’s only my fault for letting old memories effect how I approach and percieve people #i try to use my disability as an excuse but I know it all comes down to how I present and carry myself..#I’ve lost the will to care about that a long time ago.#vent #vent post #tw sui vent #new years resolution #happy new year #:)

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crysdrawsthings · 1 year

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Happy New Year, folks! May 2023 be kinder to us all c:

#my new year present to all of you is that I will have restraint in subjecting you to my cringe OC nonsense #unless you want to be subjected to cringe oc nonsense - then it can be negotiated #and maybe do some free art stuff #happy new year gamers

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sisididis · 2 years

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SpaPort azulejo for @reallunargift

Inspired by the azulejos of Igreja do Carmo in Porto and the Palace of the University in Coimbra.

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quibbs126 · 2 years

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Okay, there’s been something about Miracle Mask that’s bugged me ever since I saw it, and it’s that Henry and Angela didn’t really get married and were just waiting for Randall to return so that Randall and Angela can get married

Like, okay, I can accept all the other stuff with Henry building Monte D’Or and using Randall’s wealth all to find him, but this point just feels like too much of a stretch to me

Because like, it’s been 18 years. While sure you may have held out hope for Randall coming back all those years ago at this point I think you just need to move on. And I mean, is Angela really this hung up on a guy she dated as a teenager that she’d be willing to just remarry to him even after all this time? They spent more time apart than they ever did together, heck they spent more time apart than they had even been alive! You two wouldn’t know each other anymore by that point!

And while yeah, I can accept that Henry and Angela having a fake marriage is something they would do back then, are you telling me that over the course of those 18 years, they didn’t find love in each other and decide to move on with their lives by just being with each other? Like honestly I feel like Angela/Henry is a much better pairing than Randall and Angela (or even him with Henry) at this point, because it feels like these two people were able to actually move on with their lives and find a way to pick up the pieces of their lives together, instead of just staying in the past like they do in canon

#another thing that bugged me is that after explaining Monte D’Or to Randall he was still mad at Henry #bc he “stole Angela from him”#and was mad at Angela for being with Henry #as if she was supposed to stay hung up on the guy she dated as a teenager and never find new happiness in her life #like she thought you were dead is she not allowed to move on with her life?#sorry this has just been something on my mind #honestly I probably didn’t word it very well #but you get what I’m saying #oh yeah I don’t hate any pairings with Randall in the present or anything #I just don’t like how in canon nobody really moved on and just stayed stuck in the past #like I just feel like it would have been better had they just tried to make a new start together #instead of restoring things to how they used to be for them all #when it’s been 18 years #anyways #professor layton #angela ledore #henry ledore #randall ascot #miracle mask #miracle mask spoilers #ramblings

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singsweetmelodies · 1 year

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I am almost falling over my chair in this fucking airport waiting for the new chapter omfgggggg I am so excitedddddddd

I’ve already re-read it (AGAIN) earlier today so it is ✨fresh✨ in my mind so LETS DO THIS!!!

omg, love, i am SO sorry - i saw this on sunday and thought i replied, but apparently i didn't. stupid tumblr. and stupid brain. but. OMG. 🥺🥺😭😭😭🤗🤗🤗🤗🥰 THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THIS, omfg, your excitement is like a shot of serotonin right into my veins. i love you so much for this, ahhhhh ❤️❤️ hope you enjoyed the chapter!! 😘😘

#asks & answers #🖥 your-littlesecret #wip: love's a game #everything about this makes me so 🥰🥰🥰🥰 actually #it was such a LONG wait wasn't it?#but it's all worth it when people are still as happy and excited as this by the end of it ❤️❤️#ALSO. a special treat for you in the tags because this made me <3333 so much #i will exclusively reveal to you #that i hope and plan to publish chapter 7 around the 2nd or 3rd of January as a new year's present #or if my brain dies then it'll probs be around the 20th lmao #but that's not the treat that's just logistics #the treat is #i am telling you (and everyone who reads my insane tags hehehe lmao) in confidence #that #in chapter 7 #they might just #kiss #💏#*le GASP*#hehehehehehhehehehehe #oh i cackled way too much making that reveal. i'm insane. anyway. LOVE YOU and tysm for this amazing ask ❤️❤️❤️

