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This was a few years ago I had just broken up with a gf of mine and had been getting really heavy into Crossdressing and becoming a sissy. Craigslist was super popular and we still had the personals side back then. I took a chance and posted a few pics of myself dressed up in thongs and lingeries and posted that I was looking to be fucked I didn’t care who it was I just needed some cock in me. The only issue was I still lived my parents I had turned 18 a few months prior and just wanted to let loose and have fun. So I found a guy who was really interested. I let him know he would have to sneak in through my bedroom window and be extremely quiet. My parents were asleep and I couldn’t make any noises. He agreed to it and so we set up a night for him to come over. I waited and waited a pit of nerves and excitement rushed my body I was cold and shivering from how nervous I had gotten. And then he texted me “I’m here” I told him to walk up to my window and I would open up my window and lift up the screen door. I let him in and when I saw him he was mid 30s black and muscular I couldn’t believe it was my sissy ass about to take BBC for the first time?!? So then he looked at me dressed in heels, stockings, a mini skirt and a bra and he bit his lips and said how much he loved my outfit (which turned me on SOOOO MUCH) I slowly reached down and felt his big black cock get super hard in his shorts I pulled down his pants and got on my knees to begin to please him I wrapped my lips around his cock and begin to suck. It was so thick it barely fit in my mouth! Luckily I had been practicing sucking a dildo for a while so I knew how to pretty well. He then bends me over on the ground next to my window I see him spit in his hand and starts to rub on my sissy hole. He then realizes I’m plugged up and so he takes out my buttplug and sees I’m Already gaping so he lubes up his thick juicy cock and sticks his tip in! It hurt so much but felt so good at the same time!!! I took a few deep breaths and he tried again. This time I was more relaxed and he stuck his cock in deeper and deeper slowly more and more as I breathe heavy and let out little sissy moans. He starts to really point my sissy hole faster and faster harder and harder. I’m leaking through my thong feeling so good and I start to hear his breathing get heavier and heavier. He lets out a huge moan and blows his load all inside me! Ass he pulls out I explode in my panties and I lay there on. The ground covered in his cum dripping out of me and he just gets up and goes out the window and I never hear from him Again! I felt like such a fucking slut but I loved that I was a good sissy for thick juicy black cock
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| number    = 2613
 
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| date      = April 29, 2022
 
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| title    = Bad Map Projection: Madagascator
 
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| image    = bad_map_projection_madagascator.png
 
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| titletext = The projection's north pole is in a small lake on the island of Mahé in the Seychelles, which is off the top of the map and larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined.
 
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==Explanation==
 
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This is the fifth comic in the series of [[:Category:Bad Map Projections|Bad Map Projections]] displaying Bad Map Projection #248: Madagascator. It came about 10 months after the fourth [[2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special ]] (#299).
 
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This time, [[Randall]] used the classic {{w|Mercator projection}} but instead of placing the North Pole on top and the South Pole on the bottom it is oriented so that the top is the island of {{w|Mahé, Seychelles|Mahé}}. The map projection is technically a {{w|Oblique Mercator projection}}, with an unusual choice of the cylinder's axis.  Since the Mercator projection tends to visually distort areas near the top and bottom of the resulting map, this gives some areas, notably Madagascar, very unusual shapes, hence the name the ''Madagascator'' — a portmanteau of "Madagascar" and "Mercator"!
 
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The Mercator projection became the standard projection for world maps during the 1800s, because a straight line (or {{w|rhumb line}}) in a Mercator map represents a constant bearing relative to true north. Historically, when navigation was performed by compass, this was a very valuable feature, since one (adjusting for the differences between true and magnetic north) could plot a constant-bearing course between two locations by simply looking at their relative direction on the map.
 
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However, in the mid-20th century, the Mercator was {{w|Mercator_projection#Criticism|criticized}} because it causes distortion near the north and south poles of the map, giving an inaccurate impression of relative sizes. The most commonly given example of this is the size of Greenland — although on the Mercator it appears to be larger than Africa in area, Africa in reality covers an area 14 times that of Greenland.
 
