#Location Identified

[davidsankey]

The Peeler and the Playwright by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Probably one of the world's greatest playwrights, Sean O'Casey, standing on Drury Street Lane in London with a policeman. Given Casey's well known socialist leanings, was he getting marching instructions, or was he having a chat with an expatriate Irishman? Photographers: Keystone View Company photographer Date: Circa 1926 Friday 5th (Most Likely) or Saturday 6th March 1926 NLI Ref: NPA SOC You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

#Ireland #National Library of Ireland #Sean O'Casey #Playwright. Drury Street #London #Policeman #Juno and the Paycock #Fortune Theatre #Keystone Viewing #posters #1926 #Seán O'Casey #Bobby #Date Established #Location Identified #flickr

[inkskinned]

crows use tools and like to slide down snowy hills. today we saw a goose with a hurt foot who was kept safe by his flock - before taking off, they waited for him to catch up. there are colors only butterflies see. reindeer are matriarchical. cows have best friends and 4 stomachs and like jazz music. i watched a video recently of an octopus making himself a door out of a coconut shell.

i am a little soft, okay. but sometimes i can't talk either. the world is like fractal light to me, and passes through my skin in tendrils. i feel certain small things like a catapult; i skirt around the big things and somehow arrive in crisis without ever realizing i'm in pain.

in 5th grade we read The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, which is about a young autistic boy. it is how they introduced us to empathy about neurotypes, which was well-timed: around 10 years old was when i started having my life fully ruined by symptoms. people started noticing.

i wonder if birds can tell if another bird is odd. like the phrase odd duck. i have to believe that all odd ducks are still very much loved by the other normal ducks. i have to believe that, or i will cry.

i remember my 5th grade teacher holding the curious incident up, dazzled by the language written by someone who is neurotypical. my teacher said: "sometimes i want to cut open their mind to know exactly how autistics are thinking. it's just so different! they must see the world so strangely!" later, at 22, in my education classes, we were taught to say a person with autism or a person on the spectrum or neurodivergent. i actually personally kind of like person-first language - it implies the other person is trying to protect me from myself. i know they had to teach themselves that pattern of speech, is all, and it shows they're at least trying. and i was a person first, even if i wasn't good at it.

plants learn information. they must encode data somehow, but where would they store it? when you cut open a sapling, you cannot find the how they think - if they "think" at all. they learn, but do not think. i want to paint that process - i think it would be mostly purple and blue.

the book was not about me, it was about a young boy. his life was patterned into a different set of categories. he did not cry about the tag on his shirt. i remember reading it and saying to myself: i am wrong, and broken, but it isn't in this way. something else is wrong with me instead. later, in that same person-first education class, my teacher would bring up the curious incident and mention that it is now widely panned as being inaccurate and stereotypical. she frowned and said we might not know how a person with autism thinks, but it is unlikely to be expressed in that way. this book was written with the best intentions by a special-ed teacher, but there's some debate as to if somebody who was on the spectrum would be even able to write something like this.

we might not understand it, but crows and ravens have developed their own language. this is also true of whales, dolphins, and many other species. i do not know how a crow thinks, but we do know they can problem solve. (is "thinking" equal to "problem solving"? or is "thinking" data processing? data management?) i do not know how my dog thinks, either, but we "talk" all the same - i know what he is asking for, even if he only asks once.

i am not a dolphin or reindeer or a dog in the nighttime, but i am an odd duck. in the ugly duckling, she grows up and comes home and is beautiful and finds her soulmate. all that ugliness she experienced lives in downy feathers inside of her, staining everything a muted grey. she is beautiful eventually, though, so she is loved. they do not want to cut her open to see how she thinks.

a while ago i got into an argument with a classmate about that weird sia music video about autism. my classmate said she thought it was good to raise awareness. i told her they should have just hired someone else to do it. she said it's not fair to an autistic person to expect them to be able to handle that kind of a thing.

today i saw a goose, and he was limping. i want to be loved like a flock loves a wounded creature: the phrase taken under a wing. which is to say i have always known i am not normal. desperate, mewling - i want to be loved beyond words.

loved beyond thinking.

