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Stating biological facts is not hate
By Genevieve Gluck. December 8, 2023
A Hobart City Council member is under investigation by the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for “inciting hatred” after declaring “trans women are men.” Louise Elliot is now facing a costly formal inquiry by the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in a case which has the potential to restrict freedom of speech. If the tribunal rules against Elliot, she may be ordered to publicly apologize and pay a fine of up to $4,000.
In March, Elliot attended a Let Women Speak demonstration organized by Standing for Women and led by British women’s rights campaigner Kellie Jay-Keen. The event was intended to provide women with a platform to express their concerns or criticisms of gender ideology.
As part of a prepared speech she gave during the event, Elliot stated that it was impossible to change sex, that “trans women are trans women and remain biological men.”
During her speech, Elliot also highlighted how gender ideology poses safeguarding risks, noting how such policies impact women and girls.
“While the majority of men are decent, kind and caring people, men present an inherent danger to women. The vast majority of sex offenders and violence perpetrators are men. It is completely understandable that women would want spaces for females only, especially vulnerable spaces like changerooms, toilets, and showers. It is absolute insanity that we have a law that allows a man to at 10am declare he’s a woman and by 11am be sharing changerooms and showers with young girls.”
On May 5, Elliot received a letter from the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner (ADC) informing her that they had received a complaint about her statements and had opened an investigation into her activities for “inciting hatred” under the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act.
The complainant, who cannot be named during the ongoing investigation, also took issue with a statement made by Elliot in the context of male violence and the defense of women-only spaces, wherein she stated, “You cannot be raped with a penis if there is no penis present.”
In November, Tasmanian ADC Sarah Bolt ruled that Elliot’s case would proceed to a tribunal inquiry. In response, Elliot has been vocal about her situation on X (formerly Twitter), and has promised to appeal her case to the High Court should she be found guilty of inciting hatred.
“If it is found that I have incited hatred with these accurate, factual, accurate, and true statements, then I won’t be standing for that. And I know that the majority of Australians don’t believe the truth can be hate. So we will absolutely be taking it all the way to the High Court, because this is a massive overreach on our implied right to freedom of belief, freedom of expression, political communication, and we need to defend that,” Elliot told Ben Fordham Live.
Elliot also noted that the legal attack against her is being funded by taxpayers. “The threshold for inciting hatred needs to be really high. It can’t be just because someone is offended. What really gets me is that it’s our taxpayer money that is funding this attack on freedom of speech.”
However, Elliot is expected to pay her legal fees out of her own pocket, and is crowdfunding to cover costs. In the event of a ruling against her and an appeal to the High Court, Elliot has said she estimates the process to cost $100,000.
In addition to the litigation, Elliot says she’s also been experiencing harassment from her colleagues for criticizing gender identity ideology. In a video she shared to X in October, Elliot described how she had been singled out for her views.
“Over the past several months, I’ve been copping some pretty heavy bullying by some of the Hobart City Councllors, and collectively as a council. You hear the Hobart City Council talking a lot about inclusion, diversity, and being welcoming and kind… But inclusion is welcomed if you agree with their thinking. If you don’t agree, then you are heavily excluded and targeted and bullied,” she said.
Elliot went on to explain that she does not believe that humans can change sex, and that women and girls are entitled to single-sex spaces and sports.
During one meeting, the Deputy Lord Mayor Councilor Helen Burnet put forward a motion that the council write to three different organizations to complain about Elliot. The councilors wrote to the Integrity Commission, the Anti-Discrimination Commission, and local government officials to request action be taken against Elliot over a series of posts she made on X.
“We had a training session from a local organization, and I questioned some of the details that were in their fact sheet. Some of the details I found quite concerning, for example, statements that, ‘Trans women are not dominating women’s sport.’ I disagreed with that and tweeted some pictures of trans women playing in women’s soccer, and it’s happening globally,” Elliot said.
“In the fact sheet we had, they also tried to say that because black women are women, trans women are women. And I found that really quite a disturbing statement, quite racist and far from the truth.”
The fact sheet presented during the diversity training session, run in September by Working It Out Tasmania, also argued that trans-identified males do not pose a risk in female-only spaces.
“There is very little evidence of women’s spaces being secretly infiltrated by people with criminal motives, eg, sexual assault. Nearly every story that has emerged in the media or research regarding this has been disproven or discredited,” the document stated.
Elliot further revealed that she had been sent a letter by Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Helen Burnet chastising her for her views.
“You have consistently spoken out against transgender people and have on the public record refuted that transgender women are women,” the letter read. At Burnet’s request the city council asked the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner to consider that Elliot had, in their view, breached the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1998, which was amended in 2019 to include the subjective category of gender identity, but does not presently provide legal protections on the basis of biological sex.
Elliot has said she has received a flood of supportive messages from constituents. In September, a small demonstration was held outside of Hobart City Council Town Hall, wherein protesters called on the Deputy Mayor to “call off the witch hunt” against Elliot.
#australia#Anti-Discrimination Commissioner#Stating biological facts is not hateful#Louise Elliot is telling the truth#Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal#Let Women Speak#Standing for Women#trans women are trans women and remain biological men#we have a law that allows a man to at 10am declare he’s a woman and by 11am be sharing changerooms and showers with young girls#Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act#Taxpayer money being used to censor women#Working It Out Tasmania#Why can't taxpayer money be used to fund third options for locker and rest rooms instead?
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Lynn Jarvis, CEO of Working it Out Tasmania, said even though the state was late to decriminalise homosexuality, it then "came up with some great laws". "There's a general sense of safety here because of the legal protections that we have. Tasmania is a great place. We've come a long way ... in many ways, some world-leading in some of the reforms that have happened in this state."
Mahalia Carter, ‘Tasmania marks 25 years since decriminalisation of homosexuality’, ABC
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hey! I was wondering if you ever watch clints reptiles - he just posted a video about marcupeal phylogeny and specifically mentioned thylacines, and talked about how theres been sightings in new guinea? i was just wondering about your opinion, since you just posted a new thylacine drawing and i know youre very interested in them :D
idk, the fact i haven't heard all that much buzz about this theory from the zoologists i follow on twitter makes me doubtful by default.
i'll be honest i'm pretty skeptical of this new guinea claim because of dingoes and new guinea singing dogs.
the popularly accepted theory for the mainland extinction of the thylacine and likely tasmanian devil was competing pressure from dingoes.
clint mentions all of this, but he leaves out the fact that dingoes arrived on the australian continent from the north and studies indicate that dingoes may be descendants of more basal new guinea singing dogs. that would likely mean imo that the new guinea thylacine population, if anything, would be the first to suffer the consequences of canine encroachment.
only on the island of tasmania where absolutely no dingoes were ever present sheltered a 100% verifiable thylacine population by the time of european colonization. to my knowledge, the most recent solid physical evidence of thylacines in new guinea is still several thousand years old. so to me it seems that dingo/wild dog distribution and thylacine distribution mixed as well as oil and water. If there's thylacines in new guinea, it would have to be some enclave free of dogs.
i know the topography of new guinea can give refuge to very cryptic animals, and as clint said the relatively low human population and no european persecution is a plus. i won't disocount local indigenous anecdotes because they've been proven right with other species once thought extinct, but like where are skins or bones or footprints?
also i feel like clint really really oversimplified the cloning process thylacines would require. he makes it seem like it would be simple because we have their whole genome sequenced and have specimens under 100 years old to work with. the thing is, cloning a mammoth is simpler than cloning a thylacine even though they went extinct millenia ago, because mammoths still have a close living relative.
a cursory look at google tells me wooly mammoths and extant asian elephants last shared an ancestor as recently as 6 million years ago, they both belong to the family elephantidae. thylacines however were the last living member of their own family, thylacinidae, which diverged somewhere around 25mya from the other dasyuromorphs. scientists don't really have a close living relative to work with. clint says the complete genome means we wouldn't have to "stick frog DNA in there" to complete it, but the thing is with cloning you have to start with a frog/living DNA sample to tweak it into a thylacine!! until we can 3D print an organism out of thin air with proteins and acids, there has to be a template sample of living cells whose nuclei we can tamper with. and the less related they are, the more DNA has to be overhauled
if you wanna learn exactly how much of a logistical nightmare it's gonna be to clone a thylacine, this lecture explains it way better:
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the takeaway analogy is that cloning a thylacine is the CRISPR equivalent of doing a puzzle of a clear blue sky, not having the box to look at for any reference, and about half the pieces are doubles of other pieces (because most DNA is junk code that does nothing). it's like next to impossible and i still have more faith in de-extinction than a rediscovery.
so yeah, i guess i'm a bit of a thylacine doomer. but i do want to believe, just temper your expectations. to me a win would be a single engineered thylacine cell by the centennial of their extinction lol.
