#solarpunk granny

[cognitivejustice]

#capitalism #fast fashion #deforestation #the amazon #planet lungs #brazil #not quite solarpunk but the reasons why we're here #solarpunk #solarpunk granny

[moostie1]

I see a lot of content here in the solarpunk community about the importance of re-wilding, of re-introducing biodiversity and turning our garden's into little sanctuaries, but this has always felt super inaccessible to me. I have always lived in rental properties that have little to no outdoor space, need to be regularly mowed for inspections, and where I am not allowed to make any major changes to the garden.

Recently I moved into a tiny granny flat. The yard is about a metre and a half of grass in a circle around the house, and a metre of grass either side of my concrete driveway. When I first got the inspection report for it, the real estate described the yard as "mostly weeds." This time I thought, fuck it. I only have inspections once every three months, which gives me plenty of time to let it grow without anyone noticing. Plus I had the insurance that with the lawn being "mostly weeds" the real estate wouldn't notice the difference. Let see if letting it grow actually makes a difference to the eco-system around me.

I invested in a push mower, to cut down the grass without doing much to the "weeds", and then after my first inspection I just let it grow. My hopes were not high. My space is absolutely tiny, and most of the wild flowers growing in my yard mostly invasive species for Australia. I had no idea if it would make any difference at all.

Its been an uncharacteristically rainy spring here, so the flowers all sprung up far far more quickly than I thought they would. Only two weeks after the mow there were dandelions as high as my knee. With the wildflowers came the bees, and the butterflies, and then after that came the ladybugs, the dragonflies, the lizards, spiders and birds. The photos above are only a tiny fraction of what the garden has on offer, and those are only the photos from this week.

When I first moved in, I didn't used to see anything in the well mowed lawn but ants. Its only been about a month and a half since I mowed it, but with all the rain we've had recently its sprung to life far far more quickly than I'd hoped. With such a teeny tiny lawn in the middle of the suburbs I really didn't expect to see a difference in biodiversity. How much difference can such a tiny little patch of flowers actually make? It turns out a lot.

I'll be devastated when I next have to mow it all down in another 6 weeks, but with the risk of snakes here, its probably for the best. It honestly been so lovely to walk down my driveway in the morning and be circled by all the butterflies. Its made my day every morning.

I hope I've convinced anyone else who also has a tiny space and has been considering letting it grow out to give it a go. You don't need to have a huge garden or be able to plant all native species in order to make a difference. Although these things are great, making due with what you have is the best first step.

#solarpunk #permaculture #biodiversity #gardening #rewilding #ecopunk #Also if any of you have any photos from your own garden of how your own rewilding projects are going please share with me!

[solarpunkani]

okay so pardon me as I wax poetic late at night about solarpunk again but like

and once again, I'm biased because I'm co-hosting the aesthetic week event, you know the drill, but

I feel like sharing our projects--big and small--are so important because they can inspire other people to do their own. And obviously this can be about sharing news about climate action, and scientific projects and progress and discoveries, but tonight I'm thinking about crocheting.

As we think about the future we want to create as solarpunks, we trade ideas. And oftentimes a lot of the ideas we trade are about futures with barter systems, where many many people do crafts like sewing and mending and knitting and the like. But--and I could easily be the only one but I feel like I'm not--I personally was too nervous to start many crafts myself. Because I didn't know what I'd do with the craft, if I was even capable of it, or if it was too big and complex for me. I'd been tossing around the idea of learning how to crochet for years, and my mom's been tossing the idea around just as long if not even longer for herself, but y'know what brought me over? You know what finally got me to give it a shot?

An online Solarpunk friend sharing pictures of a bag.

I saw that bag and I went 'huh maybe I could do something like that,' and within a few days I'd bought a bunch of yarns and hooks and was on a call (with a different online friend) learning how to do some basic stitches and knots to get started. By the end of the night, I was teaching myself how to make granny squares, with the help of a (different) online friend writing instructions to help me out as I got stuck.

And maybe I finish my bag, or my scarf, and I post a picture online--not even a professional, pinterest-ready photo, just a quick pic of it laid across my bed or something--and I inspire someone else to start crocheting. Hell, I've already inspired my mom to take a crack at it once the Christmas season is over.

But it doesn't even have to be me. It doesn't even have to be crocheting. Maybe someone posts a picture of a hat they just finished knitting, and someone else decides to pick up a loom or some knitting needles. Maybe someone crafts a birdhouse or a desk or a bench out of wood, and someone picks up a hammer for the first time. Maybe someone crafts something awesome out of clay and wire, and someone gets inspired for a new project. It can even be across artforms! Maybe someone sews an awesome dress, and someone else is inspired to write a short story by it. Maybe someone writes a short story, and someone else goes to paint a mural somewhere inspired by a scene in that story.

And in a sense I find it incredibly solarpunk. To inspire one another to learn and grow, develop new skills, to always find inspiration and hope to keep trying new stuff.

Some people laugh and scoff at the idea of posting ~aesthetique~ homemade clothes to the solarpunk tag, a handful think the whole aesthetic week event is pointless, but I find it the opposite. Solarpunk is about revolution, but it can't always be big revolutions. Sometimes its the small revolution of picking up a craft that changes your life, or creating an image that inspires others to fight for a better future. It can be about writing something that makes others question why things are the way they are, when they can be better. Sometimes the desire for a nice knit scarf can be the start of a mini barter system, or become part of the mutual aid we all dream of.

I feel like I had a point with this but I forgot. But uhm... yeah.

#out of queue #ani rambles #solarpunk #im probably not gonna put this in the aes week tag but yknow #anyways im gonna go work on this scarf while watching a video essay and maybe chill to the aes week playlist

[dogstarblues]

accomplishments

made vegan tzaziki sauce from scratch got fierce approval

made lemonade again. for friend.

sat in the sun

made vegan burgers for my friend

made lemon and butter pasta for friend

made roasted chickpeas snack for friend

finished Sunvault!!! really loved most of the stories and they really made me think abt ecological potential past the post-apocalypse which is the purpose of Solarpunk so. like yknow there were tons of ways in these stories for people to thrive and humans to repair the earth. it was good. felt good to read.

finished the last granny square for my friend's tote bag. just gotta join the squares and crochet the handles and line the bag with cloth

organized my pile of research for my next book of poetry (eco-justice poetry, nature poetry, eco-speculation, nonfiction on biomes). it's the most research i'll have done for any written project, even more than my undergrad thesis tbh. i think this book won't get written for a while. maybe not til my final semester? when i have time and have internalized everything

started Dark Needs at Night's Edge. wasn't for me, but i can really appreciate Kresley Cole's sense of atmosphere and tight worldbuilding.

DECIDED ON MY BOOK COVER FOR MY NEXT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

took the tumblr app off my phone bc google play just kept popping up and like????? >:[ anyway it'll limit how much i check my phone. replaced the app space with libby

took my meds, got up on time

showered and washed face

hydrated for the first time in a while

listened to music with friend.

low-effort skincare

EDIT, just remembered: walked dog

did dishes

did dishes again

am about to do dishes again ;.;

#dogstar speaking

[mondaymustread]

turning solarpunk in my 57th year

I love you all #solarpunk

I am building this http://ymmarrys.org

~ solar punk granny

#solar punk #granny #love you all

[achronichome]

⛅️ Tuesday, July 11, 2023 🌘

Morning

I was awakened quite a bit earlier than I wanted to be by a tiny ball of fluff screaming in my ear. She doesn't look it, but I can't swear this kitten isn't part Siamese. The kids are experimenting with calling her Eclipse.

The Miracle Morning: I began the day with Pranic breathing, affirmations, and visualization followed by some stretching. I'm currently re-reading The Shower Habit, by Stephanie Ewing. I did a ten-minute braindump; any more than that would have despooned me before I could actually write.

Writing: Thirty minutes insane scribbling. I discovered the notes from an idea I had in January and realized it fit perfectly into the Solarpunk Superhero setting I'm working on.

