I'm flying like a bird to you now

[chipthekeeper]

Thimble and Occtis + touching

bonus: trying it without Thimble Privileges

[dent-de-leon]

aww this all so sweet ; ; ohh my heart ; ; I love Thimble so much. The bit about how she always thought this was just a myth, but now she's living this legend--carrying on Teor's strength--

[dent-de-leon]

aww this all so sweet ; ; ohh my heart ; ; I love Thimble so much. The bit about how she always thought this was just a myth, but now she's living this legend--carrying on Teor's strength--

[wren-hawk]

Travis, what have you wrought?? The minute he got your boon, Wic went from blessed to cursed!!

[tarydarrington]

"Not now!!"

[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

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

[the-fallen-blue]

[magnhild]

it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

[wren-hawk]

Wow, that had some real Emily Axford energy.

[wren-hawk]

As they walk through the neighborhood, I wonder if Thaisha is seeing the rapid progress the Creed has made in gathering power in a relatively short period of time and seeing another way the druids are failing the moment.

[wren-hawk]

"Where are you going?"

"I was gonna go where you go."

😭😭😭😭😭

[wren-hawk]

THANK YOU! It feels like the only reason the Schemers went down this rabbit hole because Bolaire hated Thjazi and Murray is seeing conspiracies everywhere.

[skuttlesstrawberry]

I am so grateful that Thaisha spoke up and said, “Wait, what do we actually know for a fact about any planned rituals??”

They were getting REAL tied up in the conspiracy board strings and somebody had to start cutting the knots!

[wren-hawk]

This setup isn't great for the ADHD cats in the back.

[dent-de-leon]

hi this little moment of Bolaire genuinely apologizing to Thimble made me soft--

[wren-hawk]

Can't believe Hal got Tim Curry to work at the theater.

[wren-hawk]

Devastating: The Worst Person You Know Made a Meaningful Point.