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warm up sketch for a very merry person, inspired by one of their latest posts. i wanted to do more panels but they weren’t coming out well so they’re scrapped

Within the last week Canada has lost an entire city due to wild fire and it is rapidly spreading, and expected to double in size. Fort McMurray has been ablaze all week and the fire is spreading towards Saskatchewan. Attempts to put the fire out have been failing because the fire is so hot water it is evaporating before it can do any good. 

Dry and extremely windy conditions are fueling the blaze, which has already scorched more than 1,560 square kilometers (602 square miles) and displaced tens of thousands of people.

These people are no longer evacuees … They’re refugees. 

Rain is to be expected next week, but a downpour is needed to tame a monstrous fire – which is the size of Hong Kong and is almost 25% bigger than New York City – that has displaced about 88,000 people, wiped out 1,600 structures including homes, schools and hospitals, and sent plumes of smoke as far away as Iowa.

Here is a link if you want to help, please share this, this is a huge tragedy and these people need help. 

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/want-to-help-those-fleeing-fort-mcmurray-heres-how/

PLEASE DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS! DONATE, REBLOG AND SPREAD THE WORD.

Even if you can’t donate, just reblog this; everyone needs to reblog this. DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS, it will take you 5 seconds to reblog and no matter what your blog type is, this is so important.

Donate money online:

The Red Cross has started an emergency appeal for help. To donate $5 by phone, text REDCROSS to 30333. Text FIRES to 45678 to donate $10. Both the federal and provincial governments will match donations to the Red Cross.

The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is accepting donations through PayPal on its website.

The Salvation Army is also collecting financial donations online.

Emergency shelter:

Airbnb has activated its Disaster Response Tool to help provide free shelter until May 21. Residents in nearby areas can list their properties on the website.

Those able to provide accommodations can also sign up on website YMMfire.ca.

Displaced pets:

The Fort McMurray SPCA is working to reunite displaced residents with pets they were forced to leave behind. They are accepting donations to help efforts.

The Edmonton Humane Society is preparing to accept animals left without owners, and provide temporary shelter to pets with owners who have left their homes.

Social media efforts:

Facebook group Fort Mac Fire Donations is crowdsourcing donations for items such as toiletries, socks and pillows, as needed.

The name valkyrja means “chooser of the slain”: Valr (the fallen) and kjósa (to choose). They choose among the slain.

They have names that denotes warriors like: war (Gunnr), battle (Hildr and Hlökk) and spear-fight (Geirahöð). [Völuspá and Grímnismál]

They bear weapons, helmets, shields and armour - sometimes even blood-drenched: Then light shone from Logafell,and from that radiance there came bolts of lightning;wearing helmets at Himingvani [came the valkyries].Their byrnies were drenched in blood;and rays shone from their spears [Helgakviða Hundingsbana I], and the valkyries seated on horses, wearing armour and shields, leaning on spears in Hákonarmál.

Valkyries sometimes descended into battle to protect kings: Helmeted valkyries came down from the sky—the noise of spears grew loud—they protected the prince;then said Sigrun—the wound-giving valkyries flew,the woman’s mount was feasting on the fodder of ravens [Helgakviða Hundingsbana I]*

Odin cursed a valkyrie, Sigrdrifa, with eternal sleep because she had struck down the wrong king in battle. The curse was that she would never again fight victoriously and it condemned her to marriage. Sigrdrifa’s response was that she had sworn a great oath to never wed any man who knew fear. She is woken by the hero Sigurd and in return grants him great wisdom. [Sigrdrífumál]

Valkyries decide how battles will turn out: They are sent by Odin to every battle, where they choose which men are to die and they determine who has victory [Prose Edda], in Njáls saga they weave the battle using entrails, and in Hákonarmál the valkyrie Skögul tells the fallen Hákon the battle turned against him thanks to them making his kinsmen flee.

In Prose Edda valkyries are even poetic terms for battle.”Skögul’s din” means battlefield, “Gunnr’s fire” means sword, “Hildr’s sail” means shield, “Göndul’s crushing wind” means battle etc.

The valkyries literally say that they’re going to battle: Start we swiftly with steeds unsaddled—hence to battle with brandished swords! [Njáls saga]

If rape was about how revealing their clothes were, rape rates would quadruple during the summer.

But they don’t.

If rape was about how much sex someone’s had in the past, then virgins wouldn’t get raped.

But they do.

If rape was about how attractive a person was by conventional standards, then only thin, white, abled people would get raped.

But they don’t.

If rape was about how much they drank, then sober people wouldn’t get raped.

But they do.

Missed the point.

I saw this post on my dash (with commentary, dw) and there was one thing that I didn’t see addressed in the comment chain that I really feel needs to be

Once an artist creates a work, they own the copyright

None of this “I paid for the art. It is mine.” bullshit, unless the artist actually sells you the copyright (something which has to be stated and never assumed, and something you would have to pay extra for) you can not claim ownership over the piece, even if you paid for it.

And yes, this means you can not alter the work in any way, you can not use it for banners/advertisements/etc., you can not print it, you can not sell copies unless agreed upon with the artist

and artists are also protected under moral rights

meaning that the artist has the right of attribution (the right to be identified and named as the creator of their work), the right against false attribution, and the right of integrity. (Source)

NEVER EVER TOUCH A WRITER/ARTIST/ANYONE’S PERSONAL NOTEBOOK. DO NOT GRAB IT 

DO NOT GRAB IT AND TAKE IT

DO NOT TAKE IT

DO NOT TAKE IT

DO NOT LOOK THROUGH IT WITHOUT THEIR EXPLICIT AND CONSISTENT PERMISSION

THERE IS A REASON IT IS THEIR PERSONAL NOTEBOOK AND NOT THEIR PUBLIC EVERYONE GRAB IT NOTEBOOK

I DON’T CARE IF YOU ARE JUST PICKING IT UP TO SEE SOMETHING I AM SHOWING TO YOU

The girl’s mother thanked Delvar for his work and explained to him how important it is for Brooklyn to wave at him every thursday. He was pretty surprised but he admitted that every time he drove near the house he hoped that the girl would wave at him.  That’s not the end of the story though. Next week Delvar had a surprise for the little girl.

He brought her a bunch of amazing birthday gifts!

They both got quite popular, and Delvar is getting a lot of thank you messages from trashmen from all over the world for representing them in such a good way.