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Bad Things Happen Bingo - Taking Requests
Okay, folks, I got my new @badthingshappenbingo card, and I thought this time I am gonna take requests, if anyone wants to see anything of this. For the Fandoms:
Castlevania & Castlevania Nocturne
Baldur's Gate 3
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Generally will write about all sorts of characters - shippings are below the cut.
Possible ships.
Trevor/Sypha/Alucard/Greta (Castlevania)
Striga/Morana (Castlevania)
Carmilla/Laura (Castlevania)
Hector/Isaac (Castlevania)
Mizrak/Olrox (Castlevania: Nocturne)
Tav/Astarion (BG3)
Astarion/Themberchaud (BG3)
Tav/OCs (BG3)
Karlach/Lae'zel/Nocturne/Shadowheart/Wyll (BG3)
Lakrissa/Alfira (BG3)
Araj/Aurelia (BG3)
Edgin/Xenk (DnD:HAT)
@0nelittlebirdtoldme @missmacfire @luckykai
#bad things happen bingo#dnd:hat#dungeons and dragons honor among thieves#dnd#baldurs gate 3#baldur's gate 3#bg3#castlevania#castlevania netflix#castlevania nocturne#fanfiction
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About Blowing Up Pipelines
A while ago I saw a post about fossil fuels, under which someone posted: "What are you waiting for? Let's blow up the pipelines!" Which is very fair. But someone else came to post under it: "No! Think of the environmental harm! You need to go vote!"
And, let's be honest here: It is very likely that neither of them have actually read the book that the "blow up a pipeline" wording comes from. How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. Which in its core argues that sabotage is good, because voting doesn't do shit.
Now, don't get me wrong. There is a ton of important elections coming up - especially in the US, but soon in Germany as well. And you need to go vote to prevent another Trump presedency! However: There is nobody you can vote for, who will actually stop pipelines from being build, who will actually limit the size of cars folks drive, and who will actually put pressure on natural gas, coal and what not. Heck, even in the best case that on a local level there might be some who want to build out bike lanes and public transport... Those changes often take too long to bring them through during one term and if someone else is in charge next term, chances are, the projects will be cancelled.
So, basically what Malm argues in his book: Voting will not change those things, partly because of lobbyism. Protests will be ignored, partly because politicians care more about the lobbyists. Same goes with petitions. So, the usual ways that technically a democracy will leave for people to engage and influence politics do not work.
But, so Malm says, sabotage does.
Now, he does actually not directly argue for literally blowing up pipelines. But he is arguing for sabotage. He notes: "If just a few people with their keys run through a city during the night and scratch up all the SUVs, a lot fewer people will on the long term use SUVs." He even talks about something like this that he participated in in Sweden and what effects it had.
And yes, he does give ideas of how to deal with pipelines in ways that will do a lot of financial damage, which makes pipelines and hence fossil fuels a lot less attractive to energy providers. Because they are going to need to pay for all that damage.
Even with smaller sabotage... yes, there will be some environmental damage. But try to think of it this way: If enough folks do this, if there is enough damage done on the pipelines (and other forms of creating and transporting fossil fuels), then less of them will be build, will be used. And given that those pipelines and other fossil fuels will leak into the environment either way, and over time will do a lot more damage than a few cases of sabotage will do.
And I really gotta say: Yeah, no, I do agree with Malm. On all the fronts.
So, please... The book is actually super short. Just go an read it, alright?
#environmentalism#environment#pollution#fossil fuels#climate crisis#going green#how to blow up a pipeline#andreas malm#solarpunk#lunarpunk#anarchism
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Here is your card for Bad Things Happen Bingo. Happy writing!
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Solarpunk and the Third Place
Let's talk about third places. It is a topic that has been brought up in a lot of Solarpunk and leftwing places have brought up during the last few months. Andrewism has made a video on it for example. And given that during the last few weeks I actually made a lot of use of third places, I thought I also could talk a bit more about it.
See, I have spoken about this: Due to my roommate just being very hard to live with right now, I kinda fled my home. (Which yes, is due to her mental health, but that does not make it any better for me.) And basically I just looked into: Where the hell could I spend my time?
And then I remembered the thing that I did throughout my youth: Hang out at gaming stores and, well, play games. I did that a lot for so long, given it is often a place for nerds to gather. And yeah, what can I say? It still works.
Heck, I found even someone who plays Digimon Cards with me.
But of course we do know - again it has been discussed a lot - that in recent times a lot of third places have either been erased, or the way we live have stopped the third places to work the way they used to work like this.
Let's quickly go over what a third place is: A third place is a place where you can hang out and get to know people. A place distinct from the place you live and the place you work in (or school, for students). Stuff like a park, a café, a library... things like that. Places that encourage you to interact with new people and start conversations.
Recently those places have been destroyed a lot. Partly because a lot of them have become hard to afford (especially on a regular basis), partly because they have become shut down, and partly because our culture actually does no longer encourage interacting with strangers.
And, I mean. Yeah. Parks are counted among third places, but honestly, I cannot remember that I actually interacted with a stranger in a park. If a stranger talks to me, I am afraid they are a creep. And if I see someone I think I could get along with, I do not dare to talk to them.
The fact that most of us run around glued to our electric devices (I am counting myself there as well) does not help this fact, right? If I am sitting in a café, I am usually working on my laptop, which will make it less likely that folks interact with me. And, of course, my autistic self will also not do that in turn.
Solarpunk both as a genre and a vision for the future is very much build around the idea of community and working together as a community. And for that we need third places in Solarpunk futures. Places that are easily accessible and that people can just go to to talk to people.
But more than that, Solarpunk also needs a society and social rules that actually allow for folks to interact with each other, talk to each other and ask each other for help and stuff.
Sure, there also need to be safe and silent spaces for people with needs like that (including autistic folks like me). And really... Frankly, I would not know how to talk with someone outside a nerd context, lol.
#solarpunk#lunarpunk#third places#community#community building#cooperation#hang out#parks#society#we live in a society#social life
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Travel is good, tourism isn't
I said in the blog yesterday, that I think travel is good, but tourism isn't. So, let me explain this. And I will put this here first: I am going to explain it on the example of Japan, because I know the most about what is happening there in terms of travel and tourism - and what issues arise from it.
See, I do think travelling to foreign places (whatever that means for you) is a good thing. Experiencing other cultures and interacting people who due to their culture have a very different outlook on life and the world is a good thing. Not only to move away from a certain worldview (which for white people tends to be an eurocentric one, and for Americans an US-centric one), it also fosters empathy to other people.
And I think of this dramatic thing especially when it comes to Americans travelling, who due to their lacking education system often do know jack shit about the rest of the world.
However: I do both think that the thing we right now call tourism does not really help, but actually does hinder this - and is harmful in many other ways.
Right now, foreign tourists are no longer allowed in Gion, the Geisha quarter of Kyoto. The reason for it is, that too many of them were fucking disrespectful. Some made photos of the Geisha without asking, some even touched the kimono and the hair of the Geisha. Some even got angry and started arguing, when people told them to not do this.
Especially when it comes to Kyoto I can think of a variet of other examples. People have carved their names into temples. People touched things that are not supposed to be touched (like idols). People otherwise behaved inappropriately, for example towards kannushi and mikos. Folks have bathed their feet in pools meant for ritual cleansing. There are a lot of examples of this.
And I think part of this goes back to two things. For one again eurocentrism and the way, that a lot of especially white folks to not perceive other cultures as real. But also, and maybe more importantly, the mindset that: "I have paid $1500 for this trip and I get to very well do what I want." The different culture in this mindset gets treated like a themepark, not as a place filled with real people, rather than performers there to enhance the tourist's experience.
Meanwhile the tourists generally are not really interested to interact with the other culture further than that. Which is also, why they tend to flock to the same few places, to all go make their own photo of the same place that a million people have photographed before - as compared to going exploring in a foreign place.
And in some cases - like Kyoto - this also leads to the fact that the local people often get pushed out of the places they actually live in.
A lot of people will often say: "Yeah, but it is great for their economy." Which... leaving my capitalism-hating-ideation aside for a moment... Well, actually it is not good and COVID showed us. Because it makes the economy totally depedent on tourism. In places that are heavily dependent on tourism, the sudden complete anihilation of tourism with the pandemic pushed those places further into a crisis than anywhere else. Heck, keeping it with Kyoto: Given a lot of folks had jobs related to the tourism industry and there were in fact not many other jobs, a lot of people found themselves forced to move away from Kyoto during the pandemic.
So while the entire "but economy" thing will seem true on a short term, it actually is not on the long term.
And that is without going into the environmental impact that comes from a lot of people flocking to certain places. This is shown especially in areas, where folks go for "nature", destroying nature while they do so. Because nature just cannot handle thousands upon thousands of people travelling through.
So, what do I mean with "travel, instead of tourism"? Well, frankly: Yes, you still go to other places. But - to keep with Japan - instead of going to Kyoto you might go to Morigushi or Beppo, and instead of touring from one temple and shrine to the next, you will just interact with the places and explore them. To actually experience them, rather than some preconscieved notion of what it is supposed to be. And you interact with the people.
And you learn. Because we all just need to learn about different people, different cultures and different places. Rather than just consuming them.
#travel#tourism#anti tourism#anti capitalism#fuck capitalism#eurocentrism#solarpunk#lunarpunk#philosophy#japan#kyoto#gion district
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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽
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Airships are in fact quite cool
Let me talk a bit more about travel in a Solarpunk world and about the one mode of travel that I actually think that we should definitely fall back on more: Airships or blimps.
See, when I imagine a Solarpunk future, I also think about travel. Because no matter how much we can talk about the issues with tourism, I do also think that cultural exchange is a very important think and that everyone should get the chance to see other places.
And while planes will never completely go away (there will always be a need to get certain things from A to B in a matter of minutes or hours, rather than days), I also do think that general travel should slow down a lot.
