#learning forever

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

This came to me in a vision

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Gregory is NEVER getting unbanned at this rate

[guardian-of-soho]

The more I think about the last minutes the more I’m sure Crowley was saying goodbye from the minute Aziraphale told him he’d said yes to Heaven. He doesn’t confess his love like he’s hopeful, he confesses it like a eulogy. He doesn’t kiss him to make a beginning, he kisses him to seal the end. He watches him go like it’s the last time.

Crowley knows Heaven. He knows they’ll want to either make Aziraphale just like them, or destroy him. Either way I think he believes he’s seen his angel for the last time.

[deaenvs3000w23]

Interpreting in the Real World, Guiding Principles

Ethic… the guiding principles that govern my behavior as to what I think is right and wrong. I often ponder about greed in the world and to live without greed is often one guiding principle I live by throughout my life and hope to bring with me in nature interpretation. I believe that everyone has the chance to make small changes which will compound to make a large difference, we just need to start! This will be hard to accomplish because even with individuals making small changes, a few big corporations often have all/most of the control. We can try to change what we consume and who we buy from, but affordability and convenience is very important to today’s consumers. For groceries, with rising food insecurity, it is very impractical to choose sustainable options (more expensive) or choose to shop locally. I often feel that the solution is out of my reach and far larger than myself, but if you can live greedless and afford to put the planet before convenience and affordability, I encourage you to do so! I often see greed in other places, especially when I see how grocery prices and taxes rise for consumers while large corporations are making record breaking profits. It is frustrating to see these profits going into a greedy person’s pocket instead of perhaps into conservation efforts. Just recently carbon taxes have gone up, gas prices went up to reflect this and the tax is being absorbed by the consumer. I ask what is this tax going towards, their reason for taxing gas is because it is ‘dirty’ so are they using this tax to clean up the ‘filth’ we must use in today’s society? There seems to be no transparency of where the extra money is going when prices rise for consumers, is anyone asking this question too? Yet we continue to exploit the planet without restoration.

I feel responsible to be the generation that actually does something about the world’s state, because after all, humans are the reason everything is happening. By acting, educating, carrying out plans I want to make the difference! Conservation plans are always made but failed to be carried out. For example, the UN Decade of Biodiversity (2011-2020) had a strategic plan, 20 biodiversity targets across 5 strategic goals but zero were successfully completed and only 6 were partially completed… Did I know about this? No. Once I knew, did I feel as though I could individually make a difference? Also no. I have grown up with older generations consistently passing the responsibility to younger people, or making plans and strategies but putting other selfish goals as their priority. I don’t want to be a part of the next generation that has a chance to conserve the beauty in nature that doesn't! Therefore another goal I have as I continue as a nature interpreter is educating others on what they can do individually and help them see that value of nature as something of beauty and solace instead of something we can exploit to make money.Perhaps another goal/responsibility I have as an interpreter is to inspire people to necessary small changes and encourage others to ask necessary questions large businesses don’t want us asking like the recent annihilation of plastic bags, then charging more for reusable bags. Are they using the profits made by selling bags for the environment or are they filling their pockets and continuing to act unsustainably (CTV Vancouver, 2018)?

Another guiding principle I would use as an interpreter is emphasizing the quality of information I use in interpretation. I have the responsibility to listen to many points of view and obtain the highest quality of information for interpretations. I also must adapt when new information is found as soon as possible as having accurate information I think is the most important when trying to convey the message in nature. This would lead me to be up to date with information by always learning! It has been mentioned in our textbook that an interpreter always has the desire to continue to learn beyond the classroom which is why I would use this to guide me in Interpretation!

As for approaches…

As I develop as a nature interpreter, I want to bring these questions, solutions, inspirations to be selfless and quit exploiting nature. I do not want to see nature degrade but want to share my love for nature with others! This is my place where I feel at peace, especially the places where I share fond memories of family and I hope that we can conserve nature for many generations to come to have the chance to experience what I have been lucky to have done so.

I want to start my responsibility now… educating you on something called the Willow Project that is proposed to start in the next month or so. I know that this is happening in the US, but it impacts us all worldwide! It is the largest oil extraction proposed on federal lands in Alaska, and is estimated to add more than 250 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere over the next 30 years (POW). Research at Stanford by Josie Carthwaite estimates that plants and soils together currently absorb an estimated 30% of the CO2 emitted by human activities each year (2021)! With this additional release by the Willow project, it's hard to imagine coming back from such a catastrophe and perhaps will push global warming to an all time high! No only does this impact us as we will likely see a short lived boom of the economy for immediate benefits, but soon after, it is likely that our earth will have no more to give after ecosystems are gone, global warming unstoppable, animals wiped out at an uncontrollable pace will all have long term impacts. Don’t let our immediate greed for money and energy jeopardize our earth, ecosystems, and other generations' chance to have nature, experience the joys I feel when in nature.

People are already speaking out, signing petitions, making videos, researching, trying to get the Willow Project to stop! Everyone joining together is making NOISE and not sitting back and letting people motivated by greed to do this to our planet! We all can make the difference! 

There is just too much information and tools I have learned in this course to name everything in just a short blog! Thank you everyone for the incredible information you shared and conversations and replies!

What was your most memorable blog you remember using nature interpretation?

Resources:

Beck, L., Cable, T.T., & Knudson, D.M (2018). Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage for a Better World (1st ed). Sagamore Venture

Carthwaite, J. (2021). Soils or plants will absorb more CO2 as carbon levels rise- but not both, Stanford study finds. Stanford- News Service.https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/38728#:~:text=Plants%20and%20soils%20together%20currently,there%20for%20a%20long%20time. 

