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solarpunkani · 1 year

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You know what, while I'm doing hot takes. And this one may be obvious considering I'm actively contributing to hosting the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week event but like.

Dear everyone who's constantly deriding the aesthetic portions of the solarpunk movement/genre; do you just not understand that being able to visualize the future you want is immensely important to being able to work towards it? Being able to get other people on board with it?

When I first got interested in Solarpunk, it wasn't for the hot leftist takes about the top ways to dismantle the government for the people, or top tips on how to build your own solar panel apparatuses. What brought me in? Visions of a hopeful future. I learned and began to love the rest as I dove deeper into solarpunk circles, but there is no denying that my first intro to it--and likely many people's first intro to it--was via the art and aesthetic spheres. The term 'solarpunk' was literally coined to refer to the aesthetic movement, and we've been building up from there ever since.

'When are people going to realize the aesthetic parts don't matter and what really matters is praxis--' dude, the aesthetic parts do matter. Inspiring people does matter. Showing people visions of a hopeful future is immensely important, it's why so many people join this movement. We see glimpses of what a hopeful future could look like, through beautiful art or riveting stories, we're inspired by things like stained glass and organic designs and statues and fashion concepts--and then we think to ourselves 'how can we help make this future happen?' And we learn the praxis and we work towards the goals and we share it with others because that's just how we work.

Seeing isn't always believing, but sometimes in order to believe in something with your whole heart, it helps to be able to visualize what you want. For yourself and for others.

So yes. The aesthetic parts of solarpunk do matter. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

#solarpunk #out of queue #ani rambles #honestly in my opinion if the younger me saw posts saying shit like 'the aesthetic part of solarpunk is stupid and unimportant'#that would have chased me away more than anything.#A movement like this? the last thing we want is to chase people away! We want people to get excited!#We want people to get on board eagerly and wholeheartedly!#Yes I'm sure some people got into solarpunk praxis-first aesthetic-later (or maybe even aesthetic-never)#But that's no reason to deride the people who got in here aesthetic-first praxis-later #solarpunk is beautiful BECAUSE there's so many ways to learn about it and visualize it #anyways everyone get hype about solarpunk aesthetic week a month from now!!!#honestly might delete later who knows

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infamous-if · 9 months

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okay but most important question……. did seven bin the letter after the break up 😭

no it's written in their journal (the same one sev was writing in during the night bus scene giggles)

#inbox #seven lawless #sev had no intention of ever giving it to MC #it was just a way to let it all out yk #too scared #also yes sev's journal is thick #they put everything in there #even if they write in another page outside the journal #they stick it in there #kinda sweet #its been years but...#they're too attached #I think they'd rather walk around with a journal spilling papers everywhere #rather then just...getting one new #but they also have like #others for less serious stuff #I really love the their Journal lore #this is Unimportant information #im rambling now

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jascurka · 4 months

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maybe sex is nice but have you ever found a free access source to your academic paper that had the exact specific thing you searched for after gritting your teeth in stress that you'll have nothing

#rambling #god i was so afraid to be writing but turns out i have it all laid out in front of me :)#i am so happy i could cry #and turns out me procrastinating by reading unimportant things was just me being starved for reading important things #my braincells are aligning like tetris now

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lincolndjarin · 8 months

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random rant here involving talk of pregnancy //

for the longest time i was like so terribly against ever writing or reading a reader who ends up pregnant and i always told myself that that was my preference and that it ‘annoyed’ me because i always saw people complaining when it happened in stories i was reading and now that i’ve been writing i’ve sort of realized how bull shit that is?? reading more fic and being more active on tumblr had made me realize that people can just be really fucking harsh to fic writers and because of that ive developed like a fear of writing a protagonist who gets pregnant because i don’t want people to be upset and im sort of trying to come to terms with the fact that it’s my story and if i want too i shouldn’t feel bad for writing it that way??? idk its been like an internal struggle for me for a while now especially with bks (not to say that that character will or will not end up pregnant at some point, who knows) but a while ago i was like ‘hey just so everyone knows i wont make bks reader pregnant cause i know people HATE that.’ and now im sort of like what a stupid fucking thing to say. i shouldnt be writing what i think people want like i should write what makes me happy and idk this is a lot and like no one cares and this is just me rambling for no one but myself but yeah idk i just wanted to get that out of my brain so like ignore this??