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For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted. Each of the 4.4 million times someone has typed in words or phrases linked to abuse, a warning message has blocked the page, saying that kind of content is illegal. And in half the cases, a chatbot has also pointed people to where they can seek help.
The warning message and chatbot were deployed by Pornhub as part of a trial program, conducted with two UK-based child protection organizations, to find out whether people could be nudged away from looking for illegal material with small interventions. A new report analyzing the test, shared exclusively with WIRED, says the pop-ups led to a decrease in the number of searches for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and saw scores of people seek support for their behavior.
“The actual raw numbers of searches, it’s actually quite scary high,” says Joel Scanlan, a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania, who led the evaluation of the reThink Chatbot. During the multiyear trial, there were 4,400,960 warnings in response to CSAM-linked searches on Pornhub’s UK website—99 percent of all searches during the trial did not trigger a warning. “There’s a significant reduction over the length of the intervention in numbers of searches,” Scanlan says. “So the deterrence messages do work.”
Millions of images and videos of CSAM are found and removed from the web every year. They are shared on social media, traded in private chats, sold on the dark web, or in some cases uploaded to legal pornography websites. Tech companies and porn companies don’t allow illegal content on their platforms, although they remove it with different levels of effectiveness. Pornhub removed around 10 million videos in 2020 in an attempt to eradicate child abuse material and other problematic content from its website following a damning New York Times report.
Pornhub, which is owned by parent company Aylo (formerly MindGeek), uses a list of 34,000 banned terms, across multiple languages and with millions of combinations, to block searches for child abuse material, a spokesperson for the company says. It is one way Pornhub tries to combat illegal material, the spokesperson says, and is part of the company’s efforts aimed at user safety, after years of allegations it has hosted child exploitation and nonconsensual videos. When people in the UK have searched for any of the terms on Pornhub’s list, the warning message and chatbot have appeared.
The chatbot was designed and created by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a nonprofit which removes CSAM from the web, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity which works to precent child sexual abuse. It appeared alongside the warning messages a total of 2.8 million times. The trial counted the number of sessions on Pornhub, which could mean people are counted multiple times, and it did not look to identify individuals. The report says there was a “meaningful decrease” in searches for CSAM on Pornhub and that at least “in part” the chatbot and warning messages appear to have played a role.
The chatbot was relatively simple: It asked people a series of questions, allowing them to click buttons to answer or type out a response. Ultimately, it explained that the material people were searching for may be illegal and pointed them toward the Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s help services. There were 1,656 requests for more information made through the chatbot, while 490 people clicked through to the charity’s Stop It Now website. Around 68 people called or chatted with Lucy Faithfull’s confidential helpline, the report says.
Donald Findlater, the director of the Stop It Now helpline, says that while the numbers are “relatively modest” compared to the overall number of warnings displayed, they are still seen as a “big success” as it’s a sign that people may want to get help. “If people have been doing something dodgy on a site, clicking through is quite a bold step to make,” Findlater says.
The vast majority of people who received the warning message and chatbot did so only once, the report says. Around 1.7 million people saw a warning before leaving Pornhub or making other searches related to legal material. “They didn't just disappear. They typically remained on the site and looked for other stuff,” Findlater says. “The influence for the millions of people that actually did a dubious search and then stopped doing that dubious search is a big win.” Not everyone was deterred, however. In the most persistent cases, around 400 people made 10 searches that triggered the message.
Cynthia Najdowski, an associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Albany, who was not involved in the research, says the chatbot appears to show promise for interrupting some people’s efforts to access CSAM. Warning messages and small behavioral nudges have been used in multiple ways to change people’s behavior online, from piracy and copyright infringement to gambling. Google has used some deterrence messages around child abuse searches since 2013, and other studies have found decreases in searches and millions of views or warnings.
Najdowski says there are three things known about deterring people from engaging in criminal behavior: People must know what they’re doing is illegal; they need to apply that “legal knowledge” to their own behavior; and they need to believe the cost of the behavior may outweigh any benefits they expect. “A chatbot that delivers notice of the potential illegality of certain searches can certainly accomplish the first step in the deterrence process, and that alone is a significant contribution,” Najdowski says. It may struggle to help cases where people are more persistent in their behavior or more complex scenarios though.
Scanlan, who conducted the analysis into the chatbot trial, says there were some complexities with the work. The data provided by Pornhub, the IWF, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation wasn’t always complete, and there weren’t any figures from before the warnings were introduced to compare the results against. However, Scanlan says the results show the method could be one part of broader education and deterrence efforts against people finding CSAM online. “If someone's doing that sort out of curiosity, you want to nudge them away from it before they get involved in it, because we can't arrest our way out of the problem,” Scanlan says.
Scanlan’s findings say that over time, the web traffic being referred to the Stop It Now website appeared to decrease, perhaps as people who continued to search became used to the messaging. However, helpline calls, emails, and online chats showed an increase over the duration of the trial. The report says that in the future, a variety of messages could be used—potentially including existing deterrence videos—and the chatbot could directly connect people to a live chat session with Lucy Faithfull’s helpline.
The chatbot itself could also be improved. Since it was initially designed and created, says Dan Sexton, the chief technology officer at the IWF, generative AI has changed people’s perceptions of what chatbots are and how they interact with people. The reThink Chatbot could respond to only a limited number of queries. Sexton says there may be ways to make the chatbot more approachable and better handle questions it was not programmed to deal with.
While the trial period has ended, the chatbot and warnings are still in place on Pornhub’s UK website. “There's certainly no plans to turn it off. It is in production. It was a pilot project, but it is having an effect right now,” Sexton says. Those involved in the study say that other porn companies could look to introduce similar nudges across their services and deter people from looking for child abuse content. “They all should be doing this; it should become the norm,” Scanlan says. “This report and technology are significant steps forward in identifying, removing, and reporting harmful and illegal content,” a spokesperson for Pornhub says. “We feel all other major tech and social media platforms should explore the implementation of similar deterrence technology to create a safer internet for all.”
Findlater, from the Stop It Now helpline, says he hopes other companies, such as social media websites and file-hosting platforms, can look at the results of the trial and introduce similar nudges where people are seeking CSAM. “The more places you can put it, the greater chance you're going to catch those people that might be at a stage where they can still be helped, or those people that are looking for help but don't know about it,” Sexton says.
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Tazzy Chris
Chris x reader
(I know it's not a tazzy chris gif but I like it so shhhhh)
Cw: sexual jokes and implied NSFW
AN: I deleted my OG blog but before I did I saved my first (and only) fanfic and pasted it here
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You and the rest of your friends in the Wild Kratts crew were tagging tasmanian devils so you could find a way to stop them from going extinct. Well technically, the bros were doing all the grunt work, you and Aviva were just helping Koki track the animals. You were only half paying attention so you flinched when you got an alert on the computer.
A blonde kid appeared on the screen and introduced himself as Kenny from Tasmania. He explained that he and his friends weren't seeing as many t-devils around as he used to, while a video of the devils eating a dead animal played on the screen.
"Ick, gross! Rotten meat!", Koki gagged as you both turned away from the screen. Kenny laughed, "Yeah they're pretty scrappy!"
