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@anarchist-creature
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• side blogs: @spaced-out-rhapsody for study /productivity focused stuff @queer-chaos-dog for alterhuman stuff
my blog is mostly reblogs and I queue a lot, I am very inactive at times.
Interests/Fandoms/etc. under the cut
from another convo w @wumbsie 😭💛
Movement nudge, for hands and wrists!
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(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information
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black transmasc musicians to know
Dreamer Isioma (they/he; if you've heard the song Sunset Drive that's them! he's made some really good Afrofuturist-inspired stuff like Dumb In Love With You, & they've literally just posted a new visualizer at time of writing this)
Glenn Copeland (he/him; beloved Black trans man elder! he's also going to be starring in a children's TV show, a la Mr. Rogers! if you like more spiritual-influenced music his stuff is REALLY beautiful and gorgeous)
Anjimile (they/them and he/him; EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO ANJIMILE! Like You Really Mean It is a delightful song from his new stuff, Animal is a really really good dark song about the dehumanization of Black people & the whole album its from is amazing).
Malaika Mfalme (they/them; Good Man is from an album dedicated to their deceased partner Yasmin, & if you have Feelings about grief, the song Imagine will hit you like a fucking freight train)
PLEASE feel free to add on more artist, or specific songs from any of these artists you enjoy!! Happy Juneteenth!
collected the additions from the notes! tysm for the recc's all these folks rock!!! stream black transmascs <3:
Dua Saleh (they/them, xe/xyr, occasionally he/him; LOVE Sugar Mama, love the beat and the lyrics and the flow and the story (talking abt a rich white woman fetishizing Dua) and their new album's aesthetic is GORGEOUS):
MSOKE (he/him; a Swiss reggae artist! & the range!! really love his sound. also gorgeous man. chemically impossible to not have a good time watching Don't Give Up)
The Muslims (Quadr (she/her/he/him), Abu Shea (they/them) and Ba7ba7 (he/him); PUNK BAND!! these two songs' musics videos go together:)
paristtmpped (he/him; his website is so fucking cute and wellmade first of all! absolutely gorgeous groovy music. honestly if you like louis zong, you'd like him i think?)
two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl 🎏
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I'm aroace. I watched project hail mary and then found out a lot of people think Grace is aroace. Neat! I say to myself. Then I read the book cover to cover.
Let me tell you something, Doctor Ryland 'what do mean you're concerned mean the crew might get in fights if they're attracted to each other, can't they just not do that?' 'perfectly content to be single forever' 'why would people assume I'm dating the woman who I'm always hanging around? That's gross' 'immediately uncomfortable in conversations about sex' 'jokes about the astrophage being horny' Grace is definetly aroace
If you actually wanted to criticize something about Solarpunk
Okay, as I am currently Solarpunk posting, let me talk about the topic that in regards to Solarpunk actually is worth critiquing. If you actually - you know - do interact with the community and the stories.
Because here is the thing: Solarpunk as a genre generally tends to be actually quite good about most of the base infrastructure. Most writers in the genre do actually think about how energy is produced and how the associated supply lines work. They think about how food infrastructure works. And how people get around. And how the internet works. They also do seem to have some thoughts at least about how waste management works - though admittedly that is often a bit less thought out other than "renewable materials" and "recycling". Not perfect in that area, but... at least some thought is there.
No, the big issue is health - and disability care.
Look, I am a disabled person myself. I cannot walk long distances on my own. I struggle with stairs. And I need to take 12 different medications. 9 of them daily, the other three in weekly or biweekly intervals. I need to see specialist doctors at least once a month - usually more often. And frankly: I still actually am still more abled than a lot of other people. I can still work. I can still travel with fairly little preparation. I can still do fun stuff without needing to overthink it. And while I do need my medication: I will survive if I am without any single one of them for a week. All of them for a week gone would be an issue. But some of my medications are at times hard to get due to international supply chains and... that is fine. I can live through that.
