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Exploring British Columbia: The Benefits of Public Transport
My latest travelogue is available here on Amazon. Embark on a journey through the serene landscapes of Vancouver Island, the tranquil Gulf Islands, and the picturesque Sunshine Coast with this captivating narrative. In this exploration, the author eschews cars and bicycles, opting instead for public transport—a mode often overlooked yet rich in experiences. From leisurely walks along scenic…
#bc islands#islands of bc#sunshine coast#travel#vancouver island#what is there to do#what is there to do in#what is there to see in#what to do#what to do in#what to see#where to find#where to go#why go to
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one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.
the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.
like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.
but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.
so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.
i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?
but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?
sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?
and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.
nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.
the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!
and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.
#spilled ink#writeblr#i hope it is clear here that i actually very much care about equatorial countries#and that's part of what makes me so angry bc im like. climate refugees exist.#they've existed for a while!!!#and the reply is almost always ''should have thought about that before living on an island"#like fuck dude. do you need to like how people vote before ur like#your entire house shouldn't burn down each summer????#so many of these people make it their life to mock california that they think it's FUNNY#and im like. girl you should be fucking trembling. TEXAS??? ARE YOU LISTENING??#this is one of those times that like. i need to stress how fucking stupid it would be#to let trump win. bc he could have “reached across the aisle.” covid could have been#a MASSIVE commercial success. he has such a huge and bigoted and brainwashed following.#literally just a PR campaign called COWBOY UP and it's pictures of cowboys in bandanas#trump reinvisioned as the lone ranger fighting for the american people against covid. EASY SELL#and instead. companies bought him. it became political. it was not ''oh shit this is 1 enemy let's all be human''#it was ''you deserve to die.''#climate change should be GLOBAL. it should be like ''yeah i hate u but. we do all live here''#i don't have to LIKE my group members to do well on a team project bc we are ALL getting graded.#is that simple enough of an under-explaination lol
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small item moodboard and path codes for my new island Nixie🧚🏻🌳✨🍀🌱🐚
#so i restarted again haha#i wanted something that felt more like summer#so im going fairycore in a glowy green way🍃🧚🏻✨#it feels like im doing a kidcore island somehow too!#excited to share more bc im already loving working on this island!!#acnh#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#new horizons#acnh island#acnh exterior#acnh fairycore#acnh city#acnh codes#acnh path codes#acnh summer#acnh screenshots#acnh green#acnh inspo#acnh nixie island🧚🏻
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boy why you so legs
#i dont even fully understand why i even draw him so much. hes like 4th place in the strawhats for me#its just that hes so fun for posing and simple scribbles cause his designs so simple. just one big dynamic line bc of the silhouette#even if his hair is a pain in the ass. but i think im getting the hang of it#i liked when in fishman island they gave him a little fluffy cardigan sweater for a second that was cute#too bad that was when chopper euthanized him. havent seen sanji since... what a shame#wtf... art#one piece fanart#sanji#black leg sanji
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day 5 - little brother
so incredibly self indulgent but yeah anyway... little brother w his three older brothers
(please more asl + uta/asul bros please)
#yes uta is a brother !!#doesn't matter what she's called bc they're a family no matter what#modern au#but also...#uta stays on dawn island au#pleas i just want them all as siblings#ok but imagine ace meeting up w shanks#how funny would that be#but also sweet#bc it means uta had another person that looked after her#even though uta and ace def fought A LOT#i can't write but i think abt ASUL a lot#one of my fav aus#one piece#luffy week#luffy week 2024#monkey d luffy#portgas d ace#revolutionary sabo#sabo#uta#uta one piece#tin art
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something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.
it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.
and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.
on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.
edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.
Perseus, Daniel Ogden
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet
#perseus#danae#komiks tag#long post#every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma#but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :(#perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him#anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited#(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember#im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post#it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED#esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)#it’s all greek to me
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This would only work on Calypso’s island
#doctorsiren#gravity falls#the odyssey#epic the musical#bill cipher#odysseus of ithaca#gravity falls fanart#epic the musical fanart#the ODDyssey AU#mythology falls au#digital art#my art#procreate#this is mental illness#see it only works on Calypso’s island bc every other time. Odysseus would be too clever to fall for bill#but on calypso’s island he’s just so desperate for anything to get him off the island#I love how I drew bill here haha#I’m becoming too silly
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SECOND ROUND OF THESE!!
COLORFUL SHAPES
#total drama#total drama island#tdi#td eva#td justin#td ezekiel#td gwen#td trent#td dj#td katie#td sadie#td beth#td lindsay#td bridgette#td geoff#td harold#td leshawna#my art#had 2 combine some of these bc THERES SO MANY
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The punchline was originally just gonna be the last panel, but I thought it'd be funnier if he didn't even realize it for a long time lolol
#rikus character acr summarized aka teenage gay crisis#i dont think riku would ever actually confess on his own bc hes like 'sora would never like me like that he likes kairi'#meanwhile sora went through two entire games looking for him even disregarding his promise to kairi to come back#like he couldve at least visited her at the islands in kh2 after he found out its been a WHOLE ASS YEAR#anyway#sora#riku#soriku#kingdom hearts#kh#art#my art#xanders art#digital art#fan art
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i truly truly will never stop being tickled by how law's braincell count just plummets into the negatives whenever he's around luffy and kid SPECIFICALLY at the same time. like if it's one or the other he copes more or less just fine. kid's a shit-starter but he's predictable and easy (and fun) to rile up. luffy runs on baffling logic but he's fundamentally easy to get along with so long as you maintain your zen and understand that he usually doesn't MEAN to get under anybody's skin. separately they aggravate law in different ways. but when they're together kid's penchant for starting dickswinging contests (or inability to not take the bait of one) collides with luffy unhesitatingly answering with a one-up that no sane person would conceive of and what the hell is law supposed to do against THAT fuckin wombo combo. get left behind and called a bitch for it? not goddamn LIKELY!!
