#i'm australian btw

[strawbsswift13-2]

guys, I'm on a mission. I'm starting a chonky sketchbook. And y'all better get to believe that this shit took me like 6 hours (probably less lmao)

The photo quality is absolutely horrendous but idgaf 🤠

I used so much shite for this, it has toblerone wrappers, lovisa tags, and a chunk of the spine of my old sketchbook. Anyways you should expect to see more of these 😃

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

No, you're right. They're a graceless metaphor with a conclusion that makes what they were representing into apologism rather than condemnation. It's badly done and shouldn't be defended.

I don't think Americans are ignorant, though, just maybe as blinkered about the nation in which they live as we can all be (Australians are hardly better). But it came across that way and I probably do have biases that need unpicking afterall. I'm sorry.

The Seanchan are ImperialismTM, and especially American Imperialism in all its aggressive social conditioning and slave-owning ugliness. There's a reason the Seanchan culture is a mash up of China and America particularly. It's deliberate. It's also a wonky metaphor written by a well-meaning Southern white man in the 90s, so it's far from perfect. Ultimately the Seanchan are no more or less evil than Americans during most of the USA's colonial history. That is to say they are and they aren't. Some swallow their conditioning wholesale, others fight against it, some relish the power the system gives them over others, others are uneasy about the cruelty expected of them yet continue to comply regardless, some break away altogether in an exceedingly painful process. Any dissenting information is buried, any outward revolt is squashed brutally, but it does exist. Of course it exists.

Maybe it's because I'm not American but I find irony in Americans especially being absolutist about the Seanchan because it feels like they're either condemning themselves or blind to how the USA has operated globally and historically. That might be a poor way to see it though, idk.

[manglechanbluh]

Come on, he is wearing gaiters I couldn't resist + End of the Line speeding bullet

[hawkwidows]

ohh oh!! I'm seeing hockey player mike and figure skater will back on my dash so I wanna share a couple of my fav thoughts that I've had for this au which areee:

will sitting in the spectator stands of the hockey rink wearing a nice comfy turtleneck and having big heart eyes the whole time even (especially) when mike body slams an opponent into the shielding boards ..and when he takes off his helmet and shakes his hair out

and then mike - who knows will's love for music, and that having the right songs for routines is important to him - just in awe watching will really compliment the music in every move he performs on the ice. he looks really good out there, if not just because will's outfits are really ,,tailored to him too

this au is always fun in fandoms I have many thoughts 🙊

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Wallpapers?

[greeneyedpaperwitch]

I'm honestly still mad they left stormhawks on that cliffhanger. It's a solid cartoon if you want to give it a watch.

Non Canadians are welcome to answer if youve seen any of these! I considered not putting TDI on as it has a high chance of winning but I wanted to put shows I remembered watching a lot of so....

[akajustmerry]

watching racists get mad about Nico Parker in How To Train Your Dragon......whenever ppl are shocked that super light skinned Black ppl in the public eye like Megan Markle and Nico Parker are being shit on by racists I have to laugh at the shock. Because as a super light skinned Black person (I don't like using the term white passing because I'm not deliberately trying to hide my Blackness), I have had anti-Black experiences my whole life. Being super light skinned did not save me from that. Did I get it as bad as darker skinned folks? Absolutely not and I'd never claim that. But the answer is yes people really are that anti-Black that you can look like Nico Parker or Megan Markle or even lighter and still get shit thrown your way because at the end of the day white people and racists in general simply don't want Black people to exist. Like there actually isn't a version of a Black person that white people want because they hate us.

[uranusguided]

Hey my publisher finally got my book series, The Silent Trilogy, up on Apple Books! Check it out!!!

My publisher calls Silent Trilogy 'X-Men meets Good Omens'. That's not wrong but it is a series about abuse, colonialism and the importance of love in ways those aren't.

In more detail: the Silent Trilogy is an urban fantasy series set primarily in Hobart, Australia. It tells the story of the dainisa, a not-so-hidden magical community, focused primarily on their non-binary Princess, Torao Yamaguchi.

Desperate for her child to have a better life than she did, the leader of dainisa Amaya Yamaguchi sparks a revolution to claim Australia as a magical continent where dainisa can live in accordance with their own laws, not those of humans. However fighting power is a complex thing in a world built to function on injustice, and a pretty siren desperate for revenge could ruin it all…

Narrated through the eyes of a human who doesn’t quite get it, the Silent Trilogy is about the narratives we build of history. It's an exploration of trauma, the ways people learn to live with it, and how bigotry works. Also there's angels and demons messing things up. More info on the website!

I finished this series a long time ago but I'm still very proud of it!! It's a niche story I had a lot of fun with. I wrote this NB protag before I even came out myself so that's always cool. And every time I have to reread a part of the series I have a really hard time stopping cos I enjoy my own work so much lmao. So hopefully you'll enjoy it too!!

(it's also on Amazon if you prefer kindle, and if you don't wanna support either, well, chuck me a couple dollars on Patreon)

[lemonofthevalley]

people who say that "asl isn't a real language and colleges don't have to accept it as a credit" fuckign INFURIATE me. shut the fuck up and go take 4 years of asl and get back to me on whether or not you think its still "not a real language"

[servuscallidus]

just found a WWI podcast that lasted as long as the war holy shit. from 2014 to 2018 so it fits perfectly

[jag-rat]

Hear me out about the drow...

Okay I know this isn't my usual stuff but it has to be said. Stop giving the drow british accents in your campaigns. Give them Australian accents.

Instantly 10x funnier and also thematically appropriate because the drow's entire backstory consists of bunch of criminal elves being shoved into a harsh and unfamiliar land full of giant spiders by other slightly more british elves.

They're quite literally down under...

In the underdark.

I'm so sorry.

[nerdybluephoenix]

Next Page (will come back to link it)

Short comic I'm working on

To manage your expectations, it's not a full story. It's really just a test comic. I originally made a sketch to practice comic-making. Then thought: "this isn't bad, I should see what this looks like cleaned up." I proceeded to make a 3D spaceship model for it so I didn't have to waste time agonizing over the ship's angles, chose a color scheme, cleaned up some sketches, and now we're here

[ntll]

pickles feel american to me. i know they're not but culturally they are. every time i eat pickles i'm like "this is so american of me."

[kkatastrophic]

I'M A BEGINNER ARTIST

I'M GOING BACK TO MY 2020 ROOTS TO REMIND ME THAT I AM NOT AS SHIT AS I USED TO BE!!!!!!!

I ALSO NEED TO FIND A PENCIL BECAUSE I MAKE TOO MANY MISTAKES IN PEN!!!

[tleeaves]

paper deets? go brainstorm crazy

Okay, I'm not gonna go too crazy, because I'm already writing a paper on it anyway. But basically, there was a 2019 amendment in Australia (bear with me, I still need to triple-check there hasn't been another amendment since then) which sought to redefine violent/non-violent protest, but it is also important to note that for many years prior as well, police 'move on' powers have been introduced and increasingly used across the nation. As recently as 2022, Tasmania introduced anti-protest laws. Other states have very similar legislation, particularly down the east side (QLD, NSW, VIC, and also SA).

Not too sure how much followers of my blog know about how legislation works, but anyway, there has essentially been a combination of several acts in each state that combine to criminalise protesting to the point where there is, essentially, no effective way to protest even peacefully. Police can demand that protestors move on because the altered definitions of protest are as loose as 'public disturbance/in a public place/obstructing the regular passage of life in the area etc.' (very rough paraphrasing, sorry, I have so many tabs open from my research, and I'm gonna save the more direct quotes for the actual paper). And once an order to move on as been issued by an officer, and they believe it is not being complied with, they have grounds to arrest.

This is barely the half of it. Not only is this going against the democracy Australia is supposed to be, but there is heavy media influence too over how we as a culture perceive protesting--an activity that is crucial to a democratic system. Without even realising it, Australia is becoming one of the very things we often hate: autocratic. We are fortunate here, but those days are numbered if this trend continues. Our government is supposed to be "of the people, for the people", and yet the divide grows and protest is being demonised.

There is so much more I could say but for now my lips are sealed on the matter until a later date. I know a lot of this sounds kinda wild and I'm not really defending my arguments, but again, I'm already writing about this for a grade and I would rather just keep it all in my head for a few more days as I work on it.

[idolsummons]

a lot of the cuties here have birthdays on interesting days (hana's is april fools, alice's is halloween, seong - and therefore jun - is 28 february like omg imagine if u were born on the 29th) and the simple explanation is it is simply me, born on the 11th of september, projecting on characters to have cooler birthdays that fall on days of significance