Astriferous Melodies

She/Hers, ENFP, Hufflepuff Madeleine, eighteen years old and forever a lover of the human imagination. Scavenger of shiny things, writer of lost words, wandering musician, wonder aficionado. Deeply rooted to faith, she spread out to the stars like roots. She was a part of the tree of life, and alive like Tesla’s coil. Part myth part maid, she danced to the ancient rhythm on the precipice of change

[jean-paul-fartre]

plaidadder:

argonauticae:

argonauticae:

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

scottish trad music genres:

Everyone I Love Is Dead

The English Have Stolen All My Sheep

You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three

The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep

I Love You A Lot But You’ve Left Me And It’s Raining [fiddle solo]

The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English

One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome

The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep

We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:

* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland

* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It

* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)

* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution

* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow

oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!

genres include:

I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn’t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug

The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed

You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)

Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She’s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She’s Dyin’ (Gather Round)

The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won’t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground

We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn’t Fix The Levee 

The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang) 

When The Rebels Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left

The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow

[shredsandpatches]

Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!

I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:

I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents’ House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)

I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I’m Pregnant

I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It

I Met a Girl At an Inn and We Had Non-Metaphorical Sex But She Stole My Stuff The Next Morning and Now I Have Syphilis

Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let’s Get Married, I’m Glad You Said No Because I’m Really Him In Disguise

Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome

The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)

Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor

Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol

[saoirseronan]

everyone else should just give up and go home because fan bingbing is best dressed tonight

[robynxfenty]

Rihanna attends the “China: Through The Looking Glass” Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City.

[maariaaargh]

The cutest heavy metal album

[shintzel-magick-deactivated2016]

10 Hours of Walking in Paris as a Jew Fuck. Me. 

[astriferousmelodies]

Criticism of Israel isn’t necessarily inherently anti-Semitic (Israel is not a perfect country because no country is perfect), but 90% of the time, it really is. And when a Jew is telling you that you are being anti-Semitic in your criticism of Israel and criticism of Zionism, you need to listen. 

[thepainedoctor]

A more non-traditional, post-Order 66 Jedi Knight. I’d say it was a Star Wars Day well spent.

Photos courtesy of @cpt-tightpants and his iPhone.

[astriferousmelodies]

Please turn off your submissions.

If you are Jewish, please turn off your submissions and ask boxes.

Neo-Nazis are making their rounds again and I just received a really nasty submission from ‘kike-slayer’. Block this person and turn off your submissions, until things quiet down. Signal boost this as much as possible. 

[blindnxss]

Please make sure to turn of your submissions if you are going to reblog this PSA as well, even if you are not Jewish, because people who do are starting to recieve the same graphic submissions. 

[astriferousmelodies]

Please turn off your submissions.

If you are Jewish, please turn off your submissions and ask boxes.

Neo-Nazis are making their rounds again and I just received a really nasty submission from ‘kike-slayer’. Block this person and turn off your submissions, until things quiet down. Signal boost this as much as possible. 

[yamswrites]

Please be careful when reblogging this. As soon as I did, I received a horrible submission. Proceed with caution. Turn off your submissions.

[astriferousmelodies]

Please turn off your submissions.

If you are Jewish, please turn off your submissions and ask boxes.

Neo-Nazis are making their rounds again and I just received a really nasty submission from ‘kike-slayer’. Block this person and turn off your submissions, until things quiet down. Signal boost this as much as possible. 

[grownsandwichengineer]

I just reblogged this and I would like to say be careful. As soon as I reblogged this I got a nasty submission from someone and those images will likely stay on my mind for a long time. If you are easily triggered by nasty pictures, I warn you to be careful. These people will not care about how you feel about these images. I care for each and every one of my followers so please, please, if you reblog this, turn off your submissions.

[king-joaquin]

[recklesscloudz-deactivated20230]

Reblog and you’ll find money soon!

[nudiemuse]

Yes.

Also weird I reblobbed the other money one last night and a freelance check I invoiced for a month ago came in.

[timaeustestifieds]

reblobbed

[justthefangirl]

seriously have nothing to lose

[sherlysthougths]

Did it once might as well let it stack. At least I’m not buying loto tickets

[imsuchacapricorn]

You guys, I reblogged this 2 days ago out of desperation. Today I was looking through my old wallet for coins to go to the vending machine because that’s all I can fucking afford. I haven’t touched this thing since July/ August. When I found a disappointing 15 cents in the coin pocket I went to the billfold to see if any coins were in there. That’s when I saw them. 5 crisp bills amounting to $22. I literally screamed and danced around my room out of joy before remembering that I’d reblogged this post.

