If You've Ever Wondered Why People In Hawai'i Hate Tourists, Try To Wrap Your Mind Around The Fact That

If you've ever wondered why people in Hawai'i hate tourists, try to wrap your mind around the fact that there are CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, tourists sipping martinis and looking at fish within swimming range of the fresh corpses of local people who couldn't escape the overnight destruction of their entire town.

Try to comprehend that there are fully functional, high capacity boats passing through the waters in front of an area full of survivors who are stranded and in need of supplies, refusing to help. They are hosting snorkeling tours.

Really think about, try your best to actually picture over two thousand people unhoused and in need of shelter, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and nothing to return to. Understand that the island, stolen land, is littered with hotels full of air conditioned of rooms with beds and showers and toilets, each fully equipped to host hundreds of families for weeks, turning these people away because they're booked up with tourists who refuse to leave.

And understand that these tourists were offered free transport to return home or be hosted on other islands. Free. Courtesy of local tax dollars. 4,000 wealthy tourists were offered free flights shelter on Oahu and begged to leave the island, BEFORE the survivors were given shelter.

And enough still insisted on remaining and carrying out their vacations that people are left without shelter and resources while they enjoy "their stay in paradise".

[Edit]: This current situation, and this type of tourist behavior is horrifying beyond words. In other circumstances, the tourism situation is much more complicated, and I need to ask that people do not add on to this post unless they are local.

What's that? I think that's our Shell Cell going off- yes you read the news right!

Preorders for TURTLES TOGETHER: A Teenage Mutant Ninja Zine open

🐢AUGUST 21ST! 🐢

Hope to see you there, ninjas!

RAHHHHH ITS DONE ITS HERE

I THOUGHT ID GIVE YOU GUYS THE FINAL AUDIO INSTEAD OF MAKING YOU WAIT FOR THE YOUTUBE UPLOAD BC EDITING IS A BITCH AND KNOWING MYSELF IT WILL TAKE A WHILE LMAO

but anywho i hope you like it bc i love it ahhhh im so proud!!

big thanks to @somerandomdudelmao for making such a cool series that managed to pull me out of my writers block LMAO

i'll post again when i make the video and it goes up spotify, but for now... i sleep :>

EDIT: TOTALLY FORGOT TO ASK BUT WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? PLS GIVE ME IDEAS IM SO STUCK

"I feel like people have started bashing Aroace Donnie a lot more recently so here's your PSA: let people hc their characters as they like! personally, I headcanon Donnie as Aroace because I feel like his love for technology and his family would be stronger than anything else. If you don't think he's Aroace, good for you! Just don't harass me or anyone else who does!"

Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete.

It's such a blatant, dumb-sounding ripoff. I love it.

It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Time really does fly, doesn't it? I never thought I'd have so much fun posting stuff online, and I never anticipated that I'd find this huge and amazing community of ROTTMNT fans, but here I am.

Here. Have some cake. It may be my blog's 1-year anniversary, but I'm open to celebrating with everyone who wishes to join me. :)

To a bright future, for everyone. 🍰🥂 (That may be the champagne toast emoji, but I'll just say it's apple juice for me. Alcohol isn't really my thing.)