there is nothing frivolous about joy

Blushing Grace is my favorite Grace :>

Here's a bunch of stuff I've done these days, I'm trying to get a hold of their faces, not super happy yet but I'll get there 👁👁

- Desecrated the Tachonis vassal crypt, broke ancient and valuable corpses there

- Killed Primus’ chosen heir (which leaves him with only three options, one of which is Ethrand, yikes)

- Destroyed the undead hulk he was building out of Sir Raimond Davinos which he presumably had plans for

- Stole very confidential plans for the boat going into the Sea of Lacrys (which I’m assuming there are NO copies of)

- Freed Mara (who Primus just assured ALL THE OTHER VASSAL HOUSES HE HAD and was going to interrogate her easy peasy)

- They inadvertently put Hannan into his path, who destroyed all the house’s low level undead, including the zombies from Royce and Davinos

- Resulting in Hannan’s death, meaning if the Circle of the Hunt (you know, the Druids who specialize in destroying undead) ever find out about that, there will be massive consequences

While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.