Stardust and fire fill my veins.

Hi I'm Toni. 22. Australia. Nurse. Lover of theatre, space and too many fandoms. I'm still working out the kinks inside.

[skyinide]

[afronerdism]

This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

[sixpenceee]

Rare deep sea footage of a Jelly fish

[mentiendez]

😯

[delta-breezes]

Zaira Zarotti

[babyanimalgifs]

That is a Majestical Beast 

(Source)

[jones-friend]

[emotionalempowerer-blog]

I could watch this all day.

[youareyoubutwhoareyou]

Hey if u like the ocean look at this its rly cool I think

[boglord]

as someone who was already scared of the ocean uhhhhhh

[crestfallendreamer]

I've been drawing a lot lately and decided to practice realistic people. I'm really proud of this one.

[sexysuggestion]

I want to spend all night learning every sound you make

[boggblog]

Me, talking to the nocturnal frogs whose vocal communication behaviors are worthy of a phd study

[miiriya]

[insiggious]

People have this weird belief that if you're critical of a system or tradition, then it must be because you failed to live up to that system or tradition. The idea of having a principled stance, regardless of whether or not *you* personally benefit from society accepting that stance, is foreign to so many people. And this belief is really fucking important for and beneficial to the elites of this country. If you can get the masses to equate criticizing you and the institutions you control with abject personal failure, congratulations, you've just made yourself immune to accountability

[creekfiend]

Also, as a failure of the education system: we need to spend more time listening to the people our systems leave behind. "Well of course you're critical of this; you failed" should not be a conversation-ender even if it is true.

[sixpenceee]

World’s deepest sinkhole in China                          

[the-memedaddy]

me 😐 irl

[mango-season]

Olivia Gatwood, Life Of The Party

[crestfallendreamer]

[sixpenceee]

Crab works fast to build shelter on a beach (Source)                         

[sixpenceee]

Crab works fast to build shelter on a beach (Source)                         

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Throwback to the time my poor German teacher had to explain the concept of formal and informal pronouns to a class full of Australians and everyone was scandalised and loudly complained “why can’t I treat everyone the same?” “I don’t want to be a Sie!” “but being friendly is respectful!” “wouldn’t using ‘du’ just show I like them?” until one guy conceded “I suppose maybe I’d use Sie with someone like the prime minister, if he weren’t such a cunt” and my teacher ended up with her head in her hands saying “you are all banned from using du until I can trust you”

[deflare]

God help Japanese teachers in Australia.

[languageoclock]

if this isnt an accurate representation of australia idk what is

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Australia’s reverse-formality respect culture is fascinating. We don’t even really think about it until we try to communicate or learn about another culture and the rules that are pretty standard for most of the world just feel so wrong. I went to America this one time and I kept automatically thinking that strangers using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were sassing me. 

Australians could not be trusted with a language with ingrained tiers of formal address. The most formal forms would immediately become synonyms for ‘go fuck yourself’ and if you weren’t using the most informal version possible within three sentences of meeting someone they’d take it to mean you hated them.

[hollowedskin]

100% true.

the difference between “‘scuse me” and “excuse me” is a fistfight

[fozmeadows]

See also: the Australian habit of insulting people by way of showing affection, which other English-speakers also do, but not in a context where deescalating the spoken invective actively increases the degree of offence intended, particularly if you’ve just been affectionately-insulting with someone else.

By which I mean: if you’ve just called your best mate an absolute dickhead, you can’t then call a hated politician something that’s (technically) worse, like a total fuckwit, because that would imply either that you were really insulting your mate or that you like the politician. Instead, you have to use a milder epithet, like bastard, to convey your seething hatred for the second person. But if your opening conversational gambit is slagging someone off, then it’s acceptable to go big (”The PM’s a total cockstain!”) at the outset.

Also note that different modifiers radically change the meaning of particular insults. Case in point: calling someone a fuckin’ cunt is a deadly insult, calling someone a mad cunt is a compliment, and calling someone a fuckin’ mad cunt means you’re literally in awe of them. Because STRAYA. 

[sandandglass]

[thaunderground]

dammit I gonna miss them