#anyhow #ro rambles #this is unimportant to everyone but i just wanted to put it into words mostly for myself #i should just get a diary like what is this

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elysianymph · 11 months

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going insane pls tell me anything about the unexplored sibling dynamics

i'm... literally so sorry anon. you probably didn't expect this monstrosity of text when you so innocently sent this ask but i wrote this late at night and i guess i had more feelings about these mfs than i thought i did... huh

the evans sisters?? stop and consider for a moment. they grew up in a lower middle class family, father was always out for work, mother stayed at home and took care of them and the house. lily and petunia were all for each other, sisters, best friends. and then lily's magic started showing. one year their mom's flowers hadn't bloomed like they usually do and their mom was understandably upset. petunia tried everything she knew about gardening in hopes of fixing the flowers and lily just willed them to open with the wave of a hand. she jumped up in excitement and ran to her mom to tell her what had just happened while petunia stared at the flowers in shock, trying to figure out what lily had just done so she could too. but it never worked for her like it did for lily.

their parents thought it was strange at first, a coincidence or dumb luck whenever lily pulled some trick, but petunia knew and she tried so hard to replicate it, to no avail. eventually the jealousy turned into resentment, curios questions turned into insults every time lily would do something. lily was so confused because she hadn't done anything? she tried to not do it anymore, even if she herself didn't know how she was doing it, but her magic only grew stronger and petunia's insults became more intense. when lily received her hogwarts letter, she was so excited to finally be surrounded by people like her. her parents congratulated her, her mother kissed her temple and her father promised they would take her shopping to get everything she needed. petunia only glared at her, muttering how she would finally be together with the freaks where she belonged.

petunia never sent any letters to lily while she was at hogwarts, at least not on her own accord. lily would send her birthday gifts every year, something she had made herself. a happy birthday card that was charmed to sing when it opened, a sparkling bouquet of flowers charmed to never close. every year without fail petunia would send the birthday gift back, either untouched or ripped to shreds. lily never gave up trying.

i genuinely believe lily's relationship with petunia fundamentally shaped her understanding of the world. the closest person to you, the one meant to protect you and love you, shunning you and leaving you to fend for yourself? it's no wonder lily clung to the first bit of kinship she sensed in severus and refused to let go of him even when everyone told her to. because he was always there for her and she wouldn't dare leave him behind (not like petunia had). also just a personal hc for lily, but i think she trouble making female friends specifically because of how her relationship with petunia had deteriorated. like in my head she had severus and no one else until like... fourth year maybe when she finally started coming out of her shell and became friends with mary and marlene

lily never stopped loving petunia, she knew harry would go to her and she still trusted petunia enough to protect her son. yet petunia did the exact opposite. i wanna put her under a microscope because how does it get that bad??? how do you let your childish jealousy take over your life to the point where you neglect and abuse an innocent child - your own nephew??? you don't stop being a sister just because the other half is dead, but i think petunia had stopped seeing herself as lily's sister long before lily died.

everyone talks about the black brothers but the black SISTERS??? arguably even more interesting bc you have more dynamics to explore bc they're all so different but in the end they're one in the same.

they were all raised to be obedient and quiet, their last name meaning nothing but an easy way to marry them off because continuing the bloodline was all they were good for. bellatrix was always loud, even as a child, because she was taught her family was superior and she couldn't understand why she wasn't treated the way she deserved to be. did her family name mean nothing just because she wasn't a male heir? did her extensive knowledge in magic mean nothing because the only way she could make her parents proud was by becoming a wife and a mother? why was she punished for the same behaviors her male counterparts were rewarded for? bella never thought to question blood purity as it was ingrained in her since birth, but the roles that she was forced to play didn't seem noble to her.

