EVERYONE WISH ME LUCK I GOTTA BE UP AT 3 AM TO TALK TO IRISH PEOPLE

the amount of people saying “why is ireland the only european country who‘s supporting palestine??” is gonna make me pass out

Write the fic and use this as a cover.

Like, it's fine to relate songs you like to fiction you like. That's good and fun! Hozier's music is often political commentary, but it's also about love and emotion and has inspirations in other genres of music and fiction (esp Unreal Unearth, which is explicitly based on Dante's Inferno).

The trouble comes not with linking, you know, a love song to your favorite blorbo, it's when you reduce Hozier the person into a magical sad fairy man stereotype Too Good for This World in a way that both reduces the influence of black music and artists on his work AND fetishizes Irishness as a whole as if Ireland is a fantasy kingdom of the past and not a real place populated by real people.

IMO the most distressing thing about the guy who claimed to have signed the ulster covenant in his own blood is not even that a guy claimed to have signed the ulster covenant in his own blood it's that the forensics people they recently had test it to see if he was telling tales couldn't even one hundred percent say whether or not he was telling the truth

pro tip though: asking tour interpreters at a historical museum about ghosts is, 9 times out of 10, a fantastic way to get them to dislike you

Love this interview... I have been semi-checking in on Zawe's journey since before certain stans were feeling some kinda way about her recent familial additions. I do for certain Black actors/creators especially, who seem to be moving in interesting ways in entertainment/film media...

-A remnant from a period when I used to go to screenings and blog about films (and was published a few times in a major national newspaper)... So, I knew of Zawe through the grapevine of her mentorship, i.e. she is the reason why Rege Jean Page of Bridgerton fame got to work in U.S. markets, as she sponsored him. And she is known, as one of those "good eggs" who will be accessible and help/advise especially young actors of color. ...But, I have some other stuff to say. This isn't about proving that she's an amazing human being. It's about a certain brand of misogynoir that some of these people far beneath her in self-knowledge, self-love, and just plain grown-ass-woman-personhood...keep letting fly in what they *think* are compliments, but actually are just trite microaggressions. Saying things like "as long she makes [T-blank H-blank] happy then she's alright" as if he's the centered human and her attachment renders her worthy somehow. Babies, as long as SHE'S happy. Yall. He's marrying up.

WAY UP and the fact that he knows this? Actually elevates him. She's been there.

She tells a story in the above interview that reminds me of Uzo Aduba's anecdote about her name , - of an incident when she was called to an early job (at 6!) and someone there said she wasn't pretty because of her gap and her Ugandan mother took her on past this person and into the room, ANYWAY.

... She learned a specific self-knowledge and self-love, that is necessary in very white western spaces that constantly pressures a narrow sense of worthiness and beauty, especially from Black women, something a lot of these small-minded stans don't even have a notion of seeing beyond. Zawe is biracial, and her features, aside from her skin tone are very African. So while she benefits from colorism, featurism is something I've seen those bigoted stans, pick on as well. She knows those features are what makes her beautiful and knew that, w/o and before her partner saw that too. And people who aren't blind narrow-minded ignoramuses can *also* see that. This is why I assert the fact of featurism needing to be in the conversation of light/dark privilege conversations. Lips, nose, gap, and even the set of her eyes are ethnic beauty markers within quite a few spaces in the Black African diaspora... My mom was an absolute stunner because of her gap.

Even the old school white model Lauren Hutton got there because of her gap. Uzo Aduba, who I have already mentioned has a deeper skintone and has similarly large round striking eyes, gap, and a non-pinched-nose *rightly* played Glinda in NBC's production of The Wiz a few years back, with Dorothy saying she's so beautiful *because* of those features, not despite them as a very narrow white-washed gaze would wrongly assert.

And while we're here that includes sizes and shapes too. I'm saying your boy is enjoying all that plush. A lot of yall need to read or reread Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman, for comprehension.

Anyway... All this to say I know Zawe is and will be fine regardless.

