#NRL State of Origin

[chaos-footy]

Sorry for code switching but I forgot today was state of origin and I left the house in a beautifully coordinated outfit in maroon and blue bc I look fuckin spectacular in those colours. Which on its own is pretty funny and a forgivable accident.

But then my supervisor asked if I was deliberately trying to confuse people with my “nails and everything” and y’all. I forgot I had painted my nails Lions themed. Blue on one hand, red on the other.

[ohmygodshesinsane]

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loml

[dawnguarder]

Alright Queenslanders, you can go ahead and laugh at my misery now

Please get Mitch Moses at halfback for game 2 I can't take this anymore

[lazorbeanz]

LESS GOOOOO 💪❤️❤️

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

What's fascinating about Origin is I started paying attention 2003, 2004, 2005 right when NSW was getting it's streak on. So I thought we had been winning for ages until QLD suddenly took over the streak. Looking at the history QLD does win most of the time so tonight's win is pretty great.

[wosoragebaiter69]

UP THE MIGHTY BLUES THIS STATE OF ORIGIN

💙💙💙

[allylovesyaxx]

My love 🩷✨🌏🐞

@bigballsacksammy

[emmalemmala]

Go you QLD legends!!!!!!

[wowchilli]

COBBOOOOOOOOO YOU LEGEND!!!!!

[fuckyeahrugbyleague]

NSW Blues State of Origin Training Session

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 05: Keaon Koloamatangi trains during a New South Wales Blues State of Origin squad training session at Coogee Oval on July 05, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

[partybarty]

my personal favourite moment from last night

[lolliepops-rox]

2p!Australia: Barry/Bazza Kirkland (I am open to other name suggestions)

What you think of when you think of an annoying greens voter from Melbourne

Most people don't respect him enough to call him by his nickname, only suckups and himself calls him Bazza

Has a cultivated Aussie accent

Every cafe within 500km of Melbourne CBD knows his coffee order

Outside of Canberra for work, he spends most of his time in Melbourne

Dedicated Melbourne storms fan, roots for the blues in State of Origin. (Jack is an AFL kind of guy obvis, so Barry is the NRL guy)

Man bun + flora/coloured print button ups

Don't ask him about the boats. Nobody likes his answer.

Went to schoolies with Jack and the nyos (names TBD) ONCE, threw up after like 3 beers, then swore off it (Jack goes every year)

Has no respect for the mining industry (fair), but it makes him be kinda weird about poor people (cringe)

[ohmygodshesinsane]

the wallies deserve mvp tonight

[dawnguarder]

BLEED BLUE BABYYYYYY

[kittykittyhunter]

The Archive

Introduction On 14 June 2020, I accidentally deleted my tumblr, wiping out a blog that I had been maintaining since January 2011.  I was distraught due to losing a lot of fond memories – and crushed at the thought of so much of my writing disappearing.  I hadn’t been very disciplined about keeping offline back-ups of my work, so when my blog disappeared, so did a large collection of poems, short stories, vignettes and fanfics.

Over the last few years, I’ve steadily recovered a decent chunk of my writing (about 300 pieces) thanks to my friends reblogging my posts and being diligent with their tagging systems.  I’ve now been able to archive and remaster my poems and prose pieces – though my fanfiction remains in the ether (which, to be honest, I’m okay with). On that note, I would like to express immense gratitude to the people whose blogs I recovered my works from:

alistersangelsong

@brattyhalfpint

caitsylph

@houkou-nrl

jirohoushi

kara-kitsu-x

kasukasumoe

@kidasbrainspace

@kunimitsuchin

lassinajumper

@lenandbonten

@mono-frog

@mon-qi

seethebattlefield

@s-ephiroth

@tacotits

@ten-thousands-hobbits

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I know a lot of these bloggers either are no longer on tumblr or use these accounts (and tumblr wouldn't allow me to tag everyone?); even so, I want to share my thanks. And thank you to everyone else who read, shared or otherwise enjoyed my writing over the years.  I hope that it inspired deep feelings and I hope that it bought you comfort.  I want you to know that I wouldn’t still be pursuing writing if it wasn’t for all the support you sent my way.  I read and savoured your comments and tags and, I promise you, I am grateful for all the love I received. Methodology While it would have been simpler to reblog the old posts, save for those that were trapped under a Read More (and a fair few pieces fell into this category), for this archiving project, I opted to take the opportunity to edit my works (also, I didn’t particularly want to bombard my friends’ notes by reblogging ancient posts).  This gave me a chance to appropriately re-format some works which had, unfortunately, originally looked quite ugly! The editing process was incredibly interesting – I ended up making changes to almost all my posts, so it’s good to know that I’ve definitely grown as a reader and writer over the last decade.  A very small number of the posts were brand new for the blog, but at this stage, I’m happy to count them as part of my archive.  For me, it’s important to compartmentalise and draw a divide between the writing I shared then and the writing that I will, hopefully, go on to pen in the future. I’m still in the process of proofreading: some of my tags have typos and there are certainly some errant dashes, among other issues, here and there.  Nevertheless, I’m satisfied with the state of things for now. Some posts are titled [‘Circa …’].  If I had been savvier about using tumblr mobile in conjunction with the web version, I could have recovered all of the exact dates of my original posts.  However, what’s done is done and I am satisfied with what I was able to accomplish. Statistics I love numbers – here are some interesting graphs regarding my posts:

Posts by Form - Prose – 37 - Poems – 271 Total – 308

No. of Posts by Year - 2012 – 1 - 2013 – 4 - 2014 – 21 - 2015 – 61 - 2016 – 114 - 2017 – 44 - 2018 – 22 - 2019 – 16 - 2020 – 20 - 2022 – 4 - 2024 – 1 Total – 308 There’s definitely a lot of writing that I wasn’t able to track down: in 2016, for example, I believe that I posted 366 poems.  Still, I’m pleased with the works that I did find – it was great to rediscover works that I’d completely forgotten about. I think that draws this post to a close.  Thanks for reading!

[thegloriousleaguefreak]

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