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I just want to get the fuck out of this house. I'm gaining mental illness by the minute I spend living here. I keep getting told that I don't give a shit about others even though I do in fact, give a shit. I just can't seem to be able to give any shits to the people who constantly belittle me and infantilize me over every mistake I happen to make. I can't move out anywhere because it's expensive as hell, and they won't let me get a roommate. I can't leave safely either because of what they might do if I happen to piss them off. I'm just so fucking tired.

#I dont know anymore #Im a diabetic with suicidal ideation #So who knows whats fucked up with me

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I'd really like to kill myself at any moment if I could. I would do it out of spite just to fuck up someone else if I could.

#talking about family btw #I would love to make my head explode in front of them #I would die happy knowing that it would fuck them up #I'm barely hanging on as it is

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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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I guess I'm just in another one of those mood swings where everything is terrible and I can't do anything to fix it.

#vent art #just in a bad mood

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Content Warning: Lots of negative thoughts, suicidal ideation, venting.

So, my current situation just fucking sucks ass right now.

The world sucks, my health sucks, my relationship with my family sucks, and I can't seem to be able to do anything about it. I can't afford to move out, even with me living in one of the crappiest states with an above minimum wage job. The places that are available are under constant infrastructure failure, like unclean water and crumbling houses.

My parents want me to move out, but I can't, as much as I really want to myself. I can't move out because I can't afford anything. I keep getting told that I'm a bum that's just mooching off of them. They keep treating me like a dumbass because I paid off medical bills. I keep getting told that I'm naive and would get taken advantage of, so they don't even want me to move out because of that. So it's a fucking paradox. What am I supposed to do?

I keep getting thoughts of wanting to end myself. I can hardly enjoy anything these days, and I keep finding myself drifting away from everyone and everything that I love and enjoy. It just seems easier to just kill myself and be done and over with it. I can't afford anything on my own, I don't have a degree to my name, my family thinks little of me, and I know I'm not interesting to anyone. It just seems easier.

But I know I can't do that because it'll make a mess. So I'm stuck being miserable with no way out.

#venting #personal posts #I hope you have things sorted out to where you dont see this #I wanted to get things out of my system

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Working on some lore stuff for Barri again

Just some rough outlines and sketches so far

I'm not really good with dialogue though tbh.

#Barrigon #Little Barri is getting a visit from great-great-great-great-grandpa

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He likes to relax carving wood and make figures.

Thank so so much @BigBarri for commission me!

#I completely forgot you had a tumblr blog! #This is awesome art and I still show it off! #Thanks for letting me commission you! #Barrigon #OC

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Mahoraga fan art because the design is so cool

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Redrew and older piece for Orctober!

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I'm thinking of changing my icon here, but I've been using it for so long that I think I might legit confuse people if I do change it. It's also like, my brand considering my handle here.

#the fucking troubles my highschool self made #god damn #I wanna be orc

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Finally enough to make a formidable party of brave adventurers

#these fucking rule #Druid and Wizard are me

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Hey y'all, for anyone who has the 🟦☁️ app and stuff, I got a profile there as well as some codes I can give out as well. Just a heads up though, I do post every kind of art there, but I do tag things properly.

#other stuff #my things #just gimme a message and I'll see what I can do if you need a code!

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alfred molina + roles that make me go bark bark woof snarl

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happy portal/team fortress 2/my little pony friendship is magic/ fallout day

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Redrew and older piece for Orctober!

#Orc #Orctober #OC #Uhmra Bor-Yung #G'North #Jarruk #Lur'gan

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I really wish I had the stamina to play mmos, I really do. They seem like so much fun, but I just can't do the grinding.

#mmos #mmo #I keep seeing posts about final fantasy and its making me sad.