Tl;dr - This post is fucking magical and actually worked for me.

[sxvsxde-blog]

I’m broke as fuck. Money gods pls send me like 100k.

[br0nzed-beauty]

Me rn

[kradeiz]

Not everyone was happy with [Captain America]. This may surprise some people, but before America entered World War II there was actually a strong pro-Nazi sentiment in the United States. So much so that Simon and Kirby [Cap’s creators] received death threats and mail disparaging them in their creation, not helped by the fact that the two were also Jewish. In fact, a pro-Nazi group called ‘The German-American Bund’ once marched in front of Timely’s offices [one of Marvel Comics predecessors]. The two called in the police for protection, and they sure as hell got it! As it turned out, then mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia, was a fan of Captain America and actually called them up to tell them “You boys over there are doin’ a good job. The city of New York will see that no harm will come to you.”

-Linkara’s introduction to his review of Captain America Comics #1 (via kradeiz)

Never let it be swept under the rug. There was a lot of pressure for America to either stay neutral, or even to go in on the side of the Nazi’s, before Pearl Harbor (and after, to only declare war on Japan). Celebrities like Charles Lindbergh were pro Nazi, and not shy about their opinions.

(via cheeseburger-and-vine)

Captain America was created by two Jews during World War II and you’re telling me he’d be a conservative.

(via teamcapsicle)

#When I say that Steve fucking Rogers is a radical symbol for Jewish resistance I fucking mean it  #Everything you know about comics  #everything you love about comics #comes from distinctly Jewish immigrant struggles  #fuck I’m telling you comics lose all point and purpose if white gentile dudes take the lead on their production  #Examples A-Z: The entirety of the MCU #Captain fucking America isn’t here to make snappy one liners  #Wanda and Pietro aren’t here to be random troubled white kids  #Comics are first and foremost made by the disenfranchised to bolster their comrades  #Not to play into white gentile oppressive power fantasies and that’s what they’ve become  #*spits on the entire modern comics industry* tags via experimentalmadness

[gandalfthegreywarden-deactivate]

Just fixed my favorite weapon. More to come as May the Fourth progresses.

[gandalfthegreywarden-deactivate]

scalericadeoro: #honestly you just need to be in a star wars movie right now

Make it happen, Maddie. You have the power!

Or, you know, I’ll just pester Disney. I am not above that.

[astriferousmelodies]

I’m going to write a thing and you’re going to be the charming, roguish Jedi who is always making very bad puns and also lives by his own code

So if Qui Gon Jinn and Flynn Rider had a love child in SPACE, it you

also we’re going to picket Disney a LOT. I am not above bribery. 

[gandalfthegreywarden-deactivate]

Just fixed my favorite weapon. More to come as May the Fourth progresses.

[gandalfthegreywarden-deactivate]

Don’t mind me. Just being a Jedi.

[re-lmayer]

please help my mom have a nice end-of-life vacation!

the person in the photo above is kathleen conliffe, my mom. she is disabled with final-stage copd, diabetes, and heart failure. she is on permanent oxygen and is unable to care for herself. she has just been released from the hospital, and we got the most upsetting news: ma is now considered terminal. she suffered a collapses lung, pneumonia, heart failure, a short diabetic coma, and now is essentially confined to a wheelchair because her legs have become so weak she can no longer walk on her own at all. she was on a ventilator, and had a surgery to insert test tubes to remove fluid from her lungs and chest cavity. we were given an estimate of three months if we’re fortunate, but even the pulmonary and icu staff were not sure how much of that time would be on a ventilator. my mom has always been working class. she was a nurse herself in a trauma center, and worked up until the day her water broke and she had me, if that’s any indication of her work ethic. then she worked as a nurse in doctor’s offices, and has worked on flooring design back during the housing boom. during her adult life, she has had a grand total of two (2) vacations. she would like a final vacation before the end of her life. the “classic” idea of a vacation: she would like a trip to disney world, a stay in one of their resorts, and a relaxing day at a spa, and a day to a beach. the goal amount i have set would cover a wheelchair accessible suite for 6 nights, 7 days of access to all of disney’s parks, a spa day, and this would also include meals, along with travel to and from kentucky to florida. i am currently unemployed due to my own disability application, and there is simply no way i can raise the funds on my own in time, since time is of the essence. it hurts me that i can’t do better for her, so i really want her to be able to have a final vacation and really enjoy herself and get pampered at the spa, she deserves it! the method i have to collect funds is set to paypal, but if you would like to donate directly the email address would be faunlet(at)live(dot)com!

thanks so much to anyone for any donations and well-wishes, it means so much to us! any boosts and prayers are so appreciated as well!

[charliecox]