rough cut memories

R. 33. Queer/bi, polya, greyromantic, ADHD. She/her. Only here sporadically anymore.

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

out of context flight of the icaron spoilers

[bigfuckingfrog]

i love how aabria iyengar names her characters to fit the naming conventions in the worlds she’s in. her most recent being lachesis (kiki) from flight of the icaron is so fitting with the greek mythological names in the setting. she did a similar thing with thaisha from critical role campaign 4 as well with the silent h in thaisha being similar to thjazi fang. she mentioned how that was very intentional and i find it so cool.

i just think it is so neat how she picks names so fitting for the setting and the world.

[whyistheroomempty]

[dogfennel]

flight of the icaron, ep. 1

[jacodraws]

Coming back after a billion years to cheer for the new guys.

[whyistheroomempty]

[brainrockets]

Aabria, the character builder you are.

Lachesis "Kiki" Davis.

Lachesis is one of the three Fates of Greek myth.

Also a main belt asteroid.

Also a genus of pit viper.

Love the way you position her wrt power and wealth. And the ways they intermingle in this situation. Ooh it's juicy from the jump.

[mikeybooch]

@classicstober day 6: The Moirai aka. the Fates. Three goddesses feared by mortal and immortal alike. Clotho, who spun the thread of fate. Lachesis, who allotted each mortal their length of time on this plane of existence. And Atropos, whose dread shears cut each thread.

Sometimes the fates are depicted as beautiful goddesses, other times they are a trio of crones, in more modern depictions, it has become popular to depict them in the neopagan style of maiden, mother, and crone. I chose to give them theatrical masks to diversify them as well as give them a more mysterious appearance. For my design I imagine their faces, as well as the fates they deal in are unknowable to all… Even the other gods.

I believe in the maiden, mother, crone dynamic, Clotho is often depicted as the younger fate since she is first in the order. But In Plato’s “Republic” it is says that “Lachesis sing[s] the things that were, Clotho the things that are, and Atropos the things that are to be” so I gave Lachesis the younger looking mask and style of dress.

[missolivialouise]

Here’s a thing I’ve had around in my head for a while!

Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics. 

A lot of people seem to share a vision of futuristic tech and architecture that looks a lot like an ipod – smooth and geometrical and white. Which imo is a little boring and sterile, which is why I picked out an Art Nouveau aesthetic for this.

With energy costs at a low, I like to imagine people being more inclined to focus their expendable income on the arts!

Aesthetically my vision of solarpunk is very similar to steampunk, but with electronic technology, and an Art Nouveau veneer.

So here are some buzz words~

Natural colors! Art Nouveau! Handcrafted wares! Tailors and dressmakers! Streetcars! Airships! Stained glass window solar panels!!! Education in tech and food growing! Less corporate capitalism, and more small businesses! Solar rooftops and roadways! Communal greenhouses on top of apartments! Electric cars with old-fashioned looks! No-cars-allowed walkways lined with independent shops! Renewable energy-powered Art Nouveau-styled tech life!

Can you imagine how pretty it would be to have stained glass windows everywhere that are actually solar panels? The tech is already headed in that direction!  Or how about wide-brim hats, or parasols that are topped with discreet solar panel tech incorporated into the design, with ports you can stick your phone charger in to?

(((Character art by me; click the cityscape pieces to see artist names)))

[crazy-pages]

So this is where it got going. Thank you very much for helping craft this vision.

[cwicseolfor]

Seeing that first image was just a wave of nostalgia. I remember seeing it for the first time, one of the little ripples as it diffused and spread over the site.

I’ve met a bunch of friends through the movement - of action, as life imitates art - and we’re bit by bit making it happen. I hoped it wouldn’t be quite so countercultural by now, but the more time we spend on it, the more time we still have to make it real.

We can build a thriving future, for everyone, worth surviving for.

[forevernoon-deactivated20181218]

[awonderingliz]

Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G, Prélude

[thewomandiaries1984]

This with the rain, Oh what a mood

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Oh wow, all of the tension just flowed out of my muscles as soon as this started playing

[creatingaquietmind-deactivated2]

the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)

[lyctorgideon]

I’ll fuck you up buddy this is not a speech impediment it’s linguistic evolution!! the existence of the phrase “Aisha was like” allows the speaker to convey whatever Aisha said without making the listener assume they’re quoting Aisha directly while still maintaining the FEELING of what Aisha said.

ie, Aisha said she didn’t want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, “I’d rather kiss a Wookie”.

the addition of “XYZ was like” lets the speaker be more expressive and efficient and it is a totally valid method of communicating information!!