#trafalgar law#monkey d luffy#eustass kid#captain trio#supernova trio#one piece#[choking back tears] they are so stupid your honor#law: i'm gonna stand here and take a yonko's attack bc dodging means i'm a loser#law: i'm gonna jump my submarine off a waterfall bc kid said luffy and i were cowards for considering safety risks#babygirl WHAT are you trying to prove we already know you're a little cringefail and we love you like that#you've been part of the circus since punk hazard just give it up#caesar wasn't the only clown on that island#bizarre adventures
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The funniest thing about the boiling rock episodes is zuko telling sokka at the start how this prison houses the most dangerous and notorious criminals of the fire nation as well as war prisoners, and then at the end they just let one of them tag along without ever asking him what he was in for. Could have brought a serial killer to meet the fucking avatar and they'd be none the wiser
#i'd love it if every time someone asks chit sang what he did to end up there he tells them something different#each one of them more ridiculous than the last#'oh yeah i organized a coup' 'i'm the leader of a maffia organization on ember island.' 'i killed a man using only chopsticks'#nobody in the gaang knows what he did and none of them ever find out#and the one time he tells the duke what he actually did and the duke goes to tell everyone#but nobody believes the poor kid bc they all heard their own version#avatar the last airbender#atla#avatar#the boiling rock#zuko#sokka
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Discover BC’s Coastal Gems: Travel Without a Car or a Bike.
My latest travelogue is available here on Amazon at a 67% discount but only until 1st October 2024. The premise of this book is that I visited parts of Vancouver Island, ten of the Gulf Islands, and the Sunshine Coast on foot. I caught buses in the places where they were available and took ferries on certain routes between islands. Foot passengers do not have to book ahead on BC Ferries and can…
#bc islands#canada travel#canadian travel#islands of bc#sunshine coast#travel#vancouver island#what is there to do#what is there to do in#what is there to see in#what to do#what to do in#what to see#where to find#where to go#why go to
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"The Unlucky Groom" or "Have You Fulfilled Your Dream Yet?" or "Back Where You Started" or "Why Is He Cinderella Though" or "I Still Think He Needs to Be Put Down" or "Smoking is Bad"
#couldn't decide on a title#one piece#sanji#one piece sanji#whole cake island#black leg sanji#one piece fanart#artists on tumblr#me art#this took 3-4 months btw. I'm fine.#I've been looking at this for so long I hate it. why did I think I can do art nouveau??????#yes that's the g*rma skull on the frame. but also jolly roger. bc pirates. but also its a wedding alter. but the wedding is a trap.#you get it. symbolism!#god forgive me for the tag Im about to use but I want the reach. morally opposed to it but thematically relevant to the art ig.#vinsmoke sanji#<- never doing that again. augh.#monkey d luffy#(well. his hat)
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if you ever feel crushed by the burden of modern life…
theme for my new island☀️ a farming sim inspired farmcore island🥕complete with a terrible job you can leave and a neglected farm you can work on turning into a beautiful one🪴
#i named it starview island!#for stardew valley ofc but also bc i was playing totk and there is an island named starview lol#acnh starview island#acnh#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#new horizons#acnh island#acnh exterior#acnh autumn#acnh fall#acnh farmcore#acnh farming#acnh farm#acnh stardew valley#acnh inspo#acnh new island#acnh story
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craziest crossover breaking bad x treasure island (1988)
#funny how this got into my head#i started liking phonk because of an old edit with dr livesey#then i watch a ton of phonk edits with gus and mike#then these two vibes combined and i even wanted to make an animation in treasure island style#but for now just these cool concepts#breaking bad#brba#my art#fanart#art#better call saul#bcs#brbabcs#gus fring#saul goodman#jimmy mcgill#mike ehrmantraut#treasure island#treasure island 1988#Kievnauchfilm
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what if we eloped in the earth kingdom 👉🏼👈🏼 and we were both girls 🫣😳
for mailee week day 2 // post canon
((heavily inspired by Uemura Shōen’s whispering beauties <333))
[ID: a colored digital drawing of Mai and Ty Lee. they’re drawn from the thigh-up, standing. Ty Lee is behind Mai and leaning close to her, tucking a white magnolia flower behind her ear. Mai’s head is slightly turned, and she’s looking softly back at Ty Lee. they’re both wearing kimonos in tones of green. the drawing is colored to resemble ukyo-e prints]
#also important but not pictured: ty lee is on her tiptoes bc mai is tall af#realized Now it could fit in the hair prompt as well….#what can i say hair is mailee intricate gay ritual#also yes i have. a thing. for gay ppl eloping in the ek look away#ESPECIALLY mailee they deserve a redemption arc AND a gay love arc in kyoshi island#mai#ty lee#my art#maileeweek2023#oh ALSOOOOOO lesbian companion to the prince & the fool art lmao#ariana grande equality dot gif
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