endure, despite it all!

addison [the keeper] 🕷️any pronouns 🪱 22 | i keep feeding the raccoons out on my back porch and y’all keep coming back

[solarpunksoup]

directory

#to the soup! -> posts that will be added to the masterlist

#updated version -> newest update of the resource masterlist

-> PART 1: THE SOUP (original resource masterlist)

disc. February 23, 2023

-> PART 2: THE STEW (ongoing)

my personal publications

-> standing on the fucking toilet and picking the lock to the pad dispenser (zine)

a teensy bit more about me

hello world!

if you've made it all the way down here, hello! hi:3

welcome to a project I've been working on for many years. 3, to be exact! which may not seem that long to you, but for me, the soup started as a way for me to collect resources as an isolated, abused teenager and give me a source of hope. I think it gave me something to hoard, to call my own, even though it never really was. it was and always has been just my organization of a community's brilliance. and along the way, people seemed to like it. with this outpouring love and a community I could finally call myself apart of, I learned to let go of false ownership and instead grow a true love for archiving, for sharing.

now, I am a free, happy adult, and that time seems like forever ago. yet I continue collecting these resources and sharing our community's brilliance as an ode to that younger self, and because I still believe in the solarpunk community and it's message:

hope! keep hoping! endure! keep enduring! above all else, we must survive, we must dream, and we must LOVE!

I hope you reflect upon these with the same gentle, hopeful heart I always have. Praise the authors, love them, love yourself, and let our hope inspire you to create and act and be.

All of my love!

The Keeper

[pink-sativa]

So, without getting too personal, I got involved in a domestic violence situation that left me displaced with only the essentials and the clothes on my back.

I have a job but I know it’s not going to be enough for me to cover my relocation costs, but medical and mental health expenses.

I’m currently in contact with referral programs to see if they can provide me financial aid and relocation assistance.

Until then, I will take donations from PayPal and cash app

PayPal: [email protected]

Cash App: siilverfangs

I also take writing commissions as well

[solarpunksoup]

if you live in the lower-east United States (think lower half of Illinois/indiana/Ohio and below), what towns do you notice have a high organizing presence? beyond major cities.

[i-scavenger]

A blue LaBuBu found in a dumpster.

[fractangle]

100% junk

every bit of this necklace is dumpster-dived. fashion is free

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

dubiously friendly reminder that you need to own a first aid kit. yes even you.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

and a fire extinguisher yeah.

[queeranarchism]

Hot tip: these are excellent housewarming gifts. Doubly so if you're invited to the welcome party of a newly opened squat.

[lesbiantoxicroak]

I opened Instagram today to the news that Shirley Raines, the CEO of Beauty 2 The Streetz, has died. Many people probably know her on here, even if they don't know her name. Her videos of feeding and providing other essentials for the homeless of her community have been reposted across many platforms due to her kindness and unending respect for people so often denied agency and personhood. She did so much for people in need and truly wanted to elevate others with what she had, building confidence and strength in those that needed it most.

The Beauty 2 The Streetz nonprofit has asked that you send love and support to her family, loved ones, and the community she has fostered. The beauty2thestreetz Instagram and Tiktok [able to be found here on Linktree] are both worth supporting and spreading awareness of her mission.

If you have the means, their website has donation options to further her cause and continue to provide necessary support in food, hygiene, makeup, and hairstyling to the homeless community. The utmost respect for a kindhearted woman that will be remembered fondly by those she helped. May Shirley Raines rest in peace and may the people she looked out for see the same time, effort, and kindness she was always prepared to give.

[forestgreenandgray]

source

[sleepless-cavia]

[mamoswole]

When I tell that I LOVE solarpunk

[powersandplanetaries]

[hunter-rodrigez]

Oh, I remember this, the edit was done by youtuber Waffle to the left.

They didn't just cut out the parts with the oat milk, they skillfully edited over all the god-damn branding and replaced the audio.

But what I still find most hilarious about this whole commercial is the fact that everything they show in this solar punk world seems to be made with sustainable, zero waste and reusable materials.

Everything EXCEPT THE FUCKING CHOBANI BRANDED STUFF! The only plastic you see in this whole commercial is all the straight to the landfill packaging made by the very corporation that tries to sell how sustainable and "green" they are. Unintentional self satire at its finest.

They couldn't even show their yogurt and milk in (basically infinitely reusable) glass containers because they pretty much only sell their shit in plastic

It is such a perfect example of the true face of "green" capitalism, it's hilarious.

[undeadentropy]

The punk in this solarpunk comes from cutting the corporation out of the picture

[eco-socialism]

ALSO

Another really interesting thing about this edit is that they changed the label on the side of the apple-picking machine.

From "donations" to "commons". It's a subtle change, but it makes a huge difference in the world-building of the video. The former implies that this big orchard belongs to an owner and that they're donating the fruits to "the less fortunate" (and, by extension, that poverty is still a thing); the latter implies that the orchard belongs to everyone and that the fruits are free to take in the spirit of solidarity.

Waffle To The Left brought out the potential in this gorgeous video and made it an actual solarpunk utopia — without brands and without corporate pandering, complete with true common ownership over land and resources.

