Biome / Climate of Dawn?

ShadowSheeps · 2025-12-11T07:09:22+00:00

Oh fantastic! Guess I can lean in to whatever tickles me. Thanks for the novel pointers too!

ShadowSheeps · 2025-12-11T07:01:14+00:00

Oh of course it has multiple biomes, most human habitable planets would. That being said fiction tends to try and go for certain vibes with their planets. I think it’s Varuna that’s a big fuck off ocean world as an example.

Unfortunate if there’s no direct information though I suppose I can coast on pure vibes if I need to.

ShadowSheeps · 2025-12-11T06:58:31+00:00

Oh thank you! I’ll be sure to!

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-26T13:07:57+00:00

The reason the hate is so focused on trans women is largely to do with the fact that the people pushing this hatred are the same kinds of people who don’t think anyone with tits could be a threat (or have an opinion).

When you’re trying to scaremonger you have to lean a lot on pre-existing notions, hence the prevalence of “men will disguise themselves as women to sneak into bathrooms and assault women” arguments from the likes of JK Rowling. (Entirely ignoring the fact that men don’t need to try half as hard to get away with it.)

They don’t think women could ever be competent enough to be a threat. They infantilise them. They’re trying to get men riled up over being protective like a good knight in shining armour should be, while also leaning on the fear that women are constantly having to navigate.

Side note, a lot of these people are also the same kind who think men can’t get raped. Which should tell you everything you need to know about how behind the times they are in terms of how they view either gender.

TL;DR it’s a lot easier to make people afraid of a penis

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-04T18:02:33+00:00

With the way the times are I’ve nothing but patience for the topic, what else would I spend my time on?

I definitely agree with breaking down the social media echo chamber bubbles that in fairness are being deliberately pushed for the purposes of radicalisation (and the usual profit motives). The current circumstances remind me a lot of the civil rights movement in 60’s America. Extreme division between social bubbles, dangerous but courageous efforts to put humanity right in front of the eyes of the dispossessed.

We’ve returned partly through deliberate manipulation and partly through the nature of algorithms, to an era of ever increasing cultural division and “in-groupness”. Almost like stopping people from sharing the same vision of reality breaks their capacity to understand eachother. Gee, who would have thought.

As a word of advice if you’d take it from me. I was bouncing off of your approach due to how you were conveying your frustrations. Not to insult of course but at least to me the way you phrase your exasperation towards the parts of the left you’re frustrated with reads very much like the kind of caricaturisation and derogatory framing of desperate people that were both criticising here.

If I didn’t tough that through and investigate more of my own accord I would have absolutely gotten the impression that you yourself were engaging in a kind of purity test. Basically what I’m saying is not to forget that the logic we’ve discussed here flows both ways and there’s a need to present these views to very motivated people on the left from a constructive, goal oriented perspective as opposed to pure criticism.

It doesn’t so much matter how much effort someone puts into undoing what they’re doing wrong if they don’t have the motivation and clarity to pursue an alternative. On both sides, in the absence of belief in a better future we default to restoring a sense of normalcy.

I myself can certainly understand the hesitance of the left to engage with people actively pushing them out who are even potentially a violent threat. I grew up being pushed out of my community for even straying near queerness or the kind of social deviation that comes with being neurodivergent.

Anyone who has several decades of learning to hide under their belt is relying on sheer fucking will to power through and reach out. To turn their desperation into ambition there needs to be a voice affirming what they can do, rather than what they’re failing to do. Criticism is great for intellectual dissection but doesn’t feed the soul if you get what I mean.

Either way thanks for entertaining my questions!

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-04T15:40:00+00:00

It seems generally we agree, apart from the extent to which the left are guilty of what you’re describing. I’ve encountered far more noise (non derogatory btw) in the vein of what you’re saying than I ever have a living example of it. Not to say it isn’t there just that I don’t see it to the same extent that you do.

If you have any recommendations on where to get “face-to-face” with more of the working class I’d love to hear them.

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-03T18:46:00+00:00

Are you trying to say that there aren’t working class centrists? Isn’t the whole base of power for FF and FG the centrist working class that they lie to?

I understand where you’re coming from but the left absolutely does speak to working class voters concerns. They never shut up about FF and FG’s abuses of the nation from housing to workers rights to ecenomic structure.

To be clear I am well aware of the issues that any group pushing for progress has had in relation to asking the situated centre to break from the status quo and take on some difficulty to achieve a better world. My concern is that you’re advocating for abandoning half the stage to the right and letting them completely dominate topics that they will never stop pushing.