"I think it's cool", Jimmy shrugged. "And I think I'm gonna be sick," Koki replied. "Well look at this Kenny, I finished building the tracking system programming. Each of these icons is a tagged t-devil moving around in real-time."
"Very cool Koki!" Aviva said. "Our system will pick up every t-devil that Chris and Martin tag. We'll be able to track them no matter where they go!"
"Ah wow thanks, I'm really glad you guys are here to help! I'd be sad if they disappeared," Kenny stated.
"No worries! That isn't gonna happen our watch," Aviva reassured him. Kenny thanked all you and said to call him if you needed any help.
"I haven't seen you two so grossed out since you watched me down 4 peanut butter cheese burgers topped with brussel sprouts and whipped cream," Jimmy pointed out to you and Koki
"Did you really have to remind me..?" you grimaced as you and Koki walked away.
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About half an hour had passed and you were curious to know how the bros were coming along with the t-devil tagging. You decided to call Martin but before you picked up the creature pod, Martin was already calling you. You answered it.
"Y/N help!" Martin screamed. "There's something wrong with Chris's suit!"
You looked behind Martin to see Chris standing there looking totally fine.
"But Chris looks fine to me," you said with confusion laced in your voice.
"Never been better babe," Chris replied with a smirk. He's flirty like that.
"But he was just craving carcass meat!" Martin replied frantically.
"I'm fine bro! Cmon we've got t-devils to tag," your boyfriend said while walking away.
"Maybe you're the one who's malfunctioning Martin," you teased. "But don't worry we're on our way!" you said before hanging up.
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You saw Koki pacing around the tortuga while you were getting some water. "Hey uh, aren't you supposed to be keeping an eye on those t-devils?" you asked.
"Well I can't get any work done because rotten meat and carcasses gross me out!" she answered.
"Yeah trust me, I can relate.. but as part of the Wild Kratts crew we're gonna meet all types of animals, both alive and dead. We might as well get on with it so that it doesn't matter as much to us in the future," you advised her.
"Yeah but animals that eat rotten stuff? Yuck!" Koki exclaimed.
"Ey somebody's gotta eat all that maggotty meat. At least it's the t-devils and not us," Jimmy stated. And at that Koki ran out of the room to throw up while Aviva laughed and you facepalmed.
The moment was quickly interrupted by Martin calling the main computer asking for Koki.
"Oops," she said while running to the screen. "I'll be right there Martin! ...Oh no!" Koki shouted.
"What happened?" Aviva questioned.
"10 t-devils are quickly moving west together, which is unnatural. And then their tracking lights go out.. And they're gone!"
"Is tag number 9, T-bone, one of the disappearing t-devils?" Martin asked on the screen.
"Yeah," Koki replied.
"And number 8, his mom.." Aviva lamented
You all immediately knew that you had a big, big problem on your hands.
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Chris and Martin had followed the GPS trackers to Zach's plane, sitting in the middle of the forest. Chris finally caught a glimpse of himself in the reflection of Zach's shiny plane.
"Woah, is that really me-?" Chris asked
Martin threw his arms up in the air. "That's what I've been tryna tell ya bro!"
Chris admired himself, "Hey I'm pretty wild looking! And I've got great night vision, black and white but sharp as a tack"
Chris hopped onto a window ledge to see what Zach was up to. He saw that Zach was using the devils for his security robots and immediately jumped back down to tell Martin.
"He's using our t-devil buddies for evil!" —he growls— "...Did I just growl-?"
"Umm, it was more like, ROOOAAAEER"
"Cool! 😎"
Martin rolled his eyes at his younger brother. "Koki, Zach's got the t-devils."
"I'm so sorry Martin! Rotten meat grosses me out so I wasn't keeping track of the Tasmanian devils and I didn't notice when they started disappearing!" Koki spoke quickly, as if she had been holding her breath.
"Woah slow down Koki! Oh no, Zach's leaving!" Martin responded.
The black plane rose off of the ground while Zach jeered and mocked them for not paying closer attention to their creature friends.
Koki had guilt written all over her face, "And because of me, he's getting away with all the t-devils.."
"Don't worry Koki, we'll get 'em back! Can you pick us up?" Martin assured her.
"On our way!"
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"Ok, the t-devil tags are sending signals from inside Zach's jet. 42 degrees north and 147 degrees east," you told Jimmy.
"Got it"
"You've gotta deactivate him Aviva, he's been drivin' me NUTS! I had to do all the tagging and he wouldn't stop drooling on me!" you heard Martin complaining to Aviva.
You went over to where they were only to see Chris, in all his tazzy glory, chewing on some of the scrap metal from the teams most recent project.
"Chris drop that!" you freaked out. "Just because you can chew through metal doesn't mean you should actually eat it!"
"What" he smirked at you. "You jealous that the metal's getting bitten instead of you?"
Martin groaned loudly, "Oh for the love of everything holy, please save that stuff for the bedroom..!" all three of you laughed at him while Aviva picked up her screwdriver to deactivate Chris.
"Wait! Don't deactivate me yet! I've got t-devil power! We're misunderstood creatures, but now I understand why. I could have the key to getting the others back," —he growls–
"Don't bite me!" Aviva screamed.
"Come on, I'd never hurt you!"
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The team finally made it to Zach's place, and just in time too! There were 2 kids, a boy and a girl, being surrounded by Zach's tazzy bots.
"Don't be scared of the t-devils, they won't hurt you!" Martin announced to them.
"Oh it's the Wild Kratts! Help were being attacked by Tasmanian devil robots!"
You, Chris and Martin made your way down to the ground, the kids faces shifting from fear to confusion in a few seconds.
"Is that... Chris-?" the girl asked.
"Yeah-" —you ran your fingers through your hair— "He's a t-devil, it's a long story-"
"I've got a plan!" Chris lit up. "If you find any rotten food, throw it in front of you, since they like to eat dead and rotting things."
You and the kids went around looking for rotten food for the t-devils. You dumpster diving for food wasn't your proudest moment but you figured you had to do it for the creature rescue. You managed to find a gas station sushi container with a piece of rotting fish in it. Perfect. You ran back to place your fish alongside the moldy sandwich and putrid pizza that the kids found.
Chris smiled with satisfaction and growled, "Oh they won't be able to resist that!"
"Animals are no match for technology!" Zach interrupted.
"Wanna test that theory?" you smirked.
The t-devils began to break through the robot bodies and one by one the clashing and bashing of metal could be heard as each t-devil jumped out to get their share of the meal. Zach immediately started to throw a conniption fit and promptly slipped on a banana peel, causing him to slip and fall directly on his ass. You simply couldn't hold in your laughter as the 5 of you watched Zach scurry back into his house with a bruised ego, and an equally bruised behind.
"Yummy! Last week's moldy pizza! It's disgusting, but I just can't help i-" you kissed your tazzy boyfriend to get him to forget about that pizza as Aviva hurried down to deactivate him.
Chris pulled away after a few seconds, "Phew, thanks for saving me from eating that, sweetheart," he wrapped an arm around your waist as you walked back into the turtle ship.
"You can thank me in bed," you winked
"Who am I to say no to that?," he replied as he picked you up and ran into your shared bedroom.
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Where did the myth of "Australia" come from? I've heard many stories about that place but what are the origins of that legend?
Australia, or "North Tasmania," was first proposed by explorer Chris Columbus (no relation) in 1770. Many explorers died attempting to locate the island, and so many ships and bodies piled up that they formed a great barrier reef. In 1901, Captain John Green (no relation) found the great barrier reef and named it "The Great Barrier Reef" because Green was not a creative colonialist.
Around the same time however, Captain Woodward "Woody" Allen (no relation) discovered the island of West New Zealand. As Zealand itself in Denmark was itself only a few years old, and was farther west than the island, Allen named it "Slightly Newer Less West Zealand," the initials of which became the acronym, "Australia." Linguists are not sure how this works but as Allen was British and we still don't know what language was spoken in Britain in the 1700s, the words may well have worked out.
