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Working on my first big “proper” vector map project, and it’s something that i suspect i may (but hope i don’t) end up abandoning, so here’s a preview in case i never make it… (This is actually a “remake” of a never-finished raster map that got junked as a casualty of me moving from Windows...

Idea: an alternate-history film with a pop/rock soundtrack, but it’s all unreleased songs or alternate cuts. The cursed original mix of “Take On Me”, the minidisc version of Radiohead’s “Lift” which they didn’t release because they thought it would be too succesful, Thomas Bangalter’s “Call On...

I loathe the “future people misinterpret past pop-culture as religion” trope with the fire of a thousand suns, and yet somehow i’ve wound up putting two present-pop-culture-based religions in LatBS — Jupiter’s Toynbeeites, who treat 2001 as their (at least suitably cryptic) holy text (and are...

1980 · LOOKING AT THE BIG SKY · 2558 Humans Humans (Homo sapiens) are the only known naturally sapient species of biological life. A ninety-nine-billion-strong branch of Earth’s great apes, they are kaleidoscopically diverse, and every sapien alive today either is one, is descended from one, or...

“Are the CBS Doctors considered in continuity with the ‘new’ series?” is the longest thread in TardisForum.us history, clocking in at 4,370 pages before being locked by the mods

I did think about it, but my Treksperience amounts to "watched The Wrath of Khan and one season* in to TNG so far", so i’m not sure i could do the idea justice! (And frankly it seems far too optimistic a world for the British public to ever glom on to.) * That season being Season 3, obviously

List of actors to have played Doctor Who Doctor Who?, on CBS 1963–1966: Vincent Price (Doctor Who) First episode: “The Girl from Another World” Last episode: “Planet of the Daleks” 1966–1967: Jack Nicholson (Doctor Who, Theta Sigma) First episode: “Planet of the Daleks” Doctor Who and the...

I had a vision after seeing that meme of Daniel Radcliffe dual-wielding in his bathrobe.

The vector mapping will continue until morale improves

My own, naturally. :devilish: It’s the Sledgehammer projection, an equal-area compromise between Hammer and Peters i concocted because i liked the æsthetics of curving parallels but hated how distorted Winkel Tripel made things in size. (I did have to do some serious Javascript wrangling to get...

My new year’s resolution was to get back into the swing of things and make a map every month, and i juuust about managed to slip under the deadline with… 1980 · LOOKING AT THE BIG SKY · 2338 Polities of Earth, 2338 A simplified locator map This was my first try at mapping using vector...

Rescued from the writeup for a map project in development hell, here’s how to Get Yoh Ess Tu Mahs in the early days of space travel. 1980 · LOOKING AT THE BIG SKY · 2338 Getting your ass to Mars, 2075 Or, the woes of early interplanetary transport Martians know better than anyone that packing...

Look, if we can’t invade Barnoldswick to reclaim the glory of Yorkshire from those Lancastrian heathens, why even have counties in the first place?

Indeed it is — data comes straight from the 2021 census. (Had to do some jiggery-pokery with districts to estimate the results for counties, but i am devoted enough to the cause of Historic Counties Trutherism to include them.)