Chip-chicken - What

i never talk about these things but i can’t remain silent.

i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING  WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……

southern europe is burning. 

my country is burning.

people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.

yesterday my country had 300 active fires.

people are losing EVERYTHING they own.

i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.

and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish. 

i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately. 

but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?

again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves: 

An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete

Torneros de Jamuz, Spain

Duca, Croatia

A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste

Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios

Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.

Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece

Portugal

Noooo don't get a tattoo it's so permanent blah blah blah my tattoo is whatever I want it to be and today it's an octopus

in love with the way this cop just Source Engine ragdolls down this children’s slide before concussing himself

kakyoin: and this is my room

jotaro: nice

kakyoin: hold on you have GOT to check this shit out

kakyoin: *turns off light and turns on huge uv lamp * my windows glow lol

jotaro: oh cool- wait. is that uranium glass

kakyoin: yes. cool right? made it myself

jotaro: how did you obtain this much uranium without being put on a government watch list

kakyoin: thats my fun little secret :) oh have you seen my lamp

jotaro: ... no I have not

kakyoin: come here look at it isn’t it so pretty? its made of pure cinnabar :)

jotaro: doesn’t cinnabar have lethal amounts of mercury in it. how did you even get this much of it

kakyoin: doesn’t matter do you know the history behind the color “paris green”?

jotaro: I don’t want to know

kakyoin: basically people back in the day were crazy party animals and used arsenic as a pigment for clothes and paints and called it paris green because the french are crazy or something i dont know. anyways I went to a really old abandoned paint store a while back to set it on fire but found a few cans of the stuff near the back with mold all over them and took them home and painted my room with it. my parents can no longer come in my room. we are in so much medical debt because of how often they have to go to the er for arsenic poisioning. luckily I’m their son and arsenic poisoning is nothing when you have to raise someone like me. anways do you want to listen to sting.

jotaro, hypersalivating: ok

While I was kayaking a while back I saw a snake swimming across the river with a fishie he’d caught.

I wasn’t able to get a picture of it at the time so I tried to paint it from memory !

As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.

*takes out my gougar counter and it starts going wild*