apparently other people will also do things for you if you yell the right thing.
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These are cute :). These aren’t much but they make me laugh so hard! :D
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Via Philippians 1:21
![Map of Panem by aimmyarrowshigh and badguys. Get all the details here!
So, while this map is amazing:
We were like, but Panem is supposed to be North America, not just the United States. While parts of Canada and Mexico would certainly have fallen into the sea in the case of a natural disaster or excessive bombing or whatever, it’s illogical to completely disregard them.It also is irksome that it doesn’t show the Districts in any kind of numerical or logical order; why would D10 be wedged into D7, D5, and D2, and why would D9 separate D5 and D2?So we were like, HEY, LET’S MAKE A MAP OF PANEM!
So, there’s North America. Now, assuming that part of the destruction of the modern structure and the rise of Panem was caused by a cataclysmic natural disaster, these are some supposed post-apocalyptic geographical predictions for said continent:
The first doesn’t work with Collins’ Panem because the continental divide would preclude the Capitol from having any logical rule over East America (D12, D13, etc) and the second wouldn’t work because it includes D11 and D12 in the sinkshelf.
This was my first attempt at sinking North America.
I chose to center part of the cataclysm in the Gulf of Mexico as a tectonic shift and moved the Yucatan Peninsula, rather than sinking it. Mostly this is because I ♥ Finnick/Annie and wanted them to have a little island for the D4 Victor’s Village.
Badguys brought up that there would be a natural floodbreak at the Sierra Nevadas and, likely, the Grand Canyon. (Incidentally this went into a long discussion about the Mississippi River being the dam that broke in the 70th Games, but that’s not really pertinent!)So, I re-sunk the continent.
Placing the Districts
Here’s what we know.
The Capitol is in Denver.
D13 specialized in nuclear power, shares a border with D12, is both visible and reachable from D12 by foot, and is North of West Virginia. Three Mile Island was in New YorkPennsylvania, and probably remained a nuclear reactor or was co-opted again as a reactor. D13 is small but mighty and is surrounded by Wilderness. It is self-sufficient.
D12 is Appalachia.
D11 shares a border with D12, is one of the largest districts, is South of D12, and is primarily used for growing grain and produce.
D10 is primarily used for raising livestock. They do NOT process the livestock in D10. However, to feed an entire nation, D10 is likely another very large District.
D9 processes food for the Capitol and the tesserae; therefore, it likely shares borders with the food production Districts (D4, D10, D11).
D8 produces and treats textiles and is a factory District. It is POSSIBLE to reach D12 from D8 on foot over a course of weeks/months. Therefore, it does not cross a large body of water.
D7 specializes in lumber. It’s probably large. It has no role in food processing or manufacture.
D6 works closely with the Capitol in the research and manufacture of drugs (morphling, medicines). It likely has close ties to D5 in the production of mutts.
D5 is entirely dependent on the Capitol, so it’s probably somewhat nearby, and specializes in genetic research and manipulation. Because of the necessity of creative thought and intellect, it’s most likely a smaller District so that it’s easier to monitor and control.
D4 is the ocean. It does have a role in food production. It’s very large. It is a Career District, so it likely is near the Capitol and has some self-sufficiency, but not enough that it doesn’t engender loyalty. (Aside from that, D4 = perfect.)
D3 has extremely close ties to the Capitol and works with electronics and technology. It is likely small, the Capitol can closely monitor its scientific minds. It has no role in food manufacture or processing.
D2 specializes in weaponry, is the most loyal District (because the Capitol needs to keep its weapon specialists happy, non?), and has no role in food production. D2 also works in some minor Mining elements and trains Peacekeepers. The Panem railroad is easily accessible in D2.
D1 produces luxury goods for the Capitol — INCLUDING having a diamond mine. Kelsey Lake Diamond Mine is a defunct diamond mine in Colorado, USA. It is located in the State Line Kimberlite District, near the Wyoming border.
So, knowing that, the most logical placement for the Districts was not straight slices across the continent, but a phi spiral.
I tried to make the railroad follow[ish] the phi spiral, at least insofar as it connects the related Districts (C/1/2/3, 4/9/10/11). For the sake of the Victory Tours, the railroad connects roughly to headquarters/capitol cities only. The railroad to D13 has been knocked out.
