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joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspost]
Heh. This one requires some visual aids, I think. :-)
(I am assuming you mean physical maps, by the way, not social maps.)
I don't draw maps for my fanfiction work. The closest I've come is a seating diagram for the Great Hall in Hogwarts (did you know it changed between the first book and the later series?), a terrible architectural sketch of Ayakawa Yukiko's apartment building, and a vague attempt at assigning locations to a few buildings in Konoha.
Here are the two HP seating diagrams:
Here is an illustration of why I should never be an architect:
FYI, the section labeled A-D and the section labeled G-J both go up to the 7th story. The E-F section stops on the 5th or 6th story, which is why there are two staircases. The water tower sits between the front and back sections, and that little area is where Yukiko sometimes goes to get a bit of privacy. (IIRC, her own apartment and office are the E and F units on the 1st floor -- aka the ground floor, for Europeans.) The only time I really bothered to dig up and reference this diagram was when I had to assign Sasuke an apartment number.
And here is a terrible and probably incompatible with canon sketch of Konoha at large, which I don't think I have ever actually used as a writing aid:
I do have some ideas about 'what goes where' when it comes to parts of the Narnian world that aren't on any of the (incredibly implausible) maps of dubious canonicity, but they're entirely held in my head or in verbal form -- you can read my first Thoughts on Calormen post to see what I mean. I have made a similarly verbal attempt to rationalize Kaori Yuki's contradictory statements about the geography of Heaven and Hell in Angel Sanctuary, but again, that's not a map.
Original work is a different question entirely... and in fact requires so many illustrations that I am still in the process of scanning and/or photographing stuff and haven't even begun uploading things to Imgur. So I'm going to talk about that tomorrow, since I don't currently have an assigned topic for the 19th. Serendipity! :-)
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December Talking Meme: All Days
joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspost]Heh. This one requires some visual aids, I think. :-)
(I am assuming you mean physical maps, by the way, not social maps.)
I don't draw maps for my fanfiction work. The closest I've come is a seating diagram for the Great Hall in Hogwarts (did you know it changed between the first book and the later series?), a terrible architectural sketch of Ayakawa Yukiko's apartment building, and a vague attempt at assigning locations to a few buildings in Konoha.
Here are the two HP seating diagrams:
Here is an illustration of why I should never be an architect:
FYI, the section labeled A-D and the section labeled G-J both go up to the 7th story. The E-F section stops on the 5th or 6th story, which is why there are two staircases. The water tower sits between the front and back sections, and that little area is where Yukiko sometimes goes to get a bit of privacy. (IIRC, her own apartment and office are the E and F units on the 1st floor -- aka the ground floor, for Europeans.) The only time I really bothered to dig up and reference this diagram was when I had to assign Sasuke an apartment number.
And here is a terrible and probably incompatible with canon sketch of Konoha at large, which I don't think I have ever actually used as a writing aid:
I do have some ideas about 'what goes where' when it comes to parts of the Narnian world that aren't on any of the (incredibly implausible) maps of dubious canonicity, but they're entirely held in my head or in verbal form -- you can read my first Thoughts on Calormen post to see what I mean. I have made a similarly verbal attempt to rationalize Kaori Yuki's contradictory statements about the geography of Heaven and Hell in Angel Sanctuary, but again, that's not a map.
Original work is a different question entirely... and in fact requires so many illustrations that I am still in the process of scanning and/or photographing stuff and haven't even begun uploading things to Imgur. So I'm going to talk about that tomorrow, since I don't currently have an assigned topic for the 19th. Serendipity! :-)
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December Talking Meme: All Days
