#fiction map

[mapsontheweb]

Mythical and Submerged land of the World.

by Breakingerr

#maps #fictional maps #mythical lands #atlantis #lemuria #Breakingerr

[elbarkla]

I'm obsessed with Flat Earth conspiracy maps so I made my own, I hope it catches on 😇

#worldbuilding #sci fi art #flat earth #cake #ttrpg maps #speculative fiction #elbarklaart

[alltoounwellll]

Sirius could watch a sleeping Remus all night long. Forever even. Evading sleep himself in favour of indulging in something only he had the privilege of.

Tracing his fingertips along the scars on Remus’ face, turning silver from the light of the crescent moon that shone through the gap in the velvet draperies hanging around their bed. Watching as his brow furrowed and then relaxed from the touch of Sirius’ fingers. Listening to the rise and fall of his chest, and the quiet thumping of his heart through his shirt.

“Mmm,” he hears from Remus, eyes still closed. “What are you looking at?”

“You,” says Sirius, placing his chin on the other boy’s chest, watching him. “Just you.”

Remus cracks an eye open, “like what you see?”

“You are a treasure to behold, Remus John Lupin.”

#always thinking about them #wolfstar #alltoounwellll writes (sometimes) #sirius black #remus lupin #marauders #marauders era #sirius black x remus lupin #sleeping #wolfstar microfic #microfic #fiction #marauders map #remus john lupin #rj lupin

[cruciatusforeplay]

Map Of Whickber Street (Good Omens Soho around the bookshop)

I had a lot of fun watching the entire series again and working out where all the shops were in relation to one another. Some of these are mentioned in canon, some are just shown. I've taken some liberties with scale and the like. It wasn't clear which of these streets is Whickber Street, but I suppose there must be some mystery left in the world.

I'm adding some photo references and some more information about the various shops below the cut. If you can make out any more names, I'd love to know.

It's possible the deli is also part of Francesco's as they're both Italian, but there is a front door by the awning that could lead to the restaurant (not an unusual set up for Soho). Francesco's awning is the victim of Crowley's rainstorm.

Between Francesco's and Give Me Coffee is a shop selling formal menswear that I couldn't make out the name of.

Next to that is the coffee shop, Arnold's (the musical instruments shop), Marguerite's (the French restaurant), and newsagency (the news agents). We get a lovely shot of them from the upstairs of the bookshop (newsagents just barely visible).

Opposite them, we obviously have the bookshop itself and down from that, the record shop (which is called The Small Back Room, presumably in reference to having started at the back of Aziraphale's bookshop). The record shop is the orange shop you can see below. (There's also a clearer view of the newsagents).

The shop one down from the record shop is currently a question mark, but it does have a very bold colour scheme, and at one point we are a candelabra and a piece of fabric in the window display. I can't make out the name of this one either.

Opposite the bookshop we have the pub, the Dirty Donkey, whose front door is also the lift to heaven when summoned. Next to the pub is the doorway that leads you to the brothel (I picked the colour on the map from the new model friendly hands sign on the door), and next to that is Will Goldstone's Magic Shop. The magic shop, bookshop and the pub can also be seen in 1941 London flashbacks. Opposite the magic shop and next to the bookshop is another unknown shop. My gut says it sells lighting or maybe more general electrics, but I couldn't get a good enough shot to really see it.

At the end of this street we can see the Lucky Snake which I believe is a Chinese Restaurant, and just to the left we can glimpse a yellow shop, that I suspect is the herbalist that we see mentioned on Aziraphale's list of local businesses. Soho and Chinatown are geographical neighbours, and it's not uncommon to see Chinese herbalist or health shops in Soho. The red lanterns from the Lucky Snake continue down over the yellow shop, which is what gave me the impression it might be the herbalist.

Directly across the crossroads from the bookshop we have a fruit and vegetable market, that has a flower stand on the corner. That's where the tomatoes roll from when Gabe is walking through naked. (The veggies are obscured in the shot below, but we do see them in general)

If we follow the road between the flower market and the newsagents, I've extrapolated that the stage entrance to The Windmill (the theatre that we see in 1941) is there. We get a moderately clear view of it during the flashback, and the Windmill is a real place (to my knowledge it's somewhere between a burlesque club and a strip club these days), so I figured it would still be standing here too. We get the briefest of glimpses of the stage door still standing in modern London.

