Gender is crazy what do you mean I can’t compute
the urge to write never leaves but the motivation to do so is a lover lost at war
LOOOOVVVVVEEEE 😍😍😍😍
miss beloved art I made months ago
*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-
This needs way more appreciation than it's getting.
when streamer gets silly
#storytelling through music
omg soldier, poet, king is NOT a Christian worship song
folks on tiktok being like YALL DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ABOUT JESUS??? and "better take it off my dnd playlist now!!!"
it's not about jesus holy fuck, i mean, it is, but it isn't.
Dear Wormwood is a concept album that uses biblical symbolism to talk about an abusive relationship. The Oh Hellos have a whole ass THING about retelling stories (biblical, mythological etc) to use to deal with your own story which is like...a whole thing in storytelling anyway (the new testament is a monomyth yall, Hero's Journey 1.0, in that regard everything is biblical)
Dear Wormwood is put in the context of someone writing letters (inspired by The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis) to their abuser. "Soldier, Poet, King" is from the perspective of the protagonist, on the receiving end of the abuse, who (after the song "Exeunt") is escaping from the abuse and attempting to continue their life outside of it. The person who is the soldier, poet, king, is the protagonist. "your city" is the abusive relationship. "Wormwood" is the devil of this person's life.
If you look on Genius, yeah the story is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In context? It's about the Second Coming of the protagonist. The rebirth they get after escaping.
The ending song of the album, "Thus Always to Tyrants", the last line of the album is
Where I go, will you still follow? Will you leave your shaded hollow? Will you greet the daylight looming? Learn to love without consuming?
The protagonist is attempting to mentally escape from the abuse, worried about carrying the trauma into the next relationship.
Soldier Poet King is not about Jesus. It's about fighting. It's about escaping the cycle of abuse. It's about the power that resides in stories, about people who have experienced this before and succeeded. It's about using those stories and learning from them.
Keep the shit on your dnd playlist, it's sort of the whole point.
ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something
I love this
My brothers. Sisters. Kin.
Covenant of the Blood God, we have been called to arms.
Let our Voices rise in raucous cacophony.
Tomorrow, our fallen King is to be pitted against a fearsome foe.
But Technoblade never dies.
This trial shall not conquer us.
It is in our incorporeal will, to reach this victory.
Do not let Scar triumph.
and then they adopted each other and lived happily ever after, the end (HA)
so yeah, go watch Nimona, it's great