P.S. Maya Angelou *also* had height, and gap and was very much known for her beauty/magnetism as a woman when she was alive. :

What do yall think John got up to in his year away lmao? Cause I think about it a lot, and, correct me if I'm wrong please, it's never really touched on in the game outside of a few comments here and there lmao. I feel like he either just did a whole lot of fucking nothing, scraping to get by and regretting his decision, OR he did a whole lot of everything and was the sole reason new laws and restrictions were created in places people would least expect. I'm more inclined to lean towards the latter, only because John Is a literal feral animal and without Arthur and Hosea there to calm him down, he probably went back to his old ways of pure chaos, but nothing would surprise me tbh.💀

Wait, are people like... under the impression that Oppenheimer is somehow... a glorification of nuclear warfare? About the man who was so horrified by his involvement in the Manhattan Project and its results that he spent his life afterward lobbying against nuclear weapons development, the nuclear arms race and competition with the Soviets, and the development of the hydrogen bomb in particular, that he got blacklisted as a communist during the McCarthy years and was essentially erased from the scientific community because of it?

That Robert Oppenheimer?

A bonus Molly sketch from my gilded cage things! Given the circumstances for Molly in particular during chapter 4 and the fact that Dutch being the way he is would likely just use her as an accessory for the evening I can’t imagine her having a good time, but at least the dress is pretty

hey so, guess who just found secret, not-so-secret, lesbians galpals hiding in Irish mythology while he was looking for cool names for ocs 👀

Bodhmall & Liath Luachra were Fionn's(mac Cumhaill) childhood foster mothers in the Fenian Cycle.

(& also just badass warriors in their own right, living together in the forest of Sliabh Bladhma; Bodhmall, specifically, was a druidess.)

maybe i'm just greek but it's so weird to me when people get so upset over the ACCENTS in shows being transferred from broadway to the west end or to australia changing like ???? literally who fucking cares it's the same music and the same words these are just people's accents people have different accents in real life outside of having to fake them for theatre sorry <3

fellow kevin dayist here coming to the only other person in this world i trust to catch judgement on our queen... which historical period do you think is his favourite. my hunch is either ancient greece or the elizabethean age in england

can ibe honest i think kevin likes modern history.............. listen. listen I BELIEVE i choose to believe i think kevin loves soviet history......... i know in my heart. i know it. i understand the appeal of thinking he likes ye olden stuff but to me i think the reason kevin likes history is because kevin ultimately likes people so he's less about the mechanisms of how empires are founded and more How have people changed and evolved and lived and etc. i think he'd like soviet history because at the time of canon the fall of the soviet union is So Recent, kevin was literally alive when it happened!!!!!!! i think it'd just be interesting. and i like soviet history so i will project it onto him whenever i can

also i feel like this is kinda obvious and has been said by everyone at every point in time but i love kevin liking the history of ireland................... its a pretty vague and loose definition but i just think he would like to at least connect with ireland in some way, and just like the soviet union, ireland was in active conflict for a good chunk of kevin's life!!!!! actually as i type this i realize kevin and kayleigh lived in dublin literally during the time of the troubles. um. well. i guess it's not even history for him then it's just real life. post cancelled

Every cool person I speak to recently is like are u an artist and i'm like uh not really kind of but I have this one cool idea and I tell them the idea and they're like YOU SHOULD DO YOUR COOL IDEA IT'S A COOL IDEA! In fact, I CAN REMOVE A BARRIER BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR COOL IDEA!! Its like a puzzle i'm collecting all the pieces it's all coming together and its terrifyingggg

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! DEPRESSION IS CANCELED!

Nearly done talking about this I promise but it's incredible to me that when the aristocracy finally started with the relief schemes in 1741 they did the thing where they offered the starving sickly people jobs rather than charity "so as not to encourage idleness 🤓☝️" but instead of having the peasantry build things like roads as during the 1840s famine they started having random obelisks and walls built on their property. never underestimate the strength of the eighteenth century aristocrat urge to erect some kind of monument I guess