#eco-poetics

[atompowers]

Abecedarian Sonnet from the World

READ: Abecedarian Sonnet from the World

What is an Abecedarian? an alphabetically-arranged poem.

What is a Sonnet? a little sound or song 14-lined love note

#poem #poetry #environment #climate #world #earth #earth month #earth day #global warming #climate change #climate poem #eco-poetics #Adam Powers #Abecedarian #Sonnet #Poetic Form #Hybrid #birds #wreath #plants #original poem #my poerty #Love #Interconnection #alphabet #Catalog #xoxo

[laurasimonsdaughter]

absolute favourite comment on the necromance post, you get it @georgiedoesntfloat, you get it

#not that I am not enjoying everyone wailing over the angst potential #and frantically tagging all their blorbos in the tags #great to see it thriving in the eco system #but you know me #I love a happy ending #also I'm so sorry everyone who found that post and followed me hoping for more poetic angst prompts #I hope you like cheerful urban fantasy and cuddly werewolves #additions

[alltimefail-sims]

I haven't opened my game in a few days but I watched the new trailer and I can't stop laughing at how hard they're pushing being a landlord as the main feature and only highlighting property owning in the trailers when I have yet to see a single person actually excited about that part of the pack. Lmfao

#What do the damn radiators and water heaters do? Are they cross compatible with Seasons or Eco Lifestyle? #Are they just decor that breaks from time to time? What is their purpose? #What does the damn world look like? What about the festivals? #The repo-ing tenant's stuff and evicting them has caused many a Simstuber to cringe (as they should) and it's hilarious to me #Like they really just do not know their audience and it's so funny. Poetic almost #You know it's bad when the simstubers are like 'yeahhhhh maybe that's not it' lmao #But the build features look great. Excited for new gameplay items and making multi-family dwellings #Currently I'm in full lazy holly jolly online shopping mania though. Very little motivation to do anything else #Might put out a winter/holiday lookbook though just for funsies #This was just an excuse to ramble to you all and to say... I'm alive. Just tired #okay that's all! #personal #just shitposting

[linzani]

#weird fact #death #life #nature #earth #eco goth #poetic

[successionmanga]

Chapter 25

Orcelito receives word of the Great Plague from Kiliko, a plague that wiped out over 30% of the kingdom the last time it appeared. Oh and it turns out Eco is Lord Lagen's real son, you know, stuffed into a conversation about what went on. Kiliko, lying bitch that he be, has told Orcelito that Eco was responsible for Belca being taken away which has led Orcelito to not be a big fan of the black sheep. However, when the elders saw Belca protect Orcelito during the ceremony, it caused an upturn in his popularity in the court. Since Belca is gone again, Kiliko hopes those good impressions will fade away. I mean, no one actually wants him to be king, do they?

Orcelito and Kiliko walk out to see one of the elders, Lord Taine, to give him a pardon for what he pulled in his territory a few days ago.

But screw that, back to Belca and the Hokulea. Eco wants to come to see the High Priestess but he gets turned down despite him just wanting to learn about the Rovisco Records, having even studied the Hokulea written language just for that goal. Belca says no because the journey is too dangerous telling him to wait in a town for him until he returns. Eco says he's mean. Belca says he doesn't care. Then Saisei, the Hokulea child from the cave, calls Belca over to apologize, holding himself responsible for Linna's death. Belca mentally acknowledges that yeah, it's true that if they hadn't come, Linna would still be alive...but they wouldn't have come at all if it wasn't for how badly they were fucked over by rewritten history so he tells Saisei to not worry about it.

Then a squirrel drops on Belca's head. Wouldn't be strange if it wasn't for the fact that the particular species is alien to this specific area so it shouldn't be here. That's when Eco points out the animal is probably a scout; there are Azelprade guards nearby.

Back at Neue Favrille, Musca is still sneaking around while remembering that Seamrog told her he can't come back with her to the castle despite being her knight because if he were to return, he would have his head chopped off. He'll have to support her from behind the scenes...and Musca will have to be a cool mercenary girl!

So as a cool mercenary girl, she runs around in the castle looking for the corpse of somebody.

