#looking forward

[richardvyseart]

Looking Back ..Looking Forward by RIchard Vyse

#gayart #gayguy #linesketch #queer artwork #looking back #looking forward

[vivalgi]

Some of the former staff from PB have already founded a new narrative game startup.

#Don't ask me if he and Andrew are related though😅 #But Andrew seems to be one of the co-founders as well #looking forward #playchoices #pixelberry #choices stories you play

[justalittlesolarpunk]

hi! i have been experiencing The Horrors lately (just general hopelessness about the state of the world and especially in regards to climate change) and i am just wondering - do you have any advice for incorporating climate action into one’s everyday life? i need to do something about this but the problem feels so big that i feel like i can’t, like i am drowning in it and i need to learn to swim

Hi my love, sorry it took me a while to respond, I’ve been quite tired!

So first off, the Horrors are reasonable, it’s a very sensible human response to the state of things around you and shows you have empathy and that you care. I say this because it’s all too easy to shame yourself for despair, but it’s natural that we fall into it sometimes.

In terms of doing climate action a little every day, there’s so much you can get your teeth into. For starters, there are personal choices, like giving up flying or meat and dairy if you can. Sure, these don’t add up to much, but they can really change how you feel and working with a smaller burden of guilt can be life-changing. Similarly making choices like switching your electricity and heating and getting an electric car (or even better, taking the train, bus, tram, your feet or a bus) can help you get into a more positive mindset as you feel like you are ‘doing your part’. Check if you have any savings or pensions invested in fossil fuels and switch them over. Even buying from zero waste shops can help shift your mood, even if it’s too small to shift the whole economy.

Once you’ve got all these little changes out of the way, it’s time to think systemic. Most places will have a local activist group you can join, which usually only involves a commitment to weekly meetings - can you attend XR, A22, Greenpeace or Friends of The Earth gatherings in your neighbourhood? These will usually allow you to start attending protests and keying into wider campaign networks.

Something else you can do is bring the subject up with people in your life, to contribute to a wider cultural shift where climate conversations are normalised, and you can agitate for changes at your job or university/school that will bring the institution’s emissions down.

Try to consume a more balanced media diet, seeking out what is going right in the world as well as what is going wrong. Sites like Positive News and the Good News Network are helpful for this. Supernova is a purely positive social media app if you’re looking for a more uplifting scrolling experience.

But much more important is to get outside and to make real-life community. If there’s a conservation or gardening volunteer group in your area I’d highly recommend getting involved with it - nothing has helped me as much as getting my hands in the dirt, doing meaningful work to grow food to feed my neighbours. A lot of our climate anxiety stems from fear that we won’t be able to feed ourselves or that natural beauty will vanish, so connecting with crops or landscapes is a great way to soothe some of that. Building relationships with neighbours or affinity groups (such as LGBT, POC or disabled organisations) can help you feel part of a more resilient network of people who can help each other out in a crisis. Plus if you get to plant trees regularly I guarantee that will help you feel like you’re contributing.

Solarpunk content is great for improving your outlook too - whether it’s optimistic sci-fi, utopian cityscapes or anarchist politics, it all uplifts you and reminds you of what’s possible. Check out people’s stories of what they’re doing to make the world a little better to remind yourself you’re not in it alone.

If you can afford to, a regular donation to groups working to reforest, re-wet peatland, re-seed mangroves or combat soil erosion is a pretty tangible way to fight the climate crisis. Be sure to do all the obvious stuff like voting and engaging with other political pathways too.

A fun weekend’s activity could be seedbombing with friends or building a bee house - there’s lots you can do that’s crafty or creative that also helps your local environment, even if it’s just growing food or pollinator friendly plants on your windowsill or letting your lawn rewild itself. Taking an attitude of grateful, affectionate kinship with all the plants and animals around you will aid in building a sense of connection with the ecosystem and reminding you that you’re part of a grand, resilient web of life.

Put together the emergency kit I detail in an earlier post, so you feel prepared for facing extreme weather and taking part in mutual aid. Teach yourself to forage or at the very least recognise the common plants in your area. This counteracts species blindness and makes you more considerate of the non-human.

