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everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her
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““You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.””
— Ernest Hemingway (via chazkeats)
Also, like do you guys hold off on finishing an author's books if they've just died? Like I had started voraciously finishing le guin in 2018... then ... She passed. And I was like fuck there's no more , they're no more... And I kinda completely stopped and went back and reread everything. Now I just ration myself one book a year ...
I am still mad that she died. She definitely had more to say.
I am now almost finished and will start reading her essays.
Ursula K Le Guin was a genius. Her books gave me a home.. (Silently cries into her 10 reread of the dispossessed).
whenever I confess to people that i feel like I am just roleplaying as a normal person they're always like noooo you don't strike me as someone who's roleplaying as a normal person at all!!! :) and every time internally im like well yes that's because I am excellent at it
NOOOO THE SIX ORGASMS PERIOD HACK GOT REBLOGS DISABLED JUST AS I TRIED TO REBLOG IT whatever. I'm trying that next period.
Rescued media. Fuck it.
This may be very well known but my realisation came about when one of my friends is very sick, and his other friends have started a fundraiser for him but no one has thought about anything beyond medical bills as if he will be able to survive on his own wit after cancer treatment...
One thing I'm beginning to realise is the individualism and the blame on the individual and not the system is a key idea in capitalism and it impares people from having empathy for people who are suffering because they don't see that as systemic failure they keep seeing it as a personal failure.
This also makes for putting the owners of success on an individual as well and makes us very blind to the systemic things that made people successful in the first place example is of course millionaires, but also it stops people from having empathy if they are even a little successful by capitalist standards of society.
Aaargh! Cancer treatment should be free! No one should go through their lives saving for a medical emergency.
I have formulated something to help me cope with these capitalist end times we live in, and cannot escape it's claws. It's fairly simple but also like difficult to think about because we live so deeply entrenched in a consumption culture.
If a solution, to anything - health, food, ideas, mental health, productivity is, covertly or overtly asking you to buy something - it's not a solution. And no, I am not talking about overt salwa pitches that influencers do, those we all avoid anyways.
I am talking about that recipe that needs a special pan, or a health routine that would be so easy with new shoes... And your first instinct is not to try it but to go to Amazon and look for that thing. That's not a solution you are seeking that's a dopamine you are seeking that comes from shopping.
I work in marketing, and we map this purchase driven solution seeking. You look for ways to get good skin, and the first thought is not to eat better but buy 10 things - is a classic bait and switch.
And we love it in a consumption driven idea of self and identity. We spend hours researching what to buy. In all industries and all categories. Be it beauty or home improvement. Food or health. If your first instinct is what to buy for this - then you have fallen for the trick and you need to consciously get out.
I don't know if this makes sense for others out there, but for me this gives me a framework to intent-check my content consumption patterns. Am I looking for soy soy eggs recipe and then endlessly looking for good glass containers or making it? Am I looking at a workout and then instead of trying that, am looking for yoga blocks?
I also understand that in this entrenched world of markets and 8 hour workdays, it leaves us little time to find any other dopamine hits and shopping is the easiest. But resist. Here's to not becoming a consumer, remaining a human.
It was gut-wrenching when I realized that many people alive today have never seen a truly mature tree up close.
In the Eastern USA, only tiny remnants of old-growth forest remain; all the rest, over 99%, was clear-cut within the last 100-150 years.
Most tree species here have a lifespan of 300-500 years—likely longer, since extant examples of truly old trees are so rare, there is limited ability to study them. In a suburban environment, almost all of the trees you see around you are mere saplings. A 50 year old oak tree is a youth only beginning its life.
The forest where I work is 100 years old; it was clear cut around 1920. It is still so young.
When I dig into the ground there, there is a layer about an inch thick of rich, plush, moist, fragrant topsoil, packed with mycelium and light and soft as a foam mattress. Underneath that the ground becomes hard and chalky in color, with a mineral odor.
It takes 100 years to build an inch of topsoil.
That topsoil, that marvelous, rich, living substance, took 100 years to build.
I am sorry your textbooks lied to you. Do you remember pictures in diagrams of soil layers, with a six-inch topsoil layer and a few feet of subsoil above bedrock?
That's not true anymore. If you are not an "outdoorsy" person that hikes off trail in forests regularly, it is likely that you have never touched true topsoil. The soil underlying lawns is depleted, compacted garbage with hardly any life in it. It seems more similar to rocks than soil to me now.
You see, tilling the soil and repeatedly disturbing it for agriculture destroys the topsoil layer, and there is no healthy plant community to regenerate it.
The North American prairies used to hold layers of topsoil more than eight or nine feet deep. That was a huge carbon sink, taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.
