#SIX HOURS

[divorcedfranklangdon]

they've known each other for six hours

[noisykat]

@ijiwaruuma doveli dovol'ni A quick sketch, in the new wave of Morrowind fixation egh Raftal lil baby just fo ya

[taxed-up-trotter]

mundane talks

[ddejavvu]

i am tweaking ☝️

[kitten-mitts]

[chiquilines]

Redraw of a comic i made a year ago for the villain!fuyumi AU!!

[altarfates]

[this-isnt-oish]

can't draw ANYTHING in class 😡

[fieriframes]

[Salt and pepper. Water. Cook this for six hours. Then she remembered. A little oil. Garlic. Mirepoix. Now we're French-American-Filipino.]

[elposting]

i cant sleep. goddamn college board. fuck me

[theplantbish]

I don't know what possessed me to bleach my whole head of waist length hair all on my own but. it's done

[blacjaq1]

[ozfi]

guess who has Sleeping Problems

[vanvietvor]

Got some good cleaning done today thanks to the Lord!

Had a good dinner too!

And hopefully I'll have a good sleep!

[pynkhues]

https://www.tumblr.com/pynkhues/766748848331898880/growing-up-in-a-cattle-station-family-in-rural?source=share

This is kind of blowing my mind--I'm American and we are obviously a very big country, but I'm trying to imagine anyone having so much land (or just so much land being available anywhere) that they would have to drive four hours even to reach the edge of their own property

Yeah, I mean!! Australia's a big country, and - globally speaking - no one lives here, lol. I can't articulate to you how small some towns in rural/remote Australia are, despite the country's size, but mm, okay, I'll try, haha:

When I did that particular tour of rural Queensland [I live in Melbourne, Victoria, but 'm from Brisbane originally, which is the capital city of Queensland], it was a part of a creative project funded by the state archive to build a food memory of Q, and a part of that was taking celebrity chefs to remote parts of the state to help people write about passed-down family recipes. It was genuinely one of the most fun jobs I ever had, and I met so many interesting people, and I think about it all the time, haha.

In that, we flew into Mount Isa, which is a mining town, and then just - - drove! For hours! And the landscape just alternates between this:

And this:

(Both of these are literally just Mount Isa too)

It honestly is such a unique landscape, and when you're out in it truly, you don't feel like there's anyone else in the world. Like, God, half of Australia's entire population lives between Sydney and Melbourne! That's always crazy to me, especially given the breadth of the country. Jodie Foster filmed a movie here years ago and just said she couldn't believe how much of Australia was untouched, which is a lovely thing to say, but only partially true, of course.

But yeah, like, I also did a year-long freelance writing contract for the Q Department of Education about five years ago, and there are schools there which have literally six students per year level MAX. One school we were preparing child safety documents for was a prep-10 school (a lot of remote schools don't offer year 11 and 12) had eight students total in the entire school.

(Slightly off topic, but a lot of the resources I was writing there were just begging children to stop daring each other to eat kangaroo poo, because they kept getting Q Fever, so there's a little bit of trivia for you, haha).

It's why a lot of kids are still sent out to board in city schools - particularly if they intend to graduate - hence Sam going to school in Sydney doesn't surprise me at all. Again, I don't know if he was a boarder, but Cranbrook offers it and I know anecdotally farm kids tend to board (again, my mum did, and I know a lot of other people who did too), and I know Cranbrook caters to rich rural farming families.

Also just anecdotally, outside of schooling, my sister has been living regionally so when I say she's in family court, she's in a regional one, and one of the things that I hate to say surprised me given what I talk about above was that in the Readiness & Compliance Hearing where a group of us are all getting to hear each other's business, the average time to get to the closest court from remote Australia was 7 hours. So yeah.

Big country, and a very, very dispersed population.

[atrociousrat]

We don't talk very often but I really appreciate you consistently interacting with my posts.

I hope you have a wonderful day<3

I hope you have a wonderful day as well! :D