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Hello from Australia. ao3: AceAsADHD PFP: @zonie-az They/Them This blog is multi fandom. Feel free to say hello at Agender/Ace/Aro. You can call me Owleo

[namk1]

[rj-abacura]

I am obsessed with this.

So because parkour is such a ridiculously male dominated sport, the "correct technique" for a lot of these movements that you're taught when you become an instructor plays to a male body's strengths: upper body strength, higher center of gravity, etc.

She demolishes this course by moving in ways that make sense for her body. She doesn't muscle her way up to her over a wall, she just throws a leg up over the wall. She doesn't use upper body strength to do the salmon ladder, she uses her hips!!! And it's fucking incredible.

So many girls and young women walk away from parkour because every movement caters to the strengths of men, because doing what makes sense for their bodies is seen as "bad technique" to be trained away.

If pre-transition me had seen this I would have cried tears of joy.

[justiceleague]

Dolby Digital exclusive poster for "Supergirl" (2026)

[beardedmrbean]

I love the midwest so much

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[navigatorsnorth]

Check out my new DVD player

[aceasadhd]

Put up a privacy curtain

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[systlin]

One of the contractors at work is a dude who recently moved here from the Bay Area. He is used to Northern California, which is to say that he is NOT used to the general Tornado Alley attitude towards Thor dragging his dick across the plains and causing massive destruction on a semi-regular basis.

Namely, the fact that we get them at all, and the fact that the general Midwestern response is to wander outside to see if we can see it.

We have bad weather forcasted the next few days and I had to talk him through the site tornado plan and storm shelter locations (we have six on site, my office is actually inside one) to head off the poor guy's anxiety and also I had to admit that yes, I also share the general Tornado Alley brain damage and go outside to try and see it when the sirens go off.

Poor man thinks everyone in tornado Alley is out of their minds and as one of those people I can't even deny it. 'I seek shelter if it's heading this way' did not reassure him, he's convinced we are mad.

[systlin]

To answer the question in the notes, @what-about-second-tmblr ; when I visited Sacramento and LA some years ago, the sensation of a minor earthquake shifting the ground around just barely enough for a human to feel it had me freaked out and basically lying flat on my back outside going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA while the Californians looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

So yes it is reciprocal.

[canadain-goose]

I need like California fussing over if Colorado has water when he’s going hiking or smth (bc he cares) and Colorado is like “Oh my god yes, dad, stop worrying.” And it takes a second but they both freeze and anyone else in the room looks over confused bc what the hell was that? But then it keeps happening. And so Cal is just the Southwest’s (EXCEPT NEVADA) dad now.

[aceasadhd]

California tried really hard; like so hard to control himself. He had already been banned from being anywhere near Washington a week before any Bigfoot hunting trips. All good intentions meant nothing after enough calls of "Shut Up California".

It was just a day trip, the Emerald Lake Trail, in the Rocky Mountain National Park, no need for camping equipment or rations of food.

It was just... California didn't know how he had been invited, and was determined to not get himself uninvited. The Four Corners are a tight group, any mention of having a tag along might have them realise California was not needed or wanted on the trip.

"Utah, your hat!" California waved a tan bucket hat into the front seat.

Utah looked at it in surprise and grabbed it while checking his head with his other hand, "oh thanks Cali. 'Vada always says I'ld forget my head if it wasn't screwed on."

California sat back and gave himself an internal fist pump. Finally, he found the line between annoying and helpful.

"New Mexico," California reached into his bag and pulled out a tube, "I have it on good authority that this brand of sunscreen doesn't leave white residue on darker skin."

New Mexico grabbed it from him, "if your authority is some gringo influencer then I'm burying you off the trail."

"Hey!" Colorado called from the driver's seat, "we're not polluting the Rockys with California's body!"

"Agreed," Arizona grabbed the sunscreen and started applying some, once New Mexico squeezed out enough, "Not enough on him to fertilize a weed."

