#GET FUCKED CANADA their national anthem was so pretty tho

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WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRRRRRRR

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1, 4, 11, 13, 16, 27?

1. favourite place in your country? out of everywhere I’ve been, it’s gotta be between algonquin park and cape breton! but I can’t wait to travel out west and explore the BC coast and the rockies, and newfoundland!!, whenever that may be :p

4. favourite dish specific for your country? montreal style bagels unffdfsfh I cannot believe I lasted 7 months in europe with no bagels </3

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders? pouring maple syrup onto snow to make maple suckers!! so fun the best winter activity. going tobogganing right after the first snowfall :D and wearing shorts and t shirt as soon as it hits 5°C in spring. going up fer a rip to the cotty on may 2-4. our thanksgiving is actually in october (the superior month!). storm chips B) and ik this is common in the UK but we’re suuuuper into bagpipes and kilts, you’ll see them at every parade you go to. not sure this counts as a tradition but everything is in french and english, we usually sing the anthem half n half. also idk if this is a superstition but do NOT fuck with canada geese those things are demonic. oh and we swear a LOTTT but it’s in like, a casual conversational way ya know. there’s definitely a ton more region-specific ones I don’t know about though!

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with? idk if I specifically agree/disagree w any but here’s my take on some :D  -hockey is a massive part of our (at least my) culture, I’d say 75% of the people I know play/have played. being at the rink early on a saturday morning makes me feel so warm and at home 🥺 -yes it gets friggen cold here and yes we get a lot of snow (winter usually lasts like. november to april). but that being said ontario easily gets to 30+ in the summer soooo yea. if it were up to me the hottest it’d get is 20 but -we are pretty big on maple syrup I will not lie to u. -YES WE DO ONLY EVER TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER. -we’re very nice/polite. I have issues w this one bc obviously we aren’t ALL friendly and I think this stereotype helps perpetuate/hide all the horrible shit Canada does do (esp to marginalized people). however ngl I did miss how aggressively friendly /most/ canadians are when I was in europe. in my daily life for the MOST PART everyone I interact with is beyond polite and friendly and willing to go well out of their way to help others. we have big hearts and love talking to strangers <3 except me I’m shy. -yes the accent is real but not in the way it’s shown on AMERICAN cough tv. I doooo say a-boat and oaut and to-more-ow and sore-y and caaaaar but I have nowhere near the accent some ppl do. gets stronger the further east ya go. I do say eh at least 10 times a day tho no cap -we aren’t all bilingual ;-; ppl who meet me asking if I know french and I have to tell them nope I’m a dumbass and can’t remember anything I learned in school<3 taberNAC

27. favourite national celebrity? gotta go with michael cera my guy

thank you for your q’s!!!

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Tagged by: @inferablossom

Rules: Answer 30 questions tag 20 blogs (I don’t have that many mutuals,,, why)

Nicknames: Cupcake, Ric, Killer (for some reason? I prefer to be called cupcake by peeps on tumblr dot com and Ric by friends? Whenever I’m playing TF2 strangers call me killer and it’s frustrating like,,, no,,, call me cupcake soldier plz lmao)

Gender: Cis Male (Tho I effing h8 gender expectations and binaries like the plague I still identify as my assigned gender idk)

Sign: Scorpio? (Half of astrologists tell me I’m Scorpio and the other half tell me I’m Sagittarius so I don’t stick to astrology only because of that)

Height: 5’6

Time: 08:40 PM (I finished at 09:40 PM OOF I take my sweet time with these things)

Birthday: November 22nd

Fave bands: uhhhh F-Fallout Boy...? ,,, Florence and the machine? I don’t really listen to that many bands

Fave solo artists: Lady Gaga, Marina and the diamonds, LOLO, Ariana Grande, Lana del rey, CupcakKe

Song stuck in my head: Your Reality from DokiDoki Literature Club (Poor Monika broke my heart she’s like all a villain, a side character, a romantic interest and a protagonist all in one character I’m,,,)

