We Are Absolute Monsters For This, Aren't We?

We are absolute monsters for this, aren't we? ❤️

Some of you seemed very concerned about poor Shadow in the teaser sketch I posted for the fic @not-freyja and I are currently planning.

Rest assured, Shadow isn't the only one who is going to suffer greatly in this story. ❤️

have we talked about the woolworths debacle yet?

Sigh.

Alright kids strap in, because the culture wars are back and stupider than ever.

So there are two characters you need to be familiar with in this story before we continue:

Woolies (i.e. Woolworths) - One of two supermarket chains in Australia. Not related to the giant Woolworths chain that used to exist overseas, other than the Aussie one swiped the name because the original forgot to trademark the name 'Woolworths' here. Biggest company in Aus, and also the biggest employer. Not a brand anyone with more than two braincells would pick a fight with.

Peter Dutton - Man with less than two braincells, and current leader of the political opposition in Australia. Best known for bearing a passing resemblance to a potato and once demanding that a homophobic song get played for balance when a football halftime show performed 'Same Love'. His reputation is so bad that if you told an Australian that Dutton's favorite pastime was drowning puppies, they probably would believe you.

And to prove our point, here's the best headline a friendly newspaper could come up with to try spin his image:

The third thing you need to know is that in Australia we have a national holiday called "Australia Day" which is basically a scheduled day for everyone to get into a giant argument.

This is because for the last 30ish years it has been held on the anniversary of the British claiming the land around Sydney as a colony which was:

a) More the founding of an English prison then the founding of Australia, and more importantly

b) from the perspective of the people who were already living here, kindof a very shit day

Now not everyone agrees on this, and even those that don't 'celebrate' will often still have a get together with friends, but it can't be denied that we've shifted a long way from the days when the country used to celebrate Australia Day by kitting ourselves out in Aussie flag budgie smugglers, drinking enough beer to drown Harold Holt, and partying like it's 1789.

(Now a brief break for a real photo of Peter Dutton at a press conference)

Good luck sleeping tonight. Anyway back to the story.

As a result of this shift away from the trend of showing your patriotism by wearing Australian flag underpants, this year Woolworths decided that they were no longer going to be rolling out their box of southern cross thongs - on the grounds that "this kitschy shit never sells" and they are far too busy with more important things like blaming price gouging on inflation and installing self-checkout machines that think your canvas bag is a crime against humanity.

Never a man to miss an opportunity to act like a massive twat, upon hearing that Woolies had dumped their flag merch, Peter Dutton rushed onto the airwaves to declare that Woolworths had "gone woke" (paging 4chan circa 2009) and called for the country to boycott the store, a story which Australia's media have gleefully put on loudhale for over a week now in order to drive outrage clicks.

We at this point remind you that Woolworths is a company which, as we previously mentioned, basically has a monopoly on selling food in this country. Not exactly something you can boycott.

(Another real Dutton photo break)

Needless to say Dutton's dumbass plan did not immediately put Woolies out of business, however the relentless media campaign by Rupert Murdoch's minions did result in a bunch of innocent low-wage floor staff being harrassed by The Dark Lord's fanboys and a few Woolies stores were graffitied.

Allegedly being the 'free market' guy, Dutton also kindof snookered himself by demanding the free market not decide the fate of Australia day, but logic was never one of his strong suits.

Anyway, in the end we're just going to keep having this dumb circular argument every year, fulled by a media who love fanning the flames, until a politician has the guts to shift the date to May 8 (pronounced m8), and everyone promptly forgets this was ever a thing.

All in all, that's the long and the short of it. As a final touch we'll leave you with this real tweet by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, in all its batshit glory.

We look forward to the absolute dumpster fire of comments this post is going to generate - as is the Australia Day tradition.

That picture you did of Hyrule in a bottle is gorgeous. Don't get me wrong, I hate seeing the blorbos hurt, but the art is beautiful. Every time I look at it I notice more details. It's angsty and delicious and I'm very excited to see what story is attached to it, because whoever is involved clearly had the foresight to cripple his wings and legs, which is something I haven't seen someone do before. I can't properly express how much I love it. ❤️

Thank you so much!

You have no idea how excited I am that someone noticed that little detail!!! Yes whoever did this to Rulie was smart, they had to make sure to remove all methods of escape! But who would do something so horrible? And why? :)

@not-freyja and I honestly can't wait to share this with you all. It's still a while off but holy shit you guys are in for a ride.

Goddess’ blessing

Hey there! I found you recently and went back to see all your previous projects! I hope that isn't weird 😅 One of your first posts was about a webcomic you were making called Dare. I was wondering if anything has come of it? Aside from that, I'm already a Gia fan! Keep it up! 😊

Thank you so much, I promise, it's not weird at all! It makes me really happy that people like my work!

And Dare! My baby! Nothing substantial has come of Dare yet I'm afraid. But she is not abandoned! Just on the back burner for a bit. I've had a few major life events (derogatory) happen over the last few years on top of sever burn out that... Yeah it wasn't pretty and I'm still recovering.

I actually didn't have much motivation for anything creative until I found Linked Universe. Something about it just reignited my passion for art so right now I'm just focusing on creating things that don't mean much but make me happy. Hence all the fan art.

I will definitely come back to Dare eventually tho, and I hope people will continue to like my work then too!

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