#compostion

[sexyandtalentedmen]

[popping-greenbean]

ive connected it

[dieinct]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[vyscera]

the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute

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[politijohn]

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Five days apart 👍🏼

[scenteddean]

I've had this 90% finished since the beginning of january, but thankfully have been dragging my heels on finishing the rest just to be done on time for a very special day <3 happy bday smart angel

[hollywolly3000]

Gnomes get compost

[wormontwostrings]

happy ending for broth boy

[mckitterick]

Hasbro, owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, lays off 1,100 workers

The corporate owner of Wizards of the Coast (maker of D&D and Magic) announced it will lay off 1100 employees just two weeks before Christmas. Hasbro had already fired 800 workers in January of this year.

At the time, CEO Cocks trumpeted the new corporate plan: focus on fewer and larger brands, increase digital development, and invest in direct-to-consumer and licensed deals like Baldur's Gate 3, demonstrating his disconnect with customers.

Cocks first became Hasbro CEO in February 2022, and now gets an annual salary of $1.5 million. While the company's income dropped and 800 workers went jobless, this one executive received $9.4 million in total compensation last year, an amount that could have saved many creative jobs if even slightly trimmed. Instead, 1100 more actual workers will go.

No reduction in executive salary, bonuses, or additional compensation was announced.

[iamtheweirdomister]

[wraithee]

Ed being so open and brave and saying ‘You wear fine things well’, letting Stede know he still wants him too. Ed leaning toward Stede and kissing him. Ed setting the pace and asking to take it slow, letting Stede know he was listening and he isn’t being prone so his whims in that moment. Making it clear that he’s serious about what they are doing. He’s still all in.

[dragonpyre]

[popping-greenbean]

some sketches in class yesterday of my fav foxboy,,,

[probablyasocialecologist]

The discretionary carbon footprints of the 1% are not only unjust on a symbolic level. They are also quite literally a material cause of the climate crisis. Researchers estimate that more than half of the emissions generated by humanity since our emergence on this planet have been emitted since 1990. But in these past 30 years, the emissions of the poorest 50% of people have grown hardly at all: They represented a little under 7% of global emissions in 1990, and they remain a little over 7% of global emissions today. By contrast, the richest 10% of people are responsible for 52% of cumulative global emissions — and the 1% for a full 15%. This means that the richest 63 million are producing fully double the dangerous greenhouse gases that half of all humanity, or nearly four billion people, emit. When scientists include the embodied emissions — or what it takes to make the products bought by the rich — in the calculation of their individual carbon footprints, the numbers become even more grotesque: That makes the average carbon footprint of the richest more than 75 times higher than that of the poorest. An estimate looking into 20 of the most prominent billionaires in the U.S. and Europe found that their carbon footprints in 2018 ranged from about 1,000 metric tons to nearly 32,000.

[...]

As Bloomberg News recently reported, the personal emissions of the top 0.001% — those with at least $129.2 million in wealth — are so large that these people’s individual consumption decisions “can have the same impact as nationwide policy interventions.” And the super-rich are not reducing their individual carbon footprints voluntarily. On the contrary. In 2021, sales of superyachts, by far the most polluting luxury asset, surged by 77%.

19 April 2022

[banhbotloc]

[ID: first, a cutting board with zucchini flowers, tiny zucchini, and enoki mushrooms on it. second, zucchini flowers in a bowl of tempura batter. third, fried tempura zucchini flowers on a plate. lastly, an enoki mushroom omelet (with enoki mushrooms arranged and frizzled around the edges, and egg in the center, looking a bit like a flower or sunburst). end ID]

tempura + farmer's market zucchini flowers + funky mushrooms = song of the summer

[so-very-small]

“When a fellow fairy dies, we plant a small ring of their favorite flowers and burry them in the middle. Once grass grows over the grave, we erect a special statue made from stone that honors something the deceased loved. We have a celebration when we raise the statues, feasting and dancing, all in the name of the fae who passed.”

“Whoa… that’s really thoughtful. You fairies love to be elaborate. Us borrowers have to be sneaky, we can’t have big funerals. And we don’t typically do burials, there’s no where to really burry people inside.”

“So, what does your kind do with their dead?”

“Garbage disposal, usually.”