So the legend of Australia was born, and Britain immediately began exiling its worst criminals there, including Al Capone (no relation), Charles Manson (no relation), and Donald Trump (the same). Landing in Botany Bay (named for a location in Star Trek), the criminals began subjugating, abusing, and terrorizing the people who already lived there, as was the tradition at the time, through history, currently, and in the future.
Australia, despite its origin as a myth, is now a thriving country whose national anthem is a song about a homeless man drowning in a puddle.
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remember being in a horrid shitty mood catching the bus back to my parents, thinking, if they just painted a bus lane on the fucking road my journey could take less than 45 minutes and be way more reliable. wondering why it isn't there, the infrastructure, surely i could afford the jail time if i just went out there and built it, they wouldn't tear it down right? footpaths and shit. cause it's still a pretty rural area. instead i'm sitting on the bus destroying my mental health, no wonder i feel better having moved out of the area, when every car that cuts in front of us and all the traffic we can't just zoom past feels like a personal put-down, an insult to my way of life that i've chosen because it's better for all of us, not just me.
and realising, when my head's out of the constant frustration of it having moved out to somewhere walkable, i can see it 'above the trees' if you will that i can whine and bitch about it all i can (and believe me i have) but any change like the one i want, is political. we do this for the city, we as the whole city do it together. of course it would be good, say the 3+ million of us living in greater brisbane, soon to be 4, 5, 6, 7 million in the leadup to 2032 and after, but it's the tragedy of the commons isn't it? my priority, say 3+ million minus one self-supporting adult in this soon-to-be megacity, is getting to work every day and putting food on the table. i've never had that strong of a survival drive, I'd rather do the right thing and invest my choices into something that makes for a better city than be able to work or eat but when it comes to my mental health? sometimes you've gotta learn the hard way, some things you can't change, and it's not worth losing everything over. you can't think if you're exposing yourself constantly to what's fucking up your brain like if i punished myself for the inaction of the city it might make it better.
i'm starting to learn it doesn't. change is political, it's about power, and people are like water (bear with me, i'm a hydrologist) because it takes volume, all going a certain way, to make the biggest impact. have the strongest force. erode grooves in rocks and wash away entire buildings (this is brisbane, we've seen it happen). what we need, is all these people, 3+ million of us and more, coming together around an idea. getting together, council can't do anything to stop a majority, not in australia at least, and the functionality of a city is something we all need. heck, traffic is bad for all of our mental health and i would bet both my kidneys that the impact of it on our lives and relationships is understudied and underreported exponentially. we can solve this, but individual choices alone don't do shit.
so i'll stop beating myself up for not being able to simply will all the traffic lights along my commute to be green, and turn the energy i put into being mad at all of those stupid annoying cars into the things i do best. it turns out i'm really fucking good at drawing up ideas and connecting with people. so i'll stop beating myself up about the fact that the uni degree i did so i'd know about these things and the job i do for Experience and Sustenance meant i haven't had time to do all of these things As Soon As I Thought Of Them (like you always got told to do for your homework assignments). instead i'll think in larger timeframes. 9 years til the olympics. 2 to finish my masters degree. 27 til the rest of the world is carbon negative like tasmania and bhutan. what can i do in each of these timeframes? and how can i prioritise it?
as i coax my brain slowly out of fight or flight, as i put my pencils and watercolours and maps to annotate out on the table in front of me and say 'take your time, but you're allowed to do what you love' i know the places that have marked on my soul stand out to me. south east queensland right out to the bay. western sydney and bringing dignity to our second cbd, parramatta. queenstown tasmania, for some reason. the murray-darling basin as a whole, gundagai and the murrumbidgee at its heart. the red dirt centre of this great land and all the peoples and cultures it holds. i can hold all of their perspectives. i can train my intuition to find out all of their needs. i can put myself into 26 million pairs of shoes and decorate the lands and i can do it respectfully and lovingly like i'm tattooing my own skin because it might as well be. tattoo it with the needs of all of us and all who have gone before. blueprints of functionality, functionality we don't have, and then meet all 26 million souls (okay, i probably only need 2 million if we're starting from brisbane) and say to them, would you dream this dream with me? will you imagine this lifestyle where you're less burdened? can you be a part of simply talking about it, because that's how we're going to make it happen? can you improve it, make it better, make it yours, knowing that when you do it imprints itself on your heart a little more, you feel a part of it? and then we're all part of it. it takes years, but it can happen.
so i guess i've got my life's work cut out for me, and i'm so fucking glad i could figure this out from something that has been frustrating me to no end, because 'you can't change it' doesn't work for me unless you switch it out like a child's toy for something more big and exciting that i can change instead. fuck you, conformity. i found what it can be for me. a dream so big it doesn't matter if i can only do some of it--and who says i have to limit myself to australia?
#urban design#personal mental health tag#silver bridges#urban planning#sustainable transport#sustainable lifestyles#sustainable development goals#socio hydrology#neurodivergence#not to mention climate change mitigation
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Fic Writing Review 2023
Words and fics
• 281,412 words published to ao3
• approx. 150,000 more unpublished (unfinished WIP’s)
• 2 fandoms (911 & 911 Lonestar)
• Most recent drop: Night at the (Wax) Museum – an utterly cursed piece of work that is virtually unreadable. Seriously. I dare you to try. I wrote this for a guess-the-writer event and made it so unrecognisable as my own work that virtually no one read it at all. It’s a fun story and I hope that more people will read the grammatically correct version that I’ll be posting hopefully today.
• Longest fic in 2023: empty, broken, lonely, hoping at 44k (Buck and Christopher are presumed dead when Buck’s building burns down) This is one of my favourites this year.
Top 2023 fics by kudos
• empty, broken, lonely, hoping (Buck and Christopher are presumed dead when Buck’s building burns down). I really like this one and am quite proud of it. One of my favourites I’ve written this year.
• Losing Hope (Buck gets pregnant right before the lawsuit but loses the baby). Huh. This surprised me. I never thought I’d write mpreg or lawsuit fic OR that it would be one of my highest kudos’d fic this year. How bizarre!
Upcoming events and projects for 2024
Gah this is scary, I have so many.
Reluctant Werewolf crack – I really need to sit down and finish the last chapter of this. It’s about half done.
Coronation crack – likewise. I got blocked when RWRB was released and featured a polo scene very similar to what I was planning for Buddie in England and haven’t been able to get back to it since. I think I’ll scrap that chapter and just finish it off. I loathe having unfinished wip’s partly posted, it does my head in.
Big werewolf AU – featuring all my favourite tropes of kidnapped Buck, worried Eddie, Buck whump and Eddie whump too. I started it in January 2023. It’s fully plotted and maybe 2/3’s written at around 70k.
Navy Seal Buck – there’s something so fun about secretly bamf! Buck going all out to protect his firefam. He gets whumped during the course of, naturally. Again, started in January 2023, fully plotted and is maybe half done at about 50k-ish.
Angsty Buckley family drama set around the Madney wedding aka the one that will make you all weep. Fully plotted, partly begun.
Kidnapped TK – this one is so big and complex that I’m thinking of turning it into a novel some day. Fully plotted and partially written.
Eddie porn reviewer. Plotted only.
Buck sex worker. Plotted, partially written.
Carla romance novelist gets Buddie together. Plotted, partially written.
Plus the other 90+ ideas in my Ideas folder!
I’m unlikely to get much done before Christmas, too busy with family stuff and am recovering from having to have an emergency appendectomy while also having Influenza A this week. It’s been… rough.
Same for January as hubby and I are going on the first holiday alone together since having kids – Tasmania here we come! I am very glad my surgery didn’t ruin that.
Thank you for the tag @sherlockcrossing
No pressure tagging: @daughterofscotland @rogerzsteven @cal-daisies-and-briars @ronordmann and anyone else who wants to share!
