Yngirheim, Ultima Segmentum Trooper Midkiff trudged through the clean white snow, pulse rifle in her hands. The wind howled, slamming into her tiny frame like a thousand knives. The overalls beneath her blue-grey combat armour trapped just enough heat to stop her muscles freezing up. By the path, she missed the blistering desert heat of Sa’cea. At the top of the ridge, she found a pair of the strange blue-green pine-trees native to the planet Yngirheim. Crouching between the trees, she raised the rectangular rifle to her shoulder and looked through the scope into a shallow gorge below. Finger off the trigger, she reminded herself. No mistakes. Not like last time. Two cliffs faced each other across the gorge, no doubt carved by a river back when this frozen world still had liquid water. Between the two cliffs stood an island of dark grey stone. Between the island and the opposing cliffs, Midkiff spotted something moving, something big, blue and gold. Midkiff keyed her radio: ‘Eagle
Life is something you do between naps by Carpathia2013, literature
Literature
Life is something you do between naps
Life is something you do between naps - You’ve been asleep for a long time, 14 billion years in fact. Before then time didn’t exist, it’s weird I know. - One day you woke up as a sperm and raced for an egg. Out of the millions of sperm who raced that day, you won. - Your prize is a stay here on planet earth. Here you will be awake on and off for a while, then you’ll go back to sleep again for good. - During your stay, good things and bad things will happen. Enjoy the good things, endure the bad things. - Remember we are all going back to sleep someday. Why not be nice to each other in the meantime?
A Solarpunk Manifesto by Carpathia2013, literature
Literature
A Solarpunk Manifesto
Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the well-designed with the green and lush, the bright and colorful with the earthy and solid. Solarpunk can be utopian, just optimistic, or concerned with the struggles en route to a better world , but never dystopian. As our world roils with calamity, we need solutions, not only warnings. Solutions to thrive without fossil fuels, to equitably manage real scarcity and share in abundance instead of supporting false scarcity and false abundance, to be kinder to each other and to the planet we share. Solarpunk is at once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, a way of living and a set of achievable proposals to get there. We are solarpunks because optimism has been taken away from us and we are trying to take
Yngirheim, Ultima Segmentum Trooper Midkiff trudged through the clean white snow, pulse rifle in her hands. The wind howled, slamming into her tiny frame like a thousand knives. The overalls beneath her blue-grey combat armour trapped just enough heat to stop her muscles freezing up. By the path, she missed the blistering desert heat of Sa’cea. At the top of the ridge, she found a pair of the strange blue-green pine-trees native to the planet Yngirheim. Crouching between the trees, she raised the rectangular rifle to her shoulder and looked through the scope into a shallow gorge below. Finger off the trigger, she reminded herself. No mistakes. Not like last time. Two cliffs faced each other across the gorge, no doubt carved by a river back when this frozen world still had liquid water. Between the two cliffs stood an island of dark grey stone. Between the island and the opposing cliffs, Midkiff spotted something moving, something big, blue and gold. Midkiff keyed her radio: ‘Eagle
Life is something you do between naps by Carpathia2013, literature
Literature
Life is something you do between naps
Life is something you do between naps - You’ve been asleep for a long time, 14 billion years in fact. Before then time didn’t exist, it’s weird I know. - One day you woke up as a sperm and raced for an egg. Out of the millions of sperm who raced that day, you won. - Your prize is a stay here on planet earth. Here you will be awake on and off for a while, then you’ll go back to sleep again for good. - During your stay, good things and bad things will happen. Enjoy the good things, endure the bad things. - Remember we are all going back to sleep someday. Why not be nice to each other in the meantime?
A Solarpunk Manifesto by Carpathia2013, literature
Literature
A Solarpunk Manifesto
Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the well-designed with the green and lush, the bright and colorful with the earthy and solid. Solarpunk can be utopian, just optimistic, or concerned with the struggles en route to a better world , but never dystopian. As our world roils with calamity, we need solutions, not only warnings. Solutions to thrive without fossil fuels, to equitably manage real scarcity and share in abundance instead of supporting false scarcity and false abundance, to be kinder to each other and to the planet we share. Solarpunk is at once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, a way of living and a set of achievable proposals to get there. We are solarpunks because optimism has been taken away from us and we are trying to take
I want to be clean and healthy. I want to be at peace with the universe. To be clean and healthy will require eating properly and exercising. Something I was pretty good at before I got sick. But to be at peace with…. *Gestures to everything* Optimistic nihilism, or humanism you could call it, appeals to me. Relax, you’re inconsequential, go pet a dog or whatever makes you happy. But at the same time if this is all we have then I want to have a meaningful existence where we at least try to build some kind of utopia among the stars. To do that you have to get political. To be political is to be very not at peace. Reading the fucking news does not put you at peace.
100 watchers! Thank you everyone for the support. Sorry I haven't been uploading more of late, I'm currently buying a new unit and trying to figure out the logistics has been a headache.
New stuff will be out soon I promise. Thanks again.
Maido! my new friend, "Maido!" is a greeting only found in Osaka. I am deeply moved by your works and very happy to have a relationship with you.
By the way, the theme of my works is "Eroticism". At the same time, I'm also experimenting with painting style arrangements for my travel photos.
Most of them are in Europe, which I visited by bicycle a few years ago. These are nostalgic places...
O-kini! Greeting from AnPonman Osaka Japan.