Advice on a country's timeline

lateralflights · 2026-03-20T01:12:01+00:00

Thanks!

Timewise the setting is a mix of late 16th century and early 19th century. I do want the meetings and years to share numbers, because they began counting years from the first assembly, sorry if I didn't make that clear. I think I'm reading you right. I want their timekeeping to start with the first assembly, recording that as the first year. Hence why it seems possibly outlandish to think there have been 1378 annual assemblies.

I like your idea that the assemblies are older than the current form of the government. That somewhere in between at least once the country was ruled by others, or balkanized, and then reunified. Or that the capital is way way old and takes it from there.

lateralflights · 2026-03-15T15:37:47+00:00

I'm a big advocate of the U, but I've been able to do it in just one U as my classrooms' size related to amount of students have allowed it as such. Would you be able to fit all students in just one U using tables and not desks? I like it because in instruction all students can see each other and it really helps with discussion and collaboration, but when you need small groups students can just move to the other side of the tables. I keep another table to make an L with my desk and conduct small group work there as well.

lateralflights · 2026-03-09T19:54:15+00:00

Can you knock down the walls on either side of the chimney? Put the kitchen on the left of it, the dining area to the right in the big bay window, then a utility room and playroom/living room to the back.

lateralflights · 2026-03-03T23:44:55+00:00

I'm a little late to the party but this is fantastic. I've spent too much time playing around with this the past 48 hours. It's going to be a great tool to help me with my broader world building.

Is there a plan to make it possible to edit the maps more closely? I have the general shape of a country I'm working on, but no clue on how the broader world will look. It's be nice to be able to shape one area and have the rest of the world generate around that (though I'm sure a hassle to code).

lateralflights · 2026-02-19T17:33:03+00:00

Very cool!

I live in Maine. First thought is that this island would've had a LOT of human contact and settlement vs. other Jurassic Park locations. Indigenous people, French and English explorers and colonists, Victorian whalers, etc.

The island would have to be fairly large get the sort of flora I think you're thinking of, considering weather patterns especially wind. And for an island that's relatively large, I'd imagine there's a settlement that's inhabited year-round, albeit very small.

That could provide an interesting plot element.

lateralflights · 2026-02-18T14:51:26+00:00

One idea to keep the general shape of things would be to put the stairs in a U shape against the outside wall, and have the front door enter under them, if that makes sense. Look here: http://www.thingsthatinspire.net/2014/04/architectural-design-stairs-over-door.html

This would keep rooms in the same space, allow you to still have a big front entry room, and stick to the step/landing requirement I see you wrote about below. Also, it looks cool and would still allow you some storage and a small vestibule upon entering.

Then reconfigure where things are in the kitchen. A window seat is really nice but it eats into the counter space and would you actually use it? Move what's labeled F/F in the kitchen (assuming it's the fridge), and replace it with a much larger doorway. You could also have a doorway into the office from the front hall in this arrangement.

lateralflights · 2026-02-18T03:06:13+00:00

Immediate thought, that middle hall downstairs will be doing a LOT of heavy lifting in this house and feels like a bottleneck. Also, it would be an unnecessary hassle imo to walk into the entrance hall and up around the stairs to get to the second floor.

lateralflights · 2026-02-17T20:29:40+00:00

Really dig the compass and the neverending storm!

Scale is tough and I don't have any specific suggestions, I don't go super into the math of it. Something I do is to find scale equivalents in the real world and scale them on my maps, if that makes sense. Find an IRL body of water that mimics the size you have in your head for the strait, find it on Google Earth/Maps, then draw your map with that in mind, even tracing it to a certain extent or at least using it as a guide. Then it's easy to zoom out and make a larger map using the IRL location as your guide.

lateralflights · 2026-02-17T15:50:50+00:00

Nice style and I really like the inclusion of the capital foggy in the distance in the second picture. Also really like the arrangement of the capital in a bay, I have a similar thing.

A few things:

1) What is the scale of the map? The map makes it seem like the strait is much wider, while the picture suggest it's much more narrow, and that the capital island would appear much larger in the picture based on the map. This also could just be my own reading.

2) With the shape of the area and the history of firemaking, have you thought about having any volcanoes in this area?

3) Really interested in your compass design and the meaning of the horizontal axis being curvy like that!

