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there is something about you i will always recognize. if past you were to meet future me, would you be holding me here and now? if you see the future, would you change your answer, baby, or would you stick it out with me? my best guess at the future, you are my best guess at the future. if i were a gambling man, and i am - you'd be my best bet.
I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country
this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you
the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:
this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism
@isuggestlandback any thoughts?
I have a suggestion
I have a question. What do you call these three things? They have different names depending on where you live, and I’m curious.
you mean the fucking freezies shopping cart and elastic bands?
otter pop, shopping cart and hairtie…?
popsicles, shopping cart and hair tie
freezie, shopping cart, hair tie
no you fucking monster i don’t sanitize my countertops. i gently pick up the bacteria and place them outside
i think everything is going to be okay,,, with time it will all be okay
being a prsk character within the context of it being a gacha game would be so funny because imagine you are having the literal worst moment of your life and thousands of people have spent 30k in game currency to try to get a photo of it
i think there’s actually nothing better than being randomly told “I love you” after doing something characteristically stupid. Like what do you mean I’m a lovable person and I just did something silly and you thought “of course you would do that. I love you.”. No better feeling
at this point she should just wear the lesbian flag on her forehead
