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Some kind of creature refiguring herself out.
Sunny Haven (she/her & it/its). Born in 2002. Sometimes I do hypnosis, will rarely blog about it here. Kinda just posting various stuff here.
Plural with many headmates who may sometimes post here.
Transfem, I guess (on HRT since 2/28/2025). Gender and species identities are up in the air; shapeshifter because of that.
Did you hear the scientists have found a way to grow colored cotton? Thoughts?
It’s not a ‘scientists have found’ and much more ‘people have been already doing that for thousands of years and it’s just gaining more attention recently’
There’s actually been a load of vitriol leveled against folks who try to raise traditional colored cottons, because a lot of cotton growers don’t want the colored cottons cross-pollinating with their standard white cotton.
But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.
The color obviously doesn’t fade or run, because it’s not dye. It’s the intrinsic color of the fiber itself.
I’m biased because I love the natural earth tones of many fibers, of course...browns, blacks, creams, copper-reds, ect...but I think they’re just gorgeous.
Scientists did not "just find out", and this is more of the same anti intellectual bs as the post that goes around claiming archaeologists were too stupid to know that hair could be sewn for elaborate styles.
Anyway, scientists DID figure out how to grow colored cotton. They genetically engineered it to be bright fuckin pink, and they didn't "just find out" about it, they already knew which is literally what inspired them to attempt the thing they just accomplished. Begging y'all to stop pretending that scientists don't know things, don't have interests, don't grow up in farming communities or have family who taught them this. Scientists are people. Do you seriously think people who use genetic engineering to make eco-friendly pink cotton don't know anything about textiles?
Anyway. Bright pink cotton without dyes, because science is awesome
Yes. CSIRO scientist Doctor Colleen MacMillan led the team that figured this out. They used tobacco plants for testing because of the genetic similarity. Basically if the tobacco leaves produced colors when injected with a bit of the experimental genetic material, the scientists on the team already understood that the color change would affect cotton bolls as well.
They grew bright red and bright yellow in a petri dish.
And yes, Doctor MacMillan knows lots of things. Here's a list of some of her publications.
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Additionally folks are researching how to create flame resistant cotton and black cotton. If a variety of black cotton becomes viable, it can stop a LOT of environmental damage caused by chemical manufacturing of black dye.
THIS. Every damn botanist I know, including myself, is at the least tangentially interested in fiber arts and indigenous methods behind things like that. Scientists have hobbies and we're all goddamn nerds so a lot of those hobbies are more niche. The anti-intellectualism is insane. I swear half of y'all think scientists are all evil cackling old men devoted to holding up colonial power systems. The work done by Dr. MacMillan is crazy cool and should be celebrated
the extension has just lead to a lot of infighting/abusing the extension to mark other trans folk as red. lot of people who disagree on smaller things where someone gets undeservedly marked as red. and it has no system to show the reason why someone was marked as green or red or the source, and so if you find someone who seems decent but is marked red (or vice versa) you just have to trust the person who marked the thing was of sound mind and judgement and didn't make a mistake.
(And mistakes happen with no real way of knowing unless it's obvious; i once saw a Wikipedia article for a plant marked as red and it's either I waste time reading the whole thing to make sure the mark is correct or scoff at it, mark it as neutral yourself, and wonder if you were right. Now apply this to stuff like YouTube channels or people who post a lot or whatever where trying to find the source is unreasonable.)
And on top of aaallll that, if someone is actually transphobic but like hides it well or whatever, they can install Shinigami Eyes themselves, mark themselves as neutral or green, and most people who use the extension will blindly accept it because they're told the extension helps catch transphobes and people who actually support trans people, because there's no mandatory "put the source/quote here" option, there's no history to see how someone's been marked, there's nothing. The system is designed for people who are honest and of complete sound mind and judgement, and who are not petty and do not make mistakes, which is not how people work, so its only function is to give "vibes" which you cannot verify if they are accurate.
Don’t bother with this extension, it's like putting on colored glasses that promise to say who the good and bad people are when it just confuses you.
Very good article about this subject that goes into topics I didn't even mention or think about, and argues the very idea of the extension is flawed. I suggest you read it. It took me only a couple of minutes.
Closing the death note on a browser extension that lost the plot
the extension has just lead to a lot of infighting/abusing the extension to mark other trans folk as red. lot of people who disagree on smaller things where someone gets undeservedly marked as red. and it has no system to show the reason why someone was marked as green or red or the source, and so if you find someone who seems decent but is marked red (or vice versa) you just have to trust the person who marked the thing was of sound mind and judgement and didn't make a mistake.
(And mistakes happen with no real way of knowing unless it's obvious; i once saw a Wikipedia article for a plant marked as red and it's either I waste time reading the whole thing to make sure the mark is correct or scoff at it, mark it as neutral yourself, and wonder if you were right. Now apply this to stuff like YouTube channels or people who post a lot or whatever where trying to find the source is unreasonable.)
