lets plant a garden in the heart of this wasteland

Kirbee, non-binary (nebulous and queer), they/them (or whatever), 28, white. Woven from threads of LOTR, old Star Trek, etymology (words not bugs), and freshwater fish. Bonded with @sapphic-seraph, do not separate.

[fairycosmos]

your problem is you think if you communicate with clarity and earnestness that people will actually understand you

[tropacant]

have some shitty chaotic pride flags ^^

check out the rest of the flags on my profile since tumblr has a 10 image limit lol as well as the fixed versions of a few of these cuz I’m big dumb

[xxtc-96xx]

it's that time again, kids

[danskjavlarna]

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Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

[msfbgraves]

Imagine having been born in 1905... And all your life it doesn't fucking stop. The Great War, the Spanish Flu, and then you go out of your mind for 7 years. Everyone is traumatised and nothing matters. Then another crash. And then the rise of fascism, and the War to end all Wars didn't and it's 1945 and you're just about still there. You may have fought or ferried the boys from Dunkirk or sabotaged the Nazi occupiers or worked in the factories and put out fires during the Blitz and you're lucky to be alive, because not all your friends made it. But you are and finally, fucking finally, it stops. It stops. You are tough as nails and you can put that strength to work into building something and you do, and people have cars and can buy icecream and you have a pension fund and the kids have money of their own and no nightmares.

I want that for us. I so want that for us. I want to be the generation that has seen fucking everything and is like a MRSA bug and unfazed and when that Cheeto finally dies, I want us to. Plant the gardens and clean the seas because we can and we want to and we remember some joy, some time of trust even when it got broken and we can say to the 20 somethings "let us show you what we can build, how it can feel."

And maybe Gen beta will take it all for granted like the boomers did, but we can give Gen Z and Alpha some peace because we, and Gen Z and Alpha have seen the Dark Times and fuck that noise.

[krakenartificer]

At the start of the Pandemic, my spouse’s grandmother was in an assisted-living home, and of course they were severely locked down, because with no vaccination available and we don’t really know how it spreads and no tests and anyone over 80 is deffo gonna die…. They couldn’t take the risks. So they weren’t even allowed to leave their rooms. Staff brought meals and left them outside the door, and they left dishes outside, and that was just their life for the foreseeable future.

So we tried to make sure someone called her every day, so she would have some kind of interaction, and one time my spouse asked how she was doing, and her attitude was basically, “Yeah, this happens sometimes.”

Because that was her life. She did live through the depression, she did lose three siblings to the last pandemic. She did live through WWII, and sent a son off to Vietnam, and made a family and a household and a career while knowing one slip of a button might wipe out all life on earth. And she lived through it; she survived.

And so 2020 wasn’t the end of the world, for her. It was just another thing. Because life is made up of sunshine and rainbows and puppy dogs, AND ALSO fascists and violence and rancid millionaires living high while people starve. And when you are in the middle of the shit times, you acknowledge that they’re shit, and also that they are not exclusively shit, because they still include spring days and new flowers and people taking care of each other.

And it was just… a really helpful perspective to get. You can survive it, you can become strong enough to live to 103 despite everything, you can become a source of strength and joy for everyone around you.

[punishedsaints]

[anachronic-cobra]

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

[aesths-deactivated20220604]

[dogsuffrage]

Everyone born after 2000 is cursed bc they missed the last souls being distributed :/ they ran out on November 17th, 1999 :/

[awlyw]

hibimiku date sketch

[help-me-yes]

yes... ha ha ha... yes!

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

idea for a clothing brand: it’s extremely conventional and practical women’s clothing for all seasons. but we use men’s sizes for the pants and skirts. because women’s sizes of those items vary so fucking much that we’re just switching over to the sizing schema where the number is just your waist size.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

btw if you own a clothing store or fashion brand just take this idea i dont give a shit i just want clothes that fit

[nessochist]

Kandy G. Lopez R ² - Roscoe and Reggie 2024 Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh

Orlando Museum of Art’s 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art

[valtsv]

oh my god i almost forgot to tell you all about how, while my dad was visiting, i had an infestation of every single kind of bug in my house that hasn't been a problem before or since. like i'm not kidding i evicted so many creeping crawlies that week and couldn't for the life of me stop mosquitos from stealing my blood, but as soon as he left they vanished. and i mean, sure, there's a perfectly rational explanation, because two people make more mess than one and he has a habit of leaving the windows wide open enough to fly a jet engine through day and night, but i can't help but think how symbolically on the nose it was. the ancestral rot at the heart of my family so gothic it's got ants and flies buzzing around its decaying corpse.

[valtsv]

hey so update but i haven't been harassed by a single freaky little beast since my dad left even after leaving some crumbs on the floor as an experiment to see if they attracted any ants so i think my dad might just be bugs actually

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]

[catboybiologist]

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

[ash-and-art]

I could never be in a space based sci fi. Some poor bored prick would prank me on a bad day and id throw us both out an airlock

[mousegirlheart]

[orcboxer]

you need to strengthen your core you so you can laugh harder

[hope-for-the-planet]

Seawater Carbon Storage Material Could Help Fight Climate Change and Build Better Cities | Happy Eco News

Seawater carbon storage removes carbon from the ocean and turns it into useful construction materials like concrete and plaster. This new pr

From the article:

Scientists have developed a new method that could transform how we build everything from roads to homes. By applying electricity to seawater, researchers have found a way to pull carbon dioxide (CO₂) from it and turn it into a solid. That solid can then be used to make eco-friendly concrete, plaster, paint, and other building materials. Even better, this material doesn’t just reduce carbon emissions; it actively removes CO₂ from the environment. It’s known as seawater carbon storage, and it might be the construction industry’s best hope for a cleaner future.

The article goes on to mention that cement creation generates about 8% of global CO2 emissions, which is more than the entire aviation industry. It's also particularly difficult to decarbonize because the chemical process to make concrete inherently releases carbon dioxide. Finding carbon neutral, or even carbon negative, sources of cement is a very big deal when it comes to reducing emissions.