Shingeki No Trash

My main blog is @littlebarricadegirl. Only SnK things related here! Mostly, me fangirling over episodes and the manga. Italian/English blog ✌️

[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)))

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7 reasons why solarpunk is the most important speculative fiction movement in the last 20 years

It’s hopeful. Solarpunk doesn’t require an apocalypse. It’s a world in which humans haven’t destroyed ourselves and our environment, where we’ve pulled back just in time to stop the slow destruction of our planet. We’ve learned to use science wisely, for the betterment of ourselves and our planet. We’re no longer overlords. We’re caretakers. We’re gardeners.

Scientists are heroes again. And not just physicists and astronomers. Knowledge of biology and earth sciences matter, they’re the building blocks for a future on Earth. Scientific literacy isn’t just for academics – it’s part of daily life. People know how the things they use work, and if they don’t, they can access that information. 

It’s diverse. Solarpunk is rooted in using the environment, so it looks different in different places. Alternative energy is best when specific to place (I imagine geothermal, wind, tidal, and hydroelectric energy sources are still used in certain places) so no overarching government system is needed. Communities can organize themselves, taking their own location and needs and history into account. Brazilian, Inuit, Egyptian, Pacific Northwest, and New Zealand solarpunk can all look very different, but be unified in resourceful, intentional, low impact living.

Individuality still matters. In a post-scarcity society, ingenuity and self-expression are not sacrificed on the altar of survival. With solar power there’s no reason not to go off grid, if that’s what you want to do. Communities can self-organize. You can find a community that suits you, or go live by yourself if that floats your boat.

There’s room for spirituality and science to coexist. Solarpunk is rooted in a deep understanding and reverence for natural processes. There’s room for spirituality there, be it pagan, Buddhist, Sufi, Transcendentalism – anything. There’s so much to explore, from nature worship to organized monotheistic religions, and how they interact with solarpunk.

It’s beautiful. The most common solarpunk aesthetic is art nouveau, but again there’s room for diversity, incorporating art styles from multiple cultures in respectful, non-appropriative ways. The most important aspect of solarpunk aesthetic is the melding of art and utility. The idea of intentional living is strong in art nouveau, but it’s not the only art movement with that philosophy.

We can make it happen. Now. Earthships. Permaculture. Aquaponics. Algae lighting. Compostable products that turn into fields of flowers. Buy Nothing organizations. Tiny, beautiful, efficient homes. Solar power cells you can see through. That’s all happening now. Solarpunk is within our grasp, at least on a personal level. I’m not saying there aren’t still big, ugly infrastructures devoted to unethical consumption, but we can start to tear them down. We can build a solarpunk world with stories and small changes. And small changes lead to big changes. That’s the real beauty of solarpunk. It’s not a post-apocalyptic power fantasy. It’s not a wistful daydream, or an elite future only for physicists. It’s something we can work towards right now. It’s tangible.

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if you ever think history isn’t an important subject just remember that my friend’s solution to poverty was to “just print more money”

[imjustagirllivinginherownworld]

Well isn’t it?

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tell that to the weimar republic

[transkieran]

[horrified german screaming in the distance]

[lovecastsoutfear]

Ok so many people may not know what this is about.  After World War I in Germany the country was pretty much bankrupt and on top of that they were being forced by the allies to pay restitution for the war.  In order to try to fix these problems the Weimar Republic which was the government that took over after the war decided to just print more money.  Because of this the country faced hyperinflation which basically means that everything became majorly expensive and the money was pretty much worthless. This is a picture of a man that is  literally carrying money around in a wheelbarrow because that is how much money it took to pay for things: 

These are some children playing with stacks of money because they were cheaper than toys:

And here is another:

So in short no you cannot fix poverty by printing more money.  

[sister-whaleton]

I used to think that was a solution so I’d like to thank this post for explaining it to me

[erensbyotch]

ok now I’m going to try and write a SnK!AU fanfiction on AO3. 

lots of clichés since i’m just trASH 

i’m so happy school’s finally finished so I can waste my time with fanfictions ehehehehe

[rwbythehuntress]

[edelloop]

i can imagine marco liking puns.

[tsukkis]

For kirschthirsty, happy birthday hon!!

[sadcapricorn]

I love having a blog because it holds the therapeutic value of keeping a diary but instead it’s like shouting into the void TODAY I WAS SAD AND BOUGHT LIPSTICK and sometimes someone else in the vast blackness will hear you and shout back I AM SORRY YOU ARE SAD and sometimes they will gently repeat it and whisper me too and sometimes they will simply hear you and nod and it is very comforting

[yesiamacosplayer]

Commander Erwin Smith - Attack on Titan

[moiirai]

sometimes i like to pinch pillows and pretend it’s erwin smith’s ass

[erensbyotch]

So does Levi

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A message to Levi through his favorite cleaning products from Erwin Smith.

Hey there 

I’m gonna get you

Up and go

your pants. I’m gonna make you 

my name because I’m gonna

 .

Because you give me such a HUGE

I’m gonna 

my

  and 

your 

sweet ass so 

Because I’m your 

and I’m gonna give you a 

.

I’m gonna watch my 

. into your

Then for a 

After I 

your ass. I’m gonna 

and 

your back with 

.

After we 

We can 

Until the break of 

I 

to love you forever Heichou. 

I’ll see you tonight. ;-)

Love, 

Erwin <3

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Ahem I beg to differ

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Fangirl translation of this scene:

Eren: (not listening to what Levi is saying. Just staring. So pretty, Heichou <3)

Eren: “… let me love you.”

Erwin: “Listen here. I am 10,000% man. Levi is mine, you teenie bopper.” Eren: “…oh, I um.. okay. I’m not gay.”

Erwin: “You think I’m a fool? I know that hungry look. I’ll kill you with my eyebrows.”

ERURI VS ERERI INTENSIFIES

[sunfortune]

listen i know that character died but listen…….that character isnt dead

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It bothers me that it bothers me.

something that shouldn’t bother me. (via mittenhippie)

[squirrelstone]

Okay, but imagine the first time Steve and Bucky hear the term “feminazi.” Some dudebro at a convention or public event the team is forced to go to calls a woman a feminazi, and Steve and Bucky just lose it and start yelling at the guy because they’ve lost friends to actual Nazis, and a woman standing up for her rights as a human being is not comparable to slaughtering millions of people.

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Reasons I relate to Jane Foster

I’m tiny

I love space

I love Thor