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— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” (1967) (via lunamonchtuna)

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girl help people are misinterpreting hozier lyrics on the internet

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🙃 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.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

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the choice of music in fellow travelers is just so brilliant… using Stevie Wonder’s if it’s magic, for the opening scene, including the notable line “if it’s magic/then why can’t it be everlasting?” (not to mention the lyric change in the final chorus: “if it’s magic/why can’t we MAKE it everlasting?) And then proceeding to tell a love story over the span of nearly 40 years and both explicitly and sub-textually detailing all of the reasons it couldn’t be made everlasting. And that’s just in the first five minutes. Insanity.

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Would you look at that?

In public, and the world didn't come to an end.

Go home, Hawk. Please.

Make it easy for me.

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Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Fellow Travelers

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"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.

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YES WE WONNNN

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FELLOW TRAVELERS by Thomas Mallon Chapter 3 & Chapter 41

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Thinking about how even though Hawk got everything he wanted (or was told to want) the career, a wife and kids, money, success, he still ended up unfulfilled (“That sounds really empty.”) because he spent so long hiding himself in order to achieve success and keep himself safe.

Conversely, even though Tim had the safety of concealment where it concerned working in government ripped from him, essentially losing his career, and came out at a time when the social and political landscapes of America never ensured queer safety, and I’m sure, at certain points made his life harder, he still lived a life that was happy and fulfilled, for a lot of reasons, yes, but I’d argue mainly because he didn’t have to hide anymore

Obviously the two characters work romantically but narratively they also foil each other so interestingly and so WELL. Hawk got everything he wanted!!! It wasn’t enough!!!!!!!!!! Tim lost a lot!!! But he also stood up for something larger than himself and got to live his life openly!!! He didn’t have to hide! He was Happy!!!

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You took that.

FELLOW TRAVELERS — Hit Me, 1x03

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"Nice story." "You read my paper?" "Drag Queens can read."

Fellow Travelers 1x02: Bulletproof

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then the voice in my head said, whether you love what you love or live in a divided ceaseless revolt against it, what you love is your fate

Words from guilty of dust by Frank Bidart

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TIM LAUGHLIN IN FELLOW TRAVELERS 1.07

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a collage i made from various 1970′s lesbian newspapers and magazines

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The Undershirt: 1x04 "Your Nuts Roasting On an Open Fire" V. 1x08 "Make it Easy" (Hint: Look Closely!)

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FELLOW TRAVELERS 1.06 and 1.07