#eora nation

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Rock fishing at The Gap, Watson’s Bay, Birrabirragal country, Eora nation, Sydney, 1958 (photographer unknown)

#found slide #birrabirragal country #watsons bay #sydney #eora nation #new south wales #australia #kodachrome #1958

[glimmertriggers]

#eora nation #gadigal people #gadigal land #circular quay #Sydney

[tenth-sentence]

Even the renaming of Tu-bow-gule to Bennelong Point in the early 1790s, after the senior Eora man who became an interlocutor between the natives and British, has done little to show the true meaning of the place 'where the knowledge waters meet'.

"Design: Building on Country" - Alison Page and Paul Memmott

#book quote #design #building on country #alison page #paul memmott #australia #colonization #nsw #new south wales #tu bow gule #bennelong point #1790s #18th century #eora nation #cadigal land #nonfiction

[queerasfact]

On January 26 1788, the First Fleet transporting convicts from Britian arrived on the lands of the Eora Nation and the establishment of a British colony in Australia began.

In 1938, First Nations activists declared this date a Day of Mourning. Gathering at a thousands-strong protest in Sydney they passed a resolution that:

"This being the 150th Anniversary of the Whiteman's seizure of our country, [we] HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people by the whitemen during the past 150 years, AND WE APPEAL to the Australian nation of today to make new laws for the education and care of Aborigines, we ask for a new policy which will raise our people TO FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY."

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Although the day is now official observed as Australia Day, Victorian community organisers call it “an annual reminder of invasion, occupation, genocide and the ongoing impacts of colonisation that continue to destroy our land and waters”.

As Australians ourselves, living on the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation, we encourage you to spend the day doing what you can to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Black Rainbow and BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation are two organisations working to support queer First Nations people, that you in turn can support.

[Image: 1938 photograph of First Nations adults and children protesting with signs reading ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights’ in front of black-board which read ‘Aborigines Conference Day of Mourning’]

#australia day #invasion day #survival day #day of mourning #australia #australian history #aboriginal and torres strait islander #first nations

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LUCY BRONZE - England v Denmark: Group D - FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 - Traditional Lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation - Sydney, Australia - July 28, 2023

Photo by DeFodi Images

#lucy bronze #england wnt #g posts #q things #fifa women’s world cup 2023

[glamfellens]

hello! thank you for introducing me to PoE, i really enjoyed the story and also played a pale elf, a cipher, in fact, so i'm interested how u find playing as one bc i thought it was extra juicy to play story wise! Also, have u shared more details about Tarren? I'd love read more about her! <3 I'd never played this type of game b4 and it resulted in funny moments like not realising that looking at the map/inventory doesn't automatically pause the game until "aloth" rudely urged we get a move on(and we were in Dyrford - not exactly early on!!). So, it turns out I recruited Aloth after staring into space for days :)) My background was philosopher so it checks out i guess XD

im so glad you enjoyed it!! GLAMFELLEN NATION RISE... pale elves are so cool .... im really enjoying cipher!!!! i picked ranger for my first run because i thought it would be easier to ease myself into a new game with new mechanics with a more straight forward class. but now i have my head wrapped around the game as a whole i think cipher will be tarren's official class! idk how this will work with multi-classing as priest in deadfire but we'll see im still figuring things out for tarren but ive settled on a backstory :) she is from old vailia with the gentry background (thank u console commands lol) she isn't of noble stock herself but her mother worked as a land agent/steward/game warden for a minor landed vailian family and so as thanks for her hard work and dedication decided to take on the cost of tarren's education and general welfare as a ward of the family. but because it's old vailia there was some level of political intrigue that involved everything going to shit to the level that tarren had to escape to the dyrwood. i dont think her parents were alive when this happened for simplicity's sake (it wasnt tragic it was just like. old age . i think they had her pretty late but im not 100% on elven longevity in the eora setting.) LMFAO. okay but if this makes you feel better the first time i played i think it took me about 60 hours to realise that you could manage keep restoration from anywhere in the world by just clicking on the keep icon in the ui. i kept travelling back to caed nua to arrange everything with the steward 🧍 aloth has that big ass grimoire to read anyway idk why hes complaining. your watcher has plenty of things to think about, yknow? just little things like the souls and ghosts you can now interact with, the fact that your awakening is a race against time to keep ur sanity... just normal things. regular. yep but yeah im really glad you enjoyed it!! thank you for the ask :) deadfire is also a great time if you havent gotten there yet 👀

