Blood on the Lilacs

Easter falling on 4/20 again this year means all those old 420 praise it vines from 2014 are once again relevant

i need pepple to understand that in the first place leather has always been made from the byproducts of butchering animals for meat, otherwise the skin is just tossed and unused. there were some companies farming for leather for a while, particuarly alligator leather, but those were not the norm. peta did so much harm in their campaigns against leather as a concept (its not unethical. yoi get the skin when an animal dies. thats why most leather clothes in the usa are cow leather, bc thats the biggest meat animal here) that its almost impossible to buy anything "leather" that isnt made of plastic that it so fragile and shitty that the very Thread Holding It Together rips the fibers apart. it will last for maybe a year two if youre lucky, and wont biodegrade and was made out of something that isnt naturally occurring in the first place and is one of the biggest causes of pollution globally

i do not care if you personally think nobody should slaughter or eat animals, it is Going to happen anyway. you cannot be so obtuse thst you think making more plastic that causes pollution endless damage to the animals you claim to care about so much is better than omnivorous human beings eating other animals and using their bodies completely.

Also to note? Those farms where they target product is leather, like the alligator farms? They produce the by-product of meat. The corpus material of animals is valuable and in general is never wasted.

When buying leather, there's a tier list of 'how environmentally harmful is this' and it's important to note that even the worst ways of commercially tanning leather are less harmful than the plastic manufacturing process. But if you have the option to choose:

Brain tan is the best of the best and basically impossible to find because it's a labor intensive process. But there is no better way to make soft, durable leather goods that will last for generations.

Biotan/Freetan/Chrome-free tanning, if you can find it, is next best - it's kind of commercial brain tanning where the tanning agents used are various animal and plant extracts.

Veg tanning is where we get the word 'tannin' from, and is a very ancient method right up there with brain tanning. It uses plant extracts exclusively and produces rugged, durable leather - not as soft as brain-tanned leather, which is more suited to garmets - it's good for bags/shoes/straps/saddles/etc.

Chrome tanning is the commonest in industrial tanning and the least environmentally friendly - The process uses trivalent chromium (Cr III) which in small amounts is entirely safe (it's in your multivitamin!) but in industrial amounts can damage watersheds and soil biomes. The process is also fairly water-use intensive. This is the process that makes the 'new leather' smell that you'll experience in a new car interior with real leather, or a lather jacket store. But even this, the least sustainable leather making practice, is WAY less environmentally impactful than the process of making plastic 'leather alternatives'

Leather is an excellent product that will biodegrade within a few years if exposed to the elements but will, if stored in a cool dry place with limited light and oxygen exposure, last for LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

happy 25 years everybody everbody!!!!!

at the insane stage of character obsession where i start getting the urge to post pngs of them every five seconds like im showing ppl a picture of my stupid ass boyfriend that nobody likes but me

I wish you all very good sex. if you don't like sex, I wish you a very good romance. if you don't want either of them. I wish you a very good bowl of soup and some bread, mate.

If trench warfare were made-up, it would be the most on-the-nose anti-war satire ever created. Bunch of young men shooting at each other from inside open graves, slowly rotting even as they fight to stay alive. Every so often, they get to move a few hundred metres to dig a new grave for themselves somewhere else and this is called a victory.

The term and concept of "rent lowering gunshots" has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I've welcomed it there. Something I'm up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you're not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.

You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.

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Small shaggy horses adapted to harshly cold climates are so woefully neglected in historical/fantasy media

It'll be like 'yeah this is a cold climate with exceptionally harsh winters' and the horses look like

instead of

(Yakut horse, Icelandic horse, Mongolian horse, Fjord horse)

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

happy 10 year anniversary!

This post.

This fucking post.

It is in some ways, the only piece of evidence I have that there was a time Before.

Definitely one of the funniest feature discord has added.

WARNING! ANNOYING BITCH HAS BREACHED THE PERIMETER!!!

DO YOU WISH TO EVACUATE?

i think if bruce saw clark deliver this line it would awaken shrimp emotions in him

It took me a moment to process what is happening, bloody hell.

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