D. Clanloch

Pixels ... that was the issue I was having with the coastlines. I didn't realize it, until I got down and nit-combed it. A simple 1-pixel line is never a simple 1-pixel line. It has fuzz and shading around it.
The fuzzy tool sees the shading and fuzz as a line and goes around it. I had spaces between islands and the coast, as well as choke points in lakes and bays that were too close together to allow the marching ants to ... well, march. By diligently separating everything, and erasing the fuzz on the inside of lakes, and on the outside of islands, it left enough room for the ants to march. They weren't on strike after all, they just couldn't do what I was asking them to do. I'm sorry little marching ants. It was out of my own ignorance, that you were spoken of so poorly.
It rained pretty hard at my island yesterday, and there was a lot of ink ... er, ah, terrain that washed away. It was a good thing. Mountains and valleys are formed by erosion, and I'm hoping that it will make it look a little more natural.
I picked up a sketch pad at a local store (local around here is an hour away), I'm hoping to be able to draw that tower that I see down the way. It looks like a watch tower of some kind, but I didn't have the courage to walk over there yet. Maybe it was the bones that were uncovered, after the rain, on the sand of the shore.
(5/23/19) D. Clanloch