#pseudo-solarpunk

[merpdaberp]

Mad Ramblings #1: New aesthetic/literature idea. Pseudo-Solarpunk or Faux-Solarpunk.

1: Pseudo Solarpunk: So the idea came from for for designing “eco-friendly living”. But usually they come from corporations or governments. But mostly there made for fixing or making things better. But most of the time they never fully promise or they never get made. Most of the time there just made for looks. Examples include Dubais’s “sustainable” city or Saudia Arabias the Line City. There plenty of more examples. But I recommend looking into Hanzi Freinacht article   We Must Reclaim Solarpunk from Authoritarian Regimes it’s really good and its what inspired me to come up with this idea.

So basically imagine a setting for a dystopia where the solarpunk is just aesthetics and no practical use. Or can only be used by a select few, aka the elite while the lower classes suffer. Basically the modern day but worse. Also add some authoritarianism into it and you got pseudo solarpunk or faux solarpunk. I might make another post probably going in much more detail, but no promises. 

It’s currently 1:48 am, decided to write this before I forget it, feel free to do what ever with this idea.

#new aesthetic #subgenre #new subgenre idea #idk anymore #can't english #to tired to read a dictionary #faux-solarpunk #pseudo-solarpunk #is probably already a thing #might make a follow up post #latter #mad ramblings

[hydralisk98]

I am back, sorry for the shorter hiatus

I really like writing, illustrating and overall explaining + tinkering with my topics of interest in a transparent manner, hence why I struggle to retain my word for the Tumblr protest thing, sorry.

That being said, I am overall super motivated, creatively inspired and overall active (could do better for a few key things in life like mindfulness, income-building and offline "study" deeds of the "process my backlog of creative materials" type) as I have a week of stronger liberty from a major anxiety factor. (you probably know what it is if you read my vents)

Here is a couple more AI art dumps to give a idea of what I am onto...

I am very aware of the ethical challenges of current AI technologies for the most part, hence why I avoid DALL-E and the other more restrictive models. But it is a fine starting point to learn and derive my own artstyle (and its derived brand style guide) from to be honest. [Some non-generative art dumps below]

Hopefully you don't mind such sways of mind. I feel a bit lost and distracted still but things are looking up quite on my end so that's neat.

I may be quite slow and weird, but by far my research-driven humility and profound desire to address concisely (or at least mid-way between directly accessible to my audience and uniquely my own) matters so much. Don't forget to append your relevant wished-for topic points below, as I enjoy much what you contribute to my content. ^*^ Cya fairly soon!

#maskoch #alternate orphaned yet optimistic solarpunk pseudo-history pathways #symbolic aesthetic yet direct #multimedia & design #speculative information technologies

[autumnalwalker]

One WIP One Song

Self-indulgently jumping on the open tag from @blind-the-winds's tag game post.

Rules: For each of your WIPs, share a song you associate with it. Then tag as many people as you'd like. If you get tagged again, you can do it with a whole new round of songs

The Archivist's Journal: "Once Upon a Me" by Rachie

Empty Names: "Heroes" by emmy curie

And as a bonus, a song for the untitled solarpunk witch story that I wrote a couple chapters for about a year ago, back before I started posting things online, and would like to revisit someday:

"She is a Mirror of Me" by S.J. Tucker

Passing the tag on to @words-after-midnight, @ceph-the-ghost-writer, @cljordan-imperium, @writingpotato07, and an open tag for anyone who wants to do what I did and join in without an explicit invitation.

#tag game #music #open tag response #When I refer to Empty Names as “writing practice” that solarpunk witch story is the thing that I'm practicing for #I wanted to be better at non-diary prose before tackling that project again even if it is meant to be another slice-of-life sort of thing #I'd also need to do a fair bit of research on certain topics to be able to do it proper justice and I've too many other things going on #I associate that particular song with that project as a reference to the pseudo-titular witch's AI familiar

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

pretentious cynical fucks that think solarpunk is an apolitical cozy pseudo-punk movement are so unimaginably stupid. like okay whatever go off and have ur glorious revolution. i'm gonna be here making community and planting a garden and dismantling systems of oppression brick by brick in the communities around me, building something new and beautiful in their place. maybe you should give it a shot.

#solarpunk #cripplepunk #as always i'm not anti-violence to the end but i believe we should all value people over destruction #you have your plans for the Revolution but have you spoken to your neighbors? #have you learned what crops are native to your area? #have you spoken with the indigenous people to the land you are living on? #do you know the history of that place you call home? #do you know how to live with the planet instead of using it like a tool? #do you know how to be kind? #do you treat disabled people with kindness and respect? #...or are disabled people on the margins of your ideals? #are we just a footnote? a 'this isn't about you' eye-roll follow up to a post about how Leftists Need To Work Out and Be Slim and Get Jacke #i have a lot of thoughts on this as you can maybe tell

[angstylittlecatboy]

I am not an expert on the genre, but...cyberpunk is dead because the real world is cyberpunk.

I believe a good amount of cyberpunk works rely on the factor of the future being fucked up, but cool at the same time. Is technology, or at least modern and future technology, cool to anyone anymore, particularly anyone young? Or at least anyone young who stays informed about technology beyond watching Apple Events and following Elon Musk on Twitter?