#spilled ink #writeblr #personal #please don't ask me to talk on my experience on the spectrum lol. i hate how ppl talk to me about it #i really try not to write so specifically about it #bc inevitably someone talks to me like im a child #i think this is the first time i've ever openly identified with it but i've been hinting for years #i might delete this. feels big. #the thing is that being on the spectrum actually IS a spectrum #and if u say ur autistic #inevitably someone makes an assumption about ur needs/symptoms #please do not treat me differently than u usually would. like.... we can tell when you do #and like i mention. i do appreciate the effort. i do truly appreciate the effort. #but it still feels like... #when i was blind. sometimes people kind of did the same-ish thing. #they'd find out i was blind and start talking really loudly? #and while i KNOW they're just trying to help. it would be like. i'd be trying to find #the right way into a building (sometimes only 1 door is unlocked and i couldn't see the signs posted about where to go) #and ppl would be like ''OH UR BLIND? YES SO THIS IS A DOOR. IT OPENS INTO THE BUILDING. IT IS LOCKED NOW." #''A DOOR CAN BE FOUND IN MANY LOCATIONS.'' #and it feels like. when i admit to being autistic #someone comes screeching into my life being like THIS IS A DOOR.

[illusion-of-sea-axes]

Felt like mashing my Slither Pit tattoo HC with the idea of Kai getting an Anacondrai tattoo.

(the idea behind the tattoo being that it identifies Kai as a pit fighter without actually having to identify himself)

#ninjago #ninjago kai #Tournament of Elements #Ninjago AU #Kai Jiang #Kai Smith #not sure if i explained the tattoo well. I kinda personally like the idea that its not just one place he does the fighting in either #cause the 'Slither Pit' probably exists as multiple different locations in Ninjago #and also. Kai would wanna keep his identity as Kai or as the Red Ninja out of these circles if hed wanna keep fighting. #so hence the Identifying Tattoo #my art #digital art #also didnt feel like drawing a whole ass cultist for this so hes just an arm #Anacondrai Kai #also I am absolutely drawing more Anacondrai Kai it is so much fun #snake mannn

[cosmicrhetoric]

the continuous focus on birds and birdsong in monstrous regiment is one of my fave bits just because we know the only reason polly has all that background knowledge is bc of paul. and even when she has that moment of not wanting to admit that she wants to get paul back partially for selfish reasons she was still the person in his life that paid attention enough to remember everything he loved/knew about birds lol. he's not really haunting the narrative he's just kind of chilling back there but ANYWAY lol polly perks could do antigone

#whenever theyre in a new location polly is always letting some bird info into her description of the setting and its just bc of paul #monstrous regiment #like. that's her brother. the birdsong footnote is funny but thats her BROTHER and she cared enough to be able to identify birds from a #great distance that weren't even native to their country so um that's thee manifestation of weird sibling bonds #the line about the colored pencils is soooo crazy. someone got him some colored pencils and she will love them 4ever #discworld #polly perks #gnu terry pratchett #paul perks #im so tired post diwali workday is killing me but im playing the events of mr behind my eyelids during meetings

[daily-hanamura]

#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 golden #p4g #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #narukami yu #i don't really have anything special to say about this i just think its very cute that yosuke identifies yu's house relative to his own #i think it speaks to how close they are and how often yosuke goes to yu's house #that he recognises its location based on how to get there from his own place #as opposed to looking for some other identifiable landmark or using something else as the point of origin #CALL ME DELULU OR WHATEV but i always remember the location of my close friends homes based on how i get there #dont tell me its different for you ok dont burst my bubble /sobs/ #he's good with his queue

[onejellyfishplease]

OK BUT DONNIE AS A PLATYPUS

HE WOULD BE SO PISSED

CANT ESCAPE THE LONG NOSE ALLEGATIONS

pfffff yessssss

#okay but platapus are so cool #(i spelt that so wrong) #did you know that theyre poisonous?! #they have poison in their claws #and they have a sixth sense #they can locate stuff by using sensory organs in their bill #which identifies electromagnetic currents #AND #under uv light #they glow BLUE AND GREEN #LIKE PERRY THE PLATAPUS #basically yes #this will be on the poll #rottmnt donnie

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

Still on my re-read of TWS and, y’all, I forgot that Lockwood just.  Knows things about the historical artifacts in Portland Row.  Like, he IDs the dagger that kills Jack Carver immediately, the reasoning being that he reads the books his parents left behind.  Lockwood is a history nerd just as much as George is, just in a slightly adjacent fashion, and that needs to be explored more.

#lockwood and co #the whispering skull #my dude the ability to identify time period and location of origin for a sixteenth century Mughal dagger is not common knowledge #what other little speckles of thought are bouncing in that brain of his? #Lockwood has two brain cells: one is for obscure historical artifact knowledge and the other is for thinking about Lucy

[bricky-brikson]

I am perfectly normal about the Psychonauts timeline

Spoiler warning for...everything.

As I was playing Psychonauts 2, I had a vibe that Ford and the Psychic Seven were active during the late 1920s, early 1930s, mostly because of the Model T Ford in Cruller's Correspondence, but also because of the biplane in the diorama of Ford fighting Maligula from Fatherland Follies. But there were some issues with that - namely the Feel Mobile which resembles more a model of van released around 1964. I feel compelled to mention it looks like the Motherlobe is trapped in the 70s, technology-wise.

So I looked up the timeline on the Psychonauts fandom wiki, as well as the blurb from Psychonauts about the history of Whispering Rock. And while clicking through the wiki, I found a copy of the Li-Po document, which contains the following line:

[...] when [Ford Cruller] was [...] away fighting for the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War [...]

Firstly, based.

Secondly, that means Ford had to be at least 16* by 1937 (when American volunteers were sent to Spain). At least if we are to believe that this...very specific part of the Li-Po document is still canon. Which...I mean, we could. We know Ford was already an adult when he assembled the Psychic Seven, but we don't know how old he was. From the looks of him in the mental vaults and illustrations, he was definitely older than 16 (considering the full moustache). Meaning that it is possible Ford spent his younger years fighting in the Lincoln Brigade, then when he matured started looking more into his and others' psychic powers.

Possible? Yes. Plausible? Ehhh...considering the story of Psychonauts 2 is deeply tied to the trauma the Psychic Seven endured surrounding the Grulovian Civil War then the Deluge of Grulovia, I doubt that Ford's previous involvement in a very bloody battalion (22.5% of Lincoln Battalion fighters died in the Spanish Civil War) would have gone unmentioned. Since it makes no appearance in Psychonauts 2, I think it's safe to say it's no longer canon.

So where does that leave us? With the only statement from the devs (specifically Tim Schafer himself) that points us towards a date for the game's events:

"We think of it as taking place in the 80's but not necessarily the 80's, in case we need a piece of technology that we're stealing from the 90's."

So...that leaves us with a year range of 1980 to 1999. However, if technology is an issue (specifically, taking place during the 80s but needing some tech from the 90s), that means the game probably takes place in the late 80s, early 90s. I interpret this as being between 1987 and 1993. So, we've narrowed it down! Based on my arbitrary definition of "late" and "early"!**

Is there any way to narrow it down further? Unfortunately, not from what I can find - the tech we see in the Motherlobe is more reminiscent of the 60s and 70s (the computers we see on peoples' desks and in Sasha's lab look akin to a Xerox Alto, which came out in 1973), and I don't know enough about the history of other technology we see in-game to infer information about the timeline. If someone else has knowledge about things I may have missed that point us towards a date, please reblog and let me know!

Now, before I get into what I see as the timeline, I do want to address Maloof's line when you release him from the GPC.