andromeda was quieter in comparison, but never far too behind bellatrix, always nodding along and eager to make her older sister proud. the seeds of doubt in her mind were planted later at hogwarts and she foolishly asks questions, only getting punished in response. when she's pushed away by her mother, she turns to the one person who would never hurt her for her curiosity but even her sister can give her no further answer than "father said so". frustrated and disappointed, andromeda closes in on herself and seeks her own answers, coming to conclusions that make the entire foundation of her family fall apart.

narcissa was the "perfect daughter", the one that would only speak when spoken to, the one that could walk into a room unnoticed and leave without anyone saying a single word to her. she was a slytherin, engaged to the malfoy heir at 16, she had practically completed all of her duties by then and proved to be useful. but she was also bella and andy's little sister, the one hiding behind them so no one could see her, the one tugging on their sleeves when she felt anxious, the one braiding flowers into their hair when she was bored, the one watching silently as both of her sisters drifted away and she was left alone.

andromeda leaving is such a heartbreaking moment to me because i think both bellatrix and narcissa knew it would happen, they had seen the signs but had never known the cause. i think bellatrix tried to to stop her from going through with it, tried to convince her to stay, to explain what was troubling her because bellatrix was her older sister, she could help, that was her job. and andromeda pushes her away because she knows bellatrix would never look at her again if she told her what was troubling her. when the truth is finally revealed, the only question bella can muster is: "do you trulu love him more than your own family?" and andromeda's silence is enough of an answer. she refuses to be like her mother, like bellatrix is soon to become, like narcissa will be forced to, a wife stuck in a loveless marriage with children she didn't want. ted loves her and she loves ted, that love means more than the conditional affections she was given in her family.

that action, the betrayal of choosing someone of dirty blood over her own sisters had surely left a mark on both bellatrix and narcissa. narcissa attempted to get closer to bellatrix again, tried to provide some comfort and familiarity but bellatrix was inconsolable. she fled england completely, choosing instead to focus on her magic as her mind slowly closed in on itself. and narcissa was left alone again, her only solace a marriage she forced herself to pretend would make her happy, would fill the void of what her sisters had destroyed.

and so many years later, you can tell the wound never closed. narcissa, who watched as everything unfolded without daring to interfere, looking the dark lord in the eyes and lying to protect her family because she understands andromeda now, nothing is worth losing the ones you love and the ones who love you. her son looks toward her for protection and she will provide it in any way she can, because her son's life means more than anything the dark lord could ever offer.

bellatrix, who has never dared to go against voldemort's orders, bending the rules and allowing narcissa to protect her son because somewhere in the back of her mind a voice whispered "what if she leaves like andromeda did? what if she chooses her new family over you too?" and narcissa did, she turned her back in the last battle and left without sparring a single glance.

i know people only made evan and pandora siblings out of convenience so they could give pandora a last name but YOU COWARDS! if you're gonna make them siblings then make them siblings!! i have an entire background on their family but that's too complicated to explain here but GIVE ME SOMETHING INTERESTING WITH THEM??? wartime rosier twins who never see each other but evan insists on writing letters bc he misses his sister so much?? pandora missing him too but she doesn't know what to do because the same hands that are writing these letters are holding innocent people at wand point and using unforgivable curses?? PANDORA'S REACTION TO EVAN'S DEATH??? helllooooo???

+ i know that the black brothers have been explored plenty but i still think their relationship has been softened?? ig. like we've stripped these characters down to their bare bones trying to make them good people when they don't need to be?? give me black brothers who love each other but hate each other all in the same breath. black brothers who strive to prove themselves better than the other. black brothers who see the other as a personification of their worst traits (sirius sees regulus as a coward (literally canon) and regulus sees sirius as a traitor). give me sibling resentment because i wholeheartedly believe they were pit against each other by walburga and orion.