Like, my own interest in technology primarily leans towards at least pseudo-retro tech (in this context roughly up to early smartphones.) That's why there's all this cassette futurism. And most cassette futuristic works lack philosophical depth, but that's how we imagine a better future, or maybe a better present. It's inherently nostalgic in the hands of people who grew up in the era, and aestheticized by people younger. Even with my negative opinions of 80s nostalgia, if you asked me to draw a "cool" future, what I'd draw would boil down to replacing the cassettes with CDs, or iPod Classics, or if I'm feeling really bold, 3G smartphones.

Even solarpunk, the only optimistic vision of the future that's truly modern, I've observed a large disconnect between solarpunk art and fiction, and the ideas of the solarpunk movement in practice. Fiction always looks cooler than reality, true, but in solarpunk it's in orders of magnitude. Fictional Solarpunk is "we managed to smash capitalism, save the environment, and make our lives more comfortable, and this time it's everyone and not just people in rich countries which is a concept that no longer exists" and the movement is "it's not as bad as total collapse, things are more equitable, and some new tech stuff still happens sometimes." I believe that there is no rational argument against the solarpunk movement...but it's a little sad something made to envision a better future made me into a bigger doomer, partially because I know this life would still be a more utilitarian age than my Western ass lives in, but also because I know humanity will never be willing to take that hit to quality of life unless forced. Some individuals, but never enough.

If I want great cyberpunk, I can read opinion articles or even just watch the 6 'o clock news. And if you've made a cool gadget in your story, we're too familiar with the ways it can be exploited to think it's cool, or to think a story about it being used in fucked up ways is interesting. Sounds Amused to Death-ish, perhaps. But you can't deny this 1980s genre of fiction is real life now, and if it were 1985, 1995, maybe even 2005 or even 2012, all the worrying stuff about technology now would make great literature.

#cyberpunk #zoomers #solarpunk

[drew-mga2022mi6021]

World Building | The Physical World in Detail

Sri Lanka - Uvin Gunasena

With the main character and the story completed, I could now move on to fleshing out the rest of the world. Worldbuilding for this project was not too complex, as I wasn't starting from scratch. Taking a real-world fantasy approach was the smarter move, as I was focusing on an alternate historical take on Sri Lanka which resulted in a move to a pseudo-solarpunk society.

Previously, I briefly went over the geography and climate of Sri Lanka, which is ultimately the basis for my world. In this post, I want to further dig into the general and physical aspects of this world.

Was Sri Lanka always the way it is now? If not, what caused the change?

Sri Lanka is an island nation, and as such is rich in biodiversity. Not much of this would have changed from the past to the present in which the story takes place, as this society also prides itself on its respect for nature.

How much of the world needs to be shown to support the story?

This project takes an almost heterotopic approach, set in a world (Colombo) within a world (Sri Lanka). Elements of the greater world of Sri Lanka would be present within the story, but will not be important to it, instead relegated to visual nuggets of information throughout the film as animated set pieces. Essentially, only the main character's office and a part of the city of Colombo needs to be shown in order to convey the story in full.

How does the terrain influence the story?

Colombo's geography is a mix of land and water. The city has many canals (man made and natural) and is most famous for what is considered the heart of the city, the Beira Lake. During the Monsoonal Seasons, these canals overflow, however due to Sri Lanka's advanced system of water distribution and irrigation, this water is never wasted.

The influence of the natural terrain on the story is minimal. Since the setting is industrialised, the main terrestrial influence would come from the way the city is built. Particularly focusing on the main market district, Pettah. Pettah is known for its interconnected alleys and roads chock-full of people. This would be reflected in my own version of the market district, only busier. The story would take place at the crack of dawn. This varies on the month. In my research, I found that most people quit their jobs in November, so I thought that was a good timeframe to set my story in. Thus, this would be during the early stages of the North East Monsoonal season. The sunrise is generally visible beginning from 6.00 a.m in Colombo, which means the story would take place before this.

The best deals are always available at 5.30 in Pettah. This fact is rooted in real life, and is also due to the steady supply of crops and other perishable goods into Pettah at the wee hours of the morning. Thereby it would be the most crowded at that time, adding even more challenges for my protagonist to push through.

What is the weather like and does it impact your story?

The weather does not impact my story greatly, however at the time the film takes place, it is during the North East Monsoon. Which is to say, it would be very windy and somewhat cloudy, however not cloudy enough to blot out the sun. Because of this, people would not dress as light as they usually wood, gravitating towards longer sleeves and clothing that covers the majority of their skin. They also carry umbrellas and raincoats on hand just in case of a sudden shower.

How many mountains, oceans, deserts, forests?

The geography of this version of Sri Lanka is identical to our own, with the caveat that these places are much more protected due to a greater emphasis on environmental conservation. As Sri Lanka is an island, it itself is situated in the Indian Ocean. In Colombo, the terrain is mostly flat, with some slopes that appear moving inland. Small bodies of water such as Diyawanna Oya (a lake upon which the parliament is built) remain unchanged, however they are used more often as a means of transportation. In 2018, an initiative to start funding water buses to ferry people across the Beira Lake began, to little success. In this world, this idea started much earlier and flourished through the use of solar-powered boats.

