Solarpunk/Ecopunk/Attempting Utopia

Solarpunk stuff and things. Combined with my incredibly fraught relationship with the sun, sometimes. For flavor.

[obsob]

:3

[mismedleym]

pet portraits from may! also comms are open again!

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Of course fiber crafts are magic

Fiber crafts are how you connect two threads of reality that do not touch

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Why else do you think the Fates were weavers?

[aetherograph]

Clotho was a spinner, Lachesis was a measurer, and Atropos was a cutter of the thread. Like I get what you're saying but none of them were weavers.

Athena was the weaver. That was her thing. There's a pretty famous story about it.

[solarpunk-nightbird]

It was poetic shorthand for the sake of the target audience (solarpunk tumblr blog readers). But fair enough, so let's get rid of the shorthand:

Making, measuring, and cutting thread is how the Three Fates controlled fate itself - that's still the core of fiber craft, all the way down to, well, the fibers themselves

[solarpunk-nightbird]

You've heard of dopamine dressing, now get ready for dopamine decorating--

[titsay]

[artofmaquenda]

New fun project! I enhanced a cheap thriftstore sculpture :3

When I see these things I always think they look better with an animal head haha! I can't wait to paint it! 😄

[artofmaquenda]

Gessoed her :>

[artofmaquenda]

Enough for today :)

[artofmaquenda]

Cheers to the weekend hehe

[artofmaquenda]

The Wild Mother is finished :>

Was a fun little project :)

[tobermoriansass]

hello, i've been going through your #no more war tag and it's great. do you have any anti-war book recs, whether fiction or non-fiction?

hmmmm this one is tough. off the top of my head:

nonfiction

the works of wilfred owen & siegfried sassoon

war primer by bertolt brecht

coercion, capital & european state by charles tilly (if you want a shorter version of this thesis, read: war making & state making as organized crime also by charles tilly)

the liberal defence of murder by richard seymour

kill chain by andrew cockburn

nothing ever dies: vietnam & the memory of war by viet thanh nguyen

the shadow world: inside the global arms trade by andrew feinstein

savage ecology: war & geopolitics at the end of the world by jairus victor grove

fiction

eyeless in gaza by aldous huxley (this was my introduction in college to what principled, personal pacifism might look like)

mother courage & her children by bertolt brecht

catch 22 by joseph heller

zone rouge by michael jerome plunkett

on the beach by nevil shute

ice by anna kavan (this is a sliiiight stretch, but i liked the way this novel framed the intimate intertwining of patriarchy & its violence, war and ecological collapse)

[vicholas]

Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.

[sandersstudies]

I watched a 2-year-old for the weekend. Mom claims 2yo is pretty emotional and cries often. Don’t really see that during stay. Occasional normal kid stuff but always resolved quickly. I noticed she occasionally asked to play on her iPad but as a babysitter I felt it was more responsible for me to say “not right now, we’re going to [activity, game, tidy up].” So there was no iPad or TV for three days. And a lot of it was independent play. She would color and read and play with toys without me for long stretches. (Once she told me she was “busy” and she was just observing a keychain and taking in its contours.)

Her mom and dad return and give her iPad on first request. She plays with it peacefully while adults talk. Mom moves to take it away for bedtime and it’s immediate tantrum. Screaming and crying tears. The screaming continues all the way to bathtime and bed. Mom and Dad have to cajole her with a snack and lots of attention for about twenty minutes before her crying stops.

Now, I want to be fair to these parents: toddler is overwhelmed by Mom and Dad returning from a, by her standards, “long” time away. It’s getting late, toddler is tired and maybe actually did need that snack. Toddlers also just act different around babysitters than they do mom and dad.

But for a toddler who was a pleasant and attentive kid for three days to dissolve into tantrum of that length as soon as she is reunited with and then separated from her iPad freaks me out. She is not a teen upset she can’t communicate with her friend. She’s not even a grade-schooler who didn’t save their Minecraft world. She’s a toddler who is distressed by being separated from an overstimulation machine.

Her parents have convinced themselves it’s a tool and a convenience by handing it to her and gaining silence at mealtimes and car rides and every request when she’s a bright kid who can spend just as much time with a book as with a screen, with much less distress at separation.

Idk, maybe there are people out there who are actually having great experiences with their kids with iPads but if I wasn’t turned off from iPads before, damn I am now. I felt so WEIRD and UPSET seeing that sweet kid scream like that. It was totally against everything I knew about her personality, but totally in line with everything her mom had warned me about.

[disqualifiedashumanbeing]

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[cicada-heart]

hey y’all! i need to travel out of state for a few days to attend to some important family stuff, so i’m running a store-wide sale to try and make up for the work i’m missing. everything in my shop is 20% off through monday, including beaded earring preorders ❤️ most of these pieces have free US shipping as well!

etsy // kofi

[blackbearmagic]

one time I saw a photo of a skinned whale/dolphin flipper on reddit or something and I've just never recovered

there's just. A paw in there.

[gallusrostromegalus]

One of the most spiritually profound moments of my life was when I was sixish and at a natural history museum with my parents that had a whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.

I remember my dad picking me up to sit on his shoulders (possibly one of the last times he did that because I was getting too big to hold there for long) so I could be close to it's flipper because he wanted to show me something. He had me hold up my arm parallel to the whale's, and explained that we had the same bones, pointing to it's scapula and humerus and radius and ulna and so on while poking the same bones in my skinny little arm, all they way down to the tips of my fingers and it's own.

And in that moment, I could suddenly see how the whale and I were the same animal, just stretched and shrunk into different proportions by nature. There was an entire exhibit with skeletons of different animals and we went through all of them, picking out the hands and faces of all of them on myself.

I had never felt such a profound connection to the world around me before as I realized on a visceral level that not only was I related to all these creatures, they were very literally my distant cousins, and that in a way, they were me from back then and I was them from now, and we all were others still from the future.

Every living thing on earth is your cousin. The most distantly related humans are your 50th cousins. Chimps are your several thousandth cousins. An octopus is your 25 millionth cousin. Trees are your billionth cousins. You and I are surrounded by family. And that makes me feel profoundly loved.

So thanks dad, for pulling your shoulder a bit to show me that I am part of the universe. I love you too.

[mote-historie]

René Lalique, Jasmin Corsage ornament, 1899-1901.

Private Collection Shai and Shuxiu Lin Bandmann. 

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[buffalo-tracks]

Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.

The Wretched of the Earth

Discourse On Colonialism

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Borderlands/La Frontera

As We Have Always Done

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Books I couldn't find on the archive but still recommend you purchase or check out at the library: