#sociopolitical geography

[writingmochi]

a terra incognita introduction

cast: jake ✗ fem.reader

synopsis: as the world entered the middle of the 21st century, many things have changed for the better or for worse in the newly united korea peninsula: the preparation for the succession of the new conglomerates of the past decade, the uprising of deviant androids, and the new layer of life shield by walls of codes. in the middle of it, two beings are trying to understand each other and the situation of the world they live in; an unknown territory

genre: cyberpunk, cyber noir, psychological thriller, science fiction, dystopian future, politics and philosophies regarding artificial intelligence and humanity, romance, drama, angst, mature content (war and revolution, explicit smut)

based on: video game cyberpunk 2077 (2020) and detroit: become human (2018), anime serial experiments lain (1998), and tv show succession (2018-2023)

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united korea

the united republic of korea (known as "united korea") is an east asia nation on the korean peninsula. as a result of the reunification agreement back in 2025 of the former north and south korea, the state has now prospered in terms of sociopolitical and economic issues from the korean war. it now excels technologically as one of the firsts in the world to introduce commercialized androids along with other east asian countries such as japan and china. in the aftermath of the social media collapse and the cyber world war of 2027-2030, the private conglomerates of the state have released a new way to connect to the information superhighway.

FLAG

(flag link to r/alternatehistory on reddit)

INFORMATION

capital cities: neo seoul | neo pyongyang

population: 65.5 million

language: korean | english | japanese | chinese

>> HISTORY

>> GEOGRAPHY

>> GOVERNMENT

>> SOCIETY

>> ECONOMY

>> MILITARY

>> MAJOR CITIES

neo seoul

one of the capital cities of united korea and the former capital of south korea, neo seoul is a metropolis for the state's bustling life from the most traditional to the most modern. neo seoul is known for six districts that are divided by the han river flowing in the middle, known as the division of north seoul and south seoul

north seoul encapsulates the traditional side of neo seoul and the center for the city's and state's government administration

south seoul lies the center of neo seoul's economy where conglomerates build their headquarters. a distinct living cost gap can be seen to compare those living in the north and those in the south where it is connected to incheon, a major city of transportation with its international seaports and airport

neo pyongyang

one of the capital cities of united korea and the former capital of north korea, neo pyongyang is the capital of the parliament of united korea. it's located on the taedong river kilometers upstream from the yellow sea. it is known as the city where the declaration of unification was signed along with its establishment as half of the capitals of the unified countries. much of the population of neo pyongyang are citizens coming from the southern of the peninsula as they migrate to fill in the spaces and utilize materials. it is also a growing industrial hub where conglomerates built their factories, along with kaesong.

with the rise of deviancies from androids made by shim laboratories, journalists have made observations and assume that neo pyongyang is the main hub of the rebellion between androids and their creator (as one human equates to two androids), creating unrest between the two parties. yet, they also say that neo pyongyang is a better refuge for deviant androids than neo seoul.

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[chicago-geniza]

Have been reading a lot at work and surprised myself again, in the sense that. If I split the project into parts it might actually be workable:

On the locus of the "I": cogito/reason, memory, Geist, psyche

On the invention of nation + public; philosophical geography; "civilization"; assimilation

On the conceptual, practical/legal, + discursive tensions between individual & collective a) self-determination, b) representation + expression, c) memory, d) psyche

On aesthetic empathy, Kunstwellen, "Empathy & Abstraction," Jung, early psychoanalysis, Bergsonian metaphysics & anthropology, ethnography, folklore, "authenticity" (circle back to "civilization," nation-building, etc.)

THE INTERWAR AESTHETIC/SOCIOPOLITICAL CONFLICT: REPRESENTATION VS. ABSTRACTION

WITHIN ABSTRACTION CAMP: Paris avant-garde (and Polish/French overlap); THE BIG TL;DR--HOW JUNG, BERGSON, VIENNA SECESSION ART CRITICS, IDEA OF NATIONAL GEIST (IMMUTABLE), IDEA OF NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS (PSYCHOANALYTIC SENSE), SYMBOLISM, "CIVILIZATION," AND FEAR OF ABSTRACTION AS TRANSCENDING REPRESENTATION'S INEVITABLE SIGNIFIERS OF DIFFERENCE (RACE SCIENCE IS ALSO HERE) COME TOGETHER: THE BELIEF THAT ABSTRACT ART CAN BETRAY IN ITS USE OF COLOR & FORM THE ARTIST'S SUBCONSCIOUS FOREIGNNESS, UNCIVILIZED NATURE, ETC., & THE BELIEF THAT ONE'S INDIVIDUAL (SUB)CONSCIOUS IS A) IMMUTABLE/ESSENTIAL, B) ETHNO-NATIONAL IN CHARACTER. This was expressed mostly about Jews

In Poland, during the interwar period, these aesthetic discourses re: abstract art corresponded to what were, imo, related debates: one about the Polish language (another variation on content vs. form, representation vs. abstraction, and How To Clock Jews & Ukrainians When They Speak Perfect Unaccented Polish), one about the "right to choose one's nationality," i.e., assimilation and self-determination

CODA: "MY OTHER HOMELAND IS THE IDEA OF EUROPE" - on Stefania, the postwar world order, the emergence of trauma theory, the psychoanalytic turn in historiography, and the contemporary prominence of memory studies, collective memory, collective consciousness, collective guilt, collective national affects, and the politics of commemoration - how "memory culture" can be seen as an encounter between the post-Enlightenment, fin-de-siecle Idea of Europe and the post-WWII, post-imperial Idea of Europe - the nation as collective subject, imbued with reason + will (self-determination), memory (the basis for identity, pro/contra Hume), consciousness in the psychoanalytic sense (experiences via historical process trauma, guilt, even return of the repressed). The staging of history as a psychoanalytic working-through of memory and the transformation of that staging into ritual commemoration become, by extension, constitutive of "civilization" (the nation as civilized person & LITERALLY analysand!!!!!!)

I have to learn German and French, unfortunately

#fake thesis tag #assimilation and its discontent #interwar Poland is my drug of choice

[exilley]

Am going to reiterate: there are so many things to criticize about anime, as is with ANY human creation. But why is it that people who dont even know anyone directly from “east asia” (i hesitate to use the term because it IS a western construct and not something people native to said region actually use to describe their own sociopolitical geography) feel so uniquely entitled to comment on the state of gender inequality/sexism and queerphobia in those regions? How does the hypocrisy not jump out to anyone?

#exilley's diary #im just bitching again. anyway always examine your latent biases.

[batmanshole]

florida not considered deep south by some ppl bcs of a difference in culture and demographic that and probably bcs it used to be more politically distinct, more of a swing state

NODDING thank you.... <- guy who likes geography a lot but tends to forget abt the sociopolitical + cultural aspects of it. i just really like rivers and biomes and such

[meowhawkk]

i think the problem with the England/Britain thing you mentioned is that most US people don't seem to know the difference. i actually didn't and had to look it up. im 29 and never once in school did they tell me there's a difference so i guess I'll be educating people from now on about that?? Im sorry though, it must be really frustrating

Honestly it's okay! I know how America-centric a lot of online spaces are, so it's something I see and roll my eyes at all the time; unfortunately I can't really change the state of the education system over there but. I'll use this as a jumping off point to chatter.

As someone from Wales, I've always grown up having to constantly correct people that I'm not from England, and I'm not English, and that the UK is far more than JUST England, like... I'm used to it. It happens. I always try to explain to people this is the equivalent of me referring to all of America as 'New York' for example, and obviously that isn't true, because not every American is from NY- just like British =/= English!

I guess it grates on me bcuz I know a lot about a lot of different American states, and most don't know (and sometimes don't care) that the UK is made up of 4 countries, know very little about Europe in general as a whole, & sometimes try and speak over us on our geography, history, & culture.

But sadly I am one person and I can't really change the state of education over there 😭 BUT! now you know that Britain refers to more than just England! So it is a net positive! I am also happy to be seeing the energy crisis in the UK being discussed on a larger scale, outside of British news & media-- bcuz it is a genuinely terrifying issue for a lot of people & it has brought forth the reality of how big the class divide here truly is in the UK, and how corrupt it really is. The sociopolitical dynamic of it is very different to America; I'm mostly happy more people are seeing it now.

