#places to see in Australia

[michaelgovehateblog]

I actually think the smoking ban is a good thing, it obviously won't entirely stop smoking or underage smoking, at least not for many many years, but making cigarettes less accessible will surely prevent lots of people from even starting smoking in the first place. I dislike giving Tories credit as much as the next person but I don't see anything bad about this or banning disposable vapes

#am i right in thinking this same thing has been in place in Australia for a while already? #i was surprised to see a lot of the opinion on uk pol Tumblr seeming to be different than mine because the opinions are usually #very unanimous on here lol #uk politics

[callme-l]

Something people forget when talking about weird things about humans is how they manage to survive up to 37 seconds after being decapitated

I know it doesn't sound like much, but man???

Imagine an alien comes and tries to decapitate a human because he thinks it's the fastest way to kill someone only to see him scream for 37 seconds after his head falls, that must be terrible

#humans are space orcs #humanity #humans are space oddities #humans are awesome #earth is space australia #humans are deathworlders #I see this in a #sanders sides #Post so i am not sure #If this is real #Alien: Im gonna kill the most fast way so you don't feel pain #Alien: **decapitated the human** #Human: You bitch #You know the Best part? We could see this happen in public places #Not aliens #But people being decapitade

[snixx]

conan gray you’re LITERALLY asian. do better

#HE WILL GO TO FOUR PLACES IN AUSTRALIA BUT NOT ONE COUNTRY IN ASIA?! #girl jakarta is literally the city that streams him the most in the WORLD #i mean I’ve made peace with the fact that I’ll never see him live but god it’s annoying #conan gray

[novelconcepts]

*stares blankly at YJ Q&A event in "I get you're free, but are you virtual or literally in Australia?"*

#like. it's free so it theoretically isn't a waste if i just got a ticket but there's a map. maps imply Physical Locations #and i don't wanna take a spot if it ISN'T virtual #i'd love to listen to courtney and liv talk about the show but like. where...is this...taking place #cuz as much as i'd love to see australia i'm uh. it's a bit short notice for...flight... #we love an event site that makes us feel stupid

[jessiesjaded]

People with bears and moose and mountain lions in their country will be like 😖 Australia scary 😖 girl I can fight a kangaroo or snake if need be, kill that bitch with a shovel if I had to- Mr grizzly decides to test its claws and fangs tho?? Moose feels a little stompy?? Good fuckin luck cunt

#im well aware bear or moose or mountain lion deaths are rare im just sayin #if i had to be in the bush with australian fauna or other fauna i pick australia #dingoes are the biggest predators left on land bruv and they barely exist at all 😭 #its literally lil creatures mostly like #and shark and croc but shark and croc exist in shit loads of other places #like again i know most of you will never encounter one of the abive creatures or only see one fron a distsnce is they exist in your region #but regardless THEY DO EXIST

[novalunosiss]

Y’allllll I went on a ski trip with my classmates and we went to the Museum of Australian Democracy/Old Parliament House and i kid you not I found this-

So ofc I responded

#if anyone on here was at old Parliament House on Monday before 12 pm I see you #literally shock of my life finding this #esp at Parliament House of all places 😭😭 #stranger things #byler #stranger things season 4 #will byers #byler tumblr #mike wheeler #byeler #byler is real #byler is endgame #gay mike wheeler #mike wheeler i know what you are #australia #byler supremacy

[gaia-prime]

And if you would, put the country/region you’re in in the tags, or a park/forest near you that you can visit to see them 💛

#i really want to know where there are fireflies in europe #fireflies are pretty ubiquitous in the eastern half of the USA #and i live near allegheny national forest / state park which is one of the best places to see them #but beatifiq grew up in australia and says she’s never seen them there or in the uk either :( #i don’t want her to have to ✈️ all the way here if we can do a cheeky european summer holiday with fireflies included #remade this to be a 1 week poll

[fitzrove]

Sometimes I feel like being controversial and think about making my next video essay about poto. Unfortunately I would probably be murdered irl

#adjdllsldld i say this very sincerely and kindly as someone who loves poto #and who has friends in the poto fandom #but. #sometimes looking at fandom discussions/the 30 year war (of ships) makes me go like that meme #'wow this place is a freakshow' 💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭 #also i feel like for poto you can't put out a meta analysis about the show without knowing allll the productions and the other poto musicals #inside and out. because there's always someone who knows smth you might've overlooked #and then that person will call you - a brave young suitor - an ignorant fool....... #like i already get lifelong jim steinman fans in my tdv essay comments and while some ppl are very kind and provide additional context #some are snooty as hell and act like my ability to analyze the story is impaired by not talking about bonnie tyler in the vid XDDDDHJDJDDDD #maybe i should make a lnd essay and base my analysis exclusively on the australia proshot and magdeburg (which i will see next year!!) #it will be glowing praise of course #musicals #theatre

[kingofthering]

A new spreadsheet has entered the villa.

