This comic was a complete flop with my professors but maybe tumblr can get something out of it.
Comparing language used to discuss spiders to that used to discuss queer people, and grappling with my own feelings of arachnophobia and internalized queerphobia.
band photo ass villains
(Gabriel ultrakill voice) MACHINE
ARE YOU A HERO TO THE CORE????
“Turn back or you will be facing the will of God”
V2 who has spent time around humans who taught it things about religion: oh damn I better find another way around if I want to face my predecessor again
V1: fuckitweballfuckitweballfuckitweballfuckitweballfuckitweballfuckitweballfuckitweball
Breakdown was a construction bot who decided he'd had enough of constructing and decided to try destructing for a change...
at least that's what they told the heroes sent to take him in. In reality he and his fellow workers were overworked and underpaid trapped in a cycle meant to keep them in debt for the company they worked for
Breakdown considers himself a hero of the people and that the hero factory doesn't solve the real problems that affect everyday people
The factory only cares about profit and quotas but the heroes it produces are genuine. How long can a hero turn a blind eye to its creator, rotten at the core?
Pollination is long distance sex hit post
This theory has been rattling around in my head for some time, I might make a Knowledge Tower video about it someday, but I’m not certain if its a good fit, given its more of a theory than anything where I actually do some science in it. Maybe you all can let me know if this is a good video idea in the notes?
Anyway, the crux of this theory is something to try to explain how all of this:
Actually fits into the body of the GSR.
This is a long post, so I’ll put the rest under the cut.
We already know from Greg quotes that the MU map isn’t really to scale, its more to show the rough position of the islands rather than their actual relative size compared to one another, hence why Odina is so large, and why Voya Nui seems to take up most of the southern continent despite being described as being relatively small in story.
But even using this as a guide for placement only, it still doesn’t really gel with the actual layout of the Great Spirit Robot, with everything in the torso area having to be squished up into the upper torso given the empty space in the abdomen.
This is further compounded by this image, which places the giant vortex in the endless ocean that leads to the great waterfall in the middle of the chest of the GSR, once again placing both the southern continent and Karda Nui squarely in the upper torso:
I’ve seen more than a few fan maps of the MU that try to address this problem, but all the ones that I have seen have never quite been satisfying to me, they make the southern continent especially far too small than what the storyline suggests it should be in order to get everything to fit.
But my solution, which I don’t think I’ve seen elsewhere before, came to me when I remembered that Karda Nui was in a dome that was underneath the southern continent - it was on a separate layer. And, well, Karda Nui can be on a separate layer, why not other sections of the MU as well?
That thought let me to making these maps of how I think the MU could possibly be laid out:
As you can see, from this layered approach, not only can you fit everything in nicely, but you can also keep the continents large without having to compromise to make them fit in. It even allows for additional domes that could house some of the other locations / smaller islands that are mentioned in the story that are not included in the official map. I did also play around with the size of each island compared to the offical map, given Greg already confirmed that the sizes on it were not accurate and so I could maximise the liveable land area of the MU.
I also used the fact that Greg has confirmed that ways to get into Karda Nui are via portals (with the canon one known being near the southern continent and also being where Destral moved itself to during the Karda Nui arc) to get around the issues not only of travel between layers, but also of travel between the head, torso and limbs without having to mess around with relative positions of those places moving when the robot moves its joints. The way I figure it, if the portal took up the entire sea gate tunnel width, then it could be entirely possible that the inhabitants weren’t aware they were going through a portal at all, it could just look like a regular tunnel to them, leading to the MU map from the inhabitants perspective I included here too.
I’ve tried to include as many canon compliant details into these maps as I could (e.g. connections between the torso and arms at multiple points to explain the routes taken by the Federation of Fear, room in Artakha and Xia’s domes for the islands they used to share them with before they were destroyed, the position of the pit being based both on proximity to Daxia but also on the placement of Mahri Nui in the Faber concept art above etc.), but I may have missed some details, so do let me know if you spot any.
I could also potentially use these maps in the future to work out things like total land area of the MU for the Faber and Farshtey sizes given I can determine the area a pixel represents in each, so these could be quite useful to Knowledge Tower videos in the future, but first I’d like to get some peer review on the core ideas from the wider fandom here on Tumblr.
What do you think of the maps and the idea behind them?
I impulse bought one I have a gahbohrok on its way
made some bohroks for an art prompt
man, I want one of these guys.....
Reminder that the climate crisis is NOT your fault.
Not your litter or lack of recycling
Not your emissions
It is not your fault that you are embedded in a system and forces you to drive a car
Its not your fault that massive corporations are destroying the world and blaming you
Your self esteem is six feet under but dammit I have brought a shovel