calming dreams

28, lesbian, they/them

[return-of-the-fly]

You be unbearably clingy, and I’ll be violently protective.

[saudi-spirit-deactivated2019040]

pretty brown eyes

[writing-prompt-s]

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

[stupid-elf]

You sold some shitty copper, man, I don’t know what to tell you

[redwolf17]

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

[achillesinhighheels]

[trueblu]

AESHA ASH

[distantvoices]

Glorianny Saint Fleur by Jean Marques for M Le magazine du Monde March 2024

Laetitia Leporcq (Fashion Editor/Stylist), Nicolas Philippon (Hair Stylist), Lauren Bos (Makeup Artist)

[topcat77]

Alexis Ralaivao

[achillesinhighheels]

Hugo Comte

[lemon-embalmer]

fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

[lemon-embalmer]

this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

W H A T

[slumpyspaceprincess]

@rogha

[thewhisperingescapes]

[mirkwoodest]

In moments like this I always fall back on the fact that they also aren’t speaking English because they don’t have England or the many languages and conquering peoples that contributed to the creation of the English language and therefore the work musr be a translation into recognizable terms in our world’s terms. Call that Tolkien Brainrot.

[bellbottom-jeans]

Definitely funnier if you make fantasy explanations though,

Champagne is a wizard who sells bubbly alcohol.

It’s called English because of the original Lish people, all languages start with En here.

French fries are not potatoes they’re roots of the french plant.

Goodbye is now short for ‘good be your eye’ wishing you luck seeing the path ahead.

Jesus Christ is a long dead lich who used to cause everyone problems and we haven’t stopped saying her name when things go wrong.

[thatgaydemigodnerd]

And that’s the Pratchett approach

[bananonbinary]

some of yall use "amab" and "afab" as like, a woke substitute for "male" and "female" and its real weird. agab terminology is useful for talking about like, your personal life experiences and very specifically medical and legal problems you might run into. if you use it to describe a stranger then you're just going back to gender essentialism in a new hat. and implying you can clock everyone, to boot.

[mysterium-solis]

Sword Illustrations by Ma-Ko (2018-21)

[anticmiscellaney]

Edit: at the suggestion of @fritzllang​, I have made a playlist! It has these fifteen songs, but I might add some others too.

[ksenka-zarazka]

this keeps me up at night

[thegirlwhohid]

A little addition of how “ordinary russians” perseive mass abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children:

“Today the first portion of Ukrainian children were brought in the orphanage in my city. Actually, the feelings are mixed. I hope that the ones who are older will be taught to be servants at blue-collar jobs because they already have wind in their heads. And the ones who are younger could be washed out of Ukrainianism.”

[wintersmitth]

I hope that Julietta dies horribly. Absolute garbage human.

But hey, not all russians

[ketrindoll]

On 8th of May, russofascist gang of low-life terrorists killed Bogdan Mikhalaki - a 23yo violinist from Odesa region.

It hurts so much to see Ukraine's talented youth murdered by vulgar, criminal pieces of shit.

Don't forget Bogdan and his beautiful music. And don't forget Ukraine 🇺🇦

[dreamsmthgold]

I will be a pain and say this again, I am not even sorry: Arm Ukraine. More more more arms to ukraine. Just do it.

[swamp-cats-den]

If we were in a movie, the fact that Ternopil, the hometown of TVORCHI, was bombed by russia minutes before the band's performance in the Eurovision finale would be deemed bad writing. It's over the top, it's trying too hard with the drama, and why make the villian into a cartoonish character? But the reality is such that russia is the cartoon villian. No tragic backstories, no understandable motivations. Just the desire to erase Ukrainians as culture and people. I know that for a lot of those living in other countries, the war seems like something distant, a scary story they want nothing to do with (hello, Switzerland with your 'I don't wanna a soldier', it's not like we haven't noticed, neutrality and all). But here's another reminder that for Ukrainians, fighting russia is fighting for our right to simply live.

[varanguard]

Sometimes I wonder what a huge, incomprehensibly deep and wide rift is between a person with leftist views from the west that grinded in mud beside me in the trenches, sharing water and cigarettes, constantly frostbitten, harsh and aggressive for no reason, hardened by the deadliest war since iran-iraq massacre... and a spoiled creature living on the web in their den grinding not in mud but in noosphere's cesspit, spewing memes, joking about gulags and pol pot, asking stalin to come back, calling themselves 'communists' or 'marxism-leninists' or whatever their brainrot regurgitates. And these two people call themselves leftist.

I thought the web would be my shelter from reality which is currently a pure nightmare, but even here, in the most serene of social networks there are fucking imageboard-born wretches who are light miles away from actual reality. Actual reality is an 'utka' can in which the tied mad veterans in the hospital were allowed to piss in until sedatives kick in and the pacified berserker could be released. Actual reality is hospitals set in 1940-1950 era buildings because our country was turned into ruin and a colony by a superior power which tries to reassert it's control over us by any means imaginable, and we have no resources and time to rebuild and renovate and make our hospitals, clinics and everything of state inhabitable. We are a ruin fighting another, far more terrible ruin.

Actual reality is a letter from an anarchist in russian prison, RPG charged, craters after barrel artillery shelling, the black helmet of a ruskie Su-25 pilot who flew just above the pines where we started digging our positions, and I felt I looked him in the eyes when he turned right above us and we saw the cockpit clearly. Actual reality is a last cigarette to warm your fingers because the rest of the body is an iceberg. And the day before that I was toying around with Postman, shaping up Jiras, tasks, CRMs, meetings. And in a few hours you lose almost everything and find yourself in a WW2 era crater near Kyiv getting ready to fight the cream of the crop of the russian army (guard airborne brigades).

I wish all those who joke about 'Ukronazi' and 'grains hidden from communists'. those who put hammer and sickle on trans flags and those who sit on the fence and talk bothsideism, to have their towns and houses to be shown on CNN like mine was. But this time I will be watching and you will be running for shelter.

You seriously have to burn the fat off your souls.