Meanwhile, guards are indeed looking for Belca with the Hokulea hiding from them. Naturally, it's around this time that the Hokulea figure out that Eco is the weird guy that led them into a trap for the purpose of saving Belca. Eco defends himself by saying that he was threatened into taking them to the palace and he kept details to himself because be honest, would you tell the people who are there to kill the royal family that one of the members of that family was a friend of yours? The Hokulea go "fair enough" and prepare to split into three different directions, Shingetsu letting Eco come along for whatever reason as the chapter ends.

#+c: sword and cornett #plus si #manga #review #one small detail: #at the end #eco starts asskissing shingetsu with poetic prose #and she brushes him off #the chapter actually ends with belca and eco shocked at the notion that someone can find eco's loud ass incredibly annoying

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

You don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but how has your opinion changed on Steven Universe now than when it first aired? Like I have fond memories of watching the show while it was airing but now I realize that it had a lot of problems that I feel like a lot of fans either flat out ignore or bend over backwards to make sure their rose tinted glasses stay on.

... okay, fair question. Let's talk about this.

I'll try not to wax poetic too long, but there are a lot of things to be said here.

First and foremost - how has my opinion changed since the show has ended?

Simply put - it hasn't.

When I started watching Steven Universe over 7 years ago, I didn't have much knowledge of it. I sat down, saw a few of episodes and went 'well, this is a silly show for kids with a goofy but loveable protagonist... but it seems like it's also incredibly charming with its delivery and has some nice, more complex themes about loss and healing and grief throughout.'

And if you ask me what Steven Universe is now... I would probably say that exact same thing.

Am I wearing rose tinted lenses? Interesting question.

What ARE 'rose tinted lenses' in this context anyway?

What do these lenses represent? What do they obscure?

Since you didn't go into specifics, I can only assume what you're referring to when you say that many fans ignore the show's problems.

There have been many discussions surrounding various aspects of the show and how it might be read as 'problematic' (ahhh how I've come to despise that word.... without context, it has all the descriptive power of the word 'icky' - none of the critical details and all of the emotional punch of scrunching up your face like a cat that just sniffed a lemon...)

Is this about something as simple as the 'SU doesn't have a consistent size for its characters' debate?

Because that has been gone back to, over and over again, and proven to be a point of opinion. SU favored allowing storyboarders to show off their personal flourish, and even though Peridot was 30% hair in that one episode, it did not overall take away from the plotline being told, which was their goal. If you wanted to watch a show with consistent styling throughout, you can always watch a 3D modeled show, but keeping that up was simply never one of SU's main pillars. And I feel like it didn't have to be.

Is this about something more complex such as the way Rose was presented?

...and how her arc was shown backwards instead of forwards - showing first the person she became in the end, and afterwards revealing all the growth she had to have to get there?

That was on purpose! And I don't think this is a problem. It's a feature, not a bug. Rose was never meant to be an ideal character - she was meant to be complicated and messy, and I think the fact that the fandom is so split in their opinions of her shows that the Crewniverse pulled that off really well!

She fucked over Bismuth! She forced Pearl to be silent! Those are both parts of her character arc that were never resolved because she died before she could resolve it - that's BY DESIGN. Sometimes, you just do something absolutely stupid and cruel, and you cannot go back to fix it.

Is this about the Diamonds? The fact that they were not put in space jail, after being put on trial for space crimes, and then publicly executed for space eco-genocide?

Here's the thing - most people I know who watched and loved SU are fully aware of that. But simply put - Steven Universe was not a story about Revenge.

Steven Universe was a story about love. A story about family. A story about truth, and lies, and hurt, and healing. About how sometimes healing doesn't happen. And how sometimes it will, but you won't be around to see it.

But it's not a story that can be all things for all people.

That is the thesis of my reply: It is a story.

It is not a manifesto. It is not a bible. It is not a Complete Truth.

It is a single story. Made by a group of very talented people, who cared about these characters, who did their best. They made a funny, emotional, well-drawn and complex cartoon show about the things THEY personally wanted to tell stories about.

Does it answer all questions the way everyone wants them answered? No. That's impossible.

Everyone wants a different story. Everyone wants a different solution, a different resolution. A different ending.

Steven Universe is one story. It cannot satisfy all people.

So when you ask me 'has your opinion of Steven Universe changed'? The answer is 'no'.

I went in, expecting to see a story. I saw a lot of what I liked! I saw some parts which I thought were interesting. I saw some parts which, yes, I disagreed with a little.

