#Ethics / Cactus

[stormwaterwitch]

Me when it’s summertime in Texas:

Snow and cold are the only things I long for in this eternally burning landscape around me. Sweet gentle flakes where are you? Why must our region be cursed to have no relief from this ever present stifling humidity and heat???

Me when it’s finally under 70 degrees F in Texas:

I will not survive this harsh winter landscape.

#texas problems #shitposting #but damn though a cold front came through and it's CHILLY #(when I say chilly it's like 62 BUT STILL) #I'm a warm summer baby and this cold is UNFAMILIAR #Southern problems #Coastal problems #South Texas problems #It's snowed like 3 times that I can remember in the last 15 years #and each of those days was exceptionally noteworthy by the news and such #But you know it's winter when Ted Cruz flies home to Cancun #fuck ted cruz #it is ethically and morally sound to curse and hex ted cruz whenever convenient #please curse and hex ted cruz #and greg abbot #fuck those dickholes with a cactus

[syn4k]

if tumblr existed in empires s1 then the dashboard would look a little bit like this i think

🏜️ cactus-abolitionist

MY CAT JUST RAN OUTSIDE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SANDSTORM IM

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oh no are they okay?? i don't know how serious sandstorms are but maybe you could go after them?

🏜️ cactus-abolitionist

Sand blowing past you at upwards of 75kmh. It's also really hot sand. It's been known to literally strip the flesh off of bones wait post cancelled my cat just walked back in she's fine guys

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visiting the Mythlands today and me and my family found a neat lil natural floating island while hiking

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to the people in my notes going "what the fuck": have y'all never heard of physics?

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OP WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU LIVE WHERE THIS IS NORMAL

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western mezalea?? lol

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well that explains a lot.

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Can I Help You

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ain't emperor joel dating a fish

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yeah, they're married. Isn't Emperor Joey a demonfucker????

#dude why are the notes arguing over the ethics of being ruled by a demon 😭 what the fuck #op im so sorry

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🌸 prismarined Follow

...i'm in this class thats being taught by the headmaster today and she smells like weed. i'm not gonna say anything but like. what

🦦 i-like-otters

yeah the academy's just like that. as long as she's not like, actively dying or anything she's probably fine??? idk o7

#reblog

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I JUST GOT BACK FROM A BUSINESS TRIP WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE COPPER KING'S GONE

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I DONT KNOW I DONT LIVE THERE BUT apparently nobody expected it either?? like some people are saying it was the Dragon Fight that did it (i know Emperor Joey came out with statements that Emperor Riffs actually helped kill the dragon and unleash the demon but its been two days and we all know that he hates that guy so idk) but nobody actually knows anything. it's crazy bro

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my mom said the royal housekeepers found a note from him alongside like everything he owned but they're not saying what's on the note yet. holy shit

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🐠 fishfucker997

this will definitely have an impact on the local trout population

🏰 all-the-kings-hen Follow

the Guardian of the Thirteenth Empire just died and you're worried about fish???? be for real omg

🐠 fishfucker997

have you people never heard of references in your life

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why are you interacting with me i literally have "codlanders dni" in my bio

🐠 fishfucker997

my brother in cod you literally reblogged this from me??

🐠 fishfucker997

they blocked me lmao

#how is this post only 2 days old

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she dragon fight on my copper king til i disappear

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who the hell let a camel onto this site lol

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You will die at age 87 with nobody to mourn you and no stars still shining to watch you go.

#911 i just witnessed a murder

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🌻 helantheia

anyone know who made emperor pearl's dress? it's really pretty :0

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📷 desertphotography

West of the River of Plenty, Pixandria

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#ray's tag #mcyt #empires smp s1 #empires smp #pix would absolutely still have tumblr btw. hed be posting aesthetic pictures in the middle of exile #this took me way too long to put together you're all welcome #fake post #fake posts #writing #keys' writing

[spacelazarwolf]

the goyim are wild, someone (with a clearly non-Jewish name) wrote an article about "Reclaiming Holocaust memory from Zionism" when I pointed out on twitter "who is this to "reclaim" the holocaust" he had the nerve, the NERVE (clearly searching his own name) to reply "Heaven forbid we take universal lessons from one of the great evils of modern history." FUCK these fucking people, goddamn grave robbers.

i don't necessarily agree with the concept of jewish vs non jewish names (like there are names that are very common for jews to have or originated with jewish families, but a name doesn't tell u if someone is jewish u feel)

that being said. uh. what the FUCK. the shoah isn't a fucking universal lesson for goyim to get ethics lessons from. it's a mass tragedy for every community that was targeted, and an opportunity for people to be fucking ashamed that they or their ancestors sat around doing absolutely jack shit while millions of people were systematically murdered. like. if you are a person who is not in a group that was targeted in the holocaust, the only thing you should be feeling about the holocaust is embarrassment that human beings were so hateful that they could watch their neighbors be carted away to their deaths. the only thing they get to is make sure it doesn't fucking happen again.

also if it's what i think it was (which is 'jews were murdered in the holocaust so why are they doing the same to palestinians!!!!! why are jews being nazis they should know better!!!!!!!') then extra fuck that guy with a fucking cactus.

#ask avishai #antisemitism #jewish

[hermitcraftx]

I agree with your post about hermit fans in regard to things being very popular. I’ve seen more people being angry and annoyed about scarian in the last six months than people celebrating it. Not tagging shipping is shit but it’s better than harassing people. I don’t know what was put in the water but something changed drastically and I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s seen it.

IT'S FUCKING INSANE! This fandom used to be so positive and welcoming and overall way more pleasant than some... other MCYT fandoms, but now??? I can't log on without seeing untagged negative interpretations in the main tags, can't express an opinion without getting anons calling me heterosexual sympathizers and hoping that I die, everyone has turned their back on everything that used to make this fandom really... fun? Like, I don't tag ON MY BLOG, but usually I don't maintag my shipping posts, and if I do, I tag the ship name so people can filter it.... I don't maintag duo names. What the fuck happened to make everyone so- miserable. Anons are probably going to be permanently off for me, too many people comfortable with their opinions and not comfortable with mine and desperately needing to tell me that.

And like- look. I get not liking interpretations. Personally I'm not a fan of the Double Life cheating arc because of how abusive and out of character people made Grian be, and I had to avoid ao3 for a bit because of that and filter the fucking tags. Same thing with found family dynamics. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it "overrated and popular" and just because you don't like something doesn't make it immoral or unethical either!!! People have to make everything a moral standpoint nowadays and it's really exhausting-

But that's a tirade. All over all the confessions blogs there's "scarian is overrated" despite Grian having nearly 10mil subscribers and most of them being on YouTube and considering all the hermits friends or family truthing them. Yes, there is more shipping than before- that's because Hermitcraft season 8 made it very obvious that the people on the SMP and the people IRL are very different, and it's no longer considered RPF. None of the real hermits died via moon explosion, ZombieCleo often says she's doing "lore", they make different skins, even GRIAN acknowledges that he's acting and playing a part with the permit office. Despite all that, there's STILL wars on shipping and people insisting that we're shipping real people, I fought this war on the DSMP side of things and it's SO TIRING.

DND podcast listeners, do you ship the people playing the characters? NO!!!!! Unless you do, in which case, have fun with that. I don't really care about RPF and I filtered the tags for it a long time ago, so maybe they do do that.

Every other day I see "Third life is overrated" "Last life is overrated" (LAST LIFE IS OFTEN THE LEAST FAVORITE SEASON I SEE PEOPLE SAY!), "the life series is overrated" "the cactus ring is fucking stupid" "they left the desert but we didn't" "no, THIS interpretation of scarian is bad and wrong" and like... guys. Guys. Fandom is supposed to be fun. It is not supposed to be a full time job. It is not supposed to be moral or ethical and you shouldn't feel the need to police shit. Jesus Christ, every other month there's a new fad that tumblr users flock to and once it's over everyone goes "EWWW THAT WAS LAME AND OVERRATED AND I NEVER LIKED IT ANYWAY" like.... I promise you cannibalism as an allegory for love is not mainstream you are just on Tumblr.

Like Good God. If it's so bad here go to Twitter. I'm sick of all the complaining and misery and hatred and I miss when things were fun- people are so scared of being cliche that they don't want to write things that they enjoy. Where are the coffee shop aus???? Where are the fun silly things??? Where are the 100k grimdark fics with worldbuilding??? Wheres the 500k fics that aren't even about the same characters anymore but that we love just the same??? Where are the forums and people talking to each other in comments and meeting each other that way??? Where are the roleplay servers?????? What are you all doing??????

People are scared of being judged. They want to do what everyone else is doing. They don't want to be cringe or cliche and every day I see a "cringe culture is dead" post and then someone making fun of another part of fandom, an antithesis to their previous statement. They don't want to be late to things, either. Who cares if Last Life was a couple years ago? Draw the fanart anyway!

I'm scared. Maybe I'm just old, but every post I see I notice that I get maybe a 10th in reblogs of what I do in likes, and I don't even post my art or fics to this site. Every post is like that. More and more people only like posts and they die, unseen, by everyone. More and more people misuse archive of our own's functions, treating it like it has some algorithm, when it doesn't, and it never has and hopefully never will. I see fic reuploads to "gain traction" (not how it works) and people reaching out to find RP partners (breaking TOS) and all sorts of other shit on both sites and it fucking horrifies me. I'm not even that old- I'm eighteen, and I can already tell how fandom has changed for the worst for everyone. Fandom used to be a community. Not consumption.

