George Sand / Mad Max Fury Road / Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz / Jibaro (Love, Sex, and Robots) / The hobbit: he Battle of the Five Armies / / Princess Mononoke / EU smashes 2020 climate target / Lord of the Rings, Return of the King / Katherine Mansfield / Princess Mononoke
It’s not too late.
[Image description: 10 photos stacked vertically.
The first photo is a screenshot of a letter that reads: “...affection. what an age! everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also, eaten up by the sun and the wind. i don't know where i get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end. You write me very little, I worry about you. G Sand.”
The second is a gif of a scene from “Mad Max, Fury Road”, featuring the character Furiosa at a side angle. She has a shaven head and is an amputee missing her left arm from the forearm down. She sits on her knees in the sand, wind blowing the sand towards the camera. She breathes heavily and screams in despair.
Third of the photos is a screenshot from an entry by Natalie Diaz, which reads, “In Mojave thinking, body and land are the same. The words are separated only by the letters ’ii and ’a: ’iimat for body, ’amat for land. In conversation, we often use the a shortened form for each: mat-. Unless you know the context of a conversation you might not know if we are speaking about our body or our land. You might not know which has been injured, which is remembering, which is alive, which was dreamed, which needs care. You might not know we mean both.If I say, My river is disappearing, do I also mean, My people are disappearing?“.
The fourth is a gif photo from an episode of Love, Sex, and Robots, featuring one of its main characters, a siren. The color palette is greyish in tone and dull. The siren has short hair and black eyeliner streaming down her face. The Siren was once made of gold and jewels, but in the gif she has been stripped of this and left with few gold or jewels, with only seemingly a naked and tattered cloth underneath, and she gazes at her arms and body with a horrified expression, and sobbing.
The fifth photo features a screenshot from an article about The Hobbit, which reads, “...burying it deep into the earth. When asked what it is, he replies “It’s a promise. That beneath all that blood and dirt, there is a chance of new life. It may sound hopeless, it may sound foolish, but really what else can you do when you’re faced with death? What can anyone do? You go on living.”
The Sixth photo is a gif from the film Princess Mononoke, showing a bald character, Gonza, carrying an injured character, lady Eboshi, on his back. Eboshi’s face is concealed by a red hat. Gonza sloshes through dark water amidst a dying forest, and he surveys the giant trees dying and falling to the ground in awe.
The Seventh photo is a screenshot from an article, reading, “Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union reached their lowest level since 1990, according to official EU data reported this week by the European Environment Agency to the UN.The overall reduction in 2020 greenhouse gas emissions was 34% compared to the 1990 base year, or 1.94 billion tons of CO2.”
The eighth of the photos is a screencap from Lord of the Rings, Return of the King. It shows the decapitated head of an old statue of a King, laying in the grass. white flowers and vines grow about the bearded statue’s head, forming a flower crown.
The ninth photo features a quote from Katherine Mansfield, posted by the user tristealven, which reads, “ I have spent days just walking about or sitting on a stone in the sun and listening to the bees in the almond trees and the wild pear bushes and coming home in the evening with rosemary on my fingers and wild thyme on my toes—tired out with the loveliness of the world.”
The final photo is a gif from the film Princess Mononoke, with giant tree roots reaching out and into clear, blue water. The trees are dead and greyish, but small plants, saplings, moss, and flowers grow from them, indicating new life and that they will be replaced. Among the new plants emerges a partially translucent kodama spirit, with a tiny, chubby body, large roundish head, and two dots on its face. The kodama walks in and faces the camera before clicking its head to the side. End image description.]
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