Why don’t you leave big blank spaces of empty land between the Districts? What about the Wilderness?
Think about where you live now. Does urbanized civilization extend all the way through your state or province without stopping? No. If the Capitol truly wanted to control Panem, then it would not make much sense to leave large areas of unincorporated land between them where it would be all too easy for Rebels or escapees (like Lavinia) to set up camp and live outside of the Capitol’s jurisdiction. It makes more sense for the entirety of the mainland continent to be parcelled into Districts and fenced in for Peacekeeper patrols/Capitol monitoring, and then to set up the District headquarters and populated areas in smaller cities/townships. Just like the majority of the world today.
Y U NO HAVE MORE OF CANADA AND MEXICO?
READ THE EXPLANATION. The scientific data we looked up showed that the majority of those areas would sink in a geological cataclysm. True: so would much of the Midwestern USA because of the Great Lakes. However, SC’s Panem directly mentions being connected from, at the least, the Appalachians to the Rockies, and Katniss never mentions having to go over water on her Victory Tour so we have to assume that it’s all dryland. We included as much of of Canada and Mexico in significant ways as we could feasibly add and keep it to our own satisfaction in terms of canon. We made it for ourselves for fun at midnight; we’re not professional prospective cartographers.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lghtrkbVaI1qc3cj5o1_500.png)
Map of Panem by aimmyarrowshigh and badguys. Get all the details here!
So, while this map is amazing:
We were like, but Panem is supposed to be North America, not just the United States. While parts of Canada and Mexico would certainly have fallen into the sea in the case of a natural disaster or excessive bombing or whatever, it’s illogical to completely disregard them.
It also is irksome that it doesn’t show the Districts in any kind of numerical or logical order; why would D10 be wedged into D7, D5, and D2, and why would D9 separate D5 and D2?
So we were like, HEY, LET’S MAKE A MAP OF PANEM!
So, there’s North America. Now, assuming that part of the destruction of the modern structure and the rise of Panem was caused by a cataclysmic natural disaster, these are some supposed post-apocalyptic geographical predictions for said continent:
The first doesn’t work with Collins’ Panem because the continental divide would preclude the Capitol from having any logical rule over East America (D12, D13, etc) and the second wouldn’t work because it includes D11 and D12 in the sinkshelf.
This was my first attempt at sinking North America.
I chose to center part of the cataclysm in the Gulf of Mexico as a tectonic shift and moved the Yucatan Peninsula, rather than sinking it. Mostly this is because I ♥ Finnick/Annie and wanted them to have a little island for the D4 Victor’s Village.
Badguys brought up that there would be a natural floodbreak at the Sierra Nevadas and, likely, the Grand Canyon. (Incidentally this went into a long discussion about the Mississippi River being the dam that broke in the 70th Games, but that’s not really pertinent!)
So, I re-sunk the continent.
Placing the Districts
Here’s what we know.
- The Capitol is in Denver.
- D13 specialized in nuclear power, shares a border with D12, is both visible and reachable from D12 by foot, and is North of West Virginia. Three Mile Island was in
New YorkPennsylvania, and probably remained a nuclear reactor or was co-opted again as a reactor. D13 is small but mighty and is surrounded by Wilderness. It is self-sufficient.
- D12 is Appalachia.
- D11 shares a border with D12, is one of the largest districts, is South of D12, and is primarily used for growing grain and produce.
- D10 is primarily used for raising livestock. They do NOT process the livestock in D10. However, to feed an entire nation, D10 is likely another very large District.
- D9 processes food for the Capitol and the tesserae; therefore, it likely shares borders with the food production Districts (D4, D10, D11).
- D8 produces and treats textiles and is a factory District. It is POSSIBLE to reach D12 from D8 on foot over a course of weeks/months. Therefore, it does not cross a large body of water.
- D7 specializes in lumber. It’s probably large. It has no role in food processing or manufacture.
- D6 works closely with the Capitol in the research and manufacture of drugs (morphling, medicines). It likely has close ties to D5 in the production of mutts.
- D5 is entirely dependent on the Capitol, so it’s probably somewhat nearby, and specializes in genetic research and manipulation. Because of the necessity of creative thought and intellect, it’s most likely a smaller District so that it’s easier to monitor and control.