#i need to decide on names for the vailian family that took her in #picturing them as like Mr Bingley levels of wealth. kind of got the idea for her backstory from mr wickham of all people Lmfao. gross #but yeah #i liked this idea bc i didnt want a character with an aristocratic background bc i dont generally vibe with it #and ive already got that going with aeres. so this is a happy medium i think #and it lets tarren shift more easily into being lady of caed nua. and she would already have a vague idea of how to run and restore a keep #and manage the surrounding lands and people #pillars of eternity #long post

[fanzines]

Poster for today's Other Worlds Zine Fair, which is being held in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia, on the stolen lands of the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation.

#zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines #other worlds zine fair #zine fair #fanzine fair #marrickville #sydney #australia #zine fest #fanzine fest #zine festival #fanzine festival #zine fest poster

[louisupdates]

Louis Tomlinson Announces 2024 Australian Tour

19 July 2023 | 7:11 am | Ellie Robinson

The former One Directioner is giving us ‘Faith In The Future’ with this run of huge local dates.

UK pop heartthrob (and of course, former One Direction member) Louis Tomlinson has announced his second-ever solo tour of Australia, just under a year on from his first trip Down Under.

The last run Tomlinson took to Australian shores (the first show of which went down exactly a year ago today in Meanjin/Brisbane) saw him play a suite of cuts from his 2020 solo debut, Walls, as well as a few One Direction hits and a couple other covers. This time around, he’ll be showcasing his second solo album, Faith In The Future, which arrived last November and sported gems like Bigger Than Me, Out Of My System and Silver Tongues.

The tour will begin in Melbourne (Naarm) on Sunday January 8, 2024, when Tomlinson and his band take to the stage at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. They’ll head to Brisbane (Meanjin) next, playing the Riverstage on Tuesday January 30, before wrapping up at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Friday February 2.

Tickets for all three shows go on sale at 12pm local time next Tuesday (July 25). An exclusive presale for Vodafone customers will kick off at 10am this Friday (July 21) – running for 72 hours until the same time on Monday (July 24) – followed by a Live Nation presale at 11am on Monday. Head here to learn how you can be first to score tix through the Vodafone presale, or here to keep tabs on the general sale and Live Nation presale.

We wouldn’t be surprised if these shows sold out insanely fast – Faith In The Future was a smash hit with local listeners, hitting #2 on the ARIA Charts. And let’s not forget, Tomlinson is one of the most iconic boy band figures of the 2000s and 2010s... Seems like a pretty good time to jump on the Vodafone train, hey?

“Australia is somewhere I’ve always loved and really enjoyed visiting,” Tomlinson said in a press release. “I have some incredible tour memories there and I can’t wait to return and bring the Faith In The Future tour to Australia.”

LOUIS TOMLINSON

2023 AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Sunday January 28 – Naarm/Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl

Tuesday January 30 – Meanjin/Brisbane, Riverstage

Friday February 2 – Eora/Sydney, Qudos Bank Arena

Presale: vodafone.com.au

Tickets: livenation.com.au

#fitfwt24: australia #louis tomlinson #19.7.2023 #louis press #Youtube

[db618]

My amazing friend @chelledoggo has graciously made me my very own “Figmentsona”!

I call him Wanbi (pronounced “one-bee”)! Read more about him under the cut!

(yes, i will colour this in later)

In a time before time was a concept, before electricity or even paper, there was The Dreaming. Aboriginal Australians believed that the creatures and beings from the Dreaming, or Dreamtime, were what shaped the earth they lived on, and provided its resources, natural gifts and even states of mind. Even after the British colonisation of Australia, Dreamtime stories such as those of the Rainbow Serpent and Tiddalik the Frog were passed down through word of mouth by the Aboriginal people, later gaining traction through written word and more modern forms of communication. However, among the many well-known ones in modern Australian society, one is more obscure. The tale of Wanbi (pronounced “one-bee”), a hybrid of a waruga (a water dragon) and a warrigal (dingo), with the wings of a banguu (bat), and floppy, buru (kangaroo)-like ears. Just as the aforementioned Rainbow Serpent gave the earth life, Wanbi gave the earth the gift of imagination, and became the guardian spirit of the Eora and Dharawal nations (what is now commonly known as Sydney and its surrounding areas). An optimistic, kindhearted and happy creature, the spirit of Wanbi has guided the indigenous people of Australia through challenges and troubles, with the power of both his and their imaginations providing the people with ideas and enriching their culture. In recent years, Wanbi has become close friends with Figment, and his creator Blairion “Blair” Mercurial, the Dreamfinder, sharing tales of their many experiences across history, and with Wanbi enlightening both Blair and Figment to tales of imagination that both had never heard of before.

