A Femme Shark + Eco-dystopian Sci-fi piece by Tongtong (Petra) Yang<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u26f0\ufe0f\ud83c\udf17<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have no categories. No gender, no mentally normal or ill, no official language, no government, no marriage, no money as currency, no race or ethnicity, no class. We make our own blades and our own moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 Blade of HalfMoon Manifesto<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How long can you stay mad\/furious\/enraged\/irritated\/indignant before losing it? I\u2019ve been asking myself that question for a few weeks. People back in 2020 might use the pumping balloon and explosion metaphor. Plastic balloons, essentially fossil fuel, are extinct. Why do I know they exist? My generation’s kids grew up learning that history with balloons of all shapes and colors standing at the front of parking lots greeting customers to fast food places, clustering like grapes in birthday parties and graduation ceremonies, and carrying handwriting in oil black pen flying in the hallway of a gallery. They said the forests here avenged after going bald. The revenge lasted for a whole month when it was snowing and deadly quiet. A perfect time to bury bodies. Do you know pre-Blade people paid a lot to maintain their relevances\u2019 graveyards? They could have gone into the ocean or flushed themselves down the K-toilet. During the revenge, people were silent like chickens and the recreation industry gradually died out. Bladers got to canoe (extravagant stupid tomato red like someone\u2019s choked) from time to time, with wildflowers in our hair. Green is Bladers\u2019 color.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u26f0\ufe0f\ud83c\udf15<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blade of FullMoon<\/p>
North America Arm #18<\/p>
Powell River, BC, Canada<\/p>
Assets of Region (AoR): papermaking, community psychiatry, climbing, mapmaking, art, archery<\/p>
Grade 0, Safe Zone<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
[Ebral singing]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Renovate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Add a B to your name<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Study all Blader <\/p>\n\n\n\n
languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And make a <\/p>\n\n\n\n
new one<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u65b0\u751f<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walk barefoot in the Paper Excellence <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remain<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iced lake<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gulp the now stream<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previous steam<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men hand logging <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timber. Lean on<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One and visit often<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visit The Shade<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stare at the newcomers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their waxing Gibbous Phase<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carve a Glittering Cave<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A linen cloth<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put it on your Blade<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Try<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Double moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hunt a rabbit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pick rosemary<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harvest a lemon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cook in The Jut<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sit with solar panels<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charge a camera<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Direct <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Film<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dance. Music. Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mud<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u304a\u3084\u3059\u307f<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Tonkba strolling in The Bmain]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonkba: Zeb will send me to North America Arm #4 next week to start my first-ever mission. I will then fly to #70 in Sept and #41 next year. I hope there\u2019s coffee and Levofloxacin and moxifloxacin and all on that list. Ebral will take care of my eagles. Bladers prepared artworks, bows and arrows, some climbing stuff, and \u0160ebfika the healer. We will depart at dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nabomi: Oh, you got Zeb. Who were my first mission tutor again? Can\u2019t remember. I see you got your double moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonkba: They\u2019re all tight and sharp. Still practicing the Loi move. Can you show me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nabomi: Like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonkba: Can you do it again, please please please?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nabomi: It\u2019s deep in the night. I can\u2019t hear my eagles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Tonkba blinking their starry eyes]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nabomi: I\u2019m hungry, sneak to The Jut and cook me proper ramen. I don\u2019t get bribed by your beautiful face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonkba: !!!I\u2019ll be back in 20, before you fall asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Nabomi waving their hands, turning to their side]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u26f0\ufe0f\ud83c\udf11<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA group of sustainability advocates flooded the beautiful BC forests and set up another cult. Many young boys lost their lives there. These people do not use money. You can find photos of their exotic farms taken by our journalist Paul Bristle. They don\u2019t get married. Naked dirty bodies run in those forests. They eat whatever they want. They are against human civilization. Do not go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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