#magical pollution

[stargirl230]

Out there, somewhere

or: hey BB-8, ya like sand?

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

#my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #star wars #rey skywalker #bb8 #star wars sequel trilogy #i’d love to see the night sky from the desert one day #the light pollution isnt too bad here #but the first time i saw a shooting star i thought it was a plane about to crash #anyway it was like magic #i like to think rey spent her nights on jakku stargazing #maybe imagining which star her parents were on… #MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: DOES REY LIKE SAND #oh my god does bb8 like sand #guys bb8 is the best and also an absolute baby #*lighter thumbs up*

[reasonsforhope]

"A Ghanaian-English entrepreneur has designed an electric bike from the ground up that’s transforming short-range transportation in her home country, proving that problem-solving in Africa can be done in Africa, by Africans.

[Valerie Labi's] company, Wahu!, assembles each bike by hand, and they can travel up to 80 miles [128 kilometers] on a single charge. This means that a delivery rider for Glovo or Bolt can comfortably cover a whole day’s work without refueling.

Anyone who’s visited Accra, Ghana, in the dry season will remember the incredibly poor air quality. Poor roads mean that cars are stuck in second and third gears, and old cars traveling in second and third gears mean plenty of extra car exhaust.

Poor roads also mean exposed dirt, and exposed dirt means fine-grained dust. Combined with a lack of rain, the smog, dust, and car exhaust make the air in parts of the capital unfit for human health.

Wahu! bikes help alleviate all three of these problems, and despite her English nativity [Note: Super weird and unclear way to phrase it?] and education, the bikes were designed and manufactured in Spintex, Accra.

“By introducing electric bikes into Ghana’s transportation ecosystem, we’re not only providing a greener alternative but also offering speed and convenience,” Labi told The Mirror. “Our bikes are a testament to how service delivery can be seamlessly merged with environmental conservation.”

Valerie Labi is a true inspiration, and besides her transportation company, she got her start in the Ghanaian economy in sanitation. She holds a chieftaincy title as Gundugu Sabtanaa, given to her by the previous Chief of the Dagbon traditional area in the Northern Region of Ghana. She has three children, holds a double major in Economics and Sustainability from two separate universities, and has visited 59 countries.

Getting her start in Northern Ghana, she founded the social enterprise Sama Sama, a mobile toilet and sanitation company that now boasts 300,000 clients.

During her travels around the small, densely populated country, she also recognized that transportation was not only a problem, but offered real potential for eco-friendly solutions.

“It took us two years to effectively design a bike that we thought was fit for the African road, then we connected with Jumia and other delivery companies to get started,” she told The Mirror. “Currently, I have over 100 bikes in circulation and we give the bikes on a ‘work and pay’ basis directly to delivery riders.”

According to Labi, each driver pays about 300 Ghana cedis, or about $24.00, per week to use the bike, which can travel 24 miles per hour, and hold over 300 pounds of weight. The fat tires are supported by double-crown front/double-spring rear suspension.

The bikes are also guaranteed by the company’s proprietary anti-theft system of trackers. Only a single bike has been stolen, and it was quickly located and returned to the owner."

-via Good News Network, January 24, 2024

#ghana #africa #black excellence #black entrepreneurship #black girl magic #transportation #ebikes #bikes #delivery drivers #sustainability #air pollution #environment #good news #hope #btw want to say for the record that it is generally considered journalism best practice #to not use a person's name in the headline of an article unless they're already a public figure #partly for privacy reasons and partly because that way the title gives readers more info that they can usefully interpret #so not including her name in the article title isn't inherently a huge snub #though the fact that GNN forgot to include her name until like the 6th paragraph kind of is! #I looked into using the original article this is based on because of that but imho it wasn't as good #it was in interview format and the intro at the beginning had way less info on accra and the bikes/her company/her work

[kingvulture]

Wrote this song about what I felt the 1st time I saw a clear night sky with no light pollution in Jamaica 2018.