Then European colonists settled the prairie and tried to drive the bison to extinction as part of the plan to drive Native Americans to extinction, and plowed up that topsoil...and the results were devastating. You might recall being taught about the Dust Bowl. Disrupting that incredible topsoil layer held in place by 12-foot-tall prairie grasses and over 100 different wildflower species caused the nation to be engulfed in horrific dirt storms that turned the sky black and had people hundreds of miles away coughing up clods of mud and sweeping thick drifts of dirt out of their homes.
But plowing is fundamental to agricultural civilizations at their very origins! you might say.
Where did those early civilizations live? River valleys.
Why river valleys? They're fertile because of seasonal flooding that deposits rich silt that can then be planted in.
And where does that silt come from?
Well, a huge river is created by smaller rivers coming together, which is created by smaller creeks coming together, which have their origins in the mountains and uplands, which are no good for farming but often covered in rich, dense forests.
The forests create the rich soil that makes agriculture possible. An ancient forest is so powerful, it brings life to civilizations and communities hundreds of miles away.
You may have heard that cattle farming is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. A huge chunk of that is just the conversion of an existing forest or grassland to pasture land. Robust plant communities like forests, wetlands, and grasslands are carbon sinks, storing carbon and removing it from the atmosphere. The destruction of these environments is a direct source of carbon emissions.
All is not lost. Nature knows how to regenerate herself after devastating events; she's done so countless times before, and forests are not static places anyway. They are in a constant state of regrowth and change. Human caretakers have been able to manage ancient forests for thousands of years. It is colonialism and the ideology of profit and greed that is so destructive, not human presence.
Preserve the old growth forests of the present, yes, but it is even more vital to protect the old growth forests of the future.
I live right next to a state park that has some of the oldest forest stands in the Eastern part of the country, with the tallest trees in the state. I grew up with stuff like this basically in my backyard:
It was shocking to me to grow up and realize how few old-growth forests are left. It was very easy for me to feel like there are no truly natural places anymore outside these few protected parks, and that was depressing to my forest-loving self.
But like the previous person said, we can have this again! In a couple hundred years, all the forests that were clear-cut 200 years ago will be mature as long as we protect them. People in the future will get to experience huge trees and spongy fertile soil and carpets of moss softer than blankets, because nature will always regenerate. The world is not a desolate echo of what once was. The world is still full of beauty and magic and it will continue to be in the future.
"marriage is the ONLY way to get these protections" "there is NO WAY to hack a legal arrangement to cover everything that marriage grants" "kiddos you don't remember what it was like before we could get married, we finally got rights because we could get married" Okay But You Recognize Why That's Bad, Right. Like that is really, really bad that you have to enter a specific type of relationship to get legal rights. That is A Problem. You recognize that that is Not A Good Thing, Right
This is in context of same sex marriage legalisation argument in India a few years ago – the two lawyers argued that family is basis of everything in India, and marriage is the basis of that – laws, custom, inheritance, wealth, relationships, religion, festivals ... everything. My question was exactly this – but WHY?
This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras
First floor: columns from Eastern Roman (Byzantine) era.
Second floor: archs from "again" Eastern Roman era.
Third floor: stonewalls from Ottoman Empire era.
Fourth floor: mud bricks from the first years of the Republic of Turkey.
dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth
Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.
Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.
One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.
This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way
#BECAUSE IT IS
And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.
Queer Rant
I some time wonder about labels. Especially during Pride month when I took up a lot of the ‘diversity & inclusivity’ initiatives at my workplace, being one of the three out queer people in the whole workplace of over 200 people (we found more later). The rest of the team was very well meaning allies and some have already worked hard on gender issues before.
But sexuality is a different ballgame, and while we three had lived experiences, we didn’t have any experience in educating people or even explaining things. It took a lot of actual work, studying, making workbooks and the most excruciating of all, emotional labour.
Why emotional labour? When everyone was supportive and open and safe? I asked myself why was it so difficult to explain anything to cis/het people when I personally have been out for over 15 years now? Because it needs us to open up about our most intimate lives, give examples and explain things that are too close to home... and sometimes accept that we have to even explain things that we have often taken as a baseline for us queer people. None of us are trained social workers, and I definitely wasn’t ready for emotions that came with this.
But in the end I think it was worth it, but this was in 2019 and I have trying to find a way to put this on paper a long time and now I realize now if people are good ‘allies’ they wouldn’t need us educating them they would do the work. Otherwise you are a just normal person.
I know I bring it up every 3-5 business days but so many horror, fantasy, and period film/tv would benefit from being shot on film. it’s better if we don’t see the details! it’s better if the haze smooths out pores and the prosthetics! if there’s more shadows & grain! not everything is not meant to be consumed in 4k
What I felt about 100 years of solitude on netflix. I didn't need all that smoothness, I don't need all that clarity and swift motion. It needs to be muddled and fuzzy and obscured. Also it's not supposed to be on TV ...
The scuff-marks on this boat looks like a painting.
