When you see people wearing these, many people think it’s because they want to look like idols or because it’s a fashion item. Actually, it’s because of fine dust (미세먼지).
Fine dust is comes from fumes caused by coal, fossil fuel, and cars. According to a study in 2017, 59% of the fine dust comes from China and 41% from Korea. Fine dust has also become a top reason for cancer in Korea. Since these fine dust are too small to see with the eye, they can easily be breathed in and end up in our lungs. And when this happens to a daily basis, you can end up getting cancer.
Fine dust has impacted the lives of Koreans so much, that the daily weather on the news shows the fine dust rating for the day as well as the precautions they should take.
When a handful of Westboro Baptist Church members showed up Saturday at the funeral of Orlando shooting victim Christopher Leinonen, counterprotesters donning large, white angel wings were there to shield mourners. Members of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater put together the wings as a symbolic but also literal screen between the WBC and funeral attendees. An Orlando Police tweet later proved the efforts to stop the WBC worked.
Okay, but I’m actually crying tears of frustration, because the article doesn’t even mention the history behind this act.
There’s a reason this was undertaken by a theatre company. It means they knew The Laramie Project. It means they knew that the idea for the angel wings came from their use to block the WBC at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.
The original “Angel Action” was a counterprotest organized by LGBTQ activist Romaine Patterson, who had been a friend of Shepard’s in high school. This is part of our history. We’ve been shielding our loved ones from hate groups while we bury our dead for decades – and that deserves acknowledgement.
“According to the WesterosCraft site, the map is roughly 22,000 x 59,000 blocks which is about 806.51 sq km / 501.14 sq mi… around the size of Los Angeles.“
WBAT THE FUVK
Ya know they should really keep this updated. I know for a fact one of those buildings blew up.
In CoS when they try to sneak into Myrtle’s bathroom to ask her about her death, McGonagall catches them and Harry makes up the excuse that they wanted to see Hermione in the hospital wing and Minnie doesn’t give them detention and then comes this and since we all know Harry’s dumbest excuse, here’s the official suggestion to rate all of Harry’s excuses on a scale from
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Harry Potter oscillates from 100% effort to coasting on a wave of apathy.
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