one of the many reasons to insist upon chronological timelines is that it’s much, much harder to scroll forever if you can catch up with yourself. if you can run out of tumblr because you reach yesterday, that is a good and helpful prompt to do something else.
if you’re confused about all the pumpkins and ghosts and stuff, it’s actually a sort of seasonal harvest festival in parts of the northern hemisphere. yeah, it’s kinda weird to think about how it’s autumn down there when up here it’s spring, haha yeah imagine them all, upside down, and getting colder in october when it’s just starting to warm up
and can you imagine, down there it’s COLD at christmas, crazy right?
that’s nonsense, why would it be cold at christmas, it doesn’t even make sense? that’s a festival about the birth of something??? obviously that happens in summer.
Excuse me?! What you guys doing calling the northern hemisphere “down there”?! We’re north. That’s UP on a map when it’s oriented properly.
With the holidays here, thought this is worth sharing
This website is still here and some of the asks are heartbreaking. Like “Jamie wants a new pair of jeans because he’s never had new clothes before”. Or “Kayla wants a bag with her name on it for when she moves foster homes again.”
A lot of these kids ask for brand name clothing and it sounds pretentious but having one nice new fashionable piece of clothing means a lot when all your previous clothes have come out of black trash bags from charities.
Btw, you can filter wishes based on gender, age, price, etc to help you find the perfect wish for you. This charity is LGBTQ-affirming (unlike a lot of religion-based charities that are unfortunately homophobic), so you can even look for nonbinary kids to donate to.
Also, I would really encourage people to be open to granting wishes made by older foster kids (14+) or young adults who aged out of the system and still lack family support. They’re so often forgotten.
If you don’t have a lot of money but still want to help give a kid a nice Christmas, there are lots of wishes that are $24 for stocking stuffers as well, or $15 for a sqishmallow!
I just want to add that right now, there are so many pending wishes for food. Kids are asking for food from the universe (and yeah, “kids” includes young adults just entering the work force–eighteen and hungry is just as morally wrong as eight and hungry).
Forever fascinating that the people who complain about “government overreach” will also insist that, if the government is going to feed the hungry, then it should overreach all over those hungry people
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