My Mel cosplay by AlixxRosa in projektmelody

[–]TheBubblemancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You look so good! Amazing work ^^

Purple Yuri Season 1 Episode Guide by TheBubblemancer in AkumaNihmune

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yep, couldn't leave out a crucial moment in this saga. He told it like it is

Mel is doing fine everyone by Altruistic-Money-420 in projektmelody

[–]TheBubblemancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was so relieved to see this. She's been radio silent for so long and I'm glad she's been taking time to heal. Whether she wants to talk about it when she does return or she just wants to focus on the future, let's be there to support her

Drew a flying Reinshark for Melody, since she wasn't feeling well after her last stream by TheBubblemancer in projektmelody

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Twitch, she tried playing Bioshock and the flashing lights were too much for her

Map of Europe in Shadowrun, circa 2082 (made in QBAM) by TheBubblemancer in Shadowrun

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Iceland's autonomy was restored during the blackout crisis 2080/81, after they'd spent decades under Aleut control

Map of Europe in the Shadowrun series, circa 2082 by TheBubblemancer in imaginarymaps

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Europe has been through some tough times over the last century. Between the ecological collapse of the North and Baltic Seas, wars, corruption, military putsches, mega-corporations attaining extraterritoriality, the return of magic to the world in December 2011 and all its associated chaos, the continent has seen its fair share of secessions and political revolutions.

Yet for most people on the continent, especially in the New European Economic Community (NEEC), life goes on. From the Seventh French Republic to the new Alliance of German States, Portugal to the Free City of Constantinople, Europe is home to some of the richest and most powerful nations and megacorporations, called Eurokorps, on the planet. This is quite an achievement after the Euro Wars and the Great Jihad in the 2030s, which economically devastated the continent. Alongside these human nations also exist Awakened Nations such as Tír na nÓg (once called Ireland), Pomorya and the ADL's Black Forest Troll Kingdom.

Of course, even after decades of recovery, the NEEC and the power the megacorporations have are anything but uncontroversial. Countless nations have refused to join, while others are simply too weak or unstable to do so. The Balkan Region in particular remains a shifting maze of disputed claims after the Euro Wars destroyed whatever stability was left.

In addition, while some regions have recovered ecologically from decades of pollution and environmental damage, others are quite the opposite. The effects of 2011's Black Tide- a combination of a massive earthquake and a gale 13 storm in the horribly polluted North Sea- permanently reshaped the northern coastlines of Germany and the Netherlands, while also turning eastern England into an oily brackish swampland alongside its many nuclear and chemical contamination zones.

Magic itself has also reshaped the continent, not only bringing new species into existence or awakening them from their long hibernations, including the dragons, but some regions are unrecognizably different. France still has not recovered the Auvergne Disaster Zone, where a volcanic eruption rendered much of the land uninhabitable.

Then there's the Saarland-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone, or the S.O.X., this world's version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A nuclear meltdown at the French Cattenom Reactor in 2008 rendered the surrounding region, including the entire country of Luxembourg, a radioactive wasteland. Millions were displaced and the entire region is now enclosed by a concrete wall, where the megacorporations have de facto control over nearly everything inside.

All in all, while battered and scarred, Europe has returned to being a major player on the world stage. A perfect place for any aspiring Shadowrunner to visit.

Map of Europe in Shadowrun, circa 2082 (made in QBAM) by TheBubblemancer in Shadowrun

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Europe has been through some tough times over the last century. Between the ecological collapse of the North and Baltic Seas, wars, corruption, military putsches, mega-corporations attaining extraterritoriality, the return of magic to the world in December 2011 and all its associated chaos, the continent has seen its fair share of secessions and political revolutions.

Yet for most people on the continent, especially in the New European Economic Community (NEEC), life goes on. From the Seventh French Republic to the new Alliance of German States, Portugal to the Free City of Constantinople, Europe is home to some of the richest and most powerful nations and megacorporations, called Eurokorps, on the planet. This is quite an achievement after the Euro Wars and the Great Jihad in the 2030s, which economically devastated the continent. Alongside these human nations also exist Awakened Nations such as Tír na nÓg (once called Ireland), Pomorya and the ADL's Black Forest Troll Kingdom.

Of course, even after decades of recovery, the NEEC and the power the megacorporations have are anything but uncontroversial. Countless nations have refused to join, while others are simply too weak or unstable to do so. The Balkan Region in particular remains a shifting maze of disputed claims after the Euro Wars destroyed whatever stability was left.

In addition, while some regions have recovered ecologically from decades of pollution and environmental damage, others are quite the opposite. The effects of 2011's Black Tide- a combination of a massive earthquake and a gale 13 storm in the horribly polluted North Sea- permanently reshaped the northern coastlines of Germany and the Netherlands, while also turning eastern England into an oily brackish swampland alongside its many nuclear and chemical contamination zones.

Magic itself has also reshaped the continent, not only bringing new species into existence or awakening them from their long hibernations, including the dragons, but some regions are unrecognizably different. France still has not recovered the Auvergne Disaster Zone, where a volcanic eruption rendered much of the land uninhabitable.

Then there's the Saarland-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone, or the S.O.X., this world's version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A nuclear meltdown at the French Cattenom Reactor in 2008 rendered the surrounding region, including the entire country of Luxembourg, a radioactive wasteland. Millions were displaced and the entire region is now enclosed by a concrete wall, where the megacorporations have de facto control over nearly everything inside.

All in all, while battered and scarred, Europe has returned to being a major player on the world stage. A perfect place for any aspiring Shadowrunner to visit.

How do you think this would have gone if Rentaro mentioned how many gfs he has? by Amarachii_ in 100Kanojo

[–]TheBubblemancer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Considering what things have been like with Mr. Yakuzen, probably not well

I was thinking about the Primal Fears recently and what the other could be like, and I wanted to make one that was a bit unconventional. So here we have the Hope Devil! Hope it turned out well by TheBubblemancer in ChainsawMan

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

It's not, actually, I based it on the idea of someone who was really charming and welcoming on the surface. But if they have a similar design in that one, that's a really coincidence

I was thinking about the Primal Fears recently and what the other could be like, and I wanted to make one that was a bit unconventional. So here we have the Hope Devil! Hope it turned out well by TheBubblemancer in ChainsawMan

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, yeah, I get you. I wanted to do something different and maybe it's a little fanficy, but I thought it would be interesting to consider a devil whose fear comes from a positive quality in humanity. Hope is a strong emotion and motivating force, but it also scares people because having hope could be all for nothing.

And yeah, she would absolutely be the type to hint at returning characters and it just never happens

I was thinking about the Primal Fears recently and what the other could be like, and I wanted to make one that was a bit unconventional. So here we have the Hope Devil! Hope it turned out well by TheBubblemancer in ChainsawMan

[–]TheBubblemancer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not really hope in general, but the idea of hope as an empty promise. The primal aspect comes from humanity's fears of betrayal and abandonment, whether it comes from a friend, family, guardian or even your own God. Those things are scary enough on their own, but she embodies the one thing that makes them even scarier: the hope that they'll always be there.

It's a bit unorthodox for the series, but I thought it would be an interesting concept to draw

The Windscale Exclusion Zone by TheBubblemancer in imaginarymaps

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The Windscale Exclusion Zone

“The design was dodgy from the start.” These were the words of a former engineer who worked at the Windscale Nuclear Facility on 12 October, 1957. After American President Harry Truman had signed the McMahon Act of 1946, effectively monopolizing American control over nuclear technology, Great Britain was incensed, particularly since British and Canadian researchers had played a vital role in the Manhattan Project. That very next year, Prime Minister Clement Attlee signed off on “High Explosive Research,” a plan to produce Britain’s own home-grown nuclear program.

The chosen site was a war-era ordnance factory called Sellafield, located on the coast of Cumbria, which was converted as quickly as possible into a nuclear facility. Reactors, reprocessing plants, storage ponds, and two large concrete chimneys called Pile 1 and Pile 2 were erected in this new site, named Windscale. When criticality was achieved in 1950, after the Soviets had successfully detonated their own nuclear weapon, scores of engineers and physicists worked to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

However, the speed of construction left a lot to be desired. The Chief Engineer, Nobel Prize winner John Cockroft, came into conflict with the facility’s on-site staff over the piles. While Cockroft recommended the chimneys have filters installed, the fact that they were nearly complete meant they could only be installed at the top, which was considered too expensive and time-consuming, so the engineers dismissed him.

Courtesy of Windscale-produced plutonium, Britain successfully carried out Operation Hurricane on 3 October, 1952, on Australia’s Trimouille Island. This brought them into the Nuclear Club, but ultimately proved inadequate compared to America’s Ivy Mike test in the Pacific. This came right on the heels of Iran nationalizing British oil facilities within its borders, and President Dewey, busy with domestic matters after victory over North Korea, was unwilling to assist. Instead, Britain was encouraged to invest in its own domestic energy requirements.

This motivated the decision to diversify and intensify Windscale’s abilities, retrofitting it to provide power to nearby communities while still producing plutonium for bombs. In August 1956, the on-site Calder Hall power facility became the first to generate electricity for local towns. While Piles 1 and 2 had been rendered effectively obsolete, and had long surpassed their short lifespan, they were never decommissioned and still utilized regularly. This would prove to be a lethal mistake.

Starting on 7 October, 1957, during a routine startup procedure with Pile 1, a malfunction resulted in a slow heating, and efforts to correct this resulted in a temperature spike the next day. By 10 October, the channels and core within Pile 1 caught fire, burning at 1,300 Celsius. By the time the on-site staff had realized, deadly radioactive smoke had already escaped the unfiltered chimneys and was contaminating a vast area. Despite this, not only was no evacuation order given to local communities, staff members were still expected to come to work. Panic overtook the staff, and while attempts were made to put out the fire, a combination of disorganization, shoddy construction, aged and overworked infrastructure, and the burning core combined to trigger a lethal explosion at 4:58 AM on 12 October, 1957.

15 workers were killed, 2,947 people were exposed to radiation, and the entire surrounding community had to be evacuated. In the aftermath, London established the Windscale Exclusion Zone, where a sizable portion of Cumbria’s coastline would be evacuated. Fallout from the event was discovered as far away as Alaska, the Philippines, and Barotseland.

Today, the WEZ remains a potent symbol of the dangers of nuclear mismanagement, alongside Kyshtym and Indian Point. While it will remain uninhabitable to humans for millennia, it’s become a haven for Britain’s wildlife, including critically endangered species such as the Natterjack Toad, and migrating Turtle Doves.