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corviiids · 4 months

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my top bit of advice going into the new year: compliment people. especially strangers. literally everyone you interact with if you can. when you buy coffee in the morning compliment the barista's tattoos. when you're chatting with a coworker tell them that by the way you like their outfit. always find something they've chosen to do on purpose. nail polish, jewellery, tattoos, hair colour/style, statement accessory, outfit, etc are all good bets. things people hope will be noticed. things that aren't too personal so it doesn't make them uncomfortable (eg probably not their physical features). i've gotten into the habit of scanning everyone i talk to for something about them that i think is cool so i can tell them. it's a great habit because it makes me notice people and realise just how many neat little details there are in people's presentation of themselves that might pass me by if i wasn't paying attention. and it brings out so much joy. you'd be surprised how much it disarms people to receive an unexpected compliment from someone they don't know. it is the most sincere smile you will see all day long. it feels nice to make people happy but it also means you win the social interaction. establish dominance by complimenting a stranger's earrings and disappearing into the fog

#rookposting #the little 'oh!' followed by a big grin is now my highlight in every interaction i have with a stranger #you can always spot the things people hope will be noticed and you have no idea how happy it makes people when it gets noticed #i find it's always better to compliment things they did deliberately vs complimenting stuff like their voice or their face or other things #that are inherent or they cant change because that can make people uncomfortable for one thing to hear that from a stranger #but it's also just less meaningful imo because they didnt do that on purpose

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grasshoppergeography · 5 months

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Hey All,

I've been away for some time, as we've been working really hard on something quite exciting:

let me present to you the world's first ever global ocean drainage basin map that shows all permanent and temporary water flows on the planet.

This is quite big news, as far as I know this has never been done before. There are hundreds of hours of work in it (with the data + manual work as well) and it's quite a relief that they are all finished now.

But what is an ocean drainage basin map, I hear most of you asking? A couple of years ago I tried to find a map that shows which ocean does each of the world's rivers end up in. I was a bit surprised to see there is no map like that, so I just decided I'll make it myself - as usual :) Well, after realizing all the technical difficulties, I wasn't so surprised any more that it didn't exist. So yeah, it was quite a challenge but I am very happy with the result.

In addition to the global map I've created a set of 43 maps for different countries, states and continents, four versions for each: maps with white and black background, and a version for both with coloured oceans (aka polygons). Here's the global map with polygons:

I know from experience that maps can be great conversation starters, and I aim to make maps that are visually striking and can effectively deliver a message. With these ocean drainage basin maps the most important part was to make them easily understandable, so after you have seen one, the others all become effortless to interpret as well. Let me know how I did, I really appreciate any and all kinds of feedback.

Here are a few more from the set, I hope you too learn something new from them. I certainly did, and I am a geographer.

The greatest surprise with Europe is that its biggest river is all grey, as the Volga flows into the Caspian sea, therefore its basin counts as endorheic.

An endorheic basin is one which never reaches the ocean, mostly because it dries out in desert areas or ends up in lakes with no outflow. The biggest endorheic basin is the Caspian’s, but the area of the Great Basin in the US is also a good example of endorheic basins.

I love how the green of the Atlantic Ocean tangles together in the middle.

No, the dividing line is not at Cape Town, unfortunately.

I know these two colours weren’t the best choice for colourblind people and I sincerely apologize for that. I’ve been planning to make colourblind-friendly versions of my maps for ages now – still not sure when I get there, but I want you to know that it’s just moved up on my todo-list. A lot further up.

Minnesota is quite crazy with all that blue, right? Some other US states that are equally mind-blowing: North Dakota, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming. You can check them all out here.

Yes, most of the Peruvian waters drain into the Atlantic Ocean. Here are the maps of Peru, if you want to take a closer look.

Asia is amazingly colourful with lots of endorheic basins in the middle areas: deserts, the Himalayas and the Caspian sea are to blame. Also note how the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra are divided.

I mentioned earlier that I also made white versions of all maps. Here’s Australia with its vast deserts. If you're wondering about the weird lines in the middle: that’s the Simpson desert with its famous parallel sand dunes.

North America with white background and colourful oceans looks pretty neat, I think.

Finally, I made the drainage basin maps of the individual oceans: The Atlantic, the Arctic, the Indian and the Pacific. The Arctic is my favourite one.

I really hope you like my new maps, and that they will become as popular as my river basin maps. Those have already helped dozens of environmental NGOs to illustrate their important messages all around the world. It would be nice if these maps too could find their purpose.

#maps reimagined #geography #cartography #maps #my art #rivers of the world #ocean drainage basins #ocean maps #river maps

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