Under The Willow

a pile of junk, honestly. making my love of aussie indie everyone else's problem | Harry | Aussie | 27 | they/he

[earthdungeon]

spider pronouns it/ze/bit/xe

[thunderstruck9]

Criss Canning (Australian, 1947), Gum Blossom, 1995. Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 71 cm.

[faetoof]

i enter the web design class

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[catgirlnips]

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[sergal]

my favorite mashup emoji is this one and i wish it was real so bad

[coastal-mangos-one]

[phuwins]

Then you fight it. Why fight it? TICKET TO HEAVEN (2026) dir. Backaof Noppharnach

[killrockstar]

can we talk about women fucking. for once could we make up stories about women fucking each other

[akkpipitphattana]

many many delicious things to analyze about the first episode of ticket to heaven, but i think the thing i'm stuck the most on is the drastically different reactions that barth and tanrak have to the statues of mary, jesus, and joesph

like. tanrak looks at those statues as a child and it brings him comfort knowing eventually, one day, when he dies and goes to heaven, he can have that. in tanrak's mind, god will one day give him that loving, happy family that was so cruelly taken from him on earth. seeing it brings him comfort, even so many years later, because he still holds onto that faith and that belief that one day, he'll get that.

but barth looks at it and it makes him so upset and uncomfortable he has to walk out of the church. because when barth looks at it, he sees the thing god took from him. he sees a happy family that he doesn't get to have because of god. because god is what has driven a wedge between him and his parents, because their beliefs have made him an imperfect son in their eyes.

religion and god as a comfort for one and as a tormentor for the other. maybe my god isn't as kind as yours....

[akkpipitphattana]

and then the statues being the first thing to flash in tanrak’s mind while he’s walking to the bathroom stall. that promise of getting to see his parents if he’s good. but what if he’s not good? what if he gives in to his desire? what if he can’t help it? what if he’s not good enough, not perfect enough, and he never gets to see his parents again? what if the thing that once was a comfort became a tormentor? what if my god isn’t so kind after all?

[willgrahamscock]

Before I followed you I was very against trans people it made me very angry, but the more you posted about it in support I decided to do a little research… well I went on pornhub. Anyway I found my cousin on there that was weird. I went with him to a gay club and I hooked up with a trans girl, I think she turned me trans. I’m buying some dresses and make up!

oh… yay! … oh… yay? … YAY!

[classicalcanvas]

Summer night on the beach (1903) by Edvard Munch

[confessionsdiaz]

i am well aware of the absolutely fucked up things eating disorders do to people’s brains, and i am sympathetic, but I still think acknowledging publicly that these celebrities are promoting looking emaciated on death’s door is important. Can you imagine being 13 and seeing this shit? Every celebrity event looks like a thinspo board, it’s awful.

[confessionsdiaz]

People talk about women's bodies far too much; this is true. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be addressing the elephant in the room of insane weight loss and eds. it isnt fucking normal or healthy

[nevver]

Glimmerati, Claudia Keep

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[marithlizard]

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

(via bsky)

(The classic XKCD comic)

[melbournetrains]

it's pride month! you know what that means

the only train in service is the faggot siemens !! yeaa !!

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

sometimes white people are like 'can you speak aboriginal?' and im like I can call you white in six different aboriginal languages☺️

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

People forget that theres over 250 spoken Aboriginal languages and it's not including aae, kriol, or Torres Strait Island languages.

and many languages such as my great grandmothers tongue is dead with the last native speakers passing away.

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

I can speak Aboriginal but not in the way a person might learn a second language, such as french.

I speak Aboriginal english first, I know certain Aboriginal words for certain things.

I know how to say crocodile in Larrakia, I know how to say brother in Yolngu

I can say goodbye in three different languages.

I live in QLD so the language and gestures are all Murri, and the north is different from the south. Sometimes the spelling for a word differs via location.

sometimes I sing songs in pitjantjatjara, maybe I don't know what they mean exactly but I understand the vibe.

sometimes I look up a word and its got a completely different meaning to one I knew growing up.

sometimes I look up a word and I can't find it anywhere. Sometimes there's no one left alive who could tell me the original meaning or how it changed over time.

sometimes Indigenous languages are more than a set of grammar rules.

[sebyun]

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