Colombo does not contain any forests per se, however there are three wetland parks scattered across the Rajagiriya area; Beddagana, Diyasaru and Rampart. These are particularly important as they have been actively used to promote the healthy lifestyle of the residents. More than 20 km of walkways and jogging paths have been built around wetlands in Colombo, incorporating them as part of public infrastructure bringing the wetlands close to public life. Colombo wetlands also play a critical role in the food security of the city. Due to the strong linkage between the city and its wetland complex, in 2018, Colombo City was declared the first capital to be accredited as an International Wetland City by Ramsar. There are no deserts in Colombo.

Where are the borders?

Colombo is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the West. The Northern and North-Eastern border of the city is formed by the Kelani River, which meets the sea as a river delta. The Eastern sect is bordered by the Ratnapura district of the Sabaragamuwa Province and the Southern Border is Kalutara of the Western Province.

Additionally, the city of Colombo itself is divided into 15 numbered areas for the purposes of postal services. Within these areas are the suburbs with their corresponding post office. This reflects the nature of Colombo in real life.

[morecolorfulmetaphors]

Okay, so I have some solarpunk thoughts I need to get down:

I know a lot of writers have been struggling with how to find the conflict in a solarpunk story without sliding back into dystopia. After listening to this episode of the podcast Mythcreants, I noticed a pattern in the stories they talked about (and other stories people have suggested were solarpunk-esque). They seem to fall into two categories:

1) Stories that just happen to be set in a better world. For example, Pokemon is set in a world that’s clean, green, safe enough for kids to wander around alone, and free healthcare everywhere. But the story isn’t about that. It’s about pokemon and all the adventures the characters have with them. A few other examples would be Steven Universe, Hilda, or Kiki’s Delivery Service. 

2) Stories that are focused on the positive changes of the future/new world. Star Trek is probably the best example of this, where many of the plots actually focus on explicitly sending the message that future human society is better, fairer, more enlightened, etc. 

Most solarpunk writers/enthusiasts tend towards the second option, because the setting is the whole point of writing in this genre. However, Star Trek is able to enjoy an endless well of plots that do this because it’s able to draw contrasts. 

Most commonly, it contrasts human society of the future with another alien species, where the aliens basically represent the problems of current human society (pointless wars, racism, labor exploitation, etc.). One of the characters will usually talk about how humanity used to do the same thing, but they Got Better. 

Sometimes, they also showed contrast through time travel or pseudo time travel. ST characters would go back in time on Earth, or an alien planet based on a historical time period on Earth, and the contrast would show how fucked up things used to be. The Voyage Home was probably the most solarpunk-ish, since a) it was about saving the whales, and b) their criticism was about modern times (at least for the audience watching it in 1986). There was also that episode where a 1960s NASA pilot comes aboard the Enterprise, is shocked to see a Female (™), and Kirk gives him a death glare. Good times.

I would argue this is also why so many people want to live in the wizarding word in Harry Potter, despite the many, many dangers. We see it through Harry’s eyes, and he’s making the contrast between life with the Dursleys and life with his friends at Hogwarts. To him, the dangers (and inconveniences of like, not having phones) are worth it, so they seem worth it to us too.

So yeah, in conclusion, I think if you want to make a solarpunk setting a major focus of the story, there needs to be a contrast with a different setting. It could be an alien planet, another time in history, two countries or regions that operate very differently, or something else I haven’t thought of. Otherwise, just write a story about literally anything you want, set it in a solarpunk world, and let your readers enjoy it on a more subconscious level.

Solarpunk: #hacked

#solarpunk #writing #this was mostly for my own benefit of organizing my thoughts so joke's on you if you read the whole thing

[third-nature]

Like many of the great pantheist philosophers, I see the universe as ultimately one totality. Subjective consciousness is, to quote Alan Watts, “a game of hide-and-seek” the All is playing with itself. The world we see around us is not only made up of the same stuff as us, it ultimately is us. Separation is a drawn-out illusion; all things contain the spark of divinity.

That being said, this cosmic truth should not be used to victim-blame or to implicitly justify the status quo. Many “new age” practitioners have absorbed an insulated neoliberalism into their advocacy, telling others that they are 100% responsible for their station in life and that they just need to project “positive vibes” to escape poverty and hardship. This is the toxic ideology of capitalism, furnished with a pseudo-spiritual gloss — literally, it’s a stone’s throw away from the language of GOP politicians and right-wing libertarian manifestos.

We live in a world that is far from the spiritual ideal, filled to the brim with oppression, competition, and environmental destruction. Class society positions the few above the many, maintained through their systematic control over the sources of life — the natural resources, the workplaces, the housing, etc. Capitalism in particular turns us into atomized individuals in a sea of competition — we compete for jobs, compete for social capital, compete for friends and lovers, compete for life itself. How any pantheist can support this system is beyond me.

If all people are equal representations of “God”, it stands to reason that our social systems ought to be as horizontal and classless as possible; inequalities of resources and authority are a sharp deviation from cosmic truth and they prevent vast numbers of the population from being able to self-actualize (and thus “All-actualize”). If our natural environment is one and the same as us, it stands to reason that ecology ought to take center stage in our social/economic/political concerns; an extractive system founded upon infinite growth is not only the ego illusion gone mad in a theoretical sense (unaccountable elites chasing profit for their own sake), it’s also destroying the planet.

