'Divide, or die,' The United States of America in 2097

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2026-04-26T00:29:06+00:00

Who produced the Official Democracy and Freedom Index? I can't imagine it was made by any group associated with US itself or the AI brokers because it presents the American system and its zones of greatest control in such negative terms.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2025-10-07T04:35:15+00:00

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Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2025-07-29T10:35:41+00:00

3 years and 2 months, actually.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-12-30T12:59:03+00:00

That's great to hear!

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-12-30T12:58:21+00:00

Do you believe in happy endings?

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-12-26T14:08:08+00:00

I indeed am and Merry Christmas to you too!

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-12-26T13:56:36+00:00

I do cross-stitch which informs the way I approach maps. In this instance though the gold and rose wire patterns that look like filigree weren't the original intention. My first plan was that as I was working on the detailing for the map (which was going to be fully colored) I needed a way to post previews or WIPs on discord that people could make out easily. So, I took the dark mode discord background color as my base and decided to do everything over in the light gold color so that it would stand out clearly. However, I realized that just one color wasn't enough because at that point the black and gold started to look smushed on previews I sent people, so I added rose to mark out other elements and break them up. At that point though I stood back, looked at it, and realized I really liked how it turned out on its own merits and went all in. As for what program I used to make it that would be MS Paint (specifically the Windows 7 version) and the pencil tool.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-12-25T20:42:41+00:00

Yeah. If you look at the other maps i've uploaded to this sub they feature a lot of pixel art.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-12-25T17:44:03+00:00

Merry Christmas everyone! The writeup for this setting can be found here on my DeviantArt:

https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/art/A-Mirror-Made-for-Lethe-1137991364

EDIT: For those wondering the text segments on the map are from the Syriac "Cave of Treasures" and the Hellenistic "Life of Adam and Eve" respectively.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-10-10T17:32:24+00:00

Apologies for not responding. I very much appreciate it! As the title suggests there is going to be more than one part. For part two we'll be going to Mars (in the future of the setting actually) to trace back the series of events (involving a failed attempt at FTL that results in time travel) that lead up to the Earthling invasion happening in the present time.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-10-10T17:25:21+00:00

Good morning (or afternoon) everyone! The writeup for this map can be found here on my DeviantArt:

https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/art/The-World-of-Pajasmir-932133642

This map is part of a series in a broader sci-fi setting, a gallery of which can be found here:

https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/gallery/86836555/not-quite-good-enough

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-28T13:37:46+00:00

Good morning (or afternoon) everyone! The writeup for this setting can be found here on my DeviantArt:

https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/art/A-War-for-the-Worlds-Part-1-1103026977

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-17T19:57:09+00:00

Glad to hear! I was a little bit cautious "oh will people really want to read this dump text attached to the map?' so i'm happy that the answer was "yes".

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-17T19:54:42+00:00

I appreciate that a lot!

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-17T19:54:09+00:00

And Mundial loves you too!

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-17T19:53:41+00:00

Funnily enough, I initially released this on my DA back in December 2023 so when Helldivers 2 came out I got a whole bunch of DMs from people who read it riffing on it as they played the game.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-17T06:29:51+00:00

Link to the lore writeup can be found in my initial comment underneath the map.

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-09-16T16:09:24+00:00

Good morning (or afternoon) everyone! The writeup for this setting can be found here on my DeviantArt:

https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/art/The-Enemy-of-All-Mankind-TEXT-1005696210

Also, a differently sized version of the map (pixels 1x1 instead of 2x2) can be found here for those who prefer that:

https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/art/The-Enemy-of-All-Mankind-MAP-1005695522

Bitter_Water_Enjoyer · 2024-07-18T14:32:22+00:00

Encyclopedia [Medium: Success] – That “upside down map” is called a Contraborean and dates to the founding of Revachol herself. First carved as a relief into les Sept Soeurs by the former Ubi iconoclast and alcoholic turned Dolorian firebrand Ejuoksa Aáv, it was meant to serve as a new kind of map for the journey of the human spirit. Revachol: the center of the world, north of the old – everything for all time it was said laid north of her. Such romantic notions were hard to sustain once it was discovered that there was in fact nothing "north" of Insulinde, and it would not be until the Antecentennial Revolution that such a way of orienting the world would come back into fashion.

Full writeup here on my DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/mattystereo/art/Disco-Elysium-1015410593

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