Happy 81st Birthday To My Pretty Princess Roger Waters

George and John

60×60 cm

1970

Hi! Coming at you from my ancient blog that i made like a decade ago. I am the owner of confesspinkfloyd and I just wanted to say that I’m not stopping the political confessions because I don’t want to see any negativity towards Roger anymore. If that was the case, I wouldn’t post any negative confessions towards Roger to begin with. He has shitty political opinions, except about Israel and Palestine. I stopped because I suffer from depression and it was affecting my mental health. It brings a toll on me when any of the bands political affiliations show up in my inbox. I was willing to post when it was so few, but now that’s all that seems to take up my inbox, it takes a negative toll on my well being. The way I worded my post last night, I was tired. I would love to have a civil discussion so if you’d like, I can give you the blog I’m posting from. If not, then I completely understand.

i'm sorry, i didn't know about your mental health and stuff and i never tried to accuse you of anything. for the most part, you are doing an almost divine job in putting up with these negotiations between me and the anons.

i know that to many of you i may seem incredibly negative when i say anything about roger, but the truth is that i don't judge anyone for roger being your favorite member. and god no, i don't want you to ever change your mind about loving him. look, i draw him myself from time to time, he has really interesting facial features. i want to say that i was unhappy that everyone started writing that they were tired and they were annoyed by this, because this is very similar to the statements of people who are “tired” of someone else’s war because it exhausts them. it exhausts us also. but we live in it. and we have no other choice because no one talks about it anymore. and over the last 20 years, pink floyd have become very political and you can't tear that part of them away.

in general, it’s funny, i only made about a small part of these confessions and, apparently, some decided to pick them up too, but since my blog is the only one who talks about this quite publicly and often responds to these confessions, it’s not surprising that everyone thinks about me.

but what's more important to say is that i don't want it to look like i'm arguing with you or judging you for anything. i want to apologize for the fact that we all dragged you into this unpleasant situation and made you feel this way. i thought that you closed your political confessions because you just wanted to have fun and political stuff just annoyed you because it's not funny, i didn’t think that it would be related to your health. it would be a wise decision to close the political confessions now because everyone needs to cool down a bit.

yeah and i'm not a complete asshole, like many of you might think, i'm just brutally honest with you and i can be angry sometimes like anybody.

remember, your mental health is more important than roger waters and the things he says, so take care.

Nick Mason, 1974. Photos: Michael Putland/Charlie Gillett

Sometimes, when I see a pic of Roger and before I recognise him, I think, gosh, what a beautiful, strange looking woman. Estrogen could have saved her.

Jimmy Page for my dear friend

how i love scream thy last scream bc we don't get a lot of syd-nick interactions but they both are so silly in a way

god nick's eyes are so special and every time i'm so sad if i can’t show them in the drawing how they are in real life