I will always defend Apollo’s more ‘undesirable’ aspects (His violence, vengeance, wrath, anger, strictness, grief, etc) because I can’t help but really adore those parts of Him. I love all parts of Him, but His darker self always has me in awe (as if His presence doesn’t do that already). I think about those aspects a lot, and discussing them is one of my favorite hobbies at this point.
Regarding your tags, @sun-prophecy-follower, I have to disagree with them. I have a hard time believing any divine being has ‘flaws’, and that wasn’t what the post was even about in the first place. This post is merely pointing out Apollo’s less desirable aspects, or facets, and how much I adore them. I don’t see His vengeance being a flaw, His wrath or anger and grief. Those are not flaws, but just parts of who He is. I would never call anyone who has an emotion other than kindness, innocence and happiness to possess flaws, let alone a deity.
The reason these facets of Him are less desirable is because people like to know Him as being a comfortable and warm deity that isn’t capable of hurting people, or putting us through hard challenges. Not everyone likes His strict side, or His vengeance and wrathful sides. And those parts of Him are not flaws, they do not weaken His personality or make Him imperfect. Even His undesirable aspects are perfect and I could never think or imply otherwise.
This is a chart of what percentages of pearls actually make is to the pearl auctions. Only 55% of the oysters implanted with a pearl seed (nuclei) and put out in the farm actually survive to the stage the pearls are extracted.
Only one third of the total oysters produce marketable pearls, with the other 22% either not covering the nuclei enough, or are shaped abnormally/unevenly to be able to sell.
Taken at Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Japan
Give them to me, I will bathe in these so called “unmarketable” pearls
How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes – create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces – make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) – join a local community garden
Learn some basics on passive solar design – clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision – cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
Concept: a pop/punk band called Post Colonial Apology. When their first, self titled record drops, the album tracks are named as such:
1. Humans Deserve Clean Drinking Water 2. Fuck Republicans 3. My Bodily Autonomy or Your Beheading 4. The pansexuals will turn your golf course into a farm 5. Good PR can’t make people forget genocide 6. Basic human needs are not a radical concept 7. My dog knows the meaning of the word no, better than you
one of my friends is a very pregnant dog and like 3 times a day i say to her “hello! you are full of several other smaller dogs!” and she wags her entire body at me like “it’s true!!! i contain multitudes”
i love that ur friend is the pregnant dog. what a nice friend to have.
The Carving Witch 