#figment #disney #journey into imagination #epcot #chelle art #figmentsona #wanbi #dreamtime #aboriginal #creature

[witchywitchy]

*on anon cause i give out more specific details of my location than i'd like to be on the internet

hi, i am coming to you with this question in good faith, i genuinely support palestinians and have attended protests and chanted 'from the river to the sea'

I absolutely agree that Israel's history is rooted in colonialism and I can see some of the flaws of the two-state solution.

However, I'm Australian, my country's history is also rooted in colonialism. Our land belongs to the Aboriginal people. but if the indigenous people wanted to completely abolish Australia and instead us Australians became people living in, say for the example of my area, the Eora nation, I'd be a little upset. I've grown up in and lived in Australia all my life, being Australian is a part of my identity. If I could no longer call myself Australian and Australia no longer existed, I'd feel as if a part of myself has been erased.

Australia shares many of the same flaws with Israel. Our past is built on the genocide of the Aboriginal people. So I see a lot of parallels, the main difference I see is just the Israel is more recent.

But I think people have an inherent desire to belong to a group or a nation, and you know I have a desire to belong to the group of Australians, not to have that group not exist anymore and instead be living in the Eora nation which is a group I don't belong to, I'd feel out of place and no longer like I deserve to live there.

And writing this, I recognise that this is definitely what the Indigenous people of Australia and also the Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied land must currently feel, and I guess I don't have a solution...

Would you be able to offer your thoughts?

I understand where you're coming from. As for my thoughts, they unfortunately might not be the solution you're looking for. I grew up watching pieces of Palestinian lands get stolen. I remember the pain I felt seeing the name "Palestine" get replaced by "Israel" on the map. It's not even divided into "Palestine" and "Israel". The name "Palestine" got completely replaced if you see it on google maps for an example. I've also studied for a while now a portion of what Native Americans had to go through, and I'm still studying it and I'll continue to learn about more indigenous groups. I've read about buffalo hunting and it felt reminiscent of what's happening now in Gaza. When I look at things from the point of view of indigenous people everywhere, I acknowledge the pain and loss they have experienced, and in some places today such as the US, still experience.

While I completely understand what you mean, I also want you to acknowledge your privilege, and I am not trying to sound hostile at all. You live in a community that officially has a name, has a nationality, and is recognized officially as a country. You live somewhere where you have an identity, I totally get it. But on the other hand, what you have now, this home and this identity, are things that have been robbed of indigenous people throughout the process of colonization. And keep in mind, some parts of indigenous cultures have been permanently erased and cannot be recovered. And while I understand your feelings towards the matter, I also have to see the point of view of those who truly suffered the loss. I cannot offer a solid solution, and the only thing I can honestly think of is prioritizing the feelings of those who actually suffered the loss and still are. We have to understand that it's their land, their culture, their languages and dialects, and their identity that have experienced more loss than what I believe could happen to current inhabitants (aka non-indigenous).

#witchy asks

[spacepigfanclub]

Theory Blurb #1 - What if the Watcher said “Fuck the Dyrwood” and never went there

After a long writing and “generally-anything-that-wasn’t-a-reblog” hiatus, I’m back as a way to de-stress from my finals

I would also like to both thank and apologise to the members of the Pillars of Eternity Discord server for having to endure my brain farts lmfao

[TW: death, lots and lots of death, lynching, suicide, everyone having a really really bad time]

...Short answer, the Dyrwood is capital “f”  F U C K E D

A bit longer answer, the fandom’s weed blorbo and the elven blorbo with anxiety, as well as the entire nation of Dyrwood are doomed. Everyone’s wellbeing depends on that one funky little gremlin that hoards pets and is not allowed any drugs due to seing ghosts while clean/sober.

Let’s get to the biggest issue at hand first and then get to various miscelaenous things.