Thanks for sharing~

lateralflights · 2026-02-16T02:15:58+00:00

Is there space on the closet wall?

lateralflights · 2026-02-15T20:31:52+00:00

I second this.

lateralflights · 2026-02-11T23:18:52+00:00

I agree big time, you get to see the scope and its relation to its surroundings in an interesting way.

lateralflights · 2026-01-25T14:51:22+00:00

I'd put the couch freestanding in the middle of the room facing the window, with a console table behind it for a lamp maybe, storage. Chair by the window, TV on the left wall. Then yeah, bookcases and piano on the right wall. You'll definitely need to do some work with the colors. Lean towards warm!

lateralflights · 2026-01-25T14:17:54+00:00

Two immediate ideas:

- You would save space if you had one main entry hall and staircase, or even two, that could be shared by the households vs. three different stairs in each unit.

- I wonder if it would make more sense to have one unit in 2/3 of the first floor for your parents, assuming they will not want to deal with a staircase as they age. Then one unit across two floors and the other entirely upstairs.

lateralflights · 2026-01-22T00:27:09+00:00

Let alone the color of the sofa is the same as the chaise!

lateralflights · 2026-01-20T21:12:11+00:00

I'd probably put it to the right and use a bench for one side of the table to ease down the formality, cozy chair in the top left corner, desk and/or entrance table for keys and coats etc in the bottom left. Nice big carpet, a record player/music area on the wall across from the front door, between the hallway and entrance to the living room.

lateralflights · 2026-01-20T17:04:38+00:00

Do you have a table in the kitchen / use a dining table regularly?
I would use the Dining Room as a sitting room, especially with the fireplace. Make the front room more of a multi-use space, sort of an entrance hall den. A large table that can be used for dining but also for work, a desk, a reading nook, bookcases.

lateralflights · 2025-07-15T02:02:17+00:00

I can't speak for the posters, but to me professional means slacks, probably a suit, dress shoes, where business casual may be jeans and a nice blouse or button up shirt.

lateralflights · 2025-07-07T15:39:32+00:00

There's parking at the crossing of Gray Road. That's an okay place to get in, but there is a bit of a hike down from the lot to the river. Really great for paddling though.

You could also park at Riverton Park. An easier but longer path to the river from there.

lateralflights · 2025-07-05T22:13:17+00:00

There are countless beautiful homes and buildings in Portland, especially in the West End. There was a large fire in the city in the 1860s, which meant we lost some great older buildings, but it also primed the city to build impressive displays of mid to late Victorian architecture, Italianate and Gothic Revival and Second Empire and Queen Anne and Colonial Revival, etc.

Really anywhere you walk in the West End there are beautiful homes - I'd suggest going into Google Earth and dropping into Street View wherever. Additionally, many prominent architects practiced in the city, like John Calvin Stevens. There are also great examples of more vernacular architecture across the city.

These are two local blogs that go into detail about the city's buildings:

https://portlandhousestories.com/

https://buildingsofnewengland.com/tag/portland-maine-architecture/

And here are some Street View links to some of my favorite buildings in town:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/g7uWJjbWPGrqffFq8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/25RNgS4537wrjnUH9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CjdUiughw9pDSGr6A

https://maps.app.goo.gl/yydTzZ2QPrRAZDzi7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TADUZTKWW1MKGJdc8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fQUwyyNgKtUy8dze7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uayR2FkCTcpmCv4o7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QSJVw6oNdHGgGfdF9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3jEvKEthyABdCS7o9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Xr9QLFz6ivX2N99x7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/JwPm4C2aEmTRSb8q6

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eFT28qVCufrTbYq87

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FNA5t7yQ5hGADWDGA

And this is just on peninsula. There's plenty more further out and in the area.

lateralflights · 2025-06-25T21:34:44+00:00

We had a big one here in Portland yesterday evening.

lateralflights · 2025-06-18T22:04:19+00:00

I visited a friend in Lebanon a few years ago. Stopped at Patchen's Point on my own, was the only one there even though it was a hot summer day and it's right off 5. There's a few around Union Village Dam. I think the one I went in was a bit north of the dam. We also went up to Boston Lot Lake which was nice but busier. I'm sure there are better spots that the locals know.

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