Not sure how to account for DNFs yet. As it is, they're invisible in the average. I know that technically drivers who have to retire are still ranked but I feel like it would skew the average. Might have to make two different tables, I'll see.

#stats stuff #like technically max lost 19 places in australia? #which would give him an average of 4.75 positions lost per race #it doesn't feel very representative of his season so far #please tell me you didn't see the wrong table I just fixed it #(max/logan situation in australia)

[steakout-05]

hey wait i have a question..... if Jetpack Joyride certainly does take place in Australia, why are literally none of the other main/side characters Australian or Australian sounding??? why is Barry (and also Robo-Barry) the only one who has a noticeable audible Australian accent and presumably grew up with white-boy Aussie culture???? like, Craig sounds American, his buddy Steve sounds American (as do literally all the other scientists), Brains sounds American, literally none of the other characters from Really Bad Corp are Australian (which makes sense considering most of them are beasts or aliens), they gave Betty an American accent in the "Will Barry Steakfries Survive?" trailer thingy which is just??? huh?????? i thought she was?????? also Australian???????????????

we(to be fair, Betty does mention in the Thanksgiving JJ2 Event that many things are opposite in her universe, which may also include her nationality. still though, the amount of America in this game that takes place in Australia is perplexing to me. like. where are all the other Australians what happened to them where are they)

#jetpack joyride #barry steakfries #this post is literally just ''im a lesbian'' ''i thought you were american'' but like. i thought they were australian #but like really though... why does no one else have any australian accent at all??? #like according to barry's vlog jetpack joyride DOES take place in australia and he currently still lives there #it's not like he takes a trip to america every day to smash into the lab #especially because it's close to his house #in the 'rainbow barry' short we literally see him running from his house to the lab multiple times so like. what's up with everyone- #-not being australian??? #maybe the other scientists being american is easily explainable because they're all clones of the same guy who could have easily been- #-american himself. but also if we were to go with the 'high rank scientists are unique people' idea then why are they all american too #why is literally no one australian in this game im so confused #betty not being australian is the weirdest thing to me. like. out of everyone else i'd expect you to be one of the most australian people #and yet. she is not

[pfenniged]

I loved how Andrew wasn’t the bitter ex band member and put their friendship first and fully understood what George Michael was going to be, probably not the full extent of it but the fact George needed to evolve.

It made sense once he said Wham! Was for the youth and there was never going to be Middle Ages Wham! It clicked for me.

My parents were teens of the 80s and my mum had their greatest hits, I have a vivid memory of dancing around to Bad Boys and the woop woops are ingrained in my head!. I have to say almost all my music taste somehow goes back to their album and George but it is only a recent realisation. I hope you are enjoying them!!! Freedom and I’m Your Man are my favs. Though Careless Whisper is making a comeback after what was revealed in the doco 17 and that???? What talent.

Exactly, which I always thought was super-classy and honestly, very mature of him (I honestly think if I was a teen in the 80s I would have had a little bit of a crush on him for it, tbh).

We had the big hits in Canada in the 80s (My Dad was a teen in the 80s and informed me of this), and it's just interesting to think about what was big in different countries. Obviously "Careless Whisper" and "Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)" were massive everywhere, but I love how the documentary exposed me to songs they never play, even on our more retro/classic rock stations.

My Dad said "Freedom" was a big hit, but I'd never heard it, and I love it. Same with "I'm Your Man." And then even some of their more "naff" stuff, like "Wham Rap" and "Young Guns" just has that super-youthful energy, and shows a surprising amount of maturity in terms of its themes for something written when you're sixteen to seventeen.

Like, even if I had written a song about being unemployed when I was a teen, I don't think I would have had enough sense of character or myself at sixteen to think, "Wham, Bam, I am a man- job or no job, you can't tell me that I'm not." As an overachiever, it definitely took me until my twenties to be comfortable with not being defined by a job or gaining ALL my sense of confidence from what I do. And then Young Guns talking about premature marriage and children, and being locked into marriages you're not necessarily interested in? Like, there's clearly some great stuff there.

Also, their backing vocals are honestly also just clever and make me chuckle. Like, the thought of chanting "D.H.S.S." as your backing vocals ("Department of Housing and Social Services") when talking about being on the dole, and almost as something to toss back in people's faces with such youthful exuberance and a playful destigmatization of being on state support, is funny and clever and all I've been doing since I saw the documentary is just randomly singing out "D.H.S.S." everywhere I go. Same with "Everything She Wants"- the deep bass "GIVE YOU MONEY- WORK, TO GIVE YOU MONEY" has had me dropping my voice for the past week.

