Winter rose

Silly old Stark kids comic, where everyone lived and Arya remained protective of Jon as always. Posted for @joyjuhee and @blndraws because their art warms my heart.

Chile is suffering and my heart with it and the people. Military and police officers are attacking without care citizens who are fighting against this so dictatorship like government. This fight is going beyond limits and lives might be lost in it... I'm crying because I can't believe that this is happening again to us. After 40 years of "democracy", the tyranny is back.

A day has already passed so I thought it would be a good idea to gather everything that has happened so far here regarding the protests, riots and police brutality:

- On october 6th, the government announced that the public transportation fare in Santiago, specifically the metro, would be raised to 830 chilean pesos (around $1.17 dollars). This has not been the first raise this year.

- The news angered the citizens, since both salaries and the pension system are miserable compared to the prices in transportation, education, health and electricity. Water is private, the health system is collapsing due to lack of supplies and recently we found out that our president has avoided almost 30 years in taxes, without consecuences.

- For context: minimum wage in Chile right now is 301.000 pesos, or $422 dollars. In a month, a person spends 51.460 pesos ($73 dollars) just in transportation, considering two trips daily. This is a sixth of their income. And the pensions aren’t much better: 134.000 pesos ($189 dollars) monthly. And there are people who get much less than that.

- Students decided to protest and take control of Santiago’s metro stations, inviting the rest of the citizens to evade the fare to show the general discontent of the population.

- The government replied by sending the police to fight against the protesters, hitting them, throwing tear gas bombs and even shooting them. Chilean press only shows the riots, avoiding the real facts.

- The protests got to the streets: riots and cacerolazos, and even multiple fires affect Santiago. All of this while President Sebastián Piñera is seen in a restaurant located in a wealthy área, having dinner with his family.

- At about midnight, Piñera annunces that Santiago is under Emergency State. The military goes out to the street, and the violence is harder than ever. This is the biggest event of repression Chile has faced since the Dictatorship that our country was in between 1973 and 1990.

This is still going on. Cities along the entire country are getting organized to protest, because this isn’t just about the raise of a metro fare. This is the explosion of a social unrest that’s been growing for decades, and instead of dialoguing and trying to listen to the people, the government is endorsing abuse, forced disappearances and even the murder of hundred of people.

But this won’t stay like this. We are fighting back, and we will be heard.

It’s been terrifying, it’s been distressing. I’ve heard sirens all day, there were gunshots and screaming all night, people begging military soldiers to stop, people crying, people screaming at others to run and all I could do was stand as far away from the window as possible and sit in the dark, listening to what sounded like warfare outside my apartment. 

I saw a girl get shot on Friday by the police, the same people that are supposed to protect us, and till the day I die, I won’t forget her face and the way the blood just kept gushing out of her body. The way she kept pulling at her clothes, trying to find the wound, looking so confused... it’ll haunt me forever.

It’s a terrifying thing to receive messages from friends begging me to stay safe, to stay home once the curfew starts. We have to share our live locations if we want to go anywhere because our country, right now, is not safe. And staying home is so fucking hard when you are so pissed off about everything that’s been going on. 

My mom’s out of town, I’m in Santiago, she’s in Coquimbo. She hasn’t been able to come back home, there’s no way to get out of there because the violence is just... Everything’s fucked up everywhere. 

and im leaving again

love you all

a song of ice and fire aesthetics: