From The Unwritten Library

[kingtycoon]

At times like these I like to remember that I'm almost 40.

After a very long day full of progress bars and upload templates & field management I got drawn back to my imaginary world-  you know the one, the one I go crazy and work on endlessly, the one that I consider to be my main work in life.

So yesterday I realized something I wanted to work on, and then I did work on it. Because I love doing that and being busy and useful to myself.  I do not like washing dishes or cleaning up after myself because those things just don't seem useful.

Actually - let me talk about that thing - see, I was in the midst of the winter malaise because of all the effing cold and dark and I thought "I should have more fruits." But the thing is - I kind of don't like eating fruits. I don't mind them, but I... I don't even know. I like Square Meals. There's hardly any square fruits. What I decided to do was to just make potions for a few weeks. I mean, I got a blender don't I? Ain't I got a blender?! I do, so I bought like, nonsensical amounts of fruits and have been grinding their bones to make my juice. Anyhow - a couple of weeks of heavy potion consumption have left my guts somewhat out of proper order. My thought was to substitute all sugar and candy with fruits and then to drink them up all the time. Anyhow that was fine, as things to do go, except that there's a trashbag full of peels and cartons and peels and washing out the blender is a nuisance and... For all it's dietary imperfections the peanut-butter nutella diet is tidier with less hassles about cleanups. Anyhow I hate cleaning and love messing. I would make a sweet nomad, wandering the earth, littering it with peels and cartons as I move to less messier pastures.

Tomorrow, I'll clean up - I have to, no one will do it for me, and I'm supposed to be a kind of person. The kind of a person who has a clean blender. This reminds me - actually, of when I was a salesman - you'd always be pitching people on how you'd save them from hassles. People hate hassles. I bet 100% of all people dislike hassles, if someone did like hassles, man, I bet you wouldn't even want to know a person like that.

Of course, I like complicated challenges with no payoff a lot. I love that stuff. That's not a hassle. That is weird pleasure.

It came to me that I could work harder on my imaginary country and I realized that I could paint a whole big map of it. I work better from maps - they give good ideas, geography=history you know - all human experiences are predicated and mediated by the local environment, so I work on setting up the world as a bunch of pictures. A bunch of feet by a bunch of feet - this is going to be a big-fun and big fun project. Also? 0 payoff, and extra effort. But washing my blender is a HASSLE. It's weird being alive no? My size 14 shib-shib is thrown in there for scale.

Here's the first pass on the upper northwest corner -

more details to be added, more embellishments to fall, labels, the whole thing.

and for the extra pinch of verisimilitude:

Comments

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

The area depicted in this map is the far northwest of Klial - the three political divisions present are the Kyu of Goldendream, Copperring & the entirety of Pinepath. The geography is ruled by two intersecting geological features - to the northwest - what was once an archipelago of shield volcanoes (think Hawaii) have begun to be subducted by the larger landmass that has deformed into another mountain range at it's leading edge - creating a range of cinder-cone volcanoes. The dangerous mountainous terrain, with all of its volcanism also creates a strange array of rain-shadows and watersheds - and thus these mountains are the origin point for two of the largest rivers in the world.

The people here are industrious and enterprising - the lowlands, especially at the coast are alluvial fans that have been reclaimed from the ocean - think of the Netherlands here, great sea-walls (in some instances created by the diversion of lava-flows) have fenced in tiers of rich lands that rise up in terraces all up the sides of the mountain peaks.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

My sister taught me a blender trick. As soon as it's emptied, fill halfway with water and add a drop of dish soap. Then blend. It makes a nice thick lather. I usually do that and leave it in the sink all day. Then you really just have to rinse it when you want it next.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna do this, thank you.

[rasa.livejournal.com]

That shirt has cool cuffs.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

That's one of my top shirts.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

Get sheets of laminate or whatever, so you can do flipdown borders, etc.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I am able to do, I think I'll just tack them to the wall so I can notate and change them over time.

Maybe take some hi-res pictures?

I think it would be really cool, and well outside of my present abilities to post a big interactive map - so that you could click on areas of the whole thing and call up some text from different dates relating to that place.