SHE BROUGHT YOU TO EDEN AS A REWARD

okay djab wurrung info for those who care:

directions tree is gone. they cut it down. its dead

birthing tree is STILL THERE. the birthing tree is a gum tree with a large cavity at the bottom in which generations of djab wurrung have been born.

as of today (wed 28 oct) the victorian supreme court has banned further works on the site until after a court hearing. this injunction is valid until after the hearing at 2pm aedt thursday 29 october.

it is not over. we do not know what the hearing will determine but the fact that there will be a hearing at all is testament to the power of the people. now is the time to fight for country harder than ever before. solidarity with djab wurrung first nation. sovereignty was never ceded.

email via: https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/stop_work_now

call (if in aus): (03) 9651 5000 state name and postcode, tell them you oppose the works on djab wurrung sacred land

djab wurrung court hearing update:

an interim injunction has been declared until the 19 november ie no further works on the site shall continue until the matter is resolved.

It is NOT OVER. this is short term, please keep fighting!!

the guardian has published this article about the issue:

DONT STOP CALLING AND EMAILING:

email template: https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/stop_work_now (foreigners can use postcode 3000 for melbourne cbd)

phone dan andrews (vic premier): (03) 9651 5000 state name and postcode, tell them you oppose the works on djab wurrung sacred land

reblog if you’re a lesbian who supports bi girls, a bi girl who supports lesbians, or if you want all wlw to have a nice day

Winnie the Pooh loves your pronouns

I did some painting at the shipyard today. I had to stop because my hands were going numb. It’s interesting to paint the ship while she’s missing two out of three masts!

name a cuter trio, i dare you

Beneath Lilies by Vanessa Palmer

my first illustration with hand lettering, lyrics from Ferryland Sealer.

you are, what? 12, 13 or something? it’s the middle of a monster war on manhattan and your whole cabin of siblings is being crushed by the invading army. you know it’s bad when annabeth chase and percy jackson arrive on scene, because they’re the special ops unit and they’re only sent to help in dire circumstances. and then you watch annabeth chase get stabbed. you watch percy jackson fight the minotaur, for the second time. you watch your head counselor - your leader and most skilled archer, the guy you answer to and look up to - perish as percy jackson blows up an entire bridge to stop the army from pursuit. and then percy jackson, hero of camp half blood and child of the prophecy, looks at you, one of the last campers standing. he “grabs” you, steals a motorcycle, throws you on it, and whisks you across a city of battle and chaos to get to his dying girlfriend. and then he asks you to heal annabeth chase. he is desperate like you’ve never seen before, and he places his best friend and the camp’s most admired demigod under your care. you’ve likely barely spoken to percy before, but annabeth is vital to stopping kronos, and suddenly the fate of the world is in your hands. somehow, after all that trauma, you keep calm and heal her anyway. ultimate respect to will solace.

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Putting the full text of the NYT article that the first tweet was responding to underneath the cut.

Link to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/speechleyish/status/1275990670663012352

Link to a couple of more serious threads about exactly why the biennial “Durian: the Freakshow Fruit” articles are so annoying:

https://twitter.com/amirulruslan/status/1276088736296472577

https://twitter.com/amirulruslan/status/1276313332492845056

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rb to make a trans person feel loved 💕

Powerful statements like these, that juxtapose the condemnation of such a simple and pure thing as love with the honour and worship of violence and death, always hit me hard and stay with me for days

This is the tombstone of Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich, the first gay service member to intentionally out himself in order to fight the ban on gay people in the military. He hadn’t only served for Vietnam, he was a career Air Force member in good standing who would have liked to continue his career even though he knew coming out would most likely make that impossible. He’d also been an elder in the LDS church but was excommunicated

He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1975 which was the first time an openly gay person appeared on the cover of a U.S. magazine and had their name printed in that magazine

He was an advocate for AIDs/HIV patients from the start of the outbreak in the 70s. He contracted the virus in 1986 and died 2 years later

His name doesn’t appear on his tombstone because he wanted it to be a memorial for all gay veterans

here’s the King himself

and here’s his grave in its full glory, with the pink triangles and everything! the words over the dates of his birth and death are referencing the extermination of lgbt people during the holocaust and the HIV crisis, respectively.

Buddhist nuns from the Druk Gawa Khilwa Abbey

Nadiya’s Asian Odyssey

This is so badass

This is my last project so far this year. I wanted to show some tribute to Percy Jackson series once I finished reading all the books (the story fascinated me more and more, I was reading and at the same time thinking "Woah, this part could be a great poster!”), and I really intended to create a poster for each one of the seven and even a few more (I don’t like HOO that much, tho, only a few characters), but then I saw a painful spoiler. I’m serious: when I saw that that character died I lost my whole inspiration and all my motivation! Suddenly this project became something exhausting for me. So finally, after months, I’m posting this cause I decided I’ll no longer move forward with this project. But I really love these and I hope you guys enjoy it too! 

“I never joke about calculus homework” ~ Samira al-Abbas