#speed up progress

[developmentinformationday]

Six pathways to sustainable development.

UNCTAD calculated the costs along six key “transition pathways” that can amplify efforts and speed up progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution: Includes strengthening commitments under the Paris Agreement, improving ecosystem management, reducing the effects of disasters and integrating climate and biodiversity actions.

Energy transition: Includes transitioning to renewable energy and improving energy efficiency, providing universal access to affordable and clean electricity, including clean cooking.

Food systems: Includes action to eliminate hunger and malnutrition, shift from environmentally harmful practices, protect biodiversity and achieve climate neutrality.

Education transformation: Includes investing in education, early childhood development and care, and enhancing scientific research.

Social protection and decent jobs: Includes providing universal health care and social protection, promoting gender equality and inclusion in society and decision-making, advancing decent jobs and driving prosperity.

Inclusive digitalization: Includes progressing towards universal digital access and use of digital resources, equal access to banking and financial services and higher technology activities.

In addition to these six pathways, UNCTAD is working with UN Women to estimate the cost of achieving gender equality for certain SDG indicators.

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progression

[eilinelsghost]

Sometimes worldbuilding is great for writing.

And other times you think huh, this character would look kind of hot with a tattoo, wouldn't he? and then you wake up four days later to find you have a 31 page google slides presentation detailing the tattooing culture of the Bëorian people and diagrams of various characters' bodies with tattoo placement and the symbolism of each limb and location and also not a single additional word written on the WIP in question.

[jofi-art]

*wakes up and makes the GBA startup noise*

[too-many-lavellans]

Emyr Tabris

Alienage Conscript, Veteran of the Blight Champion Berserker

[miniagula]

movie sonadow would be so l umity-coded…and i say this bc their dynamic is similar to the games but with a different and tender perspective: they both empathize deeply with each other now, and this shadow is not as reticent or closed off bc of that. that being said: movie!sonic would ABSOLUTELY 'YOU'RE the sweet potato!' the hell out of shadow

[hajihiko]

how do you draw so fast

i spent a whole ass 6 hours to draw a shitty meme

teach me your ways

practically nonstop drawing for many years will do it!

[sneeb-canons]

Headcanon #400: Heart & Mind are usually never a neutral temperature. The area around them is like the sun & moon. Mind's being hot and Hearts being cold. They're body temperatures however contrast that with Mind always feeling cold like metal/machinery and Heart feeling warm like a literal heart.

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[incorrectelswordquotes]

Do you remember when the job progression quests had dialogue cutscenes and difficult quests? Each town had its own gear and you'd have to drop blue-background items to upgrade it. And it was character-specific too. Ice statues had to be crafted, and the ingredients would just pile up in your inventory. There was Unique equipment for every region you had a chance to drop after a boss battle, and it'd be shown in the chat. Plant Overlord's accessory was the top trending thing. Rena was blonde and did a flip when she double jumped. The first field introduced was the one between Hamel and Velder. The level cap was 40 and it was *hard* to get there.

I sure don't miss a lot of this stuff, but looking back, it feels like a wholly different game.

i played around when the game was still like this for the most part, except the level cap at the time was 70? and then over time it jumped to 90 but my middle-school/high-school ass couldn't keep up. actually, i remember seeing the new UI the game has for the health bars and that was already enough to throw me off. not that it looks bad, but i remember seeing this UI for the longest time:

vs this:

like as much as i miss the one i got acquainted with, this new one is a lot simpler and cleaner? yet it retains that cartoony vibe with the slanted bars so thats neat. and then there's THIS:

i'll admit i havent played during this era but man this looks busy af. it was simple yea, but something feels off about it. like i love the look here too but it kinda clashes colors-wise. there's not too much of a difference between the original UI and the one after it but i could tell it needed slimming down.

while i was gone i also learned that the previous privately-hosted server VoidEls was shut down but was eventually replaced by another, which is fair enough i guess.

"Each town had its own gear and you'd have to drop blue-background items to upgrade it. And it was character-specific too."

this was both cool and annoying, for me personally at least. it's cool in that every town having gear gave you a way to progress before getting even stronger gear. sort of like a jumping-off point for every town you got to as they handed you their own version of stuff you could use. and you could emulate their aesthetic by wearing their gear. the annoying part is that constantly switching gear means item management is necessary to prevent your inventory from maxing out, and not every item looked good on you. if you didn't have skins? tough luck. (my memory might be wrong here so please correct me if i messed something up)

"...job progression quests had dialogue cutscenes and difficult quests?"

THEY GOT RID OF THOSE!? maybe im jaded but as a writer, i liked seeing the player-characters' personal struggle as they progressed through a job-specific mission. those short cutscenes let us see what they're really like. even if some of the requirements really were trash. i still remember spamming the same dungeon over and over hoping for a quest drop (or multiple) so i can move on. but after hearing the story was consolidated to be one singular, linear path regardless of who you played, maybe they streamlined the job class progression system too?

update: yea it seems you still have to spam dungeons to upgrade to Master Class but it looks less tedious than before for previous class ranks.

"Plant Overlord's accessory was the top trending thing."

boss accessories were the bane of my existence so this makes sense. it seems like it's unobtainable, as many overworld zones and dungeons have since been removed based on what i just looked up

im assuming Plant Overlord isn't fightable anymore or only shows up in some elite zone now so rip

"Rena was blonde and did a flip when she double jumped."

i didn't know this. in fact when i checked her wiki page, the change was because her hair wasn't green enough despite her class art showing her as having green-hued hair.

speaking of the wiki,

holy fucking shit thats a lot of classes

[coralhoneyrose]

Preview passage for the next Half Orange chapter to celebrate the fact that I finally had a day where I was able to write something semi-coherent instead of a bunch of haphazard idea fragments:

A violent shiver rattles through her. When they slogged through the midmire—when she watched that axe come within inches of cleaving off Chrom’s arm—all the while, Robin found herself battling memories too. That afternoon in Emmeryn’s solar, with lavender tea burning her tongue and autumn sunshine blanketing her skin, feels a whole lifetime away. Instead, her chest rends itself open again each time she remembers Emmeryn’s warmth and kindness and grace: all gone now, splattered to blood and bone chips in Castle Plegia’s courtyard. All because of her own shortsightedness...her own stupidity. Robin swipes at her eyes, furious to find them welling up.

[aur0raaura]

Happy Spookiween! - October Magma Drawings!

WELL WELL WELL I may not have a full art piece, but I DO have...some new sygna suit designs! These were done for @choochooboss 's spooktacular magma! We were tasked to do some sygna suits, and I was HYPED to participate! Sadly...the prince of pasio will have to wait for his flashy outfit...but as compensation, have Hoopa dressed as Lear! (He absolutely stole the shades.) Hope you all enjoy these! Check out below for the concept sketches for Ingo and Emmet!

Sygna Suit Ingo & Chandelure! I'm sure many have done the idea...and I wished to do my own interpretation of the concept! Though, I was almost too shy to do it. Thankfully with enough encouragement from friends, I was motivated to bring this idea to life!

Sygna Suit Emmet & Shiny Hisuian Zoroark! Now THIS was something many didn't expect! Inspired by the chats and brainstorming myself and my close friend would have, I ended up doing an initial idea for a simple outfit inspired by the pokemon a few months back! Now, with the magma, I was inspired to take that simple concept and just dial it up to eleven! I was nervous that it wouldn't be just as cool as the design for Ingo, but I'm glad it didn't end up being the case!

[four-white-trees]

Sunday six posting from my cozy warm bed 😌 More Akuma today. I'd like to write this fic in December and ring in 2025 with some beastman yaoi. as is my right!

tagging: @jichanxo @overdevelopedglasses @skysquid22 @mike----wazowski @passthroughtime @humbletaxidriver @ikainkspills

The man crossed the bar and came up on Akuma's left. Although the man stood and Akuma sat on a barstool, they were nearly eye-level. “I got someone you oughta talk to.”

“I'm listening,” Akuma said.

“Private detective by the name of Yagami,” he said and gave Akuma an address, which he quickly typed into his phone.

“And why should I speak to Yagami-san?”

“Cuz Akutsu tried to kill him,” the man explained. “Multiple times.”

Akuma felt a bolt flash down his spine. His mouth started to salivate, which he covered with another sip of beer. A real, concrete lead, and the thrill of the hunt was at hand. “That's certainly a good reason,” he said after taking a moment to collect himself. “Should I give this friend of yours your name?”

The man's eyes narrowed. “He's not my friend,” he said, reaching into the coat of his suit and producing a business card. He held it out to Akuma between two fingers, and Akuma couldn't help the smile that played at his lips. The yakuza had all sorts of rigid manners among each other, but they were certainly never extended to police. Akuma found it refreshing. “Name’s Higashi.”

Akuma took the business card, holding it carefully so as not to crush it. Higashi Toru, owner and general manager of an arcade called Charles. By all accounts, a legitimate businessman.

But the manners and way of speaking spoke to a different truth.

[coquelicoq]

watching cdramas with french subtitles is the best idea i ever had. if the show is in a language i don't speak i'm already going to have to be closely reading the subtitles, so why not also use it as language practice? the subs go by so fast i don't have time to translate them internally into english, i just have to absorb the meaning without doing that (which is how it's supposed to work but i've never been fully able to do that before). AND the best part is that when i'm going about my day i'm finding that some of my internal monologue is just in french now?? i think it's because subs are almost entirely dialogue...i'm getting hours of dialogue practice without actually having to converse. it's also fun with cdramas specifically because i have by now picked up some chinese vocabulary from watching tv and i get to see how that vocabulary is translated into french. idk man i'm just having a great time.

[gomzdrawfr]

At some point Eira “Raven” Liu’s gonna be Eira “Raven” Price

[peppermint-whiskers]

Every time I look at this it brings me joy

Background to come at some point

[wintercloudburst]

psychopomp adora is everything to me you don’t understand how hard it is to write any negative opinions of her for the story cause i love her so much