#blue says #ask to tag #anonymous #mailbox #SORRY this was a long tangent about my experiences as well as the energy crisis #But yeah. I think a lot of people kind of fall into the idea that the UK and America are similar as we are both predominantly English - #speaking countries. but this couldn't be further from the truth. #ALSO I DIDN'T MEAN TO DUNK ON AMERICANS IN THIS POST EITHER I hope it doesnt come across like that #Like eg. I'm Welsh. But I don't have a Welsh accent. #but when I have told some English people in the past that I was born in Wales and consider myself Welsh. #there is sometimes a reaction of... like they turn their nose up at you & begin to talk down at you. #It's subtle. It's not outward & loud hatred (usually). But some really do think we are beneath them. The dynamic is way different here. #but yeah there's a lot I could say about this but yk IM IN THE TAGS Nnn

[lightsandsoundgo]

Tbh one of my biggest pet peeves with most sci-fi is the tendency for planets to be a single biome, and often known for only a single cultural feature if they have a developed society (e.g. a pleasure planet, or an entire planet that is thought of as a gambling den, etc).

Earth contains so many varied biomes and cultures and areas, even in a utopian world where sociopolitical differences have been minimized (lol), there's still vastly varied geography! So it seems unlikely every planet we see would either be "the forest planet" or "the desert planet" or "the jungle planet".

Ice and desert maybe get a pass since I could see the base moisture or temperature levels for a planet being lower, but if the equator is cold enough to be permanently ice, I'd expect the rest of the planet to be unlivable (to humans, anyway). Plus, a planet that is entirely ice or desert seems unlikely to have enough vegetation to support the atmosphere needed for earthlike life.

#sci-fi #star trek #star wars

[realityfragments]

Walls and Lines.

The greatest travesties of our world seem to be about being born into lines that one has not drawn. The accidental geographies of our births have us delineated into a way of life in a society of rules. The lines of sociopolitics sometimes harden into walls. The Berlin Wall eventually fell in 1989. Despite ourselves, in 2002 humanity built a new wall somewhere else because we’d forgotten what…

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#borders #boundaries #life #lines #perspective #walls

[brittsimperialuniversitycollege]

https://brittsimperial.com/bba-in-international-business/

Today's increasingly interconnected global environment requires business professionals to develop an international perspective. Understanding different cultures, markets, and geographies is vital to see the bigger picture when crafting solutions with global implications. An international business degree provides the global mindset, practical knowledge, and sociopolitical awareness needed to operate across borders and cultures effectively. As employers seek professionals who can make critical decisions internationally, having a unique global viewpoint gives graduates an advantage. The demand for business leaders with international experience continues to grow. Graduates are well-positioned for opportunities in multinational corporations rather than just local firms. In summary, a degree in international business equips ambitious individuals to thrive in global business by blending a worldwide vision with real-world skills.

#college #school #education #study

[nathanmonzon06]

"THE LONG-TIME CONFLICT"

Recently, another global issue has appeared and it is all about the Israel-Palestinian territorial conflict, unfortunately many people died and the others are been hostage of the militant group called "Hamas". But first, why these territorial conflict is become worst in the past years and wh is these Hamas group and last, why is these conflict happened in the first place?

Let me give you a brief context, on October 7 2023 the militant group called Hamas are launched a numerous air bombings on one region of Israel called the Gaza strip, now the infrastructure in Gaza strip are now destroyed through the 2 weeks of aerial bombardment, this aerial bombarding results in at least 3,000 death toll and 12,500 people are injured according to Palestinian Ministry of Health

Meanwhile, the UN experts warned regarding of they're concern to the other civilians that may be put to risk for fleeing to the long-time running conflict on Israel. And because of this, the israel is now probihited to any supplies like food, fuel, and electricity since the start of Hamas attack.

HISTORY:

this war is all started when the 5 arab nations mandated to invade the territory of Palestinian following the announcement of Israel's independence and the establishment of their state in May 14,1948. After the end of british mandate in the midnight of May 14, 1948, this military coalition of arab states entered the British-Palestine territory in the morning of May 15. This event is known as the Arab-Israeli war

NOW, WHO ARE THESE HAMAS GROUP? - Hamas short for the acronym of Harakat-al-muqawama al-islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement) is the largest and the strongest militant group in Palestinian territories

First created in late 1987 as the part of the first intifada (uprising). The Palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood are the roots of their group, supported through a robust sociopolitical structure while in the Palestinian territories

One of their mission is to established a Palestinian state inside the Israel, and they're contradict the all agreememts between the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and the Israel. However the Hamas has a military wing known as the izz-al-din-al-quassam brigades, this military wing is responsible for operating the anti-israel attacks in both Palestinian and Israeli territories in late 1990's

Hamas has a six month agreement with Israel in June 2008, but therefore to a temporary calm, Hamas Continued to its rocket attacks, which causing a trigger to a major military operation in late December 2008. After to a resulting of Heavy damaged of Hamas properties in Gaza strip, the Israel declared a unilateral-cease fire on January 18, 2009.

GEOGRAPHY OF BOTH COUNTRIES

Israel- Israel's geography is appearing in small size surrounded of the arab countries, this is the one of the factors way behind the conflict to surrounding nations of Israel.

Israel locating in east side of Mediterranean Sea locating to middle east, bordering the Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. All of these states have an military conflict with Israel since the establishment of the state in 1948

Palestine- Palestine is small area locating at the east Mediterranean sea including the modern Israel and the other Palestinian territories like the Gaza and west bank

CITE REFERENCES:

Director of National intelligence (https://www.dni.gov)

CNN news agency (https://www.cnn.com)

Brittanica (https://www.brittanica.com)

[sabaccojohnlorenz]

Israel and Palestine Conflict

"War" a word that many of us have come know and fear. Uttering these words carelessly could cause distress and panic. War or warfare has always been a part of our worlds history that has severely affected our lives and especially the people who were affected and involved. Nowadays wars have eventually occurred once again that includes the Ukraine and Russia War and two countries who have a long line of conflict the states are Israel and Palestine

Their History

Believe it or not the war started when the state of Israel declared its independence on May 14 1948.It all formally begun when in the end of the British mandate for Palestine at midnight on May 1948, Israelies Declaration of Independence had been issued earlier that day and one of a military coalition of a Arab states enters the territory of the British palestine in the morning of May 15th.

Geography of Israel and Palestine

The country of Israel is located in the Eastern Mediterranean section of the middle east, bordering Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. All of the nations have had military battles against israel since its declared its independence in 1948. Now due to Israel geography and relatively small size have been some of conflict between itself and surrounding nations. Meanwhile Palestine area of the Eastern Mediteranean region, including the parts of modern Israel and the Palestinian territories of the gaza street (along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and the west Bank (West of the Jordan River). Both of the geography area designated by its name and political status have changed it over the course of some three millennial. Its region (or atleast part of it) as also known as the holy land and it is held sacred among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It has been the main topic of claims of the Jewish and the Arab national movements and the conflict it brewed has led to the prolonged violence and in several instances of open warfare.

Who are the HAMAS? And what role do they play in this War or conflict?

The HAMAS or is which an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawana al Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement) is the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestine territories and one of the territories two major political parties. At the beginning of the first Palestine inftifuda (uprising) in the late 1987 the HAMAS was formed. It originated in the Palestine Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is supported by robust sociopolitical structure inside Palestine territories. This group of individuals is known for its establishing of an Islamic Palestine State in place of Israel and they reject all agreements made between the PLO and Israel. PLO stands for Palestine Liberation Organisation it is an organisation that is formed to protect and to represent the Palestinians that seeks to establish an independent Palestine State. Most of if not all of HAMAS strength is allocated and concentrated on the gaza street and areas of the Western Bank. HAMAS military wing also known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades that has initiated many anti-israel attacks in both Israel and the Palestinian territories in the 1990s. The attacks that have been included are large scale bombings against Israelie civilian targets, improvised Road explosives, small arms attack and rocket attacks. HAMAS still continues to to not cease or renounce the violent resistance against Israel and Israelies. In the early 2008 HAMAS has conducted suicide bombing, that took the life of one civilian. And as well as multiple rocket and mortar attacks that had caused injuries to civilians. However in June 2008 HAMAS entered a six month agreement with Israel massively reducing rocket attacks. Following the temporary calm, HAMAS once again begun their rocket attacks, which affected a major Israeli military operation in late December of 2008. After decimating much of HAMAS infrastructure in Gaza street, Israel has declared a unilateral cease fire on January 18 2009. In July 2014, the once uneasy calm between HAMAS and Israel broke down completely when three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank in June and when a Palestine was killed by Israeli settlers in retaliation. In retaliation towards this HAMAS militant wing and other Palestine militants in the Gaza strip had escalated into the longest and most lethal conflict with Israel since 2009.

