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#art #tessellation #yarrow aesthetic

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Hm... I don't know enough to be sure how to answer this, but anecdotally, as a yellow with very orange roots -

I know I've been detail-oriented and loved shapes/patterns/puzzles for basically forever, and would select toys and books which fit those tastes with or without encouragement. So I tend to ascribe these parts of me to my nature as a yellow rather than to yellow training.

I also know that in general, except for the basics and some geometry, I am terrible at math. That, I am not sure whether to ascribe to not being yellow enough, or to having teachers and my father not EXPECT me to be yellow enough and not pushing me as hard as some yellows were pushed on maths in their formative years.

I’d be interested to find out how much of caste roles is attributable to

1) actual genetics (greens are smarter because they’ve been selected for intelligence),

2) training (greens are smarter because their schools are the best),

3) expectations (greens are smarter because they know they have to be smarter),

4) stereotypes (greens aren’t actually that much smarter it’s just that everyone thinks they are).

#amenta rp #amentan yellow #nature vs nurture

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since today is apparently Discourse Hell Day, have some pictures of cute counterculture yellows. 

#photography #amenta rp #amentan yellow

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There was a book I keep trying to remember from the library that closed. My sister never read it and my mom has some memory of it but can't recall the title either. It was a children's book with ink-and-watercolor illustrations I think, about a yellow and a green and a code made of interlocking shapes, and an ancient maybe-alien creature who was drawn in a different, sharper-edged style than the rest of the illustrations sleeping in a cave under a playground. Has anybody else read it? I guess green or yellow kids would've been most likely to?

#amenta rp #books #children's fiction #question

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#photography #reflection #shelving #books #black and white #yarrows aesthetic #library

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I’d like to be a librarian one day. Not that I’d want to abandon graphic design completely, and my sister’s work where I’ve subbed in part-time sometimes is a good place - but - sorting and being among books has always been very relaxing for me, and there was a library my sister and I loved when I was young...

The head librarian there was a sweet older lady with a cornsilk-pale hair, and her husband was sort of gruff and sarcastic but also really funny when you got to know him, and they’d been two of my mother’s oldest friends from when her family first immigrated. Mom knew the children’s section there like the back of her hand from years of volunteering for afternoon read-alouds as well. I used to go back and forth all the time when Mom’s orange friends asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up - graphic designer, or a librarian at Mrs. [so-and-so]’s library.

It closed down and merged with a larger one because budget issues before I was 4 though, and there were suddenly more well-qualified librarians in town than there were available jobs for them - so much for a small, enthusiastic yellow with a few volunteer hours.

There’s probably a place for me somewhere, if I moved out of town for it, but I like being close to family enough that’s hard to consider, especially with Gramma getting on in years. It’s still a very attractive idea, the sort that catches the corner of my eye sometimes and makes me wonder about the future; especially on days that bring me to the part of town where that library used to be.

#amenta rp #amentan yellow #library #idle dreams

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Me talking to the librarian friend when she was heavily pregnant: "Well, if you're overdue, you have to pay a fine obviously."

#humor #library jokes

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hyperbolic 03

#art #yarrows aesthetic #well the color's unfortunate #but the pattern is delightful

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#photography #books #shelving

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I’m open to dating intercaste, but I think a lot of that is that my family’s mixed already - I know my parents worked out fine. I can see myself going for an orange (like my mom) most easily out of non-yellow options, or maybe at a STRETCH a green if we had some similar tastes in art and/or they had some kind of connections to the libraries…

(But green would make things much more complicated than going for something that’s already in my genes and I don’t guess it would be responsible to have a half-green quarters-whatever baby, it would be either a childless relationship or a third s/o so that’s just - idle daydreaming.)

I’m not sure how I feel about caste-mixing as a general thing. Of course I know we have castes for a reason. But if a yellow with orange in her, or somebody similarly mixed, had a mixed-cast kid with something they already have a partial genetic connection to, all they’re doing is making a baby whose less-mixed than they are, right? And if they stay in touch with both their partner’s side of the family and with their own grandfolks baby should grow up with plenty of color-appropriate role models. …Assuming of course the basic common sense to partner with somebody baby can inherit caste from locally, having a different-casted father or donor in a matrilineally casted nation could be awful for the baby!

I might date intercaste

but I’m not going to have any kids of my own, so that’s easy for me to say, I might also date a felon   see previous post about how picky I can’t afford to be

sister says she’d consider it but she’d have different standards.  we’re patrilineal so it would affect credit price and where the kids would go to school and their careers and what kind of grandkids she’d have.  says it would have to be somebody with a big happy mostly-the-one-caste family who would be in caste role models for the kids because we’re all purple on this side.  so like she might date an only child who didn’t talk to their parents much whose grandparents all retired across the country, but they’d have to be purple.  and she says it’d have to be a caste she thinks *she* could do if she were it, so if the kids are just like her they’re okay.  (she says that means no blue unless they’re so rich the kids can just coast, and no yellow, and she’s really iffy on orange but grey or green she thinks she could have done sculpture or structural engineering or some kinds of dance or some kinds of police work all right.)

(also they have to like me.  even if they’re purple.  <3)

#amenta rp #amentan yellow #intercaste relationships

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“Honeycomb” by Marije Berting

#art #yarrows aesthetic

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I know I haven’t been on much, but my first instinct when the world feels broken has always been to retreat. As stressful as the news has been these days I feel like a child hiding in my bedroom closet, burying myself in a puzzle and a daydream until my mother knocks on the door to ask what’s wrong.