A short lil vibe

#music #ascension #vibes #trippy #hazey #ethereal #magic #jamaica #light pollution #wavey #washed out #occult #indie #indie music #SoundCloud

[oodsandends]

WOE! WIZARD HAT SUN

#it's casting dark and evil magics (spell of pollute your lungs)

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Polluted Mire

Artist: Stephen Daniele TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.43 #stephen daniele #polluted mire #beatdown box set #land

[crotchapple]

I really thought this was gonna be like, a cute fun little fantasy adventure about a family of stoats

Then Aabria decided that episode 1 was gonna start with a population culling

#dimension 20 #d20 #burrow's end #it's gotta be some kind of pollutant or pesticide right #my first thought was ashfall from a forest fire but there was no burning or rising smoke #so unless it's magic it's gotta be human environmental destruction #crotchposts

[redd956]

Whump Ideas: Merfolk/Siren + Pollution/Etc

Idk why but I’m sucker for this category of environmental whump. It’s just extra frustrating about it for the characters, and is realistic to how disgustingly polluted our real environment is.  Also adds a bit of spice to any narratives, heeding the warning of environment destruction.

Merfolk/Siren

Getting entangled in fishing line/net

Choking on dirty water

Digesting something they shouldn’t

Getting sick over time by living in poor quality water

Overheating from a rise in temperatures

Blinded by an oil spill

Beached from shallower waters

Snagged/cut by trash

Starving after they’re food sources died out, or sick from eating poor quality food

Fishing hook

Hurt by sunken military equipment

Trapped underwater in a manmade tight space (sunken ship, cargo, etc)

Hurt by hunters

Shot at/by a harpoon

Tormented by a human (this one comes with a whumper)

Caught by a boat

Injured by aquatic vehicles

#merfolk whumpee #nonhuman whumpee #environmental whump #whump pollution #pollution whump #siren whumpee #magic whumpee #whump #whump prompt list #whump ideas #whump prompts #whump prompt #whump idea #whump scenario #whump scenes

[arkatrine]

embracing my cringe era made a fucking playlist cover for my shadowrun character's ship playlist [1 of 3 i have a lot of feelings about this] with her wretched toxic shaman boyfriend this has been the slowest of burns (yeeeaaarrrrrrrrssssssss) and she's happy im happy im celebrating by being So Embarrassing

#arky draws junk #shadowrun #for those that don't know toxic in shadowrun doesn't mean like a toxic personality #toxic shamans literally practice fucked up evil magics their power source is pollution and toxins in the world #he's the most chill toxic shaman alive and our special little skrunkley #imizael the elf

[thelastspeecher]

new thing in the Pollution Powers AU: Angie becomes a botanist rather than a herpetologist. her herbicide-originated contamination grants her an innate understanding of plants. think of it less as a connection or bond with them and more of a "know thine enemy" situation.

Angie does become a plant person, despite her knack for plants being due to a chemical that was designed to kill them. her innate understanding helps her in studying and growing plants. she has a crazy good green thumb that Pa McGucket, a farmer, is incredibly proud of.

#she can't control them or magically make them grow or any sort of plant power #she just Understands Plants and that makes her be quite good with them #anyways Angie's future stepdaughter Molly who loves botany no doubt is excited she is so good with plants #Pollution Powers AU #speecher speaks

[orionndjarin]

ALSO A WHOLE SHOW ABOUT NORSE MYTHOLOGY SET IN NORWAY COULDNT GET AURORA ON THE SOUNDTRACK??!!?

#i had such high hopes for season 3 #like a good plot and aurora #like the magical being of your norway didnt have a fitting song about pollution #netflix ragnarok #ragnarok netflix #ragnarok season 3 #magne seier #laurits seier #iman reza #fjor jutul #jens ragnarok #ragnarok spoilers

[dmdarius]

Jumping from one Gameboy to another, this is once more a RPG suggestion from RedGryz. This time, an a tale about being Isekai'd to another land! And of course to get home, we've gotta save it!

#gameboy #greatgreed #retro

#Game Boy #Great Greed #Bitamina Oukuoku Monogatari #RPG #8-bit #retro #Nintendo #1992 #mobile #JRPG #grinding #Namco #donation #environmental lesson #environmentally-themed #PSA #simple #turned based #short game #party members #trash #garbage #junk #magic #sword #education #pollution #isekai #Youtube

[seavegetableconspiracies]

Ideas for the plot of a sequel to A Far Wilder Magic

Margaret starts searching for her lost father. She finds her estranged eccentric grandma instead

Wes finally attends university. On his first day in the cafeteria some guy steals his quiche

#listen. i loved this book on its own merrits #but it made me happy in a lot of ways you know #a far wilder magic #a far wilder magic spoilers #i hope it stays a standalone. it was beautiful. i would buy a sequel in a heartbeat tho #anyhow they deserve a happier future than royai #my posts and stuff #i hope i'm not polluting the A Far Wilder Magic tag with dumb FMA jokes #royai #just in case

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Gempalm Polluter

Artist: Dany Orizio TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.23 #dany orizio #gempalm polluter #legions #creature #zombie

[reuxben]

As it's #TBT and I just pulled the card in question in today's Arena draft, here's an old comic I did for my old series, Fear, which I drew around when Khans of Tarkir was first coming out--this one's from September 2014, in fact. And this comic is indeed based on a true story, believe it or not...Anyway, I noticed some small errors in the art, so I couldn't help reworking it just a bit and thought I might as well post it up here, too. This one's called, "Delta."