Rules: Feel free to show whatever stats you have. Only want to show Ao3 stats? Rock on. Want to include some quantitative info instead of stats? Please do this. Want to change how yours is presented? Absolutely do that. Would rather eat glass than do this? Please don’t eat glass but don’t feel like you have to do this either.
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14 January 2024
SYDNEY (AP) — For the first time, Australians find themselves on the brink of witnessing one of their own, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, rise to the rank of queen when her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, is proclaimed king of that European nation Sunday.
He will become King Frederik X of Denmark two weeks after his 83-year-old mother, Queen Margrethe II, announced she would be the first Danish royal to abdicate in some 900 years.
The 51-year-old Crown Princess Mary’s unlikely journey from Tasmania to European royalty as the world’s first Australian-born queen has captivated Danes and Australians alike for over two decades.
The then Mary Donaldson was 28 years old and working as a real estate agent when her chance meeting with the Danish prince occurred at a Sydney pub during the 2000 Olympics. He was at the Games to support Denmark’s sailing team.
The announcement of their engagement in 2003 marked the beginning of what is considered in Australia a fairytale romance, and her succession to the title of queen consort has many Australians brimming with excitement and anticipation.
Though this is a country that purports to be classless and egalitarian, Australians are reflecting national pride as a fellow Australian transcends geographical, social and cultural boundaries to assume a position of global prominence, even if it has been attained through marrying well.
Princess Mary’s ascension potentially also promotes discussion about Australia’s evolving identity at a time when many Australians, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, would prefer that the country cut ties with the British monarchy and become a republic with its own head of state.
More tangibly, Princess Mary has played a significant role in connecting Australia with Denmark.
For over 20 years, Australians have watched her seamlessly integrate Danish traditions and language into her life while maintaining a strong connection to her Australian roots and visiting her homeland often.
Her commitment to philanthropy, advocating for health, women’s rights, and children’s well-being has further endeared her to Australians.
In Copenhagen, Thomas Larsen, a royal expert compared Mary with the late British Princess Diana.
“I think she has a big heart when it comes to people who are isolated, who are lonely. She wants to reach out to people who need help,” Larsen told The Associated Press.
And in the early hours of Monday morning Australian time, the modern-day fairytale will reach a new high point when Crown Princess Mary becomes the first Australian to become a queen.
#King Frederik X of Denmark#Queen Mary of Denmark#Danish Royal Family#Denmark#Australia#Queen Margrethe II
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I am very late I believe to this party, but I remember an OC I had, and I figure, why not? See if I can improve!
So he’s an exchange student, like Pony, from Australia named Nigel. (Couldn’t remember the last name, it’s been a while) And while he is technically human, he looks exactly like an anthropomorphic Tasmanian Devil. He had big glasses, mostly eats anything but meat, a bit fat, and was a tech enthusiast. He wasn’t the best at building, but he always wanted to try. So he applied to go to UA to be in the Support Course and learn how to build things and help heroes out that way.
The thing is, he has a quirk that the school thought could be good for the hero course, but he specifically applied for anything BUT the hero course. Not because he didn’t like the hero course or anything, but because he didn’t trust himself to be able to handle himself in combat.
His quirk is that, when stressed out enough, he can turn from a chubby fuzz ball into a eight foot, physically imposing Tasmania devil, with bloodlust to boot. And depending on how much meat he eats, the longer this form lasts.(Yes, sounding very much like The Hulk.) His parents had made some attempts to try to get his bloodlust to subside, but nothing seemed to work. That’s why he wanted to focus on being a technician or a builder or something with machines then being in the hero course. So he doesn’t ever risk hurting anyone.
I wanted to try to make a character that I thought would introduce another perspective on quirks like Kota did. On people that, despite having powerful quirks, try to live a lifestyle opposite to using said quirks.
I hope it makes sense! Thoughts?
I really like this 😊. A character who doesn’t want to be a hero and live a normal life yet struggles to do so because of their quirk is a very interesting topic to explore. While one can argue both Twice and Himiko also cover this theme, we really don’t know much about them in terms of goals and aspirations other than to be free and be loved. Your character offers a perspective different than theirs in that they have a more defined goal and that they don’t become a villain due to their desires.
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Australian Pokemon: 3 creepy lines
Another of my posts of Fakemon based in a hypothetical region called Goorda based on a mix of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (though mostly Australia). This time I designed three evolution lines based on creepy or ghostly concepts. For pervious posts see regional variants, birds, early-game standards, misc 2, misc 1, starter variants, and starters.
First up is Parapteer, the Parasite Pokemon, dark/psychic type. This Pokemon is a parasite that is weak and helpless on its own. It targets Staryu and hollows out their bodies, using them as a new home while disguising itself as a Staryu. It benefits from its host's latent psychic powers, which are added to Parapteer's own. It uses the psychic powers and disguise to sneak into a group of Staryu and plant its larvae on them, beginning the next generation of parasites. Pictured is Parapteer both in its host's body (left) and exposed (right).
Parapteer is based on Dendrogaster, a genus of parasites found worlwide that grow inside of starfish as weird, branching tentacle creatures. Parapteer exaggerates Dendrogaster to make it more like a body snatcher, killing Staryu and stealing its body as a grotesque puppet master. Honestly, this might be too grotesque for a Pokemon fan work. It would definitely have some ability like Minior where its disguise can be broken, revealing the parasite within. It could be found in the same areas as Staryu, meaning a trainer trying to fish up a Staryu has a chance of getting Parapteer instead. Its name comes from "parasite" and "puppeteer". I got the idea for this fakemon from this post.
Next is Thylament, the Mournful Pokemon, ghost/normal type. Thylament were once living beings, but they were driven to extinction by humans and have lingered on as ghosts. They mourn their deaths and avoid humans, who they fear for causing their extinction. It takes a very skilled trainer to earn the friendship of a Thylament.
Thylament is based on thylacines, also known as Tasmanian tigers. These wolf-like marsupials were once a dominant predator of Australia before being outcompeted by dingos and having their population reduced to Tasmania. The rest of the population were killed by European colonizers, with the species becoming extinct in 1936. Real thylacines were orangish, but Thylament is greyscale due to its status as a ghost. Its name comes from "thylacine" and "lament".
Thylament evolves to Skulvenge, the Vengeful Pokemon, ghost/dark type. Unlike its morose and mournful pre-evolution, Skulvenge is driven by anger over humanity causing its extinction. They take their anger out on humans, especially those exploring alone. Very few trainers ever successfully tame a Skulvenge and it is said that Skulvenge will only ever accept a trainer who also burns with anger out of a shared desire for vengeance.
Skulvenge is a mature thylacine who has decided that it's not going to take extinction lying down. The skull on its head and the inversion of its colors mark Skulvenge as being more angry and aggressive than Thylament.
The last Pokemon for today is Davalossam, the Shipwreck Pokemon, ghost/water type. When a ship sinks with crew aboard, the ghost of the crew may fuse with the shipwreck, animating it as a Davalossam. The vengeful sprits of the drowned crew seek to drag others to their fate, driving Davalossam to attack and sink ships. Nobody knows how many Davalossam lurk in the deep seas, but all sailors fear one day encountering one determined to drag them down to the depths.
Pokemon makes some very disturbing ghost types, so I don't thing a shipwreck in the shape of a shark driven by the vengeful spirits of its downed crew would be too far for an official game. I drew from sailor folklore of ghost ships and similar stories for Davalossam's origin, as well as stories of sea monsters that attacks and sink ships. While not being a grass-type, it probably would know at least Wood Hammer, being made of wood and all. Its name comes from "Davy Jones' Locker" (a euphemism for the bottom of the sea in reference to shipwrecks), "jetsam" (discarded refuse from ships), and "thalassic" (oceanic).
I wanted to include a 4th line based on the legendary creature known as the yara-ma-ya-who, but I am struggling to come up for ideas for how to adapt that to a Pokemon. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks for checking out this post, I hope you liked it.
#pokemon#fakemon#pokemon oc#dendrogaster#starfish#parasite#thylacine#tasmanian tiger#shark#shipwreck#ghost type#art#digital art#new artist#artists on tumblr#artblr
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Those moids celebrating the death of cats to own women and libtards but im prtty sure the same moids would lose their minds if ppl were hunting dogs and posting pics of it
which is ironic considering it has been found that dogs contribute far more to native species deaths than initially though; they eat eggs and destroy nests and catch small animals. and that's even WITH the amount of lead wearing and fencing (in fact, fencing is a largely american and some other western nations thing. a lot of people, particularly in rural areas, let their dogs free roam. an estimated 75% of global dog owners do NOT fence their dogs). at least, that's the case in nz and aus, with our unique amounts of birds and lizards. south america is especially vulnerable to wild dogs as well. in some cases, dogs kill MORE native species than cats, despite the number of feral cats far outweighing the amount of feral dogs.
people don't want to hear the REAL first step to this all, which is to completely ban animal breeding (or at least cat and dog breeding). ferals get captured, desexed, and adopted out if they are young or sociable enough, and the ones that aren't get released sterilised. and we keep doing this. there's no such thing as an instant or quick solution to the feral cat and dog problem, not even the many mass exterminations entire governments have done have worked. the closest is in nz has multiple islands and fenced native sanctuaries that are pest free, but not only did it cost many millions and years of effort for even just a couple square acres of pest free land, they are having to constantly keep it up 24/7 to make sure those areas STAY pest free, and some occasionally still get in even with all that. not to mention that it would cause havoc on the already havocked ecosystem, as the second you remove a mass amount of cats and dogs, you'd have a rodent explosion, which would b far more dangerous than a bunch of feral cats or dogs, due to disease risks (i love rats and mice, but the wild ones are toxic little things).
tldr; moid response of 'every problem can be solved with violence'
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The crown princess is now the first Australian-born Denmark Queen consort, from the Commonwealth with Scottish roots 🏴
Australia’s Mary Donaldson went from commoner to Danish Queen 🇩🇰
An unconventional journey from Australia’s middle class to European royalty began in an unremarkable bar in Sydney in 2000. Twenty-three years later, in what has been called a “real-life fairytale”, Mary Donaldson, becomes the queen of Denmark 🇩🇰 Queen Mary, not only of Denmark, but of the Inuit in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Mary Donaldson was born in Tasmania an island state of Australia in a Hobart’s Hospital in 1972 to Scottish parents. John Dalgleish Donaldson, and Henrietta Donaldson (Henrietta Clark Horne). The daughter of a mathematics professor and an executive assistant who had emigrated to Australia from Scotland 🏴
Her father was born in the town of Cockenzie and Port Seton - (Scots: Cockennie [koˈkɪni]; Scottish Gaelic: Cùil Choinnich, meaning "cove of Kenneth") is a unified town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is on the coast of the Firth of Forth, four miles east of Musselburgh, and her mother was born in Edinburgh.
Mary grew up in a middle-class suburban home alongside her siblings, Jane, Patricia and John. After her graduating with a degree in law and commerce from the University of Tasmania, She moved to Melbourne and Sydney, Mary had a high-flying career in advertising and then worked in luxury real estate. She worked during three months in Edinburgh as an account manager at an advertising agency.
But it was a chance encounter in a busy pub that would ultimately turn her life upside down. The Crown Prince sat alongside his cousin, Prince Nikolaos of Greece, his brother, Prince Prince Joachim, and Princess Martha of Norway at the “Slip Inn” in Sussex Street in Sidney as Australia celebrated Ian Thorpe's first Olympic gold.
Princess Mary and her father John Dalgleish Donaldson at her wedding in Copenhagen Cathedral on 14th May 2004.
The wedding of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, and Mary Donaldson took place on 14 May 2004 in the Copenhagen Cathedral. Mary’s mother Henrietta ‘Etta’ Donaldson died from a heart condition two years before Mary married into royalty.
The Danish Folketing (parliament) passed a special law (Mary's Law) giving Donaldson Danish citizenship upon her marriage, a standard procedure for new foreign members of the royal family. She was previously a dual citizen of Australia and the United Kingdom. Ahead of the wedding, Mary had to give up her Australian citizenship and join Denmark's Lutheran Evangelical Church.
The new Danish queen consort is of Scottish descent. Scotland's and Scandinavia's histories have long been intertwined with smatterings of Old Norse in the language, Viking and Norse settlement in Scotland 🏴
Her father, John Dalgliesh Donaldson, stressed her Scottish roots in his speech at her wedding — and claimed his own clan had once helped eject the Norse from the Hebrides.
Check out the video below and listen her father's speech: “In the 12th century, after much savage fighting, the marauding Vikings were driven out of Scotland by a band of men led by the grandfather of the first Donald, the founder of the clan MacDonald. And for those of you who are not aware, I’m wearing tonight, the dress MacDonald tartan, which is the ancient MacDonald”.
“Donald’s great-grandfather would have wondered why he went to such trouble when, some eight centuries later, we take account of today’s union between the Viking Frederick and Mary of the MacDonald clan.”
Loving words from Mary's father.
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Margrethe II reigned as Queen of Denmark from 1972 until her abdication in 2024. Having reigned for 52 years, she is the longest-serving female monarch in Danish history.
The Queen of Denmark made the announcement in her New Year's Eve speech. She formally hand over the throne in a Council of State today 14th January, 2024 at 2:00 p.m., when she signed the Declaration of Abdication. From that moment on, her son became King Frederick X.
The Crown Princess Mary was crowned Queen consort alongside her husband, the new King Frederik of Denmark. It was a historic moment, for which she wore a historic outfit by the Danish designer Soeren Le Schmidt.
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#MaryDonaldson #Australia #commoner #DanishQueenMary #Queen#Scottishroots #Scotland #Hobart #CockenzieandPortSeton #HenriettaDonaldson #John Dalgleish Donaldson #VikingandNorse #Denmark #Greenland #FaroeIslands #Frederik #KingFrederikX #Tasmania #islandstate
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I'd say both Tyler and Esme are both romantic in a traditional but very personal sense. She loves giving little gifts and leaving him those little love notes stuck around things in the house, in the gym, his truck, his office. She loves to bake his favourite things. Tyler is a gift giver as well, and everything he does is based just towards her. Flying in her favourite cupcakes to Tasmania, remembering things she's pointed out while shopping and then surprising her with them, he sends flowers to the bookshop, shows up to take her to lunch. And he spent over a decade saving what money he could to make her childhood dream of owning a book store come true :)
2. Before Tyler, sex was never of importance to her. She didn't need it, she didn't crave it, she could have lived without it for the rest of her life. Meeting him changed that. The attraction (and the fact he knows what he's doing) so intense that she found herself wanting sex and needing it. So it's of importance to them solely on a connection level. Tyler, he's more needy sexually and went through what Esme calls him 'man slut' stage between his ex wife and her.
They're both monogamous. Extremely devoted and faithful and loyal to each other. And that comes with the intense love and respect they have for one anotherl
3. Esme is a very affectionate person. Giving and receiving. And doesn't shy (there's limits of course) from PDA. Tyler has never been a relationship that carried a lot of touch and affection outside of sex so he really had to get used to being with someone like her. Neither shy from holding hands, hugging, kissing, arms around each other in public.
4. Tyler is very confident in how he looks (especially his physique) but doesn't put a lot of through into his appearance. He doesn't think concentrate on being appealing to others. He just does his thing, wears what's comfy etc. Esme struggles with her self confidence and sees herself negatively, especially when it comes to her weight. And it leads to her question 'why does he love me? why is he with me?'
5. Tyler just has to turn his ball cap backwards and that's it for her ;) She's turned on even when he's not trying to turn her own. Watching him work on his truck for example or watching him the gym or working out on their land. She doesn't really need to be seduced as there's always been an intense sexual and physical attraction between them. And Tyler, well as Esme says, a stiff breeze in a room can get him going lol
6. Neither Tyler or Esme had any plans to get married a second time. Both their first marriages had been disasters. But with each other, they put a lot of value and a lot of work into their marriage and keeping it strong and healthy.