But overall, it's a good story. And that's what I expected, and that's what I got, which means I'm pretty satisfied. I love that story.

I feel like recently, there's this expectation of media, to be Everything For All People. And it's a bit unrealistic. No one call tell the perfect story. We are all simply telling the stories we want to tell. And people will vibe with that, more or less.

A single story, made by a small group of people, will never be that for you. There will never be an Unproblematic Cartoon that you watch that will be devoid of things you disagree with.

Being critical of media doesn't mean 'Criticize the FUCK outta that media, and the one with the least criticisms is the best one'.

Critical thinking is about evaluating things critically - that means being critical of YOURSELF. Being critical of your OWN reactions. Asking 'why did I like this?' and 'why did I dislike this?'. Asking 'this doesn't mesh with me, but who WOULD it mesh with? It isn't for me, but who is it for? Who would it hurt, but also who would it help?'

Some people HATED how SU: Future ended. They beat their fists on the wall and cried about how Steven was leaving his family behind, and how THEY could never imagine doing something like that, and how he was running away from his problems just like Rose had.

Me? I loved it. I think it was the right choice, and I COULD imagine it and thought it was in character. I thought he needed to be his own person, instead of shouldering everyone else's responsibilities for once. Was one of us more right than the other? Maybe not? Maybe that was the whole point?

Loving things is not about putting on rose colored glasses. Sometimes, choosing to love something with flaws is an act of rebellion. It's about knowing you have differences, but understanding that there is value in the things you DO agree on, and knowing you can consume that.

Healthy consumption of media does not mean throwing the whole cartoon away as soon as you notice something is wrong with it, like a bruise on an apple.

Healthy consumption of media involves critical thinking AND feeding yourself. Acknowledging you may disagree with parts of it, but not starving yourself just because your apples all have small imperfections.

Eat, for fuck's sake. Feed yourself. You'll feel better.

Thassit.

#chekhov answers #steven universe

[f0point5]

I really love thinking about the nicknames that drivers are given.

For the Ferraris there’s il predestinato/maranello’s sun and smooth operator/chili.

Like one has the weight of a nation on his shoulders, predestined to be glorious and bring back the championship to Maranello. He is the golden boy who’s grown in front of their eyes.

The other sang a song during a race and he’s spicy???

Then with the mercs you have billion dollar man and Mr. Saturday.

Lewis Hamilton is just that guy, he’s known by all and all that. He’s got the records/wins/championships/investments/money. And George does really good on Saturdays.

With hulkenberg it’s just hulk because it’s in his name.

The Red Bulls you have super max and the Mexican minister of defense. Which are both great nicknames to have, but then you look at Checo’s 2023 season and you have to question it. Max also had mad max for his ability to terrorize all the older drivers with moves they thought were insane.

Daniel’s got the honey badger and he’s made it his. He looks all nice and non threatening with all his smiles and jokes, but give him a good car this man will make your life miserable. (Nico Rosberg talking about how when he was with Merc and they were pitting none of them wanted to come out near Daniel because he’d either overtake you or not let you overtake him)

It’s so funny to compare the nicknames between teammates. Because one is usually something legendary and the other has a silly little fun nickname.

Personally I think Mr. Saturday should be revoked. He is Mr. Friday lately he doesn’t turn up on the weekends. Also, it’s a very smug sounding nickname which I guess suits George but it just annoys me. Also this is SO random but Mr. Saturday reminds me of “Mr. Exclusive” from Bruce Almighty for no reason.

The discrepancy between the Ferrari nicknames is staggeringggggg and I think it says it all really 😂 Il Predestinato sounds like something out of a book co-authored by Umberto Eco and Tolkien and Carlos’s friends drunkenly called him Charlie then Chilli and now it’s a thing…dead

I’ve got attached to the honey badger thing because Daniel wears it with such flair but ngl I hate it logically.

Checo…parliament is voting on a new minister after Brazil that’s all I’ll say on dat.

Mad Max was a very sexy nickname but I feel like it was kind of mean considering how many people still hold that aggression against him. Super Max for me always reminds me of that scene in DTS season 2 where Max wins at red bull ring with the Honda guy there and he’s crying when Max wins standing with Christian and he goes “super max” is a Japanese accent. It’s just the cutest thing! I sort of feel like Max deserves a more epic nickname but at the same time it’s sort of poetic that he has pretty standard ones despite all he’s achieved, because even if he’s the best there ever was he’s still so normal. Idk there’s synergy there.

