#solarpunk aes week

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Good night to all the solarpunks out there

Goodnight to the solarpunks kind that sew, the kind that do fiber art. The kind that dream of doing fiber arts but cant. The ones covered in patches. The ones saving patches for days yet to come. The ones

Goodnight to the Solarpunks that garden, those who have fought fines and glares, that make seed Bombs and moss garfitti, that archive data online, that research their native plants vs their invasive plants, that

Good night to the Solarpunks that write the world into a better place, that give us ideas for the path forward. To the beta readers, the editors. Those who spend all night away thinking about if this bug fact being inconsistent will ruin everything but choosing fun anyway.

Goodnight to the Solarpunks that can't do the physical work, who have to take breaks from the emotional labor, who deserve to still be Solarpunk even if they can't do the direct action for one reason or another.

Goodnight to the Solarpunks that provide us with art done with their own inspiration, letting us visualize how the world could be beautiful. That hate their work but share it anyway, that have rough drafts that will never be shared, that use multi media and weird formats for their art.

Goodnight to you all

[solarpunkani]

Solarpunk Community Playlists

So we've got the community playlist for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, right? It's nice and big, but I wanted to make more community playlists with specific vibes in mind! I've already added a bunch of songs to each, but the goal is to let everyone contribute to them and enjoy them!

Solarpunk and Chill is for lofi/chill beats! The aim is to have it be mostly lofi, or generally just good music to chill to while studying or working on projects!

Solarpunk Sunny Beats is for songs that are pretty upbeat and just feel solarpunk to us--whether its the subject matter of the song, or just the way the instruments sound! It's meant to be the middle ground between the lofi playlist and the next.

Solarpunks Fight for Our Future! is for songs that are punk/punky/rebellious-feeling! The kind of playlist you would bump to on the way to a protest, or do some action--what's the soundtrack that plays in your head if you were to guerrilla garden or do other rebellious acts? Add it here!

I hope you enjoy! I can't wait to listen to everyone's contributions!

[autumnalwalker]

Make me Write tag game

Thank you for the tag, @dontjudgemeimawriter.

Rules of the game: Create a poll of WIPs you'd like to work on and for every vote, write a sentence on the winning WIP.

Whatever I wind up writing from this I'll post in a reblog to this poll.

And I'll be following @dontjudgemeimawriter's example and tagging the first 50 people who show up in my Activity notifications who list themselves as being open to tag games (plus the usual open tag for anyone else who wants it). Of course, no obligation/pressure/etc. to make a poll yourself.

@cljordan-imperium, @ceph-the-ghost-writer, @druidx, @aziz-reads, @winterandwords, @wrenofthewords, @blind-the-winds, @writernopal, @andromedaexists, @ahordeofwasps, @skyderman, @stesierram @sam-glade, @ember-writer, @liv-is, @kahvilahuhut, @void-botanist, @elshells, @oh-no-another-idea, @words-after-midnight, @rickie-the-storyteller, @thelittlestspider, @sleepyowlwrites, @dogmomwrites, @aestatismors, @imbrisvastatio, @albatris, @talesofsorrowandofruin, @thewardenofwinter, @late-to-the-fandom, @magicmoon65, @writeblr-of-my-own, @silvertalonwritblr, @thetruearchmagos, @avocado-frog, @dragonedged-if, @authoralexharvey, @oldwoolhat, @ieppiq, @violets-in-her-arms-writes, @outpost51, @korblez, @the-real-lyra-vale, @aether-wasteland-s, @wrenofthewords, @mjparkerwriting, @enchanted-lightning-aes, @silverslipstream, @poetinprose, @welcome-to-the-atmosphere

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I don't want street lights and advertisements lighting and blinding the skies!!! I want this-

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Crafting Cinemas

Crafting cinemas are usually a special night held by movie theaters that encourage you and your friends to bring crafts along to the theater!!

I've seen most of them take place in Australia I will say they are picking up steam world wide bc they ROCK!! The last one a friend was telling me about was actually also a yarn swap which blows my mind.

While they started with doing things like knitting at the movies since it's so portable, most events encourage ANY craft ranging from painting to knitting to rug making to lace making!

So keep an eye out or definitely an idea for a community movie night!!

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Imma also add my solarpunk board onto this post just in the sake of keeping them together i guess, theirs one is so much cooler then mine!!! Look at it ahhh!!!

Solarpunk Aesthetic Week Pinterest Board

Solarpunk Aesthetic Week is coming up soon! Everyone get ready!

Not sure what you want to do yet? Have a few ideas, just need help visualizing them? Want a catalogue of images to help jog your brain, give you story ideas or clothing designs and other inspirations?

The Solarpunk Aesthetic Week mods have been working on a Pinterest board! Feel free to look through it all you like, and get inspired!

We can't wait to see what you do! Don't forget to tag us!

[solarpunkani]

okay so pardon me as I wax poetic late at night about solarpunk again but like

and once again, I'm biased because I'm co-hosting the aesthetic week event, you know the drill, but

I feel like sharing our projects--big and small--are so important because they can inspire other people to do their own. And obviously this can be about sharing news about climate action, and scientific projects and progress and discoveries, but tonight I'm thinking about crocheting.