sirius was smarter, better, more powerful, more charismatic than regulus. he was raised to he the perfect heir, the one to continue the bloodline of the most noble house, he was raised to think himself better than the rest. regulus was the spare, the 'worst case scenario' child, the one that struggled to live up to the fraction of his brother's natural talent and skill. give me sirius knowing he's better and throwing it in regulus' face. give me regulus manipulating sirius into leaving so he can be the true heir. give me regulus grieving for sirius only after he realizes what he has lost, but never reaching out, even when he finds the locket. regulus, who has spent his whole life trying to outshine sirius knowing it was a pointless battle, taking this one action into his own hands and doing the brave thing alone. give me sirius, almost two decades later, still bitter and disappointed as he passes by his dead brother's door refusing to even glance inside, because the resentment (and the grief of what could've been) never truly wears away.

anyone who read this far deserves a medal bc i would've taken one look at this post and said "i ain't reading all that" so thank you <3

#i was gonna include friendships i saw as having sibling-like dynamics #like marlen+james and dorcas+barty #but this post turned out so long that i just gave up on it #no one's reading it anyway let's be fr #this isn't even #nymph rambles #this is #nymph wrote a 30 page essay on something unimportant again #marauders era #black brothers #evans sisters #black sisters #rosier twins

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2hoothoots · 2 years

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so it seems older Raz has overcome his difficulties with his hydrokinesis. Neat! I imagine dogen did too with his blast-isis thingie (saw it from ur comics) : D

so does that mean. Raz can form or Manipulate shapes of water. Kinda like how Maligula can with water serpents. I imagine Raz has own favourite animal for that? And water his strongest power or still struggle with it? anyway amazing work as always.

yeah, he's pretty good with it!

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it's his strongest power, but he doesn't specialise in it super heavily. so he's not as skilled in it as, say, Lili is with her herbaphony. he's definitely not as good as his great aunt, but Lucrecia was, like, incredibly talented. from the feats we see her accomplish (making hundred-foot waves and tornadoes of water, crossing oceans, drawing water from the moisture in the air), I'd say she's quite possibly one of, if not the, strongest psychic in the canon.

could Raz be as good as her one day? maybe! he has the potential, but it'd take a lifetime of practice. and i think generally he prefers spending his time working on all his powers, rather than strongly specialising in just one or two. he's not as good at HK as he could be if he really focused on it, but in exchange he's also pretty good with a lot of his other powers. jack of all trades, master of none, y'know?

#psychonauts #future superstar agents au #instead of snakes his thing is hands. i just think the hand of galochio is a really cool visual #generally my headcanon is that talent and innate potential /are/ factors #but overall they're usually less important than just practice and hard work #some things will come more naturally to some people but generally anyone can learn any power as long as they're willing to work at it #it's like any real life skill. talent exists and it can give you a big head start early on #but it's ultimately unimportant without dedication and persistence #but then also (to immediately undercut my own tag ramble) there are exceptions!#people like Compton and Dogen are unusual among psychics. their brains just produce way more psychic energy than normal and no-one knows wh #it's theorised that blastokinesis isn't even a particular ability it's just the result of channelling WAY too much destructive psychic ener #anyway. glowing eyes go brrrrr #polish #it's not super polished but it's nice and it has shading so it goes in my 'nice art' tag #fsau raz

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paperlunamoth · 1 year

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Anyone else ever just randomly get extremely grossed out by their human body, and also all organic material in general, and wish you could live as a smooth shiny android in a world made of obsidian and glass where everyone drinks water and mineral slurry and sits out in the sun to power and sustain their vital functions? No? Okay.

#thoughts #random thoughts #unimportant #rambling #transhumanism #...i guess?#androids #just autism things #like im pretty sure this is sensory related #organic lifeforms are just so nasty though like why #luna's

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grellestie · 4 months

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UNFRIENDLY REMINDER:

NO SEBA/CIEL SHIPPERS ON THIS BLOG! I don't like y'all.

#unimportant rambles #i had to block some out of my likes #how many times do we need to teach you this lesson old man??#yall r weird

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mallardgryph · 3 months

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my favourite genre of "hazbin critical" or "helluva critical" post is "there's too much swearing in it!!" like. actually. people make that critcism like it's an actual, salient point. The amount of people who seem to think this is a real gotcha actually kind of boggles my mind. I guess it proves the nessacecisty of shows like HH/HB when purity culture is apparently... so deeply wedged into society that young queer folk are lining up to go bat for the views of the parents television council. Yeesh.

kids. go piss off your parents. say bad words and engage in the kind of sexual activity that would cause the bible in the hotel nightstand to spontaneously combust. experiment, find your truest self and for fucks sake, don't let the man dictate ur morals. let you do that. be ungovernable or let me tell u... u are gonna get governed so hard and not in a fun way.

