#fell-down-ate-cake

[katzcats]

i was tagged by lisa nostrils ^_^

apparently there are rules i have to post, something about tagging 11 new people and the person who tagged me and new questions after ive done these idek

1. what are you most passionate about? shit idk a lot of things, like zuko's character arc in atla and just the lord of the rings in general. but seriously probs the one thing i am most passionate about is learning. there's a reason why i'm planning to stay 6(??) years at uni doing my undergrad degree i'm a big sucker help me

2. what is your favourite childhood memory? i was a terrified lil kid and the first time i went to the country we arrived at our accommodation at like 11pm and there was no light pollution from anywhere cos we were staying on a farm and that's the first time i saw the stars properly... of course i was scared shitless and ran inside and hid under the dining table because all the stars were actually asteroids about to hit earth lol i was dumb

3. what are three things you like most about yourself? - my sense of judgement. i'm realistic but can empathise well. - i like my body and am not too concerned about body image - my extreme passion for some things and then complete apathy for other things (in terms of likes/ dislikes)

4. describe the perfect meal lamb steaks marinated with garlic and wholegrain mustard and super golden roast potatoes with a giant salad aw ye

5. *im gonna cheat a bit and steal this question from the previous set so* if you could speak another language what would you pick? i'm learning japanese atm but i reckon i'd like to speak slovenian because then i could speak w my grandparents and they would be happy

6. do you have any particular movie/show recommendations? frcikin hell what why ok lisa if you havent watched nodame cantabile yet is2g u ded to everyone else: i guess just watch avatar: the last airbender and fullmetal alchemist because all of the characters in those shows are so beautiful 

7. what made you want to follow me? ......................................... i don't remember, i think andrew kept showing me your posts and they were very funny

8. what was your least favourite thing about high school? um probably that i felt like i couldn't ask for help in my senior years because i was one of the 'good students' and so didn't need it????? idk i don't think there was enough support in year 12 especially

9. thoughts on australia? just really dumb. australians don't like to think. anti-intellectualism feeds heavily into racist, sexist, anti-queer, and just shitting-all-over-everyone-who-isnt-a-white-male culture. still in denial about tony abbott being the PM.

10. what was the best thing that happened to you in 2013? not going to lie, 2013 was a pretty shit year. ooohh but i dID get to go to coonabarabran for my friend's 21st which was amaaaazeeee and we saw the AAO telescope and it was beautiful and aahhh yess that was a very good time

11. ive run out of ideas it’s taken me about 1.5hours just to come up w/ these questions just tell me about your day. i was at uni from 10-6 cos i'm doing summer school. today's classes (gender studies) went for 5 hours: 3 hour lecture in morning, then a 3 hour break, then a 2 hour tutorial. the class is amaaaaaaazing, today we were talking about the emergence of queer in the heteronormative context that western culture has been operating in for the past couple of centuries. in my 3 hour break i went to the pool and did 10 laps, and then i did the last bit of my reading for my tute, and then watched some anime, and then i went to my tute, and then i drove home and went to a bbq at my neighbour's house and i was very tired and why am i still awake 

(i wrote this last night before i went to sleep)

11 questions for fell-down-ate-cake, staggerbutt, nostrils, kwunkwun, girlonadragon, oxfordictionary, saladsandwich, jacktheyak, nixybell, traditional-tea, imperialshag, formallyknownasmrbob

1. if you could only watch one more tv show in your life, what would it be?

2. are you a morning shower or evening shower person?

3. where's your favourite place in the world?

4. what's an attribute that you don't have that you admire in someone close (or not close whatever trevor)?

5. (i really liked this question so i'm stealing it) what are three things that you like about yourself?

6. if you could be anything or do anything you wanted now or in the future, what would you do?

7. what year of your life did you like most overall?

8. could you live without the internet?

9. what's the silliest thing you have ever done? (that you feel like you can disclose without hiding in a hole for the rest of your life)

10. who's your favourite character (from anything) and why (THE WHY IS IMPORTANT)?

11. Cats or cats?

[74mkf]

but if a person (who happens to appear white) feels comfortable identifying/ celebrating with a certain part of their background why is that a bad thing? I worked with kids who had a great grand parent who was a indigenous Australian, who appeared caucasian but lean towards their indigenous linage as part of their identity. Just like I wouldn't deny acknowledging how these kids identify, I don't think its right to deny another person that cause their white/purple/green.

hmm I didn't exactly mean it in that way. I consider great grandparents to be more relevant in a persons linage than a persons great great great great grandparents, so it makes sense for a person to identify with their aboriginal great grandparents. I was more referring to people who appear white who have a very distant past relative of a certain background and immediately identify to be part of that culture even though the physical evidence of them even being part of that culture isn't there. everyone has relatives from different parts of the world. my relatives from over 150 years ago were dutch, portuguese, english, luxembourgian and german, but I don't call myself any of those things. I was born in australia, my parents were born in sri lanka, my grandparents were born in sri lanka, some of my great grandparents were born in sri lanka, so I call myself sri lankan. I have always grown up brown and will continue to be brown, I was picked on a lot because of it when I was growing up. I suppose that's why it's just annoying to me that certain white people are able to cling onto their great great great great great great grandmothers heritage and call it their own and not face the same prejudice that people of those cultures face everyday