I went back to sleep at 10:30 am listening to the audiobook Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty on YouTube.

Afternoon

I slept soundly for five solid hours and woke up feeling almost "human."

We had the baby for a couple of hours, then swapped her out for the kitten for a couple more. I'm not sure which was noisier but at least the kitten took a nap!

I'm making headway on a new baby blanket, with a combination of stitches I'm perfecting for use on an afghan for my Partner in Crime. Only theirs is also going to be granny striped. When they send me the yarn I'll get going on that. It's going to take a while because it's a full sized afghan and I've never made anything bigger than a throw.

Another crochet project is an afghan for our neighbor we adopted. He's battling very poor health and I'd like to get it done asap. I need yarn for that, too.

Evening

Both creatures were back in the kids' apartment at sundown so the husband and I could unwind. I think I'll make that the rule unless other arrangements have been made in advance.

Crime Scene Kitchen is my current favorite cooking competition show.

I heated food (turkey and veg meatballs, baked potato, shredded cheese) and rounded up the ingredients so the husband can make himself some homemade trail mix. The kitchen is an unsanitary mess but I just didn't have the oomph to clean it.

Despite the five hours of extra sleep I was run down, tired, and a little sore all day. Nothing much got done again. and it's really hard not to be frustrated.

#july 2023 #diary #critters and varmints #the miracle morning #projects #reading #self improvement #chronic illness recovery #crochet #grandparenting #nontrad nana #food for thought

[definitely-not-an-alb]

Also since we are on the topic of the long-term damage of radiation spillage, I am def down with building solarpunk gardens everywhere, but PLEASE. Take it from someone whose family has been Schreber-Farming on the phosphorous-bombed grounds of a former paint factory and wood and car(/tank) lacquery - there’s still carcinogenics in the ground there 80 years later. Plants can and will suck up chemicals in the ground.

Don’t build your urban gardens close to roads/harbours/airports with heavy traffic, the lead and other stuff from the fuel exaust leaks into the ground and settles on the leaves.

Research your ground. Research what was there before, and/or what industry you are reclaiming it from. Research current and local manufacturing. Remember my great granny’s tank lacquer garden! This shit stays. Go back half a century. Do soil-testing, if available and if you are planing a big project. DIY Soil-testing is fine and doable, but pls do it.

Don’t take soil from random places you haven’t vetted. I see this tip a lot and I know it’s very #anarchist or whatever but know what isn’t? Cancer. Say no to glowing lettuce.

Trace your water supply and groundwater supply! Even if you majorly water your plants, groundwater can still carry chemicals into your garden. Trace if there’s any big industries upstream or ‘upstream’ from you.

If you want to raise mushrooms yourself, consider a self-contained container with no access to groundwater and sourounding soil and safely (!) sourced feeding ground. Mushrooms are like sponges when it comes to harmful chemicals.

Reach out to local gardening communities, eco-activism clubs and orgs, potentially your local colleges, try botany, farming sciences or edaphology (study of soil, if available). If you live in a recently colonized land, reach out to the local native population, they may be able to give you advice.

Obviously, a community garden does a lot for a food insecure region and sometimes there isn’t a good space to use, but try finding one that is less harmful than the others. And sometimes you just want a garden. When in doubt, plant a relieve zone/habitat shelter thing. Ground can be rehabilitated with proper care.

#solarpunk

[fennopunk]

The Solarpunk action week 2020 take two kinda took me by a surprise. I had some plans, but by the way I've been feeling for few weeks, I think it would be wisest to mostly scrap them, and just wing it.

I've finally picked up my granny crochet blanket project again, and I've been planning on making a backpack from my friend's old jeans for ages now. Maybe I'll work on those.

The balcony is kinda in need to be prepared for winter, and I actually must do something about it this week.

And, uh, maybe I'll try to eat as much local (i.e. Finnish in my case) as possible? I still need my guilty pleasure fixes (Coca-Cola, chocolate and coffee, I know, I know) but apart from those...

