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I made the various iterations of this map in 2021 and 2022, during what was, in hindsight, not quite the peak of Empty Spaces. The map was well-received; it was also like catnip to a particular sort of mind. A small cognitohazard.
I was a very different person then than I am now, in 2026, as I write this, and while these maps are still quite important to me I have rather outgrown them. If I were to try to make a seventh iteration, a version for the world of Today, it would be … looser, perhaps. More gradients. Fewer labels.
Making another version would be folly, of course. The maps were always a product of their time, the result of what I saw looking out at the wider community and how that blended with and changed my own thoughts. That feedback loop is the entire point; without it any similar project would be lifeless.
The closest I ever see myself coming to this again is things like The Witch’s Staircase; maps of my own thinking, my own meaning, and artifacts from within the worlds I write. More personal and less far-reaching.
But not like this.
