Reblogged quigleythecrow
in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD
instead ask:
- is it SINCERE
- was it CATHARTIC
- was it FUN TO MAKE
- is it MADE BY ME
and don't forget to stay silly
Reblogged actionablesolarpunk
Bro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.
It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
[ID: A reddit comment by u/AverageSalt_Miner that reads, "There's something uniquely perverse about cruelty performed by people who will never experience the consequences of their own ideology. Unlike the Somali pirates or the Taliban- groups operating in extreme conditions, driven by survival, ideology, or desperation- the architects of modern American cruelty live in comfort. They do not suffer. They are not struggling for food or security. And yet, they choose cruelty, not as a necessity, but as a luxury.
This is performative suffering, an aesthetic of toughness projected by people who have never known real hardship. It's the lawmakers who gut welfare programs while vacationing in gated resorts. It's the TV pundits who sneer at working-class struggles from air-conditioned studios. It's beurocrats who deny migrants soap and toothpaste- not out of logical necessity, but because cruelty itself is a flex, a demonstration of power detached from material reality.
It has no greater purpose beyond LOOKING ruthless. It is the not political equivalent of posing in tactical gear without ever seeing combat, of calling for war from the safety of a country club. It is not the brutality of warriors or the desperation of insurgents. It is the decadence of empire- violence for the sake of self-image, cruelty as a luxury good. /end ID]
Reblogged fernthewhimsical
it's not toxic positivity to say "humankind has the capacity to do good when you least expect it" it's not naive to say "make room for joy or else it will fucking body you when it comes" and it's not stupid to say "I believe we will win." are you going to lay in a ditch for the rest of your life, darling?
kindness is defiance kindness is defiance kindness is defiance kindness is defiance my hope is not because i don’t see all the evil it’s in spite of it
Reblogged actionablesolarpunk
i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.
Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.
I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?
Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..
Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.
Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.
Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:
Reblogged actionablesolarpunk
- Build an affinity group. An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. Affinity groups generally consist of like minded people who come together to get something done. If you already have an affinity group, link and cluster those groups!
- Skill up. Delinking from capitalism and colonial apparatuses requires us to learn how to do things for ourselves and each other beyond buying, selling, working, or asking the state to help us. From self and collective defense, to gardening, building bikes, unschooling, and caring for each other- we can learn a skill and share a skill. We can change how we value skills and dismantle hierarchies of class and ableism.
- Establish and practice good security culture. Security culture is necessary to survive state repression. We can stop a lot of infiltration and disinformation in its tracks by improving our ways of communicating and navigating conflict. We can still be horizontal and transparent without sacrificing security and safety.
- Practice transformative and restorative justice. Strong communities make police and prisons obsolete. We can change our culture to prevent violence and abuse. We can build up our capacities to confront and resolve conflicts. We can strengthen our ties and detoxify our relationships so harm has no space to grow in our communities.
- Mutual Aid. Start a mutual aid group and provide necessary support to those who are in need. Mutual aid organizing can ensure our communities are not dependent on corporations and the state. Shift your use of resources to things you can grow and make or procure from others in resistance. Build networks of aid and resources beyond capitalism.
- Mutual defense. From arms training to street tactics to bystander interventions and safety teams, we need to have the skills and resources to defend our communities from fascist attacks on our people, non-human beings, and lands.
- Build and sustain conflict infrastructure. Conflict Infrastructure is any structure we organize helps us be more effective in our fights. This is infrastructure that goes beyond solely providing awareness and services and instead builds our capacity to wage actual resistance. From community gardens and collectively coordinated farms to infoshops and independent media/communications.
- Open squats for unsheltered folx. Rent is theft. Private property is colonial violence upon the land. Abolish rent and private property. Rematriate lands to original caretakers. Create spaces to live beyond landlords.
- Defend and reclaim ancestral lands. Because #landback means ending colonial occupation and restoring Indigenous stewardship of our ancestral lands. Regenerate our sacred relations, and all that entails spiritually and materially, with our original homelands. Liberate the sacred.
- Reparations. Seize what has been stolen from Black and Indigenous Peoples and liberate it back. Radical redistribution is necessary.
- Shut shit down. Intervene in critical infrastructure at the points where capitalism and colonialism are at their most vulnerable. Seize the streets, factories, ports, fracking pads, pipelines, power stations, smash the borders, be smart and be creative! It’s also an effective way to target those industries perpetuating climate change.
- Be fiercely intersectional. ‘Cause we’re not taking those old shitty behaviors with us. Fuck anti-blackness, fuck orientalism, fuck islamaphobia, fuck anti-semitism, fuck transphobia, fuck heteropatriarchy, fuck white supremacy, fuck imperialism, fuck ableism, fuck hierarchy, fuck racism, fuck citizenship, fuck privilege, fuck everything fucked up!