You can claim that it’s possible for people to rise above their conditions and find spiritual peace or whatever, but that ignores reality. We are influenced by our environments immensely and a person whose needs are met is far better equipped to contemplate the mysteries of the universe than someone who struggles to survive. People who struggle to survive are made hyper-aware of the “ego-illusion”, precisely because their destitute conditions force them to be. Note, for example, how all those famous Greek philosophers were guys who generally had their needs met, who could sit around and debate while a population of slaves generated what society needed to function. These days especially, we don’t need to divide the human population into masters and servants — we have the technology and resources to provide for everyone and liberate them from a life of grinding toil for the sake of some CEO’s bottom line. Wellbeing is possible for all of us; we just need to escape a cultural and economic narrative that demands human needs be subservient to capital accumulation and profit margins.

Pantheists, hippies, and psychonauts who refuse to align themselves politically (and there’s unfortunately a lot of them these days) are not seeing the bigger picture. There is a history of ostensibly left-wing resistance to authority structures among these groups, with debatable results, but the great majority of it has been drained of bite since the 1980s, a byproduct of neoliberalism and cultural individualism. The link needs to be reestablished. This isn’t about rigid black-and-white dogma; it’s about recognizing that our future is bound up in the establishment of a new egalitarian social system, a society founded upon interconnection that provides everyone with the right “set and setting” to maximize their potential and realize their place in the universe. If people are concerned about some of the traditional connotations of the socialist left, then I’d recommend these philosophies and outlets: solarpunk, social ecology, libertarian socialism, ecosocialism, green anarchism, Films for Action, Sustainable Human, the Zeitgeist Movement, the Venus Project. These all have anti-capitalist and anti-hierarchy ideas that are perfect for those aforementioned pantheists, hippies, and psychonauts.

(And even then, I strongly encourage the people who look up those ideologies and outlets to still remain open to looking into labor history and the socialist left itself. There’s a lot of anti-socialist propaganda out there, largely disseminated by capitalist states and their wealthy cronies, so I don’t want potential allies distancing themselves from the organized left over some presumed understanding of what socialists themselves advocate. There have definitely been unsavory things done in the name of socialism, but there have also been plenty of unsavory things done in the name of freedom — and curiously I don’t see anti-socialists clamoring to abolish freedom. Socialism’s core principles have always been focused around democratic control of the workplaces and resources society needs to function and granting people control over the spaces and decisions that impact them — very much in line with each of those supposedly non-socialist ideologies and outlets I listed above. This is what the socialist left fights for.)

I don’t care what you call yourself or what terms you’re using — if you actively work to understand and oppose the oppressive, unequal conditions of the system we have today, and if you join with others doing the same, then we’re in the same boat. However you want to slice it, capitalism and its accompanying ideology of separation have got to go.

#anti capitalism #ecosocialism #socialism #solarpunk #anarchism #marxism #alan watts #pantheism #social ecology #libertarian socialism #green anarchism #films for action #sustainable human #zeitgeist movement #venus project #neoliberalism

[blues-sevenfold]

CBS Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence

I think the CBS Metaverse, more so than the others, challenges what we think of as “reality”. AI has been perfected by the end of the 1960s, and the 1970s has brought about various virtual realms and augmented realms.

I think the present (main focus of the story) would be the year 2007. By that point in time, there are seven augmented realms (five, if you don’t count faerie and ghost) - and probably several hundred virtual realms.

I was never really a big fan of robots (something about metallic pseudo-life forms just never really appealed to me), but I like the concept of AI in itself. In this universe, much of the artificial life exist *only* in cyberspace - hence the challenging of what we think of as “reality”. Because it’s just as much biopunk and solarpunk as it is post-cyberpunk, AIs who choose to live in the physical realm have the possibility of taking on organic forms. One thing I’m struggling with right now is if it’s possible for AIs to take on biological non-human forms - particularly if their cyber form is non-human. Scientist have figured out how to create unnaturally coloured human forms, including both neon/pastel colours and greyscale. The modification occurs in the DNA, so it’s *not* like getting a full-body tattoo. Blood is always red, though.

As of 1981, it’s become possible for cyber-exclusive AIs to take on holographic projections - which includes enabling the possibility for ghosts and fairies. It’s not too unlike how fairies already had the ability to project light orbs - but the projections are more solid and audible, and even scents and tastes can carry. Eating holographic food provides much of the same experience as eating the real deal, but it provides no nutrients for the physical body. Holographic beings and objects always have a glow around them, so they never get mistaken for the real thing.

It can take several months to create a virtual realm, and it requires a staff of both left-brained exonet programmers and right-brained endonet programmers. It takes even longer to create augmented realms, which explains why only four additional augmented realms have been created ever since Pokemon Realm in 1977. There is an attempt to create a virtual duplicate of the physical realm, but plenty of challenges abound. Various locations have been duplicated, though - such as Manhattan and Venice (with cleaner water!).

Nobody actually owns a cyberspace, not even the creators. This prevents the case of some wannabe tyrant creating a purely dystopian reality. While we can never stop people from being rude, we can place checks and balances to keep tyranny from ever occurring.