#solarpunkactionweek #spaw

[perkynurples]

RULES: TAG PEOPLE YOU WANNA GET TO KNOW BETTER

tagged by @maderilien, thank you :D <3

your name and then what you would have named yourself: Annie | all my self insert characters from when I was a teen were called Emma but I’m happy with my name now :’D

astrological sign (sun/moon/rising if you know them): I’m a Capricorn annnd.... I have no idea about the rest but considering I love vague descriptions of something approaching my personality I should really look it up

when did you join tumblr and why?: oh man I joined in 2011... Pretty sure it ruined my academic career, too. I genuinely can’t remember what led to it, but my first fandom definitely was Doctor Who.

top 5 fandoms: LOTR/The Hobbit, MDZS, Discworld, Ace Attorney, uuuhh various video games

top 5 favorite films: Pride and Prejudice (2005), Princess Mononoke, the Ace Attorney live action (COMFORT SILLY MOVIE), Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Miss Congeniality (extremely fond memories)

go to song when you wanna Feel something: Out Of Reach by Gabrielle

what’s your religion or faith if you have one?: agnostic

a song that makes you feel seen: Falling by Florence & The Machine

if you could have any career: village witch 

do you have a type?: I’m the Classic Bisexual - a man has to fit an extremely narrow set of criteria, and a woman just. has to be a woman

what does your heart/soul yearn for: surviving the mortifying ordeal of being known and actually being loved at the end of the day

if you had to describe yourself in 5 words to someone who doesn’t know you: plants, stories, bees, SOLARPUNK BABY

favorite subjects in school: english (I’m esl), literature, psychology

where does your soul feel most at home: At my desk when it’s cleaned and the inspiration strikes and I know I’m gonna write a lot. At the barn with my horse, taking her for a walk through lonely forest roads. In the old abandoned orchard where my beehives are.

top 5 fictional characters: Granny Weatherwax, Elizabeth Bennet, Susan Sto Helit, Bilbo Baggins, Lan Xichen

top 3 moments in a show that made you ugly cry: recently? pretty much the entirety of Over The Moon, the end of The Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb documentary on Netflix for whatever reason, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts on several occasions

the earth, the sun, the moon or the stars: the earth

favorite kind of weather: thunderstorms but only from afar, sunny afternoons in september and october, not too hot and not too cold

top 3 characters you kin with: Granny Weatherwax, Bilbo Baggins especially in my fics (going thru my trauma, I’m sorry man), and unfortunately, on a deep personal uncomfortable level, JGY

favorite medium of art: music, painting

introvert/extrovert/ambivert: introvert

a favorite literary quote: ‘Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves’ (and pretty much the entirety of Wild Geese by Mary Oliver), and too many Discworld quotes to count

some of your favorite books: Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett, Pride and Prejudice, The History of Bees by Maja Lunde...

if you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?: provided my family were still reachable, somewhere slightly remote - a house with a forest surrounding it, civilisation close by but not uncomfortably so, lots of beautiful nature to get lost in. just a hobbit life with a heavy village witch undercurrents, so probably NZ with a sprinkle of feral scottish highlands.

if you could live in any time in history when would it be?: by choice?? late 1800′s, when it was still easy to go off the grid, but you didn’t have to die of a papercut anymore. 

if you could play any instrument masterfully it would be: guitar. I mean I play it but. the dedication isn’t there

if you have one, what mythological god or goddess do you feel a connection to: full-on Persephone vibes, goth spouse absolutely included

and lastly, favorite recent selfie in your camera roll: not on my phone rn, but it’s mostly just me documenting my curly girl method journey akhdlkh

I tag, if you like obv: @piyo-13, @sweetlittlevampire, @a-cutebird, @elenothar, @huacheng-zhu

#dammit annie #bruh I love these #about me

[flowersandfutures-blog]

More than 3,000 demonstrators in San Francisco have created what’s thought to be the largest street mural ever made. On Saturday, the 2,500-foot-long, 50-foot-wide mural turned five blocks of city streets into scenes of community-proposed solutions for a warming world.