If you care for real world geography, then The Windmill's main entrance is on Great Windmill Street, right off Shaftesbury Avenue, on the corner of Archer Street.

I could not for the life of me find Brown's World of Carpets anywhere. Maybe he's not even actually a local business. He seems the type to fake it.

Here's a view of the area from heaven.

#good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens writing reference #writing reference #neil gaiman #fictional map #the goodest of omens

[victusinveritas]

Geospatial model of the Roman World.

Want to know how long it would take to get from what is now Yorkshire to Rome in the first century? And the best route? And the expense?

If you are a historical novelist and you haven’t encountered this interactive site, you need to. It’s centered on the Roman Empire, but with care this info will translate to other eras.

#roman empire #ancient rome #interactive #maps #classical studies #medieval studies #travel #history #historical fiction

[marauders-audio-project]

James keeps a score of how many times he gets Regulus to smile

#jegulus #regulus black #choicesaudiostory #maraudersaudioproject #james potter #marauders #remus lupin #sirius black #the maraunders map #choicesmessermoon #audiovisual #audio #audio fiction #audioproduction #audio recording #podfic

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

night seven: I got my present from my best friend today, it's a book!

#chanukahproject #mood: jewy #hanukkah #every year she gets me a Hanukkah present and i get her a xmas present #she gave me a fiction novel based on IRL events in argentina #i gave her a nonfiction book about maps in vermeer paintings

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Recent + current reads ✨

#booklr #book photography #book picture #emily wilde's map of the otherlands #the invocations #faebound #bookworm #bibliophile #fiction #fantasy #book community #book aesthetic #bookshelf #my photos #mine

[jgmartin]

normalize daydreaming a whole ass fantasy universe while doing the dishes

"sorry babe, i can't chat right now. i know it looks like i'm just scrubbing some plates, but i'm actually drafting an elvish charter while envisioning the last 2000 years of frost dragon history."

#writeblr #writers #creative writing #original writing #writeblr community #jgmartin #writing #writers of tumblr #am writing #dnd maps #dnd stuff #worldbuilding #dark fantasy #imagine #dreamtale #text post #funny #writerscommunity #fiction writing #novel writing #tumblr writers #writer community #writer problems #writer things #writers and poets #wri

[lastseenleaving]

US vs UK covers

#fantasy books #fantasy reads #heather fawcett #emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #emily wilde's map of the otherlands #cover love #sff reads #sff books #sff fiction #fantasy recs #fantasy fiction #cozy fantasy

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Empire of Long Florida

#maps #fictional maps #florida

[wstrnred]

YALL i just finished reading "emily wildes encyclopedia of faeries" and i loved it and it really reminded me of "howl's moving castle" by diana wynne-jones. especially the love interest. nothing beats an egomaniac charming magical long haired blonde man. howl + wendell are such twinsies and i am LOOKING FOR MORE FANTASY/FICTION ROMANCE featuring love interests like them!!!!!! pleasepleasepleaseplease PLEASE send reccs of any similar books that come to mind!!! 😊😊🙏🙏

#howls moving castle #howl pendragon #howl jenkins pendragon #diana wynne jones #fantasy #booklr #books #books and reading #romance #fiction #emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #emily wilde series #emily wilde's map of the otherlands #wendell bambleby #magic #fantasy books #book recommendations #book reccs #long haired men

[ratellini]

"Vengeance is mine to deliver."

no shadows ⇘

#vendetta #vendetta-if #IF #interactive fiction #everyone in da fam: dont risk urself for vengeance my boy...... :( nikolai: lol i wont! its just a little vendetta ^_^ (maimkillmaimmai-) #the way this could easily be some au batman drawing lmaooo IM SORRY i gave him grey eyes-black hair AND pronouns!!!! #anyway im sorry papa for i shan't be nice like you taught me!! it died w u 🥺 anyway yes play vendetta its literally BRAINRotting me #and its soooooo good!! #*nikolai #he is also supposed to have tattoos but lets ignore that i was too lazy to map them out lols :3 #the no shadows version is just ash turning on the lights in the apartment lmao. “bro what u doin….’’ ‘’dw about it’’

[whitehairedanimeboyfriend]

"But how does trans barbie make sense she was assigned female and continues to identify as a woman" simple. she was assigned barbie at birth and transitioned to be a human being. next question.

