🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤Trance, dance, and music, and more

Okay, so first thing, he/they/them. Non-binary since I was born I guess. Born in 1968, I'm Gen-X and I'm also Australian. I live in South Australia, Kaurna land, and I come from Western Australia, Noongar Land. I like being a little dumb, sometimes, into being hypnotised, but I have a huge problem with losing control. Yep, that makes it difficult, you're right. I'm as political as. For those of you who don't know, voting is compulsory in Australia, a huge $20 fine awaits you if you don't vote, and our voting is "Preferential", which means we get to say who our 2nd, 3rd, and so on choice is if our first pick doesn't make it. That's all, ask me more if you're curious.

[tartlette1968]

"Summer love is like no other love..."

Yep, woke up to Sherbet this morning, kind of.

What I actually did was wake up, pull my MP3 player out from under my pillows, plug in my headphones (noise cancelling ON) and pulled up my "Happy" playlist. Then sat back and did the half awake, half asleep thing while the music played.

Yessss, i know I could have put on some hypno sound files, but I wanted, hungered, craved music. And... holy crap is it cold right now, too. So I see-sawed between awake and light sleep, with the music and then Sherbet came on, and I actually woke up a bit to "Summer Love"

"Cloudy skies are blown by with a breeze,

And when that sun shines

Life comes easy.

Bye bye troubles, goodbye

I'm walking with my head in the sky

Sea birds sailing in and out of the blue..."

And i woke up with this playing. Then "Oye Como Va" came on. Santana's guitar sang. And that's when I got out of bed.

[tartlette1968]

I'm about to talk about dissociation and related stuff, so TW for that.

At school... primary school... gymnastics - as in the vaulting horse - completely scared the living hell out of me. I didn't want to jump over it, let alone do a simple somersault. So when my turn came, I ran up to the spring board and jumped... I don't know what happened next because the next memory I have is being on the mat on the other side on all fours. I don't know what happened in between, I blacked out - dissociated for a brief moment before finding myself on my hands and knees on the gym mat... and then I burst into tears. The teacher, a visiting state gymnastics coach, just quietly ushered me over to the side, and I stood there, tears still blurring my vision, with no idea exactly what had happened, or why.

And then there was me and needles, well anything pointy and my body. I just had to think about them and I would hear buzzing... and then I would have this sensation like being pulled very rapidly upward through water as I came to. I had briefly lost consciousness.

On the bus to school one day everyone was talking about the TB vaccination that was coming up in a few days. I wanted to avoid hearing it, but I couldn't because everyone was talking about it... My ears started buzzing, and then everything faded from my awareness except for the bar my hand was holding onto. Then slowly everything came back. Yep, blacked out a little, but stayed with it enough to not hear yet still hold myself up.

Huntress, because she does this kind of thing, stuck a pin through the smallest thinnest piece of skin on my chest... despite my begging her not to. I asked her to remove it... and then I felt that being pulled up through water sensation. "How long was I out?" I asked.

Then about ten years ago Huntress sat beside me while I was having some blood taken, and stroked my head and did some other things, and I felt fine after the nurse had finished... and I have been fine with needles ever since.

But, well, dissociation appears to be my mind's choice as a defense mechanism.

[areawest]

kind of on the same note as that covid post but I feel like no one in australia really talks about the experience of the 2017 marriage plebiscite and how utterly traumatic it was to be queer during that

[tartlette1968]

Tony Abbott being personally responsible for giving the Australian Christian Lobby a loud national stage, Cory Bernardi the immunity to make offensive and ridiculous claims, and horrible and terrifying ads on billboards everywhere... when the wording could have been changed as quietly as Howard made the change in the first place.

And can we make mention of the meanness that motivated Howard to change the definition in the first place.

Millions spent because the Government of the day wanted the people of Australia to declare that they would not welcome their fellow queer people... when opinion polls already showed the opposite.

And Tim Wilson still crows proudly about the plebiscite that put people through all this.

[this-is-trans-joy]

a lot of my friends have been transitioning recently/figuring out their identities and I’m now surrounded by all of these wonderful trans people in my life who are also supporting me through my own gender troubles!

This is trans joy!!!

