Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I'm a big fan of Jarod Anderson (cryptonaturalist) in case you're looking for some nature-adjacent uplift.
Her DoingHave you seen this thread by @bethsawin ?
Go up & down (it's not a long thread), but especially this:
@Her_Doing I follow @bethsawin but don't always see all her posts, so thank you for pointing this one out! So much truth in that one!
There really is! I'm glad I could help! 😊
Kiloku - Secretário do Caos@susankayequinn I can't quite find it but I remember reading something like "hope is typically depicted as someone doe-eyed and bubbly positive, but hope is punk, she falls down, gets up, wipes the dirt from her face and tries again."
@Kiloku I have that, somewhere, and I can't remember if it was Cryptonaturalist as well...
Messtrogen@susankayequinn Anarcho-nihilism presents a form of hopelessness where there is a point, only that the point is in the present, not the future. I'm not an anarcho-nihilist and I do have hope, but it feels good to have something in my backpocket if times really turn rough for me other than despair.
@unionwhore ironically, I think nihilism is the luxury of good times (or at least not completely horrible, desperate times). It wasn't until Trump 2.0, when things were suddenly objectively worse (like immediately because most of us knew what was coming, and then as each horrible thing hit harder and harder), that suddenly people online who had been hard-core nihilists before were like...wait...what about hope?
Hope isn't for the weak, actually. Hope is a lifeline to survive the worst.
@susankayequinn That's an interesting perspective I don't have (yet), since I'm not in the region currently controlled by the USA government, so thank you! Maybe hope is better suited for dire situations than I thought.
I'm also just scratching the surface of anarcha-nihilism but every text I read, while I never agreed with everything, gave me something unexplored to take with me. I recently finished reading 'Blessed is the Flame' by Serafinski and while it's a hard read since it deals with life in Nazi concentration camps but I can definitely recommend it.
@unionwhore one of the personally hardest moments for me was when my mom died. I fled to the mountains and hide away for a few days. I needed something that met the intensity of what I was feeling, and I found that in Victor Frankl's book (also concentration camps based). It's an intensely hopeful book.
https://bookshop.org/a/102876/9780807014271
The bigger the challenges that face us (I'm thinking specifically the climate crisis) the more chance there is that your part *matters* in very important ways.
@unionwhore this might also be useful to you: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-38-anger-and-hope
"my metric with people isn’t “do you believe everything is terrible” or “do you believe there’s hope” but rather “what are you actually doing to enact change?”"
Ep. 38: Anger and Hope
Fighting the Dominant Narrative That Our Actions Are Pointless
@unionwhore and the 4 kinds of hope might be clarifying :)
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-18-the-power-of-hope
Ep. 18: The Power of Hope
Understanding the Four Kinds of Hope
@susankayequinn Wow, thank you for all the resources! I will give them a read but I'm a very slow reader so it wil take a lot of time 
Wren