#anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #anti doomscroll patrol #fuck advertisers #fuck youth worship #you’re just getting started sweetie #there’s so much plot left to uncover

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s too late to save the world

Ash trees sprout in cracks in the asphalt. The gutters collect leaves, which become soil, in which dandelions sprout.

There’s nothing you can do

A man plants an entire forest. A young girl teaches a drone to deliver saplings. The elderly volunteer to clean up radioactive waste.

You might as well give up

Wolves return to ancestral hunting grounds. Bison return to the prairie. Otters return to the kelp beds. Young oaks push roots deep into reclaimed farmland.

Who cares anyway?

Children draw pictures of flowers. Festivals are held for cherry blossoms and pecans and apples. A crowd cheers as the last line is cut away from the ensnared creature.

I have disobeyed worse than you

The world does not die on my watch

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #druid life #anti doomscroll patrol #solarpunk #activism #environmentalism #EcoPunk #the world does not die on my watch

[asteroidtroglodyte]

All Animals are born knowing how to survive. Fish are born knowing how to swim. Gazelle are born knowing how to run. Humans are born knowing how to Ask For Help.

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Depression: why go on?

Me: [doodling]

Depression: nothing we do will ever matter

Me: I made a little guy

Depression: I suppose you think-

Me: he has a magic hammer

Depression:

Me: I’m gonna have him beat up imperialists

Depression: can I see

#anti doomscroll patrol #depression #art therapy #troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Internet Safety Tip #1

You can always leave

Close the tab. Close the phone. Look at your surroundings. Remember that you are a breathing Mammal living on a massive rocky orb hurtling through space. No one involved in an internet argument ever actually “Wins.” Maybe get a glass of water.

#mental health #internet safety #mindfulness #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Hey, Young’uns

Will you do me a favor?

I want you to imagine Humans.

I want you to imagine the descendants of people living today. I want you to imagine that there are still Humans in 3000 years. No, 4000 years! Maybe they look different! Evolution, you know.

But: not an apocalypse.

I don’t want any wasteland. None of that. Shoo!

Maybe there was one? At one point? Sort of? It didn’t actually kill everyone, is the thing. Folks live in caves. Folks live on mountaintops. Folks live on boats. Folks eat all kinds of different things. Folks are crafty.

Folks survive.

And Mama, Big Mama Nature? She’s relentless.

And so the world didn’t quite End.

Can you see them? Try to imagine. The Humans.

Maybe they tell stories about us, but probably not. Maybe our relics haunt their world… but probably not. 4000 years is a long time.

Plenty of time for Fungus to learn to eat Plastic.

Plenty of time for topsoil to replenish.

Plenty of time for those ugly cities to get buried under nice forests. Time enough, even, for those forests to be Old-Growth.

I just…

I want you to imagine them happy.

So much Doomscrolling, these days. It’s not good for ya! Just because a story is grim don’t make it True! Grit and Cynicism do not have a monopoly on Truth!

Imagine happy people

4000 years from now

I don’t need to hear about them (although I’ll happily listen if you want to share, that’s fine). This is an exercise. For you.

It’s already real hard out there.

It’s ok to be a bit soft in a daydream

#anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

“We curate our own experience here”

I love you fandoms I don’t participate in I love you activists for problems I don’t have I love you people with different lived experiences from me I love you spicy hot takes I love you rambling analysis I love you other people’s Blorbos I love you thoughts I never would have had on my own i love and adore all of you especially the ones who surprise me keep it up I love you all

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #anti doomscroll patrol #diversity is the spice of life #travel is the cure for small mindedness #I’ll build my own algorithm #with blackjack and hookers

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I have trained my ear to hear for the Cracks in Reality; The gap between what a person says and what they believe; the slight delay in the beat that says I am reading off the page as opposed to i speak from within. A spot where I might lodge a prybar of rhetoric; a Crack in the Consensus through which I might reach and change their mind.

I have trained my eye, too, to seek the Cracks in Civilization. Cracks in the asphalt. Forgotten boundary land. Abandoned lots. The Unmanicured earth. Hillsides run riot with invasive Mustards and Rapeseeds. Places where no one will mind a vagrant; places where no one will see me return the seeds to their homelands; places where the mowing mulching munching machines of Empire will not notice the baby Poppy and Lupine and Gallardia before they can unfurl their tiny, delicate, ancient flags.

The Land belongs to them, you know? Actually. We just live here.

There are children in my neighborhood. I point to tiny flowers and say “look. See.” They make sounds of wonder. I put bags of seeds in their hands and tell them they can do magic; they can summon flowers from dead dirt. I tell them the names of flowers and the names of bugs and the names of stones and they gather to listen. They have so many questions. I do my best.

And the Cracks widen a bit.

The chains and bars of Empire rust a bit.

This year, there will be flowers. I know this because last year I planted flowers.

The children will see the flowers, and they will say “those are ours!” They will want to defend the flowers.

If I do everything right, then one day, when they are no longer children, there will be a choice between Flowers and Empire; between yet another strip mall or suburban development or Amazon fulfillment center and

THEIR FLOWERS

And it will hardly be a choice at all.

I can dream. I can try.

#anti doomscroll patrol #guerrilla gardening #teaching The Stewards #as long as I draw breath #there will be flowers

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I’m Sorry

(Not that I did anything wrong; just that everybody’s going through so much shit. I mean I’m going through shit too but I got My People. I’m ok. Sorry your shit’s fucked though. Sympathies. Condolences. Etc)

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I love you slugs I love you snails 🐌 I love you roaches🪳 I love you flies I love you worms 🪱 I love you spiders 🕷️ I love you beetles 🪲 I love you Mantids I love you wasps I love you bees 🐝 I love you moths I love you caterpillars 🐛

I Love You

To all the little Animals out there just trying to live a life in a world so full of Humans.

I know a lot of my brothers and sisters hate you but I Love You; you are appreciated, thank you for all your hard work keeping the biosphere running, please take a moment to rest in my garden I made a nice little spot for you lots of flowers and dead leaves and places to hide please do help yourself also I love you I love you I love you.

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #druid life #animism #animals #insects #bugs #love #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

A Future

It is The Future

There are still Rich and Poor

But the Rich are not Kings

And the Poor do not starve

The words City and Forest are interchangeable

The hole, shaped like a friendly creature

In the center of our hearts

Left empty by modern urban sterility

Is again filled with serendipitous meetings

There is still Electricity and Medicine

Pulled directly from the source

From the Sun and Plants themselves

According to Need, rather than Greed

We do not elevate

Mere businessmen to Godhood

Understanding that Humans have always

Triumphed TOGETHER

And that Greed is not, in fact, Good.

The water’s clean, the air is sweet

The food, abundant, good to eat

It’s not a place that we can go

But through hard work, we’ll make it so.

#optimism #anti doomscroll patrol #spell #evocation #poetry

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Life is hard.

Have some flowers.

#flowers #plants #druid life #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

# Troglodyte Thoughts: General tag for my stuff; widest net

# Free Range Sustainable Shitposting: general memery, shitposts, commentary, train of thought stuff

# Druid Life: animals, plants, land management, green magic

# Sons of Empire: nationalism, politics, economics, Fash shit

# Anti Doomscroll Patrol: optimism, beauty, sincerity, flowers

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #Druid life #sons of empire #anti doomscroll patrol

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Maybe

If I plant enough

It will make a difference

Maybe

If I plant enough

There will be flowers

#hope #flowers #trees #anti-doomscroll patrol #nature #activism #guerrilla gardening

[asteroidtroglodyte]

#wholesome #uplifting #mental health #anti doomscroll patrol #druid life