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How to help victims of the California wildfires

Many people affected by the California wildfires are stranded and in a state of limbo. Here's how you can help.

FEMA, a government entity, does not accept donations, but they are working closely with non-profits that are relying on donations. Hart urges people who want to donate to make sure that whichever charity you choose has been approved by National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD).

Here’s a list of some organizations working closely with survivors:

California Fire Foundation. Through its SAVE program, the California Fire Foundation is distributing $250 cash gift cards for those who have lost their homes. “Anyone who has suffered a loss of more than 25 percent of their home can get a gift card for $250 per household,” says Carroll Willis, communications director at the California Fire Foundation and the California Professional Firefighters.

United Way (Greater Los Angeles) and United Way of Northern California. Olmstead says that it is working both with immediate financial aid for survivors and on long-term recovery efforts.

California Community Foundation, assisting with long-term recovery efforts and people who have been displaced and/or unemployed because of the fires. This organization also supports mental health services.

North Valley Community Foundation, which is offering grocery and other gift cards available at the Chico Posse Foundation.

Ventura County Community Foundation allows survivors to sign up and apply for funds.

AirBNB has an Open Homes program through which you can donate a temporary living space. This is a very practical way to help if you have a spare room nearby or other property near the impacted areas.

I forget where it was but I saw jeans for sale and like they were labeled as “girlfriend cut” instead of ‘boyfriend’ and like the irony to me is that the term “boyfriend style jeans” was originally done as this weird way to heterosexualize the dangerous idea of women wearing slightly loose pants so you knew you weren’t a dyke but like apparently the use of the term “boyfriend” was like too much of a gender confusion crisis for the buyer so they had to change it *again* as opposed to just calling it “loose fitting” to begin w and now it has fully no-homo’d itself into a corner and it just sounds like yr stealing yr jeans from some butch girl yr dating

Announcing...a giveaway!

Hi guys! Are you interested in winning a free copy of To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology? Then look no further because thanks to an absolutely generous donation by one of our own anthology writers, @surlybobbies, we’ll be doing exactly that!

WHAT WE ARE GIVING AWAY:

1 physical copy of To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology + 1 digital copy as a bundle to one International resident (You must be residing outside Canada & the United States to win this book; you must be willing to provide us with your mailing information for us to ship your physical copy of the anthology to you in April 2021).

1 physical copy of To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology + 1 digital copy as a bundle to one United States or Canadian resident  (You must be residing inside the United States or Canada to win this book; you must be willing to provide us with your mailing information for us to ship your physical copy of the anthology to you in April 2021).

5 digital copies to five residents located anywhere in the world (You must be willing to give us your email address for us to email you your PDF copy of the anthology in April 2021).

WHAT EXACTLY IS TO HELL + BACK: A DESTIEL ANTHOLOGY?

A passion project started by 8 friends, fans, and fan content-creators based in & around Vancouver, BC with the intent of celebrating the epic, death-defying bond between Castiel & Dean Winchester from Supernatural.

To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology is a 8.5” x 11”, roughly 328 page, 3lb brick of keepsake Destiel goodness. It contains full page art, fic, comics, poetry, and podfic from 80+ amazing creators from our fandom as well as a foreword by the sexiest man alive: @bisexualdemondean! Cover art for the physical and digital copies has been done by these amazing artists respectively: @winchester-reload and @convallariini​!

HOW DO I ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY? AND OTHER DETAILS.

This giveaway will run between Feb. 14, 2021 to Feb. 18, 2021, 11:59 PM PT. Winners will be announced on Feb. 19, 2021 at 12:00 PM PT. Therefore, if you don’t win, you will still have time to purchase your own copy at our pop-up shop. Please be advised that winners must contact us within 48 hours after being announced to accept your book. After that point, you forfeit your right to the book and it will be given away to someone else.

To enter:

1. Reblog this post. You may reblog it up to twice per day between Feb. 14 and Feb. 18, 2021, 11:59 PM PT for a total of 10 times over the duration of our giveaway event. Each reblog counts as an entry and places your name into our draw, up to a maximum of 10 times.

2. Tag your location. You must tag each reblog with either #canada, #us, or #international based on your shipping address. International means that you live in a country that is neither Canada nor the US. 

That’s all! As long as you follow these two steps carefully, you will be entered into our draw! Good luck to everybody and as always, thank you so much for supporting our project!

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Want this anthology but don’t want to risk a giveaway?

Well, you’re in luck! You can directly buy a copy of To Hell + Back at our pop-up shop, open from now until Feb. 28, 2021, 11:59 PM PT. Please be advised that this anthology is a limited release item. After Feb. 28, 2021, it will never again be sold so grab yourself a copy before it’s too late!

Are you a Gold Star lesbian? (Just in case you don't know what it means, a Gold Star lesbian is a lesbian that has never had the sex with a guy and would never have any intentions of ever doing so)

bruh I’m not even a woman, I don’t have any intentions of ever having sex with ANYONE, and also fuck the whole ‘gold star’ thing, people take different paths figuring their sexuality out, it doesn’t make them any less. Like you’re in the wrong neighborhood?? If you were hoping for any other answer than this??

Eh, why the heck not?

How about we just have like... hey trans people, post your pay links or wishlist or whatever you got without the exclusionist stuff. I'll just reblog em a bunch.