It's just... sad. Old fandom had PLENTY of fucking problems, and we have problems here too, but at least the positives outweighed the negatives. It's so... mean here, now. Even the happy things are mean-spirited. People treat it as if certain people have invaded this fandom space, spreading horrible opinions and ruining it for everyone, but the truth is is that shipping is always going to be a thing. It's a foundation of fandom- fandom started with housewives in the 1950s writing Star Trek fanfiction. You can never get rid of shipping. You can just interact with what you want to interact with and leave others to mind their own business.

#sorry i kind of went on a rant i think i needed to get that out of my system #sort of went on several tirades but im SO FUCKING GLAD ITS NOT JUST ME #OTHER PEOPLE CAN SEE IT. WHAT IS UP WITH EVERYONE LATELY. #ugh.... thanmk u for the ask :3333 #jamies bad posts #jamie answers asks #grimaussiewitch #jamies serious posts #discourse

[gofancyninjaworld]

The List of Predictions for OPM Webcomic Chapter 146

Thank you to everyone who has made a bet. I was hoping that in a great irony, ONE would have put up a continuation, but so far, so bad.

Here's the list! Keep your numbers safe, and we'll see what shakes out!

Number

Prediction

1 Dr Bofoi is already dead. Bonus: Genos gets framed for his death.

2 Who's ex-hero hunter ex-jobhunter Garou hunting now?

3Dr Kuseno is not dead (light edition): Saitama did take him to get medical care after all.

4 Dr Kuseno is not dead (dark edition): Destro and Erimin have done a touch of 'recovery' work

5 Overgrown Pochi remembers that he was a guard dog, hulks out and incinerates the invading robots. All 4 million of them.

6 Tatsumaki returns triumphant and not a moment too soon. Man, what would you guys do without her?

7 Blast finally deigns to show up in this version. Bonus: he meets Blue.

8 Metal Bat gets out of jail.

9 McCoy finally finds some ethics.

10 Turns out that Saitama did follow Genos after all.

11 Saitama goes home and arrives just in the nick of time. Bonus: Somehow King still gets the credit for destroying the robots invading the HA.

12 JOKER: ONE declares that he's ending the webcomic.

13 Webigaza is toast. :(

14 Watchdogman is finally no longer mysterious.

15 Tank Top Master puts on an extra tank top and wades back into battle.

16 Accel gets a reality check.

17 Dr Bofoi has some explaining to do.

18 Zenko is real!

19 Saitama saves the day. Somehow.

20 Lightning Max (and other wounded pro-heroes) find the tender mercies of the Neo Heroes to be far from tender.

21 King shows off his muscles!

22 What's Drive Knight up to?

23 Pig God and robots. Are they tasty?

24 Black Sperm discovers his inner Dimple.

25 Garou and Metal Bat meet for the first time. Bonus: they hit it off!

26 Genos finally has a showdown with his nemesis.

27 Zombieman comes back in style, showing us his hard-earned abilities.

28 Webigaza is saved! Phew! :)

29 Never mind the robot apocalypse, what about Flashy Flash versus the Abandoned Masses? Fight!

30 Saitama gets a new hero name at last!  Bonus: it's also naff.

31 My kingdom for a sword! Atomic and his disciples are back, all blazing fury and blades.

32 Darkshine finds his courage to fight.

33 Suiryu saves Suiko.

34 Mr. Fuzzy is pleased: this is all going according to plan.

35 Just because the suits aren't sold to you doesn't mean they're free: the Neo Heroes find out what their organisation really wants from them.

36 Mental health break: Saitama's cactus did survive after all!

37 JOKER: The OPM webcomic is set to be collected and commercially published as a spin off.

38 Saitama and Blue come to an agreement.

39 ONE is extra evil: time skip to the aftermath. How long can this man keep teasing us?

40 The Organization formally makes its demands.

41 The most reluctant hero in the world, Speed o' Sound Sonic, does something about the apocalypse.  Bonus: he rids the world of A.