What’s more, the protesters didn’t have a permit to paint the streets — so a group of indigenous-led grandmothers faced off with police to block roads for five hours while the muralists completed their work. With the grannies from the Society of Fearless Grandmothers holding down ground, none of the protesters were arrested.

This is so solarpunk and so badass!

#solarpunk #climate justice #climate activism #rise for climate #art #san francisco

[cognitivejustice]

I just finished 7000 word diagnostic study with over 60 journal articles reviewed and am starting the next 8000 word paper

this semester is almost over ;p

#solarpunk granny #phd

[bumblebeeappletree]

How to crochet a granny square for absolute beginners. This tutorial will talk you through set by step of how to make a granny square offering hints and tips alog the way. Need the left handed version? https://youtu.be/SSIHdQnKYBg

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Tying off your yarn 31:25

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-How many squares do I need for a baby blanket?

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-How many chains shall I do for a *single/double/etc' blanket?

Again, this can vary. I would suggest that you do your chain and lay it down agains the bed you are wanting it for. It should be the same width. You should then ad a few more to make it a little wider.

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[bigyack-com]

Tomorrow is a new chapter: The rise of climate fiction - books

In October 2016, Amitav Ghosh wrote an essay in The Guardian that hinged on a pertinent question: Where is the fiction about climate change? Scientists were losing sleep over the environmental emergency. Newspapers had blaring headlines about it. Even the kids were concerned. Ghosh had just written a climate-related non-fiction book, The Great Derangement. But novels about the subject – the kind with rich storytelling, strong narratives and memorable characters, he said, were missing. He called it “a crisis of culture and of the imagination”. It wasn’t quite that. Novels featuring the changing environment were being written all through the 2000s. They just hadn’t captured the public imagination. You know why? The climate crisis is terrifying. It’s also boring. Bar graphs slowly get redder, line-graphs fluctuate upwards, the prediction models are complicated and no one can quite connect the local crises. Most novels just couldn’t grapple with the scale of what was happening. “In a world where politicians and others frequently peddle fictions, the fiction author can tell truths that people otherwise wouldn’t hear.” Then, a month after the essay, a climate change denier won the US presidential election. If you were low-key worried about the planet’s future before, you now had full-blown anxiety about it. Blockbuster disaster flicks just wouldn’t do. We weren’t “all gonna die!” We were going to live, watching the world inch towards apocalypse, at increasing risk of losing our homes, our communities, our minds, our identities, our histories and our humanity. Here, then, was what the novel could do – flip science’s bird’s-eye view to the human’s, match internal anguish with environmental collapse, connect what we know to what it might mean, perhaps even offer hope. Three years in, Ghosh has his answer. Climate fiction spans hundreds of literary novels (including Ghosh’s own, Gun Island), adventure series, romances, thrillers, satire and young-adult books. There are graphic novels and collections of poems and short stories. They’re coming from all corners, and cover all kinds of responses to the crisis.

Unlike Hollywood’s doomsday scenarios like this sandstorm in Interstellar, climate fiction unfolds slowly, as the climate changes in bits and pieces. many books focus on the personal and emotional toll of the changing world. COPING MECHANISM Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk (released in an English translation this year), seems like a mystery – an eccentric granny investigates murders in a wooded Norwegian village. But Tokarczuk weaves in feminism, comedy and the politics of vegetarianism. Lucy Ellman’s Ducks, Newburyport, on the 2019 Booker shortlist, may seem like an Ohio woman’s unravelling life – but it’s unravelling alongside America’s hold on its natural world. Richard Powers’s The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize this year, is structured like a tree, connecting nine Americans and their relationship with forests. The tales are finding a global audience. This month, Karishma Jha, a litigator from Mumbai, picked Maja Lunde’s The History of Bees for her 13-member book club. It’s set in China of 2098, when bees have gone extinct, forcing humans to apply pollen by hand to fruit trees or there will be no food. It’s the first in Lunde’s quartet about how man and nature are intertwined. “We wanted to read The Uninhabitable Earth, but that’s non-fiction, and quite alarmist,” she says. “Fiction is not lighter, but it acknowledges the emotional toll of facing a bleak future.” There are other tolls too. In the short story Boca Raton by Lauren Groff, a woman wonders if bringing a daughter into a world falling apart was a terrible mistake. Stillicide, by Cynan Jones, features a future Britain where water is sold via a train. Characters wonder if building an ice dock will bring hope or more unrest.

