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"Anger can be Righteous"

A beautiful comment under Idles' video for Samaritans

If there is something that growing up always got stuck in my head, was to avoid being angry, because I always perceived it as something purely negative. It was a "bad feeling" that I felt like I shouldn't lean into because it was a superficial way to react to injustices or just a purely evil feeling by its own, meant to hurt, it was always in a negative light.

It was a pretty monochromatic view, and sincerely, the first time I truly understood how it's absolutely not like that was through this band and by seeing how this "rage" can be a noble feeling instead, that it's not just to serve itself, that rage can be an armor for the most noble of causes, a spark to fuel a constructive call for a change, sometimes, the only way to pass powerfully a message as important as the one in Samaritans.

That phrase, "rage can be righteous" just got stuck in my head since, and I realised how, funnily, I was taught growing up to not let my rage be seen because 1) it wouldn't be girly to express anger and 2) it was important to keep the peace, more important than justice to be heard. Well, the peace to keep was never yours, tho!

There is so much shit we grew up with, and since I started meditating on how rage is not just meant to cause pain, this freed a part of me. You’re allowed to feel anger, you’re doing nothing wrong. It’s part of the colourful spectrum of emotions and it can be so, so noble.

It felt like I was finally allowing myself to be honest with myself and with life. I cracked open a cage when I realised all this.

I started to let my voice be fully heard instead of tolerating and putting on a polite face as I always did, something so simple, yet so eye-opening and liberating.

You're not evil for being angry. You're doing nothing wrong. It's a feeling just like any other that can bring a wonderful light of hope and change and that can make you feel seen and understood

There is nothing evil in itself with rage, of course, it's how you use it, it’s a powerful tool. It can be a beautiful thing.

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Ok, hi to you!

Welcome to this very Idly blog meant as a free, safespace for the fucking kindhearted and beautiful softies searching for a tiny, positive space 🌸

here's a little context about this blog that I feel like adding, almost as a way to justify myself for opening a fanblog in 2025 :')

It's never too late to do something that makes you happy, in my case, celebrate good artists. Hell yea 🌸

If you like reading, it's your lucky day.

●Why does this blog even exist?

To note all the beautiful things this band introduced in my life and to keep them somewhere, all together, where others can read them too, even. All the positivity notes and "teachings" (my gawd what a word) that I want to remember when I feel lost, even not strictly related to this band , simply cuz it's so easy to get caught in the nonsense of life, and having to deal with pricks that make you forget who you are and which things fuel your spark the most. Idles are a band to keep alive your fire with, and this blog is a way to keep my mind on track and to celebrate the band at the same time.

Mostly I am doing this for myself, to have a space where there is nothing but a positive mentality and have light-hearted fun, but if some other fan stumbles into this blog, and if they'll find this space comfy too, I'll be very glad about it. I'll share just positive reminders and the messages this band lovely spreads, eventually a little of a small diary too. It's really just for fun.

●Who are you, and for how long you've been a fan?

Call me Gotho 👌 It's my first year being an Idles fan, yet it seems like it's been for much longer, simply because of how much more life they brought into my days.

I don't know how they did it, but they did it.

I study music, I study bands and lots of different genres, who influenced who, and which album made history and why. Yet, amongst all of the other bands I know or discovered, Idles entered my life in a way I thought it would never happen again, they're "that" band currently for me, that band that marks a before and an after you discover them, and they had the FKKN AUDACITY to enter my life when I needed someone that speaks of strenght and hope just like they do the most, and I didn't even know I needed that.

Their straightforward way to make you realise that you're not living up to your dreams needs to be celebrated. Easy and effective.

•Why on Tumblr in 2025?

Because I'm tired of everywhere else. IG sucks for various reasons. I'm tired of fueling a place poisoned by ads, ragebait, the "numbers mentality" and shitty political posts that feed bigotry and ignorance. It's cool for memes but it has become too much of a time-consuming shithole. I needed something fresh and new and to cultivate something positive with my phone-time, not brain deadly scrolling through reels. Also, I REEALLY miss the "old internet" before socials, when there were people creating sites only to share their passion, often a super niche passion. Each was personal and not modelled over a white slate of a template identical to anyone else's.

Maybe this is the closest I can achieve for free to that experience.

Here there are no numbers, no viral stuff, just people and their passion projects, such as this one. IG has a way to mess with you, been there cuz I tried twice to "fit in" and "make numbers" with my crafts back in the day, but you really have to play to TONS of rules that mostly have nothing to do with your intentions as an artist. That's bullshit. That's a way to turn you into something else if not into another piece of THEIR machine. That's not a place for artists anymore, and it has become too much shit for anyone, really.

Apply this to many other mainstream social, and there you have it.

But I want to change this and I don't want to be bitter about it. I want this place to be a healthy garden. Hopefully some butterflies will arrive, too.

●Was it necessary to read all this?

No, but if you did anyway, thank you so much!

I hope you'll enjoy

All is Love ✨️