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kara | she/her trash blog @ fullmetalcommunist

[fullmetalcommunist]

i had a crisis for a min and restarted my blog so here it is

[crowleyraejepsen-is-retiring-de]

Good Omens, “In the Beginning” // “Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall”, Simon and Garfunkel // “A Little Fall of Rain,” Les Misérables // Good Omens, “Saturday,” Just before Crowley pulls up to the burning bookshop // “John 4:16,” The Mountain Goats // Good Omens, “Saturday,” Just after Crowley drives away from the burning bookshop

[yeehawlw]

“Can I ask you a question?”

[riisinaakka-draws]

“When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was who dragged you onto that beach? Brace yourself, but I’m the only person within a hundred miles of here who doesn’t want to see you dead.”

A long time ago I was thinking about  “Silver dragging Flint into life” or “Silver reaching out for Flint” and after several stages and re-draws somehow ended up with this. Please, do not repost elsewhere :)

[jewishaesthetics]

Holiday meal for the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot

[filmaticbby]

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

[daeneryssansa]

If you hadn’t have cut that forestay, there’s an argument to be made that Vane would have set sail right away and probably killed us all. They know it, and it’s having an effect.

[midsommars-deactivated20201109]

—Ari Aster, Midsommar (2019) Script

[prayerisaspell]

Florence Welch’s lovely home ✨

[ndcupid-deactivated20191114]

[lukearnold]

Leave.

[filmaticbby]

“When I was eighteen I had so many ideas I hardly slept at all.”

Shirkers (2018) dir. Sandi Tan

[amorphoussystem-deactivated2024]

How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.

[plantyhamchuk]

Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).

[samiholloway]

And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!

[plantyhamchuk]

The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet. 

We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk. 

Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:

Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.

Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!

Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden

Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)

Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter

Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter

Grow food in 5 gallon buckets

Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)

Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on

Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth

Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity 

Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem

Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe

Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.

Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.

Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries

Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas 

joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!

[anarchopuppy]

Adding a few!

Replant scraps from your produce

Graft fruit-bearing branches onto ornamental trees in your area

Turn plastic waste into pretty much any plastic thing you need, in your garage, with machines built out of cheap and accessible parts

Make your own paper out of recycled paper or cardboard

Build a composter or a wormery

Harvest rainwater

Mod your toilet to flush gray water (used sink/shower water, or even that rainwater you’re harvesting)

Build a solar collector on the cheap

Build a wind turbine on the cheap

Build a hydroelectric water wheel on the cheap

Get internet access without going through cable companies using cheap, low-tech equipment

Make your own beer, cheese, soap, wine… really anything you can make rather than buy is a success!

And HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS! Don’t just build/grow/mod/repair your own stuff, help them do it too! Share it! Depend on each other! Work together and grow closer with your community!

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

[ID: excerpt from “Wanting All,” a poem by Alicia Suskin Ostriker 

‘What more do I want then, why Do I prowl the basement, why Do I reach for your inside Self as you shut it Like a trunkful of treasures? Wait, I cry, as the lid slams on my fingers.’]

[notjanine]

Have you heard the story? What were these villains after but money? What do they care for but money? For what would they risk their rascal carcasses but money?

-Treasure Island

[gearfish2]

Comic about a mouse putting on a tiny tuxedo

[captain-flint]

Flint’s war could only have one result. A life of loss and misery and fruitless sacrifice. I had to stop it. And I’m not sorry for it.