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Vilani
@vilani32.bsky.social
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I make maps and write mid sci-fi. Political economy, tabletop, and history Guy. Born and bred PNW. Communist.

He/him. 25.
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Rereading Warren Ellis’ Crècy after learning a small bit about medieval Europe in the interim
May 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I’m gettin into Heresy
November 13, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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Me: goddammit I need to finish this AlS post before i start this job or It'll take weeks
Also me: haha heehoo Solar System map goes brrrr
November 7, 2023 at 9:16 PM
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Well thats an interesting effect
October 31, 2023 at 8:51 AM
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Finally got this to work for Earth
A map of Earth and of Mars, both in Peirce Quincuncial Projection
October 31, 2023 at 8:35 AM
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October 31, 2023 at 6:02 AM
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Things generally get a lot worse before they get better.
A map of North America, splintered into warlords and warring governments.
October 22, 2023 at 7:36 AM
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Al la Steloj Europe Lore coming along nicely
October 20, 2023 at 10:58 AM
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Oh boy oh boy Warlord Political Economy!
A key figure in the emergence of World Warlordism was that of the “Neo-Aristocrat”, a member of a security or intelligence service, a local administrator, a prominent law enforcement officer, a member of the petty or haute bourgeois, or even criminals that used some kind of private armed force to establish a localized, territorial powerbase (or a network of these) which was used to extract concessions from the central government and currency from the local resources and population. The earliest examples of this on a grand scale appeared in Russia, the two most famous being Yevgeny Prigozhin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Other examples include Hemedti in Sudan, Khalifa Haftar in Libya, the Heads of the Settler Cliques in the early aftermath of the West Asian War, the Landlords Associations that emerged in post-2044 Downturn Europe, and the Cartel-Police Cliques in Northern Mexico and the Southern United States. An illustrative example of how this process worked in the day to day is a turn of phrase that developed in the Old United States during the First Reunification, as the peoples of the sundered nation began to come to terms with the last few decades of strife: the Rule of Sheriffs. In the Old United States, the County Sheriff's Department was an omnipresent institution in rural life, and increasingly in urban life. Fed on a diet of “counter-terror” funding and surplus military gear, over the course of the 21st century they rapidly ballooned into massive paramilitary forces directly controlled by their Sheriffs. Some even grew to the point of splintering into Cliques, the most well-known being the formation of “Deputy Gangs” in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, a phenomena that rapidly spread to large Sheriffs Departments across the country. The sheriffs were typically also notably unaccountable; as elected officials, they had an independent mandate separate from local “civilian” lead Additionally, said elections were effectively controlled by backers within the local petty and extractive bourgeois. Sheriffs were most often chosen by franchisees, used car dealers, and mining and logging magnates. By the time of the Staffers Putsch in November 2044, many had responded to the dissent and chaos that resulted from the West Asian War and the Straits War by increasingly taking control of local government along with police departments, private security corporations, and in some cases criminal networks. The American Warlord Period was already well underway by the time the Joint Chiefs of Staff started a Second Civil War in November 2044. It just gave them the opportunity to cohere into state-wide Cliques along with (and just as often opposed to) dissident National Guardsman.
October 20, 2023 at 5:08 AM
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This... I am happy with.
October 18, 2023 at 2:04 AM
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This projection has serious issues, that and a new sea level has meant that I am cooking once again.
September 29, 2023 at 3:27 AM
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Colorized
September 24, 2023 at 9:04 AM
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Cooking
September 24, 2023 at 5:11 AM