But now my closet has gotten bigger - concept sketches for the rare graphic design commission, reorganizing the bookshelves in my flat (and then trying to do my mother’s, and finding my sister beat me to it!), visits alone or with one dear friend to the fractals in our small local modern art gallery on days I know will be slow, sitting on the bench across from them and losing myself in their patterns.

I want everyone safe and well and out of danger - of physical violence or of pollution or everything - but I don’t know how to talk about any of this, and I don’t have the energy to watch this shattered pattern in the world unfold. I don’t have enough of my mother in me to Orange at that many people.

#amenta rp #amentan yellow

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Wartime Communications PSA

Hey if you’re Anitami listen up, this is important:

So the Wartime Communications Act predates widespread internet access, and it probably seemed quite reasonable at the time, it prohibits publishing in an electronic format accessible to a wartime enemy any photographs of areas under mobilization or under enemy attack (enemy can get information about how accurate their bombings are from pictures) and any information about troop movements, supply shortages, and transit delays (because the latter two imply things about troop movements), and it prohibits circumventing restrictions placed by the government on electronic information-sharing with a wartime enemy, and it prohibits using electronic means to privately communicate with parties with whom we are at war.

Sentences range from fines to death. All reasonable enough when the internet was mostly used by eccentrics at universities and the government. But now this criminalizes tons of routine online activity, and you will be prosecuted for it.

do not post or publish online any information about 1) troop deployments 2) supplies/logistics 3) government operations 4) rationing/shortages. This includes ‘ugh, the nine line is closed today and that means my commute is twice as long’ and ‘my cousin had to cancel dinner because she’s shipping out, hope she’s safe’. It does not include ‘my commute is twice as long’ or ‘I’m thinking about enlisting’, but the standard advice is to just. not. discuss current events online.

do not post or publish online any pictures which have not been approved+stripped of metadata at publicservices.anitam/onlinesafety. Pictures which will not be approved: anything taken outside, anything taken in a secure area, anything depicting soldiers in uniform, anything depicting places where combat has taken place. If your picture is allowable the site gives you back a watermarked approved picture. If you see other Anitami residents posting pictures without the wartime safety watermark, tell them to take the pictures down. Do not reblog, download, or re-host pictures that haven’t been approved, even if the original poster was not Anitami.

(relatedly: stop your queue. Unless you’ve screened it very carefully it probably contains content in violation of the Comm Act and explaining to a judge how tumblr queues work wouldn’t be much fun.)

do not use anonymous browsers, proxies, or any other means of circumventing surveillance of online communications. Incognito mode is fine, it’s not relevantly anonymous. Don’t torrent stuff.

do not communicate privately with any citizen or current resident of a nation with which we are at war (soooo, Voa). This includes tumblr messages, since those can be answered privately. They reviewed your fanfic and you want to reply privately? No. You’re just chatting with a random person, you have no idea if they’re Voan? No. Do not communicate privately with anyone who you do not know to be not Voan, no matter how trivial the topic.

if you get a takedown notice, comply. They’ll be from a .anitam email, they’ll have a physical address and an email to contact with questions, they start with ‘for national security reasons we require the removal of’ [link]. Don’t freak out, they send out hundreds of thousands of those and they’re not going to hang hundreds of thousands of people. Don’t reply defending or explaining yourself. Just remove whatever they asked you to remove, and take a deep breath, you’re okay, mistakes happen. Future employers won’t see it, the police won’t see it, as long as you comply you’re fine.

If you see content posted online by Anitami residents which violates these rules, report it here. They won’t get into trouble if it’s inadvertent, they’ll just get a takedown notice. As always, you can be held liable for any crime you fail to report. 

#amenta rp #rp signal boost #amenta wartime

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Can’t resist a fractal, or any art where I can analyze interlocking component shapes.... guess I’m a bit stereotypical that way.

I’m not much for math for a yellow but geometry is still my jam. ^_^

“Digi-Fractal Light Technology” 

- B*

source: 4 images merged, 15 mirrors and 1 filter, 2016.

#art #fractals #yarrows aesthetic #amenta rp

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I will need to see if my local library has that book... I’ve thought about it before a lot, because my mother’s orange and my father’s grandmother used to max her out-of-cast income painting - we have two of her paintings in my parents’ home.

Remember that meme that was going around a while ago about what you’d do if you were other castes?  I read a novelette over the course of yesterday (my staff are all asking for extra hours; I feed them on the clock but they want the money so they can buy clean food for family and stockpile some; fine by me, I could use the unwinding time) which was basically premised like that.  The same character is set in six alternate universes, along with his family, and it follows him around through a parallel day in the life with extreme closeups of how the same personality can get all these results.  Civil judge, philosopher, ombudsman, internal affairs cop, therapist, bartender.  It’s called Facets: The Stories of Tahaktefo (obviously Tahaktefo isn’t his name, that would be bizarre; the author found names common in each caste with overlapping parts and they all concatenate to that so there wouldn’t be the unrealism of having all of him be named the same thing, because who’s going to name their orange kid Akte, right?)  I identified with him a lot and recommend the book.

#books #amenta rp