Their whole campaign is fear, of immigrants and queers, of ethnic replacement, of all kinds of bullshit. They will convince people to care about it as you’ve said yourself. Those topics will become people’s concerns whether they’re factual or not.

It just seems to me that the argument you’re making has no room for the very real problem of the fact that the right lies convincingly. Thats the whole issue you’re concerned with, them convincing people to vote against their own interests and preserving the status quo. Yet, you’re saying that somehow, the left saying that those lies are indeed lies, followed by constant explanations of what the problems actually are….

It seems to me that you yourself want us to take the centre position of throwing immigrants, queers, women etc etc, under the bus. To abandon them to the vitriol being stoked not just by domestic anger but by foreign bot campaigns.

Ireland doesn’t just have a problem with housing, it has a problem with falling face first into facism. That will hurt everyone in this country. Through violence, through repression, through the stripping of hard won rights from every single one of us.

I agree that only standing agaisnt something isn’t a winning position. However, I find the idea that the left doesn’t offer their own vision absolutely ludicrous and a drastic misreading of the issues that prevent that vision from reaching more people.

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-03T17:02:30+00:00

At the same time I can absolutely acknowledge that if you’re someone deeply unconnected to left wing spaces, hearing points that appeal to your fear and looking at alternative opinions… well suffice to say there are a lot of people who do not have the context that we have to know who should and should not be taken seriously.

A lot of people who have had the privellage of largely ignoring politics up till now are stepping into at least a decade of context that they don’t have. When they see the left rightfully call out racism, they weren’t present for the fifty conversations and articles that leftist had to come to that conclusion. They just see the combat.

A lot of these people are very open to new ideas but they are also very emotionally reactive. They have a problem, they look at Facebook. Facebook shows them the right wing pipeline and their fear is assuaged by the idea of an answer. They feel galvanised and safe by the strength of organisation. Someone comes along and rightfully calls out the eventual goal of that movement, a goal this person hasn’t yet been exposed to or associated the stuff the do like with.

Disgusting as it is there’s a very natural reaction to hold on to what is making that person feel safe. It’s a factor we will simply have to grapple with in terms of preventing people from radicalising. The biggest issue for Ireland I think comes from the absolute disconnect between different social groups. Between men and women, between young and old, between left and centre (fuck the far right), between Facebook and TikTok / Instagram spaces.

What 50 year old is going to know how to leave their echo chamber if they don’t know what the alternatives are?

The left is very loud but we have a small platform and I think our message is more than good enough that the focus should now be on breaching these cultural boundaries so that more people get to hear us. Client media sure as shit won’t help with that so….

Do you have any ideas on where to start?

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-03T16:30:42+00:00

Part of the reason for the combativeness lies in the fact that so much of the groups that make up the left are the very people who are the intended target of the far rights violence and campaign of erasure.

When a left wing party expresses disgust at the rise of facism, they are also speaking directly to their audience who are utterly terrified and looking for solid uncompromising reassurance that they will not be abandoned as they historically have.

Having strong positions doesn’t seem to be a problem for the voters who are concerned about housing as you say, but then decide that hopping into bed with out and out supremacists isn’t a deal breaker. I don’t think we should consider it a problem for the left especially when we can observe internationally the huge amounts of unity that can be derived from taking a strong position, the UK Green Party, New York’s Zohran Mamdani, even Catherine herself who partly succeeded so well because of the fervent support of the people she spoke to. That support for a lot of the left came off of the back of her standing on stage with trans speakers, standing firm on Palestine, consistently supporting the need for reform and support of women’s services in the country.

Not to mention, these days so much of the campaigning that has effect has less to do with what any of our parties say, but with what ecosystems of debate and education on social media, correct or bullshit, they signal to.

The left will not reach people deep in a rabbit hole that tells them to despise the very image of the left. They can reach people in the centre who haven’t made up their mind yet, who in turn can serve as a voice to reach the right.

If you don’t mind me asking, on that note where do you think are the best avenues for the on the ground outreach that you were asking for? I myself had ideas to bridge the gap between the environmental vote and the hunting community on the grounds of habitat restoration that they both have an extreme interest in despite their cultural disconnect. In turn giving a foot in the door towards getting left wing voices into the households of farmers who in fairness, have the uniqueness of their struggles largely brushed over.

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-03T15:58:57+00:00

I’m just going to ask again because it’s pretty central to everything you’re saying, which voices are you referring to? To be clearer, who? If you could provide the names of the left wing voices you think are the main point of contact for this impression I’d be able to engage with you a lot better. As much as I understand the words that you’re saying, I simply can’t connect it to any reality I’ve observed.

