#wiradjuri

[dk-thrive]

I feel as if I’m just floating through life or something. Like my whole life I haven’t really been me.

— Tara June Winch, The Yield: A Novel (Harper, June 2, 2020)

#Tara June Winch #floating #aboriginal #Wiradjuri #Aboriginal

[yiilaay]

Hey! I'm a new blog, would love some people to chat to!

Anything art, music, witchy, mental health, cats and whatever 💖

#witch #cottagecore #astrology #mental health #psychology #lgbtq community #aboriginal #wiradjuri #wiradyuri #queer #nonbinary #music #musician #lofi #cat #crystals #tarot #nature #self care #gardening #food #plants #chat

[durranmi]

hi! i sent in a message about a year and a half ago asking if you had any tips on connecting to the land I was on in Australia and you said to feel free to reach out if I had any questions, so here I am :D I believe that the country you are from is close to where I am in Victoria currently (Kulin Nation country) and I was wondering if you had any associations you make with the possum? any folklore or anything would also be cool! I’ve done some research into what possums were historically used for and I was wondering if you had anything else you may be able to divulge. Thank you so much!

Hi! Yes I do remember ☺️ Where my family are from is still a bit always from Vic but! I did look into it for you. I am assuming you want this would be on magical uses of the possum? I hope so otherwise this answer may not be what you are looking for.

Now I don’t have information on the Kulin Nation unfortunately and sadly I don’t have access to a Wiradjuri Lore person to double check the Dreaming stories but I would suggest in lieu of that information I’d suggest sympathetic magic if you are looking at using spirit or using animal products like fur or bones.

So looking at that you can then use the research to apply both historical uses and even modern uses for your craft, like the pelt is water resistant, maybe this could be used to ward against energy or curses - flicking them off you like water off the fur. The pelt is also used in spiritual healing for some people but this is something I am not that familiar with what I know of it is using the pelt to make cloaks with Dreaming or own stories to heal and connect to culture as this is generally used by Indigenous people they may not be the one for you.

So some of my associations and how I’d look at working with possum I associate them as often known for being tricky, opportunistic and I think a little dishonest (like the koala in some stories) so working with possum spirit you could use it to gather information, cause a little ruckus for someone you aren’t happy with or just straight up curse them asking possum to help with it. From the stories I have some recollection of they tend to be a bit of a trickster and trouble maker - but! I do have a funny story about possums getting in the way of a pretty important event of mine so that could be why I see them more of a prankster.

I would suggest thinking about how you relate to the possum and how the possum lives on the country you are on. For me they are always around so they are going to be cheeky and handy to use for causing mischief but if you only see them fleetingly maybe the spirit could help you hide something or yourself from unwanted attention -again like the warding idea making eyes and attention slide off you like water.

So yeah, sorry for the formatting if it is an issue and I hope it makes sense for you and doesn’t read like the ravings of an overexcited nut but I hope that has helped out and answered your question a bit.

#I am really hoping it was a magical question otherwise I sound like a lunatic #witchcraft #wiradjuri #upg #like I haven’t worked with possum much but this is the path I’d go down #australian witch #folk magic #magical musing #personal magical associations

[snakebusters]

BY REQUEST WE HAVE THE ABSTRACT HERE.

Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® Issue 66, published 28 August 2023

Hoser, R. T. 2023. An overdue break-up of the east Australian Calotella (Wittenagama) nobbi (Witten, 1972) species complex. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 66:5-25.