#helluva boss #hazbin hotel #mallard's unimportant rambling

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teenyplantkid · 11 months

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to anyone who wants to know, this is what i've been listening to the past month.

this is *everything* i've had on repeat the last month, to month and a half.

#my stuffs #unimportant rambles #Spotify

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viralvava · 7 months

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In a way, I think all of D's brothers, Byron to the Fake D to Rocambole to Valcua, all parallel him, mirror different traits and reflect him in different ways. Byron is his attempted replica, the Fake D is his perfect shadow. Rocambole is his kindred spirit, while Valcua is his predecessor, prototype, and finally, another facet of himself.

But out of them all, what I find most interesting is Rocambole: a character who doesn't mean much, who is so much less fleshed out than his counterparts, who is in essence nothing but a prototype for how Valcua is written in the following books, superior in every way.

But Rocambole, missed opportunity that he may be, wasted potential he may be, reflects an aspect of D that none of his other brothers quite manage. Rocambole reflects his resignation.

Rocambole has one key moment in Dark Road Part 3, the defining moment of his character. When faced with the reality of his situation, the reality of his fate, the knowledge he was brought back only to be slaughtered... Rocambole realises that there is no use denying it. Where the Fake D deludes himself into thinking he might reign victor over D, where Valcua continues to throw himself at a brick wall he won't overcome, where Byron begs for his own demise, Rocambole looks his fate in the eye, and he says this:

“Living to be destroyed? Okay, so be it. If that’s the will of the Sacred Ancestor, any resistance is useless."

With complete immediacy, Rocambole recognises the futility of acting against the Sacred Ancestor's decree. He knows without preamble that no matter what he does, his death will come to pass. This is something he accepts, and that's something Valcua, for example, cannot do, not until the very bitter end. And while this alone is impressive, the words that truly define Rocambole's character are the ones that come next.

"But, useless or not, resistance is resistance. And the one who offers it, even if he’s no better than a bug, must make his will known. D, I may be destroyed, but I won’t let you leave here alive. Or the girl you came here to save.”

Despite knowing how futile it is, despite having accepted his imminent demise... Rocambole, with utter solemnity, declares that even still, he wants to show any resistance he can, because no matter how meaningless it is, he still has to make his will known. He's aware he can't escape his own death, but what he can do is resist in every way he still can; and he'll do that by taking D down with him, as well as the girl he came here to save, or die trying.

Does this remind you of anyone? Knowledge in the futility of resistance, following the path marked for you, yet still trying to assert your will in any way you can, no matter how little it matters in the end? Resigning yourself to your fate, but not so much that you can't still try to offer resistance in any way possible?

I can think of one other character who embodies such a trait, and that character is D.

Rocambole is the same as D in this regard. They're both characters strung along by the Sacred Ancestor, just as their counterparts and compatriots are, but instead of showcasing an inability to accept the inevitable, they can do nothing but take it as it is. And even while they do this, even as they know intimately how little of a difference it makes, they still have the passion to offer token resistance wherever they can, to rebel however possible.

This is what Rocambole reflects of D, and this is his narrative significance. While lacking in screentime, lacking in presence, and especially lacking in relevance to his own story, Rocambole is a reflection of one of D's core traits, one of the most important character traits he has. Acceptance, resignation, but even in spite of all that, the desire to do whatever he can to assert his own autonomy, to resist.

#vampire hunter d #lord rocambole #vhd #okay i know i said rambling about vhd was hell om earth for me but #I LOVE ROCAMBOLE #i LOVE this stupid worthless man with zero plot importance #i LOVE the most offhand unmentioned unimportant d sibling of all of them #hes so funny #so. i needed to talk about him just a little

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