POW. (2022) The Willow Project. Date accessed: 2023, March 15. https://protectourwinters.org/campaign/willow/ 

Unknown. (2018) Plastic bag fees: Helping the environment or big profit for retailers?. CTV Vancouver. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/plastic-bag-fees-helping-the-environment-or-big-profit-for-retailers-1.4208398

[tullecake]

the finished version of my wip from the other day! :D

the lil guy...

plus an alt version with original colors --

I like how both of them turned out! ^^

[puppyeared]

my attempt at making a fursona

[inkskinned]

yesterday while feverish i wrote about how boats can moor next to each other like pigeons, cooing with the gentle rap of water against their hull. you once said that that the way i see things - birds in the water, feathers in marina paint - was "childish and naive." you said i'd been misdiagnosed - "it can't all be adhd. you might be just kind of stupid and lazy."

i still do certain things like how you taught me - turn the pillow case inside out before putting it on. drive defensively. hate myself entirely.

the prompt for this poem is "mahler's fifth." i wish it wasn't, but mahler's fifth was our song. it ended up in my book. every person that knows your name has promised me they'll give you one swift rabbit punch, right to the face. dean read the book and showed up on my front porch, drenched in sweat from running the 8 miles at 4 in the morning. he was shaking. pacifist and gentle - he works with children - i'd never seen him furious. a punch isn't going to do it, he said, and then said i'm sorry. i had to come to see if you were okay.

mahler's fifth was mine first, like my girlhood. i like the way each movement piles onto the next movement, each instrument bleeding into the next. i like the horn version the best. before i met you, i danced to it on grass still-wet from sprinklers.

later you would tell me that the way you heard it was somehow better. you understood something in it that i couldn't quite wrap my fingers into. once, on our anniversary, you asked the classical music radio station to play it for us. we missed hearing it because we were fighting. one of the things people get wrong about abuse is that sometimes victims are, like, brutally aware of the stupidity of our situation. what do you mean that you thought i wasn't good enough for you? you? you're just... nothing.

sometimes people can pull the poetry out of your life. i watched my words become clothesline, and then thin out into kite twine. i watched you chew through every good syllable of me. so many good songs and places and moments were ruined. i am glad you didn't like most of my music - less to tie back to you.

but still mahler's fifth. the music swells, and i am 21 and throwing up in a bathroom on my birthday. a woman i will later refer to as lesbian jesus runs a cool hand down my back, her perfect pantsuit starch-pressed. she told me to leave you. she said - and this is true, and not an invention of rhyme or fantasy - i'm you from the future.

i am 22, and i got home from an award ceremony, and i remember you telling me - you act so proud of yourself when you're actually so fucking embarrassing. i took you to disney world. you took my virginity. i gave up visiting spain for a week with my family - i instead choose you, to spend the time just-cuddling. you called it "our fuck week." the music swells. it probably should have been a red flag that for about 3 years - i just gave up on crying. my grandfather died and you said nothing. my uncle died and you ghosted me for 3 weeks. you said i need to protect myself from your ongoing tragedy.

every so often i come back to the memory of one of our last afternoons in person. i had just told you that i wasn't going to law school, despite the free ride - i was going to join a creative writing program. master's in fine arts. i was going to finally do it - i was going to follow my dreams. this blog was already internet-famous. however reluctantly, i would occasionally refer to myself as a poet. i got into umass amherst's writing program for fiction authors. it is one of the the top 5 programs in the country.

wait are you seriously considering actually attending that? dumbfounded, you turned completely towards me in your seat. for the 3rd time in our relationship, you almost crashed the car. you actually want to be a writer?

the first time i went viral, it was for a poem i wrote about you:

he wants to say i love you but keeps it to goodnight because love will take some falling and she's afraid of heights.

every time i see that, i want to throw up. you weren't in love with me, you were in love with the control you had over me. a little truth though: i am afraid of heights. you caught a rabbitgirl and skinned her alive.

mahler's fifth still makes me sick.

give me that back. give me back music. give me back everything i had before you. give me back fearlessness. give me back bravery. give me back a scarless body.

give me back what you took from me.

[raphaerolo]

This one comes to y'all based on @dontbelasagnax 's fic yellow tulips (go read it)

Phone wallpaper sized versions below cut if you want them 💛

[lazylittledragon]

do any other artists feel like. yeah you're a 'good artist' because you draw things that look nice, but like. TECHNICALLY? you're really not great

i really hate that i can recognise that yes, my art is good, but is it VARIED? is it dynamic?? is my anatomy good? is it full of texture and colour theory? do i know how to do This? can i do That? no, not really. and that's quite painful actually

[kkoct-ik]

yttdisms now im moved in

[yourlocalabomination]

The darkness will spare my soul.

[bixels]

vague-posting about this here cuz i don't feel comfortable yapping about my su takes on twitter, but after everything that's happened the most interesting thing about the su fandom to me is that so many are 100% there for applying the "everyone can change and deserves a second chance" message to everyone, even the diamonds. except for one ☝️ she doesn't count. cuz she's dead.

[swiftmitsu]

tiny bitty gift for fellow Kist enjoyers out there 🙏🙏

mainly for @sunnymainecoonx

[jomadis]

Hollow from Scavengers Reign absolutely enamored me, and I immediately needed one in my home. I love giant animals that are intelligent and can choose to kill you, and I also love frogs/amphibs, so this creature is a dream come true. I would not resist being mind controlled one bit little buddy, I will bring it whatever it wants forever

[bacchuschucklefuck]

prayer of the day:

[ecoplasma]

Illustration to commemorate the NieR concert in Berlin