42 Mr. Fuzzy never saw this turn of events coming.

43 For once, Flashy Flash gets to play the main character to his heart's content. He isn't, but let him have it. :)

44 We catch up with Child Emperor and find what he's realized.

45 Raiden gets humbled anew.

46 God cube, God cube, getcha God cubes right here! No bets on who has one or how they're using it.

47 Bang stops clipping his nails long enough to do something about the pesky robots. The HA really owes him one now.

48 Genos discovers the secret of strength. This one really should have been a joker, but I could only have two.

49 Puri Puri's infinite receptacle of love versus a thousand robots. Who wins?

50 Genos gives Dr. Kuseno the decent burial he deserves.

51 One small bright spot: all is well in City Q.

52 Amai Mask comes out of hiding to help.

53 The easiest bet: there is a giant fight between Genos and Metal Knight's robots.

54 We finally find out who the Rampaging Cyborg is.

#OPM #webcomic #predictions #chapter 146 #so many ways ONE could go #I hope one or two come to pass

[kaelio]

Cactus has had to put up with my "there's some sort of totally hilariously ridiculous kink going on where Marius sort of pretends to chide Lestat and Lestat acts snotty and then they just kind of jerk each other off validating one another in wholly unearned ways" blather so many times but the absolute astonishment at seeing that, oh, yeah. Imo they are totally for real are doing this lmao

"Lestat! Don't do silly things!"

"I'm going to do silly things >:)"

"Gosh that's very naughty of you! well continue to be strong, handsome, and charming about it 🤔"

"Same to you lol! Omg you are soooo wise and ethical and hot as well"

like the earlier draft is Marius being reasonable or just idk in his refractory period? and then the revised one they're back on their bullshit big time

#tvc #Lestat has a deadbeat dad and an indulgent mother #aaaand post #also how Armand in BCommunion is tearing his hair out over this shit #fair... fair

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

Trigun, asking the important questions like:

- if a nuclear warhead gained empathy and autonomy, would it love us?

(Contingent question - what if bombs were afraid of exploding?)

and

- Do you think the author read that one Gnostic gospel where preteen Jesus killed people?

(Contingent question - did he kill people because he was God or because he was God crammed into a child’s shape?)

and

- your ancestors jarred angels like fireflies: do you open the jar?

(Contingent question - why are you scared to open the jar? (you know why, and it makes you ask: are the angels in the jar merciful or vengeful? does that matter?))

and

- is there an ethical way to terraform a planet with a preexisting ecology/life of its own (Worms)? Do humans deserve a second chance to save Earth at the cost of overwriting another planet? Is that two lost planets or does it null out?

(Contingent questions - there are there cats (Kuroneko-sama), dogs (‘bark like a dog’), sparrows and pigeons (some random town square), hawks (t-minus a couple pages to couch), fish (salmon sandwiches) and cows (ice cream), and can we please see more of the worldbuilding, please, please? Is most food lab-grown from Plant-produced chemical compounds or are there geo-plant farms capable of intensive production or can farms exist without a geo-plant? Mr. Nightow, I want to know about the pigeons. Tell me about that one cactus Vash smashes into. Little Arcadia?? Worm life-cycle??? Worm species???? NO MAN’S LAND ECOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE LESSONS WHEN?)

and

- how many belts is too many belts, and is that really a question if the answer is ‘never enough belts?’

(Contingent question - how long does it take Vash to put on his boots in the morning?)

#Box attempts Trigun

[bss-samsiyye]

Adeia 2023

- The gods have been very good to my garden this year. I even had four plants make a miraculous recovery after I was certain they would die. So this year I'm thanking them for it with honey libations and by repotting everyone to air out the soil and fertilize it, and focusing mostly on asking for regular rain. We had some rain this winter, which should NOT happen, and on the other hand I've never seen less rain in a wet season...which of course did not stop my city from flooding because it used to be a wetland. I'm asking Ba'al for lots of rain next summer.

Pictured here: wild amaranth, rosemary, marigold, arnica + lavender, wild Mexican tea and a baby chayote.

- I also prayed for Demeter's blessings for the sustainable urban designs I'm submitting to the relevant government departments some time next week, and for a proposal I want to introduce in my neighborhood to switch to native grass species, plant more flowers for native pollinators and upgrade outside lighting to be more firefly-friendly. I also asked her, and Persephone, to protect agricultural land, which is being threatened by both global warming and an increasingly violent political situation.

- Collected organic waste in a jar for three days to mix with the plants' new potting soil. A friend of my grandmother's gave us chicken eggs from his sustainable farm so I felt more pressed to not just throw the egg shells away and show my thanks.

Pictured here: a grinding stone shaped like a pig, for Demeter, and crushed eggshells in a jar mixed with wilted carrots.

- The wheat I planted last year suffered an untimely death by pet rabbit (his name is Apollo) and the one I planted in March to replace it is taking it's time, so I offered it only in spirit.

Pictured here: rabbit-appropriate wheat (with some chickweed) and a green wheat stalk for the gods.

- I also planted cattails (ethically sourced from my local zoo's restored wetland habitat) to keep it water-themed. Some will go in my garden, others to friends' gardens, and a few to my grandmother's artificial pond.