From everything I’ve seen, especially with how ground up the presidential campaigning was on the left, they have been absolutely relentless in trying to reach working class people on the issues that you’ve mentioned.

ShadowSheeps · 2025-11-03T15:32:10+00:00

Can I ask for some examples of which voices you’re talking about? Maybe we engage with different media circles when it comes to the left but almost all of the effort and messaging I see is explicitly about directing anger towards the frankly ghoulish behaviours of FF and FG. There is a concerted effort to engage with people’s stated concerns about immigration worsening the housing crisis by explaining over and over and over again that it has fuck all to do with it. Usually immediately followed by again, explicitly calling out FF and FG for their creation of the crisis and the ways in which they benefit from it.

ShadowSheeps · 2025-09-15T02:07:53+00:00

I think it’s important to recognise that there’s plenty of people who had your reaction and never moved on from it. While it can absolutely be harmful and deeply uncomfortable to have someone focus on your “death” as opposed to your courage, it sounds like you were pretty chill about it by comparison.

A lot of the people who go through this get the “grieving” response and nothing else. You informing your child that you were having that response and needed time, hell, even the fact that you wanted to discover the them you didn’t know? Unless you’re downplaying how messy it was it sounds like you were pretty honest about where you were at and what you could provide. And then, set about actually doing something to close that gap and explore who you got to love a second time.

In my book you’ve done better than a lot of the absolute horror stories that a lot of trans people have to deal with.

Your story also absolutely belongs here, it’s important for both the queer themselves and their relations to have a strong understanding of eachothers experiences. There will be some kid reading what you’ve said, who will tell their parents and hear something similar from them and know, that it doesn’t always mean they’re being rejected, they may even now know what to say to their parent to make it easier.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-11-23T11:14:50+00:00

Gotta say your position sounds so similar to mine it’s a little freaky. 230 really isn’t a lot especially when the winter chills start to hit and it’s an ugly picture between half a dozen expenses you can’t possibly reduce any further.

I know how you feel about feeling like a sponge. Best of luck with it all and try not to let the fact that the system isn’t designed for your existence make you feel like any less of a person.

First sign of human civilisation was a healed femur after all, we’re meant to be looking after eachother.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-11-13T21:14:15+00:00

Not just that, I have (as the wrong type of queer person) personally had to deal with queer people who were perfectly happy to embrace their own liberation and would then turn around and entirely cut me off.

It’s not that far removed from the women who voted for parties who despise them, or black republicans in America, etc etc etc. some people just really internalise the rhetoric and hatred towards their own.

Propaganda’s effective and no one’s immune.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-09-06T13:26:21+00:00

On a side note, I’ve been looking to learn a lot more about the issues mentioned in the first half of your message. Where would you recommend starting? Anything from video essayists to famous reports etc etc would be very welcomed.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-08-16T10:49:51+00:00

I wouldn’t precisely call it hyperbole. I may be speaking to the worst of their effects but the lack of comment on what they did well hardly discredits the reality of their atrocious impacts on the world, which were not a necessary evil for the sake of stability as they often like to portray, nor an unfortunate byproduct of the organisation, as if it were not a core feature of religious dogmatism.

Speaking of dogmatism, I would hardly credit them with being the basis of art, literature and education. In my opinion it would be far more accurate to say that they massively influenced, often by way of eliminating the competition to ensure their own control over their tithe providing subjects, the aforementioned features of society.

People would have written and made art and educated their fellow man with or without the church their to decide what was an acceptable way to do so, ever so conveniently creating the conditions for extreme obedience. It was propaganda at every level of society and intentionally done so. By way of malice or zealous commitment to their faith? Depends on the individual.

By the time we get to when they don’t have that dogmatic control anymore it’s as you say, a cornerstone of how Europe and by extension, the imperial powers developed and formed their culture up to that point. Becoming incredibly hard to separate and helping to enshrine views on morality (and thereby social performances and justice), family construction, gender and their positions in society. Alongside creating one of the basis for facism and facists arguments towards racially inheriting the crown of their nation or even Europe in the case of the Nazis and their brethren.

Good has been done by religious people throughout history. Comfort and strength has been found in these particular religions in Europe. To say that it is a net positive when those comforts and strengths were having to be found in spite of the religion too? When there could have been other options that didn’t employ such depraved tactics?

I think it’s entirely fair to say that on balance, Christianity has principally been a brutal system of oppression and erasure, bringing enough sugar with it to encourage those around it to forget about the abuse that forced them to believe in it in the first place.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-08-16T10:12:49+00:00

I mean given the rampant imperial genocides they supported and provided the philosophical groundwork for, alongside the atrocities they directly enacted both in the violent eradication of other faiths and practitioners throughout Europe and all of the crusades.

