Theodoræ Ditsek

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…and the Zen master says, “we’ll see.” Transit maps and some other stuff. Portfolio: theoditsek.wordpress.com

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Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· 13d

Ah. Well. Yes. Okay.

An earlier iteration of the Nashville Metro fantasy system I posted on the blog I wanna say last year. Instead of the four lines with branches shown on the blog, this system, shown as of 1991, is a single line running from Public Square down to Brentwood and Cool Springs.

The diagram is in the general style of the Helsinki Metro 1983 map, with the single line depicted as a series of horizontal green popsicle sticks laid one after the other, with stations in the gaps and connecting streetcar/interurban/suburban rail lines listed below each gap, set slightly to the right.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· 27d

Drawing lines on aerial photos today.

Fantasy transit map of the Colorado Front Range (Denver, Colorado Springs, Ft Collins)

Red: suburban rail, yellow: metro

Fantasy transit map of Tampa and Orlando.

Green and purple: suburban rail, red: metro

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jul 10

Yes necro but memory was jogged. If not these guys then the Coachman, certainly.

Thigpen and Clarence in the Mortal Remains segment of Buster Scruggs, lit dimly and ominously in sick green.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jul 9

Revisiting an oldie today.

Fantasy map of local rail services in San Jose, California.

Red: Peninsular Railway interurban (mostly intact + extensions down Santa Clara to Alum Rock and up El Camino Real to Palo Alto) plus VTA Light Rail (including Orange Line extension to Eastridge and an intact Almaden Shuttle)

Yellow: San Jose Railroads (routes decommissioned where they duplicate Peninsular Railway/VTA services, and extended elsewhere where the current extent of the city's sprawl allows for it)

Not shown: BART, ACE, or CalTrain.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jul 2

PAUSA DE HIDRATACIÓN

Kikuri taking a big swig straight from the bottle.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jun 26

Some questions were phrased in a way that raised my eyebrows but I’ll take it.

YOUR RESULTS

91% woke 9% chud
36% techbro 64% neo-Luddite
22% hopepilled 78% doomer
75% Davos 25% Dubai

Your match: Greta Thunberg

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jun 24

Appreciation post for an unsung gem of Indianapolis architecture.

A five story vaguely brutalist apartment building, with a small footprint shaped like a square with rounded corners. Each floor has just enough space for a small inset balcony. On the windowless side wall is a peace sign.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jun 11

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

A still from a YouTube clip from a Panic! at the Disco live recording, with the stage decorations proudly displaying the band’s name in CURLZ MT. WHAT.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jun 5

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Bart Simpson going “In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts” but instead of Libya it’s England.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jun 3

A WIP I'm not sure if I'll ever finish. I'm happy with what's done, though, so here it is in case I just don't get back to it.

A fantasy map of the old Boise Valley interurban. Thick route lines are the interurban itself, thin route lines are suburban rail.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jun 3

Post T4T

Hiroi Kikuri (who lives like every Disaster Tran ever but with alcohol instead of weed) and Seika Ichiji (who used to resemble Kurt Cobain when she was younger and now looks like she had or is having another emo phase)

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 27

TIME TO UPDATE THE MAP.

Europe level map:

Stayed in: UK NL DE FR
Visited: ES
Passed: IE
Want to visit: a whole bunch of places

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 24

So while in London I randomly pointed my camera blind over a high wall well above eye level just to see what was on the other side and well uh I knew there was a sub-surface tube line back there but I certainly wasn't expecting this.

Multiple layers of railway lines meeting in a fairly complicated junction in an enormous open cut in central London near Farringdon Station. I want to say the upper level is sub-surface tube and the lower level is Thameslink.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 24

Made it!

The statue of Terry Jones as the Nude Organist at Colwyn Bay.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 23

Found the UK version of those ads on Pentagon Metro aimed at like three DoD procurement guys.

