Marnie | L23 | she/they | trans #g0rl | California | Autistic | SJW | Pokemon, Kirby, Undertale, Klonoa, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Spiritfarer, Nintendo/other JRPGs in general, some BFDI, etc. | Icon of my character by @spunkyracoon on twitch
“Like a dandelion in a rocky crevice, sprouting from seemingly nowhere. Its majesty being chosen by a hopeful world, and sending it into the wind, with it a wish to come true.”
Mercia is a dryad whose home dimension was destroyed, and with an inch of her life, she teleported to the same one as Soliza, Arque, and Yuna, whom she will join with later. Realizing that the new world is both quite similar and different as her home world, she believes that using her experience and information about the old dimension and how it was destroyed will be the secret to saving the new one. Most people, however, deny her knowledge and experiences and view her as a mysterious outcast.
She also travels with her Rosebeetle companion named Rosemary. She is also looking for a legendary wind crystal, which was used to power a legendary weapon in her old world.
“Like a blizzard from the mountains above, blanketing an advancing army. Soft to the touch and the spirit, but its strength and fortitude shall subdue the warmest of furies.”
Yuna is a fifth year student at the Camberidge Institute of Magical Sciences (not a typo), a prestigious university in her world. A rather average but strongly-motivated student at the academy, she is training to be a master of ice magic. She also aspires to also gain the dream skill of a large number of aspiring witches: the ability to fly. She’s also in class for three hours per weekday and studies about five hours per day average.
Aside from that, she really enjoys the local café scene in the city of Camberidge, gourmet chocolate, relaxing at the park adjacent to the college, and riding on the side of the cable car down the town’s steepest hills. She once tried to fly by hopping off the cable car at that point, but maybe gently hovered for a couple meters, fortunately uninjured after the ordeal.
From the list, I’ve only been to the Field Museum in Chicago, but I do love it! I really like how the fossil exhibit is arranged in a time line, with big visual breaks at each extinction event explaining how the event changed life on earth. And then it ends with the current extinction event and effects of climate change!
It’s the first museum experience I had that used people’s interest in dino fossils to tell a bigger story. I first went there about 10 years ago and have no idea how common it was at the time, but it hit a nerve with me.
And Sue the T rex greets you!
Also non-fossil highlights:
There’s an Egyptian section with a wall of cat mummies. Also birds and baby crocodiles.
They have a YouTube channel thebrainscoop that’s hosted by a charming lady and initially showed collection highlights and museum events, but branched out with visits to other collections & experts. It’s not active, but there’s a ton of videos to watch
The special exhibitions were amazing when I lived in Chicago. Exhibits you want to read every bit of text because it was so engaging.
(trigger warning for mention of Nazis) The absolute best was an exhibit on Nazi propaganda. Without excusing the German people, it showed how art & design can be used in propaganda and how later marketing campaigns use the same tools. Uncomfortable and really well done.
(IDK how to end this, but when I lived in Chicago, I’d go multiple times a year, good times)
The United States solar energy boom is finally taking off - in the worst way. In the Mojave desert and other federal lands across the West, utility-scale installations are putting gigawatt-hours of energy on the board and powering millions of homes. But the designs are sloppy, the labor conditions are horrific, and the environmental damage is incalculable. Ancient joshua trees are being clear cut, endangered desert tortoises are being left for dead, the vast biotic carbon stores of Mojave soils are being upturned, and the reflectivity of enormous expanses of desert are being altered, affecting the planetary climate.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. There’s a type of energy that requires no fuel and no land. It hardly even needs transmission lines, as it can be built at the site of use: rooftop solar. Every hour of the day, rooftops across the United States soak up enough sun to generate petawatts of power. Estimates for their potential to offset US energy demand range from 13 percent to over 100. Yet at present, only around 2 percent of US energy is generated by rooftop.
And then there’s land area that’s already been developed. Just by building solar on degraded lands, focusing on superfund sites, reservoirs, and farmland, researchers estimate we could generate more than enough to offset today’s national energy demand. While there are points of dispute concerning some projections, the conclusion is clear: between the potential of degraded lands, rooftops, wind, and storage - plus existing hydro, nuclear, and other zero carbon energy sources, there’s really no need to tear up the rare and fragile ecosystems of our deserts.
I went to see Parasite completely blind besides being aware (unavoidably) that there was a hard tonal shift at some point. I saw the poster and stuff, but that was it
the entire time I was bracing myself for it to shift into some sort of alien parasite psychological horror movie, which seems really presumptuous, except I saw Bong Joon-ho’s The Host and that movie actually did have a giant monster in it, so I wasn’t putting it past him
god the class dynamics in this movie are so stressful already… keeping up this double life while still taking care of your family…… and if that’s not bad enough, they’re gonna have to deal with The Parasite when it shows up
I am a Capricorn | I am Latino-American | I want to develop a video game in the near future | My theme kind of broke and I need to fix it | I might add more stuff here
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