In short, they're so much more than the sum of their parts, despite being a self-described "schoolboy" band. I think they're a lot more clever than they give themselves credit for.

(Plus I just realized that in George Michael's solo career, the organ playing the chord progression at the beginning of "Faith" is the exact same melodic chord progression used in "Freedom," and it's just so clever. George really was far more talented than I ever recognized before. Brilliant. <3).

#personal #it's interesting because I've lived in Australia England and Canada #and it's funny what's famous some places and not others #anyhow again #see the documentary people #katherynparr #Wham! #Wham #George michael #andrew ridgeley

[brasideios]

Did any of y'all have a cave you used to spend time in as a kid? Or, y'know, some other place that was all yours and important to only you?

This is the entrance of my personal cave at the centre there. It's big enough for me to sit in as an adult, and has a nice sandy floor inside (beside sometimes kangaroo droppings in there that I had to sweep out with my foot). The view looks out over fields with not a single house in sight:

If you were to ask me about the places that made me who I am, this spot is high on the list.

#places you'll never see on TV #places that matter (to me alone) #Western Australia #rural Australia #original photography #behold the field in which I cultivate my vibes #or rather the fields that cultivated me :)

[not-poignant]

Hi, Pia. I'm just really grateful and I want to eat that no literally work has ever impacted me like FFS, and I have never read a character like Efnisien before and probably never will. I really appreciate you for the topics that you write about and the poise in which you do so. I know I've never met you but you've changed my life so much. Thank you!

Thank you, anon!

FFS was one of those stories that was really special to write, and it was so...incredible and unexpected that it turned out that some other people needed this story too (for whatever reasons they did). I never thought I'd get to write a character like Efnisien, let alone spend like...9 novels' worth with him? And I'm so glad folks like you let me get to indulge that and still indulge stories like that today. <333

Thank you for reading!

#asks and answers #gif post #falling falling stars #fae tales au #fae tales #efnisien ap wledig #i love efnisien #i was so scared to start that story #i spent 8 months putting it off #and trying to ignore it #because i just felt like #i would get so much hate for writing a character that had been cruel to animals #that no one would be able to see past it to who he is #or that people had changed to the point where... #people who have done bad things cannot be allowed to change without constant retribution #but here we are #dkslajfdsa that story changed me #and got me through the pandemic and a lot of lockdowns (western australia was one of the strictest places in the world) #(but also i am immunocompromised so i've been in a lockdown for like 3 years) #(the writing helps) #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

[vegancas]

not to be bitter on main but with usamericans being able to get their student loan debt cancelled now and also remembering that so many people there are able to get their top (and other gender affirming) surgeries covered by insurance, while i paid nearly 20k out of pocket for my surgery and have nearly 80k in debt... but australia is a great place to live i guess

#it's a double edge sword that debt like sure i don't have to pay any of it while my income is below like 50k #but it keeps going up every year regardless of if i'm studying because indexaction or whatever bs #so even if i do eventually have a job where i make more i probably won't see any of it coz i'll have an even more massive debt to pay off #literally in the last 10 years since i started uni my debt has gone up nearly 30k from indexation alone #and surgery??? like sure i couldn't got insurance to cover SOME of that but it would've been maybe half? #and i could've gone with a different surgeon with lower fees (but like they wouldn't have done my surgery the way i wanted) #and for the insurance or a different surgeon i would still be waiting to have surgery done #and i would not trade how much better i feel in my body now for anything! if i was still waiting no coz of money that would be excruciating #waiting now* #and i am lucky!! the fact i already had money saved when i decided to have surgery! #ranting in the tags like anyone gives a damn i just..... australia sucks actually #not that i'm saying america is great or anything but i know there are so many places in the world better than here on both these things

[jessiesjaded]

There is just something so calming about driving off for hours and hours out in the country, barely anyone or anything

#nsw even when its a place ive never been #always feels familiar even when its strange #i love the coast and id like to travel but something about country nsw just always calls me back #theres also a weird eeriness to it too #like once you leave the coast here it is so empty #australia is roughly about the same size as the us but 90% of its empty outside the coast #so it makes driving away feel so freeing #bc it doesnt take too long on the highway before shit is really empty #at least from where i am #also just seeing a tiny shop or cafe in the middle of nowhere is always so fun #id its just fun #if any of you ever come out here i would happily take you out past lithgow and wollombi and #dunedoo gundagai central mangrove..... #or down further #we drove all the way 1200kms in a single day from melb to here #it took from morning til 11pm but it was fun #that was like pre pandemic tho #i would stop places if i idid it again #anyway yeah #love the open road even if driving scares me still #also i didnt dox myself bc i listed random towns i have been not the place i acrually grew up ya see

[mountaincryptid]

#eurovision #that's what it looks like rn #though i guess the 10th place might go to australia we'll see #ai coração really grew on me since ut won 😅