Daily art updates on Instagram and Twitter.

Reuxben

#Reuxben #MTG #Magic: The Gathering #MTG Fan Art #Fear #Khans of Tarkir #Fetchlands #Mirrodin #New Phyrexia #Questing Phelddagrif #Polluted Delta #Comics #Sequential Art #Black and White #Webcomic #Black Lotus #Mirrodin Pure

[journey-to-the-attic]

man,, imagine magical girl ik au with the chapter 16 aftermath (with a sprinkle of solomon knowing the truth of magical girls)

she is just spamming grief seeds on her soul gems and solomon has to keep making sure her soul gem isnt too muddy or else a big uh oh might happen

poor ik is going through it and practically on a rampage, hunting to keep her soul gem clean... between the whole belphie trauma and the impending doom of becoming a witch, the sheer volume of her emotional grief basically puts her in a perpetual state of her soul gem constantly darkening, then being purified, then immediately darkening again

solomon is attempting to help, but as he’s not a magical girl himself he can’t help ik defeat witches, so all he can do is beg her not to take on anything she isn’t sure she can defeat... plus he’s also simultaneously attempting to find a way to halt the soul gem’s darkening. in the mean time the others are tasked with being emotional support

(which is hard because they can barely catch ik not in the middle of a witch-hunt for long enough to do so)

#answering asks #anon asks #puella magi ik #(not so) fun idea: solomon deduced the truth about magical girls before ik herself found out and this is what forces him to tell her #because if she isn't aware of it then it'd be way easier for her soul gem to get polluted #he was waiting for a 'good moment' to break the news and then the procrastinating lead to quite possibly the WORST moment to do so #and then this leads to the whole rampage thing #there aren't even any witches in the devildom (since there haven't been any magical girls to turn into them there) #so solomon's doing his magic thing to source witches up in the human world and giving ik a constant stream of locations to find them at #meanwhile the others are all Furious at him

[konmaao3]

When is Moon Magic the strongest in TDP?

(during the full moon, duh)

But I’ve been thinking about that recently, and apart from the lunar phase there could be so many other variables that could also interact with each other:

1. day ↔ night

The moon is no anti-sun that rises when the sun sets and sets when the sun rises, but sometimes both – or none of them – are in the (or rather: your) sky at the same time. Does the sun take away from the moon’s powers, or is a half moon during the day as strong as it is at night?

2. cloudy ↔ clear sky

Sometimes the moon (or the sun) is in the sky, but covered by clouds. Or you could just be inside or underground. Does that have an effect? (quite possible, since during Rayla’s and Runaan’s standoff they only enter their moonshadow form when the clouds recede)

3. in the sky ↔ below the horizon

If a half moon disappears behind the horizon, it isn’t visible any more ... to you. But to others in other parts of the planet it is, and it still reflects sunlight onto earth, unlike a new moon which might be in your sky, but doesn’t reflect any sunlight (at least not in the direction of earth).

4. eclipses

I think a (solar) eclipse only occurs during a new moon, when moon magic should be weak. But if (see 1) the sun has a negative effect, that might be negated during an eclipse, so this new moon might not be as weak as others.

5. distance

The moon’s orbit around the earth is elliptic, so the distance varies between ~363,000 and 405,000 km. Does a smaller distance strengthen your moon powers?

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So what is stronger:

A full moon covered by clouds, or a half moon in a clear sky?

A half moon during the day or a quarter moon at night? What if we add clouds to one of those?

A half moon below the horizon or a new moon blotting out the sun?

A distant full moon on the other side of the earth covered by clouds or a close new moon in your clear sky?

Bonus question, thinking about one of my short stories: What happens when a moonshadow elf stands on the actual moon? #astronaut Rayla AU

Tbh, lunar phases always confuse me because apparently my brain has a hard time keeping track of three celestial bodies at the same time. But hopefully this makes sense.

#the dragon prince #magic #worldbuilding #and don’t get me started on star magic and how it might be affected by light pollution #eco terrorist Aaravos when?