#(independence day does NOT translate to australian culture at all. america is weird and patriotic. it is not a thing anywhere else | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

asterchats · 2 years

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look if you're going to make your muse Australian and give them a huge "i am core australian" identity with heavy Indigenous Australian contributions to their background, which you have used to make them an animal living in secret in 'normal' society, the very very very bare minimum you could do is not make them born in sydney and their birthday literally january the 26th, i don't know what to tell you i keep coming back to this on the regular. the very bare minimum is Not Doing That and that's even lower than the bare minimum of not using Indigenous Australian principles to create an abused fantasy race of sentient animals

#drama cw #i keep coming back to this every single time i'm like 'maybe i was being unreasonab-' no #i was giving them a Heads Up bc jan 26th on surface level if you look for something like independence day in australia #(independence day does NOT translate to australian culture at all. america is weird and patriotic. it is not a thing anywhere else #in the world besides like. north korea. y'all are weird)#on surface level if you are thinking 'oh yes what is the equivalent' then yeah you find australia day and you think #surely that's a reasonable date #but it's also celebrated on The Day of the first fleet's arrival / the conquering of australia #ft. the short and long-term attempted genocides (plural) (multiple attempts) of Indigenous australians #it's Invasion Day it is called australia day by bogans who thought it was a good idea to make it something to celebrate in the first place #i just think. even on a surface level - i can understand that is the thought behind it #i just think 'hey just a heads up that is probably a little iffy for a couple of reasons would you like to talk about it'#not even something to. i just........#yes people want to just make ocs and like their ocs and not have to think about the outside world and fun is fun #also there are very real stereotypes and harms in the present tense which those factors combined are contributing to #and it wouldn't be hard at all to make. the smallest of adjustments

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