"He'll give a coyote a tummy ache trying to find any meat on him." Utah laughed and took the tube off Arizona, "Stay still Ra."

Colorado swatted Utah's cream covered hand away from his face, "I'm driving, we're almost there, can you wait?"

"Okay," Utah shrugged and applied the cream to his own face, "Just don't forget or Cali might ground you."

California made a face but was interpreted by New Mexico laughing, "Sí, no weed for you."

"And no climbing 13ers," Arizona poked Colorado from behind.

Colorado pulled into a carpark and made a big show of grabbing the tube before turning off the car and getting out.

The others scrambled out after him and started stretching out the long drive, getting ready for their hike.

Colorado threw the near empty tube back to California, "There, anything else?'

California opened his mouth before his brain could catch up with him, "You have enough water?"

"Yes Dad," Colorado jiggled his bottle to show it was mostly full. Giggles came from the other 3 states, Colorado swatted Arizona's shoulder, "oh shut up."

California shifted nervously from foot to foot, they were laughing but it still wasn't too late to tell California to fuck off and leave them alone.

Utah took a picture of the trail map for future reference, "Does that make 'Vada our mom?"

New Mexico punched him, "You and your mommy kinks would enjoy that."

Utah spluttered as laughter filled the air. Finally Colorado started towards the start of the trail, "Come on you lot, we have to get Dad back before his bed time."

California made a show of protesting but he couldn't wipe the smile off his face.

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[hag-o-hags]

Don't sleep on @queerliblib the Queer Liberation Library for all your queer Libby needs!

[jedijenkins]

what if you where A HOMELESS ORPHAN on the streets and the only person who wanted to adopt you was THE LITERAL GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS and you grew up being taught to WORSHIP THE GOD OF THIEVES but you wanted to BE A HERO so you naively JOINED MI6 because you grew up watching COPAGANDA AND JAMES BOND thinking that's what heroes looked like only to REALIZE THE GOVERNMENT IS EVIL and leave to BECOME REAL LIFE ROBIN HOOD then you got CHOSEN BY THE GOD OF KNOWLEDGE to be one of it's envoys on earth WHO SAVES THE WORLD EVERY WEEK TWICE BEFORE FRIDAY but you have to keep pretending you only care about yourself because you are AFRAID OF INTIMACY AND COMITTMENT but then you get TRAPPED IN A TIMELOOP AND KILL YOURSELF IN FRONT OF YOUR FRIENDS only to get FORCIBLY RESSURECTED and scramble to PRETEND YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE TIMELOOP because you don't want to ADMIT YOU WHERE SECRETLY ROBIN HOOD THE ENTIRE TIME because you're still TERRIFIED OF EMOTIONAL INTIMACY

[normalcei]

Not all dogs have jobs and I think they should get to wear little vests too

[aceasadhd]

And the Archangels were no longer allowed to give themselves titles ever again

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[theywhoshantbenamed]

I'm literally fucking crying New York is literally stealing Philadelphia's whole thing rn XD

[aceasadhd]

Well it's super rare for NY to have a sports win

[i-am-a-fish]

please do not look up to me. I am 1 inch tall. I'm down here. if you look up you won't see me

[breezey-with-an-e-art]

but what if i.....

[i-am-a-fish]

I REALLY LIKE THIS ART THIS IS SO CUTE I'M BEING HELD UP

[mur-art]

Here, have a Silly self-indulgent comic featuring my Nevada Cities OCs (Reno and Vegas).

There’s a running joke on local Reno social media that planting tomatoes before all the snow is melted off the surrounding mountains in the spring will cause late season snowstorms. It’s treated almost like some kind of weather voodoo. Some examples:

And of course Las Vegas is upset because this isn’t the kind of *juicy* drama she signed up for…

(She misses when Reno was a world-famous divorce hotspot. Now THAT was good drama! Now she just has to listen to Reno talk about traffic jams, Californians, and the weather! When did her sister get so boring? As if that’s not the exact same things *she* complains about…)