- D4 is the ocean. It does have a role in food production. It’s very large. It is a Career District, so it likely is near the Capitol and has some self-sufficiency, but not enough that it doesn’t engender loyalty. (Aside from that, D4 = perfect.)
- D3 has extremely close ties to the Capitol and works with electronics and technology. It is likely small, the Capitol can closely monitor its scientific minds. It has no role in food manufacture or processing.
- D2 specializes in weaponry, is the most loyal District (because the Capitol needs to keep its weapon specialists happy, non?), and has no role in food production. D2 also works in some minor Mining elements and trains Peacekeepers. The Panem railroad is easily accessible in D2.
- D1 produces luxury goods for the Capitol — INCLUDING having a diamond mine. Kelsey Lake Diamond Mine is a
defunctdiamond mine in Colorado, USA. It is located in the State Line Kimberlite District, near the Wyoming border.
So, knowing that, the most logical placement for the Districts was not straight slices across the continent, but a phi spiral.
I tried to make the railroad follow[ish] the phi spiral, at least insofar as it connects the related Districts (C/1/2/3, 4/9/10/11). For the sake of the Victory Tours, the railroad connects roughly to headquarters/capitol cities only. The railroad to D13 has been knocked out.
- Why don’t you leave big blank spaces of empty land between the Districts? What about the Wilderness?
Think about where you live now. Does urbanized civilization extend all the way through your state or province without stopping? No. If the Capitol truly wanted to control Panem, then it would not make much sense to leave large areas of unincorporated land between them where it would be all too easy for Rebels or escapees (like Lavinia) to set up camp and live outside of the Capitol’s jurisdiction. It makes more sense for the entirety of the mainland continent to be parcelled into Districts and fenced in for Peacekeeper patrols/Capitol monitoring, and then to set up the District headquarters and populated areas in smaller cities/townships. Just like the majority of the world today.
- Y U NO HAVE MORE OF CANADA AND MEXICO?
READ THE EXPLANATION. The scientific data we looked up showed that the majority of those areas would sink in a geological cataclysm. True: so would much of the Midwestern USA because of the Great Lakes. However, SC’s Panem directly mentions being connected from, at the least, the Appalachians to the Rockies, and Katniss never mentions having to go over water on her Victory Tour so we have to assume that it’s all dryland. We included as much of of Canada and Mexico in significant ways as we could feasibly add and keep it to our own satisfaction in terms of canon. We made it for ourselves for fun at midnight; we’re not professional prospective cartographers.
Even worse than a friendzone
I’m getting sick of the term friendzone. And, more than that, I’m sick of the people using it.
Women are told almost constantly—by the media, the government, and the overall attitude of society—that our bodies don’t fucking belong to us. The mythical friendzone is just another way for misogynists to enforce that idea while getting to play the victim.
It sucks when someone you have feelings for doesn’t share those feelings; it happens to women all the time, too. We hear “I just want to be friends” and “you’re like one of the guys” and “you’re like a sister to me” just as often. But you’ll never hear a woman complain that guys just don’t appreciate a Nice Girl because we’re taught it’s our own fucking fault when we’re rejected—we aren’t pretty enough or thin enough or sexy enough, we weren’t sexual enough or were too sexual, we put out too much or too little or too soon or not soon enough, we didn’t wear our hair the right way or our skirt the right length, we’re “too tomboyish” or “too butch” or “too feminine”, or we’re “not their type”, or we’re otherwise not good enough in various ways to entice the man to grace us with his affection.
But when we’re not interested in someone, we’re vilified. We’re the bitch that lead them on, the bitch who let them buy us dinner but didn’t want to date them, the bitch who doesn’t appreciate a nice guy, the bitch they were nice to and then got nothing in return from.
And, frankly, fuck those people. Showing interest in me, being friendly with me, getting close to me, or eating a meal with me (even if they paid for it) doesn’t obligate me to open my heart or my legs. And anyone who doesn’t appreciate my friendship sure as hell doesn’t deserve my love or my pussy.
(Source: lolsnaps.com)
okay i just wanted this on my blog because it’s one of the best things i have ever witnessed.
Hipster cred restoration.
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