My own corner of Hell(a)

"Ain't it warming you, the world gone up in flames?" 25 Call me Banshee, they/she! terfs are not welcome here

[sisifroggy]

Unhinged Text Posts: Josephine Montilyet Edition

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Josephine | Dragon Age

[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.

[6mayhem]

mr. substance abuser has a suggestion for how we should spend the afternoon

[quinnactually]

that's MS. substance abuser to you

[6mayhem]

sorry women sorry sorry sorry you can kick me really hard in the head

[f0xtrot-tater-tots]

[clownlores]

Angels are everywhere we made them

[an-act-of-fire]

what's my kink? hmm i don't know i guess i don't have any

are they gone? okay. you are a knight and i am your childhood friend but the key point is we've been in love for years and years and years and every time you come back from a quest i'm there.

and every time, i wipe the blood from your face and bandage your wounds, and you catch my hand and press it harder over the cloth, and it hurts you but it feels good, too, because it's my hand that's doing it, and because of this quiet unspoken thing between us that will never be because of the oaths you've made to others.

and then one day an enemy of yours tracks me down and i am your one weakness, and you came back to the quiet village and i am not there, and the houses are burning, and you raze every inch of ground between us

but it's a trap (obviously it's a trap) and you are caught and i am there, and your enemy vows to destroy your world as you have destroyed his (and this is how i find out that you are not the good person i thought you were) (and how i find out that i don't care, i'll have you anyway, if we survive this thing)

and then while you are restrained your enemy hurts me just to see you scream, and i won't beg even though nothing has ever hurt this bad, and you are raging against your chains, with this look in your eye that's fear, not rage, because for all your vows i am the only thing you love.

and then you get free and you kill him and you toss his body aside like it doesn't even matter (because it doesn't, only i matter, i am the only thing in the world) and you undo my bindings with shaking hands and you say damn my oaths, i will slay a thousand kings if you ask it of me, and i smile finally with blood on my teeth and you kiss me

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[velvetcloak]

backstage @ robert wun SS26 couture show

[sapropel]

Sometimes your bad coworker will be like "I can't do anything right & I ruin everything I touch :(" and you can't even comfort them because like damn. Yeah. You really can't do anything right and you do ruin everything you touch☝️

[sapropel]

HE'S GETTING FIRED. NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!

[space-gingers]

I’ve been practicing day in and day out just drawing my man over and over anyways WIP coz my laptop crashed and guys…the end for it is in sight.

[letmebegaytodd]

mango smoothie is a health potion and brother i'm on my last hit point

[letmebegaytodd]

mango smoothie is a harm potion for you specifically 😔

[februarytrash]

being sad and horny is a privilege

[dovegraveyard]

Red eyed devil

[jackce]

Si yo digo que todavía es el aniversario de Hetalia, todavía es el anivesario de Hetalia (?)

My contribution to the Hetalia 20th anniversary fanzine: Draw a Circle, it's Hetalia! (which you can download for free at @hetalia-20-anniversary-zine ❤️🥂

[dovegraveyard]

Eyes up, rookie

[dovegraveyard]

you played well

[kumanaru]

got into star wars recently and this was the outcome

[maidthings]

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

[fake-lancelot]