To be honest, this account is only here because I made it at age 12, can't delete it without deleting other blogs, and must filter porn bots from my other blogs.
Afterglow is a stunning collection of original short stories in which
writers from many different backgrounds envision a radically different
climate future. Published in collaboration with Grist, a nonprofit media
organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions, these
stirring tales expand our ability to imagine a better world.
Inspired by cutting-edge literary movements, such as Afrofuturism,
hopepunk, and solarpunk, Afterglow imagines intersectional worlds in
which no one is left behind—where humanity prioritizes equitable climate
solutions and continued service to one’s community. Whether through
abundance or adaptation, reform, or a new understanding of survival,
these stories offer flickers of hope, even joy, as they provide a
springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.
Afterglow welcomes a diverse range of new voices into the climate
conversation to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate
progress. A creative work rooted in the realities of our present crisis,
Afterglow presents a new way to think about the climate emergency—one
that blazes a path to a clean, green, and more just future.
An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.
From
the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist
dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other.
In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has
deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the
power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking.
Rooted
in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or
viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and
science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures.
It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and
provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction,
design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms.
With
an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories,
and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges
and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds
apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for
anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to
economists.
Drowned Worlds
edited by Jonathan Strahan (2016)
Review: “The title and the editor both pay tribute to the inspiration of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World,
that prescient piece of nascent cli-fi first published in 1962. Strahan
lauds this “lush, powerful book that tells of a post-apocalyptic world …
seen through a romantic haze that hangs over the flooded, inundated
ruins of a world laid waste by rising oceans.” Many of the stories in
the collection, indeed almost all, share a similar dreamlike or
fantastic Ballardian ambience of a world long past the climate change,
where remnants of our current civilization often persist just as
fantastic fragments.“
Futures From Nature: 100 Speculative Fictions from the pages of the leading science journal
by Henry Gee (2008)
Are
aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant
health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality
into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the
death of the body really necessary? Here are a very large number of very
small fictions on the subject of the future and what it might be like.
The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous
SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature
includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories
and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in
eight-hundred-word modules.
These pieces were originally published in the science journal Nature
between 1999 and 2006.
I’m working on bios today and I haven’t found anything I liked for shade tainted stuff so I made my own banner using the banner shape under our avatars + art from the shade vs. diety fight.
I just made a bunch of colors so they’re under a cut. Resizing is ok!
Went a little overboard with this but hey. hey. emperors. zombie dragons.
Because my heart dances for anything evil, dark and just generally broken. And I’d like to believe they not only have multiple heads, but wings, arms, or tails too and their bodies are a mess of dislocated bones, ripped skin and dirt when the dead bodies fused together and the sounds they make are gross bubbly gurgles because their throats just aren’t the same anymore.
Do you like speculative evolution and/or designing creatures? Are you fascinated by ancient communities on the internet, and/or does the idea of permanently contributing something to one appeal to you? Because if so, dear Tumblr, do I have a recommendation for you.
Sagan 4 is a really old forum community worldbuilding project–dating back to 2006, having been made in the hype of Spore as basically a way of playing it manually before the game actually came out. Miraculously, the project actually kept going after that–even after Spore came out, it continued on and even gained new members, producing over 5000 unique species made by over 100 contributors over its several hundred million year in-universe history and still going to this day nearly 16 years later.
And ANYONE can join and submit their own species.
As a collaborative project, Sagan 4 has a myriad of species ranging from realistic to frightening to whimsical and made by creators of all skill levels, all of which can be found on the Sagan 4 Wiki. Though it can be a little intimidating for newcomers (and even just readers), I’ve found as someone who only joined 3 years ago that it’s something you learn more about as you go along–I’m still discovering new things even after contributing well over 100 species, and not even veteran members know everything about what the project contains.
Even if you are not an artist, Sagan 4 might still interest you if you enjoy reading worldbuilding or, perhaps even more so, if you have an interest in old forum communities and lost media–because boy does Sagan 4 have some community history and even ancient drama, much of which is lost or fragmented.
I’m ecstatic to announce that my third poetry collection, Love is the Sweetest Blasphemy, a confessional of unrequited queer love and lost friends, is up and ready on my gumroad site.
She’s name your price again. The collection is in pdf form and easily my densest body of work to date. If you’d like to support me alternatively or later while choosing the book for free, my c@shapp and p@ypal are both Forwardalways21. I could use all the support I can get during this time.
[Image description: a series of tweets. The first is from Victoria Holmes, @spyturtle96, timestamped 3:06 PM, 04 May 22, with text as follows:
“Adoptees have been saying non-stop for months if not years they’re getting ready for another baby scoop era and no one listened to us. And now "domestic supply of infants” is in a draft and people still won’t listen to us.“
It is tagged ”#adopteevoices".
The next two are from Kim Penn, @kim_penn The first is timestamped 10:08 PM, 02 May 22 and contains the following text:
“I’m a very small Twitter voice, but I am begging my non-adoptee followers to educate yourself about what adoption is, what it does, and how evil and corrupt the adoption industry was and is. Listen to #adopteevoices. And then get your asses in the fight with us to end the system.”
The second is timestamped 9:58 AM, 03 May 22, and contains the following text:
“I promise you, adoption is absolutely NOT the win/win, fucking fairy tale, happy ending you’ve been led to believe. For every #adoptee, our story begins with loss. That’s our baseline. Any "happy ending” without acknowledging that is empty and an illusion.“
It is tagged ”#adopteevoices".
The final three are a Twitter thread from Laney (followed by three Chinese characters), @Lane_Xue, timestamped 8:55 PM, 03 May 22. The first contains text as follows:
“My parents faced reproductive, economic, social, & political injustice. I was relinquished because they could not keep me & I’m an adoptee. I am not a fucking (chess pawn emoji). Do not use my family separation to justify your desire to control others reproductive health care.”
The second contains text as follows:
“Abortion is a reproductive decision.
Adoption is a parenting decision often made by poor, young, economically disenfranchised people not given the resources or support to raise their children.
Do not conflate the 2 to justify feeding the adoption industries demand for (baby’s face emoji).”
The third contains text as follows:
“Do not fucking ask adoptees if they’d rather have been aborted. Adoptees are already 4x more likely to attempt suicide than non-adopted people.
The reason someone needs an abortion is none of your business.”
All three are tagged “#adopteevoices”.
After the final tweet there is a link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov with the beginning of a title, “Risk of Suicide Attemptin Adopted and Nonadpoted Off…”
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“ Tiny tidbits of lore! Do these match your dragons at all?
Arcane: [item=Pink Chalcedony]
Earth [item=Banded Sardonyx]
Fire [item=Jasper]
Ice [item=blue quartz]
Light [item=Sacridite]
Lightning [item=Prehnite]
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