[zaobitouguang]

Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature

I just finished taking an incredibly eye-opening class about Chinese ethnic minority literature. China has a thriving minority literature scene, and it's absolutely fascinating and full of interesting works, so I wanted to share some of the authors that I learned about this semester! This is, obviously, an incomplete list-- it's pretty heavily biased towards what we read about in class, and there's probably a lot I've missed!

For any authors with full works that have been translated into English, I've listed it under their names. Some other authors may also have poems or short stories published in translation online or in anthologies.

Hani 哈尼

Mo Du 莫獨 (b. 1963) - poems

Hui 回族

Huo Da 霍達 (b. 1945) - novels

The Jade King: History of a Chinese Muslim Family (1992)

Zhang Chengzhi 張承志 (b. 1948) -novels, short stories

The Black Steed (1990)

Korean 朝鮮族

Jin Renshun 金仁順 (b. 1970) - novels, short stories

Jin Wenxue 金文學 (b. 1962) - novels

Manchu 滿族

Duanmu Hongliang 端木蕻良 (1912-1996)

Lao She 老舍 (1899-1966) - novels, short stories, plays

Rickshaw Boy (1945, 2010)

Miao (Hmong) 苗族

He Xiaozhu 何小竹 (b. 1963) - poems, novels

Shen Congwen* 沈從文 (1902-1988) - novels, short stories

Imperfect Paradise (1995)

Border Town (2009)

Mongolian 蒙古族

Altai 阿爾泰 (b. 1949) - poems

Bao Liying 包麗英 (b. 1968) - novels

Baoyinhexige 寶音賀希格 - poems

Chen Ganglong 陳崗龍 (b. 1970) - poems

Guo Xuebo 郭雪波 (b. 1948) - novels, short stories

The Desert Wolf (1996)

Malaqinfu 瑪拉沁夫 (b. 1930)- novels

Naxi 納西族

Sha Li 沙蠡 (1953-2008) - novels

Yang Zhengwen 楊正文 (b. 1943) - novels

Qiang 羌族

Qiang Renliu 羌人六 (b. 1987) - poems

Yangzi/Yang Guoqing 羊子/楊國慶 - poems

Tibetan 藏族

Alai 阿來 (b. 1959) - novels, short stories

Red Poppies (2003)

The Song of King Gesar (2013)

Tashi Dawa 扎西達娃 (b. 1959) - novels, short stories

A Soul in Bondage: Stories from Tibet (1992)

Yangdron 央珍 (b. 1963) - novels

Uyghur 維吾爾族

Alat Asem 阿拉提·阿斯木 (b. 1958) - novels, short stories

Confessions of a Jade Lord (2019)

Wa/Va 佤族

Burao Yilu 布饒依露 - poems

Yi 彝族

Aku Wuwu 阿庫烏霧 (b. 1964) - poems, essays

Tiger Traces: Selected Nuosu and Chinese Poetry of Aku Wuwu (2006)

Coyote Traces: Aku Wuwu's Poetic Sojourn in America (2015)

Bamo Qubumo 巴莫曲佈嫫 (b. 1964) - poems, academic articles

Eni Mushasijia 俄尼·牧莎斯加 (b. 1970) - poems

Jidi Majia 吉狄馬加 (b. 1961) - poems

I, Snow Leopard (2016)

Words from the Fire: Poems by Jidi Majia (2018)

Jimu Langge 吉木狼格 (b. 1963) - poems

Lu Juan 魯娟 (b. 1982) - poems

Ma Deqing 馬德清 (1952-2013) - poems, novels

Na Zhangyuan 納張元 (b. 1966) - essays

*Shen has both Miao and Tujia ancestry, as well as Han. However, I see him listed most frequently as Miao.

More Resources on Ethnic Minority Literature:

Altaic Storytelling: The blog of translator Bruce Humes (translator of Confessions of a Jade Lord, among other works). Has a fairly broad focus, but he's written a lot about ethnic minorities.

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Ethnic Literature: China has a thriving infrastructure to support the writing of and research into ethnic minority literature, and this is one of the larger institutions. I believe their research focuses more on oral traditions, but they have some information about contemporary writers as well.

Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: An anthology of eco-fiction by female ethnic minority writers.

Golden Horse Award 駿馬獎: This is an annual award for ethnic minority literature. The wikipedia link lists all the previous winners.

The Leeds Center for New Chinese Writing: Again not specific to ethnic minorities, but features several ethnic minority authors.

Paper Republic: This organization is devoted to translated Chinese writing and isn't specific to ethnic minority literature but has information about and translations of some of the writers on this list.

Poetry International: This website isn't specific to ethnic minorities or even to China, but many of the poets on this list have pages there with a few poems translated into English.

#chinese #mandarin chinese #langblr #studyblr #books #my posts #literature #ooh boy this is a long one! #i'll reblog a version with my own commentary in a few

[getvalentined]

Erol!!!!!!!!!!!1

COMMANDER EROL

🎟️ SEXUALITY HEADCANON: Pansexual but in the "any sexual partner I can beat to shit is good enough for me" sort of way. Erol is very rarely attracted to people so much as he is to submission and subjugation. (There are two known exceptions to this rule.)

⚧️ GENDER HEADCANON: He identifies as a cisgender man, but only because he's in a position that requires him to give a hypermasculine presentation, something his height doesn't help with at all. In actuality gender only matters to him as set dressing, it's presentation only, which makes him kinda agender. The culture in which he exists would never allow him to come to terms with this—but he certainly has no issue with being turned into a sexless robot.

💕 A SHIP: Razer/Erol, once again, the racing lunatic OTP reigns supreme. Also he's obsessed with Jak, but that's not a relationship it's a felony. He's also genuinely interested in Keira, they understand each other in a way that he's never experienced with anyone but Razer.

🖇️ A BROTP: Erol+Torn, when they were in the KG together. I like to think that they had a sort of friendly rivalry, with Erol constantly telling Torn he was going to take his position someday—and then Torn got "killed" trying to protect the Sacred Site, stealing Erol's opportunity to take the position legitimately, so he spends the rest of his career trying to prove that he earned it even though he'll never feel like he did. Regardless of his Underground affiliation post Dead Town, he would never have forgiven Torn for that.

🚫 A NOTP: I don't actually see Erol as being particularly shippable in the way that I ship characters, so basically...everything except Razer/Erol.

💭 A RANDOM HEADCANON: Erol's mechanization post-accident was the result of Praxis refusing to give up one of his most useful tools. They'd been working with dark eco for years via the Dark Warrior Project; because Erol was exposed to an extreme amount of it in his crash, Veger and his butchers were able to stabilize him and another unit set about reassembling him. He wasn't finished by the time Praxis died, but the automated systems in the war factory where he was being "treated" continued their work after the fact, which is why part of him has been put together to look normal, but the rest is obviously using KG bot parts. Erol woke up a few months later with no concept of what the fuck happened and the Dark Makers howling in his head, and set about tearing the world apart as ordered. Ever the obedient attack dog.

🗣️GENERAL OPINION: While he's not my favorite antagonist, Erol is undeniably the best antagonist in the series. He's obsessive and selfish and it's easy to write him off as evil in his arrogance—and then he waxes poetic about Keira's skill as a mechanic, then he begs Praxis to let him fight the Metalheads directly, then he lets Jak got when he wins their race fairly. He's desperate to end the war that's been his entire life, he's desperate to be the best at something that matters. As he exists in-canon, there is no part of him that's a good person, I wouldn't argue that, but he has a surprising amount of character depth.

(For the character ask game. This was also asked by @akilah12902!)

#headcanon warning #commander erol #jak and daxter #jnd

[thesorcerersapprentice]

04.03.2024

BI-WEEKLY (ISH...) ACHIEVEMENTS:

Hello everyone! Apologies for the delay. My offline life has gotten quite hectic lately, which has made it hard to keep on schedule. Hopefully, things will smooth over soon!

