War and Hate on Planet Venus

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[smol-ghosts]

Gays

Well yes

[catholickedd]

- cherry wine is about domestic abuse. it’s now called a cute proposal song.

- too sweet is about seizing the day and ignoring healthy habits in favor of having more fun with unhealthy ones. he’s actively critical of himself in the song. it’s now called a song about thinking you’re superior for drinking black coffee.

- take me to church is about worship as a metaphor for sex. it’s called a religious song.

- eat your young is a song about war and political greed. it’s called a song about sex.

- now, the strongly political message of nobody’s soldier is being ignored in favor of calling it a metaphor for hozier’s relationship with his fans.

when are we going to stop simplifying hozier’s music down to cute little cottagecore bogman forest music? maybe you dont want to hear this but i don’t care. quit listening to hozier for the aesthetic. there’s a reason why empire now, foreigner’s god, butchered tongue, etc. songs with unignorable political messages are among his least popular songs.

[edenisquiet]

I was honestly shocked when i found out how unpopular Empire Now is. Really? The song that gives me goosebumps every time i listen to it? The song that made me want to scream its lyrics in broad daylight? The song with the line "Future's so bright it's burning"? And most people have no fucking idea it exists?

I dunno, maybe it's just the place i've lived in for the majority of my life both being rich with greenery and nature and having its citizens live in constant fear of being killed/losing their home in a political conflict, from natural disasters, or deathly diseases spreading so fast here that made me resonate with hozier's music so much.

What i wanted to add to the original post, and what, in my opinion, every hozier fan should understand, is:

It's perfectly fine and nice for a hozier fan to go for a forest walk with Would That I playing in their headphones, but do not ignore the hozier fans who blast Nobody's Soldier in their room to stop hearing the siren wailing outside.

It's really cute and romantic for a hozier listener to dance to Work Song with their significant other, but do not forget the hozier fans who listen to Nina Cried Power after their government gives them another reason to be killed or arrested.

Hozier pours his soul and mind into his every political anti-oppression song, but people choose to ignore it for their own comfort.

There's so much more to Hozier than romance and forests, and i need more people to understand that

[khione-nxl]

I think this is an important point, but I'd add one nuance: the existence of multiple interpretations doesn't erase the one Hozier intended.

People falling in love to Work Song or proposing to Cherry Wine isn't the problem by itself. Art inevitably becomes personal once it's released. The problem starts when the original context is forgotten entirely, or when songs that are explicitly about abuse, colonialism, war, oppression, or resistance get flattened into "cottagecore forest vibes."

One of the reasons Hozier's music resonates so deeply is because he refuses to separate beauty from brutality. He'll write a song that sounds tender while describing horrific abuse. He'll wrap political anger in gorgeous poetry. That contrast is intentional—it forces you to sit with uncomfortable truths instead of looking away.I think the best way to appreciate his music is to allow it to be both.

Dance to Work Song. Walk through the woods to Would That I. But also listen to Butchered Tongue, Empire Now, Foreigner's God, Nina Cried Power, and Nobody's Soldier with the same attention. If we only celebrate the romance and the aesthetic while overlooking the songs asking us to confront injustice, we're missing a huge part of what makes Hozier the artist he is.

[miesozernacma]

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yeagh. enjoy

[dummiils]

simon pictures! definetly not edited! definetly nothing wrong with it! don't look too into it, just appreciate simon himself, okay? it's just normal simon pictures i promise. (inspired by @wraithillustrates catboy!simon drawings)

(mark please release the behind the scenes/director's commentary/bloopers of iron lung im starting to starve)

[writingdose]

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[koiagain]

that one based as FUCK mutual

[koiagain]

whenever a mutual posts their pet I want to comment things like "Fuckass thing" "Kill him" But I don't know if they would understand that I mean this in an affectionate way,

[animentality]

[foralittlewile]

According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.

Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"

Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.

Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4062:

not won any literary awards? give yourself literary awards. book of the year. best book of all time. best writer of all time. literally nobody can stop you

[peachdoxie]

[mizuthe-cat]

I wish I had this hat

[pillowspace]

Stop posting AI-generated animal videos without disclaimer to Tumblr or I'm crashing the ship into a cliffside

[verysexyseagull]

[xylocope]

[l0stn3v3rf0und]

[scarletthedeadhand]

[raika-kiara]

[pillowspace]

i'm going back to sleep

[century-potpourri]

[pillowspace]

Komaeda, thank god it's you, I had a horrible nightmare that there was a guy

[evilfuckignskeleton]

[pillowspace]

Hold on Komaeda, I'm sensing a presence

[emilio-guevara-the-sexy-man]

Ah (midly startled)

[thevagueambition]

recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children's hospital

[kittydesade]

ONE

SINGLE

JOKE

[digitaldiscipline]

[aquarines]

vampire sucking blood from the inner thigh can be something so erotic and more vampire media needs to get on this train

look at this post with your eyes if you agree

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]