7. Tyler is a horrible judge of himself. He views himself as less than others. A monster based on things he's done and decisions he's made. Esme can be very critical of herself if she feels she's not been fair and kind to someone, not matter how badly they may have hurt her.
8. Tyler sees himself as a failure for the most part. Based on the decision he made while his son was sick with cancer. And he struggles getting over mistakes he made with Esme early in their marriage. Esme's main feelings of failure come from questioning how well she's doing as a mother.
@tragiclyhip
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a special fuck you to these four fuckwits today! the faces of genocide. arthur phillip, the one who established the colony and invaded the land, lachlan macquarie, the terrorist mass murderer (why the FUCK do we have a uni named after him??), james stirling, the leader of the pinjarra massacre, and george arthur, the man who devised the ‘black line’ and made it his personal mission to commit genocide in tasmania.
(and fun fact! every single one of them died in the uk, where they were born. every single one of them counted themselves to the bone as british. they actively chose to come to australia to commit these atrocities and then sailed on home. they are not fucking australians. australia today suffers from the consequences that they skipped out on. people whinge about, why are australians pissed off at the british government for something other australians did? because! those fuckers were not australians! they held positions of power given to them by the british government, and came from britain and returned to britain and worked with british interests in mind and they did it out of choice.)
#arthur phillip#lachlan macquarie#james stirling#george arthur#australia day#history#australian history#australia
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The Worlds Most Scuffed Road Trip
You were hanging out with Matt and Swagger as they went to buy their car for the road trip. “Hell yeah.” Swagger said in the passenger seat, you in the back with Mitchell. “Why do I feel like I’m going to die in this car?” You said everyone laughing. “I bet Tobi and Fitz didn’t get fucking chips with their car.” Swagger said. “You’re eating a strangers chips?” You asked, everyone laughing. “Yeah.” Swagger said. “She’s so slow.” Matt said. “Fucking floor it Matt, Floor it!” You yelled. “I am flooring it.” Matt said.
“So this is the car, back in the shop. Tobi and I are here to decorate it, I have a feeling that team USA went a little a little more offensive then we might be.” Fitz said. “Oh yeah definitely.” You said laughing. “This is F to the C Fitz and were about to pimp this ride.” Tobi said, you laughing. “I just feel like I’m violating this car.” Fitz said. “You violate me a lot.” You said, Tobi laughing. “Woah!” Fitz said. “If anyone asks were kindergarten teachers and the kids painted it.” Tobi said. “Oh yeah that’s believable.” You said. “Oh Gamer Supps, USE CODE MISFITS FOR 10% OFF!” You yelled at the camera, Fitz and Tobi laughing. “I think it’s good.” Tobi said. “I actually really like it.” You said.
“This is going to be so chaotic.” You said, Matt driving in. “Dude limited edition.” Matt said. “Dude you fucked this car up.” Swagger said. “Sup bitch.” Swagger said, you laughing. “Y/N come see this!” Matt yelled, you walking to the car. “C H E A no you did not.” You said laughing, seeing the word C H E A T E R keyed into the car. “So much better it’s like there’s lore now.” Swagger said. “I don’t think Tasmania’s ready for this.” Swagger said. “I’m not even ready for this.” You said.
“You look like you get bitches.” You said, Matt and Swagger walking up to everyone. “Mic spam.” Mason said, blowing into the walkie. “Oh god Mason!” You said. “On pursuit!” Mason said, chasing after birds. “Mason!” You yelled, Mason throwing his beer at the birds. “Tobi I just threw a bottle at a seagull and nearly hurt it.” Mason said into the walkie. “You silly bugger.” Tobi said. “Look at Fitz’s big ass pushing the car.” You said. “Its a beast.” Fitz said. “You’re a beast.” You said, Fitz turning to look at you. “Only in the bedroom.” Fitz said. “Look were pissing people off.” You said, after Mason pushing the train horn and people running by flipping everyone off. “What’s he saying?” Fitz asked, as Matt talked about car guy things. “I have no fucking idea.” You whispered back. “A PINK FUCKING LIMO!” You yelled. “Y/N is excited.” Fitz said. “This is the one I’m riding in.” You said. “Even Fitz fits!” You said, Fitz grabbing you and sitting you on his lap. “When she touches you.” Mason said. “You vibrate like that?” Fitz asked. “You do Fitz.” You said, the boys laughing.
“Update Y/N.” Mitchell asked. “Well Fitz is not happy because the fucking car won’t start.” You said. “So where are we riding?” You asked. “Were going with Swagger and Matt.” Fitz said. “I’ll go with you.” You said. “Welcome to our MTV Cribs where we pass out the whole fucking time.” Mason said. “Wait where the fuck am I sleeping?” You asked. “With me.” Fitz said. “You’re big ass and me on that little bed?” You asked. “We’ll make it work.” Fitz said. “What do all the cool youtubers say, see you on the tripod?” Mason asked. “Who the fuck says that?” Swagger asked. “That was a good one Maso.” You said. “What the fuck is that, I got tobacco all in my toothpaste cunt?” Mason asked. “Ew Mason what the fuck?” You asked. “Got severally drunk for the last 5 hours.” Fitz said. “Y/N, thoughts?” Mitchell asked. “Hungover, don’t talk to me.” You said. “Hungover?” Mitchell asked. “I tried to keep up with Fitz, bad idea.” You said, Fitz laughing. “Filming us?” Mason asked. “Smile, look happy.” You said. “How was the ride?” Mitchell asked. “I fell asleep, on Fitz.” You said. “She did.” Fitz said. “Ay good job Maso!” You yelled, after Mason did a backflip. “Fitz that’s a bad idea, bad idea Fitz.” You said, Fitz getting on top of Swagger and Matt’s car. “Don’t kill him Matt!” You yelled, them driving off. “He went pretty, pretty quick.” Tobi said. “Marble benchtop.” Tobi said. “Oh good, I can fuck Y/N on it later.” Fitz said, everyone laughing. “Are we doing a photo?” Fitz asked, you holding the camera on Mason. “Dude you fucked my shot!” Mason yelled Fitz kissing Mason on the cheek, you laughing. “Perfect.” You said, smiling. “What the fuck?” Fitz asked. “Don’t you’ll hit Swagger, Swagger!” You yelled, Mason chucking the rock at the lighthouse. “Fitz!” You yelled, Fitz standing on some large rocks near the water. “How is Fitz gonna get back?” Mason asked. “Good question Maso.” You said, your anxiety high. “Mason were trying to talk about Sunny and you’re talking about a happy rock.” Fitz said, Swagger kicking the rock away. “That is very Mason energy.” You said laughing. “Pink limos kinda sick but Sunnys better.” Tobi said, you gasping. “What you like the limo over Sunny?” Fitz asked looking at you. “Well, there was no room for me in Sunny anyway.” You said. “Eh it’s fine you could’ve sat on my lap.” Fitz said, you smiling. “Were going camping.” Fitz said, reading off his phone you groaning. “Well everyone seems to be excited.” Fitz said. “And now we feed the seagulls.” Mason said chucking his popsicle at the seagulls, you laughing. “Beer?” Mason asked, rolling out of the limo. “I wish I had a beer for you Maso.” You said, Mason groaning.
