I think one thing I struggle with when it comes to wanting to write Solarpunk stories is like

I like writing conflicts. But I don’t know how to write large conflicts—so something like ‘dismantling the government to install a solarpunk society in its place’ is way too big of a fish for me to fry

But also small conflicts just don’t do it for me. I just can’t stay entertained with them long enough. So something like ‘little Maisy lost her favorite doll and its up to her older brother to find it. Oh btw they live in a solarpunk society’ wouldn’t get past like one page if I tried it

But how fantastical can one get before a society is no longer solarpunk but just… fantasy? How far out of the realm of reality can you get before it just seems hollow? But how close can you stay? How much conflict can you have before your hopeful vision of a solarpunk future is no longer hopeful and no longer solarpunk? How big of an issue can you create in a solarpunk society, what kind, while still keeping it solarpunk? While still having a problem that can’t just be handwaved with ‘that wouldn’t happen in solarpunk’?

And of course logically I know the answer is different for everyone. But like. Still. How derivative can you get, how much conflict can you add, before a story intended to be solarpunk just becomes ‘random urban fantasy but with round roofs stained glass and a lot more greenhouses?’

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Annual Ides of March reminder that while Caesar was promoting/planning to enact policies that would have benefitted the Roman plebeians and that's the main reason the Senate turned on him, it doesn't mean he was some kind of 'good guy'. Just ask the Gauls. Even his contemporaries thought his bloody campaigns (arguably genocidal, inarguably extravagantly violent beyond any argument of necessity) were 'a bit much' which, given the Roman attitudes toward 'barbarians', is saying a lot.

Shithead rich men ganged up on and stabbed another shithead rich man because he was costing them money and power to exalt himself as a proto-Emperor. Celebrate the ides as an example of instant karma, but don't make the mistake of thinking there were any 'good guys' involved.

Yo shout out to the time Mori brought a wholeass railroad company in Stormbringer. Bonus points for this banger of a side character, customer service hit him hard.

even for period typical ableism it still drives me nuts for karen to go oh poor matt how can he deal and get around as if he hasn't been blind most of his life at this point and living on his own by himself as an adult for his entire adult life after college and has also lived in the city his whole life like girl use your damn brain he can get around by himself just fine. good god. like take five seconds to use your brain. literally adult man who lives by himself if nothing else that should tell you he is fine and when he needs assistance has the knowledge and ability to go get it you act as if he can't even walk on the sidewalk by himself. he literally shows up to work by himself. it drives me up the wall sometimes how she sees proof of him functioning fine independently literally witnesses it on the daily and still thinks these things. like again foggy isn't great either bc again the period typical ableism (and just general ableism in the world outside of this period as this is a common attitude of viewing disabled people as helpless and unable to function even if they are people who do live independently (and im not touching on people who do need extra support and caretaking in this context. as this post is about these characters in the context of a story. so im talking about what we see there instead of any truly meaningful nuanced way) but the writing here is like. Particularly this way due to the time) he has a modicum more of understanding that matt is literally a capable grown adult man. literally told karen matt is a big boy who can handle himself and then karen went b-b-but you forget he's blind as if foggy hasn't known him for years of his life and is his best friend like PLEASE SEE HIM AS AN ADULT. I AM GOING TO GO INSANE. PLEASE RESPECT HIM IF YOU LOVE HIM SO DEARLY. AND EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T. JUST RESPECT HIM AS A PERSON!!!!!!

Oof the pay it forward episode can be so good as a theme:

Chimney giving Eddie advice and a call back to the tomorrow isn’t promised line

Buck admitting he’s very much not okay mentally rn and asking Bobby for help (a call back to when Bobby was struggling in season one and buck told him to just ask for help and he broke down asking for it)

Ahh my vision is so clear and yet it won’t be actualised eventhough they built it so perfectly for these two things to happen

Israeli Troops Accidentally Kill Escaped Hostages Who Were Mistaken for Hamas Terrorists

Israel said Friday that its troops killed three escaped hostages after mistaking them for Hamas terrorists during combat in Gaza.

Israel Defense Forces posted to X, explaining that the mistake happened during fighting in Shejaiya, a neighborhood in Gaza City. The victims had reportedly escaped captivity and were running toward Israeli troops, who then shot them.

"During a scan and inspection of the area of ​​the incident, a suspicion arose regarding the identity of the dead. The bodies were taken for examination in Israeli territory, after which it turned out that they were three Israeli abductees," the IDF statement said.

The victims were named as Yotam Haim, 28, kidnapped from Kfar Aza on Oct. 7 and Samer Talalka, 24, a resident of the Bedouin town of Rahat, who was kidnapped from Nir Am.

“Such bitter news: Bedouins and Jews were taken hostage together, managed to flee together in an effort to continue their lives — and ended their lives together in this very tragic event,” Mayor of Rahat Ata Abu Madighem told Army Radio.

A short while after the first two names were announced, the third victim was named as Alon Lulu Shamriz by the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council. The 26-year-old was a computer engineering student.

The Morally Grey Protagonist Mia Winters In Resident Evil 7

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My stepdad who is a democrat really just said "well Hamas is a terrorist organization and if Palestine just dismissed them Israel would stop" as if that justifies innocent children and people being bombed and eradicated.

I keep seeing people saying saying things that suggest that the Gotham public knows Jason Todd came back from the dead but like... Has this ever actually been addressed in any continuity?

I've read a lot of Jason Todd comics, and I don't remember it coming up. Idk if Jason even cares about his legally dead status, that man does not have a civilian life. He's got his Outlaws found families and his siblings and Alfred and most days that's all he needs. (He does appreciate when he has Bruce too tho, and it is nice when he does.)

Like... I know he'd have a positive emotional reaction if someone else decided to change his legally dead status to show they want him alive and as family, but I feel like he already gets enough gestures from his loved ones that brighten his life and he exists so far outside the law that it's literally his team name, so like... It just doesn't seem like a thing that's actually all that needed.

There are babies being killed who havent even gotten their birth certificates but got their death certificates, and you have B*den questioning the legitimately of the death count of Palestinians and Israel's imperialist leader and supporters still calling it "self- defense" while they bomb refugee camps, elementary schools, and hospitals.

the fact this government keeps insisting we're more ~progressive~ than all countries around us, while people are literally getting arrested for just expressing their opinions (not even ones that support terrorism. which is what they're supposedly getting arrested for, on paper. just for supporting the people caught in the crossfire and saying you wish they didn't). hell country hell country hell country

There is something so bittersweet about countries who hate each other coming together in times of need and tragedy to help each-other out without expecting anything in return

fuck it, i don't care who blocks me for this

there are now 300+ murdered, 2000+ injured, and over a 100 israeli citizens who have been kidnapped into the gaza strip. terrorists have taken hold of over 30 small towns around the strip in which they murdered people throughout. there were live phonecalls with people hearing gunshots outside of their homes. there are videos of naked women and defiled bodies. this isn't liberation, this is a massacre, unprovoked and during the last day of sukkot

i have no sympathy left for "free palestine". i'm not even gonna look at the tag because i know there are people there celebrating the deaths of hundreds of jewish people. this is antisemitism, raw and simple. unfollow me right now if you can turn a blind eye to the murder, torture, rape and abduction of innocent civillians

there's a friggin episode of dbz where goku and piccolo learn to drive, and it's literally the best episode in the show so far. I wish the show had more filler like that, it was amazing.