So, starting off, the moment the Watcher decides they want to, as an example, settle down in the Living Lands instead... there’s no one in the Dyrwood to actually stop Thaos from continuing Waidwen’s Legacy. He can actually carry out the mission with none of those depressed meddling kids getting in his way and manages to empower Woedica and discredit animancy in the Dyrwood with little to no resistance.

He likely doesn’t even need to continue the Legacy for much longer, since the entire nation is on the brink of collapse. Even if Thaos leaves and the Legacy is no more and the Dyrwood doesn’t fall into anarchy like Defiance Bay did after the Animancy Hearings, they will, and I mean 10000000% CERTAINLY WILL have to deal with a massive demographic crisis.

PoE1 takes place in the year 2823 AI. Waidwen’s Legacy, meanwhile, began less than a year after the Saint’s War ended, around 2808 AI. This gives us 15 years of the vast majority of births in the Dyrwood being Hollowborn births. Not all births, since there are kids like Gordy and Saeda, who are perfectly fine, but more than enough to really matter in the long run. 

Even if the Legacy stopped and every adult in the Dyrwood got to doing the horizontal mambo like there was no tomorrow, those new births would not offset the effects of Waidwen’s Legacy, which would be felt for years to come.

As a result, the Dyrwood’s demographic pyramid would look a lot more like that of a modern day first world country... in a fantasy setting. Granted, they do have guns and some pretty nifty tech, but it’s still a fantasy setting and they only just began industrializing AT BEST. 

The only good things that I can think of here is that IF Thaos decides to end the Legacy soon after empowering Woedica, he will no longer need to divert souls. And because of the return of souls, the Dyrwood will have good harvests once more (since they were also struggling on that front if you take into account that one quest with the miller in the Gilded Vale). Everything in Eora needs soul power to work properly, plants included. 

So, we got a nation that would surely undergo a demographic crisis in the following years, where the spirits are low and there’s this aura of despair and suffering. Granted, all this exists in canon, but here it doesn’t get resolved by the Watcher. No extra kids from Hylea. No empowering the living populace by Galawain. Everyone has a Bad Time™.

And there is one nation that tries to take advantage of that by making things worse for the Dyrwood. The Vailian Republics. 

I imagine that things would go the same way as in one of Pallegina’s endings, namely the one where she bocomes Ducess Spireno’s personal guard. The tribes of Eir Glanfath and the Vailians sign the lucrative af trade deal, cutting out dyrwoodan competitors and the Dyrwood cannot do anything about it. The Dyrwood becomes the favorite chewtoy of the Republics, and they look not that better off than Readceras. 

Actually, Readceras might be better than the Dyrwood, because at least they got their pride back thanks to Adaryc and the Iron Flail.

Obviously, that would lead to the escalating tensions between the Dyrwood and the Republics. This could either result in a future war, which the Dyrwood would lose, and futher humiliation or other niceties. Or the Vailians would start thinking about “helping” the Dyrwoodans by making the crumbling nation dependant on vailian exports. As a treat.

Even if Thaos doesn’t kill Duc Aevar and Eydis Webb during the Animancy Hearings, the duc would still likely be ousted from office. The Vailians could then install a pro-Vailia puppet, leading to even more Bad Time™ down the line...

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Misc. Section:

Aloth never gets therapy and gets beaten by drunkards from his introduction scene. He then either leaves Gilded Vale soon after and becomes a recluse, or enough people start talking about “some Aedyran asshole that is acting hella suspicious” that Raedric hears it and arranges him a HANGout spot in the middle of the settlement. ...ok, I’ll leave now.

Speaking of hanging out, Edér is another solid candidate, judging by his introduction scene alone. Homeboy also never gets therapy or answers regarding Woden. 

After the birth of his Hollowborn son, I imagine Raedric would become even more paranoid of Eothasians. And since there ARE rumors in the Gilded Vale that Edér is a follower of Eothas, or at least that his late brother was one... he may better book it out asap.

Kana never finishes his thesis on the Tanvii ora Toha, or at least tries to get through the barrages of spirits up above and the monsters down below on his own. I believe he would, sooner or later, have to either abandon his dream or hire a whole ass merc group to help him if he actually can do everything without the Watcher’s abilities. 

Though, on a more positive tone, perhaps this could make him meet Aloth and Edér without the Watcher’s help, though I suppose their dynamic would be different compared to the actual game.