- For the food offering, I wanted to prepare chiles en nogada, stuffed (big) peppers with walnut and goat cheese sauce and pomegranates for decoration. The ingredients for it are in season so I thought it was appropriate, but it's also a reminder that we have to think about where our food comes from and protect those sources. Chiles en nogada are a traditional September dish; unfortunately, the recipe has changed in recent years because one of the ingredients used in the stuffing, called acitrón, comes from a barrel cactus species which is now endangered. Alas, it's quite a labor-intensive dish and it's a busy weekend for my family, so we're making it next week instead.

#cattail pictures incoming

[queering-ecology]

Chapter 13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire by Dianne Chisholm

Our essence as a species binds us to explore and affiliate with all life. We are lovers who can add up glucose, amino acids, water, fragrant oils, pigments, and other issue and call it both a flower and a mystical gesture. We can also decimate pollinators with an unloving tonnage of pesticides, precipitating the extinction of entire populations of those mystical gestures, once and forever. Lives without access to sensations are lives that edge out the earth’s raw, pervasive sweetness, that deeply biophilic connection to all life. –Ellen Meloy

Biophilia can be a mindful reverence for the infinity of organic sexual-social order; a love for the diversity of non-human life that stirs the mind to infinity for the beneficial enlightenment of humanity Biophilia can be an earthy curiosity for the erotic vitality with which life affects fidelity to extreme geography; an erotic-ethical affiliation between humans and nonhuman life in experimental symbioses whose ecological benefits are sensed and desired, if not fully cognizable (360)

Biophilia, Episemophilia, Cognitive Adventuring

What do nature writers want?; nature writers desire to know what nature desires (361)

“What does a prickly pear cactus desire that couples it so tenaciously to bare basalt sandstone with a sexual rhythm that erratically keeps pace with drought and flash flood? What conjunction of organic and inorganic elements add up to such a thriving, if exotic, symbiotic assemblage?

 the ‘intercourse’  that can develop is not zoophilic bestiality nor anthropomorphic romancing; rather it is a transmutation of human being into something other, prompted by the closeness of the human body to the vibrating heat and rhythms of the animal pack (361)

‘Becoming-other-than-human’; by being so close to animals (in this case big horn sheep) Ellen Meloy becomes caught up in the pack's migrations and affections in an other dimension of belonging to place. She senses an otherworld with de-familiarized, or deterritorialized human sensibility—a sensibility pushed to the limit of being human on the threshold of becoming other and she wishes to “bring back their startling news” to the human side, where human knowledge of the nonhuman can be put to mutually beneficial work.  

The human mind evolve(s/d) in contact with animal life (Meloy). Children playacting the animal; children are drawn to animals, animating the senses, connecting and communicating with others, to explore and affiliate with nonhuman lifeforms.

“Touched by indigenous life to the desert heartland, Meloy allies herself with native nature/culture and she foregrounds and reconnects pre- and post-colonial territorial practices” (372)

“To Touch an Otherworld”:Biophilic Ethics

Species interdependence is the name of the worlding game on earth, and that game must be one of response and respect…Queer messmates in mortal play, indeed.—Donna J. Haraway

For humans to aid bighorn survival, it is crucial to understand the zoogenic factor (or the autopoiesis of animal life) in co-evolutionary ecology.

Synthesis weds symbiosis in a post-anthropocentric recovery of the wild—a becoming-animal of wildlife management that “runs contrary to the historical imperative to press everything alive, dead, or otherwise into human service” (307) (374)

Deleuze emphasizes the anti-utilitarian, communal ethics of becoming-animal. “it is no longer a matter of utilizations or captures, but of sociabilites and communities” (1988, 126) (375)

Human alliances with wild animals that do not only protect animal territoriality but also promote animal-earth symbiosis. How can human interference proceed while respecting and/or preserving the other’s own relations and world? (375)

The Ecological Future of Queer Desire

“Opponents to native fish recovery programs…measure worth as most of us do, by human ego. What good are these fish? You can’t eat them, they appear to have no medical, economic, sport, or industrial value…even their file drawer in the wildlife management bureaucracy ---“nongame”---assigns them not their own innate something but that which they are not: not sport, not food. These fish, many people believe, are dead-end. Tertiary detritus with strange humps, and weird lips. They are just too queer….what does a humpback chub want?” ---Ellen Meloy

Rejects the ‘survival of the fittest’ in favor of cyborg syntheses and unnatural symbiosis (survival of the queerest?)—sexual selection that refines and perfects the family tree

‘sexuality is badly explained by the binary organization of the sexes, and just as badly by a bisexual organization within each sex. Sexuality brings into play too great a diversity of conjugated becomings; they are like n sexes, an entire war machine through which love passes” (Deleuze and Guttari 1987, 278) (375-6)