An overdue break-up of the east Australian Calotella (Wittenagama) nobbi (Witten, 1972) species complex. LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:C94946E1-67CF-4202-948D-55D317C24F09 RAYMOND T. HOSER LSIDurn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:F9D74EB5-CFB5-49A0-8C7C-9F993B8504AE 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au Received 25 March 2023, Accepted 14 August 2023, Published 28 August 2023. ABSTRACT As of early 2023 the Calotella (Wittenagama) nobbi (Witten, 1972) species complex, often placed in other genera such as Diporiphora Gray, 1842, sensu Edwards and Melville (2011), or Amphibolurus Wagler, 1830 sensu Cogger et al. (1983) has been treated as including up to four putative named taxa. The most recent treatment of the species complex by Edwards and Melville (2011) synonymised both C. nobbi coggeri (Witten, 1972) and C. parnabyi Wells and Wellington, 1985 with C. nobbi. Edwards and Melville (2011) also named a divergent lineage as C. phaeospinosa, being a classifi cation of the group used by both Cogger (2014) and Wilson and Swan (2021), being the most recent relevant reference works. However the molecular evidence of Edwards and Melville (2011) showed emphatically that at least 6 other unnamed forms were within the group as well as the fact that C. parnabyi was defi nitely a species-level divergent lineage. They wrote: “Divergences within D. nobbi fi rmly place intraspecifi c diversifi cation within this species in the late Miocene period (3-8 mya).”, with their best guess as being 4.1 MYA. 4.1 MYA is certainly species-level divergence for the relevant lineages. Because these lineages are morphologically diagnosable, this paper formally names as new species the six hitherto unnamed lineages, in accordance with the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999), while also recognising all of C. nobbi, C. parnabyi and C. phaeospinosa as valid species, bringing the total in the species group to nine. The molecular divergences cited by Edwards and Melville (2011) confi rms the validity of the genus Calotella Steindachner, 1867, as used by Wells and Wellington (1985). Claiming a 10.7 MYA divergence between the type species for Calotella and the type species for Wittenagama Wells and Wellington, 1985, the genus name as proposed by Wells and Wellington is herein conservatively used as a subgenus for the relevant taxa formally named in this paper. Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature; Australia; Queensland; New South Wales; Victoria; Dragon lizard; Amphibolurus; Diporiphora; Calotella; nobbi; coggeri; parnabyi; phaeospinosa; new species; gedyei; ruffellae; dorsei; wiradjuri; josephburkei; aah.

#Hoser #new species #Diporiphora #Wittenagama #New Dragon species #Agamidae #Calotella #Amphibolurus #nobbi #gedyei #josephburkei #aah #dorsei #ruffellae #phaeospinosa #wiradjuri #coggeri #parnabyi

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Fifty years ago: New South Wales Government Railways steam locomotives 3526 and 3820 wait just east of Tarana railway station for a diesel locomotive to take over on the last stage to Oberon, on 21 April 1974. The “last” steam train excursion in New South Wales had come to a premature end. We were sitting on that bridge forever, I remember only one car (a white Holden) passed under us. I watched it driving away for what seemed like eternity… (photographer unknown)

#found slide #tarana #wiradjuri country #new south wales #australia #agfacolor #new south wales government railways #1974

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 315: WIRADJURI]

In celebration of NAIDOC Week starting on July 2nd (info in source link below), there’s a masterlist below compiled of over 90+ Wiradjuri faceclaims with their gender, occupation, and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use a randomizer to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

CLICK HERE FOR MASTERLIST!

#wiradjuri fc #indigenous fc #aboriginal fc #australian aboriginal fc #poc fc #fc of color #fcoc #underused fc #fc list #rph #task: 315 #task: wiradjuri

[velaraffricate]

i need to be physically restrained if i want to stop starting a thousand conlang projects at once

#its always at 2am when im high as fuck like. huh. heres an idea #ok so heres the deal. overall very analytic but does inflect for number and case. erg-abs. #phonology inspired by aboriginal languages such as wiradjuri. measure words. some sort of verbs as adjectives system?? #id like to play with a topic marker but ill have to do more research into that. see if its even compatible with regular morphosyntactic #alignment stuff #and i got started on the writing system already............... #ramblings

[post-futurism]

Got my interview today for the heritage planner job and it has just occured to me that I may soon have the power to change the actual development controls which is a power that is so thrilling to me. I think the closest I've had to this feeling was being able to annotate the meanings behind song lyrics on genius and the fact that my annotations got accepted was so ridiculously powerful feeling. But that's lyrics like that's not an impact as much as changing development controls would be and I just