You could even consider altering your career path, if you’re an adult, and re-training to work in the climate movement, though this will not be accessible for everyone. If you’re a younger person you could look into pursuing an educational path that will allow you to join the green sector.

If you can get some, therapy with an eco-informed professional can be hugely beneficial for channeling your very reasonable feelings of terror into meaningful action that benefits you and the planet, though admittedly there’s only so much individualised therapy can do for such a huge problem - perhaps there’s a support group you can go to?

And finally, make sure you take some time every day, preferably an hour if you can spare it, but certainly at least fifteen minutes, to do something you really love, that brings you genuine joy, and has nothing to do with the climate crisis. You can’t pour from an empty cup and you can’t put out fires if you’re burnt out. Rest, regeneration and self-care are prerequisites for sustainable movement building and you deserve to have moments of unalloyed happiness. You are categorically NOT in this alone, you are part of a huge, ever-growing moment full of people who are working towards the same goal even though most of you will never meet. And so while we need you now more than ever, there’s also enough of us that you can take a few minutes to feel better and it won’t cost us the fight. As an older activist said to me recently, even when we sleep our comrades across the world are waking up ready to face the day’s struggle.

Ultimately, a lot of these are just things that have worked for me, and they won’t all be accessible or appropriate to you. Some of them are more about changing your viewpoint than radically altering the status quo around the climate. But I know I fight better when I feel optimistic and well in myself, so these are my suggestions. I hope some of them help, and I want to commend your strength and bravery in reaching out for advice and connection, because that’s how we keep fighting, and that’s how we win.

The Horrors are real, but so are the Wonders. And one of those Wonders is you.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #environmentalism #social justice #cottagepunk #community #optimism #bright future #climate justice #positivity #looking forward #keeping on #activism #sustainability #the wonders

[dailydungeondelves]

Focusing on the positive!

#comic #dnd #D&D #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #tabletop #tabletoprpg #dndart #dndartist #ttrpgart #ttrpgartist #game day #looking forward

[hyena-ref-photos]

that's no doggie © tuli on iNaturalist

It was dusk as I pulled in to my usual pooch pit-stop site, an old sand quarry. As we stopped I saw a bedraggled, vacant-eyed 'dog' plodding straight towards us as if it was totally unaware of our arrival. My first thought - RABIES, the dumb form. Then I noticed the long, dark shaggy hair, paler around the neck; the sloping back; the spotted legs; the powerful head with erect pointed ears gulp, that's no doggie My second thought - Rabid Hyena So I grabbed my camera and inched the window down just enough to get the lens out. The glassy-eyed animal kept on coming right up to the vehicle then slowly sniffed around it. In my peripheral vision I caught a glimpse of two shadows, one bigger than the other, passing behind the bushes on the far side of the quarry. My hyena obviously saw them too as (s)he immediately looked up, woke up and briskly trotted on down the track. My conclusion was that my hyena was a perfectly healthy juvenile perhaps 60cms at the shoulder (adults +/- 80cms) and that the shadows were the mother and sibling and that possibly they split up to check out the sand pit as they passed. I returned the next morning to find the spoor; lens cap 60mm diameter

#1 #brown hyena #looking at camera #facing camera #facing left #looking forward #queue #standing

[play-my-game]

#Handcuffs #High heels #Looking forward #Going out #Separated

[waolom]

just trying to make it until april 19th

#looking forward #ttpd

[road2nf]

Vlogbrothers gave me something to look forward to three times a week; it is still something I look forward to. It also showed me how not alone I really was.

Hank and John saved my life and they don’t even know it.

It was 2009 and I was struggling.

Then, I stumbled upon Accio Deathly Hallows, my first Vlogbrothers video and my first introduction to the Wrock community. Hank and John helped me find a community who cared if I was alive or not. But it did much more than that.

Nerdfighteria gave me a purpose, to decrease world suck, to do good with my life, and so I slowly started to.

Vlogbrothers gave me something to look forward to three times a week; it is still something I look forward to. It also showed me how not alone I really was.

John struggled with mental illness and Hank suffered from an invisible disease: here were two people who understood what I was going through.

I have never met either of them and I’m not quite sure I want to.