Last movie I saw: Lady Gaga 5 foot 2 (She’s a literal angel)

Last show I watched: Ru Paul’s drag race (I just started it and it’s p good) and Brooklyn 99 (I like to think it’s from an AU where cops aren’t pigs so people can shut up about how it’s cop propaganda, we get, irl cops are bad, let me watch my show it’s not gonna make me trust them automatically)

When did I create my blog: 2016 the cursed year, I think

What do I post: memes, humor or happy stuff, danganronpa, rainbow six siege, team fortress 2, overwatch, doki doki literature club, general gay and POC culture, sometimes witchy stuff or moodboards and important posts (reblog to save a life or mindblowing social justice kind of stuff), sometimes I fall for the ‘rb for money’ kinds of notebaits lol

Last thing I googled: r6s dokkaebi

Do I have any other blogs?: yES!!! I have an art blog @cupcake-sketchbook and a couple of rp/ask blogs for my tf2 OCs @g3n3tic4l-pyromania @ask-pastelbattlemedic and @ask-pastelspy (I’ve been trying to limit myself from making new OCs but I just,,, love my babies so much???)

Do I get asks?: Not really, I’d like to because I could do a lil’ drawing or add a sassy GIF to answer but I’m fine I guess 

Why did I choose my url: I’m both into very girly (nail art, baking, beauty yada yada) and stereotypical male-ish stuff (guns, knives, edgy garbage, yada yada) and I liked this duality about me so I had this going on about me and one day I just gravitate towards a cupcake shop that had a heavy metal vibe and I just KNEW I belonged there (It closed, RIP :c) so I come up with this knife/cupcake thing and liked it (It also was a little bit of a joke about bad creepypasta OCs that just took Jeff the killer and anime-fied him and I went, hahaha look cupcake the killer and I liked how it sounded lol) and went wow, Killer cupcake  (I also write killer like KillR because my name starts with an R so there’s that) 

Following: 291 (I follow a lot of shit,,,)

Followers: 199 (wait what? wtf how? I love y’all? I may do a quick art piece thanking y’all???)

Average hours of sleep: 6 tho I’d like 8 or more lmao I’m so lazy

Lucky number: idk 13

Instruments: I learned how to play the flute but I forgot already, tho I have very good rhythm so I can pass as an amateur with guitars and pianos (Marceline from Adventure Time, who plays the bass pretty good but doesn’t even know how to read music  and Marina Diamandis who taught herself how to play piano irl are my eternal aesthetic tbh)

What am I wearing: my PJs that consist of old sweatpants (I only wear sweatpants as pjs I’m all for skinny jeans) and an old sweatshirt (again, I only wear them for pjs cuz I’m all for hoodies)

Dream job: Illustrator for a magazine or english teacher, I’d like to be a freelance artist in my free time either way

Dream trip: I’d like to go to Spain to see my online best friend @robeca-black or I’d like to go to Canada (It’s cold and very modern and my fav blogger and vlogger live there)

Fave food: Anything Italian that includes pasta, cheese, tomato sauce or preferentially all three

Nationality: Mexican

Fave song: I have a LOT of personal anthems like Happy by Marina and the Diamonds or Marry the night/Born this way by Lady Gaga but I think aside from #relatableness I really like G.U.Y. by Lady Gaga

Last book I read: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN IS A COWARD WHO DIDN’T LOVE HIS UGLY AS FUCK GOTH SON AND I HATE HIM)

Top 3 fictional universes I wanna join: Overwatch, Undertale, Danganronpa (I’d probably die in all of them LMFAO)

Tagging: UHHHHH @its-the-lovely-darkness @jasminetea-and-narcolepsy @imthinkingaboutme (sorry gurl you don’t rlly hafta do it I just wanted to tag ppl so I don’t feel like a failure lol) @annsparksthegmr @devils-toxic-love @ya-dood (did you just heccing change your URL AGAIN) UHHHHH ??? I??? ran out of mutuals??? who tf has 20 mutuals??? I uhhhh,,,??? bye???

