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thinking of snakes much lately. i dont know his name yet

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Seeing that thylacines were nocturnal, it's not surprising a lot of Coorinna takes place at night. So I wrote this slow, ambient-ish theme for the night in the form of a fugue. I'm not really good at writing actual ambient music, but I think this captured the energy I was looking for.

I also want to make a solo violin version and a version for solo recorder and didgeridoo accompaniment.

It's been very cold and rainy recently here in Noongar country (we have seasonal rain, and it came late this year), so I've had a lot of inspiration to write the music to Coorinna (Tasmania is cold and wet as fuck).

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✦ Evening Glow & Morning Shade ✦

New adoptables! For sale here!

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Strange dogs...

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I'm finished my exams...

MUSIC TIME!!!

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Do you have (or at least did you have) any favorite games for the Nintendo DS?

-yeah

-no

-why are you bringing up the Nintendo DS in the year of our lord 2025

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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reblog and put in the tags the earliest songs you remember actively liking as a child (asking adults to play them for you, learning the lyrics, being excited when they came on the radio etc.)

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Happy Pride Month! Here's some DS pride pieces.

Intersex/nb Rose and gay Zrin

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I've started reading Coorinna: A novel of the Tasmanian Uplands by Erle Wilson.

It's a xenofiction about thylacines. Coorinna comes from the word Kurina which means Thylacine in the Peerapper (Pirapa) language of western Tasmania. Unfortunately, all the Tasmanian languages are extinct :'( fuck colonialism. I'm glad Palawa Kani is a thing though.

Anyway, I'm so enchanted by the book that I've decided to make a short Fan Soundtrack for it. I've already written two pieces.

This one is the first half of the opening piece. I felt it captured the energy of the Tasmanian uplands. Please ignore the metronome, this is just a demo clicktrack recording that I can play along to.

Music starts at 11 seconds.

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So, I have finally decided to take the plunge. I have been working on a long, slow burn fanfic of Evelyn Deavor from Incredibles 2 and my OC Vivian since early 2019. This story has kept me alive over the years, and continues to do so. I have hesitated for all this time- to dare share it openly. But I recently decided to just... do it. It's still only semi-public, I'm sorry but if one doesn't have an A03 account you won't be able to access it. Just thought I'd drop a mention of it here, since the few dear people besides me who care about Evelyn seem to hover around Tumblr. I am considering cross-posting the chapters to my Pillowfort but, still giving that consideration.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66089881/chapters/170316415

Please do not copy or repost my works. Thank you very much.

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my fave writing reminder

honestly, this phrase has been on my mind more times than i can count. i've kidnapped it, taken it as a hostage with no ransom money because i need it to live permanently in my head.