Bloody Legacy is never finished. Aelys Harond is never rescued from the Skaenites and the ritual is completed. Everything goes on the same way as when the Watcher begins the quest, but never fights the Skaenites or wipes Aelys’s memory, AKA she returns to her uncle, kills him and then herself, causing an uproar.

Heritage Hill is never cleared of the undead. Saeda Valtas is forever locked in the quarantine zone and either dies of starvation or is found and eaten alive by her undead family/neighbours.

Simoc, Vela’s guardian, eventually finds a gullible fool that would get him the baby-made potion. Vela either dies, or Simoc’s son finally decides to kill his father. 

Raedric never gets killed as long as he’s staying in his hold. Once Thaos empowers Woedica and leaves for a new mission, Waidwen’s Legacy would misteriously “dissapear” and Raedric would be seen by the remaining populace of Gilded Vale as a “hero”, just like in one of his endings.

Maerwald eventually dies and Caed Nua becomes even more of a ruin that everyone avoids like the plague. Since there’s no one there to conveiniently repair and pimp up the keep, Lord Gathbin never bothers to leave Aedyr for the Dyrwood.

Stalward either remains a backwater, or they do indeed get help from someone else. Maybe an adventurer reactivates the Forge and everything’s well... until the Eyeless arrive and Adaryc decides to occupy the place and succeeds, giving way for an era of relative prosperity in Readceras (for the first time ever, actually). Adaryc would try to find a way to destroy the Eyeless menace, as he is the only other Watcher that we know of, the only other person that gets the message that shit is about to go down.

He either succeeds or gets martyr’d trying, but would have a delayed response due to him thinking it is all Dyrwood’s fault. 

If Adaryc and the Iron Flail succeed in wiping out the Eyeless, but at the cost of Adaryc’s life, then get ready for the Cult of Saint Adaryc, the Second Coming of Eothas, to spread like wildfire across Readceras.

If they DON’T succeed though... say goodbye to the entirety of the Reach.

#Pillars of Eternity #F in the chat for the Dyrwood #Readceras might be in for a good time but mainly because the Dyrwood got it so much worse #Vailian Republics W #they all might have a lesser chance of survival once the Eyeless become a Thing™ and they have to rely on Adaryc to not die #Magran would be looking at it like at a EURO championship or Super Bowl #Magran would be absolutely engrossed and eating popcorn

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: the Elizabeth Street entrance to Sydney’s Central Railway Station, probably taken shortly after the December 1955 federal election, Gadigal country (photographer unknown). In the left background a billboard for Fantales chocolates is starting to peel: it has been behind excavation work for new underground platforms since about 1949, which won’t be completed until 1979

#found slide #sydney #gadigal country #eora nation #new south wales #australia #kodachrome #1955

[james-mathurin]

#trugoythedove #Dave #plug2 My tribute to one of the most amazing rappers, and one of the few whose loss really hit me. I'm so glad #delasoul have finally got their music streaming, because I know a whole new generation is going to fall in love with them through @spotify and other places. I got #delasoulisdead on vinyl back when I was 12 or 13, and I don't know how many hundreds of times I've listened to it. I've even been lucky enough to see them live a couple of times. Dave was part of something truly special; how many people can say they've been part of four all-time classic hip-hop albums? Beyond that, he made the kind of music that your life probably wouldn't be the same if you never heard. I know mine wouldn't. (at Eora Nation) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpq8Qz1PB1p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#trugoythedove #dave #plug2 #delasoul #delasoulisdead

[cabbagegunk]

saw that u rebloghed that post about Coles and Woolies being anal . fellow lutruwita live-in-er?

nope, eora nation area! i’m a woolies hater to my core though amen

#cabbagetalk #anon

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ALESSIA RUSSO & LAUREN HEMP - England v Colombia: Quarter Final - FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 - Traditional Lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation - Sydney, Australia - August 12, 2023

Photo by Naomi Baker

#alessia russo #lauren hemp #england wnt #g posts #q things #fifa women’s world cup 2023

[tasteofdeathao3]

unrelated to my entire blog but I love acknowledging the traditional custodians of the lands I love welcome to country I love that all my school uniforms since kindy have always had the indigenous country name written on them I love Aotearoa I love the Eora nation i love the little subtitles on the news and on talk shows and documentaries acknowledging the indigenous land they're filming on because it always was and always will be indigenous land no matter what

#i love it I love it #always was always will be