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Hello everyone! I am so very pleased to announce that we are now collecting funds for Dashcon 2021!

That’s right! Coming March 2021, we will be holding the second official Dashcon in Schaumburg Illinois, featuring panels such as:

Love Wins: Destiel is Canon

An Introduction to A/B/O

Activism and Kpop: How Fancams Fight Fascism

Bernie, AOC, and other Woke Baes: Why We Love Them, and What They Mean for Our Ships

a 72-hour Hamilton sing-a-long all weekend

and acting lessons with special guest Jensen Ackles!

Donate here to help make Dashcon the best it can be! 💜

this was my sideblog, and i’ve had this url since the night the real dashcon went down in 2014. i had “THIS IS A PARODY BLOG” in all caps as my description, and every link on this blog actually went to a different charity.

tumblr deactivated this account today, i’m assuming for impersonation, or maybe they thought it was real and they just really don’t want another dashcon? 🤷‍♀️

in my links, i included bail funds, covid relief for tribes, trans people’s gofundmes, yemen children’s relief fund, ASAN, animal shelters, a gofundme for hurricane relief in honduras, and many many more

here are a few of those charities (from memory), because they’re actually good causes that deserve attention and support:

Yemen Children’s Relief Fund

Navajo Water Project

First Nations COVID-19 Response Fund

Emergency Response to Hurricane Eta in Honduras

Securing Safe Housing for a Trans Woman Fleeing Harassment

Landslide Recovery: San Marcos La Laguna Guatemala

Autistic Self-Advocacy Network

Trans Lifeline

International Rescue Committee (help refugees and asylum seekers)

Black Lives Matter

The Bail Project

Bail Funds: Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Louisville

Yes this virus has unfortunally already killed a lot of people, which is a big tragedy, but the thing people seem to not awknowledge is that these cases were almost all patients with prior health issues.

Most young people seem to present with cold like symptoms which varry in intensity. And it's likely that a lot of the people infected will be making a recovery, especially with the rate medical profesionals are working on finding better treatments and a vaccine.

This isn't some walking dead you have it and you will die without question kind of scenario.

It's a dangerous illness, yeah, but it won't be some appocalyptic event.

This also isn't the first time we are dealing with a Coronavirus btw people:

We had Sars in 2003-2005 and Mers in 2012.

Infact, the chinese medical experts are making progress in developing treatments and hopefully a vaccine due to the work that was done for these illnesses.

They are currently looking into a HIV drug that helped during the Sars epidemic and already reported at least one case of successfully treating a patient with this. They are currently looking deeper into that and hoping to replicate these results.

Literally China's medical workers are leading the research to find a way to combat this virus while risiking their own health to help patients and not even being able to go home to make sure they don't infect their loved ones.

The virus was traced back to a fish market. It was not transphered due to lacking hygene or from some "weird" food chinese people happen to eat.

Coronaviruses can spread from all sorts of animals, it literally could have happened everywhere in the world.

Your pants have a super cool print and you wanna wear em with some bitchin boots, but the problem is, even though they fit fine, they do this with the boots:

So you’re like, okay, cool, I’ll just cuff them, but then you realize you can’t because they look like this on the inside:

So now you’re like aw man what do I do?? I want the cuff to match the pants but they won’t :(

Step 1! Fold the hem up about to here, make sure the fold is crisp and clean all the way around:

Step 2! Fold the white part up again so it’s the same width as the original hem, keeping it crispy:

Step 4! Fold that original hem down and over, and you guessed it, crispy again:

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but you probably haven’t heard about what’s happening in Australia.

we’re on fire.

approximately ¼ of australia’s population is in catastrophic fire danger. A catastrophic fire level means your only chance of surviving is leaving before it’s too late.

it’s Spring in Australia, and rainforests aren’t meant to be dry enough to burn, yet at the time of writing this (11/11/19) there are 71 active fires in NSW (43 out of control), and 51 active fires in Queensland - not including those that have already burned before now, and there are more in other states. Sydney is already rated “catastrophic”, the first time this rating has ever been used there since its creation in 2009. That’s right, we had to add yet another level of destructiveness, because “high”, “very high”, “severe”, and “extreme” were no longer adequate. To quote the Fire Danger Ratings, “for your survival, leaving early is the only option”. conditions tomorrow will be the worst they have been, and people are evacuating as we speak. the fire fighters are preparing as best they can.