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Randall turns this example on its head by making Madagascar, rather than Greenland, appear larger in the ''Madagascator'' than in reality. By contrast with Greenland, the world's largest non-continent island, Madagascar is only the fourth-largest island in the world, behind Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo.
 
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To accomplish this, instead of placing the north pole of the map at the geographic North Pole, Randall places the north pole of the map on the island of Mahé in Seychelles. As Madagascar is relatively close to Mahé (around 650 mi (1050 km) distant), placing the north pole of the Mercator projection at Mahé significantly distorts the size of Madagascar, making it appear comparable in size to Europe on the map.
 
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But this distortion is even more pronounced when it comes to the island of Mahé itself, as Randall notes in the title text.
 
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Although Mahé, the largest island in Seychelles with an area of 60.7 square mi (157.2 square km), is minuscule even compared to Madagascar, the claim in the title text that it appears "larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined" is an understatement.
 
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No part of Mahé is visible in the comic, but clicking on the actual comic will open a website that displays Mercator projections with a pole in any chosen location, with the location of the one opened set to Mahé. The chosen pole is (infinitely far to) the right of the screen, while its {{w|antipodes|antipode}} is on the left. With this, it is possible to see that the island is indeed larger than the rest of the map's land area combined. A single national park within the island rivals Africa in size, and the narrow dirt road closest to the pole appears thicker than Panama. This also reveals that the location of the map's north pole (the "small lake" mentioned by Randall) is the lake impounded by the Rochon Dam, a popular tourist location in Mahé.
 
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Unlike previous Bad Map Projections, Morocco and Western Sahara are drawn as one unlabelled country.
 
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===Comparison of actual/mapped areas===
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
 
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!                         Landmass
 
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!                        Status
 
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! data-sort-type="number"|Actual Area<ref name="act">Major contiguous land areas that should exclude all islands, ''especially'' major ones, '''''especially''''' especially those listed separately</ref><br />(Millions of Km²)
 
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! data-sort-type="number"|Proportion<br />Land Area
 
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! data-sort-type="number"|Proportion<br />Image Area<ref name="pri">Of only these listed areas listed</ref>
 
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! data-sort-type="number"|Distortion<ref name="dis">NB. Difference between percentages, rather than percentage difference</ref>
 
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| Africa<ref name="suez">Edge at Suez Canal</ref>                                                    || data-sort-value="C2"|Continent<br /><small>2nd largest</small> || 29.7                                                                            || 19.95%                                        || 35%                                                          || +15.1%
 
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| Eurasia<ref name="suez" />                                                                          || data-sort-value="C1"|Continent<br /><small>Largest</small>    || 53.4                                                                            || 35.83%                                        || 30%                                                          ||  -5.83%
 
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| North America<ref name="pan">Edge at Panama Canal</ref>                                            || data-sort-value="C3"|Continent<br /><small>3rd largest</small> || 19.3                                                                            || 12.96%                                        || 15%                                                          ||  +2.04%
 
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| South America<ref name="pan" />                                                                    || data-sort-value="C4"|Continent<br /><small>4th largest</small> || 17.8                                                                            || 11.96%                                        ||  7.8%                                                        ||  -4.16%
 
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| Antarctica<ref name="ice">Significant ice-sheets may complicate mapped/actual 'land' areas</ref>    || data-sort-value="C5"|Continent<br /><small>5th largest</small> || 14.2                                                                            ||  9.53%                                        ||  5.3%                                                        ||  -4.23%
 
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| Madagascar                                                                                          || data-sort-value="I04"|Island<br /><small>4th largest</small>    ||  0.592                                                                          ||  0.40%                                        ||  2.9%                                                        ||  +2.50%
 
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| Australia                                                                                          || data-sort-value="C7"|Continent<br /><small>Smallest</small>    ||  7.55                                                                          ||  5.07%                                        ||  2.5%                                                        ||  -2.57%
 