[corvidaedream]

With the way language has evolved, this is one of the few ways I can even think of to express in casual conversation what someone said. 

“So I said to Aisha,” is certainly used, but if you remove the “so,” which implies casual tone (“and” can be used in the same way), you get

“I said to Aisha,” which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I don’t know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like you’re reading aloud from a novel.

“I told Aisha,” is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: “I told Aisha that James was too punk for her” works while, “I told Aisha, ‘James is too punk for you’” crosses the line back into formalness of the “I said.”

Things like “I asked” or “I answered [with]” are similar levels of casual and efficient to the “So, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]” but are specific to only certain situations. 

“I was like, ‘Marc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?’” envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.

Of course, James is probably like, “I already fucking said that.” But eh, I tried adding on.

[axonsandsynapses]

#linguistics #a.k.a. how I learned to stop worrying and love the evolution of the English language without being a discriminatory elitist jerk (via crystalandrock)

[themaefive-deactivated20241122]

This a million times

[missolivialouise]

Here’s a thing I’ve had around in my head for a while!

Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics. 

A lot of people seem to share a vision of futuristic tech and architecture that looks a lot like an ipod – smooth and geometrical and white. Which imo is a little boring and sterile, which is why I picked out an Art Nouveau aesthetic for this.

With energy costs at a low, I like to imagine people being more inclined to focus their expendable income on the arts!

Aesthetically my vision of solarpunk is very similar to steampunk, but with electronic technology, and an Art Nouveau veneer.

So here are some buzz words~

Natural colors! Art Nouveau! Handcrafted wares! Tailors and dressmakers! Streetcars! Airships! Stained glass window solar panels!!! Education in tech and food growing! Less corporate capitalism, and more small businesses! Solar rooftops and roadways! Communal greenhouses on top of apartments! Electric cars with old-fashioned looks! No-cars-allowed walkways lined with independent shops! Renewable energy-powered Art Nouveau-styled tech life!

Can you imagine how pretty it would be to have stained glass windows everywhere that are actually solar panels? The tech is already headed in that direction!  Or how about wide-brim hats, or parasols that are topped with discreet solar panel tech incorporated into the design, with ports you can stick your phone charger in to?

(((Character art by me; click the cityscape pieces to see artist names)))

[aquariuschicken]

Really glad search engines still work to find long-lost posts like this one, which I apparently only liked and didn't reblog way back when. I saw an instagram video where they were talking about how solarpunk = techies who want to make AI for good purposes instead of evil and was like hmmm I don't think that's the point of it, like I remember the original tumblr post and it was... not that lol

[ouroborosorder]

I love Solarpunk so fucking much. It’s the most late 2010s ass genre humanly possible. A genre consisting entirely of Pinterest concept art boards and a yogurt commercial. Aggressively political with no actual political stance or statement other than “climate change is bad.” genuinely incredible levels of sucking

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

my hot take is that it was kind of a doomed creative gesture from the get-go because in its earliest form the concept was genuinely not developed as an attempt to create an accurate descriptor of existing works but rather as a thought experiment of “what if we combined elements X Y and Z from these existing works and made a new genre???”

a genre descriptor is generally much more accurate when you’re observing existing works and trying to, well, describe what similarities they have.

i personally think that self-consciously attempting to adhere to genre conventions can be extremely creatively limiting. and while certain types of limitations can also be interesting in the sense that they force the artist to adapt to the limits imposed on them, some of the most interesting creative works are those that resist categorization. it is surely much more difficult to engage with the audience’s expectations of the genre you are working within when the genre does not really have a body of work so much as it has a pinterest board.

[glitchlight]

Litrpg is a functional genre because it has dozens of authors in the space, an audience, and successful enough works that it has drawn failed hacks from conventional publishing going into the space and failing to recreate the genre appeal. There are facebook groups, there are discords, there are message boards and there are publishers unique to this space. This is all despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of litrpg books are interminable excruciatingly bad web serials, and the best of the bunch are, at best, passable genre fiction.

