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okay I’ll say it nicer:

australia was colonised according to the myth of terra nullius (or empty land). ever since the very early days of colonialism, the land has been framed as something untameable and unliveable. this has justified acts of violence against the first peoples here, in that they are seen as non-people. it has justified the destruction of sacred land in the goal of making australia look more european. (an example: our capital city contains a man-made lake that is now nothing better than a fetid carp pond. it’s disgusting and unnatural). basically, the idea of “taming australia’ has justified endless harm

“everything in australia is weird and dangerous” is not just some silly meme phrase, it is something that arcs back to the very beginning of white settlers laying claim to ‘australia’. and personally I am very sick of seeing it thrown around like it means nothing

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Loki talking about their wife

As Loki's punishment, instead of keeping them locked up, which everyone knew wouldn't work, they were sentenced to follow Thor everywhere. Loki personally thought this was more of a punishment for Thor than for themselves, but what did they know? Maybe some karma was due, they supposed quite a bit probably. Anyway Thor was visiting Midgard to check up on the Avengers or whatever he had said, Loki hadn't really been paying attention. The point was they were on Midgard and Loki had to stay in the Avengers tower for the week they were there. At first, it had been great, they had snuck up on so many people and scared them. It hadn't been nearly as much fun though after Bucky yelled at them for sneaking up on him and Steve in the shower, according to him that was rude. Loki had just rolled their eyes and turned to books. The Midgardians had many books and Loki was content to read as many as possible. They were currently reading Sherlock Holmes which they had to admit was rather enthralling. They had been reading peacefully when the spider child sat across from them in one of the soft lounge chairs. Loki ignored him at first but decided it wasn't worth it after five minutes of the child staring at them.

“Yes?”

“You’re Mr. Loki aren't you?” he asked. Loki was rather taken aback by the title Mr, they didn't particularly like it. They wrinkled his nose.

“Just Loki, but yes”

“Cool! What are you doing here? Where's thor? Is that why you’re here? Because Thor is? Didn't you try to take over??” Peter shot one question after the other rapid fire. 

“I'm here because i got in trouble, thor is gods knows where, yes, and no i was being mind controlled, but if you want to get technical my body did try and take over” 

“So you have to come to earth?”

“No i just have to go with Thor everywhere, which frankly id rather spend my time with Sigyn”

“Who's that?” Peter scooted closer to the edge of his chair. Loki raised an eyebrow at him.

“My wife” Peter's eyes grew even larger.

“You’re married!?” he seemed genuinely shocked, loki smirked.

“Yes, what made you think otherwise, i mean i have been alive for almost 6,000 years”

“Oh, i just, well you don't have a wedding ring” 

“A what?”

“You know, when you get married you put rings on your ring fingers” Peter looked down and studied his own hands as if he were trying to decide if that was something he wanted.

“Sounds dull plus you can lose trinkets like that” 

“So what did you do then?” Peter asked, sounding slightly affronted but mostly intrigued. 

“We got binding tattoos”

“Cool! Can you feel each other through them??” 

“Well, it's more like we can feel if the other is in trouble, it burns your skin slightly”

“That sounds rather harsh, considering you are the god of mischief right?” loki smirked. 

“Yes well, nothing compared to having poison dripped on your face for thousands of years” 

“What!?”

“Mmm” Loki didn't say any more, they abandoned the conversation in favor of continuing the story they were reading. Peter tried to get more answers out of them but to no avail. they went to go find a book on Norse mythology instead.