#barbie #same with nimona #it doesnt always have to one to one map onto the real world #barbies story clearly reasonated with a lot of trans people #im not going to sit here and pretend it was a better movie than it was #but would you guys stop fighting fictional characters #you can all relate to barbie if you want yo #you can do whatever you want forever

[mostlysignssomeportents]

That’s the seductive power of the spreadsheet: it’s a tool for asking what if? With just a little training, anyone can use a spreadsheet to build a model of some real-world phenomenon, from an ecosystem to a convenience store, from a lemonade stand to a retirement savings plan. Then, by tapping new numbers into those neat little boxes, you can change the model: what if I pay a little less here? What if I save a little more there? What if this number goes up? What if it goes down? Change a box and all the numbers dance in their gridwork of faint gray lines,  and the future is revealed, with a terrible and false precision. Terrible and false because the model is a model, it’s not the world, and each of those sharp figures and formulae obscures a fuzzy, squishy set of assumptions, guesses and elisions. The model can suggest, it can guide – but it cannot predict. This is what made spreadsheets so science fictional. As we lose ourselves in a futuristic parable, it’s easy to forget the “parable” part and start to think we’re experiencing the future. To forget that sf writers have no more insight into what the future holds than any of us, and thank goodness, because if the future could be predicted, there’d be no reason to do anything or try anything. The future is up for grabs. That’s the point of science fiction: not to predict the future, but to inspire it, or ward it off. To work out our present-day anxieties and aspirations on the page, to provide a virtual fly-through of the emotional experience of this technological arrangement or that.

The seductive, science fictional power of the spreadsheet

#scalzi #red team blues #maps and territories #spreadsheets #science fiction #prediction is hard especially about the future

[opheliablackpotter]

How I imagine James' birthdays at Hogwarts:

(read all and bonus to be emotionally destroyed :))

1st year-chill, pleasant evening with the rest of the marauders near the Great lake. They enjoyed throwing empty packages of chocolate frogs at others :D

2nd year-hilarious day he spent by flying on his new broomstick outside and inside of Hogwarts. Not to forget that he flew into dinner in the Great hall while Sirius was setting off the fireworks.

3rd year-mister Potter, now officially a teenager, celebrated this bday by buying things for pranks in Hogsmade and ended up crying in Remus' lap because Lily didn't respond to all his efforts to impress her by annoying Snevilus.

4th year-THIS IS SOMETHING BIG GUYS. First there was big, not allowed Quidditch match and after match party in Gryffindor room because Gryffindor will, of course, win. (at least Dumbledore would think so)

5th year-everyone is worried about Voldy and death eaters. This year he wanted a bit of privacy (BUT not without the rest of the marauders) and they were all day in the Room of requirement . Don't get me wrong, they had nice time, but Remus had heard something about werewolves cooperating with Death Eaters, Pettigrew was either in a panic or telling horrible jokes about house elves and ghosts, and Sirius was off the whole time because he was worried thinking about his little brother. Sirius denied it, but ever since he left him, he feels guilty. Now that Voldy wants new followers and the support of noble houses, maybe something will happen in a few years. Who knows :( ? Of course, the night ended with drinking a little too much firewhisky.

6th year-James spent whole day lying on Regulus' bed and trying to convince Regulus they will find a way to save him from Dark lord.

7th year-he invited some Gryffindor friends to the Three Broomsticks and they talked about Dumbledore and some of the students who don't go to Hogwarts anymore because they are probably Death Eaters. He spent the rest of the night crying over a special and handsome Slytherin who was no longer speaking to him and would soon be leaving Hogwarts.

*bonus: the day Reggie left, James was like a ghost. He was white, with a blank expression on his face. He tried not to stare too long at Sirius's dark curls and features. He spent that night in the Astronomical Tower, crying, calling out and looking only at one star.

The one star he, the greatest Gryffindor seeker, will never reach.

#dead gay wizards #dead gay wizards from the 70s #fantasy #fiction #harry potter #hogwarts #marauders era #the maraunders map #the black brothers #james x regulus #birthday #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #peter pettigrew #moony wormtail padfoot and prongs #bday #happy birthday #happy bday #:3 #life is hard #unfair #my fic #fake quotes #my quotes #gryffindor #slytherin #gryffindor x slytherin #hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry