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Guthrie, Oklahoma (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=guthrie,%20ok) doesn't have a Starbucks. :O

All of my other characters live in places that don't actually exist. Here is a map of the Star Wars galaxy, though! (http://www.starwars.idv.tw/starwarsgalaxy.jpg)

And this (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=glasgow), of course, may or may not be where Desmond is actually from. Either the south side (Govan or Pollockshields), or near the Barras and within walking distance to Celtic Park.

I miss Glasgow, and I was only there for a week. D:

My hometown only got a Starbucks a year or two again, and even then it's just in the grocery store in the strip mall part of town.

When I was playing Lando, I tried to use that map a few times. The mind boggled.

am I blind or is Hapes missing off that map >(

you're blind. it's right next to taanab (which is on the purple line coming out from coruscant, the perlemian trade route), listed as "hapes consortium".

okay. see, they move hapes on the maps. i swear they do.

Thanks for the SW-verse map; now I won't have to fire up Star Wars: Empire at War to write my fic or something. (Also, that one's probably inaccurate. ><)

OF COURSE INGO IS NON-EXISTENT.

I've never thought of Sallie's property as having a water area, but I suppose it's necessary. I like this picture a lot.

Mal's picture is very hard. Really, it's the ship that matters. If he has any connection to something physical, it's that. I will say that this is where they filmed the Reaver chase from the movie, and there's an appeal to that kind of landscape for Mal when he's planetside, definitely. I'm not sure if it's conscious, though.

Ned is more like this. It's green and living. He's always appreciated that.

SARAH likes the concept of the water, mostly because she thinks she'll never go there. >_>;; Sometimes she puts up beach scenes in the house because it makes for a nice change of pace.

Eisenheim...I'll get back to you. In the short story, his childhood home is Bratislava, formerly part of Austria, now Slovakia.

I had a shot at Google Maps-ing Heaven, just for shits and giggles.

Apparently there's one in Pevensey, Sussex - and given Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy's last name and canon, I chuckled.

There's another in somewhere called Little Steeping. Lol, English place names.

Heaven, to Sam, is more of a dream - an ideal - than a place by now. He hasn't exactly accepted that he'll never go back, but he... well, he deals with it okay.

This (http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/images/london_map1807_small.jpg) (warning: HUGE PICTURE) is London for Sam. It's a street map from 1807, and all those tiny little identical streets and the vast mass of people make it safe, as far as he's concerned. It's interesting and cosmopolitan and easy to lose yourself in, but most of all as far as Sam's concerned it means safety.

And this (http://www.skylightweb.com/losangeles/hollywood_files/Hollywood0903_042.jpg), to Molly, is home. It's where all the lights come out and it's always warm, and where her friends are. And where, maybe, her mum and dad could be around the next corner.

Suzie's Cardiff (http://www.magerlach.de/wey2005/gallery/car/CARDIFF_ROALDDAHL.jpg) will, for her, always be Cardiff Bay. It's where Torchwood is, and it's where she died. When she thinks of Cardiff, it's always when the sky is grey and fat, and the stormclouds are gathering.

Edited 2008-10-17 13:01 (UTC)

Handy-Dandy Guide to Marvel's Manhattan! (http://www.wizarduniverse.com/040908marvelmanhattan.html)

A row of brownstones (http://www.nybits.com/images/photo/upper_west_side_2.jpg). Watch me ignore presents canon re: their living situation! It's okay, I'm a professional.

and, well, Steve used to also live on the Upper West Side (dividing his time between a warehouse type place in Brooklyn), but now he lives in a flophouse with Fury. Somewhere. I should ask about that.

Edited 2008-10-17 13:23 (UTC)

Riverside, Iowa is the future birthplace of James T. Kirk ! There isn't much to it otherwise, but it's regarded as the semi-canonical home of Kirk and probably is a little more impressive in 300 years. Jim still visits from time to time, though he sold the family farm.

Oddly, my other pups come from fictional or vastly fictionalized places. So no maps of Hub City, Knox' Gotham City, Neptune, or the PotC versions of Port Royal and Tortuga.

Here is the most recent map of the comic book Gotham, which is not the city of the 1989 movie - there was a map of Vancouver in one scene that was used as a wall map of Gotham, but we really have no idea of the geography of that city. There is also a subway map created to promote Dark Knight. I like mix and match the various versions of the city's geography, but I've never really tried to make heads or tails or it. And I also like to toss in pieces of New York.

No matter. Gotham is Knox' home, his other true love, his nemesis and his ally, the one place on Earth he could possibly live. Oddly, the comic book version seems, based on the stories by Greg Rucka, to be the one place that Charlie keeps returning to since he left Hub City. Let's face it. If you want to fight crime, as a reporter or as a vigilante, Gotham is the place to be, even if a certain man dressed as flying rodents thinks that the city belongs to him.

Teddy's home will be covered by Banah, so instead, I'll post pictures of the Skrull military training world, Tarnax VII (http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee358/Dracoblade/prv984_pg2.jpg) (as the homeworld was kinda razed to the ground, and I am having trouble finding pictars the throneworld). It'll never be home for him, but it's in the same system as Tarnax IV, the throne world.

John lived at MIT (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~csp/uai2006/images/mit-campus-view.png), basically. He had an apartment, but it was seldom-used.

Barney lives in City 17 (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2006/06/750px-HalfLife2_City17_TrainStationSquare.jpg) currently, under Combine rule. (Here's an aerial view (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/1/19/City17AerialView.jpg) at night.)

Chell has no current place where she's living, but is currently tromping through the countryside (http://photographs.mccumber.us/540/autumn2002-08.jpg) of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The Heavy gets jobs that take him to all (http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/alpine_concept_2.jpg) sorts (http://www.cbwgaming.com/games/tf2/2fort.jpg) of places (http://www.primotechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/tf2bl04.jpg).

I'm sorry, I keep looking at the Skrull training scenes on Tarnax VII and going 'WAIT WHEN DID XAVIN BECOME A SAIYAN ZOMMMMG"

/is a dork

Teehee.

~~I totally did not make two hefty picture posts yesterday, of this August's vacation to Ravenna and Verona, as I needed some of these pictures processed and uploaded, anyway, for this.-~~

Teja was born in western Tuscany, in the country, somewhere between Florence and Lucca; he died above the Bay of Naples, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, as he tends to say in his introductions in Milliways; to be precise, it was on a volcanic foothill named Mons Lactarius that cannot be quite pinpointed and/or has been overrun by suburbs of Naples today.

Between these, his canons takes him to Ravenna, during the rule of King Theodoric and his Amalung successors, and unhappy Witichis, who lost the city to Byzantium. Classis, the port of Ravenna, plays an important part as well -- this is San Apollinare in Classe, an Arian church there, that is, one built and used by the Ostrogoths. It doesn't look all that different from Byzantine churches of the time.

Another important place in Teja's life story is the Greek island of Paros. Nowadays, people go there for holidays by the Mediterranean sea, and not to be enslaved and suffer horribly.-

And Rome, of course. It was crumbling, then, and during his lifetime, the aqueducts were cut (by Belisarius, not by the Goths!), and the Roman baths stopped working. Teja himself kept to the overgrown Gardens of Sallustius, once a public park. It's now the stylish Via Veneto area of Rome, and seems to be covered in houses.-

When Narses attacked the Ostrogoths in Italy from the north, sweeping them down much of the length of the country with the apparent intention of driving them into the sea, Teja was the one entrusted with stopping him in the north, blocking the roads south near Verona -- that picture there shows the presumable site of the Ostrogothic castle. Narses went around the fortifications, and the Goths lost the pen battle near Taginae, nowadays Gualdo Tadino, in Umbria, where King Totila died. Driven further south after that, the Goths made sure to collect their remaining royal hoard in Cumae, before digging in on Mount Vesuvius.

While Teja is along for the entire story in his canon, the first historical mention (in Procopius) of his name is cutting the roads off near Verona; everything before that in his canon is an invention of Felix Dahn. But in Verona, we can definitely say, 'Teja was here'.

Edited 2008-10-17 15:13 (UTC)

Not in English, but here (http://www.thediestopshere.com/Terry%20Pratchett/Discworld/Others/Ankh-MorporkMap.jpg) is a map of Ankh-Morpork, Havelock's home. Warning: effing huge.

Alas, there is no such place as Tackleford, for Shelley.

The Old Kingdom, I'm fairly sure, is an alternate Scotland - not helped by the fact that it has 1930s England... sorry, Ancelstierre, below it, seperated by a wall. There's a fuzzy image of the official map here. (http://storage.msn.com/x1pbglk-vqL4Bsk3MxzJXRFfNMhYsUVFgN8KCq1zSr_t9EjrANv7GP7g1eLeXU0LxsCOUCkV4TZqHL9ea-OwY4v6Dbe65IV-Uj7060LrF0ZVgI-9CPnLGvnpWm51S3M63iLz9bNP73EmhjGI1eXdAjL4A)

Jack lives under here (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9v7jHlkzs-A/RpxuPkA-JaI/AAAAAAAAACk/JMB3cflNsHM/IMG_0017.JPG). :D

Nico lives in various secret bases here (http://www.airportcommuter.com/los_angeles/LA_skyline.jpg), and treats the rest as her patrol ground. Oh, miniheroes.

Aaaand Harth lives here (http://www.visitingdc.com/images/manhattan-skyline-picture.jpg) in the future! Just substitute in a flying car for that plane, and insert doomish polluted cloud cover.

Eee, yay! I loved this when we brought it up in crackchat. :D

Everett's canon takes place in Appaloosa, New Mexico -- there is no town by that name, but we do know that it's in northern New Mexico. We don't get much backstory on him. Han, Corellia. Diego is somewhere on the earth. I have no idea what part of it.

K, let's start off with Dan, since he's easier. I've actually been to Bisbee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Arizona) -- I took a Yuma-Bisbee vacation just because I'm a nerd like that -- and it's a quite nice town. Dan had a ranch on the outskirts, most likely west (since it's too dry to the south) of the canyon. It's very close to Mexico. Google map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=bisbee+az&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=31.389106,-109.858475&spn=0.132471,0.2211&t=h&z=12&iwloc=addr) It's high altitude, which they needed for his younger son.

He died in Contention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention,_Arizona), also in Arizona. This is what Contention looks like today (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/ghostdancer/Ghost%20Towns/Contention.jpg).

Athos, have some info from Wiki: His title, Comte de la Fère, while invented, is tied to the domains of La Fère which were once owned by Anne of Austria, Queen of France in these novels. Here's a wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_F%C3%A8re) to show where, roughly, and some information about Aisne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisne). This is Saint Thomas (http://i.pbase.com/o6/93/602393/1/77212323.u21nM5Jo.IMG_2348ST_PaW_800.jpg), in Aisne.

He owns a good deal of land, and fields...ah ha! Yes. this will do nicely (http://images.inmagine.com/img/photoalto/paa026/paa026000009.jpg).

As for Doc! Let's see...you know, I'll just make an entire entry on him and link it. Yes.

Not Doc's link, yet, but as I'm so smart I forgot to add the link to the photos from my Yuma-Bisbee vacation! The gallery is here with commentary.

http://docscurlock.livejournal.com/25381.html

*collapses inna heap several hours later*

*flop*

Okay, I meant to post this before work, and it's still the same day for me for *checks clock* one hour and four minutes, so here goes.

This is an article on Homestar Runner's Free Country, USA. It's important to Homestar because that's where all his stuff is.

Mia and Nash are both from Vane, a city in the Katarina Zone of Lunar. Both of them have spent most of their lives there, one by choice and the other not. Even on Lunar, Vane is unique in that it's the only city that flies. Or, considering both of them come in post canon, flew. So here are some Vane-centric links: Vane in the sky and the Cave of Trial, entering the city and meeting Ghaleon and Mia, and Mia using the city's power to stop the Grindery, causing its current flightless state.

I'm just doing Guppy's, because it's a bit long but something interesting popped up with his today.

Rumour has it, Holby is moving (http://www.holby.tv/cgi-bin/News/fullnews.cgi?newsid1224115106,26634,) from Bristol (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bristol&ie=UTF8&ll=51.594988,-2.5914&spn=0.187684,0.631714&z=10&iwloc=addr) to Cardiff (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cardiff&ie=UTF8&ll=51.599254,-3.180542&spn=0.696076,1.441956&z=9&iwloc=addr).

However, it gets more complicated. For a start, at the beginning of the show twenty-one years ago the residents of Holby were sporting a... presumably Bristol but welsh-ish accent. This was phased out in about series three (seriously, one of the characters lost an accent, which is just funny) to give Holby a more ambiguous geographical location.

Not only this, but Holby's rail network is actually filmed in Leicestershire, so technically parts of it are in the midlands.

The set for Holby City Hospital (in which Guppy no longer works, canonically or millicanonically, but is the focus of the show) is actually a warehouse on an industrial estate in Bristol. The internal layout has changed at least two if not three times that I have spotted; at the end of series seven the department burned down completely, and at the beginning of last season (I think) the reception area and cubicles appeared to change shape somewhat. I don't think we were meant to notice.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holby_City_Hospital), the other departments in Holby City Hospital are actually filmed in Hertfordshire.

Other Holby landmarks within City Hospital's catchment area include the Farmeade Estate, docks, airport, football stadium, St James' Hospital (where my Guppy is working) and Queen's Hospital. I don't think either of the other two hospitals are ever featured on screen except in the first episode of season 2, when... I think it's Queen's Accident and Emergency is shown to be the only one with a night shift emergency department. But they are mentioned during major incidents, busy times, or when patients need for one reason or another to be transferred. They also compete for funding.

The outskirts of Holby are shown to have farms, woodland and so on. There are caves in the area.

*wants to draw a map now*

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