“Yeah do it on the sunny part.” Matt said, Mason laying on top of the Limo. “Great Maso.” You said, taking a picture of him. “This is really relaxing.” You said, Fitz playing his guitar. “9:20 in the morning and I’m drinking beer.” Mason said. “9:20 in the fucking morning and you’re drinking beer.” Fitz said, guitar in his lap. “I gotta learn how to drive.” Swagger said, you sitting on his lap. “Spaceships or cars?” Mason asked, Swagger smiling. “Were gonna be banned from here.” You said, Tobi playing with the train horn. “Do you hear them talking, you said you saw a pink limo?” Matt asked, you laughing. “Look we can get a couples one.” Matt said. “Yeah Matt cause I really want to cuddle with you.” You said, Swagger laughing. “Fitz I don’t know if this.” Tobi said, Fitz climbing up on the display. “Fitz babe that is not going to hold you.” You said, Fitz sitting on one of the chairs. “Now this fleshlight is optimal for small penises.” Tobi said. “Not sure my cock will fit.” Fitz said. “Oh that’s perfect for me.” Fitz said, Tobi holding up a larger one. “Look Y/N is blushing, is it really that big?” Mitchell asked, you laughing and nodding. “The clients in the back are furious.” Tobi said, you and Mason looking annoyed. “Found some cunt on the side of the street.” Mason said, Koby J walking up. “Koby J!” You yelled. “Hey Y/N.” Koby said. “Yay!” Swagger yelled, the car starting up. “Now can we please fucking leave?” You asked. “Alright I’m riding with Swagger and Matt!” You yelled. “Wait, kiss!” Fitz yelled, you and him kissing. “Gross.” Chad said, you and Fitz laughing. “Wake up the car stopped working again.” Fitz said, waking up Chad. “Fitz don’t do that, you mean ass.” You said, Chad groaning. “Who would’ve thought that a 40 year old limo would be so shit?” Fitz asked. “It’s cause you’re in it.” You said, Fitz looking fake shocked. “That’s fucked up.” Fitz said, you laughing. “Wow look at that view.” You said. “I know it’s beautiful, ain’t it?” Mitchell asked. “I was talking about Fitz and Swagger.” You said, Mitchell laughing. “What’s up Y/N?” Michell asked, you just chilling. “Nothing much, I don’t have to do anything the boys got it covered.” You said laughing. “Y/N wanna try out the hammock?” Swagger asked, you walking over to Swagger and Matt. “Absolutely fuck not.” You said, Matt and Swagger laughing. “Us having sex was my top priority.” Fitz said, you and Tobi laughing. “What the fuck, you have RGB in your tent?” Sam asked, Matt laughing. “Dude this is fucking sick, I’m staying in here tonight.” You said. “Cam, are you pissin?!” You yelled, Fitz turning around and flipping you and Sam off. “Matt, that is a really bad idea.” You said, Matt putting his head almost in the fire. “Do not fall back!” Swagger said, Matt sitting back in his seat. “We couldn’t of gotten through the day without Gamer Supps, right guys?” Fitz asked, everyone groaning. “Fitz.” You groaned out, Fitz laughing. “Eric what are you putting in this shit?” Chad asked. “I will kill one person on this trip.” Chad said. “Same.” You said, sitting on Fitz’s lap. “You hear how quiet it got after you said that, and Y/N don’t egg him on?” Fitz asked, you laughing. “Oi Cammy make me a smore.” You said. “Anything for you bug.” Fitz said. “Camp fire in the middle of the fucking camp.” Chad said. “Fucking mint.” You finished. “What’s fucking mint guys?” Fitz asked. “You’ve never seen those Tik Toks?” Chad asked. “He has he’s just playing stupid.” You said. “I’m such a boomer.” Fitz said. “You sure are.” You said getting up from Fitz’s lap, him gasping. “You don’t watch Tik Tok, what do you do all day?” Chad asked. “Jerk off.” You said, everyone laughing. “Being paralyzed from the waist down sucks, and your dick don’t work!” Fitz said. “Y/N would you still love Cam if his dick didn’t work?” Chad asked. “Of course.” You said, giving Fitz a kiss. “Babe, not in front of the homies.” Fitz said, everyone laughing. “It’s pedophile 100% of the time!” Fitz yelled. “Fitz that’s that’s really bad.” You said, everyone laughing. “Where the fuck am I supposed to sleep?” You asked, seeing Tobi and Fitz cramped on the blow up. “Right here.” Fitz said, patting his lap. “We got no mattress and 3 bags, and that’s it, that’s fucking it.” Swagger said, you sitting next to him in the tent. “And we got a heater, which will probably kill us.” Swagger said. “Yeah that’s a really bad idea.” You said.
“Is this how you imagined your time with the Misfits would include this?” Tobi asked. “I love talking about your guys shit life, thanks.” You said, everyone laughing. “I mean you hit the board, I’m impressed.” Tobi said, as Swagger hit the board. “Yay Swags!” You said. “Just getting some B-roll.” Tobi said filming Swagger and Fitz. “Tobi.” You said laughing. “Chad!” You yelled, Chad ripping the top off the tent. “Oh you cunt!” Tobi yelled. “Chad watch out!” You yelled, Matt spraying him and Sam with a fire extinguisher. “I know them.” Mason said, at the car that drove past. “You do, who are they?” You asked. “That was James and Sheralls.” Mason said. “Fill it up ya dickhead.” Mason said, hitting Matt on the head. “And there they go.” You said, Matt chasing after Mason. “How was your ride in Matt’s car?” Sam asked. “I mean it was alright except the part where he almost killed us.” Mason said. “Okay, almost died.” Swagger said. “Not the car I want to die in.” You said. “Oh no this is loot lake.” Mason said. “Loot lake?” You asked, laughing. “Fitz.” You said, him Mason and Koby sitting on the ledge. “If you fell from this point you’d be goneskies.” Mason said. “Oh that makes me feel so much better.” You said, the camera panning towards you. “Come on babe get in!” Fitz yelled. “Nah I’m good.” You said, everyone laughing.
“How’d you guys sleep?” Chad asked. “We slept great how’d you sleep chad?” Fitz asked. “Terrible, I also had night terrors all night.” Chad said. “Fitz had a great night cause he got laid.” You said, Fitz chuckling. “What’d you guys think of last nights trip?” Tobi asked. “Um I cried like almost the whole way.” You said. “You did, why?” Fitz asked, pulling you into him. “We just kept hitting Roo’s.” You said. “I heard the rabbit go eeeeeee.” Mason said. “No stop!” You said, hiding your face in Fitz’s chest. “Once again, very Mason energy.” You said, Mason hitting the ground with a stick. “Very happy just got some blueberry ice cream and blackberries, good day to be Fitz.” Fitz said. “Can I have a lick?” You asked, licking Fitz’s ice cream. “Not the first time you’ve asked me that.” Fitz said, you laughing. “Dude do we want to go down there?” Mason asked. “Absolutely fucking not.” You said. “Oh I forgot, Y/N has a fear of heights.” Fitz said. “Those guys are looking at us like were retards.” Mason said. “Cause you are.” You said, everyone laughing. “Oh well, nothing else for it.” Fitz said pretending to jump off, you and Swagger screaming. “Oh dude stop, fuck this!” Swagger yelled before leaving. “Fitz!” You screamed, Fitz slipping on the stairs. “Bit of a close one.” Fitz said. “Ya fucking think?!” You asked. “I need to go home tomorrow I think.” Chad said. “Me too.” You said.
“Oh my god!” Koby yelled, Chad dropping his towel. “Fitz stop encouraging this.” You said laughing, as Fitz played on the piano. “No fucking way this is happening right now.” You said, after being stopped by the police. “Were filming for a Youtube series right now.” Tobi said, the boys laughing. “Yeah tell them were Youtubers that might get us out of this.” You said. “Are we really only left with the pink limo?” You asked. “Guess so.” Fitz said laughing. “That’s fresh pigs blood.” Chef David said. “Oh absolutely not.” You said, you and the boys gagging. “You don’t caress me like that, Fitz!” You yelled, Fitz kissing the pigs head. “What about that do you not like?” Fitz asked. “Everything.” You said. “It smells.” Mason said. “I ain’t kissing that pigs head.” Mason said. “I don’t blame you Mase.” You said. “Swallow.” Swagger said, Mason gagging. “Swallow Mason spitters are quitters.” You said, the boys laughing. “I’m done.” Mason said.
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