The current state of the war

On October 2023 war broke out between Israel and Hamas. Hamas fighters unleashed rockets and attacked southern Israeli cities and towns across the border of the Gaza Strip, hundreds of soldiers and civilians have been takened as hostages, some have even been injured and killed in the process. This attack took the state of Israel by surprise but they quickly initiated a deadly retaliatory operation. A day after the attack on October 7, the Israeli cabinet finally declared war against Hamas, followed by a directive from the defense minister to the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) that they carry out a "complete siege" of Gaza. Ever since then these two sides have constantly traded rocket fire on a daily bases, because of this Israel ordered more than one million Palestinian civilians to evacuate ahead of time because of a possible ground assault. Meanwhile Gaza is now running out of water, supplies, and fuel amidst an Israeli aid blockade, and the conflict has risks of spreading as cross borders strikes escalates in Lebanon and Syria.

References:

Director of National Intelligence (.gov)

CNN

Council on Foreign Relations

[hauntedsharkstrawberry]

Further work in anthropology and related fields was carried out by Henry Morgan, Diamond Jenness, W. Vernon Kinietz, James V. Wright, Elizabeth Tooker, Conrad E. Heidenreich, John Steckley and Marguerite Tehariolina Vincent. Although Morgan’s anthropological classic on the Iroquois, published first in the mid-nineteenth century, does not necessarily belong to this category, because the Iroquois nation was never part of the active Jesuit mission, the frequent reprints of his academic contribution repeatedly stimulated later anthropologists of the twentieth century. Jenness studied the native groups of Canada, and in 1932 published a general guidebook. In 1940, Kinietz focussed on the Huron and Algonquian groups along the Great Lakes and attempted to explain their culture. In 1955, Wright collected the research data of the Iroquoian tribes of the part of New France that is part of today’s Ontario, and discussed their cultural development. In 1964, Tooker consulted the accounts of Samuel de Champlain, founder of New France in the early seventeenth century, as well as accounts of missionaries, in order to create Huron ethnography. In the 1960s and 1970s, Heidenreich discussed the historical geography of the Huron country as well as the cultural interaction through trade. In 1982, Steckley re-examined Tooker’s article of 1970, on the sociopolitical organisation of Huron clans. Finally, in 1984, Vincent published a synthesis of ethnographic works and available historical data of the Huron nation.45 Ontario, 1955); J. N. Emerson, ‘Cahiagué 1961’, Ontario History 54 (1962): 136–37; and Martha A. Latta, ‘Identification of the seventeenth century French Missions in Eastern Huronia’, Journal of Canadian Archaeology 9 (1985): 147–71. 45 Henry Morgan, The League of the Ho-de’-no-sau-nee, Iroquois (Rochester: Sage & Brother; New York: Mark H. Newman; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1851), or The League of the Iroquois (1851, reissue ed., A Citadel Press Book, New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993); Diamond Jenness, The Indians of Canada (Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1932); W. Vernon Kinietz, The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615–1760 (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P; Rexdale: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 1940); J. V. Wright, ‘The Middleport Horizon’, Anthropologica 2 (1960): 113–20; Wright, The Ontario Iroquois Tradition National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 210, Anthropological Series No. 75 (Ottawa, 1966); Elizabeth Tooker, An Ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615– 1649, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 190 (Washington, D. C., 1964); Tooker, ‘Northern Iroquoian Sociopolitical Organization’, American Anthropologist 72 (1970): 90–97; Conrad E. Heidenreich, ‘Indian Occupance of Huronia, 1600–1650’, in Canada’s Changing Geography (ed. R. Louis Gentilcore, Scarborough: Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1967); Heidenreich, Huronia: A History and Geography of the Huron Indians, 1600–1650 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971); Conrad E. Heidenreich & Arthur J. Ray, The Early Fur Trades: A Study in Cultural Interaction (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976); John Steckley, ‘The Clans and Phratries of the Huron’, Ontario Archaeology 37

[nedflix-n-chill]

