so @nereb-and-dungalef and i were trying to make the geomorphology of Mordor make sense, as one does - or rather, as one fails to do, since orogenic processes do not tend to favor Rectangular Box of Mountains. but even if you chalk Mordor's shape up to Ainur activity, you'd think that Sauron would have taken pains to make his mountains form a better box, if a box was what he wanted. and yet it's not a perfect quadrilateral. it hasn't even got proper right angles.
therefore, our solution: Sauron did have a perfect set of geometrically balanced mountain-walls surrounding a volcanic hotspot - once. however... geological processes can only be slowed so much by one guy. the earth still changes. the crust still deforms. mountains are uplifted and erosion carves them down. hotspots move. you can't freeze geology any more than you can embalm the world at large. you can't prevent change. (not a lesson Sauron is eager to learn.) so Mordor is neither the product of natural processes nor intentional design - it's the interface of conflict between both.
camscanner was REALLY fighting with me, so im going to rescan stuff tomorrow, but i got my developed photos back on monday!
my goal with getting into 35mm was to sort of "manufacture" nostalgia in a way. which was actually my therapists idea, funny enough. i dont need to get into it, but ive got a webkinz plush photoshoot coming your way soon!
just gotta...scan things in a room with less direct sunlight >_>
I could have taken zoom German from the main campus and actually fulfilled a degree requirement and helped with what may end up my masters area of study but instead I am doing all this moral crunching on a Japanese literature class that is almost useful to my degree but important for my development as a reader and person