#Virginia West

[notasouleater]

I saw Hórreo’s and now I’m thinking about Virginia in either 1B (she’d choose this one) or 5D (the party would get this for her with the addition of vampire teeth) ((probably after pestering her for when her birthday is))

A quiet cozy evening for once because she deserves it

When is her birthday 👉👈 by the way 👉👈 for no reason

[roxy206]

when the sharpest words wanna cut me down; I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out; I am brave, I am bruised; I am who I'm meant to be, this is me; look out cuz here I come; and I'm marching on to the beat I drum; I'm not scared to be seen; I make no apologies, this is me

Yesterday (04/29/2023) Virginia West did a lip sync to This Is Me at a drag brunch while a group protested with a banner that read there will be blood

This event was a fundraiser for Kaleidoscope Youth Center which supports LGBTQ+ youth in Ohio. If you can, make a donation to support this community!

📷 jakebluv

[notasouleater]

@floofylion

[littleivyart]

Appalachian Miku

[gwydionmisha]

We warned you this is where this is going.

[intheholler]

it is absolutely BONKERS to me, the number of people in the united states i have talked to who have never even heard of the battle of blair mountain. how the largest labor uprising in our history manages to skirt by so many leftists unknown is just downright astonishing. the largest labor uprising, and the largest armed uprising, period, since the civil war.

did yall even hear me?

THE LARGEST ARMED UPRISING!! besides the civil!!! fucking!! war!!! was fought in 1921 in the name of LABOR RIGHTS AND UNIONS by TEN THOUSAND RIGHTEOUSLY PISSED, STRIKING COAL MINERS

these absolute fucking LEGENDS marching out the hollers of west virginia, wearing their red bandanas and wielding their papaw's shotguns pointed at the lawmen. waging war against the fucking UNITED. STATES. MILITARY!!! for their right to work safely and be paid fairly!!!

and people just like. don't know about that? put some fucking respect on west virginia!!! and fellow appalachians, yall best just own it when ignorant people call you a fucking redneck cause our ancestors did that shit and they did it for us

[slayfk]

posting here because this just doesn’t feel right to talk about in the horseimagebarn voice but this is extremely important to talk about.

my partner and i have returned to our hometown to stay with her family and my own has gotten a hotel here too (they moved to the town we currently live in after we did) so we are all safe and out of the thick of it

however there are tens of thousands of people who are not both in my own town and in the many surrounding it. appalachia will take an extremely long time to recover from this and there are more storms on the way. all i see on social media right now is people asking for shelter because their homes have been destroyed, or people asking for help searching for family members who are missing. hundreds of trees have fallen. hundreds of homes have flooded. roads are literally falling apart. preexisting sinkholes due to shitty pipes are opening up and consuming land. dams are on the verge of bursting and the only way to stop it is to release water so quickly it floods whole towns. all but one of our cell towers are down, so only people with at&t have service and the rest can’t contact anyone. over half the town still doesn’t have power. a major water supply issue occurred and the entire town is on a water boil order with no electricity to boil with. people are trapped in their homes and workplaces or out on the street because they have nowhere to go. law enforcement is blocking off roads but trapping people in the process. people have to be rescued by helicopter. our animal shelter has no water or power and boarding facilities have been flooded. entire villages like chimney rock nc are gone, and entire cities like asheville are cut off from the rest of the state and are completely inaccessible. ALL OF THE ROADS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CLOSED. 400+ roads are closed because they are unsafe . that is INSANE!!!

when people say that climate change isn’t real, they don’t know what they’re talking about. climate change and its father capitalism are only going to continue to worsen lives in every way possible. i live in the mountains and our infrastructure is completely unprepared to handle hurricanes and it’s only going to get worse. it’s such a strange and eye-opening experience to live something like this when you think that it could never happen to you because that type of weather shouldn’t reach you in your environment. climate change doesn’t care where you live. it’s real.

western north carolina and the rest of the southeast that has been hit by helene need help. more people need to be talking about this so that the government DOES SOMETHING because the government historically fucking hates appalachia and it still does!!! the major state institution near me took DAYS to respond despite being the only place in town with power and wifi connection because they had to wait for the state to approve their response—they could have allowed thousands of people to evacuate days prior to the hurricane hitting us but they didn’t do anything before or after until it was too late!!! it’s bullshit!!! PLEASE get talking about this because something has to be done. climate change is going to continue happening and our mountains and the people in them are going to suffer immensely. hundreds if not thousands are now homeless. please talk about this look at the footage online of the wreckage and look how quickly our infrastructure crumbled. we need better. the people of appalachia deserve better.

i’ll get back to posting horses soon. but for now this is a lot. my friends are homeless and my family had to get off the mountain or be trapped there without power and water for days. we’re all safe but exhausted. i hope everyone who has been affected by this is staying safe. if you are in western nc, dm me. when i come back, if you’re in my area, im happy to bring supplies. stay safe everyone

[shisasan]

September 1, 1937 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West

[mother-lee]

almost heaven

[mournfulroses]

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf written in December 1926

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, to his Tiktok following: In 1989, i was walking and I accidentally stepped on a butterfly. Steve has never let me forget it.

Eddie: Hey, Stevie. I saw a butterfly today.

Steve: Did you murder it too?

[unteriors]

Rankin Street, Branchland, West Virginia.

[catfindr]

[churchrummagesale]

Trans-Allegheny Asylum/Weston Hospital V

[intheholler]

mcdowell county, west virginia