[worldbuilding-tomfoolery]

I know this video has gotten mocked and memed to hell and the solarpunk movement has gotten a lot of critique, "solarpunk ideology is pictures" and all that, but I still have so much genuine love for this. The animators put real light and hope into it and the Waffle editor did as well and this is absolutely a world I want to see for real. Capital-commissioned ad or not, I'm so happy this dream exists.

[365thingsthatdontsuck]

340/ 365 Things That Don’t Suck, Take 3:

slides

[marxismleninismmaoism]

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

Che Guevara

[solarpunksoup]

tbh I wish less people were debating the validity of solarpunk and were putting that energy into attempts at viable efforts towards community, resilience, solidarity and compassion for the planet and its inhabitants

[tboyrory]

I usually don’t post about big events but I haven’t seen anyone post this yet. This is the piece of shit ICE agent that shot and killed a woman trying to get away from him. Nothing has been publicly revealed about the woman other than she’s described as middle aged and white. No name or photos given.

Don’t let them think that just because they put on a mask they’re safe from public scrutiny

[commiegoth]

Here he is without the mask:

[solar-sunnyside-up]

"Solarpunk will never happen!"

As if it's not already coming, already here and starting to bloom before our eyes.

Neighborhood cooking clubs and libraries lending out more then just books, it's the art club that the community garden started, it's the funky gardens my neighbors have.

It's the DIY projects ppl wear with pride and ones that hide in the back of their dresser drawer. It's in the magazines and podcasts and in passing hope forward.

Like gruella gardening alone is enough for proof of concept for me, but the rise in community events and potlucks and fighting for rent caps and UBI and decentalizing energy and gardening is happening now.

And yea I gotta fight nazis and dickwards daily for it, and I gotta spend the time to educate and build up as I take down, but they can't say this future isn't coming. I'm here with you right now in it.

[mushlivingroom]

i loosely followed thedimelions’s tutorial for naturally dyeing a pride flag, with a lot of added research about natural dyes, stains, mordants, sewing, etc, and i wanted to share my results!!

process, notes, and more pics under the read more🌱

starting off i soaked my fabric (100% cotton acquired from joann's during their closing sale, rip joann's ;-;) in a 1:5 mixture of soy milk and water for 12 hours, then let dry on a clothesline in the sun, then dipped and dried two more times (the proteins in the soy milk help the natural dyes adhere to the fabric, creating darker colors and better colorfastness)

while that was happening i started making my dyes, which involved simmering my chosen dyestuffs in some water for 30-60 minutes. i didnt time it, just went until the color developed to a point i was happy with

as far as ratios i didn’t measure, but the more dyestuff = stronger color so err on the side of more

red: turmeric + baking soda, paprika, and yellow onion skin dye as the liquid base

orange: yellow onion skins

yellow: turmeric

green: red cabbage + baking powder (LOTS), turmeric

blue: red cabbage + baking powder

purple: red cabbage

for the red cabbage dyes, i added the baking powders and soda after simmering and just kept adding and stirring till i got the color i wanted. ((BIG NOTE red cabbage, and debatably most of the others that I used, are fugitive dyes, meaning its not a true dye and more of a stain that will fade with time and wash out more easily, especially without mordanting on additives like iron. keep this in mind if you end up doing this project or transfering these methods to cloth you will be using for clothes, ie washing and wearing more frequently))

i also tried to make a pink with avocado skins and pits, which did come out a lovely rosy color, but i didn’t end up using in the final flag, which i might use beet or red cabbage + lemon juice or another acidified for next time to get a more bright pink

now with my dyes ready and my cloth dried out from its previous soy milk dip i cut it into strips and stuck it in the jars, which were placed in the sun for the day (alternatively, you could simmer the cloth in the pot) and then left to sit overnight

the next day i squeezed out the excess dye and gave the ones with turmeric a light rinse to get the grit out, then hung them to dry

((small note i reused the dyes baths to see what would happen since they still looked just as pigmented, but the colors are much much much more faded on the second go around. all in all its doable, but I wouldn't recommend it.))

now time to sew! i procured a second hand sewing machine specifically for this project and had never sewed before, but thankfully this required the easiest stitch in the game (a straight stitch in a straight line). i looked up how to sew a flag specifically to get those clean lines rather than just overlapping, and this video was great (shoutout Suffolk Public Library)

as you can see my flag ended up quite long cause I left a lot of wiggle room, so I just look up flag ratios, trimmed it up (and used the extra strip of rainbow as decoration) then added a white strip folded over to make a way for me to hang it on a stick if I ever so desire.

and ta daaa! i would still like to clean it up a bit, and do a zig zag stitch around the outside to stop the cloth from fraying further, but im happy with the unpolished look of it. once i figure out how to get a pink I like, and how to get browns and blacks, i want to make a progress flag and trans flag. also just started growing some indigo, so excited to see if I can get some blue dyes out of that.

[solarpunksoup]

I think if 17 year old me knew about Margaret Killjoy I would’ve been so much worse

[servedwithhoni]

Some progress I've made on my "battle" jacket. I don't know if that's the right thing to call it bc it's not really punk but whatever.

I'm almost done with the first cuff. I've got like an inch of space left. Idk if I'll get to the second one today bc my hands are dead. It's cute or whatever