New Year New Year

in OCD5 years ago (edited)

some happies :)

boo! hey, am still here! somehow... 🙃

am bored at work... (again) so here's a postie~

did you all have a good start to 2020? can't believe we're already 3 weeks into it, eh? 🙃

and next week, we will have lunar new year~ it will be the year of the rat! ... and now i suddenly wanna be drawing rats XD

anyway, i had a great turn of the year :D spent it with family and friends, and had heaps and heaps of great food :D

very happy!

some sads :(

on the other hand, australia's not doing so well :( the bushfire is still burning... and it has been burning since october last year. yeah, months and months and months now! more than SIX times bigger than the 2018 Californian fire and at least TWICE as big as the Siberian fire from last year. More than a billion animals have died in the fire, too. Lots of poor koalas and kangaroos and other Australian animals :( Poor animals. And more than 300 million tonnes of CO2 has been released into the world's air... and 25 people have perished, too.

AND THE FIRE IS STILL BURNING

if you have donated/helped somehow, this particular australian says: THANK YOU~ <3!!!

if you haven't, here's some links where you can contribute to save some koalas:

There. You can choose one that you sort of trust from the many.

If you want to read up more on how bad it has been, here's a good article from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50951043

And another one from TIME: https://time.com/5758186/australia-bushfire-size/

This is the wikipedia article maintained JUST for the current bushfire disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bushfire_season

Here's a pic of the scale, for your comparison:

If you dont have monies or can't afford to donate, please help by raising awareness and talking about this climate catastrophe in your social media places... every little action helps!

Help save the koalas, please~

okei, that's all from me for now o/

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Hey spider, nice to see you beeing active!
...it is really hard to imagine how the fires can burn this long. We have in Germany also some forest fires last year because of the hot and dry summer.

 5 years ago 

Hey yo o/ Nice to see you, too <3 !

Yeah, it's been mindboggling that it has burned for this long and it is still burning and will still be burning for weeks yet > __ < Catastrophic!

I hope you will have a mild summer this year when the season returns to Germany, for sure <3

Happy new year, happy to see a post from you again! I had no idea you were australian though, stay safe !

 5 years ago 

Thank you~

I live in Melbourne, so it's been mostly safe. The worst thing we've had to deal with has been the terrible air pollution, but other than that, I'm doing well! :)


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geez I knew the wildfires were big but I guess I hadn't really comprehended HOW big. :(

 5 years ago 

they are catastrophically huge :(

koalas will be functionally extinct if we dont save 'em :(

there's still some at west side of the country but the numbers already lost in this bushfire will drive the species into a category of endangered animals :(

Koalas can't drink water while looking up, they will choke on it and they can't absorb a lot of water at once!

 5 years ago 

yes, some of them have died after being rescued from the fire because they took too much water at once since the people rescuing them didn't realise that they can't quite absorb that much water in one intake > __ < poor koalas~

Nice artwork :)

 5 years ago 

Thank you!

Great to see you posting again @veryspider! It's really sad how so many animals are dying in the bush fire. I am hoping for a miracle.

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 5 years ago 

Hi hi ! How are you doing? <3 It's nice to see yashny, always ! :D

And yeah, those poor animals... they are helpless, and I dont know if a miracle will happen. Maybe people need to do more since sometimes miracles do not happen > __ <

Happy New Year Spidey! So glad to see you and yes! Those fires are devastating! Everyone needs to give or help where they can!

I love your drawing and do you write for nano? Just wondering.:) Miss seeing you here and so glad you dropped by to say hello!

Oh, my! You got me so excited about seeing you, I forgot to !tip you!

 5 years ago 

Happy New Year, @dswigle ! <3 Always very nice to see you <333333

And yes, the fire has been disastrous > __ <

Thank you for kind comments <3 I didn't do NaNo in 2019, but I did it in the years before (have beat it 3 times ! :D)

Did you do NaNo? :O

Missing you also, hope you are doing well <3 !!! Thank you for comment and tip, as always <33333333

I do and have beat it a total of 1 ten. I have submitted it 10 times. :) Did you end up publishing or just for fun as I do? :)

I didn't even do it on flowers! Who knew! LOL

 5 years ago 

Might publish them one day but will need a lot of edit first hahaha~

And wow, you beat it 10 times ! THAT's AMAZING!!!!

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Been a while friend. I hope you had a great Christmas and new year.
Missed your fantastic drawings.

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 5 years ago 

Yes indeed, I did. Thank you.

Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year, too.

spiddiiii! i dont see you here that often anymore! whats keeping you busy these days? btw, sorry to hear about your country, you be safe there!

 5 years ago 

Anddddyyyyyyy :D Hi hi hi~ I'm still busy doing the same thing, drawing, blogging, writing, gaming :D Just not at Steemit~

What's Andy up to? :D

Yes, I am relatively safe! Thank you for care <333333333

been busy IRL but all good. which site are you blogging nowadays spiddi?

 5 years ago 

just the regular social media places. not another crypto based space :>

it's good to hear andy's busy but doing good ! :D