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i am tired of the "was the past good or bad; is nature friend or foe" arguments within the broader online left.

listen: "nature" isn't real. "technology" is not a coherent inexorable, and impersonal force that exists beyond the social. we already live in a world that would be unrecognizable to the people who started this debate centuries ago, and their stances are almost completely irrelevant to the future we're creating, much less to the material conditions under which any liberation movement will have to operate.

our descendants (ideological or otherwise) will inherit a world without the scale of abundant, on-demand energy and transport we've come to expect from fossil fuels, yet one still marked by civilization and human activity. it will be shaped by mass extinctions, widespread genetically-modified organisms, a climate with no precedent in human history, large-scale migrations of both human and nonhuman life, species assemblages both old and new, the resilience of living systems and the inevitability of change.

romantic naturalism and high modernism alike are zombie ideologies. they have nothing to contribute.

#welcome to the anthropocene #come help make it more bearable for your fellows-- be they human or otherwise

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#in stars and time #isat #canon trans mlm ship... #my beloved...

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you should play in stars and time ^___^

#in stars and time #drawing sif and isa in the utenanthy flower field is inspired #this all really is how it is huh #isat

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Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis), male calling and displaying, family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, India

photograph by PinakighoshPhotography  

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Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit

Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet

#i see

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Sketches 🕊️ °˖➴

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this game occupies a similar niche for me as like, pathologic and disco elysium wherein it is trying to break me open so that i feel things, and where i was like "oh this is all very twee and adorable for my tastes" in the first few hours, the last few hit like a truck.

(notably isat's setup is specifically victor catnip because i, like the protagonist, am a repressed queer boything in their mid-late 20s with persistent memory issues and a need to please other people)

finished in stars and time.

what the fuck.

excellent, excellent ending. bravo. i think this was a game with a lot to say about the experience of frustration and catharsis in play. i especially liked how much it played with the idea of what makes a "good" ending versus a "bad" one.

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even though it's a video game, i think it'll color how i think about certain ttrpg mechanics as well in the foreseeable future? isat is designed with a lot of mechanical friction to its gameplay on purpose, and rolls the dice on whether this might alienate or engage players because the friction is a necessary part of the experience it wants to impart onto you.

this is a video game that engages heavily with the ttrpg concept of "bleed," which it handles pretty gracefully imo.

whether it threads the needle is really up to your own style of engaging with a game, but it's one of those "if it hits it REALLY hits" type play experiences.

not every game has to be for everybody and that rules because that'll inevitably create experiences that resonate with specific people.

finished in stars and time.

what the fuck.

excellent, excellent ending. bravo. i think this was a game with a lot to say about the experience of frustration and catharsis in play. i especially liked how much it played with the idea of what makes a "good" ending versus a "bad" one.

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finished in stars and time.

what the fuck.

excellent, excellent ending. bravo. i think this was a game with a lot to say about the experience of frustration and catharsis in play. i especially liked how much it played with the idea of what makes a "good" ending versus a "bad" one.

#isat

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there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever

#if someone keeps calling me windie after like our fifth amicable internet conversation i will gently remind them #that they have carte blanche to call me 'victor' and that i encourage this #'windie' is a handle and nothing more. it's not really my name

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Michael Handt

Vernal Pool in Morning Sun, 2023

Oil on canvas

#holy cannoli oil on canvas

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Dreams & Visions, Ethan & Edmund, The Heat & The Dark

An illustration for a 2017 charity fan zine centered around Friends at the Table’s Marielda arc.

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from this by @monochrome-stars

he's really fine guys can't you see. he's smiling and giving a thumbs up 👍

#in stars and time

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the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either

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Rate Blue jays

Specifically on their prebby feathers

10/10…..of course this is an American take but I think that blue jays are a perfect bird even if they have bad attitudes

#never a bad attitude with jays #just corvid boisterousness #then again i'm a guy who sees ravens attacking other passerine nests and immediately switch from "aww babies' to 'hell yeah get the protein #i love corvids. they've gotta be spunky to feed their own babies. baby jays

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#chuubo's #obsessed with rinley and natalia's placements on this chart #jasper is alone in this central cast in being principally opposed to stabbing

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nothing frustrates me more than when adults refuse to even slightly indulge the questions and thoughts of children. i remember one time when one of my younger cousins accidentally stumbled across the concept of purchasing power parity because she realised 10 rupees which bought her 10 candies in India only bought her ~3 candies when we went on holiday to Japan, and when she asked her mother about “why the same things cost different amounts in different places” my aunt had the audacity to call her spoiled for not understanding the “”worth” of money, that’s not what she was ASKING damn it!! your daughter just set up her own big mac index and realised a key metric of macroeconomics!!! how do you not find that utterly fascinating !! why don’t adults talk to children !!