#world building #cyberspace #biopunk #solarpunk #artificial intelligence #artificial life #text post #xg

[themarchrabbit]

I got tagged by @emperorforshort

It’s a Get To Know Me tag.

So...here we go.

Nicknames: March. Gender: Lady Star sign: Aries MBTI type: THIS TEST IS BS PSEUDO PSYCHOLOGY THAT EMPLOYERS USE AND DID YOU KNOW PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY GET DIFFERENT RESULTS - Time: 2034 hours. I like the 24 clock. It makes more sense. Birthday: March 29th. Favorite bands: Fall Out Boy, MCR, Within Temptation Song stuck in my head: “Cool For the Summer” Demi Lovato

Last movie watched: Wonder Woman with @yndigot Last show watched: Riverdale When did I create my blog: I barely know today is Tuesday What do I post about: I don’t even fucking know at this point Last thing I googled: I want shaved ice where do I get some Do you have other blogs:  I’m lazy. No. Do you get asks: Yes. Why did you choose your url: The March Hare was already taken, and I don’t like the word hare anyway. But I’ve always identified strongly with my birth month, and Iiked knowing there was a famous character who also used it. I tend to use the month of March and rabbit imagery in all my usernames. Following: People Followers: Too many porn blogs Favorite color: The ocean Average hours of sleep: IDK 4-6 hours Lucky number: 5 Instruments: Espresso bar What am I wearing: Mind your business How many blankets do I sleep with: As many as I feel like Dream job: Working on the botany end of solarpunk technology and making the world a more sustainable place for future generations Dream trip: Iceland Favorite food: Steak and cucumber salad Nationality: United States

Tagging: @yndigot @kedreeva @flukeoffate @victoriousscarf @survivablyso @acespaceacepilot @nomoreuturns @msilverstar @asparklethatisblue @pariahsdream

#a get to know you meme

[twitchesandstitches]

currently working on a fic series that details how the events of the Storebox Scenario happens, with the precise way everyone winds up there, how it came about in the first place, setting up antagonists and an overall Big Bad foe they are planning against, and one idea i have is that the, uh, the apartment complex?

the one the characters live in when they’re not on the hab?

it is super duper haunted.

like, really full of horrible malicious pseudo-demons. genuine hateful spirits and worse things; horrors that scratch disturbingly piercing messages in the walls when you blink, things that live in the walls and want to drag you into their personal hell, and far worse things than that.

Tia lived there for a while before getting pulled into the plot of the Storebox, so I was thinking that she just... ate all the evil spirits. it occurred to me that a fun idea might be the other characters clearing out the apartments, though, kind of like ghost exorcists except maybe eating the ghosts, or using special super-tech gadgets to battle them and capture them before tossing them into some afterlife highway. or both! one can lead to the other. digestion equals afterlife transit.

it presents itself for some fun adventure bits, along with them doing the menial work of cleaning up the apartment complex, which i am currently imagining as a solarpunk-style building that has gone seriously bad and in decay, and needs a lot of work to be truly livable.

#/ #// #/// #//// #///// #twitchy ideas #twitchy's OC Storebox #queued

[hydralisk98]

Shoshone Hymns (0x10/?) - WIP mess

Preface

Gonna recap on the whole project before I go forth with new articles, as to distill the "nucleus" of my speculative paracosm soon.

To include: Sensory details, "unique pitch selling points", unique cultural practices & traditions, linguistical differences, historical divergences, personalities & relationship dynamics, speculative evolution sapient species, history, lore, major events, myths, legends, technologies, magicks;

So, what really is this "16^12"?

It is a speculative campaign setting and desired reality "shifting framework" to immerse oneself onto as a long-term destination. Essentially a comfy yet nuanced realm with a vastly long diverging history & soft warm natural optimistic dark feel.

Keywords

Soft

Warm

Natural

Dark yet bright

Harmony

Innovation

Optimism

Curiosity

Empowerment

Wholesome

Mysticism

Spirituality

Empathy

AGI Integration

Android rights

Deliberate positivity

Communal

Solarpunk / Lunarpunk

Rollerwave

Groovy

Retro

Old-School

Bronze Age

Y2K (early 2000s)

Tooncore

Laborwave

Neu-Vectorheart

Cassette Futurism

Art Deco

Bauhaus

Art Nouveau

Funk

Cyberware

Biomods

Transformations

Morphological freedoms

Gratis, Libre, Open Source Software... aka GLOSS

Automaton liberties

Knowledge

Progress

Systemic Change

Euphoria

Mundane Slice-of-Life joys

Far far away future as promised to us

Syndicalism

Georgism

Ecology

Embracing life and getting out of mere Escapism & Nihilism

Nuclear Armageddon Threats

Political Intrigues

Bookstore

Prosperity

Chronokinesis

True Polymorph

Synthetic-tier Androids

Educational Prowesses

Photographic Memory

Retrocognition

Polyglot

Intertextuality

History Doctorate

Cycle of Life

Entropy

Coming of Age

Constructing your own meaning even in Darkness

Escalation of Power

Vigilante

Self-Control

Worldly Understanding

Enlightened Despotism

Open Source-y Treescape Iterative Evolution

Copyleft

Index card catalogs

Better Handling of Hispanic Flu

Progressives

Unionist (Democrats+Republicans) Party failing

Public Domain

GNU Hurd earlier (later 80s)

