i rarely post personal stuff on here these days but another good news post... i got accepted for an apartment that i really love (and did not expect to get)!! my goal for ages has been to be able to live alone and its actually gonna happen! happy pride month the gays stay winning!!!
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Living somewhere completely flat for 99% of my childhood really fucked up my perception of topography cause i see a tiny hill and start freaking out doing backflips and shit in excitement
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Natural burials are probably what we're supposed to be doing. Wrapping loved ones in thin cloth and lowering them into a pit, no coffin, no box, no chemicals added for preservation of a body that is just going to decay anyway. Bugs eat us. The earth eats us. We become grass that animals consume. We become trees that birds rest in. We give back to the world that housed us and set up for a new generation to survive on.
I mean that's how it works with animals, right? They die and the ground swallows them and blooms beautiful flowers and grass and food that they come back to each time, to eat and die over and over again.
I get that we're human though. Having your loved one protected from bugs and creepy crawlers and scavenging animals digging up plots and potential graverobbers is a comforting thought. Knowing that you can visit a grave and they're right there below you, in tact instead of bitten down to pieces. Being able to lay families together is easier if you don't have to constantly be digging up plants.
And they're useful for barring against disease. People die of infectious illnesses. Easier to throw them a box deep below the earth where it can't spread to the living and bugs and other animals can't nip at infected flesh and pass it on to one another until it gets back to where it came from.
And then ofc general religious/cultural traditions throughout history that create a separation between the body and the earth. That create a preservation to withstand time for as long as possible. I get why people keep up with those - it's a belief instilled.
But at the same time, I just. Think it's kind of a shame.
I'd like to become a tree. Or a patch of grass. Or a patch of flowers. Something positive, productive, rather than just a body in a box in the ground.
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one thing that does frustrate me but i know it's in a sea of frustration about the general cherry-picking worldbuilding and mashed up orientalism of atla is how the water tribes SEEM to live on some sort of equivalent of antarctica and a (fictional) "north pole". but for some reason geographically speaking it's like of this entire team of people who worked on the show they just ?! don't know what actual living conditions of any inuit or native influence ACTUALLY look like...? what living in the "arctic" actually looks like? as in? you don't live on top of a glacier it's LAND... with snow on it. like they leant into how they're waterbenders so they make things from ice and snow and it's what their architecture is primarily derived from in the northern water tribe so they seem to be stuck in this eternal sort of winter but ... summer still exists. and they've made references to the midnight sun which is you know... summer + falling into berry bushes and they do have tents and HEAPS of animal skins that aren't just from aquatic animals and there's like the polar bear dogs and caribou hybrid things and therefore there has to be soil and some sort of vegetation for animals to eat so that the predators can eat those animals. and you know there's BOATS so theres definitely plenty of trees around. i don't know it just feels ... sloppy and they could have easily made actual arctic influenced continents where it looks like people could you know Actually live instead of Ice World. like apparently snow falls year round in both tribes which is also insane. also why would they have their settlements literally directly on the water and not even slightly inland ...
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