#There is No Planet B

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

Anyone else ever feel like bludgeoning oil executives and politicians to death with a rusty pipe over what they’ve doomed us all to?

Capitalism is a death sentence for the human race

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"When civil disobedience is punished more severely than racist rioting, something has gone badly wrong."

"…whether you agree with Just Stop Oil’s tactics or not…their nonviolent protest, whose aim was to protect us all from harm, was a far less serious crime than the violence on the streets this month, whose perpetrators deliberately inflicted injury and massive, indiscriminate criminal damage. The riots did not just inconvenience people, they terrorised them.

When civil disobedience is punished more severely than racist rioting, something has gone badly wrong."

[animalsoutloud]

[gravityfalls4life]

Man, Gravity Falls sounds fun to visit! I've always been interested in the paranormal and odd things. Too bad it doesn't exist in my universe, lol

In your universe? That's... interesting... I haven't heard from the other universes in 12 years!

Cut it, six fingers. No one cares about ya dimension travel bullshit. And even if, this Elon Musk guy would come swarming o'er here tryin' to get ya to Mars or som.

I- I- I want to go to Mars...

No you don't.

Aren't you girls supposed to be interested in Astrology and all that?

Seriously, Dipstick?

*eating snacks.* I'm a Soos!

[classycreeps]

Classy Creeps

[isaacbookclub]

The is no Planet B - Mike Berners-Lee

Season 1 Episode 8

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

No Planet B

Jean Shrimpton and Jeanloup Sieff hanging out on Karavolades Stairs, Fira, Santorini, 1967 by Richard Avedon for Vogue US

Giorgione, Titian: Sleeping Venus landscape detail, 1510

HITTHEROAD: Antarctica iceberg

Richard Avedon: The Shrimp at Sea, January 1967

Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test, Marshall Islands, 1946, conducted by the USA for Operation Crossroads (series of nuclear weapons tests)

Wolfgang Tillmans: Sprinkled landscape, 2018

Christine Spengler: Bombardement of Phnom-Penh, 1975

Svend Rasmussen Svendsen aka Svend Svendson: Nocturnal Forest

First View of Earth From Moon taken by NASA Lunar Orbiter, Aug. 23, 1966

[conivingbitch666]

Hope is not lost

For I have fire in my heart and faith in my bones

[burdened-boy]

whyyy is it almost 90 in september (i know exactly why)

[bookwatching]

Heartstopper - every book Isaac reads in season 1

Episode 03 - Kiss

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind e Art Friedman

Episode 04 - Secret

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson

Proud: My Autobiography, Gareth Thomas

Episode 05 - Friend

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Radio Silence, Alice Oseman

(Fun fact: Alice Oseman is the author of Heartstopper on which the show is based)

Episode 08 - Boyfriend

Gender Explorers - Juno Roche

There is no planet B - Mike Berners-Lee

[cleveralienperspectives]

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"While the collapse of the AMOC was once considered “low probability,” the likelihood of it happening is increasing. In fact, it’s becoming so concerning to oceanographers that 44 of them, from various countries, wrote and published a call to action, warning that the risk of the AMOC reaching a disastrous tipping point is “greatly underestimated” and will have “devastating and irreversible impacts.”

[animalsoutloud]

[lexiklecksi]

Happy STS! Hope you’ve had a good week! I'm trying to learn about everyone's WIPs, so what is the thing that you currently want to talk about the most from yours? :)

Happy storyteller saturday to you! I've had an awful week, so I daydreamed even more about my wip and escaped into the fantasy world I've created. I don't want to bother you with the gay lovestory now, so I'll talk about something more serious regarding my worldbuilding. Read about it under the cut.

The most famous high fantasy stories (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Witcher, etc.) involve a war, most times with the connotation of a racial war (elves against orks, wizards against muggles, dwarfs against humans etc). So naturally, when I decided to write my story in a high fantasy setting, I've thought about a brewing war between humans and magical beings. But I didn't want to make it about racism (or even antisemitism) because as a German, I feel like I have to be very sensitive and sensible with that matter. I just don't feel comfortable writing that topic.

The escalating fights that might lead to a war in my story should tackle environmental pollution and stealing of resources as the main cause for animosity between humans and magical beings. We are destroying our planet and I have been active in the Fridays for Future movement, and I am still passionate about saving our only planet. So this is a topic I feel more comfortable writing about in a high fantasy setting and also a topic that is incredibly relevant today more than ever. But which time should my wip be set in? Is it in the future, where earth is dying?

I've done extensive research and then it hit me: Environmental pollution as we know it started in the industrialization, when big factories started mass-producing items and there were no laws to protect the environment. So my fantasy story is loosely based of the industrialization. That choice requires more research about the historical setting and to be honest, I can't written some scene because I still have to do more research. My characters can still travel by foot (or in Enya's case fly around) and it is mostly set in a forest, so similar to Medieval fantasy setting. Just the possibility of travelling by train is great so my characters can move around my world more quickly. So far, I've only written one relevant scene from the pov of a 10 year old boy wo works in a textile factory and discovers a river spirit who looks like a mermaid in the river behind the factory where the poisonous dyes are flooding in. She begs him to help her because the river is poisoned and she is dying. So that is the fantasy part, but I also get to talk about how horrible child labour which is still happening today in many countries.

Long story short: I want to talk about politics and societal problems in a high fantasy setting and I think most fantasy does that, but I'm trying to take a different approach so readers think about these topics subconsciously while enjoying a gay lovestory with a slow-burn enemies to lovers trope. That's what my future readers sign up for without even knowing it.

[humnooshop]

Baby it's hot outside.

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[starrytalking]

While you’ve been out there eating pussy, I’m eating all parts of the human. Be responsible and think of our planet for once! >:(