Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

@friendlyfrankenstein and @facefullabugz

Not only is this 100% safe to watch if you haven't played/seen chapter 5 yet (this came out over a year ago), but right from the beginning these two are willing to talk in depth about the characters, and that, while there is a meta story being told about how we interact with fiction, the role it plays in our lives, what it can do versus what it cannot, there is also a very deep and compelling story about these characters and their hardships, their pasts and their futures, and how they matter.

When you play a video game you play a character. Listen—Listen. This is not an isekai! This game is not ending like Omikron, nobody's gonna load in and go "OKAY PLAYER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SAVING OUR BEAUTIFUL DELTARUNE! IT'S TIME FOR YOU, THE LITERAL HUMAN PLAYING THIS GAME TO GO BACK T—" No! And that's, that's in there, but if you take a look at this as more literal: Who is this? Who is this person who recognizes this house, who is this person who wants to look at everything? Who can talk to Sans and say "It's good to see you again?" Can talk to Undyne and ask her about Alphys? Who is this person who is a part of Kris, who right now IS Kris, who kinda does their best to act normal, but also to help people? That's interesting to me, because whoever this is, both of us are gonna wind up really loving our friends, and wanting to do right for them. And being absolutely ready to go back on our word to both of them and throw ourselves into the Sacrifice Machine if it gets Susie out of this goddamn narrative

It's just so refreshing to see this being talked about outside some limited circles on Tumblr. These guys are not on the "isn't it sad that we're puppeting this poor teenager and making them do Dark Deeds (hugging Ralsei)" train, and instead are approaching it as what I feel it has always been intended, as a partnership, as a roleplay exercise in "How do I play this part of someone I barely know, a part that is unfathomably powerful in some ways but utterly helpless in others? A part that is made to empathize with what is happening in their lives, to feel joys and sadness alongside them, but also made to feel isolated and hopeless when thrown in a cage with nothing to do about it"