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Kyle Marquis@moochava.bsky.social |
People sometimes ask me what you need to know to write a fantasy novel, and it's this. It's just this. You can print it out.
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Owen
@oweniverson.bsky.social
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[prints and puts in wallet]
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Kyle Marquis
@moochava.bsky.social
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Since this chart is still going strong: I first found it while writing Pon Para and the Great Southern Labyrinth, though it only got really useful in the sequel www.choiceofgames.com/pon-para-and...
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Oisín McGann
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I’ve seen this chart before, but it must just apply to the US. It’s not accurate for other places.
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crAsh
@crashbanzai.bsky.social
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Saved under Reference Materials as WQPJ.jpg
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ph00tbag
@ph00tbag.bsky.social
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You also should probably know how to pronounce quay.
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PlanetCarnival
@planetcarnival.bsky.social
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Transgender Ideologue 🏳️⚧️
@javis.bsky.social
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📌
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Adam King
@adamkingxv.bsky.social
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I love the work of built on piles extends out from shores Anthony.
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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming!
@darkandwondrous.bsky.social
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Futhermore:
bsky.app/profile/dark...
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@jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social
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I'm a fan of this disaster as well.
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Kyuss - Yeah.flac
@spamps.bsky.social
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Pissing off ukers by pronouncing it "kway"
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@gerzel.bsky.social
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Can these be combined ? Like can you have a jetty that connects to a wharf? What is the combined structure called?
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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Then what the hell’s a mole
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fidelioscabinet
@fidelioscabinet.bsky.social
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📌
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Susanna Shore, Author
@susannashore.bsky.social
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I have this very same picture saved on my important information file. Very handy, and not just for fantasy novels. 😀
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Fox Veros, Novelist
@verosthewriter.bsky.social
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This is legitimately helpful and terrific. Thank you.
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DR Drew Pinskeet
@davidralin.bsky.social
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Americans have no quay.
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Danni Jo 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@arcaneartisan.bsky.social
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Okay but this part is vital: is quay pronounced the way it looks likeout should be, or is it "key?"
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Niklas Asmodeus 🇸🇪
@nibbe.bsky.social
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Okey, right. But where do the dragons fit into this?
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Iris 🇵🇸🇺🇦
@chirpdotbat.bsky.social
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Just said something really stupid so if anyone sees a deleted post in here just know it's me being a dumbass about specific branding of a type of modular dock system
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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"Avast, yee scurvy dogs. Sailors were meant for ships & ships were meant for sea. Now cast off all lines, and let us commence finding our fortunes."
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James Mackinnon
@jamackinn.bsky.social
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Thank you, I've been thinking of this grid for a couple days for no apparent reason.
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Butcher Pete
@butcherpete.bsky.social
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OK, but what about a mole? Not going to take this seriously if you are going to pretend that moles don't exist.
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Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)
@egall.bsky.social
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I actually had to break that chart out for a legislative debate: cooljeanius.github.io/my_tweetback...
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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Damn. TIL
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Matt Whitehead
@mjwhitehead.bsky.social
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Possibly also that horses are not motorbikes 😅
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Mummified Yeti Hand
@jackacid.bsky.social
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Mole
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muddy cat🐈⬛🐾🐾🇺🇦 🇵🇸NAFO
@muddycat.bsky.social
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A pelican hook on a dolphin should really baffle readers.
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KitNCaboodle
@kitncaboodle.bsky.social
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Holy Moley I never knew thie difference.
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Hyperlexic
@hyperlexic.bsky.social
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San Francisco illustrates the wharf / pier distinction
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ₚᴀɴᴺᴼᴺɪᴄₐ
@acinonnap.bsky.social
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this is groin erasure
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Maxmax
@maxmax.bsky.social
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But where does "shoal" fit in to all of this?
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DuskyArtz
@duskyartz.bsky.social
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Only one of these can run security on my starship so for me the choice is clear.
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DanyNapalm
@danynapalm.bsky.social
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Whoah-oh long jetty, build-a-fill
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
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So being built on piles is key for wharfs and piers but as they are built on fill jetties and quays are peers.
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B J. Witkin
@itsjustbeej.bsky.social
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Oh, now do geographic features! Bluff, cliff, bank, promontory...
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@grifttr.bsky.social
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think you just helped my Scrabble score.
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Will
@abraczinskas.bsky.social
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I have a friend who's about to self-publish her awesome project, and I have shared this. So if it's a big success, we helped!
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Sid Oozeley
@oozeley.bsky.social
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this is genuinely helpful, thank you
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homosexual overlord
@daledidporn.bsky.social
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love this
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MindCrime
@mindcrime.bsky.social
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Crab from piles, fish from fill
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Uh oh, it's Sean again
@keyboardbrawl.bsky.social
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I can't even pretend I'm saving this as a joke.
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Dr Nick Higgs 🇧🇸🇬🇧
@nickdhiggs.bsky.social
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I always heard wharf was an acronym for “WareHouse At River Front”
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Kip Williams sort of
@kipwilliams.bsky.social
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Thank you! I needed this, and I'm not even writing my fantasy novel.
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Diane Duane
@diane.dianeduane.com
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(hastily making notes) ❤️
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Fran Wilde
@franwilde.bsky.social
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Oh my gosh yes.
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Joe Lavelle
@joelavellesongs.bsky.social
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Has this scholarship been pier reviewed?
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Dylan Kenneth Eliot
@kenisi.bsky.social
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Sounds like playing qbert da wrong way...
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Olio Aojo Quivira
@eduardogoldman.bsky.social
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These are all names of star trek people, right?
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Carter Edman
@carteredman.bsky.social
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Footnote: does not apply in Santa Cruz, CA
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Dani
@nerdanel.bsky.social
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Given how dry and how far from any ocean the area I live is, a fantasy novel *is* pretty much the only context in which I'll ever need to know this.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
@isaac32767.bsky.social
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But this doesn't explain why the Torchwood Institute is located on the Canary Wharf and Parisian Police Headquarters is located on Goldsmith's Quay. And what about the Duke of Santa Monica?
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KLM
@klm.bsky.social
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never did know the difference between a wharf and a quay, thank you!
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David Clarke
@davidclarke76.bsky.social
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If a jetty bends to become parallel to the shore to create a harbor, does that have a different name?
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jess m. ☁️
@jam-etc.bsky.social
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Also important note "Quay" is pronounced as "Kee"
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Sinboy
@sinboy.bsky.social
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Also good to know -
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Pamela
@sundayhandbag.bsky.social
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Plus a Cobb. Cobbs are ultra-necessary, as otherwise the French Lieutenant's Woman would never have existed. I rest my case.
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Captain Cooksalot
@moonbeam65.bsky.social
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For US symbology see Chart No 1.
www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications...
Page 32, section F
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Scott H
@scotticus.bsky.social
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My childhood enjoyment of Lone Wolf has gone up 10%, because I'm pretty sure Joe Dever deployed all of these.
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
@sheepbop.bsky.social
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Insert joke about what my piles are built on
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Alan J. Card
@alanjcard.bsky.social
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This sent me on a journey to discover that Circular Quay (of “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” fame) was actually named Semicircular Quay for its actual shape, but it got shortened like brekkie:
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Tabernac
@tabernac.bsky.social
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Cool! Thnaks!
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@cephalothepod.bsky.social
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I'm sorry, "Built on Piles/Fill"? Piles/Fill of what???
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Lucretius Bourgeois
@maviscruet.bsky.social
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I had no idea I needed to know this, but my brain is pleased, so apparently I did
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Tiff Hudson
@thattiffhudson.bsky.social
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Somewhere in the gray fog between "word misuse" and "linguistic drift", a "pier" in southeastern US lakes is called a "dock." And if you try to explain the difference to a local, you'll discover that "they could care less." :-) But they do know a clip from a magazine.
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Real American Hombre
@realamericanhombre.bsky.social
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Reminds me of reading Cormac McCarthy novels. I swear that fucker had 70 different names for "rocky-dirt".
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Tarn O
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I *love* an excellent matrix
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@morspin.bsky.social
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What if the object is square-shaped? And what about those waterfront protrusion thingies that are partly built on landfill and partly on piles? And what if it's all of the above?
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