- Practice Radical Self & Collective Care. To remain dangerous to power we must care for ourselves and each other. Learn common triggers and how to communicate without being fucked up. Learn to communicate your needs, boundaries, and wants effectively and nontoxicly – remember that folks in the struggle and resistance have the hardest time accessing resources for mental and spiritual care. Movement work can be unsustainable to those with many experiences of settler policing and violence triggers – find ways to communicate and negotiate group norms and boundaries that accommodate peoples’ needs if reasonable. Identify toxic communication patterns and learn / create ways to dismantle them and communicate in more healthy and less harmful ways.Be honest about your limitations and care for yourself and each other. The christianized, capitalized colonial state has taught us to never rest or heal. Reject any attempts at coercing people to go beyond their limits. Radical self-care keeps us safe and invulnerable when consistently engaging in agitating governability by the state.
- Make everything accessible for everyone. Reject ableism and objectification of our bodies and lives, establish community care networks with people equipped to provide first aid and care support to a full spectrum of needs. Challenge ableism in our language, how we organize, and how we value each other. We are all enough.
- Abolish Rape Culture. Study rape and rape culture and how it relates to the desecration of sacred lands. Transform our culture and practices around dating, humor, relationships, sexuality, consent, parties, sex labor, and play to abolish rape culture. Hold mactivists, rapists, abusers, opportunists, and creeps accountable. Center consent and healthy relationships in everything we do everywhere.
- Spread radical and militant joy. We can fuck shit up while we dance, sing, party, laugh, play, wonder, have deep conversations, tell stories, make art, make love, make magic, make brilliance, make awesomeness, and have fun.
Reblogged actionablesolarpunk
Sometimes anti-fascism looks like having tamales for lunch.
Reblogged the-solarpunk-revolution
Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"
Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.
But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.
And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.
Reblogged
YCH Slots
30$ Tail Wag Loop An animated fullbody of your character with a 12-frame animated tail movement!
Simple color and background are included. Additional movements in limbs or expressions can be added for 10-20 dollars each, depending on complexity!
For heavily complex character designs I may charge a bit more, but DM me for a consult! PayPal only - but I will take payment plans!
(Finished dragon belongs to me, as an example of 2 additions- a blink and wing flap)
Reblogged
A library of free-to-use Solarpunk art: now also in Ukrainian 🇺🇦✨
(And French, and Italian, and Polish, and Hindi as well - soon!)
The Story Seed Library, a website that hosts Creative Commons Solarpunk-themed art is available in several languages, and now also in Ukrainian! And I helped translate it :D
I've contributed 11 drawings to the Library so far and plan on adding more as I go. And if you need convincing, there you can also find works by some well-known folks like Dustin Jacobus and Sean Bodley. Andrewism is also involved!
Not a single image hosted on the SSL was made by genAI, because fuck that shit. Human art is better (and genAI is antithetical to the Solarpunk cause for multiple reasons)
If you're an artist who would like to join the other authors at the Library, you can check out this page here, and if you have some experience with translation and wouldn't mind helping out, that'd be awesome too! You can email the curator or reach him on Mastodon :]
Please do reblog, that'd be super helpful 💛
YCH Slots
30$ Tail Wag Loop An animated fullbody of your character with a 12-frame animated tail movement!
Simple color and background are included. Additional movements in limbs or expressions can be added for 10-20 dollars each, depending on complexity!
For heavily complex character designs I may charge a bit more, but DM me for a consult! PayPal only - but I will take payment plans!
(Finished dragon belongs to me, as an example of 2 additions- a blink and wing flap)
Reblogged
Solarpunk Art 2025 (Life of Learning)
Madame Yu Leading Guangchangwu by ELAkidd
Communal Rock Painting by oh.shoot.i.arted
Research in the Community by sketchyjessie
Galaxy by artbyaddae
Solarpunk Education by CrabWithKnife
Community Library by Sarah Pepin
Lost Futures by PMBO8
Intro to River Recovery by Shoulder-Drake
Learning Expedition by ccsynan
Under the Banyan by Aditi A
Staten Island Solarpunk by bi.nature1137
Solar Cooking Class by Linds
Biophony by Natalya Ren
Agronomic Tower by Elijah Claude
Rehearsal at Portal by @the-lemonaut
Solarpunk Boat by Franek
Indoor/Outdoor by Ondřej
Reading by Kazuha/葉
Reimagined Classroom By Captain_Firi
'PUTER! How do I get rid of PTSD? Fastest route. No therapy."
Artfight 2025 attack on a friend
TEAM FOSSIL BABEY
Reblogged
Artfight attack for BuckyBarnes Hexitup AceWonders NUM3RIC @lemurking-doodles @shoulder-drake