(he/it) (adult) follow my art blog @writing-biting-art, profile pic by @i-am-a-living-god, surprisingly a full adult. delighted that the last couple of years of adulthood haven't been a fluke and that I'm here to stay.
let's see how long this one lasts, shall we folks?
hi, sol here. short for solaris! you can also call me pep or peppermint. he/it pronouns
my vent posts are rebloggable because I love attention :3
my art blog: @writing-biting-art
my instagram (infrequent updates cause I forget about it: writing_biting
my ao3: writing_biting
my bluesky (empty. untouched. unused. completely barren): writing-biting.bsky.social
my fucking. x account (i don't. use this one either): Writing_Biting
if for some reason you want to find me on wattpad: writing_biting
you can also find me! on quotev! I don't post there tho: writingbiting
"Actually, I'm just here for your rottmnt au." said nobody ever. here's its blog though (hasn't been updated in a while): @feathers-and-petals
Rant and memes under the cut:
i'm confident in my ability to write and draw, but sometimes you'll catch me dropping some banger story analysis (i don't usually bother cause i assume everyone already noticed the underlying themes and that the stuff i see is just obvious). my specialty is starting things and not finishing them. I never fall in love, but i sure do fall out of love a lot!
my mouth filter is permanently fucked up, and i am so so tired all of the time except when i'm enthusiastic and volatile!
I love words and their definitions, i love every color of the sky except that fucking post, i love space and i love the ocean. I will talk about fandoms i know nothing about, and i do want to hear about your blorbo. If i didn't respond its because i got eaten by the vortex. it happens multiple times a day, so be ready for that. never be afraid to follow up on something later, because if you don't i might take multiple years to respond! yes, seriously.
I love blocking people! I'll do it over basically nothing and it's lots of fun! it's called curating your online experience babyy. im here to have a good time!
every once and a while ill go through the entire tag of something and reblog posts until i hit my post limit. it's lots a fun and youre along for the ride! (I try to throw some of them in the queue but ehh)
now! prepare yourself for a sequence of banners that are the entire reason I made this post (as in. i made a pinned post just so i could have cool banners)
Please note, the banners were chosen on vibes alone and also i love lying.
Ended up making a bunch of images so that the Caine banner I stole off @/hugsohugs would have friends. Oopsie
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crazy thing is i went from a guy (no one gave a fuck this didn't affect anyone's lives) to nonbinary (absolutely no one respected me or my pronouns, i had to tell people to use they/them because that's the "most" i could "get away with") to a woman (no one gives a fuck this doesn't affect anyone's lives aside from occasionally asking me to clarify what my pronouns are because i do still look a little transgender with it)
a lot of trans discourse boils down to "who is more has an easier time passing, and who has the most pressure to detransition" and i have to be entirely honest that when i was out as nonbinary not a single fucking person once used my pronouns. they would use my chosen name, and sometimes use they/them. but they never asked what my pronouns were and the one or two times they did, they told me that they/them was easier so could they just use that? even now, my pronouns are she/it/neos. i only have she in my bio, because i know for a goddamn FACT it's the only one anyone will ever use.
crazy thing is i went from a guy (no one gave a fuck this didn't affect anyone's lives) to nonbinary (absolutely no one respected me or my pronouns, i had to tell people to use they/them because that's the "most" i could "get away with") to a woman (no one gives a fuck this doesn't affect anyone's lives aside from occasionally asking me to clarify what my pronouns are because i do still look a little transgender with it)
a lot of trans discourse boils down to "who is more has an easier time passing, and who has the most pressure to detransition" and i have to be entirely honest that when i was out as nonbinary not a single fucking person once used my pronouns. they would use my chosen name, and sometimes use they/them. but they never asked what my pronouns were and the one or two times they did, they told me that they/them was easier so could they just use that? even now, my pronouns are she/it/neos. i only have she in my bio, because i know for a goddamn FACT it's the only one anyone will ever use.
Kitties dont relly have Breeds like doggies do but they have special types like Weird Baby, Angry Head, Sleeper Fatty, Yappy Meower, Orange, Sweetie Playful, and The Creep. If you collect them all, well. You will probably have too many kitties.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
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don't worry about me when I say this but I think in a way being hunted for sport would be a relief. my nervous system would be like, wow. finally, a proportional reaction
Imma be honest itd be REALLY funny if Ryland Grace was jewish or some other non-xtan relgioion like Imainge if everyones like "woah your name is grace and your on the hail Mary project it must be fate" and Grace has. Litterlly never heard the hail Mary prayer and didnt even know "hail Mary full of grace" was the full phrase. Hed only ever heard "hail mary" used as an idiom.
And then having to explain THAT to rocky. Like
yeah. The most common relgion has a prayer or something called Hail Mary.
Mary is a relgious figure btw.
The phrase hail Mary became an idiom that ment a super risky longshot in a desperate moment. Because of football.
Dont ask what football is. Thats. An entirely diffrent conversation.
Anyways thats why the project was called project hail mary, cuz it was a high risk long shot made in desperation. So. The other thing is. My name. Grace.
Apparently the prayer goes "hail mary full of grace..." and honestly I don't know the rest.
No, why would I know the whole prayer?
Its not MY religion!
I honestly didnt even know the word Grace was IN the prayer untill people started making a fuss about my name.
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Every so often a post comes across my dash with absolutely shattered spelling. And as I puzzle through individuals words trying to parse the full meaning, I'll feel myself start to get annoyed
But then I stop and think about how, back in the early middle ages, spelling wasn't standardized at all, and I get caught up in the marvel of how that must have felt. For every new bit of text to be a puzzle to decide; for learning to read to be not just a matter of memorization, but construction. For words to be as mutable in shape as they can be in meaning.
And suddenly my annoyance turns to fondness and delight bc here I am, centuries later, and writing and reading are so viscerally commonplace now, and maybe it's nice, to have to stop and puzzle your way through the words on occasion. Maybe it's lovely, to have just a small connection to the world as it once was.
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still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.
The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.
The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.
These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.
The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.
He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.
Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.
Ooooh, Mr. Sawadoga innovated the traditional zai method by adding manure and other biological matter to the holes! This put nutrients in the soil as well as helping even more with water retention and attracted termites whose tunnels helped loosen the compacted earth, all of which supported plant-growth like no zai before! Which increased water-retention even further! Oh excellent, excellent work!