In Mad max Fury Road, the world is dystopian, post apocalyptic and desolate. In climate fiction the landscape is changed, but many tales look past survival, about how communities will change to thrive in a world where resources are depleted. How cli-fi differs from Hollywood In films…Everything happens at once. Storms, floods, volcanoes all synchronise conveniently over a weekend to create drama, and eventually stop before the credits roll.Plots focus on survival, specifically of one group of deserving folks (and ONE dog) who must outrun the flames, the cloud, the tsunami or something equally cataclysmic.No one believes the nerds. Early warnings go unheeded. Politicians are myopic. Even the geeks are unprepared. Montages depict tourist spots getting destroyed the world over. But the focus remains squarely on how America copes.No one collaborates. It’s usually the hero against the circumstances. It’s alarmist and pessimistic. In climate fiction…It’s far less dramatic. The clmate is a backdrop to other plot developments. Post-apocalyptic settings focus on social and psychological dynamics.It’s not about escaping disaster, it’s about the cost of survival – loss of plant diversity, carbon rationing, bio-terrorism, new species, community breakdowns and the like. Scientists are often the heroes. The limitations of science are addressed. Plots are often scientifically accurate.A greater diversity of writers, means books that are set in lesser-known locations, feature women prominently, look at capitalism’s role, race relations and colonialism.Societies form collectives to govern isolated communities, share knowledge, take up new roles to keep society intact. And there are authors have approached the crisis through unexpected lenses. Nnedi Okorafor’s short story Spider the Artist imagines a future Nigeria where marine life is dying, but she brings in spider beasts from African legends as guards for a water source. Dominican novelist Rita Indiana binds the climate emergency to gender, race and colonialism in the Caribbean in her work Tentacle. In Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, evolution is reversing. Babies are born as primitive species, and the government is rounding up pregnant women RETELLING TALES Bittu Sahgal, environmental activist, writer, and the founder of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, welcomes the idea of climate-themed narratives. “It normalises the facts for a wider audience. People care about characters, not statistics,” he says. “And descriptions of extreme dystopias, like we’ve seen in films, generate disbelief. But a subtle change, one that affects you or your neighbour’s dog, affects readers more.” Sahgal believes it’s not necessary for novels to be scientifically accurate – they must first be true to their story. Much of the current crop of works, however, are rooted in actual science and prediction models. So it’s not unusual that speculated events like floods and riots from a story occur before or after the book comes out. All’s not doom and gloom. Climate fiction is popular enough that it’s spawned satires and its own sub-genre in Solarpunk. These are works that envision a better future for the Earth once we take action now. The stories typically look at realistic solutions, drawing on the young generation’s maker culture for creative hacks and collaborative ways forward. At Stanford, biological anthropologist and environmental scientist James Holland Jones is asking another pertinent question: Can stories lead to social action? His work examines the impact of climate fiction, how the prospect of a bleak or better future might change present behaviour. He believes it can. “It’s a mistake to think that facts speak for themselves. Facts are always incorporated into narratives,” he said in a talk hosted by the non-profit LongNow Foundation in San Francisco in January. “In a world where politicians and others frequently peddle fictions, the fiction author can tell truths that people otherwise wouldn’t hear.” Read the full article

[solarpunkani]

Solarpunk Aesthetic Week Plans... 2!!!!

It's the official second-ever Solarpunk Aesthetic Week tomorrow, and so I'm gonna share my plans for the event!