The Big Bird Cage Jack Hill (✓), Pam Grier (✓), Sid Haig (✓)... and now we adding Vic Diaz to the list? Filipino exploitation royalty? If you made an exploitation film in the Philippines (and a lot did) then you had to have Vic Diaz in it. Also speaking of the Philippines, I have ZERO sociopolitical awareness, especially for other countries. I live in a red, white, and blue bubble shielded by the wings of a bald eagle, protecting me from all that evil unpatriotic shit like "knowing geography." So what's the deal with the Philippines? Every single WiP film features a rebel group in the jungle that's trying to overthrow the corrupt government. 99% of the leads in these movies are usually political prisoners. I guess it's an easier way to make your lead sympathetic as opposed to someone who put their baby in a microwave. So of course that plays a big factor in this one. In fact all the WiP tropes are here turned up to 11. You'll see this movie often described as a "spoof" and while it's not a full blown comedy it's clear that the aspects that make this a recognizable WiP film are exaggerated to the point where they're intentionally leaning into the inherent goofiness of a subgenre that solely exists for weirdos to have a wank to. Now I prefer my exploitation to wear its sleaze on its sleeve, no need to mask your grosser proclivities with comedy. However trying to make this "funny" actually makes it even more offensive. In this week's episode of "Humor that has Aged Poorly" Sid Haig goes undercover as a guard and since all the male guards at this women's prison are gay, he does gayface... queer baiting? Idk the term, he going full 1970's gay caricature played for laughs. And it only gets worse cuz during the climax the women gang rape one of the gay guards and obviously he is NOT feeling it... once again played for laughs. Also this movie makes no fucking sense but I don't have the space to go over how by the end of this convoluted ass plan to liberate the prison, they seem to forget the entire point in doing so in the first place, which is basically cuz some rebel soldiers were horny. Yet it results in like 95% dead women, an abject failure. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHdTQ6vLCz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lausol]

It’s been days and I still can’t get over that Goodreads review of “Violeta” by Isabel Allende that complained that the author didn’t say WHICH SPECIFIC country from Latin America the story took place and that she did it to play around historical events.  And I’m like??????????? excuse me? This is Isabel Allende? Like even if you ignore that a lot of her books are about Chile’s sociopolitical and economic background,  in Violeta she is telling you about the geography (La Patagonia, that is South of Chile and South of Argentina+ names some of Chile’s cities) of the country and also some of its defining history! It’s pretty obvious that is Chile! It also says in our “neighboring country Argentina” !!!! Did... you really think Allende invented USA’s involvement in... Latin America’s militia taking over politics and  the dictatorships that came with it????

#i'm sorry i'm just like... woah #like i know everybody is ignorant about something #but idk at least read about it first before #saying shit #i mean i liked the book but is not my fav but still!! #this person saying this!!! #and this person i somebody on GR with a big following #god

[talysalankil]

hyperfixation update #3

i don't know if i'll actually do these daily but whatever

progress on the sociopolitics map!

it's actually starting to become a mess because so far i haven't properly sorted all the layers.

mostly i went back over the [working title: moeder eiland] island chain should work, politically. I realized that at least one area (the southeaternmost part) should be an independent culture, and it just kind of spiraled from there into cutting the continent to pieces. There's still one major nation, and the lore already was that these nations are all united under a spiritual alliance

this reminds me that a lot of these colors are temporary. the idea is to use the colors of each of these places’ sigils/flags, but well, that was a lot to figure out for a bunch of places that didn’t even have names or a set geography until today.

i also started on the last continent, with a bunch of city-states on the northwestern coast. It’s not finished yet, but progress is progress.

i think i’m also seriously testing the limits of what affinity can hold in a single file. i thought it was my ipad at first (i use it primarily since i can draw with the stylus) but even my mac, which isn’t even 2 years old, is struggling lol

(well also i accidentally tried to render the map at 3000x instead of 3000 px which didn’t help)

#talysnovel: fteits #talys makes maps

[mybrainproblems]

The “I hate fantasy and I’d never be interested in writing it” starter pack:

1 Plot & outline notebook

1 Worldbuilding & lore notebook (color-coded and tabbed)

1 Notebook for random jots that I may/may not use

1 Preliminary map of the (currently) plot-relevant map area that is only a small fraction of the total world map

1 Rough sketch (in color) as reference for landscape and architecture

#if you're reading the dragon road trip AU then you have a lot of supplemental materials like maps to look forward to #also very exacting standards about what a fantasy culture might look like based on its location/environment #because i have to put my degree to use *somehow* #i promise it will be more fun than alyna's ''inspired by'' reading list with books about social engineering and gentrification #still gonna talk about class and sociopolitical inequality #like i said... i have to put my degree to use *some-fucking-how* #mybrainproblems writes fan fiction #(and also hopes to learn you a thing about geography)

[fatehbaz]

The touchstone for green building, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification is the most popular standard used by builders in the United States to demonstrate their environmental responsibility in metrics of increased energy and water efficiency. Notwithstanding its contributions to greener design, LEED certification also fabricates innocence for development projects with massive carbon footprints, complex problems of sourcing and finance, heavy demands on municipal infrastructure, and complicity with displacement. Sustainability is the present story of the settler colonial future. Modernism and “slum clearance” were the prior narratives of progress. Not long before that, the story was settlement and civilization on wild lands against savage people.

Undergirding the veneer of sustainability are settler colonial logics. Plantation logics. [...]

The praises of architectural wonders are always part science fiction and part historical myth. They function as advertisements for not yet possible utopias, like the promises of off-world life for earthlings on a dying planet in Blade Runner.

Myth is the pickled narrative of progress that has been preserved, canned, and fed to us on every national holiday.

Behind this myth are the structures of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, embodied by such architectural wonders as the prison, the presidio, the mission, and the plantation. Settler utopianism guides our blueprints, because settler colonists benefit from its architectures of accumulation “here,” and are insulated from its cumulative harm done to no-bodies nowhere. The logic of the plantation, when spelled out, illuminates the present of settler colonialism [...].

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Next door to us, cranes raise the newest structures on our campus colony -- LEED certified of course. [...] To say that a building is sustainable brings smiles to the otherwise concerned faces of students [...]. LEED helps us reassure each other that ours is an architecturally innocent project. Add in a landscape of native plants, water catchments, and a biodigester that creates natural gas torches to light up outdoor patios, and we have a state-of-the-future model worthy of science fiction imaginaries. [...] [O]ur massive sourcing of capital and material and water and gas and electricity are all connected in a web of extraction with its roots in a plantation logic [...]. California cities are named after Spanish missions and presidios, dots on a map connected by King’s Highways and galleon trade routes. Missions were built on plantation economies, and torture, and enslavement, and militarization, and land speculation. Mission Basilica San Diego de Acala and Friars Road and El Camino Real and Manila Galleon routes are the skeletons for our modern-day infrastructure. [...]

Plantation Homes is the name of a homebuilder in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Each suburban house is LEED certified. The unabashed use of “plantation” in fantasy-home-building may feel repugnant to some, maybe politically incorrect to others. Yet it is poetically truthful [...] that plantation and sustainability come crashing together in suburban home-building discourse. In this rhetoric, we see the preservation of the plantation meta-narrative, wrapped over present-day settlement, and projected as a sustainable future. The plantation meta-narrative is one of gentlemen farmers and ladylike dames with lives of opulence and leisure; of grateful smiling servants [...]; of native soil without Native peoples. [...]

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The spatial architectures of transport, imprisonment, and resource extraction sustain the plantation.

Today’s capitalist ecology is not different, only much more sophisticated and expansive in geographies, so that the barns and blocks [...] are kept at much greater sociopolitical distance from the amenities of the plantation homes. The manufacture of solar panels leaves toxic landscapes in China. Tesl@ home batteries frack Indigenous lands in the salt flats of the Andes.

Master planned suburbs need no jails as caged persons can be exported to distant townships. Toxins and state violence and homelessness can be concentrated elsewhere.

Indeed, the plantation has “a built-in capacity to maintain itself” through its interdependence with racial violence and extraction in remote elsewheres. Its economies, racial order, and ability to self-sustain through the invisibilized inefficiencies of extraction might feel familiar because we are living its science fiction future.

“The plantation moves through time, a cloaked anachronism, that calls forth the prison, the city, and so forth.”

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K. Wayne Yang. “Sustainability as Plantation Logic, Or, Who Plots an Architecture of Freedom?” October 2020.