kartaylir-darasuum

[kartaylir-darasuum]

made this in 5 seconds on my phone i am SHAKING

[kartaylir-darasuum]

somehow i just can't believe that prince philip is actually dead until i see a destiel confession edit of it

[kartaylir-darasuum]

can’t believe that spotify playlist worked...

[kartaylir-darasuum]

breaking news: walking corpse becomes regular corpse

[kartaylir-darasuum]

why hello there prince phillip sir, would you desire a little stick of gum to freshen your breath?

[kartaylir-darasuum]

breaking news: prince philip, the dad from the royal family, is a nasty little thottie. and he just died from making it clap on instagram

[kartaylir-darasuum]

So no head?

[kartaylir-darasuum]

this is literally the best line in the entire show and no one will convince me otherwise

[kartaylir-darasuum]

something is seriously wrong with these icons like

the designs make 0 sense they are not indicative of their function (with the exception of text, link and video) 

the icons for link and chat are virtually identical 

the icon for text is noticeably smaller looking and feels off-centered compared to the other icons

did tumblr do this as a joke? did someone make a mistake? i’m genuinely curious because these icons are incredibly ineffective and poorly designed

[kartaylir-darasuum]

when a character says something that’s blatantly false, and has been proven to not be true by things other characters have said and events that have happened, but the character is a fan favorite and so a good portion of the fandom goes “They’re totally right” and kicks the evidence that they’re wrong under the rug

[kartaylir-darasuum]

You really should add your pronouns in your bio

i get this ask a lot and like. it’s a lil frustrating bc the whole reason ppl starting pushing everyone to put pronouns in their bio was so trans ppl weren’t outed or othered for having their pronouns listed.

but now it’s used as a dog whistle to lyk who’s “woke” and who isn’t (even tho plenty of the ppl w their pronouns in their bio are still bigoted in many ways). so now everyone is assumed to be cis and pressured into putting their pronouns in every social media they have, thus once again othering trans ppl and forcing them to out themselves

im not cis. im not entirely sure which pronouns i prefer or will use. ppl going “you should list your pronouns” either outs me or forces me to pick pronouns that may feel misgendering just to appease a largely cis crowd.

she/he/they are fine. i also have no desire to list that for thousands of ppl to see. i am referred to as she/her irl by p much everyone. sometimes it sucks, but it also kinda sucks getting used to using he/they only to know i am not in a position to use that irl at this moment.

[kartaylir-darasuum]

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

[kartaylir-darasuum]

Please help me move out of my abusive home or my mum will likely k*ll me

It hurts to make this but I have no other choice. My only source of income is my Etsy store which I have only opened yesterday so as such, I don’t have much money at all (besides what I’ve saved over the years)

If you could donate just $1 I would be a step closer to freedom

Ko-fi / PayPal

I also do art commissions and I have an Etsy store

If you can’t donate please reblog this thank you so so much!!

[kartaylir-darasuum]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgex/they-started-burning-the-homes-ethiopians-say-their-towns-are-being-razed-in-ethnic-cleansing-campaign

I’m just.... look I get it. What’s happening in Tigray doesn’t matter to a lot of people but as a Tigray it’s very hard to know that this is happening and day by day the situation gets substantially worse. I saw something about satilite images of a village in Eastern Tigray (the general area of where I happen to be from) appearing to have had been burned down—this is just confirmation of some of my worst fears. They’ve blown up our churches. They’ve killed us in massacres and left our dead in the street. No one can really do anything to help but knowing this is happening prevents my people from dying in silence because the world seems to be apathetic to our suffering. No one is holding Ethiopia or Eritrea accountable in any way that’ll actually acknowledge and end what’s happening in Tigray.

Just knowing feels like enough at this point. The internet has been mostly cut off for months, aid obviously can’t reach the ground in Tigray—but I’ve seen people describe this as worse than the Derg years and I never thought I’d see someone say that. Ever.

[kartaylir-darasuum]

i see so many people say "i want to write star wars fanfiction but im so scared people will get mad if i fuck up the complex lore" honey not even star wars can get right the star wars lore write whatever the fuck you want and if someone complains send them my way i will banish them to the realm of miserable nitpickers

[kartaylir-darasuum]

A rural First Nations community in Alaska has lost its’ only potable water source as of January in freezing weather. The laundromat was the ONE community location to get clean water. They rely on river water and donations right now.

There is an Amazon wishlist with cleaning products, formula, small electric-free washers for elderly + disabled people, washing buckets and water-carrying buckets, and hand tools to cut through the ice in the river to access water, amongst other things.

The Tuluksak Native Community is a Yup'ik Tribal Government in Tuluksak, Alaska. They have a 30%+ positive COVID rate. 

Please ignore the GoFundMe link right now. There is no way to access the funding as far as I know. Message CeeJay on Twitter ahead of time or direct funds to the Amazon Wish List, which can be sorted from lowest price to highest.

[kartaylir-darasuum]

question because i’m curious, reblog with if your home town has posts in tumblr search