"Nah, the staff hasn't put any kids in the GPC since the fifties."

Which goes against the timeline written on the log in the parking lot (which states that Whispering Rock Summer Camp was only created 5 years ago). I'm leaning more toward the written lore, since it's entirely possible Maloof is misinformed. After all, this is his first time at the camp. It's entirely possible Bobby (or another camper) has been lying to Maloof about the history of the staff's use of the GPC. For this reason, I'm disregarding this conflicting bit of evidence.

So! On to the actual timeline - at least, what I think it is. Starting from the beginning and working our way to the present day. I will represent the dates as a range, so "1987 - 1993" means "between 1987 and 1993." It doesn't mean that whatever event took place took that long, just that it happened at some point within that range. Good? Good! Let's go.

Brick's Speculative Psychonauts Timeline

1487 - 1493: A psitanium meteor strikes the area that will eventually be known as Whispering Rock, leaving behind a psitanium deposit.

1787 - 1793: A local indigenous group starts working with the psitanium, creating the arrowheads found in the first game, and names the area Whispering Rock (just, in their language, not English)

1887 - 1893: The mining town of Shaky Claim is established as part of the gold rush, except they're mining for psitanium. The psitanium deposit severely worsens the mental health of the people there.

1888 - 1894: The first case of 'Paranormal Hysteria' diagnosed in Shaky Claim.

1912 - 1918: Houston Thorney constructs Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed. Ford Cruller is born.

1927 - 1933: Houston Thorney commits suicide. The town's population is less than the amount of patients in Thorney Towers.

1932 - 1938: Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed is closed but some patients still remain. The remaining residents of the valley leave and the area is flooded, resulting in Lake Oblongata.

[At some point, Ford assembles the Psychic Seven]

1967 - 1973: The Psychic Six fight Maligula. Grulovia is flooded then trapped below the frozen floodwaters. Helmut Fullbear is presumed dead. Shortly thereafter, Ford uses the Astralathe to modify the memories of Lucretia and Augustus, then to break his own mind.

[At some point, Charlie Psycho Delta is established then swiftly abandoned]

1982 - 1988: Whispering Rock Summer Camp is established.

1987 - 1993: The events of Psychonauts, Psychonauts: The Rhombus of Ruin, and Psychonauts 2 take place all within about a week (and that's being generous).

So there! That's what I think the timeline is. Again, if you have any feedback or want to point out something I missed, please let me know! I'm new to the games/lore/fandom so 'tis entirely possible!

The implications of this timeline are...interesting. The fact that during the fight with Maligula, something that was supported by multiple countries, they're using planes from the 1910s when it's at least 1967...the world of the Psychonauts isn't less technologically advanced - they have a jet that rivals ones from 2024! So I have no clue what that biplane is doing in Gristol's memory of the fight with Maligula. Unless we consider Gristol an unreliable narrator for that detail - but even then I'm unsure why he wouldn't have assumed they were using modern technology...? IDK. It's weird.

Anyways, if you got this far, thanks for reading! I'm flattered. I always love picking apart lore and timeline details like this, no matter the fandom I'm in. So consider this my hello to the Psychonauts fandom :-)

*According to the Wikipedia page for the Lincoln Battalion, that's probably the youngest any American volunteers were. ** The way I see it: if it ends in 1/2/3, it's early. If it ends in 4/5/6, it's mid. if it ends in 7/8/9, it's late.