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Holy shit you guys, Canada Day has just gone by, do you know what that means?? It’s exactly a decade since I went on a choir trip to Vancouver, Canada. 

I’ve been thinking about this trip a lot. Firstly because I am poor and from Australia, so I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to travel to Canada when I was in High School - I was in a choir, we recorded a CD called ‘Young Australians’ for the ABC and got invited to sing at the Coastal Sound International Choral Festival in Vancouver. 

The reason why this trip was so amazing, apart from the fact that I got to fukn travel overseas, was that it was the first time I got to be so incredibly far away from my family. 

I spent most of my time growing up being afraid. My Stepdad is a volatile person and very controlling, so the house was always very tense. That’s not to say that he’s a wholly evil person - he encouraged me in my passion for science and the natural world and I have a lot of great memories of him taking me “adventuring” on bushwalks when I was a kid, but he has a hair-trigger temper; me and my brother often bore the brunt of it and mum just kind of let it happen. 

I was also fukn terrified someone would figure out I was attracted to women. In hindsight I don’t think anything truly awful would’ve happened, but at the time I was CONVINCED that the world would go to shit if someone found out. 

So there’s 16 year old me in the picture on the left, just about to board the plane to Vancouver. Apart from being an incredibly fun time this trip gave me the space to just be. I did a lot of things on that trip that I wouldn’t otherwise do because I’d be too afraid - I made a bunch of friends from the US, I hung out with Canadians and learned some folk song about a moose (and tried and failed to learn the national anthem), and I led 200 kids onto the stage of our final concert for an impromptu dance party because the Cuban a capella group that were performing were just SO FUCKING GOOD (the group invited me and a couple of friends to sing with them it was so cool). A bunch of parents and teachers tried to stop me but I was just like ‘sorry guys, girl’s gotta dance’.

I felt more myself than I ever had up to that point.

10 years have gone by and I have grown so much into myself since then. When I moved to Sydney from my small hometown at 19 I began a process of being me in a place where I felt safe. I was able to come out, be relentlessly passionate and political and make huge strides in looking after my mental health. 

The picture on the right is me and a friend at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras earlier this year. It’s funny how so many things have changed and yet stayed the same - in both photos I'm incredibly excited, gay, and let’s be honest, probably manic. 

I get to be the me I was in Canada all the time now, and it’s pretty freaking great. I really want to go back to Vancouver some day, mostly because I only got to spend a week there (it was a super hectic week tho lemme tell you), but also to experience the city as I am now. Also, from what I’ve heard, Pride sounds fucking amazing and I am SO KEEN. 

Sending a giant THANK YOU to @foxnonny who not only writes incredible Dragon Age fanfic that thrills and chills me to my core, they also write the absolutely beautiful and wonderful creation that is Heart Says Go. 

You SERIOUSLY NEED TO READ IT - it’s a piece of actual minted gold Dragon Age 2 Modern AU fic, involving HAWKE TWINS, AND SET IN VANCOUVER. I’ve had so many great moments being like ‘Oh I know SFU! We stayed in the student accommodation! Rehearsed in their music rooms!’ and ‘oh man yeah, Granville Island, so pretty.’ READ IT READ IT NOW.

Shout out to @sophisti-cunted and @captain101 - I wish I could have shared this trip with you cos you’re great and beautiful and honestly kept me sane in High School xx

Thank you so much for reading this if you’re reading this. Sending you a tonne of love and appreciation for listening to my self-indulgent introspective wank xx

BONUS: wanna see a video of me from the trip I found on YouTube?? My American buddies wanted to film my Australian accent, so here’s a video of poor 16 year old small-town Lyndal freaking out about yellow stuff on my burger cos I’d never seen American-style mustard before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arg3ScvwqJg