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Hello, tumblr. 

Some of you might be vaguely aware of the horrific climate emergency in Eastern Australia right now. Some of you probably don’t know anything about it. Either way, I want to shed light on what we’re currently experiencing right now and raise awareness because far from being the ‘lucky country’, it feels like we’re approaching the apocalypse. 

I’m making this post to try and raise awareness, because it feels like no one but Australian’s are talking about this. It feels like we’re alone out here on our dusty, smoky, dying island, without any aid from the rest of the world.

Please read this, and then reblog. I will also share links at the bottom for agencies and charities who are in desperate need of donations. 

What’s happening in Australia?

New South Wales, Australia is currently experiencing the worst drought in living memory. 65% of Queensland is also suffering through drought, with other states all experiencing lower than average rainfall. Towns are running out of water. Water restrictions are so tight, people can’t shower or wash their clothes. One town in western NSW has to have their water delivered to them, because their rivers are dry. 

Farmers are suffering. Animals are suffering because they can’t be fed. Indigenous culture is suffering because their connection to the land is being disrupted. Last week, a farmer near where I live (central western NSW) lost over one thousand cattle to the RSPCA because he was unable to feed them. Prices for food are going up, which means people are unable to feed themselves properly either. 

But that’s not all.

Queensland and New South Wales are on fire. Over Two million hectares (nearly 5m acres) of bushland has been burned this fire season, and we are currently only six days into summer. By comparison, less than one million hectares (around 2.2m acres) was burned in the 2019 amazon wildfires. Koalas are in real danger of becoming functionally extinct as a result of these fires. People have lost their lives, and our fire fighters are at risk every single day they are out there trying to control the uncontrollable. 

(images from the sydney morning herald)

The air quality in NSW is so bad, people with respiratory conditions have been continuously warned to remain inside. Sydney is stuck under a blanket of smoke, and has had worse air quality than Beijing more than once. 

This was Sydney yesterday (05/12/2019)

(Image from twitter)

And what is our government doing about this?

Absolutely. Utterly Buttfuck Nothing. 

Our government is made up of evangelical morons with their heads in the sand and continuously deny climate change. They (both the governing Australian Liberal National Party, and the opposition Australian Labor Party) refuse to take decisive action on climate change. Australia is NOT on track to meet its already inadequate Emissions Reduction Target, and our Prime Minister would rather go and hang out with billion dollar corporations for a photo op, and offer ’thoughts and prayers’ while our country burns. He also likes to claim that there is ‘no link between climate emissions and the bushfires’ despite being warned repeatedly by multiple fire chiefs that this season could be our worst on record. 

Scott Morrison is more worried about kids ditching school to protest against climate change than he is the 608 homes that have burned and families that have been displaced by these fires.

Australia is suffering, our government doesn’t care, and we need the international audience to know about it. 

Please reblog this post. talk about this. and if you can, please donate to our suffering farmers and firemen and women out there trying their damndest to keep us safe in the midst of a catastrophic climate emergency. 

DONATE:

Rural Aid:

https://www.ruralaid.org.au/

Drought Angels:

https://www.droughtangels.org.au/

Buy A Bale For Farmers:

https://www.buyabale.com.au/

NSW Rural Fire Service:

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/volunteer/support-your-local-brigade

Australian Red Cross:

https://www.redcross.org.au/campaigns/disaster-relief-and-recovery-bushfires

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital

https://www.koalahospital.org.au/act-now/donate

St Vincent DePaul Bushfire Appeal

one million years later (one hospital stay and many work related issues later too lmao fml)

I had a lot of fun playing with different stuff in medibang

War Wounds. 

Rated E. Morning sex, wake up sex, bottom Shiro (from the top).

It’s Keith’s birthday. He deserves only the best.

He’s mostly asleep, but not quite deep enough to be completely unconscious at this time of the morning. Keith’s mind supplies the source, being a particularly strange dream that he’ll forget the second he wakes properly and won’t have the care to try and recall. It’s not until his subconscious begins supplying reasons for what he’s feeling that he begins to rouse, and he’s rather fond of the fact that the real reason for it is far nicer than almost anything his sleepy brain can conjure to explain it away.

“You are my pearl”

seriously though, this... this is amazing. like, i kinda cried a little seeing it. thank you so much @oneveryhornyunicorn​ for giving us the vision of our characters like this, it’s stunning, i will adore this for years to come. 

Rated E. Sheith, background Allurance, Modern AU (college/coffee shop/bar/band/name a fucking au its in there srsly), mutual pining, disaster gays in love.

Written for the @sheithbigbang​

Artwork by @aloeviera​ thank you so much for your beautiful art! i may have cried a little.

Lance’s harebrained ideas usually result in Shiro wishing he’d taken on some other student as his charge when he joined the mentoring program at their university. This time though, he finds himself almost needing to lie on the ground at Lance’s feet and beg for his thanks, because if Lance hadn’t spotted Allura across campus, he never would have suggested they go to the bar where she performs with her band, and Shiro would never have met the guy with the too-pretty eyes who plays guitar.

How should he ask for Keith’s attention? Call him by name? Was it right to be so personal after only meeting the night before? Was something like “Hey you” cool or uncool? Would it be rude to just shove the paper at Keith and hope he opened up first? Personal or impersonal…what was the damn etiquette here?

Shiro hadn’t been able to make up his mind by the time Keith walked past, and so he settled for blurting out whatever he could to call Keith’s attention.

“You did good.”