#my dad is a warplane nerd and he helped me identify the biplane #irl biplanes like that were used as late as the 1940s since they had more manoeuvrability than the faster jets #but by the 60s/70s there were definitely a variety of planes that would fill the 'slower but better movement' niche #and it cant be because grulovia doesnt have the tech - cause the psychic six weren't working with grulovia ! #they were called in by the international community !!! #so for some reason the international community gave them planes that were at least twenty years old to fight this new terrifying foe !!!!!! #what is going on !!!!!!!!!!! #anyway. i was having a hella breakdown (/positive) over this last night. but putting in in clean form like this helps me figure things out- #-in my brain #also the fact shaky claim was established as part of the gold rush implies a location somewhere on the west coast #considering the devs are in california im guessing whispering rock is also in california #psychonauts #psychonauts rhombus of ruin #psychonauts 2 #brick wall #ford cruller #because i talk about him a decent amount

[saionjeans]

i feel so bad for non-kozuemiki understanders they are missing out on so much

#u #miki #kozue #I think juri shiori is the most superficially compelling of these paradigms #bc they’re the most easily identifiable/locatable for most of us #(ie lesbians) #but also BECAUSE of that I actually find them the least compelling at this point #fucked up siblings is what it’s all about tbh….

[the-everqueen]

my major problem with fanon Hob is that he's treated as universal. which a) is impossible, nothing is actually universal, there is no singular Human Experience, and b) the text (show and comix) doesn't consider him a universal. he's an anomaly in his irrepressible desire to live. he's a foil for Dream. he's one of an unspecified number of immortals who occasionally cross paths with the Endless. he's not an Everyman, he's very much the product of the world around him (which changes with time but also doesn't - a white man in an established British empire holds a certain degree of power/liberty across centuries). why does whiteness = universality? why does whiteness = Human?

#sandman #fandom discourse #this is the major difference i notice between ppl's canons around hob vs canons around the corinthian #the corinthian - esp. as played by bhol - is a horror trope #and the americana signifiers locate him in a specific spacetime even if he's older than that #but mostly ppl pick up on the corinthian's ''thingness'' #he's literally not human so there's less room to claim him as representative #i think there's possible parallels between coco and hob #(and then a Major Difference in how they're treated by Dream - for obvious reasons) #but also... #there's so many other human characters who are not afforded the same grace that fandom extends to hob #rose walker; lyta hall; jo constantine; unity kincaid #mostly they're women! and a lot of them aren't white #but rose IS supposed to be the every(wo)man trope #she IS supposed to be something of an audience insert bc she's encountering #the dreaming and the Fates and the rules around the Endless #along with the reader/viewer #why is the Black young woman not someone that fans identify with? #i'll give you three guesses...

[psqqa]

this might just be because i am deeply, deeply terrified of The Vast Depths Of The Ocean, but i just cannot get myself up in arms about the whole "grave desecration" part of titanic tourism.

it is in fact significantly more comforting for me to imagine my hypothetical watery grave as somewhere people are constantly dropping in at all times than one where i am left to rest in cold, black, unfathomably desolate peace for all of eternity. cold, black, unfathomable desolation is precisely where the "nightmare" part of this nightmare scenario comes in for me, after all.

so yes, if you happen across my sunken bones, you all have my full permission to haul them back up to land. i don't care how much damage the oxygen and change in pressure is going to do to them and their archaeological value, just get me out of there.

#i acknowledge the anthropocentrism of this #but i feel like we can give my amygdala a pass on the self-centredness of its primal fears #this all being said #i fully respect it if grieving family members don't want people treating a location of great pain to them #as a fun tourist outing #the edmund fitzgerald is very much in living memory #for example #but like #the titanic is not #we're at a point where no one who personally knew anyone who died on the titanic is alive anymore #also we are constantly digging up wwi corpses and then sending them back to their country for proper military burial #when they've been identified #so like #this might be a significant moral failing on my part but i just cannot see the problem #anyway these oceangate folks really saw me fall back into one of my periodic Titanic Phases a few weeks ago #and said 'hey wouldn't it be fun if we kicked that morbid fascination up a notch or ten' #if it sounds like i am making light of this situation it is because this is very literally the nightmare scenario #the kursk sank when i was 10 and left its psychological fucking mark on me #not to mention the fateful fucking day i learned about tsunamis #horrifying #all of it #there is not enough money in the world to get me to go up into space or down into the depths of the ocean

[mikiruma]

#polls #hyperspecific poll #pluralgang #loud text - #1) i tried to make an arcade. it went so bad. cyclone is in every other major room. help #2) mags/whip/[REDACTED]/mako (technically) #3) bea's whereabouts are still currently unknown but she DOES exist bc she played goatlings last year #4) ralph/julian's beef is incomprehensible but so. so funny #5) OW MY FUCKING WIENOR -homestar voice #6) [REDACTED] you're my bestie and all but lighten up man #7) [DATA EXPUNGED] is cool and also nothing like the person he identifies with but also get better taste in music plz #8) im sure the map is still somewhere i just have a lot of key locations & no idea how theyre connected #you ever teleport in your headspace bc walking is lame

[izvmimi]

probably biased but it upsets me a little that like any form of vulnerability online beyond ‘haha these are my labels and here’s my feelings about cock and balls!’ can very quickly be deflected as oversharing or trauma dumping

i have a somewhat convoluted analogy of like two people carrying bags down a road to model what i think friendship should look like that i can go into eventually

but my point is like… vulnerability comes so much more naturally online than in person because of the (decreasing) anonymity of being online! you don’t have to save face as desperately on a platform as tumblr. but the refusal to save face about basic things like your opinion on x does not necessarily mean you overshare, it just means you are honest (within reason). it’s one of the most freeing things of having an online persona.

and the fact of the matter is you can exit and enter relationships more freely than you can in real life so why have multiple masks? what do you have to lose?

#mimi speaks #to clarify i’m talking about opinions #like i don’t share my name or location or anyrhing that can identify me #but i shouldn’t have to pretend i agree with everything #or never offer an opinion to avoid ‘oversharing’ #and it really bothers me how like #quickly people assume they know anything important about you just because you talk to them

[teledild0nix]

i see way way way more posts yelling about how wrong it is to tell middle aged women that they’re too old for fandom or tumblr than I see people saying anything of the sort to middle aged women. Like I’m 36 and I’ve never had anyone tell me I’m too old to be here 🤷🏽‍♂️

#I think there are like. Generation gaps in fandom culture #But that’s not an age thing so much as indicative of when you started participating in fandom and where #Sometimes I see people complaining about how fandom was better when there were individual fan communities #Like on live journal or like specific fandom websites #I do remember those days but I am not nostalgic for them at all #I didn’t actually speak and participate in fandom until I found bbcs Twitter and then tumblr #I do miss it being chattier on tumblr tho #We used to have a chattier culture and now asks are less common 🤷🏽‍♂️ #I think people have conversations on discord #Which. For one thing I don’t want another fucking app #Also a friend of mine invited me to a discord server and I found it kind of overwhelming #Plus nobody knew me and they didn’t rlly respond to my messages #Maybe it’s fun with people you already know but #It’s not easy to dive into a group of people who already know each other and have developed a culture #And just talk to them without the context they already have #But hell im autistic and struggling to identify/locate the context is like the story of my life

[ronelgomes]

Tundra biome: one of the largest biomes in the world

#tundra biome #biome #arctic tundra #alpine tundra #tundra region #tundra ecosystem #arctic tundra biome #alpine tundra biome #tundra biome animals #tundra biome plants #biomes of the world #tundra animals #what is the tundra biome? #Location so tundra biome #types of tundra biome #Environmental conditions of tundra biome #soils of tundra biome #climaet of tundra biome #identify a tundra region

[tchaikovskaya]

i feel like if anyone who knows me as a person and my Lore and interests etc decently well were to stumble upon my reddit acct and looked at the post history they would be able to figure out it was me in like 6 posts/comments, 8 tops. across 3-4 very cringe and pathetically specific subs in particular.

#the way i actively avoid participating in any of the subs tied to a specific organization or geographic location #bc i cant let anyone who knows me irl to just happen upon my comments via a farmers market post comment or s/t #the amalgam of these specific intense fixations? all of them together in one place? immediately identifying :(