Jan 1, 2025
Do radioactive places count as haunted?
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Personally I'd say yeah
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Do radioactive places count as haunted?
Yes
No
Nuance
Personally I'd say yeah
The fact that Amerikans know more about Chernobyl than the Church Rock Uranium Spill is clear evidence of how ingrained anti communism and anti native racism is in Amerikan culture
Church Rock uranium mill spill - Wikipedia
The spill is the country's "worst in terms of contamination" according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with over 100 million gallons of radioactive sludge and 100 pounds of solid waste spilled into Diné lands, communities and into the major water supply of the Rio Puerco. The US government even had the audacity of "testing" the area, and reported no increase in radiation, a clear lie that lead to the preventable deaths of many more Diné.
Yet we here not a word, few documentaries are made about it, Netflix does not make a dramatized historical fiction story about Church Rock, YouTube feeds are not filled with attention grabbing pop history/science videos on it, and no high school history class spends 1-3 classes on it. Yet the Diné are still dying from this spill, still suffering negative heath outcomes, birth defects, loss of livestock and illnesses from this spill and all the other radioactive pollution caused by US mining on their lands, for which the Diné to this day have gotten no little to no compensation.
Why? because the perpetrator wasn't one of Amerika's foreign rivals and because the victims weren't white, but one of the prisoners kept by the Euro-Amerikan jailhouse. This isn't a crime of the evil Russian communists, but of the Euro-Amerikan occupation against its occupied victims, the Diné nation.
Adding on to the nuclear waste headcannon, I also thought that there would be a reveal a little while into the show that ghouls keep “mysteriously” dying, which wouldn’t matter to Blakk since he’d just make more, but it would matter to the people who DID earnestly get their slugs ghouled for extra protection, causing them to lose their beloved slugs and forcing the slingers to keep buying more ghouls at extra cost (a la club slug vibes).
And it turns out that since dark water is just highly radioactive, ghouls just have radiation poisoning and keep dying from it, further leading to the instability of the slugs.
Because that’s what it felt like the lightwell episode was going to reveal. Not that Burpy had cancer or something, but that he was experiencing some sort of radiation sickness from constant ghoul exposure (esp since like….you can’t have the main character get like leukaemia in a kids show lol).
Idk, I just think more personal consequences to ghouling would’ve been more interesting because “cavern energy dying” is just REALLY abstract, the slugs themselves dying leading to the cavern energy dying felt like a better explanation on the whole
Some trollsona drawings for you guys hi I never post here I should do this more who agrees also the guy in the second one is @evesadoodlebug 's trollsona say hi
THIS PLACE...
...Is not a place of honor.
1987's Punisher Vol.2 #6 cover by Mike Mignola (pencils) and Kevin Nowlan (inks).
A video about the The Kyshtym disaster via Geo Rutherford
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