Link for those interested:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8&pp

Such a cute lil pinap

I hope you know you’re a gift to humanity 🤣

Yes sir, thank you sir. And this one is bailey’s, and this one is bailey’s a bit bigger, and this one is about as close as you can get to baileys without gettin’ your eyes wet.

What a treasure trove of deep sea anus jokes I didn’t realize I needed in my life lmao

Excited for the new book :) I’m hoping this time around I’ll be able to actually make it to the Sunday meetings

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Discord is well known to many people & there isn’t a good open source group call and message system.

It would be awesome if there was another choice, but I’d rather have discord book club than no book club at all.

Wow! So beautiful :) fig trees really are something special

Super useful links, thanks for sharing :) it’s so cool to see all the different ways people have approached the questions & all the different solutions they came up with.

Maybe I’m just a sucker for plants on buildings though lol

Good point! I’m on the same page of understanding “trees on buildngs” to mean general greenery.

Your comment did get me thinking: It would be cool if we could find a way to direct tree roots. Like how in yards if a tree root breaks into the water lines, they’ll fill that space since it is clear and full of nutrients. It’s bad for the pipes, but if done purposefully could maybe help mitigate the damage caused by large tree root systems.

Oooo we can dream, and in that dreaming maybe find a way to shape reality :)

That sounds super cool! Warehouses especially seem like a good candidate for gardens. They’re large, typically flat on top, & are often surrounded by paved parking areas meaning they get full sun. Plus the interiors often have easy access to the ceiling making any repairs very simple.

Lol I will say our leaky roof garden was the product of hippie construction, so it was beautiful and really cool-- but not the most carefully engineered 🤣

Not all communists are tankies. I understand many people (especially Americans) assume that connection because of the cold war era propaganda. However, many self identified communists have no respect or admiration for authoritarian states like China or the USSR.

& I think solarpunk tends to draw in communists, anarchists, libertarians and other radical views. To create a significant change in how humans relate to the environment around us, we would also likely need a significant change in how we relate to eachother. This means some sort of change to our modern system of profit based sucess (i.e. modern capitalism).

That video effected how i think about modern solutions not necessarily how i picture a potantial solarpunk future. So I voted yes to the question.

I agree just slapping trees on buildings is not going to magically fix modern society’s much deeper issues. I do still think having roof top gardens is something that could work for a much more advanced civilization with different construction methods and materials.

I dunno i think it has a place in the more imaginative side of solarpunk… a living building (like the ships and buildings from octavia butlers liliths brood series) could definetly support gardens. Or specially grown tree houses. Or hollowed out “mountains” with sunlight vents and an entire forest on the surface. Ooooo or maybe some floating islands where people live inside the verticle garden beds.

Modern concrete and steel based architecture is definetly not ready to have that level of greenery integrated into the building structures. One of the communes I lived at had a rooftop garden, & we had tons of issues with leaks and just the sheer weight of all that dirt and plant material on the structure.

I still love the idea though, lol just not in the modern era.

That’s a great mindset to have. I write as well & it’s for the love of craft, definetly not the paycheck lol

Stories are just so fun to tell, I’m looking forward to reading yours :)

I like them both up top. It makes the image pop more & looks more traditionally bookish to me.

I think splitting makes the most sense for covers that have a series title up top by the book title.

I do think they both look good & it doesn’t make too much of a difference.

Good luck with you book launch :) I know it can be a tough market for new/indie writers

Quick survey to take, maybe 5 min. Just for anyone wondering :)

I reccomend etsy. You have to watch out for drop shippers, but by being concious you can normally find high quality hand made clothing.

Signs it’s a real person making what youre buying:

• Custom fit options (can send your measurements)
• Similar materials used in the different designs
• Photos use mannequins or the same model or have the same background
• The designs cannot be purchased elsewhere
• The blurb gives real information about a real person & their story

Also: once you’ve found a clothing maker you like, you can often buy directly from them, bypassing etsy taking a cut of the profits.

Heres one I found: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1069069106/dark-red-anorakvintage-trench

In general tho, there are some really unique and cool clothing makers on etsy and I’ve gotten some of my favorite things from creators who sell using that platform.

Good luck finding the jacket of your dreams :)

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Do you ever think about how confused far future archeologists will be when they dig up old museums with all these fossils from wildly varying time periods?

Would they infer that it must have been some museum? Will they think those life forms coexisted? Will they blame it on aliens? Will they be capable of reading the engraved plaques if those survive in the wreckage?

Would a monstrosity like the one pictured above confuse them?

Super cool. I can’t imagine having to explain what happened to the lab manager after burning through the lab floor and a few feet of gravel and sand below lol