Worldbuilding & Solar/Cyberpunk Considerations: As I mentioned in the last couple of updates, I've been working on a post on the geography, flora & fauna of The Sorcerer's Apprentice universe, which I meant to publish last week (and the week before that, lol). I've completed the three sections that correspond to the (as of yet unnamed) second empire's territory (second because the book focuses on neo-colonialism, the successor of old-world colonialism), all of which are based on the natural world of Colombia at 2600 meters above sea level and beyond. Because the plot of The Sorcerer's Apprentice mainly transpires in a city within this region, while writing the aforementioned sections, I was also trying to figure out what a city that incorporates the novel's themes (the link between colonialism, environmental catastrophe, and capitalism) would look like within this context. Given that one of the main themes is capitalism, my first impulse was to make the primary plot location in the novel a cyberpunk-inspired city. After all, what screams capitalism gone mad more than cyberpunk? To this end, I read quite a few articles on the subject (Rethinking the End of Modernity: Empire, Hyper-Capitalism, and Cyberpunk Dystopias by Jeffrey Paris, Elements of a Poetics of Cybperunk by Brian McHale, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of Burnout by Caroline Alphin, Recycled Dystopias: Cyberpunk and the End of History by Elana Gomel, The Cyberpunk Dystopia as a Reflection on Late Capitalism by Marius Florea, and more). The problem with this idea was that when I looked around me at Bogotá, the city I live in, I just couldn't see it. Bogotá is a green city. There is green everywhere you look. Furthermore, traditional-looking cyberpunk flattens any culturally specific elements it incorporates, the same way big-chain supermarkets worldwide completely obliterate the slightest whiff of uniqueness from their premises. No matter where you are, they all look the same. As I mentioned in a previous update, one of my aims with The Sorcerer's Apprentice is to celebrate the culture of my region of the world. Cyberpunk, at least as it has been traditionally conceived, works against that objective. Again, this fits with what capitalism does irl, but I really really really don't want to write yet another NYC-inspired urban hellscape. In fact, I can't think of anything worse than having my main character admire a cyberpunk city... My search for a more suitable alternative led me to the antithesis of cyberpunk, its eco-friendly adversary, solarpunk. For information on this genre, I relied mainly on @alpaca-clouds post on the History of Solarpunk and @solarpunks's informative response, which includes several very helpful links (check out both posts here!). At first glance, solarpunk seemed to fit The Sorcerer's Apprentice much better than cyberpunk had; it allowed me to envision a city that elevated rather than obscured (or flattened) present-day Colombian culture. Basically, with solarpunk I could keep the city green, as cities in this region of the world tend to be; I could retain the push for sustainable innovations that play such a vital role in our mainstream policy; and I could keep the regional architecture, as well as site-specific building materials like guadua, a hardy local species of bamboo. Most importantly, with solarapunk I could genuinely describe the city with respect and admiration. The only remaining issue was to figure out how to incorporate the novel's themes into this genre. After all, although Solarpunk is utopic, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is not. How do I illuminate and criticize the link between capitalism, colonialism and environmental decay within a fantastical city that walks and talks like a utopia?

Cont. My solution is to create a hybrid proposal somewhere between cyberpunk and solarpunk; a city that presents like solarpunk, but that has achieved this green, sustainable self-expression without renouncing its colonial and capitalist exploitation of vulnerable peoples and environments elsewhere. Essentially, this would make the city the large-scale equivalent of one of those high-end clothing brands that have "recycled" symbols on their tags, but that have their product made in deplorable overseas sweatshops. The message of the novel would, thus, be amplified to include the idea that there can be no environmental justice without social justice. Does it work? We'll see. That's what I've got so far.

Researched the Link between Colonialism, Environmental Catastrophe and Capitalism: To educate myself on the main themes of the novel and how these can be better incorporated into the setting, I picked up Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz & Fabien Locher, and translated by Gregory Elliott. And let me tell you, I was not expecting to learn what I learned!!! This book is honestly fire. I had no idea climate science was so deeply rooted in colonialism!! Honestly, more than any other book I've read so far, Chaos in the Heavens articulates the link between the three main themes I've been trying to work with so, so clearly. Now I understand why people say we're lazy because we get too much sun. Or why all the native trees got cut down and replaced with pines. Eye-Opening!!! 100000% recommend.

REMINDERS:

Answer pending asks, and publish that promised worldbuilding post on the geography, flora & fauna of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice universe, you know the drill lol

Research Transhumanism.

Research Designs for Sustainable Cities and New Green Technologies.

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[atompowers]

5 Perfect Poems to Celebrate Earth Month

“Notes from a Climate Victory Garden” by Louise Maher-Johnson

Remember: Everything is connected.

              Everyone lives downstream and downwind.

Reimagine: Deep conservation, cooperation, and community.