I wouldn’t know what to say, besides thanks, and they wouldn’t understand what that single word means. Because there really isn’t a way to tell someone that they helped keep you alive in your darkest hour, that they taught you how to smile again, how to laugh; that they gave your mother her daughter back.

Hank and John changed my life, so now I change others. I coach people with special needs and spend as much of my time working with them as I can. I do good wherever I can, because that is what Hank and John taught me. That is how they affected me.

-Case (magischgal.tumblr)

#nfstories #nerdfighters #nerdfighteria #vlogbrothers #dftba #awesome #community #accio deathly hallows #mental illness #help #Wizard rock #wrock #worldsuck #purpose #not alone #looking forward #gratitude #thanks #thank you #alive #smiling #laughter #good #change #together #coach

[bopinion]

Better think twice ...

... if someone else mutes you in an online meeting.

... before you insist on being right.

... if you usually get sentimental when drunk - or honest.

... if you have already made the same New Year's resolutions before.

... before you click on "Accept all terms and conditions".

... when the doorbell rings and you're not expecting anyone.

... before you are really looking forward to something that is not under your control.

... when your partner asks you "Do you know what day it is today?"

... before you tell a polarizing joke.

... which fight is really worth it.

#thoughts #aperçu #funny #wise #remarks #think twice #online meetings #mute #sentimental #getting drunk #honest #new year resolutions #terms and conditions #doorbell #looking forward #under control #what day is it #joke #fight #worth it

[macrolit]

Life is our resume. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?

Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

#matthew mcconaughey #greenlights #life #resume #choices #looking forward #looking back #quotes #quote

[vasilinaorlova]

Is it just me waiting for the new semester at my mental health counseling master's program, or is it normal? I am particularly looking forward to learning about the addictions in a new course during the spring. I am intimately familiar with addiction, having a life long struggle with cigarettes. I quit smoking several times for several years. I have achieved that moment when I can actually smoke from time to time without it becoming a cigarette pack a day. Like one cigarette in several months. Remember that episode in Jarmush's Coffee and Cigarettes where a character says it's the pleasant part, when you ditched a habit you can indulge from time to time? It is an ironic sketch showing the power of addiction, but that's about me. I struck that sweet spot. What about you? Are you also familiar with addictions?

#smoking #mental health #looking forward

[richardvyseart]

Looking Back Looking Forward by RIchard Vyse

#gayart #queer artwork #looking forward

[theunstuffedpepper]

Christmas 2022. A mixed, mixed bag. It was certainly nice in ways, but all in all, I’m glad it’s done and I’m looking forward to ringing in a brand new year.

Things to remember:

- how Pep loves cookies and calls them “cook cook”

- Pep’s discovery and love of PIE

- how Pep answers all our questions, whether they’re for him or not, with a very cute “yea!” or “noooo”

- Pep learning all his colors, numbers 0-9, lots of shapes, and surprising me with new words every day

- feeling closer to our “chosen” family, despite challenges with blood relatives

- how despite it being the hardest Christmas of my life, I shopped for and wrapped and gave more gifts than any previous year, hosted a dozen people for Christmas Eve & day, and cooked an amazing brisket for Christmas dinner

#christmas 2022 #we can do hard things #looking forward #pep is 23 months #momblr #12312022 #operationkay10

[seasonarium]

#reflections at years end #looking forward #T.S.Eliot

[charmnotcharming]

Just thinking about dan and phil hosting christmas together in their forever home 😭😭😭

#dan and phil #daniel howell #phil lester #rambles #dan howell #dnp #phan #side note phil seems to be hinting at a viddy drop soon #looking forward #also #my going to london for one (1) day for winter wonderland and clowing if ill bump into them. #im so jealous of their rich gay life btw #rip to dans side of family but bruh wtv (at least thats what i believe #good for him #except his nan he MUST bring his nan #ok i dont really like adrian from the content he makes nowadays but i refrain from further comment #this got long

[zot3-flopped]

Hurrah for Maya Henry! She's turned her pandemic journal into a novel, and it's going to expose Liam Payne and his callous treatment of her. Check out the Paynefuls panicking in the comments!

#liam payne #maya henry #looking forward #pandemic #alcoholism #abuse #abortion #ziam #zayn #1d reunion #Instagram