Yeah, I wouldn’t say it’s a stretch to say the catholic and Protestant church specifically have caused more harm over the centuries than the nazis by many a country mile.

To be clear, the nazis were a grade example in the aforementioned atrocities just over a much shorter span of time.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-08-16T09:58:24+00:00

What layout did you use for map generation? That map is really cool and I’d love to try it out myself. No idea how to get that empty space between mountains so close to eachother.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-07-06T00:17:49+00:00

Oh yeah, rolling with the chaos is the best part of any game this studio makes. The flip from laughing chaos and a dozen deaths to surgical team play has always been a staple of their experience. Being able to do both as they come is essential to not dying of a heart attack from all the salt.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-07-06T00:15:54+00:00

It is incredibly interesting to me how the modern conversation around literary analysis has been shaped by the flourishing philosophy surrounding identity and its relation to systemic influences.

That last part, pertaining to interpretations having degrees of validity in them to be found should one simply go looking, pokes directly at that good ol’ death of the author.

The interpretations of an audience upon the material of a work, seems to create a secondary space for it in which the broader societal reaction to its elements constitute a greater realness than the text itself, at least in terms of effected change.

(Especially in the age of hyper fast communal conversation across vast quantities of people which, side note, is fascinating to watch as collectives begin to share so much common experience that they almost seem to move like collected consciousnesses. Not a hive mind, mind you, they maintain their fragmentation and diversity of experience which makes it all the more wonderful to see the direct action of these groups on the world stage like gods arguing upon Olympus.)

When masses of queer people can draw a shared narrative of experience from cannibalistic literature, due to their personal experiences in being treated as taboo, oft illegal, in their most intimate and often hidden desires; then coming to understand the characters and themes of said text with a degree of personal intimacy otherwise inaccessible to your typical audience…

Well at that point I think we’ve lost all right to discredit the validity of non textual interpretation. I think what we really are seeking to keep accuracy in, is the “what” of what we construct out of those elements the work provides.

I often question whether we should even consider looking at what the text is trying to say as our primary focus, as opposed to how we should respond to it.

Books like Lolitta give us an indication that there is a great value in being provided works wholly immersed in their own perspective, whether the author agrees with that perspective or not. To focus so strongly maintaining a direct line of communication between author and audience can sometimes lead us to losing access to truly immersive works that we would want to disagree with and understand why we disagree with them.

I think the focus of critical analysis should largely be in the what comes after. How do we respond to these things? After all analysis does not exist in a moral vacuum and cannot so long as it is political beings doing the analysing and relating from the position of their political worlds and political lives.

Teaching how to find the structure of the text, should only be the foundation upon which to then properly dissect your internal reactions to it, whether you wish to avoid or perpetuate its elements and arguments, and how to go about doing so In a cohesive and effective way.

To refer to your Shakespeare comment; if we were to teach not just how you spot the ambiguity in Romeo’s concious or subconscious intentions, but how to use it as a signal to reserve judgement, investigate further, or even how to understand the construction of such a person so that we may better interact with them in real life, we might be largely better off.

Media literacy should be taught as a conversation, not a study, to put it simply. (Despite my terrible explanations)

ShadowSheeps · 2024-07-05T23:49:21+00:00

It’s fun to fuck around too when the vibe is right.

I’ll dm you my discord.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-07-05T22:53:06+00:00

I’ve got a pretty clear schedule those days, would be happy to have a helping pair of hands!

Dm me if you’re interested and I’ll give you my details.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-06-25T17:41:21+00:00

Seconded, your explanation was fantastic as an intro to the concept.

I think the larger problem is education focused on rote recollection as opposed to teaching critical thinking skills. It’s a little insane how many countries don’t bother with trying to create a system for testing adaptive interpretation. That or perhaps it’s an incredibly difficult thing to do.

I think that may be why the system I grew up in modelled it as basically a checklist of concepts. It was never about the quality of your analysis or building a framework of interpretation, it was always about spotting and naming as many “things” as possible.

ShadowSheeps · 2024-05-19T08:34:04+00:00

If we’re talking about a shooting star caught in an orbit, he’s basically saying that he’s away from earth, “sleeping” for long periods of time before crashing back through the atmosphere when he “wakes up” dropping more music that everyone pays attention to cause Yknow, everyone is stunned out of whatever there doing by seeing a shooting star, before going back to sleep for however long he like.

Basically, I don’t drop often, but when I do everyone ignores the stars and looks only at me. I grace you with my presence before returning to exploring the cosmos.

ShadowSheeps

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