#children yearn for the mines ...

[take-all-the-uwus]

I would really like all of tumblr to know that children yearning for the mines is cannon in the Minecraft movie

[purgatorypicnic]

People joke about how a Sour patch kid would kill a Victorian child, but They probably won't be able to taste the darn thing with all of the Lead in their bodies.

Also debris from the mines.

[bepenikki]

i really like minecraft but i like,, never play it and its bc every. single. time. i just start digging. and i do nothing but dig until i finish the hole and after that i just run out of things to do and im just left with a really big hole and ijust move onto a new world. this has happened many times

[dustmywets]

[dancing-heart-pony]

The Sims 2 (PC) Started my life sim obsession

Barbie and The 12 Dancing Princesses (GBA) the first handheld game I ever got, so it’s very sentimental to me. Also pretty decent quality for a Barbie game, (albeit very short) in an era where like EVERY kids movie got turned into a crappy a video game for multiple platforms. Plus the music SLAPS.

Super Paper Mario (Wii) My first real emotional experience from a video game! Made me cry at multiple times, and inspired me to write my first ever fanfiction because I was so sad about it ending.

New Super Mario Bros (both DS & Wii) a lot of fond memories playing this with my friends!

Fallout 3 (Xbox 360) Introduced to me by friends and inspired my love of post-apocalyptic fiction and 50’s music. 😅

Need for Speed Underground, Midnight Club 2, Mercenaries: World in Flames, Black, Quake II.

Honorable Mentions: Mech Warrior, Doom !&II. 

[lordofthenightfruitt]

New Minecraft trailer

WHAT?!?!

!?!!?!!?

[peculiar-potato]

I’M??? I’M SORRY??

The new Minecraft movie trailer LITERALLY opened with the “the children yearn for the mines” meme???

???????????????

[chase-solidago]

Invasive Species and Xenophobia

Invasive species are complicated! People have a lot of feelings about them, positive and negative. Are plants that move "invaders" "colonizing", "immigrants", "citizens"? What does it mean to kill species that are from somewhere else? What if that species legitimately makes a poor neighbor and causes extinctions in other, native species? This complex, culturally-loaded issue is a foundational issue behind a lot of plant conservation and restoration.

This is a juicy and still actively disputed topic! The Guardian recently had a big article on colonialism in Botany, (tbh her views are dated and reductive, imo) and it’s come up again this week, to much hostility (cw: reddit). Yes, my region's native plant restoration came from literal nazis, but also, the impacts of some invasive species are real, not figments of a racist imagination. How do we balance these issues? What does ethical invasive management look like?

Since it’s such a juicy topic, I wanted to offer a few fun readings to share:

The Native Plant Enthusiasm: Ecological Panacea or Xenophobia?, Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, 2004, Arnoldia.

THE CLASSIC 20th century German nazis and native plants paper. Made a huge splash when it came out, and you will still encounter people who paint all native plant stuff with this brush. Summary: yeah the nazis loved their native plants and used them as part of their conquering process. Also, the first prairie plantings ever, located in Chicago, were done by a racist probable-nazi for racist reasons, full stop. I’ll let him speak for himself: “The gardens that I created myself shall… be in harmony with their landscape environment and the racial characteristics of its inhabitants. They shall express the spirit of America and therefore shall be free of foreign character as far as possible… the Latin and the Oriental crept and creeps more and more over our land, coming from the South, which is settled by Latin people, and also from other centers of mixed masses of immigrants. The Germanic character of our race, of our cities and settlements was overgrown by foreign character. The Latin spirit has spoiled a lot and still spoils things every day.” - Jens Jensen

Botanical decolonization: rethinking native plants, Tomaz Mastnak, 2014, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Rather than viewing native plant plantings as an act of racially-pure occupation, Mastnak positions native plants in California as a decolonization of the sub/urban lawn. Uses a lot of quotations from 16th century English philosopher Francis Bacon, and is heavy on the philosophical musings.

From killing lists to healthy country: Aboriginal approaches to weed control in the Kimberley, Western Australia by Bach et al., 2019, Journal of Environmental Management.

This paper talks through some of the native vs invasive debate, and offers a different perspective on how to approach to plant invasive management based on cultural relations, rather than country of origin or behavior.

Beyond ‘Native V. Alien’: Critiques of the Native/alien Paradigm in the Anthropocene, and Their Implications, Charles R. Warren, 2021, Ethics, Policy, & Environment

DENSE but thorough, if you want to follow the entire history of the native/invasive debate, this has you covered. The most interesting stuff, in my opinion, is the discussion of invasive denialism, IE: the impasse of “You’re just being racist!” Vs “You know nothing about ecology!” I recommend the Discussion, which starts on page 13.

[mariibeann]

Some realm fanart! They make me so sick /pos

[dashcon-two]

my exams are over, I am home free, and the spirit has returned to me!

DashCon 2’s Daily Wisdom:

Having several boulders placed on top of you will not fix you. It certainly did not fix Giles Corey.

[enderman-eyes]

print this out and frame it

fun fact: once, during lockdown, i played minecraft for 24 straight hours :)

[inkyarcturus]

The children yearn for emotionally unavailable father figures who secretly care very deeply

[aniisol]

I'm detached with whatever is going on with the minecraft movie and its fandom and the people who are mad and those who aren't and whose who are banning it and those who are going to see it. i simply look on from the outside through the flashy, misted lens of youtube shorts with peace in my mind and longing in my heart because all i want is to eat one of those set piece square potatoes. then I'll be okay.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Of course Arthur's version of Lovecraftian purgatory is a bar. His genes yearn for the alcoholism

[gingerfan24]

Dogmatic RT- “The children yearn for the mines. Servitorize the stragglers and take away their rations if they act out.”

Heretic RT- “The children yearn for the mines. Make them fight each other to the death for my entertainment and sacrifice the stragglers to make daemon engines.”

Iconoclast RT- “The children yearn for the mines but hey! We have OSHA!”

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

Minecraft movie looks like a *lot* of visual talent (the set design??? Hello??) held back by the most forspoken-ass "uhm, he's right behind me isn't he" dialogue ever goddamn heard. And the trailer still didnt say a thing about if there's a plot.