Some of you may not know, but the Pantanal is burning. Pantanal is the world’s biggest tropical wetlands and most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. It is the home of the biggest sanctuary for the Onça Pintada/Jaguar (Panthera onca). This area is the most damaged by fire in 2020, losing 15% of the biome to the flames.
So, we need your help, please donate:
DONATE TO THE FOREST FIRES COMBAT (SOS PANTANAL WEBSITE)
Pantanal Relief Fund (WEBSITE)
Instituto Arara Azul (LINKTR.EE and WEBSITE)
And here we have some articles:
Wildfires sweep into Brazil park harboring jaguars
Fires destroy home of one of the world’s rarest birds in Brazil
Fires in Pantanal, world’s largest tropical wetlands, ‘triple’ in 2020
Burned jaguars and reptiles consumed by flames: Fires rage in Brazil’s wetlands
In Pictures: Brazil’s Pantanal wetland is on fire
Fighting Fires in the Brazilian Pantanal
The Pantanal: Saving the world’s largest tropical wetland
This won't come back to haunt me
reblog and see what your followers say
Interesting..
telekinesis that gives the user a massive headache
super strength that leaves them with sore muscles for days after use
pyrokinesis that gives a horrible burning sensation, felt even though there’s no physical evidence of it.
cryokinesis that chills them to the bones, leaving them with a desperate need to get someplace warm after every battle
heightened senses that mean the character is in a near-constant state of sensory overload
flight powers mean they have altitude related illness every time they go just a little to high a little to fast
aquakinesis that means that it’s harder to drown them but not impossible, that means they feel horrible when the humidity is too low
geokinesis that makes them terrified to be off the ground, whether they’re being carried or in a plane or flying in any way, they just hate it
tw // rape , sexual assault
in case you are still ignorant about what’s happening in India right now, here’s a link to numerous articles from news agencies highlighting it for you.
the first incident that sparked it off was in Hathras, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh. a Dalit woman was gang raped almost two weeks ago but the case didn’t gain any major media coverage because it was, apparently, “normal”. she died a few days ago, and the Uttar Pradesh police cremated her body in the middle of the night at 2:40 AM without the consent of her family. they were locked inside their house and not allowed to see their daughter for one last time.
a minor was kidnapped and gang raped by three men in Madhya Pradesh a day after the young woman from Hathras died and was cremated without her family’s consent.
Bulandshahr, another city in Uttar Pradesh; a man raped a 14 year old girl. another example of blatant incompetence by the government.
these are the statistics of India presently. 87 rape cases are reported per day in Uttar Pradesh alone. PER DAY. that’s only the people who actually gathered up the courage to approach law enforcement, or what is left of it, anyway.
Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh. a young woman is drugged and gang raped, and loses her life. she is mutilated and left for dead. one day after what happened in Hathras. one day.
Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. an 8 year old girl is raped. this incident happens one day after Hathras. just one day.
here’s coverage from the BBC, if you are wary of domestic news agencies. i think CNN covered it, but other than that, i haven’t heard of any major international agencies that have talked about this yet.
this is crucial. this is critical. this is atrocious. this might not be the brand of aesthetic that you have on your blog, but please help the people of our country spread this news. let the utter incompetence and evidence tampering to save the accused on the part of the police and the government be highlighted. let everyone know that the people currently in power care nothing for women or for minorities until it sparks national outrage, and then, and only then, do they even consider breaking a silence on a topic they should have spoken out on and taken the strictest action possible against so long ago.
i will do my best to keep this updated, but it is so emotionally and mentally exhausting, waking up every day to horror after horror and knowing that the government is doing nothing to help, has never done anything to help.
please make sure this news reaches as many people as possible. please, speak up. please keep talking about this. don’t let them fade away as yet another statistic.
The Mods of the Magnus Writers discord server and community are putting together a variety of resources for Magnus Archives fan creators; these have been collated from articles on the topics, our own experiences, and the experiences of the members of the Magnus Writers discord. These are definitely not comprehensive or the only viewpoints out there, and are by no means meant as a way to police fanworks, but as a way to support and inspire fan creators in creating thoughtful and diverse works. Please note that external links will be added in a reblog to outsmart tumblr’s terrible tagging system, so make sure to check those out as well!
This resource in particular was put together by Mod Jasmine: hi, all!
While there are no canonically Muslim characters in TMA, Muslim headcanons are common in fanworks—particularly for Basira, and sometimes Jon (which I love to see!). I have cobbled together this post from my own experiences to help support and inform fans in these areas, and as part of my diabolical plan to get more Muslim!Basira and Muslim!Jon fics to shove into my brain.
First, two gigantic caveats:
I was raised Sunni Muslim in Egypt, which is a majority Sunni Muslim country, and still live there. This means my experience will be very different from someone raised in a majority Christian country like the UK, and different again if they are not Sunni and not Arab.
I am currently ex-Muslim. This does not mean I bear any ill will towards Islam or Muslims, just that it wasn’t for me, and I felt it was important to be upfront about that. I’ll be linking to resources by practicing Muslims in the reblog to this post, whether to add to my opinions and experiences or provide you with a different opinion. I am not here to put my voice over that of Muslims, just to do some of the work so they don’t have to. Obviously, if any Muslims have any additions or suggestions for this post, I’m happy to accommodate them.
Alright. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get started with the basics of writing a Muslim character.
(Warning: this is absurdly, absurdly long)
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a boat that uses he/him pronouns and the sails are replaced by trans flags
i did not have “born in the wrong body” childhood transgender angst i had “blissfully unaware of the concept of gender until the world lucifer’d me and made me bite that fucking awareness apple and then suddenly everything was Wrong” angst
Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.
twitch clips of various great voice lines so far
ceaseless watcher, i want that twink obliterated https://www.twitch.tv/macguffinandco/clip/DoubtfulBlushingSoymilkBigBrother?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
get out of my archives https://www.twitch.tv/macguffinandco/clip/CrispyClearClintmullinsPogChamp?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
the mingus archives https://www.twitch.tv/macguffinandco/clip/UnsightlyGrossSkunkPartyTime?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
big boy man, as read by dracula https://www.twitch.tv/macguffinandco/clip/SpicyEnjoyablePizzaEleGiggle?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time