#He came at the king and he missed

[deweydecimalchickens]

I've been at Whitby Folk Week with my mum and there's this guy there, Reg Meuross, who's inexplicably hot shit. And I've decided I don't like him. I think he uses other people's tragedies to hawk some mediocre songs that all sound the same and are mostly about promoting Reg Meuross Political Songwriter Social Historian.

Last year we went to see his 'Stolen From God' show about the transatlantic slave trade, and I wanted to like it, and I was cutting it some slack because I think going to a rural sea port full of white people that's lost most of its industry and saying A Lot Of Sea Trade Was Bad Actually is a worthwhile and brave thing to do. But for a white guy collaborating with two black guys on a show about the slave trade, he was doing an awful lot of talking and getting an awful lot of the sympathetic POVs.

But yesterday we went to see his show 'Fire and Dust' about Woody Guthrie and fuck me it was bad. I mean I don't know if they were all hungover or didn't wanna be there or what but they were on stage for two thirty-minute halves with a thirty-minute break in between. And I literally learned more from reading the Wikipedia entry afterwards. "Well Woody Guthrie was just some guy, you know?" just about summed it up.

So much interesting stuff they could have talked about and didn't:

What the Dust Bowl actually was (about a decade with a very terrible combination of drought, Great Depression, soil erosion and dust storms affecting agriculture in Oklahoma and nearby areas, causing mass migration to California) and why it mattered, and how unwelcome "economic migrants" are still fleeing for their lives

The labour and communist organisations he was associated with, and the whole labour-history context in the US at that time. End the myth of the lone visionary!

His relationships with Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and various others (boiled down to "Dylan liked him and visited him when he was dying")

How he got from being the N-word-using son of a Klansman to the man who wrote 'Old Man Trump' and 'Deportee'. That's not a natural progression in 1930s-50s America.

What it means to have an autosomal-dominant late-onset condition like Huntington's Disease in the family when nobody understands the genetics, you have eight kids with three different women (it seems like only two inherited it, but another three died too young from other causes to tell), disability is seen as a moral failing, there's no treatment, and getting committed to a lunatic asylum in the first half of the twentieth century is Very Bad Times. Your actual family curse.

Maybe he's angry drunk and traumatised because of his life, maybe the psychiatric symptoms of Huntington's kicked in early - he clearly wasn't any fun to live with. When he was much too young to be getting sick, his first father-in-law still tried to recruit Pete Seeger to get Guthrie to treat his wife better.

His second wife, Marjorie Greenblatt, what a woman! Professional dancer and daughter of a famous Yiddish poet. Has four kids with him including Arlo. Divorces him because he's impossible to live with. But then she comes back to nurse him through his final years (he's already got through a third wife by then), sets herself up as the archivist of all his papers, and starts what would become the Huntington's Disease Society of America.

Also he played two whole Woody Guthrie songs ('So Long it's Been Good to Know You' and 'This Land is Your Land', one of them twice, and forgot lines to both. Okay maybe he wasn't expecting that encore request but come on. This is supposed to be a culmination of studying his life and you half-know two songs? I reckon I could manage a half-decent rendition of 'Deportee' on five minutes' notice. Especially if I knew I didn't have enough songs to fill the set list with my own stuff and had an internet connection in my pocket. "Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted" is hella relevant right now. We saw Melrose Quartet later and Nancy Kerr explicitly said it was folk music's job in these times to say migration is normal and good.

[huitandahalf]

I know that we got plenty of options as to how everything with the Ender King is going to go down, but a thought that has not left my mind was the idea of the Ender King downing qPhil in some way and taking him away. Which means there would be a chat message for all to see :)

For example :)

[the-carlos-cow-eyes]

What Bellamy Blake deserved: NOT FUCKING THAT

[ratatatastic]

men who can only confidently say they can fight puppydogs out of the plethora of animals they can choose in the animal kingdom... (x)(x)

[godofstory]

[noirandchocolate]

This is self-explanatory.

[korkiekenobiconfirmed]

funny enough, I think this scene was the closest the show ever got to realizing the actual point of the Dance.

the throne, was it worth it? it's too late, blood has spilled and the dragons danced and your brother is burnt half to death. peace is long since past but you must see this horrible, bloody thing to its unsatisfying end while you can do nothing more than fight and rue and pray. it was all for a crown, but was it worth it? when the price you pay is everything and everyone and nobody even wins, was it worth it?

miss me with that "only people who don't want a crown deserve one" and "the horrors I have loosed can't just be for a crown blah blah" boooorrrriiiinnngggg. the Dance was about two factions who were SO intent on their own power and SO adamant in their superiority that they ultimately became their demise. almost every character met a horrible fate, even the ones who survived the war! it's a tragedy of epic proportions and everybody's miserable and it can't even be blamed on any one person or death or catalyst. it was so deliciously, horribly unavoidable because targaryens, like their valyrian ancestors before them, cannot stop bringing about their own doom!

[willowcried]

THE FUCK YOU MEAN DEERLOTTIE DISACTIVATED HIS ACCOUNT BECAUSE OF SOME TRANSPHOBIC FUCK ARE YOU SERIOUS

THAT WAS MY FAVORITE BLOG EVER IM SO SAD

[kyouka-supremacy]

[kingofanemptyworld]

I cried more reading BNHA 422 than I did JJK 259, I think I’ve legit become desensitized to people dying in this series

[toffoliravioli]

respect 🫡 ❤️

[somedaytakethetime]

#holdmetighttoyourchesttoo #kickmybodylikeyoukickthefootball #cramyourfingersdownmythroatdaddy

[dirtytransmasc]

self indulgent got concept.

Ned brings Jon home, Cat hates the boy, everything stays the same... until Robert Baratheon is charging through the halls of Winterfell looking for the babe, ready to butcher the poor thing where he lay helpless in his cradle.

in a matter of moments Catelyn learns three things:

The babe was never a bastard, Ned had only lied to her to protect Jon, and that she would die before she let Robert lay a finger on the babe she'd previously wished death upon.

cue Catelyn Stark snatching Jon from his cradle, holding him, protecting him, loving him as she would her own son, risking it all to keep him safe, all care for herself thrown to the wind.

like they say, what a mother's love holds no bounds, and what it makes her capable of had no limits.

[dirty-dominik-mysterio]

raquel came back, the rock came back.. blah, blah, blah but YOURE TELLING ME I MISSED THE ONE PLE WHERE JIMMY CAME BACK ??? IM SO MAD

[deadrlngers]

i was tagged by @shadowglens and @risingsh0t to make some ocs in this picrew. thank you so much besties, i loved this picrew so much!! <3

vesper moxley (cp2077) • victoria gray (cp2077) joelle knight (fo4) • nina bower (fo4) selene (oblivion) • hiraeth (skyrim)

tagging: @uldwynsovs @arklay @devilbrakers @nuclearstorms @morvaris @girlbosselrond @indorilnerevarine @moiragf @cultistbase @faarkas @steelport @nokstella @reaperkiller @malefiicarum @brujah @calenhads @lightwardens @aelyosos and whoever else wants to do this or that i missed bc i'm terribly forgetful sorry!!

[yunolic]

how life got me feeling now 😆