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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 15h

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Let hope grow to outshine fear.

#hopepit #hope
#ImageAndVerse #OrangeSun
#31DaysOfHalloween

golden & red maple tree with the words:

With the turning season, may we take time to harmonize.

Rest. Build. Nourish.

Stoke the embers of hope.

Let hope grow to outshine fear.

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 4h

lovin it! Though I've been struggling against the Sleepy that comes with 'em 😅

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 4h

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 4h

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

New hype event! 🌞🌱 bsky.app/profile/hope...

#HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 3d

Let's spin visions of hope & resilience!

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We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.

#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky

Flier for #Hopepit
Sunday, Nov 9
community connect Nov 5 - 8

🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞

An inclusive community-building hype event for voices of light & vision in the darkness.

Open to creators of all media telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation

#Hopepit

🌞Use the #Hopepit hashtag to share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art

🌱We encourage the use of additional tags, like: #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc

🌳Not sure which genre? JOIN US anyway!

🌱We 💛 resource sharing & discussion threads!

@hopepit.bsky.social

climate fiction hopecore hopepunk clifi #Climatefiction nomadpunk solarpunk #solarpunk #hopecore indigenous futurism pitch hype permaculture

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

We are all in this together! ✨🌱

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks for helping spread it & countering dangerous fabricated narratives!

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

PS I'm cohosting #hopepit Nov 9! Would love to see you there 🌞🌱
#WIPsnips #solarpunk #clifi friends

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

"Don't worry, don't be afraid
Open up your heart, unlock the cage
turn the key and break the chains
Love will always find a way
if you want love you gotta give love away"
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Give Love: MC Yogi
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#readandplay
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#hope

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, there is a bit of crime and weird vibes, it is an American city, and we're under attack by our own government- I'm grateful for local and state leaders who are fighting to defend the people

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

pretty peaceful here except for a smattering of occupiers in one city block
rains are settling in, we're making Halloween plans and celebrating friends' birthdays and meditating in the park and going for walks and bike rides...

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5h

It's very interesting stuff!! 😊

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 6h

Join us to hype #hope and vision for an adaptive future!

#hopepit

"Entropy is real, dams must be maintained. It takes all of us to do it, it’s done by linking arms with the people next to you, by building a community with deliberate intent."
- Alexandra Rowland

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#WIPsnips #WritingCommunity

#HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 3d

Let's spin visions of hope & resilience!

🌞🌱

We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.

#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 7h

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 8h

#WIPsnips
#hope

#Collapse #healing
#hopepunk #hopepit

Fallen Comfort Age cities were reinforced and inhabited by defensive dominions. Mirroring old castle cities, people reinforced walls and brought in food from outside.
Fancy skyscrapers of glass stuck out of inland beaches, covered in bird poop. Inland seas grew and deserts spread where hippies, yuppies, celebrities, and inferno fires had twinkled, smoldered, raged, and burnt out in California.
And then, fires had burned much of what there was to burn. The skies began to clear of the swirling smoke. Trash islands were reabsorbed, broken down, covered in algae and barnacles. Some were sucked into the cold depths, or created floating island habitats for seals to rest. Bastions of hope where nature attempted to find balance again.

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 15h

🍁
Let hope grow to outshine fear.

#hopepit #hope
#ImageAndVerse #OrangeSun
#31DaysOfHalloween

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 3d

Death Sees Beyond
for it is but another stop on the journey

#UrbanGaze #PDX #31DaysOfHalloween #Spooktober #ThroughTheVeils

painted train car in train car yard with mural of Albert Einstein & a skeleton with round windows for eyes

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 4d

Tis the season
when veils are thin
and we take pause to exhale with the trees
as they shed their leaves

take refuge in the resting places
of those that came before
and remember the hopes
our ancestors held for us

#PeacefulPortland #Portland #31DaysOfHalloween #spookyseason

orange fall trees amidst gravestones and still green trees this past sunny October Sunday at Multnomah Park Cemetery

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 23h

sometimes matches are right just for the moment, to help us on our paths 💜🧡

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 23h

very cool
& sorry to hear/ congratulations?

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 1d

"Hopepunk isn’t pristine and spotless. [it']s grubby, because that’s what happens when you fight... We still yearn... toward an honest and desperate belief that love conquers all. Except, when the other guy has more guns and fewer moral objections than we do, it doesn’t."

#hopepunk #hopepit

Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we hyping hope? Why now?

To quote Alexandra Rowland, who coined the term hopepunk:

“in this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is a political act. An act of rebellion.”

Read Rowland’s full defense of hopepunk here, ya rebel

festive.ninja/one-atom-of-...

#HopePit

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 2d

Like one of my heroes @therealelvira.bsky.social, I will be attending No Kings on October 18!

Dancing in the streets with my fellow Portlanders, and Americans across the country, for our freedom!

nokings.org
#NoKings #NoKingsDay

post on another site by the real Elvira saying she will be attending a No Kings rally on 10/18/25

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 1d

#Hopepunk: "It’s about doing the 1 little thing you can do, even if useless: planting seeds in the midst of the apocalypse... Individual action is almost always pointless. Hope and strength comes from our bonds with each other, from the actions we take as a community, holding hands in the dark."

Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we hyping hope? Why now?

To quote Alexandra Rowland, who coined the term hopepunk:

“in this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is a political act. An act of rebellion.”

Read Rowland’s full defense of hopepunk here, ya rebel

festive.ninja/one-atom-of-...

#HopePit

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for this background info!!!

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · 1d

a blue and yellow frog is standing on its hind legs in a video game

Alt: a blue and yellow frog is standing on its hind legs in a video game

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