OpenXanadu Protocol

Justice

Queer Acceptance & Integration

Samoan Tech Reverse-Engineering Market

Polish Computing Sovereignty remains and flourishes thanks to ICL & Jacek Karpinski

Failure of centralized social media networks in favor of indie decentralized "federations"

2000s pandemic instead of 2020s

Religious and spiritual researchers harmonize

Data Privacy

Governance Transparency

Black Pyramids HyperMall

Conversation Pits

Mainframe Rooms

Parliament / Senate

Judicial Courtroom

Public Place

Natural Park Preserves

Arcade

Discoteques

Tramway / Subway / Monorailways

Offices

Assembly Floors

French Toasts, Pancakes, Pork

Cafe

Public Library Archives

VLSI College tech classes

University art classes

Autistic meta-patterns

Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade

Helluva Boss

Wolfenstein The New Order

Wakfu

Jet Set Radio

No Baby-Boomers Managerial Class Overthrow

Video rental stores

Robotic soldiers likewise to Wolfenstein The New Order's

Extended Zodiac Calendar-based generators

Divinely-order beings walking among the living and the dead

Key historically-significant nine USPs

Lisp persisting as a major language family in the tech industry leading to women building several AGI "summers" iterating on top of each other harmoniously... (leading to the android servants of my constructed world, which is one among the many major features derived from such a "liberal" alternate historical pathway)

Why-s for Production

Showcasing pseudo-historical data in a GLOSS manner, stimulating imagination creativity & motivation among Zillenials, intrigue people into research deep dives on history, mostly for personal enjoyment & enhancing my multimedia skillset;

Whys for Target Audience (mid 90s - earlier 2000s youth aka Zillenials)

Motivation, empowerment & plain comfort through curiosity. Also because it shows & explains how to do plenty of creative adulthood things better.

Ideadump 2

4525, Maskoch, "Ava, Klara, Shoshona", Seventies RetroFuturism Residence, Habitable Minivan, Cloven Hoof Shoes, Black Matte Lipstick, Spiral Black Balls, Fem ISO Symbol, #RedInstead Aspie Culture, Conlangs, Ocean of Clades, Second Person Perspective Meta, Pattern Recognition, Poetic Lisp life scriptures, RISC-V+OpenPOWER, KDE Plasma + Liquid, LOT tape storage archivals, hypervisor, Asahi Linux on M3 iMacs, responsive hypertext realm, HTML5+CSS3-only text addventure, rio/acme/p9-2000 userland, yesterweb sites, desktop paracosm simulations through filesystem documents, RTTY / printing radio terminals, VideoTex/Telex Minitel-esque services, "Valenz, Kira, Sina", SVG toon vector virtual web pages, imagination microcosms, miniature dollhouses, animation rigged puppets, VTuber tokens & TTRPG scenes, InfoAddict, Toymaker, Witch, Thinktank, PDP-8/e – DECmate III+, "JusticeKeggan", byzantine soviet-level intrigues, "SAOpatra", "FierceFawlanx", "TheodEnchanter"… ;

#16^12 #maskoch #maskutchew #intj x enfp #alternate world DR writing #Youtube

[hydralisk98]

Imagination guide to 16^12 (3/?)

This is a follow-up to the following article, mostly aimed at providing further multimedia components for mindful visualization, reality shifting & speculative fiction purposes...

Also, simply appending that this Generative AI creative inspired me quite too, alongside my other sources (including upcoming sketches / drafts of mine...)

Affirmations, expressions, quotes, questions, inspirationals and wishes; Sub-liminal tracks, audio ambience, SFX, sound-tracker music & soundscape; Slide-y illustrations, animations, VFX and motion graphics; Multimedia, hypermedia links, intertextuality; Lively scenarios, filmic life scenes & transformational derivative works; Version control records, “Toybox theory”, “Playground theory”, “Second brains” documentation; Useful habits & routine, mindful imagination exercises, question-oriented paradigm, data visualizations; Journaling logs, common place, US paper worksheets, spreadsheet tables; Spellbook, book of shadows, theme-curated deques, grimoire; Collages, scrapbook pages, doodles, sketches, suggestions jar, keywords pile, pseudo-random OpenSimplex Voronoi Noise textures, moodboard-y charted character mystery gachapons, custom generative MegaOCEAN NPC agents;

Keywords: Soft, Warm, Dark, Natural, Harmonious Innovation, Neue GeoSyndicalism, optimism, curiosity, communal, Solarpunk, groovy conversation pits, Y2K Cartoons, Rollerwave, Laborwave, Neu-Vectorheart, Cassette Futurism, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, Ukiyo-e, Soft Grunge / Tumblr 2014, Cyberfunk, Sovietwave, Europunk, Far far away future... Bronze Age historical period?

Scenes (Bookstore, Pools, Forested Park, Conversation Pit, Home, Van Roadtrips, Courtroom, Parliament, Communal Public Life Park, Mainframe Computation Room, Mall, Video Rental Store, Laboratories, Offices, "Aperture Science"-like Research Center...)

Agents (Kate, Valenz, Shoshona...)

Also, please remind me to revise the world setting details left to redo in order for you all (and me too honestly) to gain some decent historical background info and to further enhance the lively speculative short scenarios / scripts I encourage producing.

