There Are Two Wolves Inside You

This was Team Jercy’s submission for the first round of the Heroes of Olympus Ship Olympics! Everyone put a ton of effort into it, and we’re all super proud of how it came out, so please give some HUGE kudos to my awesome team members:

I did the initial sketches and pulled everything together in InDesign Hika did the lining, coloring, Percy’s handwriting, and helped with the script Leed took care of the monsters, did Jason’s handwriting, and helped with the script Asa helped with the script and provided the lovely doodled stick monsters Leo came up with the entire concept and helped with the script Charlie helped with the script

After 8 years of having this account, I now use it regularly to interact with other people. Yay :D

Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I drew this Forest Goddess. It’s just a little drawing on my part, but I did it in the hope it would raise some awareness with regards to an issue that weighs on my mind every day: Climate Change. The scientific consensus, and, indeed, the empirical situation we live in, shows us that climate change is real, and happening real fast - yet so many people still don’t believe it, or don’t think that it affects them. Personally, I am f*cking terrified by it.

Just last June in Europe we witnessed the ‘hottest month ever to be recorded on Earth’. It’s not an hyperbole: the heatwave that invested Italy, France and Spain was 2-3°C hotter than any other heatwave we have on record: this is a huge difference in temperature as it shows practically how much of an impact human made climate change is having on the planet. A group of World Weather Attribution scientists used computer models to show that a similar heatwave would have been averagely 4°C cooler just 100 years ago and reported that Climate Change makes this sort of heatwaves 5 times more likely to happen. These are real life changes we are seeing, and it’s only going to get worse.

Another piece of news caught my eye recently - various articles published by different international media outlets highlighting how the monthly deforestation of the Brasilian Amazon basin has gone up 88.4% compared with a year ago. This prompted me to read a bit more about the impact of forests on the global ecosystem and found out that they’re actually pretty important. On the WWC website your can read all about the beneficial effects of forests, but the bottom line is that by reducing forest loss, we can reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.

However, in the last 50 years about a fifth of the forest has been cut and burned in Brasil. Scientists have warned that if another fifth of the Amazon basin is cut, it will initiate the feedback loop known as ‘dieback’: the forest will spontaneously start to dry out and burn regardless any attempt of human intervention. This would be disastrous for many reasons, but especially because the Amazon forest helps create a large parte of the Earth’s oxygen (what we breathe), clean fresh water and stores a huge amount of carbon. If the Amazon disappeared, it would release a huge ‘carbon bomb’ into the atmosphere, which would obliterate the basin of water and stop absorbing the sun radiation. This of course would be catastrophic for life on Earth as we know it.

One can easily get discouraged and depressed by reading all this despairing data and seeing how things are quickly deteriorating on the planet, however there are some things we can do in our daily life and to accelerate change! We can

- boycott brands that don’t have a deforestation-free supply chain

- plant trees and care about our immediate environment

- contact and pressure our governments to push climate change to the top of their agenda (get in touch with your local representatives or take part to grassroots movements and demonstrations, there are many options out there!)

- read, read, READ! Information is key. When the sky comes down on us it won’t do to say ‘Oh, I didn’t know about that’

Most of the info in this post was gathered from multiple media outlets, here’s the main sources I used:

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/

http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/forests/climate_change_and_forest/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/03/brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-environment

https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/forests-and-climate-change#solutions

https://www.france24.com/en/20190702-last-month-hottest-june-record-heatwave-swept-europe

This art should be more deeply appreciated

ohhhhhh my god;;;;;;;;;;

The reckoning has commenced

To confirm your order, one Super Meal, one fish mango pie and one Palabok Family Pan. Will you be paying by cash or card?

Fish mango pie?? 😭😭

Also WHATTTT I'm so confused 😭

Y’all want a sequel film to Ultraman: Rising?? Then please go watch & give it two thumbs up!! We gotta make it count & the deadline is June 28th!! Share it with friends and family, have it play in the bg, or do a movie night, whatever works best, but please watch the movie!! 💪💪💪

So you mean to tell me, the hurting inflicted on the readers are unintentional?

Some writers: *meticulously plan out every plot point and the tone and meanings before they start writing*

Me:

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

its been rly heartening to see big tumblr accounts with a specific theme (or bit) take a moment to raise awareness for palestine. in many ways being vocally pro-palestine is far, far more important than donations right now. palestinians have said so too. if it weren't it wouldn't be so risky for people to speak out. its a war on human life but it's also a war on the very memory, culture and history of the palestinian people. we can help them fight the second one just by posting. solidarity matters more than anything in this moment.

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