The thing about Link seeing his younger self is inspired by "When the Wind Whispers" by youworeblue.
It's one of my all-time favorites. It's a great read. It's a good time. Please go read it.🥹 https://archiveofourown.org/works/15068738/chapters/34935179
You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled
Hit that.
Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern
Yes.
Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in
Tumblr will follow up and help them.
This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
I mentioned this before in another post, but also if you need help yourself or want to help someone else, they have a nifty little feature on here.
Simply type "suicide" into the search bar and a window will appear asking if you are ok and list some resources. @support also has a post about this as well.
Very useful for if you wish to recommend resources to a friend or need them yourself but don't want to use a search engine for any reason.
“So, how’s that promise to not watch the Velma show go-”
*Sees a list of Youtube reviews*
“…May as well check out for myself then.”
… I usually do not touch anything to do with PETA, but I feel compelled to inform everyone that there are, in fact, legal frameworks in some places for claiming dibs on roadkill, either as salvage or placed on a waiting list to receive it when it becomes available. Here’s a map of US laws on the subject. The vast majority of states require a permit, or permission from the relevant police department.
In areas where there’s state oversight, it helps ensure that people don’t poach and lie about it. States and municipalities with roadkill regulations require people to take the whole carcass from the site of death or from state custody, usually after an audit or an on-site inspection of the carcass.
Some municipalities donate the carcass to food banks. Most people use it as a windfall that will be butchered and shared with others, or frozen and kept for months or even years. Moose sometimes get hit, and they are hecking big.
Do people eat the roadkill raw? I’d guess probably not. However, the Alaska Department of Public Safety does have this to say on their website:
Texas roadkill will kill you back. Don’t touch it.
Texas has some of the worst waste mismanagement around. Only G-d and maybe an angel know what that roadkill last ate, which could mean exposure to any number of carcinogens from pesticides, or machine, or animal, or chemical waste, and an additional unknown number of disease pathogens, which most of our medical facilities will misdiagnose or straight up refuse to treat.
So, no. You cannot, should not, please DO NOT eat Texas roadkill.
Note, please do Not call 911. Call the non-emergency line
So the actual reason it’s illegal to pick up roadkill in Texas has less to do with the potential toxicity of the animal, and more to do with preventing poaching and later, leprosy!
Back in 2007, Texas made it illegal to pick up roadkill after the Department of Wildlife reported on an illegal trade in endangered Texas reptiles and reptile parts, especially highly endangered Indigo Snakes. Prior to House Bill 12 being passed, it was illegal to collect roadkilled game species like deer, elk and Javelina (Because people would kill them without permits and then claim ‘it ran right out in front of me!“ and it’s a pain to prosecute that and highly enviornmentally damaging). Now in 2007, the same thing was happening with Texas’ endangered bords and reptiles, with people illegally hunting and selling the parts of “roadkill” snakes and birds. So while not the most elegant solution, the Texas state legislature made it illegal to collect ANY roadkilled wildlife for any purpose, so that people selling endangered animals and animal parts could be prosecuted more easily. This has had a positive impact on the populations of many small vertebrates, including the Texas Indigo Snake!
Now, this isn’t a particularly nuanced law and people were considering repealing it until 2016, when there was an outbreak of Leprosy in Florida caused by people exposed to the bodily fluids of nine-banded armadillos after removing roadkill armadillos from their cars without proper protection. Approximately 1 in 6 Armadillos are naturally infected with the bacteria that causes Leprosy, and are also the most common roadkill vertebrate animal in Texas. Since touching a splattered Armadillo is apparently a great way to contract leprosy, Texas has decided to keep it’s No-Touching-The-Roadkill policy in place for the time being.
TL;DR: You’re not allowed to eat the roadkill in Texas because some people were using it as a cover for poaching and also it’s a great way to get leprosy.
@no-visitors does bring up a good point about wildlife toxicity though- While the southeast US has some pretty bad places for pollution, even my environmentally-concious Colorado still has exposed-uranium mine shafts and places with enormous amounts of cyanide left over from the gold rush. Wild animals can carry any number of diseases, parasites and toxic chemicals within them, so you need to be extremely careful with meat you’re not 100% sure of the origins of.
@katy-l-wood you know more about game processing than I do, how would someone go about safely selecting and processing a roadkill animal for human consumption? I imagine you’d only want certain species and as fresh as possible, but are there places to get it tested for disease or chemical contamination?
If you’re lucky enough to be one of the dozen people on earth to own a PS5 and keep it standing vertically, flip that bitch around.
good to know before I go buy one lol
