Bella 🎧

Girl photographed by Hugh Mangum c. 1909

ah, the peace. the serenity. me sitting here while you sit there, nothing else more needed. i know this night will be a core memory for me for it’s the break in a chain of pain, hunger and loneliness. to be confined and suffocated by silence and more pain. pain that’s not mine. pain that i have been forced to carry by those forcing it within my four walls. they aren’t my four walls. i don’t have them anymore.

i’m falling. i was falling. for so long i have been falling. when does it end? when can life start? when will i be able to do the things i like, to be the person i like, to be happy and content because i can actually like things again. that i’m not drained and no longer have any idea as to what when will be the next bout of a breather before i’m pulled down again. deeper. breathe deeper.

i feel like this is a home. a home i wish to be a part of because it’s the sort of home i know i deserve. the prayers i send up, little glimmering whispers of light to shoot upwards that this can happen. i know it’s know what i want, but what the universe wants. but let the universe want this for me, please. let me find a way to make it out of the four walls and into one that i freely be a part of - not suffocated or confined to. but to finally be at rest.

dear reader, if you’re hurting please don’t take your pain out on others by being rude and mean. instead take time to heal and work on things in your life. you will be so proud of yourself in the future and wonderful things will come your way, please hang in there and have faith ♡

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

Edit: Changed the wording of the post and decided to put in a reminder that this extends to refusing to believe in bogus call-out posts for frankly minuscule thinks such as being horny or kinky, especially if the target is presenting in an ‘unconventional’ manner, (therians, etc.) this double standard where it is seen as ‘degenerate’ for transfemmes to merely exist in certain spaces, yet everyone else is fine to do so is disgusting and part of the reason for the backlash.

🙃 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.