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liberalsarecool

The bubble is nigh.

injuries-in-dust

mewwon

the vivid sensory-memory of sucking water out of a washcloth as a child

hussyknee

The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws

geekysteven

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

Apparently, bc I received a blood transfusion during labor, I can't donate my breastmilk until August. (But *then* they'll take my milk from May...?) Guess I gotta reorganize the freezer bc I'm *definitely* going to run out of space before then. 😬

dragon-in-a-fez

Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks

dragon-in-a-fez

other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:

Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia

Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff

Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh

Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time

Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut

dragon-in-a-fez

how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.

dragon-in-a-fez

I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!

listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell

it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp

dragon-in-a-fez

updating this post for 2025:

Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit

Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"

Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling

Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke

Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need

dragon-in-a-fez

bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today

penny-anna

Saw an ad the other day that was like having trouble concentrating at work? Try granola! And for a moment I was like ah a wholesome advertisement... Granola... Good for your brain... Anyway turns out that's the name of an AI assistant

penny-anna

a lot of ppl getting legitimately annoyed at this product in the notes and I'd like to clarify that this is what i was going for:

heycallmered

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

llama2237

What... What movie is this.

heycallmered

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

marmoset-marmoset

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

My lil' pumping buddy

bipolyjack

babys first gay fiction podcast my beloved

Is your dad getting a VP shunt? Is it normal pressure hydrocephalus or idiopathic intracranial hypertension or something else? I hope the procedure goes well!!! (I have IIH and a VP shunt, if you want to ask any questions). Sending love from a fellow educhum!

That's the goal! And upon following up with him, turns out he's still fighting the VA to take him seriously and run the tests. They keep brushing him off bc he's 89. But yeah, we think it's normal pressure hydrocephalus--there was just an article in the NYTimes about it, and everything matches to a T.

Thankfully, he's a very spry 89 year old so I have faith he'll eventually be able to wear them down. 🤣

I'm starting to get very minor cramps, and I swear if my period is back *already*...🤬🤬

stackslip

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

phantomrose96

After 13 years of this, it's still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.