“Only queers can battle an imperative that unites Left and Right, thereby neutralizing domestic politics” (Lee Edelman, 2004)

“A better science and monitoring is required if variants are to be identified as sympatric (species that cohabit the same region, which do not usually interbreed but which do hybridize naturally, if rarely) or extrinsic (hybridization due to human civilization). More than improved technology , it takes devotion to distinguish variations that signal either adaptive evolution or “the last-ditch, high-pitched shriek of preextinction”. For life’s sake—or more precisely, for life for life’s sake—our biophilia is put to the ultimate test. (379)

#queer ecologies: sex nature politics desire #queer ecology #critical ecology #queer theory #ecofeminism #environmental politics #ecology #biophilia #nature #love of nature #endangered species #animals #species #extinction #colonialism

[gothhabiba]

We’ve written extensively on the economics of a lot of products in Morocco and as always the result is the same: artisans are paid next to little while middlemen take extensive mark ups. But in a land where exploited artisans is the norm, the scale of exploitation with sabra was unmatched.

The sabra product made in those windswept towns are places where middlemen in Marrakech set up their workshops and where most products you find on Instagram or in the Marrakech medina are made. The areas are out of the eye of tourists as well as the clients of middlemen and much too inconvenient for buyers to visit for themselves. The artisans are simply too far away to know what is actually happening in the market and are largely unaware. It’s a perfect environment for a made up story to thrive.

In one of the most well known towns where sabra product is made there isn’t one single official cooperative. All the women work as individuals, who middlemen pit against each other to extract the cheapest price and turn around times. When we talked to the women, they laughed at the thought that they could sell their sabra pillows, which take them 5 days to make, for more than 50 MAD ($5 USD). That is 10 MAD a day ($1 USD per day) in a country where the minimum agricultural wage is 70 MAD per day. Oftentimes, the women are expected to pay for the material which comes out of the 50 MAD price they are paid. A middleman likely tells their buyers the artisans are happy with what they pay, and the women may very well be because they do not know any better.

[...] Collectivco (and we can list many other similar companies) just recently launched their new line of Sabra pillows for just $50 USD each. You can assume that they’re at least working with a margin of at least 50%, so they paid at most $25 USD for a pillow in the Marrakech medina, which falls in place with the break down above. To any ethical seller, you’d know that something isn’t quite right with a handmade product of such detail price at just $25. At that price either artisans are getting exploited or the material isn’t what the customer thinks it is. In the case of sabra rayon products it is both. While people in Morocco may just not know any better, that excuse does not extend to many foreign companies who benefit most from the deception and often drive such trends.  And let’s be real: if a company like Collectivco is selling you sabra is anything else they say legitimate?

-"The truth about Moroccan sabra: everything you ever wanted to know about the mythical cactus silk agave fiber"

#worth noting that the writers of this article are ALSO selling a product--namely these same pillows in 'bamboo' #whether that's bamboo rayon (made from cellulose chemically extracted from bamboo) #or natural bambo fiber (made from retting or other mechnical processes done to bamboo) is not clear #they do however claim to tell you what they are paying their artisans #Morocco #readings #neocolonialism

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Opinions or thoughts on the philosophy themes/ references in rgu?

Essays

just so many Essays

I don't have many opinions on philosophy particularly that are jumping at me,

However Sayonji is definitely the kinda guy to hear arguments against Ethical egoism (because I believe that's what he believes in) and for those arguments to go into one ear and right out the other. I can just imagine him being all like "If psychological egoism is true, then it is only possible to be selfish, so why not even just be altruistic, why don't we just do everything for our own personal gain." and then Utena looking at him like "dude it can't be ethical with no ethics bitch."

But honestly just read from people with more to say, I think you'll really enjoy it.

You should watch that one scene though I don't remember which episode where basically: Touga and Akio are in a room (and they're shirtless cause y'know) and Akio is surrounded by all of these cacti, and they're talking about Utena. We then get a shot of Touga holding a cactus and as he talks a flower on top of the cactus blooms. A flower on a cactus blooming is a symbol for love, and so there are two ways to interpret this scene;

One, it's one of the first instances of Touga's genuine romantic feelings for Utena in a honest metaphorical display in contrast to Akio's dishonest, prickly asshole grooming.

Two, It shows the one sided dynamic of Touga and Akio (obviously cause Touga's 17 and Akio is an adult and) because of that same metaphor from above but for Touga's respect and attraction to Akio and Akio once again being a little prickly asshole.

I just think that the scene is interesting cause it says "Touga and Akio are the worst, and Touga is a teen still getting taken advantage of by Akio."

Thanks for the question! I hope this was insightful!

#revolutionary girl utena

[jerzwriter]

cactus

daffodil

Hey Nonny!