Rebalance: Nature with nature. Mimic her. Sense her. Be her.

READ: 5 Perfect Poems to Celebrate Earth Month

#earth month #earth day #poetry #poems #nature poems #eco-poetics #eco-poetry #climate poem #climate change #climate #climate victory garden #Louise Maher-Jounson #quote #inspiration #Everything #Interconnection #connection #Reimagine #Rebalance #community #cooperation #ai #ai image #midjourney #earth #planet earth #globe #floral #flowers #earth month art

[seirei-bh]

I searched what Keira's name means, and one of the results was: "Embracing darkness and finding the beauty it holds"

I find it poetic having in mind how Keira used to feel scared and unconfortable with Jak's dark eco side during Jak 2, but later they reconcile again and they recover their frienship and flirty dynamic in Jak X, as the one they had in TPL, as if nothing changed between them.

Because she found the true Jak she knew shinning through that darkness, she accepted it and embraced it. Because there is still beauty inside that darkness too.

#jak and daxter #jakeira #jak x keira #keira hagai #I'm on my shipping hours #I still would have liked to get a better reconciliation and a serious conversation between the two of us on this topic #but oh well #if Naugthy Dog didn't do it #my imagination will.

[m0r1bund]

hey, I was wondering if you have any tips or good resources on writing eco-fiction?

This is a GREAT question that I don’t feel qualified to answer. I have read a lot more environmental nonfiction than fiction, and I'm not really cued in to what other eco-fiction writers are doing. I’m also playing in the margins because creative writing feels like my second language (vs. visual arts, worldbuilding, etc.) So… I can only share what's worked for me. Take the best and leave the rest, chief o7

I think everything circles back to becoming freakishly obsessed with your home environment. This is just the way I was built LOL, if I want to make anything I have to be a little bit obsessed with it. I also just like to read fiction from people who aren’t career artists, who have some kind of niche interest or lived experience that colors their work (whether they want it to or not.)

studying ecology, the natural world, working with your hands in the dirt, whatever-- you can also appreciate how inseparable everything is from place. pick any moment in history and you can make a rich environmental reading of it. We construct stories that obfuscate this, but almost everything we do as humans is motivated by land and water and access to land and water. This really informs how I write. Everything is connected to The Desert even when it isn’t immediately obvious to me.

Which brings me to another thought. Most of my writing is playful daydreaming that asks “Wouldn’t it be fucked up if ______?” AND YET! The natural world is always doing it weirder and cooler. You just get to set up the dominoes in ways that highlight this, I think.

Like, 90% of what happens in Asthaom is motivated by water and access to water, the big limiting resource in a desert. So a false god marches on Scaiuq looking for mythical water. An ex-cactus rustler makes counterfeit versions of a rare cactus dye in order to flood the market and drive down demand for the real thing. your ancestors manufactured a climate crisis and now, 1000s of years later, the desert is fundamentally changed but still worth loving and fighting for. These are hyperbolic lies about real things that, I think, are very poetic and worth mythologizing. Fiction is daydreaming but it’s also about tricking you guys into caring about the boring stuff that I care about, hahaha

In that vein, being part of an eco-art community has also catalyzed a lot of things for me. In 2018 I joined Those Who Went Missing, an art therapy game about nature spirits who are created from lost and missing individuals. you tell stories about your characters and have them interact with others in a setting that's based on the real world. Suddenly I was spending a lot of time reading what others think of their home environment… (And now I’m realizing “I haven’t read a lot of eco-fiction” is a lie)… and suddenly I had this shared space to spew desert propaganda create stories in.

Something I like about TWWM is it doesn’t exclusively attract earth science people, so there are a lot of people who are using this game to learn and write about the natural world for the first time. Through them, I get to put names and faces to places that were once distant and abstract to me, and I also get to relive the thrill of learning what sky islands are, how to identify a mockingbird, etc. I also encounter a lot of dominant narratives about deserts, deserts as wastelands / empty spaces / inhospitable crucibles, the relationship between humans and land, that we’re separate from nature, that we only harm and extract, etc. This is not knocking those stories, they're valuable, it just motivates me to write my personal blasphemies so that I can gently push back.

