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silverystardustt · 2 months
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At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.
it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.
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rhiannonwrites · 1 year
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Keeping my fingers crossed that it’s cold enough to use the fireplace this weekend🤞🏾🍂
My mood has been a little off this week. I love the freedom of being a freelancer but sometimes I don’t love the responsibility of making my own schedule because I’m honestly not disciplined enough to keep up with a set structure. Hopefully I can find a happy medium soon. Being back in Philly and being close to family has helped with my sense of self and inspiration tho, so that’s a plus 🥲
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thefutureacademic · 6 months
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Life lately 🍂
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dxmxuse · 8 months
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As a writer, the thought of being paid $260 for helping write a show that has over 12.8 billion minutes viewed is sickening. The writers strike is absolutely crucial for the future of script writing, I can’t see anyone in this generation wanting to work for so little when the workload and potential payout is so massive
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midnightcerealblog · 2 years
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Goodbye Austen girl summer, hello Brontë girl fall
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justgivemeabookplease · 7 months
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I feel like I'm seeing only one interpretation of "Who We Are" and the iconic line "To hold me like water/Or Christ, hold me like a knife" and as someone who has done martial arts and knife work, as well as an English major, I'd like to throw in my two cents.
So what I've seen are the metaphorical interpretations (mostly on TikTok too) where they compare water to life/sustenance and a knife to death/injury to the narrator, and so the narrator wants to be held like something life-saving or, in a desperation to be held at all, held like they're something dangerous.
I think the opposite.
From a martial arts perspective, if you're the one holding the knife, you're not a danger to yourself. Obviously, if a weapon is involved at all there is a level of danger, but it is way more difficult for the person/thing on the other end. They have to be concerned about near 360-degree mobility of the wrist and the ability to change hands quickly, so targeting the hand holding the knife becomes trying to completely isolate it from the other side of the body while also preventing the wrist from rotating. I'd much prefer to be the one holding the knife.
Meanwhile, there are other lines in the song to suggest that the knife is more valuable than water.
The opening lines are:
You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you drop by drop
This is what it sounds like when you're trying to hold water. No matter how tightly you cup your hands, it will find cracks and spill through. And you'll feel it when it's lost; your empty hands will be wet.
Now look at the chorus:
We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carving through the dark To get so far
The knife is being used to carve through the dark. It is vital, a means of survival.
And also, just think of how your hands are when you hold something like water versus something like a knife.
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One is loose and gentle, open. The other is gripped, tightly. If I were touch-starved, I wouldn't want a gentle hand to cup my face, I'd want someone to hold me in a vice as if doing so would mean they are protected from danger, ready to face the darkness.
This is the circle of anger, after all.
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mphountitled · 2 months
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As a black English major, I know I could pull him
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momgothic · 2 years
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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.
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cutenervousyoungthing · 5 months
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checkoutmybookshelf · 6 months
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xjackxv · 6 months
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𝔐𝔶 𝔣𝔞𝔳𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢 𝔣𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔦𝔰 𝔴𝔞𝔩𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔞𝔫 𝔢𝔵𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔰 🪐
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rhiannonwrites · 1 year
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Now that I’ve left Florida of course I got a content writing job at a Florida based boating company 😂 Spent the day researching Marco Island. Definitely miss the 90 degree sunshine but haven’t felt homesick for FL yet.
Keep up with me on tiktok if you want ✌🏾
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thefutureacademic · 11 months
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Shocked about how quickly can a bunch of flowers lift my mood.
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punksp1rt · 6 months
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midnightcerealblog · 3 months
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I LOVE adaptations like what do you mean that the stories we love and value can adapt, change, and grow with us??? Like how is possible that we can continuously reinvent and shed light on new perspectives and ideas through a previously established canon??? Adaptations are how we keep stories alive and relevant in an ever changing world and if nothing is new under the sun then why shouldn’t we find meaning and pleasure in the old???
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poetic-gays · 8 months
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Anyone who thinks he’s straight is lying to themselves
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