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Don't we all fear something?

[improbablecarny]

Disney’s support of the Don’t Say Gay shit is reprehensible to begin with but I think it’s a little strange that the solution proposed by some people is to yell at Disney until they say they support LGBT people and not question why the funny cartoon company can dictate human rights

[emeraldmercury]

Disney has so much investment in China that this is never going to happen.

[improbablecarny]

China has nothing to do with a Florida-based company funding Florida lawmakers in creating a Floridian bill to appeal to homophobic Floridians in Florida that will be surely used as a template for other home-grown homophobes in other states in the United States of America. Disney is not a poor underdog being stepped on by the boot of a scary foreign shadow government, they are a monopolistic monstrosity that’s been contributing to awful practices and abuses throughout its entire near-century of existence. 

[logicallyblind]

hi i’m seeing no one talk about this cover??? this is HAUNTING, it’s dedicated it to everyone who’s died from the coronavirus so far especially healthcare staff i just,,,

[elodieunderglass]

Hozier singing trad song “The Parting Glass”

[elodieunderglass]

Other celebrities: (goopily drip upon, of all things, “imagine”)

Us: (call for the guillotine)

Hozier: (a bittersweet lad, sings an ancient song to the departed)

Us: play this over silent, crisply shot black and white footage of the empty streets and silent landmarks. cut with shots of our drowning hospitals. An acceptable future documentary of 2020 that we will allow.

[alien-bagels]

My audio processing isnt working in the brain. Can someone PLEASE tell me what the crud he’s saying because all i can make out are sounds not words

[lanerose23]

Saw your post while skimming through the reblog and did not see an answer, so for accessibility!  Hozier is singing the following:

Of all the money that e’er I had / I spend it in good company

And of all the harm that e’er I done / Alas it was to none but me

For all I’ve done for want of wit / to memory now I can’t recall

So fill to me the parting glass / good night and joy be with you all.

Of all the comrades that e’er I had / they’re sorry for my going away

And of all the sweethearts that e’er I had / they’d wish me one more day to stay

But as it falls unto my lot / that I must go and you must not

I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call / good night and joy be with you all.

[tall--noodle]

when i first read the lyrics to this a year or so ago, i always thought it was a sad song (contrary to what google says about it being a pub song), and hearing this solemn and heartfelt rendition by hozier always makes me tear up

[watches-and-windchimes]

Google’s technically right, it is a pub song, but not in the sense you’re thinking. This is what I call an “end of the night” song - these tend to be somber, nostalgic, and contain references to a final drink/toast eg “the parting glass” usually either in memory of death, or in the knowledge of death to come. Others include Auld Lang Syne and Health to the Company. They’re “let’s drink to old times because we might not all meet here again” songs.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

In Welsh-speaking Wales, it’s Yma o Hyd. Which actually translates to “We’re still here lol”, but it’s not a joke song. Yma o Hyd is a resistance song about how, in spite of everyone and everything that England has done and tried to do to us, we’re still here. We’re still able to go to the pub, and join together in a shared community, in Welsh. We’re still a culture that can do this. We’re still here.

It even has a verse name dropping Thatcher.

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Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark, 1988

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Mikey, 1992 

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Re-Animator, 1985

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Tales from the Crypt, 1989

Happy New Years!

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New Year's Evil, 1980

Happy new year’s eve!

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Deadly Night, 1984

Merry Christmas!

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Evil Christmas, 1980

Merry Christmas Eve!

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Tales from the Crypt; And All through the House, 1989

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My aunt always made certain foods for certain occasions. 

Whenever her best friend had a miscarriage she would make shredded chicken buffalo dip for her. 

Whenever someone gave birth she would send a double chocolate Bundt cake.

And at any funeral she would bring a loaded potato casserole. 

It was my favorite thing she made and I always felt bad that no matter who died, I knew I would eat her casserole. Sometimes I would ask her to make it, but she said it wouldn’t be special if she made it all the time.

I came home one day, seeing a fresh potato casserole on my mother’s counter and asked who died. My mother looked at me like I cursed and told me no one did. 

I didn’t question further, my aunt had came by and dropped off the casserole for me, she said. 

It was only at 8:34 that night we learned my aunt had died in a car crash four hours after dropping the meal off.

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Elvira Mistress Of The Dark, 1988

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Silent Night, 2012

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Jack Frost, 1997

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Dolly Dearest, 1991

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The Man Who Laughs, 1928

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Halloween, 1978