formerly @grahamkennedy

Richard. He/him. 29. TME. White. Bi. Currently in 24/7 OC lockdown (ask me about Pete Jabara and Harvey Killeen).

[petejabara]

Hello! 👋

Creating a new pinned with some things actually

I'm Richard (he/him). 29 years old, white, Australian, TME, bisexual.

I'm autistic with a broad special interest in 20th century Australian popular culture, especially music from 70s and 80s, and films from the Australian New Wave.

This means I'm currently obsessed with my OCs. The main two, Pete Jabara and Harvey Killeen, are radio hosts who fall in love while doing a drive time show in Melbourne in 1984, plus their various allies and foes in the 80s Australian entertainment industry. I post about them with the tag 'ttrohk'.

I'm also obsessed with Graham Kennedy, aka "The King of Australian Television", a comedian and variety show host who I made a whole video essay about. I post about him with the tag 'crow calling'.

[bastard-unlimited]

this image will not fucking leave my mind no matter what I do

[pjharvey]

they should invent a sleep schedule. any at all

[petejabara]

Improves artistically just so I can properly convey how hot my OC is.

[real-language-facts]

invented a new word today. its 'plagiarism'. im a genius i know

[ot3]

shout-out to characters who let their childhood friend situationship dictate the course of their life to a degree that spits in the face of any and all reason. they're doing important work.

[petejabara]

Now that's what I call artistic improvement. This is the same guy.

[petejabara]

Addicted to him btw

[petejabara]

Nobody tells you how much OC addiction takes time out of your life.

[akajustmerry]

Nothing infuriates me like seeing (mostly white) people move to australia specifically from europe, usa, etc and they make social media posts like "omg australia is a utopia!! it's so much better here than [x country]!! there's no problems like [x country we absolutely have the same or similar problems as] and everyone and everything is laid back and easy!!" because all they show me is you're a fucking coloniser without even the courtesy to do basic research. how about you google offshore island detentions, deaths in custody, ndis cuts, press freedom (spoiler: there's almost none), pine gap military base, what happened to palestinian visa holders the last 3 years, how many ppl facing prison time for being pro-palestine accross multiple states, the data centers being built illegally, google "closing the gap outcomes", look up how many coal mines have been and are projected to be built on stolen land in a climate crisis, look up how many 1000s of people have been displaced and made homeless without relief or recourse thanks to climate-change driven floods and fires, look up how many DV deaths there are a week, and if you have a bit more time maybe take a fucking squiz at how the most popular politician in the country rn is an old white woman who has been convicted of racist and islamophobic abuse by the highest court in the country, and most recently flew to London to do a podcast with an actual Nazi who's so fucking evil not even nigel farage would associate with him....and she's the most popular politician in the country. i get it's exciting to move and be somewhere new that may seem or even be better in some ways than where you're from, but read the room and have some respect.

[blackfolksintime]

Big Mama Thornton...

[phleb0tomist]

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.

[petejabara]

One thing about Harvey is he would 87 if he were alive today but like, and I know this is tragic and sad, but he just doesn't live that long. When I say "RIP Harvey Killeen you would've loved [X]", I mean it. This man is dead now.

Even after Pete and Harvey's happily ever after, he's still a heavily traumatised man who's a sexual assault survivor. And while he goes from "somewhat functional active alcoholic" to "recovering alcoholic" recovery is not linear, and with trauma so intense he does have relapses.

And so that is enough for him to die young(ish) at the age of 71 in 2010 (specifically from oesophageal cancer). Like despite my sappy goey love story, it was always gonna end like this, unfortunately.

And yes, his death has a huge effect on Pete, who retires from public life not long after. Like it's not something that turns up in the novel, which ends with a time skip to 1997 where they're happily in love and live together in a flat in Darlinghurst (Pete is annoying the shit out of Harvey with his latest musical obsession, Cows With Guns by Dana Lyons).

But everyone dies eventually, and even Pete and Harvey, the soulmates, are a little doomed in the end.

[petejabara]

Listen I'm gonna be honest. Improving as an artist isn't actually at the forefront of my mind, because it's a hobby I use just so I can draw my own OCs. Like I genuinely don't care about perspective and colour theory and shit rn I just wanna keep drawing 3/4 portraits of some guys in my head for fun.

[official-sonic-team]

really do love characters that wanna kill themselves so bad

[boccher]

clikc to redeem yummy

[petejabara]

I've said this before but while Pete has gone through fifty gazillion last names before I settled on Jabara. He could never be anything else to me but Pete. I cannot think of the name Pete now without thinking of my own fucking OC, and even without the added meaning and context it's just His Name (a lot of his story arc relates to the actual stresses of trying to achieve one's childhood dreams and ambitions, and balancing the maturity and responsibility of adulthood with an innate childlike wonder, so it's an oblique reference to Peter Pan as well).

And like, it has to be Pete too. Like obvs it's short for Peter but no one apart from his mum calls him that.