As we think about the future we want to create as solarpunks, we trade ideas. And oftentimes a lot of the ideas we trade are about futures with barter systems, where many many people do crafts like sewing and mending and knitting and the like. But--and I could easily be the only one but I feel like I'm not--I personally was too nervous to start many crafts myself. Because I didn't know what I'd do with the craft, if I was even capable of it, or if it was too big and complex for me. I'd been tossing around the idea of learning how to crochet for years, and my mom's been tossing the idea around just as long if not even longer for herself, but y'know what brought me over? You know what finally got me to give it a shot?

An online Solarpunk friend sharing pictures of a bag.

I saw that bag and I went 'huh maybe I could do something like that,' and within a few days I'd bought a bunch of yarns and hooks and was on a call (with a different online friend) learning how to do some basic stitches and knots to get started. By the end of the night, I was teaching myself how to make granny squares, with the help of a (different) online friend writing instructions to help me out as I got stuck.

And maybe I finish my bag, or my scarf, and I post a picture online--not even a professional, pinterest-ready photo, just a quick pic of it laid across my bed or something--and I inspire someone else to start crocheting. Hell, I've already inspired my mom to take a crack at it once the Christmas season is over.

But it doesn't even have to be me. It doesn't even have to be crocheting. Maybe someone posts a picture of a hat they just finished knitting, and someone else decides to pick up a loom or some knitting needles. Maybe someone crafts a birdhouse or a desk or a bench out of wood, and someone picks up a hammer for the first time. Maybe someone crafts something awesome out of clay and wire, and someone gets inspired for a new project. It can even be across artforms! Maybe someone sews an awesome dress, and someone else is inspired to write a short story by it. Maybe someone writes a short story, and someone else goes to paint a mural somewhere inspired by a scene in that story.

And in a sense I find it incredibly solarpunk. To inspire one another to learn and grow, develop new skills, to always find inspiration and hope to keep trying new stuff.

Some people laugh and scoff at the idea of posting ~aesthetique~ homemade clothes to the solarpunk tag, a handful think the whole aesthetic week event is pointless, but I find it the opposite. Solarpunk is about revolution, but it can't always be big revolutions. Sometimes its the small revolution of picking up a craft that changes your life, or creating an image that inspires others to fight for a better future. It can be about writing something that makes others question why things are the way they are, when they can be better. Sometimes the desire for a nice knit scarf can be the start of a mini barter system, or become part of the mutual aid we all dream of.

I feel like I had a point with this but I forgot. But uhm... yeah.

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Would you wanna participate in a regular hang out day? Basically where youd submit fun stories/show off art/share a drabble/etc... Even just share something that angered you or brought you hope! (btw this is kinda me inspired by the idea of Sleepover Friday from @polyamorouspunk kisses to you babe)

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Lyrics under cut

What's the point of living without dying for an ego?

So we validate our fantasies to feel like we are special inside

You know we love to lie

We like grabbing onto anything to feel like we're important

Not a moment that is shorter than a hiccup or a blink of an eye

You know we're scared of time

But we're all gonna die

Decompose into daffodils and dandelions

The bees will use our flowers for whatever they like

Make the honey that our grandkids will put inside their morning tea

It's the thing of life

We're all eating each other

The thing of life

Nobody lives forever

The thing of life

We don't know how to accept we're just a product of a chance

And less like gods but more like plants

Who can't stop making up reasons we're alive

(We're alive, we're alive, we're alive)

You know we love to deny

(To deny, to deny, to deny)

So we paint our face with intellect

Pretending we're not curious

Too busy, super serious

Don't have the time to do what we like

(What we like, what we like, what we like)

Baby look at the sky

'Cause we're all gonna die

Decompose into daffodils and dandelions

The bees will use our flowers for whatever they like

Make the honey that our grandkids will put inside their morning tea

It's the thing of life

We're all just eating each other

The thing of life

Nobody lives forever

The thing of life

We're all just eating each other

The thing of life

Nobody lives forever

The thing of life

[shambler-13]

Ill see what I can do when i get home

Tho im not really the best at art

If I where to... write a script for a solarpunk slice of life podcast could someone help with the voice acting and *maybe* editing proccess??

Been dreaming more and more bout it

[solarpunkani]

not to keep musing about cohost after I said I would stop musing about cohost, but I just realized

If I can get a grip on how it works and all.

maybe I can talk to the other solarpunk aes week mods about making a blog for the event on there? cross-platform event hours.

(please note THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE it may turn out that I flat out do not understand the site and stop looking at it even after I get posting/sideblog privileges, but also. Yknow. I'm having thoughts.)

[solarpunkani]

so I went out running errands with my dad and got back late and then things and stuff and things and stuff

anyways its 2:30 am and im making the playlists now. also i'm making 3 playlists

Yknow what

Last night I was thinking and I wanna know

Would The Solarpunks wanna do 2 more solarpunk community playlists together? One for more lofi chill beats and onw for more lets-dismantle-capitalism punk vibes?