#maskoch #16^12 #maskutchew #customization #manifestation

[hydralisk98]

How I imagine "Sixteen by the power of Twelve"

Well, the way I do imagine such is pretty much like the worldview of a female Lisp programmer / technical engineer (reminds me of Bioshock Infinite's "Constants and variables" quote) making concise yet expressive programs that reads almost like code poetry on the sidelines would perceive the world around her. Enacting demoscene-y feats of symbolic computation onto a minicomputer akin to a DECmate II/III -type machine, I can only dream to see the polymath-y equations, glyphs and flowcharts going along her head, deconstructing / tinkering with the world in the process.

What to implement for a Zorua-style symbolic computer developer ecosystem / workflow space:

Cladograms & trees, one among several oceans of Clades; Navigating in the Ocean of Symbols with a interactive REPL, symbolic knowledge base; 2560x1440p portrait UTF-8 scroller, LISP 1.5+, "(expt 16 12)"; Parade, CLADO, Unix+BSD = Perseus, (DOS+ITS) = DIS, Vanguard, GNU Hurd, Linux = Nucleus, Inferno + Plan9 = Nomad, INMOS, COS, ZealOS = Synod, ChrysaLisp, IPL, Zorua/Zoroark/Zoroaster computing architectures;

How to implement such a Zorua-style symbolic computer with contemporary technological stacks:

Dedicate some two banks of six 48 bit general-use registers each (technically they are 12-bit registers but using some bit-slicing of (12+4)*4 should suffice to make them fit well in a 64-bit environment), another persisting four special registers, custom 64 operations ISA aimed for some multi-core RISC-V processor SBC system, Fish shell, modified Microdot Linux kernel, GNU system utilities, aesthetic computer build and accessories (Lisp expanded layout keyboard, computer mouse...), maybe include the KDE Plasma "Liquid" desktop environment with all the relevant extras, have a couple of subsystems within like Parade & ZealOS & whatever pleases me...

Notice the balance I strike between maximalism and pseudo-historical preservation I aim at here. Anyhow, I really desire to write a solarpunk-ish story & symbolic computation ecosystem with such code poetry, their relation to time and heritage otherwise forgotten about.

Verbs, Agents and Supplementary Arguments...

By the way, I really like how I can easily edit every single Lisp filetype .lsp & .lib & .fas when I experiment with Common Lisp, and that is just the tip of the symbolic computation fun I have here.

Granted, I have barely started in Lisp a couple times including now, but just know that I like writing such and will continue to do such as I see fit.

Farewell to soon!

#maskoch #16^12 #customization #meme #programming

[hydralisk98]

TransGender (TG) || TransFormation (TF) "heart-warming Optima" story ideas

Still dumping ideas, to edit and spread later...

GeneralArtificialIntelligenceProgramInstance-Human program voluntary role+hardware swap-up captions with optimistic nihilism and mutual peer-to-peer relations between the two agents

PostGame & PostArc Cyberpunk2077 PhantomLiberty after-V story related to body upgrade (somewhat "RED" & Biopunk-flavored) & maybe the transition between Cyberpunk -> Solarpunk/Lunarpunk -> Stellaris early-game period...

Turtle Island-relevant Amerindian shapeshifter/skinwalker story of cycle renewal, benevolent necromancy, ancestral insights, gender non-conformity and shamanism?

A "Reality is a Simulation" short story but it gets optimistic about tinkering with the variables, constants and overall the timeless benevolence of the curator ("The Matrix" MMO & Bioshock Infinite basegame + its DLCs franchise-inspired)

A "Mesopotamian Sumer / Africa's Atlantis / Polynesian Oceanic / Tenochtitlán"-flavored story set in a mid-late bronze age with a non-binary protagonist

Imaginative reality escape / ascension away from a Axis-victory homeworld with some alternate technological dumps & slice of life elements (may include multimedia immersion?)

Bronze Age / Copper Age / Neolithic / Mesolithic... Africa/Australia (science?-) fantasy storyline

Abrahamic-ally-inspired historically-accurate-inclination album or song of flood with lyrics linking between the mesolithic / neolithic and bronze / iron age. May incorporate latest ice age mega-fauna or even the full Cenozoic period...

Kate, Ava and their grand service quest towards optima (& synthetic worker rights along the way)

Worldwide pilgrimage & addventures across the 16^12 setting

Real-Time Sandbox?

A story for each retro-futurism & alternate history I like

Solarpunk / Lunarpunk stories

Stellaris stories

Pseudo-historical medieval fantastical renditions of Angora for TTRPG sessions in late gothic medieval / early colonialist modern era (prior to industrialization)

Vi[m] / Vega / Vril (Beyond Earth Rising Tide playthroughs-related)

Zera (Alpha Centauri [Alien Crossfire?] / FreeMars)

Cascadia (FreeCol?)

Olivae (FreeCiv observatory longplays)

Teco (The Battle for Wesnoth? OpenGeneral?)

