#gerlach

hiiii i am here to post my weekly oc recap!!!! :-3 missed last week but go figure lmfao

so for july all the ocs r from the same world, but they're all from 3 different stories! so the first cast of characters up to the 13th are from a story about a rogue demon outbreak and the team that gets to the bottom of what's happening! it's the story maci is from! along with some of my oldest ocs, i stg marlequet is probably one of my first ocs ever!!

starting on the 14th, i've been drawing characters from my story 'between two kingdoms' which is a romance story about a princess who runs away from home to be with her girlfriend <3 she also accidentally almost starts a war along the way! as u do!!!!

the final cast of characters is for a story i'll talk more about when the time comes lol but for now! i'm drawing btk characters!! yippee!!!!!

Nomadland Chloé Zhao. 2020

Storage Facility Gerlach-Empire, Empire, Nevada 89405, USA See in map

Susan Tyrrell and Matt Frewer hanging out with the locals at Bruno’s Country Club in Gerlach, Nevada during production of Far from Home, August 1988. 🤠

This is the Burning Man “space.” Those are cars and trucks. A lot of people get there by aircraft, some by aircraft from far away places to SF or Las Vegas and then by carbon fuel powered transportation to Burning Man. And the organizers or Burning Man are objecting to a geothermal plant because of its impact on the environment? Kind of confused about that, but confirming what I always thought Burning Man is: a refuge for a lot of carbon consuming wealth to pretend they are something else.

Excerpt from this story from the Reno Gazette Journal:

A proposed geothermal project outside the town of Gerlach is getting pushback from some locals nearby and Burners from afar.

Reno-based Ormat Technologies Inc. wants to erect a renewable energy plant less than a mile outside Gerlach. The Bureau of Land Management's deadline for comment on the project is today, Jan. 10.

Critics are concerned about the plant threatening the area's famously dark skies and peace of the town about two hours north of Reno.

"A geothermal facility so close to Gerlach and the (Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area) would forever alter the environment, viewshed and quality of life in the area," the Burning Man Project said in a prepared statement on Friday.

Burning Man Project owns nearly 70 parcel in the Gerlach area, including the Fly Ranch hot springs, which it is hoping to develop into an arts enclave.

Although Burning Man Project has been touting its efforts to become a more sustainable organization, it is opposed to the geothermal plant and has been rallying Burners to submit comments against it.

"Small towns like Gerlach are disappearing all over the country, and in order to retain this spirit, measures must be taken to ensure folks in these areas can continue to live harmoniously in their chosen environment," the statement said.

Burning Man, 2019