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I haven't used Tumblr as a main social media in years, so I was wondering if I should make a new blog. I think this blog has some nsfw restrictions on it. I want to actually follow some ACTIVE blogs .

So I will do that soon I guess. I will post a link in the blog description.

sanctimonstrous

i think height differences are cute but automatically associating being tall with being dominant is so embarrassingly heterosexual

andrewblurmoved-deactivated2024

does anyone wanna have a sleepover & do little crafts together & watch gay movies together. yes or yes

my-life-is-a-sidequest

I'm mutual with a lot of very pretty people

esthermika

Fun Fact: You can gift the plushie to other people to raise their affection level!

awesome-chameleon

It's so tragic that the word "lady" has been trivialised to the point of having the same connotations as "guy" despite being the feminine counterpart to Lord.

Cat Lord: ruler of cats, powerful position, all bow before his feline power. Cat Lady: any woman who has more than a 1 or 2 cats, usually dergoatory, spends too much money on cat toys.

"lady of" and "lord of" are still roughly equivalent, but "(noun) lord" is never not a postion of power, and I think that's very mysoginistic of the english language

identitty-dickruption

I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

inherently dangerous

uninhabitable

empty

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

pjackk

Ok so apparently the girls went out for tinis and bruschetta without me

wellwaterhysteria

i don't respect americans and what they refer to as chicken sandwiches because when i was working at my old job as a barista slash sandwich bitch (australian) i had this american tourist come in and order a chicken sandwich so i started MAKING. her. a chicken sandwich. asked her what kind of bread she wanted and she looked at me funny. i said We have sourdough, rye, multigrain, wholemeal, plain white bread. she said I Want A Chicken Sandwich. i, roughly 19 years old at the time and not getting paid enough to deal with rude americans, realised we were at some sort of stalemate, although i didn't really know why. i change tacks for a second and say Okay. Well would you like chicken schnitzel or would you like plain roast chicken. and she says. Are You Listening To Me? I Said I Wanted A Chicken Sandwich. i am smiling at her from behind the counter and gripping a large knife. "i'm trying to make one for you, i promise. i just need to know what kind of bread and what kind of chicken and also what other fillings you want". or at least i say something LIKE that. secretly at this point i'm hoping that she outright yells at me so i can have an excuse to go stand in the walk in freezer for a few minutes. eventually we figure out that her idea of a chicken sandwich and my idea of a chicken sandwich are not the same, and i have to explain to her that we don't have burger buns here and we also don't have fried chicken. she says fine, but she says it in a tone that indicates that she cannot believe this is happening to her and that it is, singularly, my fault. i give her a bunch of options for food we DO sell and she ends up ordering something With Ketchup. i smile at her and i say "oh you mean Tomato Sauce". i was antagonizing her just a little bit at this point. a tiny bit. because she deserved it. she looks me in the face and says, Americanly (smugly) something about my attitude and how she won't be tipping. i gleefully tell her "we don't have tipping here." and then i secretly charged her two extra dollars for being an awful person. and that's my story about americans and chicken sandwiches. okay love you.

wellwaterhysteria

1. i know not all americans are this rude and stupid. i just wanted an excuse to tell people about the time this particular woman was very rude and stupid to me

2. in this woman’s defence, we did not have a printed menu for her to choose from. but we did have all of our food and ingredients on clear display. so i might argue that this makes things a bit more embarrassing for her because all she had to do was point at what she wanted.

3. some people have said i shouldn’t have been so rude to her. my counter argument is that i was smiling the whole time and even letting it reach my eyes so what more do you want from me really and also she started it.

4. i have a million or at least roughly two handfuls of stories like this and i love to tell them. once when i was working at the same job i accidentally cut my hand on an especially crusty cob loaf and a man witnessed this all happen and still tried to buy the bread from me, but at a discount. and when i told him i couldn’t because it was a health hazard he said “well do you have any blood borne diseases?”.

5. MWAH

jer-tan

I'm reblogging this because of the post about chicken sandwiches the other day and this is where it gets dicey. But the American should of picked up the context that she was at a deli style establishment where chicken sandwiches are lunch meat style and not a full breast on a roll/bun style. (Chicken sandwiches could be it's own subcategory of sandwiches because of all the variations of it and context is needed).

And maybe I'm a bit bias in this because a) I've been in the restaurant industry for longer than most of my followers have probably been alive and b) work in a tourist area, but the attitudes that the tourist was given off ops behavior was probably warranted. Even more so because said woman probably expected her ass to be kissed cause she was on vacation where everything should go her way.

And finally after learning that Aussies call ketchup tomato sauce a while back makes my Italian grandfather roll over in his grave and ngl is a slight reason why I lost interest in pursuing my PhD in Australia.

polyzena

Why would calling ketchup tomato sauce be even slightly offensive? I am an Italian Australian and have no idea what the connection is there?

Does anyone have a link to that blog that posts just colours like individual colours, I can't find anything on this app >.<

tricky-pockets

running into a trans girl while you're out and about makes the entire miserable errand worth it, whatever it was. like glancing upward at just the right time to see a shooting star. I spot a trans flag and it sincerely ceases to matter that the bus is crowded and it rained unexpectedly and my shoes are soaked through and my headphones are dead. I am happy to be on that specific bus on that specific day, because you're there too.