This isn’t just about people losing their homes; people have died and will die, countless animals have already lost their lives and many more will still perish. our land, our lives, and our hope is up in flames and will soon be nothing but ash. the annual fire season has not even begun yet. this is only the beginning. my native land is burning, and there is nothing i can do to stop it.

the government refuses to acknowledge that we are in a climate crisis. the fires have never been this bad. we have been in severe drought for more than a year which has only contributed to the force of these fires. the Prime Minister Scott Morrison has done nothing but send his “thoughts and prayers”. He will not accept aid from other countries because he is too egotistical to admit that we need it. All the while the people of this land are suffering. Climate change needs radical human change to be combated. we are already seeing the results of years of indifference, and this is barely the beginning of something that will only get worse the longer government’s and big companies refuse to act to counteract climate change.

Our government has also cut funding to Fire and Rescue NSW by 35.4%, the Rural Fire Service by 75.2%, and QLD Rural Fire Service by 26.42%, resulting in closures of services; they don’t have the resources to cope. We are fighting a losing battle against the results of climate change.  and this is only the beginning.

At least 6 million people today are prepared for evacuating. There are strong winds, low humidity, and high temperatures which will only exacerbate and encourage the fires. Authorities have warned that there aren’t enough fire trucks to help everyone, so unless you are prepared to the maximum, you need to leave. 600 schools and TAFE’s across NSW have been closed due to the fires, with others in Queensland closing due to air quality being virtually unbreathable due to smoke. Rural Fire Service Deputy Commisioner Rob Rogers said the state was as prepared as it could be, with military aircraft on standby to rescue people from fires if needed.

As Queensland and New South Wales deal with these unprecedented bushfires, there is a lot of talk about how to stop, or at least reduce them. David Bowman is a professor of environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania and he says the short answer is that climate change is making a bad situation worse.

But it’s also much more complex than that. Much of Australia’s natural biodiversity has evolved to withstand and even stop bushfires due to a multitude of species being in one area. Eucalyptus trees encourage fires as they help spread seeds, but other species are naturally flame retardant and help to curb the fires. The issue is that so much of the native bush has been cut down for farming and agriculture that the natural fire defence has virtually been destroyed. Australia is the leading country in mammal extinction, as well as one of the worst 7 for biodiversity loss.

There have already been significant harmful impacts to wildlife, with entire ecosystems up in smoke and individual species affected, including around 350 Koalas presumed dead – all before the fires have reached their peak.

my heart goes out to the victims of the current fires, which we know have been exacerbated by the decline of native biodiversity. Australian conservation efforts need a radical overhaul. Mitigating the intensity of these fires, mostly set by humans and their activities, can be achieved by restoring our native ecosystem engineers, such as bandicoots, bettongs and potoroos.

These species help to maintain healthy forests by continually turning over and breaking down forest leaf litter, thereby drastically reducing fuel load. In their absence, fires are more intense, often reaching the treetops, which can affect populations of species already on the brink, like the Koala.

Slow growing and ancient Australian East coast temperate forests are of global significance, as these forests have some of the highest carbon storage on the planet. Fires of this intensity threaten their very existence but managing wildlife to reduce fire intensity and protect forests is under-appreciated for its importance in reducing the release of carbon into the atmosphere.

If you wish to donate to the NSW Rural Fire Service, follow this link. I’m not sure if it works for countries outside Australia, but if you can spare some money, please try

Or you can donate to the Red Cross who have set up many shelters and are providing first aid, and are trying to fund small kits to provide families with basic necessities

Area comparison for aid in understanding the sheer size:

Lo so, siete a bocca aperta. L’opera è di Darian Rodriguez Mederos, classe 1992, artista cubano di cui sentiremo parlare ancora.

When they said it might sing, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.