#change of state
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Going from sleep to wake
Just to live all my days
In that inbetween state.
Keeping my eyes open
Just to see your face.
Don't turn out the light.
I know it's late,
But I'm not ready yet
For that forced change of state.
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change of state
(1/4/24)
if i were to escape into aether
and see you grasping at the stars
begging the nebulae to bring me back
i’d have to wave goodbye
and hope you have a plan for the future
c.m
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Happy Escapril! I hope everyone’s having a good day so far. I don’t celebrate April Fool’s Day—so…I’m dropping my first poem with @adventurerswritingguild’s first prompt from their list!
Here’s the song inspiration:
Specific POV:
Here’s the poem, “Your Heart is in Another Castle,” I hope you all enjoy the read.
Who is the “I” in this situation? It’s not me. I wrote this unsure of how to go about it, and then just typed and here it is.
Updating this post with the Spoken Word video I posted within 20 minutes to spare on YouTube! Visuals are unrelated to the poem, but I used my in-game screenshots and the poem graphic itself as still-moving visual for this one. Enjoy!
In terms of audio, there are two glass shattering sounds, laughter sounds, and a voice changer. I may just be overly cautious, so—have fun!
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--prompt from @letsescapril (1 April)
Why would i crystallize, when I could still move around?
Molten gold, it wraps around your hand,
yet burns your skin, little by little.
You draw shapes on my surface,
waiting for something to emerge,
and you to obtain something beautiful.
You remember alchemy, but only use fire
to conjure your greatest desires
at the tips of your fingers.
Your hands start turning a putrid violet
wanting to keep something beautiful
in a crackled state. --Elda Mengisto
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in which i turn to liquid and become solid again
and it's odd, because i sometimes think i can hear the waves before i become them. or feel the mist and salt on my tongue and cough as i am urged forward, as i swirl around my legs and my hair becomes seaweed. i am cold and warm and feel nothing when i breathe. if i open my eyes it will be vast and unwelcoming and an embrace. my stomach turns to knots and i twist and break what isn't there to bear it. and it's odd, because i can choke and swallow but there is no matter to speak of. or at least, none that is identifiable. if i listen there will only be the rush of something and my own empty breaths, a gasping for a life or a grappling for something long surrendered. my ego is withering and i feel it turn to silt between my fingers and there's nothing left of me to care. and it's odd, because i can never anticipate the wholeness before it arrives. or remember lungs soon enough to avoid the gasping, untie the knots that will be felt long after. i am touching the ground and my fingertips are mine. i fear that if i am too eager i will dissolve into foam. my eyes are heavy and they are pulling me lower and there is a rushing in my ears that is almost familiar.
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When we were together,
I needed to clean religiously
and you would joke about how spotless the windows were
I cooked every meal,
I made sure this place was pleasant
When you made it unpleasant,
I worked overtime
and finally understood why people cheat
When my coworker asked me to have dinner with him
I didn’t tell him I had a girlfriend
for the first time in my life,
my hands felt dirty and the nights were endless
he asked me so nicely I almost considered it
My house smelled of you, the rooms were always cold
but I
made sure the windows were crystal clear
When we were no longer together,
I paid the price of previous decisions
I flinch at the sight of a bottle of beer,
I hate the smell of cheap perfume
and I have trouble saying who I am
but
now my home is alive, the walls pastel
the laundry undone, the windows dirty, my calendar busy
my friends are waiting for me, and I will meet them
I’m not the woman I used to be
but at least I’m not the woman I was with you.
-ESCAPRIL // DAY ONE; ‘Change of State’
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Change of State
I am poured from cup to cup.
Pour, splash, overflow, repeat.
Droplets of heartache, desire, dream run in tear tracks.
Salt water river-lets.
Some days the tap won't stop dripping, until I am gulley, overrun and burbling.
Ice cold, frozen lack. Cracks from the thaw.
Crack, ripple, flood.
Maybe one day, I'll be steam.
Dissipating, free, thoughtless and full.
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escapril day 1 - change of state
- mak gilbert
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hardwood floors. the grass covered ground we lie on. strawberries. jell-o shots. blankets at nighttime. snow on a warm day, being shaped and thrown. honey. your mouth when I kiss you, moving against my touch. hot tea on my tongue.
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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
#yeehaw#1k#5k#10k#posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference#edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense#also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags#1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now#he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic#2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign#like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent ����🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock#3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing#it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is#extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once#it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life#i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about#Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect#if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it#aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week
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No paywall version here.
"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...
In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.
Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.
But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.
I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.
In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.
For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.
And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.
Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.
[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]
And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.
The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.
I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.
To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.
The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.
Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.
I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."
-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.
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Change of state:
IIt's quiet outside my window
But it's raining inside my bed.
Pouring onto my bedsheets,
Damp pillow, flooded head.
I'm solid, then I'm liquid,
I spill over the edge.
It's a neverending sadness
Ever since you left.
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change of state
i never expected leaving this town to feel so good. i knew i didn’t like it here, but i kind of expected to not like it anywhere.
but when i left with only my friends, for the first time, i think i felt genuine peace, for the first time.
the cool air, the new scenery, the cute little coffee shops, the train rides, being able to relax into it.
walking down the street felt like an adventure. sitting at dinner felt refreshing. coming home to a place that wasn’t ours still felt cozy.
sightseeing with my friend. shopping with his girlfriend. sitting at the beach with them. sneaking away with my girlfriend, the relationship new, wanting to kiss her at the lighthouse.
this new place breathed so much life into me. into all of us. this change brought new feelings we’d never considered before.
the feeling that we could imagine a life here.
the feeling that we could make a home here.
different from where we came from.
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The View from the Hill (escapril 1)
The view from the hill is far better at night.
Otherwise, it’s only bare trees & dead grass,
still. Winter’s crystal glow has faded, and
the Spring hasn’t been delivered yet.
In the dark, all I can see are lightbulbs,
a scatterplot up and down the valleys,
signs from a semblance of a city. My favourite
view is the Fall’s, when the leaves are only going, going,
screaming with all their colours, bright red,
embarrassed as the sun slips from their grasp.
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Escapril day 1: "Change of state"
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being trans is like moving to oregon
decide what's important
it can't all come with you
look at your bank account
prepare your documents
count the cost
there's no going back
— except that there is
— except that there isn't
so you
prepare as best you can
pour over stories of those
who did it before
say goodbye to your mother
say goodbye to this you
try to explain
"no no I'm not dying, I just— things will be different now"
they don't hear
"they have to be different. they must be. please"
they don't try to convince you to stay
"I'm just worried
"I'm just worried that this will be too hard for you
"are you sure you can handle this?"
"no," you think
"yes," you say
maybe some day that, too, will change
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