#gonna make developers acknowledge wiradjuri country!!!! #also last week i was chatting with the strategic manager and she randomly asked me #if she had invited me to this heritage meeting and then quickly backtracked on her question #i think that means she's already decided I've got the job she just can't make it official #until the due process has been through #so anyway i remain to feel confident

[dk-thrive]

Open road, going somewhere, elsewhere—she loved that feeling. She knew that about herself. She knew she loved leaving more than a drink, more than sex, more than hunger, the books. The road didn’t have a caved-in feeling or a hangover; it could have any wonder in the whole world.

— Tara June Winch, The Yield: A Novel (Harper, June 2, 2020)

#Wiradjuri #Aboriginal #tara june winch #The Yield #gypsy #change #leave #unsettled #restless #open road

[peresephoknee]

becoming a Wikipedia slut at work to kill time

#I’m home and tired and I might be working Saturday let me be incoherent #tonight’s topics were the wiradjuri and Antarctica

[cockroacher]

.

#Been thinking a lot about cultural loss and I thought it didn't mean much to me and they weren't mine to feel about but. I am feeling about #it and I don't really know what that means or if there is a route for me to connect with that history or if that is appropriate #The only thing I can think to do is visit Wiradjuri country when I can do it on my own I got a map of where we were and fragments of stories

[psikonauti]

Wayne Martin (Aboriginal Australian - Wiradjuri)

Ngurr (Side by Side)

#upl #va #art #painting #Wayne Martin

[cy-cyborg]

Americans and anyone else outside Australia, if you're going to talk about Aboriginal people, please, for the love of all that is good, do the bare minimum of research and stop calling them names that have they have deemed offensive for longer than you have been alive. I've seen 4 different videos this week alone calling them either terms that are derogatory or just straight-up slurs.

If you are talking about a specific culture or group, use their name (the Biripi people, the Darkinjung people, The Wiradjuri people etc). If you're talking about indigenous Australians as a whole, it's "Aboriginal" (with a capital A) "Aboriginal and Torrest Straight Islanders," or "First Nations Peoples".

If youre shortening the word Aborigonal to just using the first 3 letters, that's a slur. Also, the word that sounds like the plural of Aboriginal that ends in a "knee" sound, that's also derogatory (I've seen some say its a slur too, and others say it's not but still offensive/outdated. Either way, as a white person, it's not my word to say).

As a general rule of thumb, If you can't do the bare minimum research to make sure you're using the right name for a group you have no business talking about them, let alone "educating people" about them (as 3 of the 4 videos claimed they were doing). Listening to what they want to be called is not even the bare minimum.

#do your research! #seriously those terms have been outdated longer than ive been alive #language

[voidbirds]

The Gang-Gang Cockatoo! One of the only species I've covered to be known commonly by its actual Aboriginal Name! (either from the Ngunnawal or Wiradjuri people, although it's possible both called them this).

GangGangs are a pretty interesting cockatoo, as you can see their crest is rather wispy and fluffy rather than the straight feathers you find on most Cockies. The ladies of this species are quite similar but are missing the red face and crest of the gentlemen presented here. Instead they have an adorable grey miniature crest

#birblr #bird #birb #parrot #cute #australian birds #australian native birds #cockatoo #ganggang

[vetteldixon]

"Mother Nature must be a motorsport fan..." → Sunrise over Mount Panorama, 2024 Bathurst 12H (traditional lands of the Wiradjuri nation)

#bathurst 12h 2024 #carfucker tag #bathurst #yes this is Long but look i do be lovin the color of the sky

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Hotel Canobolas, Orange, Wiradjuri Country, New South Wales, October 1957. I’m guessing that Orange was a Holden town: what with the two taxis at left, almost every parked car and the spontaneous parade of an FE, FJ and 48-215/FX along Summer Street (and the anonymous photographer’s car, not in shot, was also an FE Holden)

#found slide #orange #wiradjuri country #new south wales #australia #kodachrome #1957