#melburnian

[noticethings]

#f1 #grill the grid #oscar piastri #op81 #I love representation in the media #melburnians rise up for our lord and saviour #the excitement of getting mentioned when you live in the southern hemisphere >>

[frauenfootball]

#the uswnt admin has made an enemy of melburnians/victorians by calling melbourne 'melby' #sweden football admin knew how to use it to their advantage 😅 #i have to share this because i've been laughing about the uswnt twitter's faux pas and aussies' overreaction to it since this morning #now it's even funnier with the swedish fa twitter responding #funny #update: just to clarify... 'melbs' is the correct shortening of the name

[mirrorofliterature]

do I fundamentally believe in DNI lists? no... but hm, thoughts

DNI if, in varying levels of seriousness:

you disagreeing with annabeth chase's casting in PJO [leah's excellent, fight me]

you think sydney is better than melbourne [FIGHT me]

you drink coffee [why?]

you support pauline hanson [don't even LOOK at me]

you victim-blame either hector or imelda [there's a MURDERER right there, FFS]

you don't support the 'woman, life, freedom' protests in Iran [do you hate women? yes]

you think neoliberalism is a good thing [no]

you think dogs are superior to cats [my cats vehemently disagree]

you think that percy weasley is a traitor [fight. me]

some I'm completely serious on, some I'm joking around with! the serious ones are not... particularly subtle tbh. let me know if you breach any of them! warning: supporting one nation WILL get you blocked bleh racists

#rambles #hp #coco pixar #do I have a good explanation for this? #I was a little mad at people who are clutching pearls over annabeth's casting and it spiralled into THIS #I'm also in a little bit of pain so! a mock/kind of not DNI list #okay I'm serious about: first one #I'm doing an essay on the women life freedom movement #and neoliberalism just generally sucks #the others: melburnian tea drinker hector and imelda fan percy fan have two cats

[clarabow-mp3]

myki inspectors as a whole deserve the lowest circles of hell unfortunately.

#the one i saw today was quite nice but the fact that they got on TWO stops after the free tram zone ended #insane. jail. immediately. #i have no fucking clue when the free tram zone ends once i start seeing people touch on i touch on #and there were these girls across from me who hadn't touched on bc they were tourists from england who have been here for TWO DAYS #if i a lifelong melburnian get confused about this how can we ever expect TOURISTS who have just gotten here to get it right?? #thank god the guy was nice and didn't give them a fine and i showed them the ptv app and how to check your balance #and top up in the app etc but man. fuckin myki inspectors man.

[anguilliforme]

Dulcie why are you wearing all black in darwin

#deadloch #m8 it doesn’t get below 20 on most days what are you doing #you couldn’t pay me to wear all black there and this is coming from a melburnian

[thatsnotbuddies]

#lawson crouse ur average melburnian man #this is so funny to me idk why #poke bowl n bev in hand he's just like me circa 2019 #lawson crouse #yotes

[slayhamkennedy]

THE NEWSREADER WON BEST DRAMA. This is for the gays and the Melburnians.

#flood warning #nr #aacta awards

[wariocompany]

No I won't apologise for being Melburnian.. society never apologised for turning me into one....

[discoveredreality]

Congrats on 150 followers!!

We have been mutuals for a while now and haven’t really talked… just wanted to let you know that your account always makes me laugh like you seem so funny and real.

🤓 - for your 150 follower ask

Since you’re sharing a fun fact, I will too.. I also live in Melbourne!! Yayy Melbourne mutuals hahaha

thank you!

yeah ik i am shit at started conversations sooooo

omg yes melburnians forever!!!! melbourne is better than sydney i'm sorry it has to be said

ok one random fact - cause we're both aussie so

australia is wider than the moon! (it's cause we're that amazing-)

also a fun fact about me

it might be a bit of a sensitive topic for some ppl or u might be a bit shocked so putting it under the cut

i like soggy cereal

ANYWAYSSSS

ty for the ask i hope u have an amazing day!

[welcometololaland]

Nice Ask Week! If Tarlos was Australian, what favorites/hobbies/habits would they have?

hello courtney! thank you for this ask (it's really late, i'm so sorry).

called up my fellow australians for this task because it wasn't easy. the truth is, we don't have that many quirks. most of the fun stuff is the wildlife that can kill you.

i'm from melbourne (in the south-east of the country) and there's a huge italian presence in this city, which means we have both incredible food and coffee. melburnians are known to be coffee snobs, and i think if carlos lived here he would definitely get in and amongst the coffee culture. it's also a bit of a foodie-dream city, so i feel he'd fit right in.

as for tk...he'd definitely be one of those kids who lived down at the beach in summer. he probably did nippers (a surf life-saving program for kids), because owen would have wanted him to learn swim safety.

one question which divides the nation is whether you're a diehard fan of rugby league or australian rules football. some people (me) aren't really into either, but typically people follow one or the other. my state is super AFL heavy, so i'm better acquainted with that. if tarlos had to pick a team...i'm going to say carlos is giving geelong vibes for absolutely no reason whatsoever. tk, on the other hand, he's a little feral. not collingwood level but i could see him getting around richmond. no shade to anyone who follows AFL please i'm from melbourne and i loosely follow the brisbane lions so...who am i to judge.