An advert on Westminster tube for something called Bae Systems, picturing some battleships, so it must be for some Ministry of Defence something or other.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 23

Ah, a little slice of home.

A Subway with an “Open” sign hanging in the window, but with the narrowness of the window panes, from this angle it reads “Ope”.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 22

The Shakespeare boards at the original site of the Globe have been defaced by an Oxfordian.

A board discussing the life of William Shakespeare, on which his birth and death years have been crossed out and replaced by the birth and death years of the Earl of Oxford, and in addition the word “suggests” has been underscored to imply certain persons are making unreasonable conclusions. This angers me greatly.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 20

I once again find myself wondering why we can’t have nice things.

A giant advert screen that functions in part as a departure board for the bus terminal in the town centre, but this specific board is some distance from the terminal itself and there are several spread throughout the area.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 20

Today’s was ya girl’s first experience with the foamer seat~

The view down a typical English stroad from the top floor of a double-decker bus.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 17

Post a meme made by you

Spongebob going “IMAGINAAAAAAATION” while making a rainbow with his hands. Bottom text: “SHEETZ”

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· May 5

Heidi Klum at the Met Gala.

An apparition of the Virgin Mary appearing to Paulie at the Bing in a late Sopranos episode. If you look closely she tilts her head slightly to look right at him in the maybe second and a half she’s on screen.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Apr 29

This has now been updated.

The New Adlestrop railway atlas of Great Britain, stripped down to the coast outline, over which is a series of hand-drawn fantasy suburban rail networks for London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, and now Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Apr 17

Finally figured this one out. It had been driving me nuts for a long time.

From Wikimedia Commons, a hypothetical master plan for the Helsinki Metro dating from the 60s, wildly more extensive and ambitious than what was actually built, with some service patterns (east-west orange, north-south green, and loop purple) crudely sketched on top.

The 1960s plan was as I understand it was supposed to be specced more like a stadtbahn or proto-light-metro than the heavy rail metro that was actually built, so if I ever crayon this thing I won’t follow this plan exactly.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Mar 8

Always good when the state of Wisconsin lives up to its reputation.

CITY FOUNTAIN: the self serve beer wall at 3rd Street Market in Milwaukee.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Feb 20

Awww yeah.

Poison Type Hatsune Miku, who wears a short back and purple jumpsuit, pink gloves, a puffy green and red jacket, safety goggles, and moon shoes wrapped in plastic bags. Her twintails are pink, purple, and yellow and are viscous.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Feb 20

A commenter on the blog asked about a fantasy Red/Yellow Car map of Los Angeles complementing the fantasy Metro map. I don't have one of those and currently have no plans to draw one, but I do have this reference diagram.

A map of Los Angeles depicting a expanded Metro system (in green), a preserved Pacific Electric interurban system (in red), and an also vastly expanded Los Angeles Railway streetcar system (in yellow).

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Feb 19

I lost the ability to form complete sentences when I saw this.

A hypothetical Washington Metro map dating from about the mid-60s, showing a trunk line through Downtown DC with branches to Van Ness, Pentagon City, Woodside, Kenilworth, and an unnamed location close to Columbia Heights. The diagram is in angular black and white, with the Metro getting thick lines and what looks like arterial feeder routes (which may or may not be transit) in a thinner weight. It is very brutalist-midcentury-modern and very, *very* sexy.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Feb 12

Madrid Map is almost done, but I'm going to be traveling for a few days and won't be able to work on it much, so instead of a WIP here it is abstracted, because those always look cool.

The Madrid Metro map but without any text, station blobs, or icons.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Feb 9

Route lines are basically done so I may as well post the WIP. Now let's see if I can drag it over the finish line.

A redone map of the Madrid Metro, using the design language of the official map, lightly modified. The map has some [somewhat] straightened route lines, the Parla Tram, and Cercanías and Media Distancia routes.

Theodoræ Ditsek@theoditsek· Jan 26

There is no conceivable universe in which either of these people are cis.