But others can not.
And this is an issue that a lot of Solarpunk stories just do not consider.
Accessibility in Solarpunk Worlds
So, here is one of the core issues: when most people hear "accessibility" they first and foremost think of wheelchairs, hard of hearing people, and blind people. And that is of course only a small fraction of people who are actually disabled.
We are on tumblr, so chances are y'all have been told about this just a bit. You likely know that people in a wheelchair usually can walk to some degree but might struggle with balance, or exhaustion, or other issues. Some people might be in a wheelchair on some days, and not on others.
You might also know that people with autism and ADHD and other neuro differences might just need environments that are not as bright, not as loud, and so on.
But chances are that other than this... you do not know much. And it is not your fault. It really is not. Because this is just not taught. And currently a lot of people kinda try their best to fully "other" the disabled people. So you do not think of disabled people as people who are largely "functioning" as society expects them to.
But yeah. Disability can have a lot of faces, and even the same disability can look completely different in different people.
You know. Not everyone likes to use wheelchairs. Not everyone who has lost a limb wants to use prothesis. Not everyone who is hard of hearing finds hearing aids useful. Not everyone with ADHD profits from medications.
And then there is the other big issue: cars.
Because a lot of Solarpunk conversation rightly criticize cars and the car centric infrastructure we have. But the issue is if we do not have car accessible infrastructure it also means that ambulances cannot access a lot of areas. And... those are kinda important.
And of course there also is just the additional bit that while I absolutely think that we should finally get away from car centric infrastructure. But some people will just need cars of some form. Because for one reason or another public transport, bikes and the like will not be working for them. And this is an issue that a lot of people engaging in Solarpunk just do not want to admit.
Petrochemicals and Medication
And then we have that one big issue. And that is petrochemicals.
Right now a lot stuff in our society is in some way or form tied to petrochemicals. So to oil. We take the oil out of the earth for fuel, but as we only use some part of it for the fuels, some part for plastic, and some parts for... other stuff.
And some of this other stuff is medications.
A lot of medications on the market right now go back to some chemicals that originates with the petrochemical industries. And some of those chemicals we right now cannot produce without earth oil being involved at some point.
No, this is not all medications of course. There is a bunch of stuff that is largely done without petrochemicals involved. Stuff that might be produced by fungi, bacteria, or - we have to remember that - genemanipulated animals. But even those medications currently at times still need some solvents or other materials either to work, or to be stabilized for longer than a few days.
And of course a lot of other things related to medicine are super dependent on Petrochemicals. Syringes are made of plastic. A bunch of other stuff is as well. And while for those maybe we might at some point be able to recycle that stuff into a good quality - but right now we are actually not able to do that.
A lot of people who disagree with anarchism or Solarpunk keep saying that the issue is somehow related to people no longer caring for disabled or sick people. But generally, I do not think it is a problem. Humans always have been taken care of one another. Medical jobs tend to be generally the kind of job people like doing - or would like doing if they were not constantly overworked and underpaid.
But one issue we need to keep in mind is... that we still will need to pump oil for the time being. Because otherwise people will die due to no longer being able to access life saving medication.
The Invisibility of Disabilities
One of the core issues with all of this is - of course - that disabilities tend to be treated like invisible within even progressive circles. Everyone is kind of aware that disability exists, but people who are not themselves affected often will just straight up ignore anything that goes past wheelchairs, blind and hard of hearing people.
Often enough, even among leftist people, there is also the narrative about "We will just heal everyone for good", not realizing that a) this is very unlikely, and b) that this is actually eugenicist ideology.
In Solarpunk people tend to actually think about most other infrastructure. Food, information, energy, water. That tends to be taken care of. But medical infrastructure? Infrastructure for emergencies? That is often the kind people do not think about enough.
And again: yes. It is highly likely that if we had a world in which we were not working ourselves to death, where we are not constantly stressed, where our basic needs are being taken care of, and where we have community, a lot of acquired disabilities would be more rare. We know that people who have community and less work stress will be much, much less likely to develop cancer or heart disease.