Thanks for the ask from this list.

cactus ⇢ something you’re currently learning (about)? I just answered that here, but I'm also learning other things lol I'm about to take a Spanish class because, while I can speak it a little, I am far from fluent and I want to know it better for personal, cultural, and business reasons. I'm really looking forward to it.

daffodil ⇢ do you have siblings? if yes, in what ways do you think you’re similar to or different from them? One biological, several "soul" siblings, but I'll focus on the bio. lol We're alike because we have similar senses of humor and shared trauma, we are very much aligned politically and ideologically - and we are pretty fierce about our opinions; we both love to travel (but in very different ways). We both love our home state, but we are really not all that impressed with our country. I love NJ, but I'd move back to NYC in a nanosecond if it was still affordable, she'd rather have her eyeteeth removed than move back to NYC. We both love the Yankees. She loves football, I refuse to watch the NFL anymore. lol We're different in a lot of ways. She limits her opinions to ranting on social media. I do that too, but I also do grassroots shit to change things. I love reading/writing, she hates reading/writing. I love traveling to new places, she will go to Disney every fucking time. I'm pretty anti-Disney/pro-theater, she hates theater/worships Disney. Our work ethics are different; I work all the fucking time, and she literally never works. lol. Until recently, we had a big Starbucks vs. Dunkin thing going, but I'm boycotting now, so it doesn't matter.

Thanks so much for asking, Nonny! :)

#getting to know me #asks answered

[changingplumbob]

York Household: Chapter 8, Part 3

Slumber Party Animal dreaming Kelly is ready for his sleepover. Calista and Aaron discuss how to ensure Deanna keeps honing her smarts, and what to do about Deanna's plans to move in Paris.

Here's a quick key as to which kid is which. First 5 were all born in game either to my sims or others. Atlas of course came with Growing Together.

Kelly: Thanks for coming

Anya: Between us, you're my favourite, but don't tell the others, seriously

Kelly: I've never been anyone's favourite though

Anya: Don't make me regret it

Fergus: Are we watching a movie or what

Drake: We can't pick

Kelly: My house, I pick

Chasity: Do any have subtitles

Drake: EA doesn't have that much inclusion. But you're not completely deaf right

Chasity: It's mild loss, tv audio can be tricky

Kelly: Would going straight to stories be easier

Chasity: I don't want to put anyone out

Kelly: Too late, I have decided it's storytime. Anyone complaining, complain to me

(Kelly may be evil but he's learning how to make people like him)

Calista: Just like that, our third one is grown

Aaron: I knew one of them had to get valedictorian

Calista: You taught them a proper work ethic

Aaron: I just hope she chooses her degree sensibly

Calista: Me to, but I'm sure we can help

Aaron: I don't want her frittering her YA years away

Calista: Then make sure she knows we expect her to go to university

Aaron: I had hoped the robotics station would be signal enough

Calista: But if we leave it she may just make robots forever, and not get any higher education

Aaron: I'll make sure we're all on the same page then

Kelly: It was a dark and stormy night when the school bus crashed in the middle of the desert. Bodies and metal went everywhere, but 4 kids survived. They collected what they could and set out in to the night

Atlas: Why not stay with the bus

Kelly: Because they were idiots Atlas. As I was saying, they left

Atlas: Absolute idiots

Kelly: They walked until they couldn't walk anymore and had to rest. The only shelter they could find was a series of rock shelves surrounded by strange plants. Part cactus, part something else

Chasity: What's the something else

Kelly: The kids didn't know so they settled down to sleep

Joey: BAM

The kids squeal at the surprise

Kelly: Jerk! What are you doing

Joey: You invited me

Kelly: I did not!

Joey: You told me you were having a sleepover, the invitation was implied

Atlas: Do you know the story

Joey: Who do you think told him?

Kelly: Let me tell it!

Joey: Fine but tell it right

Fergus: So the kids went to sleep, right Kelly?

Kelly: Not for long. Soon they were woken by an eerie whispering

Drake: How does a whisper wake you up

Kelly: Because it came with a cold wind okay

Anya: Hush Drake, just let him talk

Kelly: The kids were awake, and the whispering grew louder! Join us, it said

Drake: Who said?

Chasity: The voice obviously. Have you never heard a scary story before Drake?

Kelly: Join us and join mother, the voice said. The kids were properly freaked out and huddled together. It was then they realised, thre was only THREE of them

Fergus: Wait where did 4th go

Kelly: The kids wondered this. One wanted to go look but the others were too scared

Anya: Did they go look

Kelly: One did. She wandered out among the dunes chasing the voice. Several times she thought it was just in front of her, sometimes she could feel it whisper in her ear. She looked all night but never found the voice. When she returned to camp the others were DEAD

Joey: Really?

