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[urhoneycombwitch]

in case it wasn’t clear. this blog and this bitch do NOT support the industrial military complex.

[beebfreeb]

[anna-scribbles]

last one i promise(<—lie)

[irawhiti]

while everyone's rightfully talking about oppenheimer and its flaws regarding the erasure of japanese and native american voices regarding nuclear testing and detonations, i'd like to bring up the fact that pacific islanders have also been severely impacted by nuclear testing under the pacific proving grounds, a name given by the US to a number of sites in the pacific that were designated for testing nuclear weapons after the second world war, at least 318 of which were dropped on our ancestral homes and people. i would like if more people talked about this.

important sections are bolded for ease of reading. i would appreciate this being reblogged since it's a bit alarming how few people know about this.

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in 1946, the indigenous peoples of pikinni (the bikini atoll) were forcibly relocated off of their islands so that nuclear tests could be run on the atoll. at least 23 nuclear bombs were detonated on this inhabited island chain, including 20 hydrogen bombs. many pasifika were irreversibly irradiated, all of them were starved during multiple forced relocations, and the island chain is still unsafe to live on despite multiple cleanup attempts. there are several craters visible from space that were left on the atoll from nuclear testing.

the forced relocation was to several different small and previously uninhabited islands over several decades, none of which were able to sustain traditional lifestyles which directly lead to further starvation and loss of culture and identity. there is a reason that pacific islanders choose specific islands to inhabit including access to fresh water, food, shelter, cloth and fibre, climate, etc. and obviously none of these reasons were taken into account during the displacements.

200 pikinni were eventually moved back to the atoll in the 1970s but dangerous levels of strontium-90 were found in drinking water in 1978 and the inhabitants were found to have abnormally high levels of caesium-137 in their bodies.

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i'm going to put the rest of this post under a readmore to improve the chances of this being reblogged by the general public. i would recommend you read the entirety of the post since it really isn't long and goes into detail about, say, entire islands being fully, utterly destroyed. like, wiped off of the map. without exaggeration, entire islands were disintegrated.

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as i just mentioned, ānewetak (the eniwetok atoll) was bombed so violently that an entire island, āllokļap, was permanently and completely destroyed. an entire island. it's just GONE. the world's first hydrogen bomb was tested on this island. the crater is visibly larger than any of the islands next to it, more than a mile in diameter and roughly fifteen storeys deep. the hydrogen bomb released roughly 700 times the energy released during the bombing of hiroshima. this would, of course, be later outdone by other hydrogen bombs dropped on the pacific, reaching over 1000 times the energy released.

one attempt to clean up the waste on ānewetak was the construction of a large ~380ft dome, colloquially known as the tomb, on runit island. the island has been essentially turned into a nuclear waste dump where several other islands of ānewetak have moved irradiated soil to and, due to climate change, rising seawater is beginning to seep into the dome, causing nuclear waste to leak out. along with this, if a large typhoon were to hit the dome, there would be a catastrophic failure followed by a leak of nuclear waste into the surrounding land, drinking water, and ocean. the tomb was built haphazardly and quickly to cut costs.

hey, though, there's a plus side! the water in the lagoon and the soil surrounding the tomb is far more radioactive than the currently contained radioactive waste. a typhoon wouldn't cause (much) worse irradiation than the locals and ocean already currently experience, anyway! it's already gone to shit! and who cares, right, the only ""concern"" is that it will just further poison the drinking water of the locals with radioactive materials. this can just be handwaved off as a nonissue, i guess. /s

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at least 36 bombs were detonated in the general vicinity of kiritimati (christmas island) and johnson atoll. while johnson atoll has seemingly never been inhabited by polynesians, kiritimati was used intermittently by polynesians (and later on, micronesians) for several hundred years. many islands in the pacific were inhabited seasonally and likewise many pacific islanders should be classified as nomadic but it has always been convenient for the goal of white supremacy and imperalism to claim that semi-inhabited areas are completely uninhabited, claimable pieces of terra nullius.

regardless of the current lack of inhabitants on these islands, the nuclear detonations have caused widespread ecological damage to otherwise delicate island ecosystems and have further spread nuclear fallout across the entirety of the pacific ocean.

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while the marshall islands, micronesia, and the surrounding areas of melanesia and polynesia were (and still are) by far the worst affected by these atrocities, the entirety of the pacific has been irradiated to some extent due to ocean/wind currents freely spreading nuclear fallout through the water and air. all in all, at least 318 nuclear bombs were detonated across the pacific. i say "at least" because these are just the events that have been declassified and frankly? i wouldn't be shocked to find out they didn't stop there.

please don't leave the atomic destruction of the pacific out of this conversation. we've been displaced, irradiated, murdered, poisoned, and otherwise mass exterminated by nuclear testing on purpose and we are still suffering because of it. many of us have radiation poisoning, many of us have no safe ancestral home anymore. i cannot fucking state this enough, ISLANDS WERE DISINTEGRATED INTO NONEXISTENCE.

look, this isn't blaming people for not talking about us or knowing the extent of these issues, but it's... insidiously ironic that i haven't seen a single post that even mentions pacific islanders in a conversation about indigenous voices/voices of colour being ignored when it comes to nuclear tests and the devastation they've caused.

[artianwen]

You're in "the good place".

[wombywoo]

thought you all should know that my new assistant shall be calling all the shots henceforth.

[nonavesimus]

look, we already know there will be some time-related hijinx hijinks this season. however the details in the title sequence are so beautiful that i can't help but talk about them

first we have ekko's shadow looking like the hand of a clock moving counterclockwise

(one of my favourite parts of the intro)

AND as if that weren't explicit enough already, he also rewinds his backflip. it's safe to say that time travel will, at the very least, be used in a fight.

is there going to be more of it? definitely. as to how that'll play out, we can't know for sure yet but coming up with infinite scenarios is the fun part

[diamondcitydarlin]

"All hail to the Realm of Raj!"

AMC's Interview with the Vampire 01x07

[feinv]

shy!reader sitting on the bathroom counter with constantine between her legs, and she’s trying her hardest to have a steady hand bc she really really doesn’t want to accidentally cut him 😖 he couldn’t be bothered to shave and reader offered to help!! he didn’t realise how…. intimate? it would be… his hands rest on her thighs surprisingly tenderly for someone so grumpy and mean… and any time he speaks his voice gets so deep and reader shushes him because he’s moving his jaw and she’s trying so hard to do well for him!!! he’s so flustered ngl 🙈😵

btw sorry for spam my love!!! could i be 🪷 anon? <3

a lotus!! WE GOT A LOTUS🗣️ look at that flustered mess. he is begging to be loved and cared for.

john was silently watching you as you struggled with keeping your hands steady. he hadn't shaved in a while, the stubble growing out, and when your offered to help, he was more than welcome, with a few eye rolls, of course.

his hands were resting on your thighs, feeling the warmth of your skin beneath his large palms as his eyes were roaming all over your face when you weren’t staring back at him. he was silently watching you, how your brows furrowed in concentration, appreciating how much care you were putting into the simple task. your fingers were so delicate and gentle, terrified to press a little harder and accidentally hurting him, your one hand softly gripping his jaw. he was surprised at how nice and pleasant your fingertips felt against his skin.

he wanted your hands all over him, his mind wondering to places he shouldn’t be going, clearing his throat to bring him back to reality.

“hurry up,” his baritone voice adding up on your anxious state. “don’t move. and don’t talk,” you whispered back at him, smiling to yourself when your response earned an unimpressed scoff from him.

your heart was literally pounding in your chest due to the intense focus you were keeping on your actions, forgetting to breath every once in a while. and the feeling of his unnaturally tender hands soothing down on your exposed thighs was not helping whatsoever. the faint smell of cigarettes and his cologne mixed with the shaving cream was making you more lightheaded than you would like.

but even he was surprised at how intimate the situation was. he would've never let anyone as close to him. no one except you. your bodies were practically pressed to one another, your sweet scent filling his nostrils, making it impossibly hard not to pull you off the countertop, pin you to the wall instead and make out with you until he forgets his own name.

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Text: Our ship is equipped to transport Infernal Ice. Harvested at risk of our lives from the most treacherous northern seas, the coldest varieties have the ability to stop time.

Albacore & Boondocks

[zaxlotl]

I had this posted on twitter but apparently a lot of phighting fans are also ultrakill fans so i might as well post these here too!

[hellspawnsparks]

misty brightdawn! 🦋

[person25]

It’s actually crazy how dc decided they were gonna make one half of 2 of extremely popular (non-canon) queer ships canonically queer characters and still not make the ship canon⁉️

[jazz-kitty]

this is a reoccuring issue

[dovescheck]

go my scarab! do a crime

[bytesyzd]

💌🫀💘🩸✨