honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true

my brain, trying to deceive me: there's literally nothing outside!!!!! it's the same neighborhood it's always been !!!!!

me, tying my shoes: shut up shut up!!!! by god we're gonna try to find magic in mundane today !!!!

This is your annual warning that *there will be no warning* when fire season is about to start. Nobody’s going to post “Hey everyone, remember, fire season starts next Friday!”. The state will just catch fire. You will wake up and the sky will be orange. It could be tomorrow, it could be July, it could be August, we could get incredibly lucky and skip it altogether. If you hope to buy an indoor air purifier before fire season, if you want to ensure everyone in your home has a P100 for going outside, if you want to stockpile water and you haven’t already, the time to do it is today.

Oh right this is getting notes again. Fuck.

this post is why i got a p100 last year

Yearly reminder to check your go-bags and evacuation plans

When I was fourteen I got ten minutes notice of evacuation from the McLure fire in B.C.

Literally got told “you have ten minutes. Fill your laundry basket with anything you want to take with you. We might not be coming back.”

You want to be prepared BEFORE that point.

Of all the fucking notifications to get. Tantallon is on fire. Next town over from me. 800+ Hectares. There’s another 1000 or so burning down by Barrington and a smaller fire in Bedford.

That first and that last are suburbs of Halifax. So if you was thinking it can’t happen to you, it damn well fucking can.

Oh. Yeah. The Tantallon Fire started on Sunday. It hit 100 Hectares and destroyed 10 homes within 12 hours. Within 24 hours it was 780 Hectares. It’s now over 800 with 200 structures destroyed.

YOU WILL NOT HAVE TIME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.

So. Go Bag. Important documents. Couple changes clothes. Any medication. Any stuff you need for your pets. Keepsakes.

Keep it somewhere accessible.

Get it in the car first. Then if you have time you can add to it. I have a few bags prepped. They’ll go in the car in order of importance as circumstances permit.

Don’t forget money and a spare charger in your go bag. People will want to know you’re okay when you get to safety, and they can’t find out if your phone is dead.

I also recommend a battery-powered radio. You can listen to reports on your phone, but if the cell towers go down you’ll be in a world of hurt for information.

Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

Tiny drawing of my VERY OLD Star Wars OC, Kiyrr.

She’s a weird amiable parrot-crow-iguana force-usin’ mechanic lady from a planet that’s basically Pandora with the contrast cranked and a bunch of Australia added. (Her BFF is my oldest friend’s OC. XD)

funds for indigenous communities affected by the canada wildefires

i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked. 

a two-handed stranglehold

Gold pendant, Kievan Rus, 12th century

from The British Museum

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

SO THAT’S A THING

After some contemplation from she and I, and VICARIOUS EUPHORIA - Vicky may be becoming Seraphina “Phin” Greene XD She’s not the first to find a name that better fits her heart - Iskra started her career A LONG TIME AGO (Like when I was in high school) as Adria.

Yay for brain residents and their confiding in my weird ass XD

kaninchenzero said: collect enough and you can claim any day you like as your nameday

you are giving her IDEAS and also torte longing. XD