#this post is a little ridiculous i apologise #tarlos #australian #tk strand #carlos reyes

[frauenfootball]

As a California Bay Area resident, i grew up with the world using the wrong nicknames for San Francisco, but JFC you’d think the USWNT personally threw up on the face of every Australian with the reaction it’s getting lol

Most of those people responding on Twitter are just having a laugh and probably already low key rooting for Sweden. That USWNT tweet and the Sweden FA admin's follow-up response just made them high key root for Sweden. I will admit there are previously true neutrals before who are now rooting for Sweden now because of those tweets.

As someone who didn't grow up in Melbourne but have lived here for a few years, I thought the overreaction was understandable but hilarious. It's harmless banter so I'm just laughing.

#also it's not every australian #because sydneysiders are saying they'll start calling it 'melby' just to annoy melburnians

[fatehbaz]

British attempts to assert dominance on a far-away colony were achieved through the execution of planning policies in the initial townships. These old imperial concepts of planning still have direct impacts on how Australians interact with public space in the inner city.

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The use of public space in cities around the world is an effective way for both governments and citizens to express themselves. These uses include: exercising authority, as well as challenging it; celebrating and mourning; and casual recreational activity. These ways of engaging with public space have never quite translated into the Australian context. [...] While towns and new suburbs in the young colony were deeply influenced by European urban design, a key feature was excluded – the piazza. Governor Richard Bourke made very clear to surveyors that new towns in New South Wales (which at the time encompassed present-day Victoria) must not include public squares as these could promote rebellion. [...] [H]is wish to prevent mass public gatherings in the city was certainly realised. [...]

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The placing of ornate, iron, wooden, or stone fences at first glance seemed to serve a purely decorative purpose. It can still be seen in the bluestone footings around the Carlton Gardens and State Library of Victoria where the iron fences once stood. This form was a disguise of the function so people could not climb over, slide through, dig under, and sometimes see over these barriers. Gates were opened at a particular time of the morning and locked at sunset to deny access to the public under the cover of darkness. [...] Even today, the city’s main square (Federation Square) was not designed as a place to be in. [...] Bourke’s demand to the early surveyors became part of the way Melburnians lived and experienced the city as Melbourne grew as a “destination city”. [...]

The central business district developed into a “9-to-5” place. People came to shop and work, then retreated back to their suburbs at the end of the day. As a result, an importance was placed on suburban life. [...] It was not until planning policy shifted in the 1980s, and renewed investment and interest in the inner city accelerated, that the idea of civic spaces and communal environments began to embed themselves in  our urban consciousness. [...]

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Without a city square and with clear boundaries set around parks and gardens, Melburnians responded by finding other places to gather. Some groups responded by acquiring impressive private buildings, such as the Trades Hall. The general public gathered “under the clocks” of Flinders Street Station, or on the steps of Parliament House. These are still gathering places today, even after City Square (1980) and Federation Square (2000) opened. Public spaces were not built into the fabric of the city and as a result they feel artificially imposed on the urban landscape and awkward to use. The city was designed as a place where interacting with public space was discouraged. Melburnians seem to meet in places such as cafes, bars and pubs [...]. People organically found ways to interact with what little space they had, and we have seen the rise of laneway culture and street art as a response.

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All text above by: Aaron Magro. “Australians don’t loiter in public space – the legacy of colonial control by design.” The Conversation. 19 May 2023. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

#ecology #landscape #imperial #colonial #abolition

[clarabow-mp3]

the sun comes out for the first time in the first week of spring and australians just go completely insane

#maybe this is just melburnians idk but i do know that i and my family have gone insane #when george harrison said here comes the sun doo doo doo doo here comes the sun and i say it's alright. he was so real for that.

[alexandra-again]

Wearing masks forever, for the rest of our lives, is NOT "a few small inconveniences", "a slight inconvenience" or "a tiny change". I'm autistic, and *really* need freedom, both as an autistic trait (sensory and/or in the way that many neurodivergent people have something that we just *can't* get over, that doesn't matter as much to most people), and because of my childhood as a special-needs kid in Australian suburbia (at mainstream schools with integration aides, fyi). I was constantly restricted in the name of safety, strictly controlled with "the cat never being away", and told that I was selfish or "not being fair on others" for breaking the rules or needing more freedom than they were willing to give. Unlike many allistic people, I don't rationalise and come to support new restrictions that I originally opposed, and often grieve for freedom lost and/or denied. I could barely cope during the height of the pandemic, when masks were mandatory and, as a Melburnian, I had to sit through multiple months-long lockdowns. I never really sought any kind of medical exemption (though my therapist was willing to give one).

For me, masking, and "COVIDSafe" (an Australian term) in general, are inherently suffocating, traumatic and a source of grief. Having to wear a mask *forever* would probably eventually drive me to suicide. All this "wear your fucking mask" discourse, shaming and judging people who don't do so and even describing it as "eugenics", is INTENSELY triggering for me, seemingly demanding my martyrdom, that I submit to endless suffering and agonising grief *forever* to save others' lives. It seems to force me to choose between being a martyr and a monster, to demonise my needs and not consider them valid. It has made me feel alienated from and rejected by both Tumblr social justice culture and the disability justice movement, even though I experience and suffer from ableism. My own rights movement seems to demand my martyrdom. It makes me feel shame, that just *being* and living your life is evil, murderous eugenics, and that my needs are bad and wrong and murderous. Abled society's never really accepted me or my need for freedom or considered it valid either.

Indeed, in the wake of the pandemic, parts of the disability justice movement at least seem not to consider the need for freedom to be valid. They sometimes seem to see freedom as a privilege rather than a right or valid need- for them, to be disabled is to be inherently limited and restricted, which they already are, and everyone should just learn to live without freedom to save their lives. They value safety, community and interdependence, not freedom. So did the institutions of my childhood, which constantly punished me for not fitting in. Though I do acknowledge that other parts of the disability justice movement focus more on freedom- indeed, the concept of "dignity of risk" first came from the disability sector.

Even exempting me and other disabled people with competing access needs (whom these people rarely acknowledge or validate btw, and sometimes even seem to outright dismiss) from this "wear your fucking mask" rhetoric, judgement, shame and rejection isn't necessarily much comfort to me, or very validating. It means that most people's way of *being* and living their lives, which they do every day, is evil, even if they're not evil themselves (which would be very easy to think), and that I myself depend on this evil to meet my needs (remember that abled society doesn't really accept my need for freedom either). It also demands that I see most people, and their reasons for not masking, as being completely unlike myself and my own, which I could of course never persuade them of without looking and feeling like a hypocrite, and which I can't fully believe either. While people here insist that masking is only "a few small inconveniences", "a slight inconvenience" and "a tiny change" for most people, it actually causes enough people, at least, genuine pain, suffering and grief. It doesn't just feel suffocating, but also demands that people hide and seemingly censor what is, for most though by no means all people in our society, their very identity (think about the metaphorical implications of masks and masking). I feel that I can't be me in a mask, and I doubt that I'm the only one.

While most people likely don't suffer as much as I do from masking, they describe abandoning it as "getting on with their lives" and "living their lives". While this may seem callous to those who can't afford to catch COVID, it definitely suggests that they experience masking as more than just "a few small inconveniences", which wouldn't really stop you from "getting on with your life"? Am I wrong to take this in good faith, when so many people dismiss it as mere ableist whining and "throwing disabled people into the garbage"? Even many of the disability justice activists I've mentioned seem to touch on how masking is a genuine source of pain, grief and more than "a slight inconvenience" for most people.

Ultimately, the only way that I can feel OK, accepted and acceptable, without shame or doubt, is for it to just be OK not to wear a mask. Prominent disability justice activist/theorist Mia Mingus argued (albeit back in January 2022, during the big Omicron wave of COVID) that disabled death should not be accepted for "abled life", and that "You are not entitled to our deaths". But are she, and the other people I've been talking about, entitled to my, and others', agony? There's a limit to how much you can force on and/or hurt people, even to save other people's lives. For example, you can't force people to donate kidneys, bone marrow or even blood, because bodily autonomy can't be violated even to save other people's lives. This is also the current predominant pro-choice argument. Forcing people to wear masks and be COVIDSafe *forever* might not be an obvious violation of bodily autonomy, but it can still cause genuine pain and suffering.

I won't feel accepted by (parts of) Tumblr social justice culture and the disability justice movement until they stop seemingly demanding that everyone wear masks *forever*, preferably by mandate, and judging people for not doing so. Thanks for coming to my TED talk 🙂

#psa #me #personal #coronavirus #autism #actuallyautistic #my childhood #ableism #eugenics tw #(mention) #suicide tw #suicidal ideation tw #abuse tw #Melbourne #aussie things

[applejee]

any melburnians at måneskin. come say hi

#im not there yet im getting dinner but im hype

[nando161mando]

via @slackbastard

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