And on top of aaallll that, if someone is actually transphobic but like hides it well or whatever, they can install Shinigami Eyes themselves, mark themselves as neutral or green, and most people who use the extension will blindly accept it because they're told the extension helps catch transphobes and people who actually support trans people, because there's no mandatory "put the source/quote here" option, there's no history to see how someone's been marked, there's nothing. The system is designed for people who are honest and of complete sound mind and judgement, and who are not petty and do not make mistakes, which is not how people work, so its only function is to give "vibes" which you cannot verify if they are accurate.
Don’t bother with this extension, it's like putting on colored glasses that promise to say who the good and bad people are when it just confuses you.
I really, really love Susie and Noelle's scenes during the Holiday Manor segments of chapter 4. Not just in a yuri sense, but specifically because there's this little meta game being done with Susie, Dess, and her memory + how it's preserved and like... the Idea Of Undertale in our perception as an audience.
Deltarune is "A game you can play after you complete Undertale", right? Toby calls it that himself. It is steeped in the expectations we have from that game. Its characters. Its plot points. Its motifs. The impact it had on us as a story, both from the audience's perspective AND from the creator's. Back when chapter 1 first came out, Toby talked about his anxieties regarding this new project, and being unable to "make us feel what we felt with Undertale".
Watsonianly, in Deltarune's story, there is this insanely intricate web of small town drama and trauma and history between Hometown's residents.
...and in barges Susie.
Susie who is the new girl. Susie who doesn't know anyone. Susie who has no respect or attachment to the "mythology" of Hometown, both in a religious sense and in the sense of the history of the people who live there.
Susie who, in the manor, says she "never played the original dragon blazers". Only Dragon Blazers 2.
To me she feels like a sort of implicit allegory for the new Deltarune fan? The one with ZERO attachment to Undertale. Because they never played it or because they played it afterwards. The one experiencing THIS story for its OWN sake.
She's unshackled by the core theme of nostalgia that binds every other character, because the objects that inspire it in Kris or Noelle or Hometown as a whole, they mean nothing to her. They hold no sacredness, no significance. So she tramples over them. A sort of desecration through cluelessness.
Which is EXACTLY what she does with Dess' memory! With her room, kept perfectly still and unchanged in the years since she disappeared, her guitar shoved in the closet to gather dust.
These are objects that MEAN something, that hold an incredible significance, to Noelle and to Carol and what and who they lost. They're something that (presumably) Carol preserved in an obsessive need to hold onto everything left of her daughter.
And it stagnates. It's frozen. It's no less dead, just because it is preserved.
...and it's precisely by desecrating that reverence that Susie is able to breathe new life into it. To create new connections with Noelle. To quite literally Make Art.
Waltzing into Dess' time-frozen room, not giving a fuck, plopping down against her bed waiting for us to make noise. You can see Noelle warn her to leave the room untouched, but she follows her shortly after. The ice melts.
Later, grabbing the guitar. playing it (badly!) but playing it for the first time in actual years. Making Noelle laugh. Reminding her of her sister.
It... kinda reminds me of the reverence we as an audience have for Undertale as the original source material.
Think about it. Didn't Toby have to calm everyone down when he released chapter 1 and reassure us that playing Deltarune would leave the ending we got for undertale untouched? Because people would be preventing themselves from interfacing and experiencing and CONNECTING with a new story, with a new piece of art, out of fear of it affecting... the one they'd already experienced. the one in the past, the one they'd already finished and closed and left to sit untouched on their desktops ever since.
This aspect of Susie is the thematic beating heart of chapter 4. It's the potential, the fire Gerson sees burning in her eyes.
And it ties back to Susie's own trauma and abuse and her being forcefully cast as the villain. Someone bad, broken, not good enough. Someone who should keep her nose out of things outside of her range.
Her confrontation with Carol when she snatches the guitar from her hands... sure she might not know the history/the context/the """sacred texts""", and that CAN isolate her and negatively affect her ability to navigate the social situations in Hometown (and allegorically her artistic output. she can't play the guitar, the piano, or write all that well), but she HAS value. Her perspective has value just by virtue of being new, original, revolutionary, her own, something SHE and only she can bring to the table. And those can improve through practice, dedication, and support. Ralsei himself, while well intentioned, makes the same mistake by shutting her healing skills down.
Total knowledge and reverence for Dess' memory and the past has frozen the Holiday family (and Hometown as a whole) in the past. It's locked them in stasis. they know how things were. they know how things "should be". they cannot deviate. every week they worship a prophecy that dictates their past, present and future.
"Only then will the worlds will be SAVED". But should that really be the goal...? When you save a game, you preserve the things you've already done in it. The only thing you can do is overwrite it or start again. It's an inherently cryogenic process.
...In the game MOTHER 3, The Dragon is a mythological creature slumbering under the crust of the earth, kept in its sleep through 7 magic needles. The needles can only be removed by someone who knows the move PK Love, when its power is needed. Once the last needle is removed, the Dragon will follow the heart of this person, good or bad, by bringing on the apocalypse and destroying the world.
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