LPF Week 17 - fatberg

[hwango]

Our world teeters on the bring of ecological disaster. Whole species of animals and plants (and probably stuff like fungi that no one really cares about) are vanishing from the planet every day. Habitat loss is the number one killer for many of these vanishing, irreplaceable parts of our world. Isn't it time we realize that there are places that humans simply don't belong? That there are places we should leave aside for the rest of the world's inhabitants?

And that's why I'm calling for an end to urban spelunking.

Yes, I know that many people would claim that these environments are already the domain of human beings, having been constructed by humans in the first place. But we turned our backs on those places, and other things moved in, and it's not fair to suddenly say we want them back again.

It's estimated that there are fewer than a hundred giant albino sewer alligators left in the world today, but every day people invade their homes and risk trampling their eggs. We abandoned those sewers when they became too clogged with congealed garbage, and the alligators thrived. But now that disgusting mass is a tourist destination, and the alligators are on the brink of extinction.

It's not even illegal to kill them when they try to eat you! Personally, I think that if someone is thoughtless enough to invade the home of a precious endangered species, then they deserve to be eaten, along with their entire tour group.

And what about ghouls? If we didn't want ghouls moving into our abandoned graveyards, when we shouldn't have abandoned those graveyards in the first place.

Don't even get me started on the giant, radioactive, all-consuming "monster" in the Nevada desert's old nuclear testing grounds. It's the only one of its kind! Probably! Doesn't it deserve a place in this world as much as we do? I mean, why do people even want to visit radioactive parts of Nevada?

Please, the next time you're considering venturing into the dark, forgotten corners of our world just...just don't, alright? Those little baby white alligators are just so darned cute.

Comments

[babydramatic_1950]

This is wonderfully whimsical!

[hwango]

Thanks, I do enjoy distributing dark whimsy. = )

[dmousey]

Man is good at causing environmental chaos. Thanks for inking this piece. 😊🐁✌🐭🎀

[hwango]

Won't someone think of the alligators!

[dmousey]

I left this reply in my messages, and laugh everytime I see it. 😊🐭✌🐁🎀

[meridian_rose]

I love the way the reasonable "stop killing off species" turns into a destructive monster in Nevada :) Though I have to agree here, stay out of the sewers and radioactive areas!

[hwango]

Fungi need to get better PR people. = )

[d0gs.livejournal.com]

Delightful as always and I especially love the closing lines :D

[hwango]

Thanks, I'm glad you were delighted. = )

[itsjust_c]

I really want to see a giant albino sewer alligator! Obviously, as they are so endangered I would do everything I could to protect it in its natural environment, and not disturb it. And I defo wouldn't tell any tour groups!

Fun and enjoyable story with great words put together brilliantly. x

[hwango]

It's good to know that there is another friend out there to the giant albino sewer alligator. = )

[rayaso]

Save the white alligators! Wherever humans go, especially the spelunkers, they leave death and destruction behind. It would be worse if CHUDs didn't eat the spelunkers.

[hwango]

SPELUNKERS RUIN EVERYTHING. = )

[halfshellvenus]

Hahahaha! I see someone made use of the sewer alligators that this prompt brings to mind!

Giant AND albino is a creepy combination, though, I have to say. And nobody likes ghouls...

It's the only one of its kind! Probably!
Hahaha!

I have the same question about radioactive Nevada as you do. It would be like touring a smallpox factory. Just... REALLY?

[hwango]

My first thought for the prompt (once I looked up what it was) was the image of an albino alligator adrift on a dislodged piece of fatberg, in a mirror of the polar bear adrift on an iceberg used to draw attention to climate change. And then I...had a terrible time trying to turn that image into a story. But wow, once that image took hold I couldn't come up with any other ideas for the prompt.