[nonbinary-wrath-month]

Non-binary people get louder NOW. Non-binary people get angrier NOW. Be a killjoy. Get obnoxious about your pronouns. Put gendered words together in ways that people don't like and spit on the ones they think are mandatory. Refuse to laugh at their stupid exorsexist "jokes". Dress in ways they don't understand. Refuse to answer their prying questions. Tell exorsexists to kiss your ass. Keep your chin up. Raise your voice. Get loud and a little cocky. I want to see your nonbinarity from outer space. Don't get it twisted; do it TODAY. Do you understand me?

[lilacs-and-earl-gray-tea]

As of this morning, my preferred name is now my legal name!!! It's so satisfying to finally have enough disposable income to start making my life my own. It may be later than I wanted, but it's worth the wait!

[queer-joy-detector]

Queer joy detected!

[theauspolchronicles]

The vast majority of One Nation MPs quit before the end of their first term. They're either expelled or quit because of internal bickering and dysfunction. Pauline Hanson herself was kicked out of the party and wasn't part of it from 2002 to 2013.

Barnaby Joyce will not be a One Nation MP by the next election. David Farley will likely quit or be expelled by the end of this year.

What's missing from all this media obsession with how much One Nation is rising in the polls because of all the oxygen and hype the media is giving to it is the issue of longevity and stability. One Nation has never been stable. Barely any of its members maintain party allegiance after a year in office. Why aren't journalists bringing that up?

One Nation is not a viable alternative. It's the gutter where those too dysfunctional to be part of real political parties go to see if they can whip up enough racist scaremongering to keep their paycheck at the next election.

It doesn't matter how many seats One Nation wins at the next election. It won't have kept most of them by the time the next election afterwards happens. One Nation is a grift. A con. A trap for the disillusioned and angry who want change but don't realise One Nation is the worst way to make that happen.

[tartlette1968]

It's a tough thing for me to admit, but it was this clip and this song that first jagged me on the hook that sent me looking for breakdancing... that one short moment of a guy moonwalking on the street...

"Buffalo Gals", Malcolm McLaren...

[tartlette1968]

Okay, yes, I played "Wham Rap" again and again because I wanted to annoy my parents... but being long term unemployed sucked, and it seemed like the world couldn't care less, so... Wham Rap...

[tartlette1968]

What can I say about Steve Kilbey, and The Church?

"The Unguarded Moment"... it says volumes...

[tartlette1968]

The 80s, and I spent Thursday nights at the "Supadance" studios in Bunbury, learning breakdancing because... well clothes, movement and it wasn't ballroom, it wasn't regimented, and there really isn't anymore to say.

[twitwir]

barely was a DAY into June before twitter started arguing over whether or not asexuals are queer because we "don't get discriminated against"

don't be like those bozos. happy pride, folks

[tartlette1968]

Of course, because the terms "frigid", and "sexless" don't carry any stigma at all. And the movies that have the plot or subplot, "We've go to get our loser/virgin/whatever friend laid", or the comedy horror movie trope "Sacrifice the virgin for this ritual" followed by shameful side-eye isn't at all personally hurtful or discriminating in any way.

"Why don't you have a partner?"

"Couples only."

Allo people have absolutely zero idea how much time they spend talking about having sex, finding sex, or elbowing the rest of us about sex and attraction.

And don't even start on how much sex and attraction is a constant part of advertising, with the message, "If you're not having sex, you're less of a human being."

[totally-kasane-teto]

sintastein

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

Babe we NEED pics of your rubber cuck collection

so actually ☝what i collect is DUCKS

[tartlette1968]

I am loving the Ukraine Film Festival Australia right now.

Just saw a heartening film about pet and animal rescue in the warzone. It was sad and funny, distressing and uplifting all at the same time.

And then there is Patron, and the sappers clearing land mines and explosives.

[tartlette1968]

OMIGOSH "Cuba And Alaska"

This movie is a ride of emotions.

"Cuba" because she was tanned and everyone said she looked like she came from Cuba. "Alaska" because she is an ice cold bitch.

Medics in the Ukrainian Army also trying to just live their lives.

It gets really heavy, but it was worth watching.

[baphofemme]

selfies i took before heading to hot topic and miniso last sunday 🍓

♡ (they/she/he) ♡

(credit to i4baizhu for the strawberry divider i used)