Tumblr's "Australian Gothic" Is An Upside-Down World Of Existential Dread

The horrors of Australia are usually summed up as "big spiders" and "everything that's big enough to kill you will try to and everything too small to kill you will still try" but these Tumblr users get down to a more everyday kind of dread observed in the land down under. It's a world of bin days, unnamed prime ministers and constant magpie swooping.

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