Love in a Time of Climate Change by Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez, from “Love in a Time of Climate Change”

[Text ID: I love you as one loves the most vulnerable / species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss. / I love you as one loves the last seed saved / within a vault,]

I was missing the library I adored as a little kid so I looked it up online and guys. tears in my eyes. they have the progress pride flag in their icon on social media year round. a photo on google maps has "PRIDE!" written on the giant window in the kids book section in window pens with a rainbow underneath it. I can't wait to go back to the country that loves me so much I've seen just endless fierce love and respect for my community and I'm genuinely struggling to keep myself together right now because I've gotten so used to hiding and not being seen, or being seen by people who think I shouldn't exist. aotearoa I love you so much I can't wait to fall back into your loving arms I can't wait to make one hundred new friends. I will claw my way along the ocean floor to get back to you if I have to

the major appeal of the Corn Maze is tapping into the human experience of Being Surrounded By Maize During Harvest . i love you corn and i love walking in circles under an autumn sun while you rustle gently and smell exactly as you always have for the past many hundreds of years at this same time in this same spot. effervescent

almost forty degrees on a random fucking thursday. the fan is blowing hot air at me. no matter what I do there is some part of me covered in sweat. just another day of my favourite season

Sometimes I really fucking envy the selfish assholes who just don't engage with the news/learn an current events. Like god it must be nice to live in your little bubble, only living in 'the moment' and the 'here and now' around you. It must be so peaceful to be able to see a YouTube short ab current events and say "hmm that's sad" and just scroll onto the next video without giving it a second thought. Must be so fucking peaceful being oblivious. Sometimes I want that. I want to be selfish and self centered, I mean I know I don't but... yknow??

Almost all of this fell last night, officially making this Minnesota's third snowiest winter on record

Carbon footprints is a bunch of bs tbh

call me a conspiracy theorist but carbon footprint is a misdirection made to point the blame of climate change on us so companies like BP (one of the biggest oil companies in the world who coined up the term while being known as a massive greenwasher) can go along getting no reproductions for their massive effect on the environment

boycotting is effective but we can’t exactly boycott everything like oil because we have limited access to non oil alternatives and get this what the government wants that they let this greenwashing crap go on with no regulated to the future of not only the economy with will be hurt either way, but the entire fate of the world

all this government and company stupidity just really pisses me off man esp with the fact people are falling for it

oh and don’t give me that “it’s hopeless” crap that’s no better than what the companies are doing and all it does is avoid action we can be taking yes it’s possible look at any scientist ever we will just need a pretty big culture shift but other places like Denmark show it’s possible to recover the earth and our environment

and not nearly enough people are concerned about the environment like they should be and even if they are they are usually focusing on the wrong things and the entire climate movement is honestly just a big mess

am i allowed to give my witcher OCs and witcher characters with no canon design silly little hats…

maybe the answer is “not only allowed am i Allowed, but i am Compelled and even moreso—Required”

Life can be cruel but there is still so much beauty around. Afternoon sunshine at the river, for example. And I love it!

Hey Americans, genuine question here.

How do you guys control your house temps? I've heard about ac, which I assume is just air conditioning, but then there's heating vents? How do they work, where are they usually placed? I know they're possible to cover with furniture. Where does it connect to, a boiler? Or something else?

How many ceiling fans does one usually have in their house? Are they used regularly?

Do you have radiators?? Is double/triple glazing common? Do you have insulation in your walls and roof??

Google is NOT giving me straight answers.

I know I promised myself I wouldn't ever try to kill myself again but like. hee hoo

So, it's late and I'm knee-deep in research for my master's thesis and I have so many feelings about Mircea, Vlad Draculas eldest brother?

Like, we know so little about him besides his unwavering loyalty to his father and his courage on the battlefield. But we know how he died. When Vlad Draculs own Boyars murdered him to place another on the Wallachian throne, they also killed Mircea. They blinded him with a hot iron and then they buried him alive.

I wish we knew more about him and I wish we knew more about Vlad Dracula and the youngest, Radu, in general - something that's not based on propaganda pamphlets. But time is unforgiving and nearly 550 years is a long time for primary sources to be destroyed or get lost. If these kind of sources ever existed at all.

So for now I'm just sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen, rubbing my eyes, not being normal about Mircea II. Basarab. Being a history bitch is hard.

maybe i’m being super cynical but there’s just something really stupid about the idea of posting pics from your holiday in Hawai’i to show sympathy about what’s going on in Lāhainā idk

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Into The Labyrinth / Facing The Shadow

2&3 in a middle grade fantasy trilogy about a 12yo girl who discovers she has the ability to enter a magical world in her dreams, and has to save it from darkness

while also dealing with anxiety, bullying, and friendships in the real world

set in Wellington Aotearoa

dreamrealm worldbuilding reflects the MC’s Māori/Chinese/Irish/Scottish heritage

aspec questioning MC