What’s happening in Australia

takealookatyourlife:

Australia still doesn’t have marriage equality.

Today the government announced that on February 11 2017, a plebiscite (compulsory vote) will be put to the citizens of Australia to answer the question: “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?”

The Australian government is pledging $15 million in public funding (tax money) towards the “Yes” and “No” advocacy groups.

This means $7.5 million dollars worth of tax money is being spent on a campaign against LGBTI+ human rights.

This means 5 dehumanising months of LGBTI+ people being forced to have their humanity “debated” on.

Of children listening to hateful homophobic rhetoric. Of LGBTI+ people’s lives and well-being being put in danger.

Even worse, the fact that Parliament isn’t voting on the issue themselves means the likelihood of the plebiscite passing (allowing “same-sex” marriage) is actually very low. There’s no logical reason for Parliament not to vote on the issue because in Australia, the definition of marriage is civil (governmental), and not religious.

Essentially a tonne of money is being used in a bid to prevent marriage equality passing in Australia and endangering the lives of LGBTI+ citizens.

LGBTI+ people in Australia are hurting today.

#NoPlebiscite is the tag being used on Twitter in protest, please consider helping.

orchestra according to an oboist

piccolo: do ur best my tiny son

flute: please tune to me I literally just played the a

oboe: either your worst enemy or best friend, you still complain about reeds with them no matter what

english horn: bae

clarinet: please stop playing rhapsody in blue to warm up

bassoon: good, very pure

contrabassoon: also good, but more devilish

trumpet: dontcrackdontcrackdontcrack

trombone: usually fine

tuba: enjoy ur 28 notes in Dvorak 9 lol

french horn: dontcrackdontcrackdontcrack

violin: please tune to me I literally just played the a

viola: usually cool until you turn around and stare during the oboe solo

cello: solid,

double bass: so low, the Borf of the orchestra

percussion: if you play the last movement of shosty 5 during break one more time on timpani I WILL come back there and slice everything you love with my reed knife

How did you become so good at writing ocs?

Awwwww, ty Nonnie! *blushes* you’re v kind!

Other people have written heaps on character creation, but I’m not gonna go into all that, that’s available at writing blogs and sites and such. I’m just gonna explain my main rule of thumb when it comes to creating and writing characters…

what they look like is the LEAST important thing about them.

Seriously. I mean it. I give them two or three physical attributes. I mention these attributes once only – maybe twice, if it is particularly important (say, Gimris’ hair for instance). Then the rest of my effort is always devoted to personality characteristics. This in turn informs their actions and dialogue. 

That’s why Bomfris’ dialogue is different to Hrera’s is different to Gimris’’ is different to Laerophen’s is different to Gimizh’s. If I’ve done this well enough, then I should be able to write a few random lines of dialogue below and you should be able to discern which of these characters is saying it.

1. “I’m NOT havin’ a bath! I won’t! I dun wanna! Leggo of me!”

2. “Tsk. What a performance, good gracious. Such a dreadful show of poor breeding. It’s your family he gets it from, you know.”

3. “Um… excuse me? Pardon me? Um, yes hello – uh, I have an idea for that, if you’ll just let me through…”

4. “You’re nice, but it’s not needed. He’s just being an uncombed and idiotic fathead again. Wait, did I say ‘again’? I meant still.”

There we go, nonnie. I hope that is a help to you!