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Obituary - Mother of SEVENTEEN Member WONWOO

Hello.

This is PLEDIS Entertainment.

SEVENTEEN member WONWOO’s mother passed away this morning from an illness.

WONWOO is currently at the funeral hall, and the funeral will be held with family and close friends.

We ask for your kind consideration and support so that WONWOO can have a period of mourning with his family.

May she rest in peace.

The “rarest wolf” in the Western Hemisphere. First clearly-documented instance of the US border wall preventing wolf travel. And Anubis, one of the first wolves in a century to inhabit the Grand Canyon region, is killed.

4 January 2022: Albinson Linares. “An endangered wolf spent days searching for a mate. The border wall blocked him.” CBS News. Originally published at Noticias Telemundo.

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7 January 2022: Lindsey Botts. “Anubis, the wandering Mexican gray wolf, is shot and killed near Flagstaff.” AZ Central. Originally published at Arizona Republic.

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The “rarest wolf” in the Western Hemisphere is the Mexican gray wolf, a unique subspecies which was nearly extinct after the US government purposely poisoned, trapped, and killed the subspecies between 1915 and 1972. By the 1970s, only some wolves remained in northern Mexico. In 1998, the wolf was reintroduced to the American Southwest. By 2021, there are about 114 wolves in New Mexico, 72 in Arizona, and 35 in Mexico. In 2020, US government agents killed the last of the Prieto pack in Gila National Forest. Average survival rate of wild pups is about 50%.

In December 2021, it was reported that the US’s border wall prevented Mr. Goodbar, a Mexican gray wolf, from crossing between habitat in the US and within Mexico, making this the first time that telemetry/tracking studies have clearly documented how the wall directly prevents wolf movement. Mr. Goobar spent 4 days pacing back and forth along 23 miles of the wall. As the Center for Biological Diversity pointed out in their December 2021 press release on the matter, there were two events in 2017 when wolves from Mexico crossed the border and traveled into the US. One of these wolves crossed into Arizona, and livestock industry advocates convinced the US government to capture the wolf; this wolf is still in captivity, and she was the mother of Mr. Goodbar.

Then, it was announced that Anubis, a locally famous Mexican gray wolf, had been (”illegally”) shot and killed by an unknown person in Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona in the first week of January 2022. Anubis had been famous for his long-distance travel from eastern New Mexico to the Kaibab area north of Flagstaff, which is outside of the “designated” wolf recovery zone. So, Anubis was also famous/important because he was one of the wolves in over a century to return to and live in habitat near the Grand Canyon, demonstrating that the area could still host wolves.

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From the Center for Biological Diversity, a map of Mr. Goodbar’s travels:

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Historical distribution range of the Mexican gray wolf.

Left: Distribution before 1915. Right: Distribution in the 1940s.

Left: Distribution in 1976. Right: Distribution in 2009.

The recovery area of Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico and Arizona:

I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.

Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.

Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.

This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.

HII ONCE AGAIN I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT THE BUFFY PARALLEL CAUSE IF BUDDIE WOULD HAVE GONE CANON AFTER THE 414 SCENE IT LITERALLY WOULDVE BEEN LIKE SAYING: THIS IS WHERE THAT QUEER STORY ENDED AND THIS IS OUR QUEER STORY BEGGINING AS A CONTINUATION OF IT, AS A HISTORICAL QUEER REPARATION 🏳️‍🌈 and it breaks my heart and i just cant stop thinking about it

Friend. FRIEND.

That is literally, exactly what was supposed to happen. And I fucking guarantee you that was precisely the mandate that Tim gave the writers and director: Tara died, but these queers are going to live.

911 was staking a claim, right squarely in the middle of queer media history. Righting a wrong done to queer people twenty years ago.

The devastation — the craven, disgusting cowardice — that it wasn't just Buck and Eddie's love story that Fox tried to kill? It was this.

-khaled juma

if the condition of the children of gaza doesn't move you, i don't know what will. there is no school this year. there was no school last year either. no clean water or healthy food. no medicines for when they hurt themselves. no toys to play with. no way for them to come out of this genocide unscathed. it's with a heavy heart that i've realized that childhood in gaza is an empty promise.

my friend alaa [ @alaakh998 ] lives in gaza. she has two little kids aged 4 and 6. i cannot help but think about them. how are they doing? what lies in their future? are they okay? I've come to the realization that they wont be safe unless they're able to evacuate from gaza.

the rafah crossing is closed as of now. alaa is fundraising in hopes that she can collect enough money to address her immediate needs and eventually evacuate when the crossing opens. she needs to buy a tent and medicine and supplies and food.

please donate to help her buy these things and ensure her children's well being.

verification: 90-ghost/butterfly effect project (#307)

“He was everything I had”

Auguste and Laurent of Vere from the Captive Prince trilogy by C. S. Pacat

andre answering his home phone and having to hear the worst news he’s ever received in his life.

cal committed. he didn’t wait until zero day. he didn’t warn andre. he didn’t do it with andre.

when andre hears the news, he drops the phone, listening to the plastic break as it hits the floor. he looks at the kitchen table, in his back pack, and in his jacket, but he cannot find his keys anywhere. fuck it. andre opens the door and begins running to the gabriel house.

his legs are sore from track and workouts, but andre can’t feel them. he feels like he’s flying. he’s getting too close to the sun, burning and burning until his wings completely melt.

when he gets to the gabriel house, about eleven blocks from the kriegman house, cal’s siblings are sat in the yard with some police officers while his parents are stood in each other’s arms while talking to another officer. his mom looks destroyed. his dad keeps glancing at the front door, waiting and hoping for his oldest son to stand up and walk out, begging for this entire thing to be a joke.

andre runs past them; he pushes officers away from him and almost punches one square in the nose. he makes it into the house and into the hallway that holds cal’s room. he can see inside. there is blood everywhere. cal’s face is destroyed.

despite all the destruction, andre swears he can feel cal’s heart beating, even from a distance. he feels it in the floor, in his chest, and in his head. he can hear it louder than his own heart.

after all of his running, andre collapses. his knees hit the ground with such force that they might break. he curls into himself, holding himself in an embrace that is impossibly tight.

the only things that stay still are andre’s eyes. everything else is moving around him and he’s shaking, but his eyes are still trained on the boy on the ground in front of him. the sight burns itself into andre’s brain. andre begs himself to look away, even clawing at his cheeks, but he genuinely cannot. it is horrifying.

in the moment, no one knows that andre will soon follow cal’s fate. they don’t know that the boys will share a wake. they don’t know that they will be buried next to each other only days apart.