Recently dressed up my phone, with only a fraction of the many artists I adore and listen to!
All the stickers made by yours truly except for the temples, which came with my cd. Levellers, Flo, Horrors and Depeche are all acrylic paint and paint marker on sketch paper✨
Tears is watercolour on sketch paper with paint marker and the sun was recycled out of a very old book on astrology I got from a junk shop 💜🌞
Image description - A clear plastic phone case filled with colourful stickers. From top right, a bright red square with Levellers written in black messy text. Below, a single stemmed red rose with white highlights from the Depeche Mode Violator album cover. Below, a bright yellow strip with Temples Volcano in blue text. Below it, a sap green diamond shaped with a black capital H in the center. To the left, a light blue background surrounded by lilac, baby pink and yellow flowers, a yellow and gray canary and in the center the words Florence + The Machine in black text. Above it, a golden sun with bright yellow rays, on a light watercoloured background and in bold black text is TFF. - End ID
Songs about leftist and collectivist movements, mostly from the British Isles, 14th-21st centuries. Yknow the usual last minute Sunday night fill-in deal.
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Zounds - This Land
DJ speaks over Mystras - The Cutty Wren
George Hardy - The Land Song
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Hey Ho! Cook and Rowe!
Dick Gaughan - Both Sides The Tweed
The Bitter Withy - The Bitter Withy
Hamish Henderson - Freedom Come All Ye
Ryan's Fancy - The Manchester Rambler
Sam Lee - The Moss House
The Almanac Singers - Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
Cornelius Cardew - We Only Want the Earth
Blyth Power - Hurling Time
Glasgow Socialist Singers - England Arise
Maddy Prior & The Girls - Cropper Lads
Carl Sandburg - The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Crass - G's Song (Commoners Choir Remix)
Johnny Campbell - Hard Times of Old England
Robin Grey, Dolly May and Nick Hart - John Ball
Shirley Collins - The Sweet Primroses
Chumbawamba - You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932)
Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders - Die Gedanken Sin Frei
Alistair Hulett - Destitution Road
Planxty - Only Our Rivers
Robin Dransfield - The Cutty Wren
Barnstormer 1649 - Wellingborough & Wigan
Leon Rosselson - The Digger's Song (feat. Roy Bailey)
Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"
Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.
I'm a cryptid in Stardew valley. I live on the outskirts of town. I disappear for days on end, purchasing daily one-way tickets to the calico desert. Nobody knows where I go while I'm there. Can occasionally be found fishing at random spots throughout town. I am never not running on at least one triple shot espresso. I take the abandoned minecarts to get around and am frequently seen disappearing into the sewers. I carry a sword for some reason. Once every week or two I will stride into your bedroom to deliver you your favorite meal. I'm a self-made millionaire. I attend all the town events and will go to your concert in the next town over. I have donated approximately 2583 items to the local museum and singlehandedly revitalized the town community center. There are rumors I can talk to junimos. I'm friends with the local wizard
when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people
the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to
"i hate microlabels" yeah i also kind of dislike the idea of putting ourselves and our identities into very specific boxes, i think it can be really isolating- ohh wait you mean you think they're invalid. ohh no that's not the way to look at it. killing you
Job interview tip I got from a tiktok but it's genius:
If you were unemployed for a while, they're going to ask if you can explain the gap in your resume. Unless you were actually doing something cool & relevant, this is hard to answer in a way that makes you sound like a good corporate cog. So here's the best and infallible answer -
No you cannot, because you signed an NDA.
You now sound mysterious, desirable, worldly, experienced. They can't even really ask you more about it! Perfect.
Yes, Greece still exists, we didn't all die 2000 years ago. Yes, people speak Greek. You people are so fucking stupid for real. So many of you claim to love ancient shit but can't even acknowledge the actual living culture of the people whose mythology and classics you romanticize. You keep leaving annoying comments about how you just forget Greek people still exist, thinking you're being quirky because you love ancient stuff soooo much that you forgot about the people it came from. You think about it so little you don't even realize that an actual Greek person has to read this shit, making it clear how little you actually care about the culture beyond the romanticized (and westernized) mythology. Don't claim you love Greece, don't use our mythology anymore if you can't acknowledge that we're still around without making it about how little you think about us. It's mind boggling that you'd think a Greek person would read this and think you're anything but obnoxious. Explode.
So usually when an imaginary friend is a real thing in a story, it’s either a demon or a ghost or some supernatural boogeyman that probably wants to eat the kid they’ve befriended (Mama, a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies), or “imaginary friends” are just treated as a real thing in the setting, and if a child just thinks hard enough they can manifest a friend into existence (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Happy).
And somewhere in the middle is an area where the imaginary friend in question is real and they are supernatural, but they aren’t malevolent, and they aren’t entirely honest about what they are. Like maybe they’re a fairy or a god or some kind of boggle from mythology, but they just got caught by a six year old and they don’t have time to get into it, so they just go “…Yes. I’m your imaginary friend. We haven’t met. How do you do.” And then they stick around because they do love this kid, and if you’re a boggle from mythology in the modern day good food is really hard to come by.
the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible