#map monday

[shaneplays]

Ed Greenwood's original hand-drawn map of the Forgotten Realms, sent to TSR in 1986… on Map Monday aka Dungeon Day! Credit: Photo taken by D&D Sage Advice, map from Alex Kammer's collection

#map monday #dungeon day #d&d #dnd #dungeons & dragons #map #maps #cartography #fantasy maps #rpg #forgotten realms #ed greenwood

[muspeccoll]

Monstrous Whales! Can you spot them?

The Typus Orbis Terrarum, “The Plan of the World’s Lands,” was the first world map to be published in a ‘modern’ standard atlas by Abraham Ortelius and engraved by Frans Hogenberg in 1570.  First published in Abraham Ortelius’s atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, it was one of the few maps included in the atlas that was created by Ortelius himself.

Learn more (and see the whales up close) in Monstrous Whales · The Art of Cartography: Cartes-à-figures, a digital exhibition curated by Lily McEwen.

#maps #historical maps #map Monday #ortelius #special collections #rare books #university of missouri #libraries #columbia mo #mizzou

[bookishlyvintage]

Happy Map Monday folks!

[The Book: Strike the Zither, Joan He]

#strike the zither #joan he #descendants of the crane #the ones were meant to find #fantasy #map monday #books #reading #booklr #studyblr #bookblr #fantasy map #current read #book review #book lover #book nerd #ya fantasy #duology

[themissingmango]

#my art #Just Plane Monday #aviation #plane #first plane of the new year!! #map #flight #flying #digital art #compass #travel

[mapsontheweb]

The word for Monday in European languages.

Other weekdays >>

#maps #words #europe #monday #weekday words

[somethingsomethingcomic]

guess what I've been fixating on

#animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #acnh #tom nook #smth smth #yeah ive just been playing acnh again. sorry #i just unlocked terraforming this morning (as of when im creating the post on monday not when its posted on thursday) #so hopefully by the time this is posted ill have gotten some rly nice street patterns made up #i found some pretty good ones but the way they were set up was like. not exactly what i need? so im trying to like #rip them off ig??? is that bad? idk. im gonna put my own spin on em ig #im just not super good at making convincing like...sidewalks w depth to them and such #anyway hopefully this time around i can really get my island looking as baller as i want #the reason i restarted was bc id fucked my island up so thoroughly that i wasnt even sure what to do w it anymore #or where to start w it #also my plaza was SUPER close to the airport. #so i chose a different layout this time where the plaza is like in the middle right area of it #more room for an entrance and such #i even have made up a Future Map including new landscaping and zones #so ill get to that over the next few days since i have time off work #also! this is the first entry ive made using my new smth smth tools #namely the automatic halftone-ify-er and a custom hand-drawn font #it took a bit less time to make this one since i didnt have to 1. hand write the dialogue and 2. think about the specific halftone colors #im still sticking to a limited palette (specifically 256 web safe colors) just cuz #but yeah. if you have actually read all of this and you have thoughts on the look of this one vs the previous ones lmk 🩵 thanks #also have a good day and drink some water :)

[robo-dino-puppy]

exploring new lands

#horizon zero dawn #hzd #aloy #erend #mutton chop monday #out of bounds exploration #this is just outside the eclipse hideout #well not 'just' but the cliff up there is part of the 'real' map and this is what's outside of it #there are some really cool areas imo #i spawned an erend to explore with me (but i can't get him to follow me :( unfortunately) #hzd npcs #hzd out of bounds #hzd pc #(remove reload boundary mod)

[xenomorphicdna]

Doodle Time!!

I thought it might be fun to post these

It's not much and they're actually just screenshots of my screen but still

Buddy got picked up like some stray cat

#hhhr playing hunter rn #usually i dont struggle with the game but having only one hand available and carrying such an important item is tough #im at the leg goin down to shaded #cannot wait to be done with this i have an echo arti dms design to make hhhh i might have it done by monday perhaps??? #and i got a map to finish too?? damn all these projects and not one gets done haha #rain world #iterator #iterator oc #rain world oc #oc four blue flames #oc veil of dreams #oc vision of a past #drawins

[theredcuyo]

My 3 am brainrot became real after thinking too hard about Bad sacrificing himself every single time

And Skeppy taking his first chance to do so too when it comes to him

So like, You think they'll be each others' wishes?

For context, i also really (like fr) like some games under the name of persona, and long story short, in the 5th one, the last antagonist grants everyone all the wishes their hearths desire (mostly making their traumas never to happen) and the Main character one is, may You wonder?

Not erasing his criminal record, not making his friends happy, no, hell no, is to have a certain someone by his side, someone who under 'normal' circunsances sacrificed himself and is not here for that

As you'll undertnad, defeating the antagonist also means giving up all those whishes

His own whish is pretty much the only thing that can make the Main character visibly emotional and doubtfull (the silent type one of mc)

Unfortunately for him, his person wouldn't forgive him for not doing the right thing and to live under the control of someone else, to live a lie

So, i'll ask again, do You think they'll be each others' wishes?, do You think they'll be able to give up each other for a greater good?, or for the others' whish? Do You think they'll be able to refuse the lie?

I don't think so and damn i need a FIC on this But i might be the only person capable of doing it

#bbh #badboyhalo #skeppy #headcanon #skephalo #persona 5 royal #yes im talking bout it #guess is a spoiler but not so much #i really want to do this fic #but like i have a essay #a resume of a 30 min video #and 4 very specific maps to make #due on monday #so i cant #fuck

[sufjamstevens]

#HAPPY MAPS MONDAY EVERYONE!!!

[jmagnabo92]

The Map - Snippet

Here’s a cute little snippet from my Sirius & Harry Bonding Series in which Sirius and Remus talk about the Map.

***

On Christmas Eve, Sirius decides to play the piano that he had moved to the sitting room.  Harry sits beside him, smiling even as he misses the keys.  “I’m so bad at this.”

Sirius chuckles.  “It takes time to learn – I wouldn’t expect you to be able to learn in an afternoon.”

“I learned flying in an afternoon,” Harry counters.

“That’s natural talent, general speaking it takes time to hone a new skill.”

“Yeah, I suppose.” Harry looks very disappointed and unhappy to be playing the piano with Sirius.

Sirius frowns, “If you don’t want to learn it – that’s okay.”

Harry shrugs, “You said that it was something you did when you were younger – so I am fine learning.”

“Kid, if you don’t want to learn – we don’t have to do it,” Sirius repeats.  The last thing he wants to do is force something on Harry.

“But you want to teach me,” Harry replies, his eyes big and curious.

“I want to do something that we both enjoy,” Sirius counters.  Harry’s making a face that tells him that he’s not exactly comfortable with the idea of voicing anything against what Sirius may want, so Sirius takes the initiative.  “How ‘bout this?  We can talk about the map and how it all works like I told you I would when we have the time.”  

Harry lights up, evidently excited about learning more about his and James’ talents and efforts.  “I’d like that.”

“Why don’t you go get it?” Sirius asks, and Harry doesn’t even hesitate to rush up the stairs to go get it.

“Er – Sirius,” George asks, hesitantly.  “Why would you know anything about the map?”

“Because he’s Padfoot, obviously,” Harry says, back in record time.  “That’s why I call him, ‘Pads’.”

“What did you do?  Fly up and down the stairs?”  

“I was excited,” Harry replies, looking a little sheepish.  

Sirius is sure he just summoned the map since he knows his magic won’t register, but doesn’t want to get into trouble.  “Alright, kid.”

Sirius turns to the twins and grins at the stunned look on the twins faces as Harry says the password and lays it out on the floor.  They move to sit around it, including the twins, Ron, Ginny and Hermione.  

“You never said –” George starts.

“It’s not my fault, you didn’t notice,” Harry states, stiffly.  “I mean, Lupin and Pads haven’t exactly hidden it either – Lupin regularly calls him ‘Padfoot’ and Pads regularly calls him ‘Moony’.”

“Someone called?” Remus asks appearing in the doorway.  “Is that the map?  Why is it out now?”

“Harry has been curious about the map for some time, and I thought I’d explain a bit about what we did with it.  How it came to be,” Sirius offers.  “Why don’t you join us?”

“On the floor?” Remus questions, looking quite like he’d rather not sit on the floor.  “I’m a little too old for that.”

Sirius gives him a look. “I’m older than you.”

Remus rolls his eyes, playfully, but still sits, smiling.  “Only by a few months.  Always reminding us that you’re the oldest.”

“And yet, I wasn’t the first name on the map,” Sirius jokes.  He had spent months arguing that because he’s the oldest that he should get to have his name first on the map.

“If we had gone in birth order, it wouldn’t have sounded as well.  It works better in the order it’s in,” Remus retorts.

“You’re just saying that because you’re first,” Sirius laughs.  It was such a familiar argument that he could almost imagine being in the dormitory arguing the first time.

“No, Padfoot, Wormtail, Moony and Prongs just doesn’t roll off the tongue the way that Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs does,” Remus states.  “It’s just a bonus that it means that I get to be first.”

They both laugh, before Sirius turns to the kids, particularly his kid.  “So!  First, we should probably start with why we created the map…”

“... it has nothing to do with the fact that we are nosy gits,” Remus finishes, trying to say it with a straight face and utterly failing.  

They burst out laughing, before Sirius clears his throat.  “We didn’t use the map for that, it was more that we just wanted to sneak around more confidently.”  

#Sirius Black #Harry James Potter #Remus Lupin #Sirius & Harry #Sirius and Harry bonding #sirius and harry saturday #on Monday #The Map #Good Godfather Sirius Black #parent sirius black #Sirius and Harry

[shaneplays]

The classic and innovative isometric maps from 1983's AD&D I6 Ravenloft module… on Map Monday aka Dungeon Day!!

#ad&d #d&d #dungeons & dragons #map monday #dungeon day #dnd #ttrpg #map #maps #dungeons #dungeon #ravenloft

[lovelesslittleloser]

I heard about that one au. With Grian who knows Minecraft mechanics but nobody else does-

Sounds interesting. Please give

(If you still wanna share it)

Boy am I glad you asked!!!!!

So the premise is that grian’s a watcher and kind of a god? Sorta? At least partially. And he’s been building on a private server of his (as one does) for a few millennia, and he starts to get a little bored, and decides to join a multiplayer server, because player interaction is good every once in a while. And it’s been forever since he’s seen kristen (the goddess of death) so he joins her server!

But when he joins, he notices that everything’s a little. Strange? He didn’t get a communicator on login (which always happens, so he’s very confused) and when he asks some players walking by they look at him weird and ask if he means a ‘phone’ (which he has no clue what that is). Plus, everything’s just kinda… odd. Off. The lighting’s too dim for a place with that many people (which, wow), there are barely any trees and no one’s punching any (even when some say they need wood for a project they just walk past), and no one’s using their inventories.

So grian checks out the details of the server, and hardcore is on. He’s confused at how this many people are still playing with hardcore on, especially with skipping nights by sleeping off, and with such poor lighting. And there’s a huge death count to something called ‘old age’, which he’s never heard of before, and the server-wide pain reception is set to max, and apparently no one had logged in and all of them were bred like passive mobs??? And the only reason he could join like normal was because he was a god and kristen had whitelisted him before the changes were made?????? At least it’s on peaceful mode???

As grian has a very minor meltdown on a bench a chunk away from the empty lot of land that is spawn (which was even more confusing because there’s always some sort of welcome at spawn) and this very polite man with a lovely mustache who introduces himself as mumbo (though grian can see that, since even though name tags are turned off too, he can still see it due to watcher/god) asks if he’s alright, then offers to house grian until he finds a job and can get his own place.

Grian, while at first a little confused at having to buy a house (why not just build one?), he does quickly come to learn that the land costs ‘money’ (why not just use diamonds as currency, like everyone on every server ever??), so the next day (mumbo insisted that he sleep for some reason) he announced that he was going mining a thousand blocks out or so, and left to find a relatively untouched piece of land (leaving a very confused mumbo jumbo in his wake).

He mines for most of the day, and due to the server being on peaceful mode, he is unbothered by monsters, and though he’d assumed that there wouldn’t be anything valuable left to mine due to all the players, all the recourses were practically untouched! Which is also worrying, but he won’t complain if it makes him wealthy! So he returns to mumbo’s home, already having forgotten that land costs ‘money’, and asks mumbo where and how he should build, as the city has a general cohesiveness that he doesn’t want to interfere with.

So mumbo reminds his new friend(?) about the cost of land, and the existence of money, and takes grian to a place that would buy his numerous diamonds, all of which are carbon copies of each other, to a place that would buy them for a fair price, and not ask how he got his hands on them, or how they’re all indistinguishable from one another.

Thus, mumbo whisks grian away to a pawn shop that is admittedly quite seedy, and run by a man named quackity. At first, the man seems to think he’s being targeted by a shabbily-made scam, but once mumbo convinces him to test the diamond’s validity, he becomes thrilled to buy each and every one, his grin somehow widening with every diamond confirmed real. He didn’t ask where the diamonds came from (in a literal sense, as grian brought them out of his inventory one-by-one), and mumbo didn’t ask how buying all these diamonds wasn’t making him bankrupt. A fair trade in many ways.

So grian then uses his new money to buy the largest adjacent plots of land available (which is quite a few, in the richest-people section of the city, where very few people live, which is on the edge of the city and pretty much the middle of nowhere), and he gives half of the rest of the money to mumbo as thanks for helping him out, then sets off to build his new home!

~visual signal that the rest of this is no longer part of the story~

At present, I have 10,761 word of bullet notes of plot points, so I have a full plan for what will probably end up being ~50k words at minimum to the most recent events I have planned, since I tend to drabble on, plus I’ll have to be less vague for… everything! Even what I’ve written here’ll be expanded on a lot when I write it for real, I’m just really excited to talk about it :D

Thank you so much for the ask!! I’ve been wanting an excuse to talk about it for a while, and I’ve only now realized that talking about the stuff I really want to would be spoiling it. But I have so much planned, and it includes so many things!!! I’ll want a beta reader to make sure my plan is coherent first, but even without one, I’ll get it done eventually.

:)

#grian #minecraft #fanfiction #minecraft fanfiction #there’s a lot of series included in the fic so I think it would be best if I don’t mention them all #since some of them barely get a quote or two’s mention #plus I’ll have to find that one tommyinnit-centric fic before I post it to ao3 so I can give it the ‘inspired by’ it deserves #time for a few spoilers because few enough people look at the tags to make me feel like it’s secret when it really isn’t….. #there will be nether shenanigans. it’s literally he’ll come on #also grian knows every language because he’s been around since forever. sue him for downloading duolingo to pass the time #lots of building. lots and lots of building. I might actually make a Minecraft map that’s just the setting of the fic #probably not but maybe #end shenanigans & dragon shenanigans & egg shenanigans & ranboo Beloved live #also I wrote out some how-to videos on minecraft physics. by grian #almost forgot to say that this is a superhero/supervillain/vigilante fic? that too #how come vigilantes are never super? you’ve never seen a ‘super’ vigilante. they’re always just heroes but illegal or villains that help #or they get hired by the heroes. which is lame #also……. minecraft monday #heehoo #my fanfiction #my fanfic writing #[|87

[bibleofficial]

leaving the hospital in the morning & i finally get to go back to wales & i can’t wait i rly can’t - the belgians i’ve met have been wonderful [for the most part] but the rape has me panicking even seeing the roads and the buildings

#diary #literally everyone else was wonderful except for the HOTEL EMPLOYEES THAT REFUSED TO HELP ME FIND MY WAY BACK TO THE HOSTEL & THE GUY THAT #DENIED HAVING A PHONE TO SHOW ME A MAP AFTER THE RAPE #shoutout to school children love yall so much they’re so polite & also the amazing older DJ that was talking to us at the irish pub prior to #us going back to the hostel & me leaving w the tall friendly man - i’ve his number & i told him i was going to text him bc he was going to #host an underground rave at an abbey but couldn’t make it bc i’ve been in the hospital since monday #i’ll come back to ghent sometime - i just need to. get over the trauma lol #i still have his number ! he rolled a j w me - he’s such a saint #i’m just a chatter i love talking to people despite being introverted #i wouldn’t go OUT OF MY WAY TO SPEAK but if they come up to ME i’m WELL OPEN #which he did he’s so sweet & also the old homosexuals i was smoking w & gave me info on the drug culture here bc i was curious & also the #tall belgian that took me to those few bars & we chatted abt belgium and how ghent is changing #i wish i were able to actually continue w the rest of our group for the site visit but honestly it #it just wasn’t going to happen #i can’t even go back to the hostel without shaking and panicking #my darlings kp & omar know everything & everything is ok i love them so much - the group we are w have all been wonderful bar like the 4 #that made their own clique but they’re all boring anyway so they can fuck off lol #THE OTHER 9 ….. STAN #well 7 bc omar & kp i alrdy stan & they know #i’m just telling everyone it was an assault and robbery bc everyone knows something is up bc i walked into the hostel at 9a & nobody knew #where i was bc my phone was dead & i couldn’t tell anyone & also i was probably drugged honestly #i don’t even know my guess is rohypnol #god fuck that guy fuck that guy so much oh my god i swear if i see him again …. bro ur not living im not afraid of european prison in the #fuckin slightest i don’t give a shit

[carolrain]

Monday Mourning

@trickiwooao3 wants to know more about our writing challenges this week:

This MM I'm inviting you to share your toughest writing challenge--dialogue, plot, overwriting, underwriting, mechanics (grammar, punctuation)?

Well, I really like putting characters into situations. I'm not as fond of trying to figure out how to get them out of situations. I don't know! It's a situation worth thinking about because it's hard! The thinking about how it's difficult is the part that I'm good at. How is helping them escape from this my responsibility to write as well?? Such a scam. So, in short, plotting.

This is a slightly-too-blurry map of Bigfoot encounters in the NW corner of the US/SW corner of Canada. I was searching my photos for maps and it came up. It kind of fit the theme? And I thought you might like it.

Does anyone else want to complain about writing challenges? Tagging @jesuisici33 @mammameesh @a-noble-dragon @hippolotamus @mostlyinthemorning

#monday mourning #writing #maps #my photos

[mapsontheweb]

'Monday" in Pakistan's Languages.

#maps #monday #words #pakistan