it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

she/her, early 30ies, loves the sea and plants (pines, moss, ferns, hell yeah!) and birds and bruce. queer and poly and European. passionate about the good in people despite all the horrors.

[elletu]

silly girl, you almost forgot that you're the sun.

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[venomouslilith]

man we really are just kept in conditions that don't serve our species needs huh?

this is a badly kept zoo and I'm pacing back and forth in my enclosure

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Aletheia, sculpture by Emil Melmoth

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[geekynerfherder]

'The Odyssey' by Eleonor Piteira.

Wraparound cover art for the Wraithmarked Creative special limited edition of 'The Odyssey' by Homer, available through Kickstarter.

Available as a giclee print through Eleonor's Inprnt store.

[fucktoyfelix]

[zeroaddzero]

Bruce Springsteen. Photoshoot for the April 1996 issue of LGBT magazine The Advocate.

[moldspace]

weird hengelings

[gaytanic-panic]

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[jules-van-hering]

Got tagged by darling sweetheart @sometimecynic to share 10 random songs! Thank you, babe, it's perfect timing tbh. For me, today has been the type of rough day that is one big reminder of our fight against the system. I know you know what I mean 🙃❤️‍🔥

This entire album is soooo good!!! Sexy, sensual, spacy. Everybody stream Imaginal Disk (2024)

This is a recommendation from @vidasecaeveredas 🫶🏼 Da Mata's voice is honey!

Banger. Just total banger to shake off all the bullshit. Has been needed a lot recently 🙃

smooth. easy. nice.

Amy Taylor, the woman that you are 😍❤️‍🔥

Yes, still listening to this. The entire album is a smooth summery vibe. (Slow Tonight is a song of all times to me)

Kinda relatable, Olivia. I'm loving the collab, was really not expecting Robert Smith of The Cure on a Rodrigo track tho, pleasant surprise.

Funky reggae tune to groove to and let go.

My boy can turn me a into believer when he gets like this. Like what do you mean!?!?!! There is hope, you say? What? You sure? 🥹

Well, if Brucie says so, I'll go on then.

And then this here after a devastating line about his father being a stranger to him all his life:

Like I FUCKING FELT THAT! for real.

My sweeties @finch-connor @ocean-sans-serif @cowboy-jules @infected-girls @vidasecaeveredas @lottie-starling @nxposure what are you listening to?

[d1scont1nued]

[cosmovain]

is it weird if i say i genuinely wish there was more positivity aimed at people w large chests

[cosmovain]

"having a large chest is the beauty standard" no having a large chest is the Sexual standard theres a difference. i can only even be Hot and everything i ever wear will be deemed too sexual for every single situation. tank top shows too much cleavege or side boob a button up is always too busty and a crop top will always show too much skin. having a large chest leads to so much back pain and sexualization and complaining about it makes people go "ahh grass is alwahs greener/you are the beauty standard, why complain?" like genuinely i urge yall to watch anything with a larger chested woman and notice, REALLY notice, that her chest is her entire personality. notice that people critiqing misogynist charavter designs alwayd tend to rally in the statement that large chest=misogny, casting aside the Many Many Many women and people who look like Me and just . have a large chest? and exist? and deserve respect and not to be seen as nothing more than a sex symbol by both sides? idk ikdayy

[iridessence]

it’s okay to eat. it’s okay to sate your needs, and you don’t have to compare yourself to other people and what they eat. there could be one thousands reasons someone else eats the amount of food they do. only you live in your body, and you deserve to nourish it without guilt.