peering at the blue fairy outside my house

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.

I've been making the transition these past few months, but I think I'm gonna just move back to Tumblr. My Twitter's follower-base has reached a point where I can't tweet anything casually opinion-related without it overflowing like a toilet. I post a short thread on my gripes with color design in anime and I'm getting QRT'd with "kill this guy with hammers" reaction gifs. Like, damn, this isn't fun anymore. It's not fun to talk about stuff on Twitter in general anymore. I wanted to post some ship dynamic doodles sometime there, but I know I'm gonna get weirdly aggressive takes and reactions. Monkey's paw curls, but I don't particularly like having that many followers.

Trying to bribe @morningstarwrites with these sketches so I can read the new chapter earlier ha! Thank you for the inspiration, the challenge and the absolute joy this fic brings me. I’d kiss your brain folds if I could.

I know this wasn't necessary for the movie's plot but it should've been in the movie I'm crying 😂

Dude I just had the funniest fucking idea. What about Wriothesley with a reader who hates tea. Like, they cannot force themselves to drink it for their life. Wriothesley tries to ask them out without knowing this, says something like 'Wanna grab a cup of tea sometime? *wink wink smile smile*' and the reader just grimaces and goes 'I don't like tea.' and he drops his charming act so fast and his jaw fucking drops because— "What the fuck do you mean you don't like tea?!"

I can’t include them all so here’s a combo of ‘came to mind first,’ ‘talked about positively most often by fans,’ and ‘stuck in my head’.

Public Apology Big Iron isn’t here. There were a lot that didn’t make the cut but that one specifically I stg I put in and only realized after posting had not. It was 100% meant to be on this list and I’ve failed us.

*Obvious Neurodivergent Trait*

Me: Everyone does/feels this! There's no oportunity that I'm neurodivergent...

*In my second appointment of therapy*

Doctor: You know I usually don't make diagnoses-

Me: Oh shit--

'kai raised nya alone' is such bs. oh yeah those other village people wouldn't fucking help two babies who's parents are missing. they totally wouldn't provide them food and help them to get enrolled in school or help with their home.

(( i do hc that kai and nya grew up very fast, being too mature for their age and having no close friends with others bc of their more adult behavior. both of them are school dropouts (kai dropped out in middle school and nya in highschool.) ))

Full disclosure I'm a couple episodes behind in WWW, so I'm not 100% on every thing that's being discoursed about, but I've seen enough that I just want to remind people/beg people to remember:

You are watching The Nuance Show, DMed by Mr. Philosophical Nuance and played by Notable Lovers of Nuance.

​​​​            saw you.

mom while setting up mahjong: aren't you going to be uncomfortable sitting sideways like that in the chair?

me: do you not see me sitting like a little gargoyle in my computer chair

Due to this being the strike week for Palestine, I wont be posting any quotes for the whole week & instead reblogging any helpful posts that support Palestine that I see. [This includes the Headcanons blog as well.]

Please help out in anyway you can!!! Even if you cant donate, spread the word. A free easy thing you can do daily is even to just click a button.

Twitter seemed more active and posted more information & aid last time so please look there as well!

shoutout to the girlies who were heavy into youtuber g/t fic circa 2016 but are now not into it but have to deal with the equivalent of war flashbacks every time they dig a little too far back in their blog. we’ve all been there. you’re so brave and strong.

Slow on art but hey, yall wanna see me open an ItemLabel blind box???

Warning, it's got my lame ass voice in it. I recorded this for my friends cause it was more fun to unbox it that way. Now I'm sharing with yall!

i've been biting my tongue and biting my tongue… but i am getting really, reallyyy fed up with bottling all of my feelings up all due to very known users (bullies!!!!!!) in the house of the dragon fandom & what they did to me, and many, many more others. & yes, i'm certain y'all know exactly who i'm referring to (even the weirdo one who was apparently OBSESSED with me, and a few other known blogs in the hotd fandom, this girl was apparently always checking my blogs, and just being a fucking creep). i barely interacted with any of them cause they were just mean, nasty girls… i'm sure you can all guess who-- but the shit i've been told by a close friend of mine, a very dear and trusted friend of mine, is honestly making me feel more n more sick as the weeks go by because of sooo much shit i had no idea about what was going on, what was being spread about me, and mind you, i'm the type of writer who takes weekly/monthly long breaks from this hellsite. also, i was in the mental hospital from oct 24th of last year - to the end of november, so i didn't know anything about what was happening or being said about me (which was a fuckton, unfortunately). i am just so disgusted with these girls, i am tired. and i am just so, so exhausted of keeping it all in & bottled up just for… for what??? to live in fear of them? LMAO. they can't do shit since everyone now knows their lies & how they really are, and two of them already deactivated like the cowardly cunts they are, instead of owning up to their shit. i am done playing the nice girl-- i am done. done. !