Solarpunk is a failed genre turned empty aesthetic because it was astroturfed from the start and substantially nobody has ever published works in the space. You can point to a few specific works as adjacent to the conceit of Solarpunk -- for my perspective A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emyrs (what if first contact happened in an anarchist collective in a post-capitalist US) trades in some of the cachet of solarpunk as conceit but is much more clearly a studied work than empty aesthetic.

Because the most damning criticism, beyond the advertisment one, is that when you strip away the aesthetic signifiers of solarpunk, what is an archetypal story in this genre look like? An archetypal cyberpunk story lashes out at the corpos, an archetypal steampunk story is fixated on victorian England and Empire, an archetypal litrpg story is about a boring teenage boy fucking elves and getting fire magic. An archetypal solarpunk story doesnt exist, because "My boring ocs have boring gay sex in a store brand ghibli cottage" isnt a narrative, its a masturbatory fantasy.

[mimsymakingbread]

Christ, someone needs to go read Psalm for the Wild built or Prayer for the Crown Shy and chill for a bit.

Shame you don't like it but some of this shit is actually quite good actually. Yeah it's a niche genre and a small one but it turns out no there isn't an inherent style of art that's "objectively bad" sorry :/

Is a *lot* of it just greenwashing? Sure. But capitalist propaganda isn't unique to SolarPunk. You don't get to pretend an entire genre doesn't have merit just because Avatar was crap.

As for the idea that the genre has no purpose or merit... well let's not unpack that because I'll end up saying some very unkind things. However to offer an example of meaning it could be used for: Often times, the point of the genre is to *explore and demonstrate* alternative eco friendly ways of living to expand the way people can think about the world. To fight the famous quote "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism".

Or if you want a more specific example, we can use Wikipedia:

The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism,while the "punk" refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.

Be that in Nausca valley of the wind to show the idea that nature itself can be a part of healing our world. Psalm for the Wild built showing alternatives to Psychology, renewable nomadism, eco-friendly 3D printing, alternative philosophies on the point of life and the realism that these solutions won't fix the human condition.

If you want other examples I'd try:

Everything for Everyone an Oral History of the New York commune which I fucking love.

Or you can even just go to Wikipedia and find:

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk, Always coming home or The Disposed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Psalm for the Wild built by Becky Chambers.

If you want to start actually engaging with this genre then here's something for you.

Dune is very ecological based, discusses the idea of renewing scarce resources and openly critiques the idea of dictatorial leaders as a foolish errand. Does this make it SolarPunk? Seriously, I'm not going to tell you, I don't know. You tell me and tell me *why*.

Other interesting entries include Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky or Silent Running a film from 1972.

Or look at Andrewism

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN__G2hSqRKuqedN3M0JCDg

Take a gander, you might enjoy what you find.

[snowleopardcatdragon]

Also, I think the idea that a genera MUST be literary to be “real” or “serious” is not actually a helpful mind set. Writing and story telling is not in fact the only form of human artistic/cultural production. Visual art forms are visual art forms. “Aesthetic” is not some lesser thing free from Deep Meaning (tm).

I see this a lot with steampunk too. People ask what’s “punk” about steampunk, and argue that steampunk lit doesn’t have the kind of political/ anti establishment themes, and that it’s just people dressing up for The Aesthetic. But this misses, for example, steampunks extremely strong maker culture.

I don’t claim to know as much about solar punk, but I’m pretty sure it actually started out as an architectural/urban design movement based around ideas of green architecture and green design. Hence why you see all those images of cities and building full of plants.

Writing is not the only way to express ideas, not all art is words.

[strange-aeons]

Tumblr Executives Are Very Confused About Tumblr

featuring @sreegs!!

[rexuality]

y’all my friend decided to investigate what was blocking their drain system and you are not prepared for the answer

[rexuality]

[citisstreets]

i never draw for posts but something about this overtook me so sorry op

[ellewantsrevenge]

aadam jacobs's archive

[windup-angel]

the work printer cries out, "no stop, that's too much! youre gonna make me jam!" as i load a full ream into her tray, but it's too late. "see, you can take it. you're doing such a good job for me." i coo into her feeding tray as i begin printing the morning reports. her warning lights turn red as she moans in i assume ecstacy

[droughtofapathy]

[misandrynistic]