i havent seen much on tumblr about the fires, so i thought i would share what i can.

places you can donate:

Australian Red Cross Disaster Recovery and Relief

NSW Rural Fire Service

WIRES Australian Wildlife Rescue

St Vincent de Paul Society Bushfire Appeal

Victorian Country Fire Association

First Relief Fund for First Nation Communuties

Foodbank Victoria

Vets for Compassion

RSPCA Bushfire Appeal

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital

Wild 2 Free Kangaroo Sanctuary

Families of the Firefighters who have died

Salvation Army

merch makers and artists donating to the cause:

lanajay - phone background

kirabunni - prints

theidolcollective - pin

vantecrafts - winter bear kit

bitsofpins - helped organise a large group of bts merch artists who are all in the process of releasing items where the proceeds will all be donated. keep and eye out on the @'s in the post as theyre all part of the donation event

i live roughly 4,155km away from the closest point of australia, and these fires are so bad, they turn our skies red, and leave everything under a cloudy haze of smoke. the air quality in aussie itself is sitting at over 20 times the standard hazardous levels, over 400 million animals are dead, the fire has burnt over 5million hectares of land, over 1400 homes have been destroyed, and 24 people have been died.

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this site lets you generate/design a city, allowing you to choose size, if you want a river or coast, walls around it, a temple, a main keep, etc.

this twitter, uncharted atlas, tweets generated maps of fantasy regions every hour.

“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”

“Are the other skittles human lives?”

“What?”

“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”

“Well sure. But the point-”

“I would eat the skittles.”

“Ok-well the point is-”

“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.

Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…

⭐️ be kind to yourself

⭐️ make others smile more

⭐️ grow as a person

⭐️ allow yourself to change

⭐️ make new friends

⭐️ do things that scare you a little

⭐️ don’t worry too much or overthink what you cannot change

⭐️ discover new things about yourself

⭐️ let people in

⭐️ spontaneously enjoy and appreciate life