Let's be real, the odds of me doing everything on this list are low--I'm easily distracted, the bed is oh so cozy, and The Christmas Weekend means I've got Christmas Things to do.

However, as one of the co-hosts of @solarpunkaestheticweek, I'll try and do what I can, so here's what I'm hoping to get done!

In the perfect ideal world I'll finally turn some old jeans I've been holding onto into a vest that I can turn into a cool battle jacket-vest-thing! I'll wanna get it dyed (probably after I make it a vest though?), but I've got a sewing machine and I just bought some denim needles recently so fingers crossed!

I have an embroidery kit I'd gotten started on, and another one I still haven't opened yet, so maybe I'll try finishing those! I got stuck on how to do french knots, but one of my friends said they're easier than I'm finding them, so I'll probably ask her for advice.

I'm learning how to crochet! I actually just started learning Tuesday the 12th! I'm decently far into a tote bag out of granny squares, and maybe if I'm corageous after that I'll try and make a hooded scarf! Or if I'm feeling super daring, I might even make a hooded cloak!

Maybe I'll learn a recipe! I at least want to bake some cookies, which is a bit basic but it feels solarpunk to me so its on the list.

Writing! I have a solarpunk short story I was working on thats almost done (endings are hard) that I might post when I finish and get it beta read! Otherwise, I also have a solarpunk zombie apocalypse story I've been poking at off and on.

Art! Ideally, I would work on some of the more solarpunky drawing ideas I have--solarpunk train cars, greenhouse-friendly societies, zine on milkweeds of Florida, stuff like that. Unfortunately I have a long list of people I really should be drawing Christmas art for, so we'll see if this actually happens.

I have some collard greens growing in the garden, and I planted carrot and bunching onion seeds on the 6th, so I'm gonna count 'water the garden at least once' as a Solarpunk Aesthetic Week event so I actually remember to do it.

If my family goes out anywhere and I see a bare patch that looks like it'd work well for wildflowers I always carry some wildflower seeds in my purse so uh. We'll see if any guerrilla gardening happens but who knows.

I need to go biking more often so my knees stop being cringe while I'm biking so I'll count that as participating because bikes are pogchamp

#out of queue #solarpunk aesthetic week #ani rambles #solarpunk aesthetic week is FUCKING TOMORROW AAAAH HOLY SHIT #anyways what are the homies gonna be doing for it? i wanna know! #and dont forget to tag your participation posts with 'solarpunk aesthetic week' so we see it! #or tag the blog #but also last year there were a couple of posts that were tagged but didn't show up when I was checking the tag????? fucking wild #long story short if you post to the event tag and you don't see it get reblogged at any point just send it to me and I'll!!!! reblog it!!!

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accomplishments

put on an outfit

read solarpunk and eco-speculative poetry and short stories in the sun (sunvault is a really good collection yall. like really good.)

drank tea in the sun (these are separate events)

listened to a podcast

just stretched

had tea in the morning

woke up on time! successfully slept on time last night and woke up 30 min before my alarm went off for the first time in like a month and a half

crocheted a granny square

wrote and edited a poem before submitting it to a mag

talked to a friend

went to therapy instead of skipping again bc of being afraid of spending money

worked on my website to accommodate the growing list of publications

made rice porridge for breakfast/lunch

made dinner. noodles and butter you know the drill

sat outside drinking a flavored drink

took a shower

washed my face

did low-effort skincare, again my face needs to heal from picking ;.;

did a load of laundry

did 15 min on the exercise bike

#dogstar speaking

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COLOR 1:

Ch 4, join with sl st to create a ring, ch2.

Work remaining stitches into center of that ring as follows:

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Join new color in one of the corners as shown in the video, just not the same one you ended color 1 in.

In 1st corner: Ch2, 2DC, ch2, 3DC

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In 3rd corner: 3DC, ch2, 3DC

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Join new color in one of the corners as shown in the video, just not the same one you ended color 1 in.

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In side spaces: 3DC

In remaining corners: 3DC, Ch2, 3DC

Join to first ch2 with sl st. Cut yarn, and weave in ends.

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