But there are still disabilities that will be there from birth. There will still be disabilities in old age. People will still have accidents. And people will still suffer infectious diseases. And yes, some people will still have cancer and stuff.
So, ideally any Solarpunk story should account for that. And for how they are supposed to get care, and medication, and pretty much anything else needed to survive.
(Art in this blog once more from Solarpunk Seed Library.)
"Solarpunk was created by a yogurt commercial"
You have not spoken to a Brazilian punk in over 23 years.
Your only exposure to an anti-corporate movement focused around sustainable energy generation and ecological living... has been from a dairy corporation...?
So what you're trying to tell me is that you view corporations as more valid than communities from 'the global south'?
That a singular ad is enough to delegitimize and erase any and all work done by people with brown skin?
It's not just 'shitting on punk as just aesthetics' which also ignores everything punks have done politically, practically, and socially. It's blatantly racist.
Good addition, but a small bit of constructive criticism: name some authors
Eg: Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Francesco Vera, Taiyo Fujii, or Serena Ulibari just to name a handful
[Photo ID: two screenshots of two different set of tags in the two different reblogs.
#de-desertification measures to halt and maybe reverse the unnatural spread of the Sahara in Africa #the push to restore prairies in North America #attempts to reintroduce energy efficient self temperature controlling building methods all over the world #community garden initiatives in under-served majority black neighborhoods #native plants in our yards #even simple part-measures like recycling solar panels and making windmill blades out of recyclable materials #hell basic recycling itself #visible mending. leaving the leaves on your lawn. replacing turf grass with native grasses. #it’s all around us but it’s not futuristic robots so I guess it doesn’t count? #but when it is futuristic robots it’s not real and so also doesn’t count?
#the book literally titled Solarpunk was published years before that commercial existed #also #I don’t know maybe as a general rule ‘that one popular thing that goes around’ shouldn’t be taken as the *only* part of literally anything #all kink is human pet guy #gay was invented by heated rivalry #and people ignore that it’s specifically an edited version of the ad too but whatever
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the petrova task force runs out of money and Stratt has to sell Grace to one direction
what if we stopped making Ambiguously Brown Character and started actually thinking about the race and ethnic features of the characters we made? what if instead of drawing a character that looks like you painted a white character brown, we started varying noses, lips, eyes, and hair? just a thought
Wer den Yuri nicht ehrt, ist des Yaois nicht wert
[ID: the start of the "do you love the colour of the sky?" post that cuts off the white section with "hello jon, apologies for the deception" in green text /end ID]
Learn to walk again
I think the reason why our generation feels so connected to project Hail Mary is because it’s about someone who doesn’t want to be sacrificed, but they have been, and all they want is to live.
That’s very much how I feel about the state of everything. Generations before mine made choices and I’m the sacrifice with the environment, the economy, and social movements.
When I was in high school my uncle told me it’s “up to your generation to solve these issues.” All I could think was ‘excuse me?? I’m not even old enough to vote? Why don’t you do something about it??’
You have money, you have voting power, you have time to be socially aware of these issues - why it is up to me, a high schooler, to solve.
Why do I have to be the consequence to your actions?
Project Hail Mary is a movie about hope. It’s a movie about how fucked someone is by another person’s choice and how even though it’s awful YOU have to do something about it. It’s about how you can’t just lay down and die.
It really resonates with me- with how fucked everything feels I want desperately to give up, but unfortunately I’m a good person and I will try to make things better.
I think the other message to take away from this movie is that change takes time. Since the Hail Mary was launched to the time the beetles returned is over a decade. Yes everything feels like it’s going to shit right now, but our actions will have an impact. Change takes time and the sooner we recognize the problems and start working on the solutions the sooner the problem will be resolved. And we are making changes! I really believe we are. We will create a world we want to live in again.
… anyway I’ll get off my soap box now.
