Four centuries from now, humanity thrives beyond civilization.
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The Fifth World is an open source shared universe. We imagine a neotribal, ecotopian, post-apocalyptic, animist realist, mundane science fiction future together.
[this is a thread to break down what each of those things mean] – at Pittsburgh, PA
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Shame has never and will never motivate change. The way to motivate change in people is to inspire them— to give them a glimmer of hope and affirmation that their life has meaning.
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I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows. (Technical notes in another thread, linked at the end.)
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It’s rare, I think, that you can actually see a tipping point in the history of humanity while you’re living through it. But anybody can see this one. Any action we can take, right this minute, to save our fellow travelers, will have outsized ripples in the new world ahead.
Egalitarianism has been one of the most defining traits of our species, but if we don’t strive to make it so, we can always deteriorate into a state of hierarchy. youtu.be/C5mf_G-U8nw
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If you'd asked a climate scientist a decade or two ago to speculate on what the climate crisis might look like in the US by 2021, "116 degrees in Portland, 9-month fire seasons in CA, and buildings collapsing on the Miami coast" would have been the *alarmist* answer.
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Storytelling is our human birthright. Making stuff up with friends is something we do as toddlers. Imagining how we might react in a given situation is how we learn. Trying on different roles is how we figure out who we are, who we want to be, & how to connect to each other.
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Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to learn how to identify a wide variety of wild edible and medicinal plants native to their bioregion.
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Dammit, @thefifthworld, your website is a @tvtropes level time sink! I may never find my way out again!
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That tug you feel to pour love into nature includes the love you owe yourself.
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"How to write about the planetary emergency with deep feeling" join @dominicbury on 5th June for a special workshop, part of a day of workshops involving @tobylitt @52Flowers & @PaullLaline
More info & sign up here
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In the center of the forest, there is an unlikely stone that remembers when the mountains were new. It waits in a circle of moss like the pupil of a green eye. You kneel and ask it a wordless question. It answers. "Cherish exactly who you are. For there will never be another."
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I HOPE THIS E-MAIL DOES NOT FIND YOU
I HOPE YOUR CHAIR HAS GROWN OVER WITH MOSS
I HOPE A PLEASANT BUT UNOBSERVED BEAM OF LIGHT HITS YOUR DESK PERFECTLY THROUGH THE COLLAPSED CEILING
I HOPE THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING
The alpha for v2.0 of The Fifth World tabletop roleplaying game is here! There's a few things that we'll need to fill in before it's fully playable, and we'll want to do some playtesting before we give it the official stamp, but there's a lot here. thefifthworld.com/rpg
We're missing sheets of all kinds, and the community creation tool. The sheets we'll be able to fill in soon. The community creation tool will take quite a bit longer. In the near-term, we're also making a Discord bot to facilitate playing online.
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We'll be starting some playtests in ~2 weeks on the Fifth World Discord server. You get access to the Discord server if you're a Fifth World member. If you think you'd fit well in our community, tell us why. thefifthworld.com/about/memb…
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Join us tonight at 8pm EST!
LOW CARBON CHAT on "Open Source Ecological Imagination"
Wed. 3/24, 8-9pm EST
Join us for a text-based chat session with a maker of @thefifthworld, a speculative future world rendered in fiction, art, and a role-playing game, all open-source in design.
forum.ecodesigncollective.or…
