moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.
[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]
I don’t know about you guys but i really miss seeing “high fantasy” dragons in media, high fantasy dragons are like Smaug (The Hobbit), Draco (DragonHeart), Saphira (Eragon) and Spyro (Spyro the Dragon games franchise) for example, they have their own free will and cannot be controlled, they are highly intelligent and capable of speaking and even writing or drawing. It seems the version of dragons that has taken over is the animalistic and realistic version, that are basically huge dogs that can breath fire, bring back intellectual dragons that like to make riddles to fool intruders, bring back grumpy dragons that live isolated from everyone but they are actually lonely and in need of a friend, bring back the loyal and brave dragons that are willing to sacrifice themselves to save the ones they love, dragons that will talk to you about the mysteries of the world and the universe, JUST BRING BACK HIGH FANTASY DRAGONS GODDAMIT
you can’t ignore hozier’s anticolonialism angle in his music, his music is so so tied to his land and his people, a land and people who were (and still are in the north!) victims of coloniziation by england, who had their language and culture and society and religion erased and foribly replaced, you need to remember that when you’re analyzing the politics of his songs.
Eat Your Young isn’t just about the modern exploitation of young folks, it is referencing A Modest Proposal, a satirical piece from the famine that proposed fixing the famine via the selling and eating of irish catholic children. This is about cycles, this is about colonialism, this is about oppression and exploitation and greed and suffering and power, it’s incredibly irish don’t erase that, okay?