It makes me think of something I was taught in my oral storytelling class, that storytelling is made by place, time, and audience. You will never tell the same story twice because you’re never going to be the same person in the same space at the same time with the same people, you have to be sensitive to yourself and the needs of those around you. Maybe this is just typical “knowing your audience” LOL but it really is a different process writing for TWWM as a group. leaving the jargon behind, being loud about deserts, insisting on depicting reciprocal human-land relationships even more than I otherwise would, while also grappling with the hurt and frustration of being thrust into an extractive relationship with the natural world. maybe 2 people will actually read/see it, but if it leaves an impression then it’s all worth it baybeeeeee

I don't really have a denouement here, but I hope you found something useful, thank you for giving me something to chew on. Anyone reading this, please share resources that come to mind. I feel poorly-read, haha

#good luck enjoy the journey 😎

[orangerosebush]

Context is often the container for our analyses of our experiences, and a great example of how historical fiction can engage with this is Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose". During a scene where the character Adso of Melk, a Benedictine novice, is seduced by a peasant girl, the way he understands this novel sexual encounter is exclusively through the lens of familiar religious texts; it is by these means that he cobbles together a vocabulary to approximate the tenor of these new sentiments he's experiencing.

In the scene, Adso paraphrases sections of the Song of Songs, one of the five megillot in the Ketuvim (the last section of the Tanakh), which appears in Christian contexts as a text usually understood (in that context) to be largely about the divine, uncategorizable love between God and believers/the Church and Jesus.

Below, I attach the passage where Adso uses that aforementioned vocabulary to understand and engage with the first time he makes love.

From: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (trans. William Weaver).

I will attach excerpts from Song of Songs 4:1 (KJV) to highlight how much Eco accomplishes exactly what this post describes.

Further, when Eco writes Adso saying "Pulchra sunt ubera quae paululum supereminent et tument modice", it is a quotation from Gilbert of Hoyt’s Sermons on the Song of Solomon.

In this sermon, Gilbert digresses from his allegorical interpretation of the Song of Songs to wax poetic about the most pleasing physical dimensions of female breasts; the quoted line translates to, "Breasts that swell a little and protrude slightly are beautiful" (which is a commentary on the following line from SoS 4:1: "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins").

#umberto eco #writing #the name of the rose

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Posted @withrepost • @donnevincenti Posted @withrepost • @chiostrodelbramante_roma #stopviolenceagainstwomen L'arte e gli artisti, da sempre, usano le loro opere per sfidare le convenzioni sociali e politiche della loro epoca. @petahcoyne , nella sua opera "Color of Heaven" , elogia le figure femminili del mondo dell’arte e della cultura troppo poco celebrate e da cui trarre ispirazione. Uno dei suoi bouquet esposto nella mostra Crazy- "Untitled #1529" – è dedicato ad Ana Mendieta, l'artista cubana che indaga l’identità di genere, la morte, la violenza con una forte componente politica. Tutta l’estetica di Mendieta, incentrata sulle violenze subite dalle donne, risuona come un eco attraverso l’omaggio poetico di Petah Coyne. Il Chiostro del Bramante si unisce alla #giornatainternazionalecontrolaviolenzasulledonne, portando avanti l'idea che l'arte sia un veicolo importante per cambiamenti concreti all'interno della società in cui viviamo. #chiostrocrazy #chiostrodelbramante - #stopviolenceagainstwomen Art and artists have always used their works to challenge the social and political conventions of their time. In her work "Color of Heaven", Petah Coyne praises important female figures of the world of art and culture, too little celebrated while being a fundamental source of inspiration. One of her bouquets exhibited in the exhibition Crazy – "Untitled #1529" – is dedicated to Ana Mendieta, the Cuban artist who investigates gender identity, death, and violence with strong political comments. Mendieta’s poetics, focused on the violence suffered by women, resonates like an echo through Petah Coyne’s poetic homage. The Chiostro del Bramante joins the #internationaldayofeliminationofviolenceagainstwomen , shedding light on the idea that art is an important vehicle for concrete changes within the society in which we live. © Petah Coyne Courtesy l’artista / the artist e / and @galerielelong & Co., New York Foto/Photo: 1,3 Christopher Burke Studio (@shootart_nyc_la ); 2,4,5 Petah Coyne #25novembre #giornatamondialecontrolaviolenzasulledonne #stopviolenceagainstwomen #donnevincentialba (presso Alba, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClZVF4yLefT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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