Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (March 31, 2023).

🌱 mosscore + angelcore [a moodboard] 🌿

I AM SORRY BUT WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT INDIAN SUPREME COURT DENYING MARRIAGE EQUALITY TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN THIS SITE? LIKE COME ON WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GO APESHIT CRAZY HERE...

that's what tumblr is for... right?

Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon.

Finished up an old messy wip. I didn’t wanna fix things so it’s kind of wonky and parts of it bugged me but also it mostly just needed color

the botany students

dozens of houseplants growing in your room

a pocket guide to local flora tucked in your backpack

studying the complex anatomy of plants

performing experiments to see how plants grow under different conditions

long walks, identifying the species you see along the way

detailed botanical diagrams

the humid air of a greenhouse

practicing sketches, working to accurately capture each leaf and petal

pressing samples beneath heavy textbooks

understanding the complex nature of ecosystems

wildflowers tucked into your hair

a crumbling stone wall, overgrown with moss and ivy

learning to distinguish edible and poisonous plants

watching a graft take hold

fingertips stained with chlorophyll and dirt

a cup of herbal tea, slowly growing cold as you study for an exam

the smell of earth just after a rainstorm

wandering through a forest, counting the types of trees you pass

knowing what plants to use for home remedies

tending to your garden

cool, foggy mornings, walking through dew covered grass

collecting samples for further study, handling the delicate specimens with care

a sense of awe at the huge variety in plant species

the rare elegance of flowers that bloom only once a decade

Genuinely I think you guys should look into Solarpunk. Like, it’s a dark day in America, and everyone is feeling hopeless. And unfortunately America is a country that literally doesn’t mind its own business and has to be involved with the rest of the world. Mostly in a bad way. But.

I think you need to check out Solarpunk. Yes it’s literary as it’s speculative fiction. Yes it’s an aesthetic. But it’s also a real life movement. It’s activism against the climate crisis. To reverse the effects of our planet. It’s activism for human rights. The right to housing, the right to food, the right to water. Activism for education, health care, child care. To have the choice to have an abortion. It is about banding together with your community, with your fellow humans.

Solarpunk is about feeling rage about everything that is wrong with the world and using it to help fix it. It is about feeling hope that the actions you do will change things for the better, no matter how slow. Organization. Protests. Even something like calling, emailing, writing a letter to the people in your government. Your mayor, your county representative, your state representative and so on. It is about choosing kindness to help people in need. To help people who were once in cults and are taught to be afraid of “outsiders.” To help people when they realize that they were wrong and help them be able to grow. To share food with others, offer a friend a place to stay, join community events.

It is okay to rage. To cry. To scream and feel like the world is burning to the ground. Let yourself feel those emotions. And look at Solarpunk. Use your emotions as fuel to make things better. For yourself and others. To make things a bit kinder. For yourself and others.

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people who work/study in quantitative bio-adjacent fields, rise up. computational neuroscience where you get to see someone's thoughts in feelings in graph form??? so cool. biophysics where you can pass blood plasma through an electric field to determine whether a patient has cancer or not?? unbelievable. biomedical engineering where you can literally build a device to pump someone's heart and be the difference between their life and death??? oh my god. disease modelling, being able to predict AND prevent communities being affected by disease on a large scale through your analysis of data??? i love science

i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you