Once again: Trains are awesome and for certain journeys we totally can and should use trains - and we absolutely should invest in a better railway infrastructure and everything. But rails do not go across the ocean and even on land there might be too much environmental impact to build railroads through certain habbitats.
And this is, where I think that blimps might actually come in.
Today blimp journeys are for one hella expensive, and also not quite feasible, given they take quite a while. And while part of the reasons they are expensive have to do with technology and we need to figure that stuff out... Another part is simply that those are rare and hence the market drive prices.
But... I also do not think that in a Solarpunk future we need to worry about the market, duh.
And on the technology part? Well, we either need to figure out to make helium cheaper, or we just need to try and trust hydrogen once again.
When it comes to the time... Again, without capitalism and shit, I do not think that our lives will be as hasty as they are right now. We should have more time. And that also means more time to travel. It should work fine. If we just let it and detatch from the idea that we need to get to a place instantly.
Just my thought. I think blimps are pretty darn awesome.
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Poll: A Solarpunk Halloween - Q2: The Ship (by which I mean a literal ship on the ocean)
Alright, you guys have spoken. In the first poll it was decided that the Story I am going to write for Halloween will be set on a ship out on the ocean.
Now the next question needs to be, what kind of a ship it is going to be. After all, there is a variety of ships that could be swimming around on the ocean in a Solarpunk world. So, I will once again leave it for you to decide the kind of ship it is!
Tags go out for @a-book-scarfing-goblin @i-tripped-up-the-stairs-again @garnetrena @solar-sunnyside-up @bumblebeeappletree @solarpunkani
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Yesterday I decided to finally start writing on a project that I had been planning for quite a while: A fic shipping Araj Oblodra with Aurelia, the vampire spawn, taking place post-game.
I kinda have talked about it before. Basically my headcanon goes something like this: There is Araj, on her way to either restore the House of Oblodra or rain bloody revenge on Menzoberranzan, when she hears about several vampire spawn settling in the ruins of Grymforge. And for just one moment she strays from her path and lets her kink get the better of her. Just for a tenday, she tells herself. Just for a tenday she is going to check it out.
(Spoiler alert: Several months later, when Astarion and Tav finally move their sorry asses to check up on the vampire spawn, Araj is still hanging around.)
And yes, this very much goes into being a kind of redemption story for Araj, as well as a story about healing together from trauma.
Because let's face it. Araj is also going to be traumatized as fuck. She is just not admitting it to herself. But her entire family is fucking dead. She is an outsider to drow society, but as a drow she does not have a place anywhere else in the world. Not to mention that a society as restrective as the society of the drow in Faerûn is going to be traumatizing to everyone living in it.
Weirdly enough, as I am writing this, I also realize that this is probably the first time in my entire life that I am writing an actual slowburn story. Because boy, those two cannot stand each other in the beginning of the story.
Also, I am really starting to fall in love with Araj in this story. She is a fucking bitch, and she deserves some ass whopping, but also... Jesus, this girl needs a good long hug.
#baldur's gate 3#baldurs gate 3#bg3#femslash#araj oblodra#bg3 aurelia#araj x aurelia#crackship#fanfic stuff
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Poll: A Solarpunk Halloween - Q2: The Ship (by which I mean a literal ship on the ocean)
Alright, you guys have spoken. In the first poll it was decided that the Story I am going to write for Halloween will be set on a ship out on the ocean.
Now the next question needs to be, what kind of a ship it is going to be. After all, there is a variety of ships that could be swimming around on the ocean in a Solarpunk world. So, I will once again leave it for you to decide the kind of ship it is!
Tags go out for @a-book-scarfing-goblin @i-tripped-up-the-stairs-again @garnetrena @solar-sunnyside-up @bumblebeeappletree @solarpunkani
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I am more and more realizing how much e-scooters are absolutely mobility aids. And you cannot change my mind on that.
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i don’t care that they’ve never met in canon, i wanna ship Carmilla x Tera and nobody can stop me 👩❤️💋👩
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Poll: A Solarpunk Halloween - Q2: The Ship (by which I mean a literal ship on the ocean)
Alright, you guys have spoken. In the first poll it was decided that the Story I am going to write for Halloween will be set on a ship out on the ocean.
Now the next question needs to be, what kind of a ship it is going to be. After all, there is a variety of ships that could be swimming around on the ocean in a Solarpunk world. So, I will once again leave it for you to decide the kind of ship it is!
Tags go out for @a-book-scarfing-goblin @i-tripped-up-the-stairs-again @garnetrena @solar-sunnyside-up @bumblebeeappletree @solarpunkani
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Closure - Chapter 8
And the next chapter for Closure is there. This one featuring Trevor the fun dad, being good with his kids.
Closure
Chapter 8: The Bloody British Cuisine
Fandom: Castlevania (Netflix)
Shipping: Trevor/Sypha/Alucard & Dracula/Lisa
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Trevor and his daughter bond about their distaste for the English cuisine.
#castlevania#castlevania netflix#castlevania fanfiction#trevor x sypha x alucard#dracula x lisa#trephacard#draculisa
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