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| Greenland<ref name="ice" />                                                                        || data-sort-value="I01"|Island<br /><small>Largest</small>        ||  2.17                                                                          ||  1.45%                                        ||  0.87%                                                        ||  -0.58%
 
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| Borneo                                                                                              || data-sort-value="I03"|Island<br /><small>3rd largest</small>    ||  0.749                                                                          ||  0.50%                                        ||  0.37%                                                        ||  -0.13%
 
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| New Guinea                                                                                          || data-sort-value="I02"|Island<br /><small>2nd largest</small>    ||  0.786                                                                          ||  0.53%                                        ||  0.32%                                                        ||  -0.21%
 
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| Japan<ref name="hon">Honshu only</ref>                                                              || data-sort-value="I07"|Island<br /><small>7th largest</small>    ||  0.228                                                                          ||  0.15%                                        ||  0.10%                                                        ||  -0.05%
 
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| Mainland Britain                                                                                    || data-sort-value="I09"|Island<br /><small>9th largest</small>    ||  0.209                                                                          ||  0.14%                                        ||  0.10%                                                        ||  -0.04%
 
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| Island of Ireland                                                                                  || data-sort-value="I20"|Island<br /><small>20th largest</small>  ||  0.082                                                                          ||  0.05%                                        ||  0.03%                                                        ||  -0.02%
 
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==Transcript==
 
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{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 
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Bad map projection #248: Madagascator
 
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Mercator projection but with the North Pole in the Indian Ocean so it exaggerates the size of Madagascar instead of Greenland. Various countries and oceans are labeled, and country borders are shown.
 
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{{comic discussion}}
 
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[[Category:Bad Map Projections]]
 

Revision as of 03:21, 10 May 2022

This was a few years ago I had just broken up with a gf of mine and had been getting really heavy into Crossdressing and becoming a sissy. Craigslist was super popular and we still had the personals side back then. I took a chance and posted a few pics of myself dressed up in thongs and lingeries and posted that I was looking to be fucked I didn’t care who it was I just needed some cock in me. The only issue was I still lived my parents I had turned 18 a few months prior and just wanted to let loose and have fun. So I found a guy who was really interested. I let him know he would have to sneak in through my bedroom window and be extremely quiet. My parents were asleep and I couldn’t make any noises. He agreed to it and so we set up a night for him to come over. I waited and waited a pit of nerves and excitement rushed my body I was cold and shivering from how nervous I had gotten. And then he texted me “I’m here” I told him to walk up to my window and I would open up my window and lift up the screen door. I let him in and when I saw him he was mid 30s black and muscular I couldn’t believe it was my sissy ass about to take BBC for the first time?!? So then he looked at me dressed in heels, stockings, a mini skirt and a bra and he bit his lips and said how much he loved my outfit (which turned me on SOOOO MUCH) I slowly reached down and felt his big black cock get super hard in his shorts I pulled down his pants and got on my knees to begin to please him I wrapped my lips around his cock and begin to suck. It was so thick it barely fit in my mouth! Luckily I had been practicing sucking a dildo for a while so I knew how to pretty well. He then bends me over on the ground next to my window I see him spit in his hand and starts to rub on my sissy hole. He then realizes I’m plugged up and so he takes out my buttplug and sees I’m Already gaping so he lubes up his thick juicy cock and sticks his tip in! It hurt so much but felt so good at the same time!!! I took a few deep breaths and he tried again. This time I was more relaxed and he stuck his cock in deeper and deeper slowly more and more as I breathe heavy and let out little sissy moans. He starts to really point my sissy hole faster and faster harder and harder. I’m leaking through my thong feeling so good and I start to hear his breathing get heavier and heavier. He lets out a huge moan and blows his load all inside me! Ass he pulls out I explode in my panties and I lay there on. The ground covered in his cum dripping out of me and he just gets up and goes out the window and I never hear from him Again! I felt like such a fucking slut but I loved that I was a good sissy for thick juicy black cock

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