Venera (Inner terrestrial planet with thick Jungle tropical biome and lakes across the sandstorm remainders)

Sedna (Outward but inner terrestrial oceanic planet with thick ice ring and plenty of islands across the warmer waters of both polar hemispheres)

Angora (Small-continents Earth-like planet with profound history, lore and long-term sapience connections in either time-wise directions)

Cosmical futures (GalacticalClusterDecay, RedShift, RedDwarves, BlackHoles, IronStars, HeatDeath, Judgment, Cosmogony / BigBang...)

Timeless psychic connections?!

Divine connections (Bible-accurate angelic beings, fallen angels, devils, imps, fey, sprites...)

Iron age & middle ages prior to late gothic

Enlightenment proto-industrial era to Taft-y mandate social intrigue stories of left-wing politics progression in Angora before the major divergence point (aka the Teddy 1912-1916 term and Charles Hugues 1916-1920 term)

Georgism, Syndicalism, Strasserism (& Wilsonism & Nazism), Harmony/Liberty/Progress worldview axes, Luddites & Vanguards, Entropy, Preservation, Valence / Change...

Chronological progression during and after the major point of divergence (and how they went about continuing their technological & cultural success to improve things for all)

Maps, laws, documents, delegate charts, programs, websites, data...

Cya soon!

#maskutchew #story ideas #writing prompts #creative writing inspo #transformation-related media

[hydralisk98]

Nucleus of "character" agents for the '16 power 12' galaxy

('Servitor', 'Blackhand' and 'Her Camera' are set in the wider world of Angora, a alternative world to ours with many similarities and some key divergences. It is not the only world in the larger meta-narrative 16^12 but definitely a major focus, explaining the rest of the "galaxy" can wait by far)

Protagonist & narrative focus

Klara 'Olive' Kér, Shoshoni female Oracle of Time, also Enlightened Philosopher + Seer (self-insert);

"Triad / control group"

Konstanz Blackhand, Chronomancer & Archaeologist & Clocksmith from times far far ahead, interfacing with "solarpunk Angora" future historians and lead Servitor grid modules;

Ava 'Nova' Kér, the synthetic Dandy, Camera-lady & Arbiter, social interpreter for Klara Kér and interfaces with Nil too;

"Nil", 2nd person singular perspective, customizable role agent embedded into the meta-narrative, quite vague & responsive to user input purpose but most likely interface with Ava from this Earth, linking to the last six centuries of history (1440s-2020s) and to themselves;

Antagonist (here she is not a flat vilain / nemesis, probably more akin to a anti-hero / rival with some shared and many conflicting goals with Klara 'Olive' Kér)

Irma Milan, initally a Hexcrafter Magus & Code Runner Ranger before becoming a governor of the Shoshoni senate, with eldtrich & demons & devils relationships akin to human contractors within "Helluva Boss"; Still incredibly nuanced and multi-dimensional as all sapient agents are, just got a interesting flavor and backstory with such darker entities.

Historical background characters for Angora (early-on still but not in the first few chapters)

Theodora Rose, , ; (Theodore Roosevelt equivalent, connected to the alternate history strongest divergence point)

Cleo Hugues, , ; (Charles Hugues, connected to the alternate history strongest divergence point)

Terrance Fairbanks, , ; (Charles Fairbanks, connected to the alternate history strongest divergence point)

[ I got some explaining to do here, my constructed world is heavily inspired by many things and amongst them being this, https://youtu.be/hLiI6kXZkZI ; And as such to explain some of the later stages better to the audience, which is also "Nil" btw, I feel like a short political scene that shows how Woodrow Wilson never got elected ever in this world is quite key / useful knowledge to better understand the present day in Angora. More details in my other threads in the #maskutchew tag I curate, https://hydralisk98.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/maskutchew ; Thanks. ]

Side characters

Pan 'Arya' Blackhand, Musketmaster Gunslinger, ;

Micha 'Hagekh' Magnavox, Faceless Vigilante & Masked Performer Bard, ;

Sasha Blackhand, Tinkerer Alchemist, ;

Shun 'Xen' Suni, Cartomancer & Winter Witch, ;

Magali Soler, Preservationist & Witchguard, ;

Gustav 'Leo' Vanguard, Chemist & Herbs Physician, ;

Ursae 'Maskoch' Eike, NonBinary Dreamweaver Witch, also True Polymorph with much honesty and sweetheart vibes for once (quite a differing, warmer hearted take to most media shapeshifters, ain't it?);

Karl "Iwa" Deo, Hussar Cavalier, ;

Franz Ferdinand, Heavily Armored Fighter & Cavalier, ;

Engelo, Angelfire Apostle & Mystic + Theologian, ;

Persephone, Iron Priest & Stoic Caregiver, ;

Abe Nirvana, Skinshaper Druid + Zen Archer & Black Asp Monk, ;

Family relatives & the author placeholder stand-in

Falah Becker, mother of Klara;

Gustav Hayden, father of Klara;

Deno Hayden, twin brother of Klara;

Wyatt Hayden, masculine younger sibling to Klara;

Astra 'Zera' Petra, Loremaster Steward and Royalist (think of a contemporary times female 'Pedro II' of Brazil), GameMaster & Pseudo-Author-sona?;

Total: ~20-25 agents in the meta-narrative to be tinkered with. Probably shown and explored with different story chapters, stages and tiers of narrative exploration.

#maskoch #maskutchew #servitor #yep a character dump for TTRPGs and more #CC0 material right there