As someone who isn't a furry but has very much grown up around furry art I kinda forget that it's shocking to some people. It's kinda just what a bunch of queer art looks like. That anthro dragon girl might as well be my coworker, what's your fucking problem?
“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
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I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.
I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.
And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.
Two more unused photos taken for the shards book project.
Tumblr allows me a lot more space to talk about my outfits so I thought I would break it down here.
Everything I’m wearing was purchased secondhand, mostly vintage:
I’m wearing a 60s or 70s (I think) embroidered short sleeved silk tang jacket as a shirt. These are often incorrectly called mandarin jackets. The tang jacket derives from riding jackets worn by Manchu horsemen. A shame you can’t really see the beautiful hand embroidery in any of these shots.
On top of that I’m wearing a herringbone black and tan men’s wool vest of indeterminate age.
The suit jacket is a men’s suit jacket from the 1960s. It is the same jacket I wore to the premiere of the shards.
The skirt I’m wearing is from the 1960s and appears to be a home sewing project.
The shoes are soft pig suede Hush Puppies brand shoes, and although this pair seems to be relatively modern, they are the same style of “desert” or “chukka” boot that was popular around the 70s and beginning of the 80s.
The tights seem to be modern, they were thrifted new in package, but you can see similar lurex legwear as far back as the 1960s.
The hat is seemingly fairly modern, although it’s a classic enough style to fit in with the 80s look.
The handbag had a receipt in it from 1985 when I thrifted it, although I believe it to be much older, from the 50s or 60s.
The crochet gloves were mailed to me by a follower, with the suggestion that I dye them black, which I did. The last decade women were really expected to wear gloves is the 1960s, but being homemade, there are no tags of any sort on the gloves so I’m not sure of the age.
The 8mm Kodak camera I believe is from the 60s
Most of the jewelry I’m uncertain of the age of, with a few exceptions:
Regardless of the actual age of the rhinestone earrings and necklace, it’s the sort of style popular in the mid-century, and by extension, the sort of thing people would’ve been thrifting in the 80s.
The silver pin is mid-century, and the gold tone question mark pin is from about WW2
The large brass bangle on my right wrist is probably from the 70s or early 80s
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my most Millennial trait is that i want big screen to think properly. to compose my thoughts. app exists for your thing but no website? bad bad bad not good for think, need big screen for think. i wrote this post on the small screen btw
Wilson adds: “Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.”
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