Kelly: Shut up Joey! Scrawled on the ground in the blood were the same words, join us, join mother. The one surviving kid suddenly realised the voice wasn't ahead or behind her. It was INSIDE THEIR HEAD! Then, she exploded!

Fergus: So much blood *shudders*

Joey: You lot should sleep now

Anya: But the voice...

Joey: When I told it there was less blood

Kelly: So more boring

Drake: But what was the voice

Kelly: No one knows. Remember, no one survived

Chasity: I hope I can't hear the voice

Fergus: It'll be easier for it to get you if you can't

Chasity: Stop pranking me!

Kelly: Joey leave already

Time for a game of, everyone PLEASE go to sleep where I want you to. To my shock it didn't take too long before all 10 sims are sleeping soundly right where I want them.

Aaron is up early for a jog. Everyone else wakes in their own time and Calista sets about making breakfast for all the kids.

Calista: French toast is served everyone

Fergus: Hooray for food

Paris: Is there enough for me

Calista: Of course dear. Did you have a good sleep

Paris: I did, thanks

Kelly: Is Deanna still lazing in bed

Paris: Oh no, she's already up and on that robotics bench

Calista: I'm glad she's making use of it, her pa will be so pleased

Paris: He's really in to further study huh

Calista: He dreams of all the kids getting degrees really, he's always pushed them to work

Calista: I'm sure your parents would have wanted you to attend university to

Paris: I don't know, maybe. Further study seems daunting

Calista: Only daunting until you try it

Paris: So if I move in will Aaron expect me to go to university

Calista: I... Hmm

Paris: Because that's quite a condition

Kelly: Are you moving in with us

Paris: Deanna offered but I've not made my mind up

Atlas: I'd hate to stay in the foster home, you hear the worst stories

Calista: Yes...

Paris: Speaking of, I better get back. Thank you for having me Calista

Calista: Yes...

Kelly: Never come again

Paris: Whatever

Calista is cleaning up when the Pancakes arrive to pick up Fergus.

Eliza: So glad we didn't have to host that

Calista: Kelly managed to get gold somehow

Bob: Then why do you look tense

Calista: It seems my daughter invited her girlfriend to move in without telling us

Eliza: Do you not like her

Calista: She is nice but they're both so young

Aaron: Who are we talking about

Calista: Deanna invited Paris to move in

Aaron: She did not. Well it's not happening

Calista: I don't think putting our foot down is the right answer

Aaron: She's too young to have a live in, plus she has study to do. I'll tell her if you don't want to, I don't mind being the bad guy

Calista: She'll bring up Devin flatting with Luna

Aaron: But there was a whole group of them together, not just two. Deanna needs to study, meet her potential

Bob: Does she want to

Aaron: She's valedictorian Bob, she's going to

...

Deanna: What are you doing

Kelly: Imagining gore with bun bun

Deanna: That's a choice?

Snow day! To Willow Creek park we go. Snowball fight time, or rather, everyone throws snowballs at poor Deanna time.

With the building of snowpals Aaron takes the opportunity to talk with Deanna.

Aaron: Paris told your ma that she was thinking of moving in

Deanna: That's good

Aaron: Is it

Deanna: Isn't it? She has to be out of that foster home at 18. Pa she has no family left. I want to bring her in to ours

Aaron: Honeybug, your heart is in the right place but 18 is very young to commit yourself to another person

Deanna: I wasn't proposing marriage pa, just sharing a home

Aaron: Yes but you have your studies to consider

Deanna: Devin studied and lived with Luna. Does she get a special exception just because she's the eldest

Aaron: No but they lived with 3, 4 other people

Deanna: You, ma and Kelly are 3 other people

Aaron: I'm meant to be the lawyer

Deanna: Are you saying she can't move in

Aaron: We wouldn't say that, those rooms are yours. But please consider your relationship carefully. Life is long and sometimes, love can be short

Deanna: Not for you and ma

Aaron: No, not for us

Deanna: So trust me to take the right kind of risks. I'm going to make mistakes now and then, but who doesn't. I'm not so afraid of it going south that I won't try

Previous Part ... Next Part

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[femmefatalevibe]

Vegan leather is just plastic and that’s worse for the environment than cow hide. And doesn’t last as long

Hi love. Sometimes this is true, it depends on the textile used! I think you're talking about the traditional synthetic options like polyurethane and other plastics that aren't sustainable. One of the most sustainable options is recycled leather (a more ethical way to use animal leather). If you're seeking more sustainable, plant-based leathers, look into Piñatex (pineapple) leather, mushroom leather (like Mylo), apple leather, or Desserto (cactus) leather x

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[positivexcellence]

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[truffoire]

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