hrng (villager noise)

every time I see someone from outside australia (or inside australia tbh) say “everything in australia wants to kill you lol” I want to scream. you are buying into colonial narratives! you are reinforcing the construction of the “aussie battler”! you are ignoring the way first nations people have lived with the land for centuries! you are participating in the homogenisation of australia in your belief that this is a land that needs to be tamed! shut up shut up shut up

I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you

the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good

i'm 100% for criticism of bloodymary and how so many fandom goers would rather hack together a crossover solely to ship 2 conventionally attractive men vs shipping Grace with a rock, a Black man, or even (god forbid!) simply enjoying a thing without shipping at all. but i'm also seeing a ton of people call Grace/The Iron Lung Guy a generic white boy ship and i think it's important to point out that Markiplier isn't white. like i don't even follow the guy but i still know he's talked about growing up being bullied for being Korean and developing internalized racism as a result. we can talk allonomativity and racism in fandom without erasing that (we should probably add the fact a real human man is being whitewashed for shipping to the conversation tbh!)