em

hEDS, PCOS, MCAS, POTS, and CVID✨ real life motion designer???🎨 pls mask💕 she/her

[halsey @halsey]

It is not “too complicated to understand” that brown children are being murdered + people are being displaced under the occupation of one of the most powerful armies in the world. It is willful ignorance to conflate these simple horrors with religion + geopolitics. #FreePalestine

[em @cripplella]

I haven’t talked about my health on here in ages, but I kinda just figured this app is mostly a lost cause? Anyways still alive for now, I’m on my 7th round of sepsis this year sooooooo

[em @cripplella]

Thanks to the witches for also managing to save me from another round of sepsis😭💖

[halsey @halsey]

I need 100 witches to get together and help me kick this illness in the next 24 hours I am dying and brothers and sisters this is something seriousssssss

[em @cripplella]

@halsey Okay but it’s the way now I have more evidence of this happening with another EDSer for my ID follow up next week👀

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

David Jonsson was cast as the new Black Panther 6 months ago.

“Ryan Coogler called me & said, ‘He’s the guy, I felt it. I felt it in my soul. He’s a good man & he is the next Black Panther.’”

(Source: https://t.co/e3q98wmXdS)

[Kat Tsai @Chuwenjie]

My painting of Sonam’s temple for Avatar Aang. Much of the work I did on this film was developing the style for the ancient flashback sequences!

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

Don't let "Korra is the worst Avatar" discourse distract you from the fact that Roku let firelord Sozin be overly imperalist cause that was his dl trade

[carly @gnarlymedia_]

I have several of the same illnesses Halsey has.

I had to turn down tour offers and completely step back from touring because of my health. It took me years to be honest with myself about my limitations. I pushed through pain for a long time because I was terrified of looking weak, becoming a liability, or losing work. I feared that once I admitted what I was dealing with, people would stop hiring me.

The reality is that every time I've been honest about my health, I've worried people would think I'm looking for sympathy or attention. Unfortunately, that fear has been validated more than once. I've been called a liar. I've had former mentors / friends / coworkers spread rumors that I'm “exaggerating my health issues for attention” simply because I stopped pretending I was okay. I went from being healthy, touring, and eager to grow — to sick, bedridden, and struggling with basic daily tasks in what felt like the blink of an eye. It's soul crushing to be part of & love an industry while constantly wondering if you'll ever get back to the person you used to be.

Chronic illness becomes a lens. You experience every part of your life through it because there's no way to separate it from your reality. When your body is in survival mode, your life naturally revolves around that reality.

So when people criticize artists for writing about things like illness and call it "main character syndrome," I don't think they understand what they're asking. Halsey is an artist. Artists write about their experiences. If chronic illness fundamentally shapes your life, of course it's going to show up in your art. She’s not going to pretend the illness doesn’t affect her life as much as it does, or keep that part of her life hidden away like a burden, or create art that ignores one of the most significant things she’s experiencing.

And beyond that, this kind of honesty matters. The vulnerability it takes to speak openly about chronic illness and serious health issues has genuinely helped people feel less alone. It's helped people find answers, seek diagnoses, advocate for themselves, and realize they're not the only ones struggling. I know seeing other people speak openly about their experiences has helped me make sense of my own. Had Halsey never spoken publicly about her diagnoses, getting diagnosed myself would have been even more delayed than it already was. We as women already go through so much dismissal, gaslighting, harm, and negligence in the medical field.

It’s ironic to criticize artists like Halsey. That honesty doesn’t just tell their story but it helps others survive theirs.

Fuck you @theneedledrop you’re such a goddamn fucking loser and lazy fucking “critic”.

[marisa 🪓✰ ‎𖦹 ✮⋆˙ ⛰︎ @honeycomingdown]

The Great Impersonator is more important than you will ever be.

https://t.co/mZK803fGRE

[halsey @halsey]

Being a woman dealing with serious health issues often means being afraid of telling the truth about the pain you’re in because you’re afraid of not being believed or seeming attention seeking. He validated that fear to thousands of women.

[halsey @halsey]

Who cares he gave a bad review? I care that a pay for clicks reaction YouTuber can facade as a pro critic and say it’s “main character syndrome” for an artist to lament her medical suffering on an album (surprise!) about her own life. He’s a raised-by-4chan edgelord bully. Yuck.

[halsey @halsey]

I’m certain my least memorable song will be remembered more fondly and for more time than anything you ever do with your life will be. Everything you say is more “whiny” and “edgy” than I was at any point on that album. But at least I had the excuse of going through chemo.

[em @cripplella]

@halsey Also I feel like me and my artsy friends with chronic illness are constantly experiencing all 3 and have a very personal relationship with dead so it reflects in our art

[halsey @halsey]

happy mother’s day. to the moms, moms to be, could-have-been moms to be, want-to-be moms to be, to the aunts and big sisters who stepped up to be moms, moms missing their babies and babies missing their moms. today can be beautiful and today can be hard. thinking of all of you 🌸

[ashy (greenbull goonologist) @twerkbull]

oh my god bruh

[Umi Amai🖤🌿✨𝕯𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖓𝖆𝖟𝖌𝖚𝖑𝖘 @umiamai_]

Reminder:

[@ jules ⋆˚꩜｡⋆ 🏰🕷️ @lonelyisthejulz]

i hope halsey is happy. thinking of them & feeling greatful for all she’s given us this past year. i hope h is taking well deserved time with friends family and maybe even alone 🤍 i also hope she knows we’ll always be here when she comes back to us. every time!

[olive 🩵 zero company 🎃👻 @ct_girlie]

women in star wars animation 🫶

[Following Hadrian @carolemadge]

Roman frescoes depicting women.

#InternationalWomensDay ♀️

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Goddess Figurine ca 6000 BC