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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 5 months

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Cloud Study – Knud Baade // The Wanderer – Ferdinand Brunner // Cloud Study – Knud Baade // The Wrath of the Seas – Ivan Aivazovsky (detail) // Clouds Over the Sea – Ivan Aivazovsky // Big Clouds – Hans Emmenegger (detail) // Study of Clouds with a Sunset Near Rome – Simon Denis // Before the Storm – Isaac Levitan // Dear Wormwood – The Oh Hellos

#dear 👏 wormwood 👏 song 👏 of 👏 all 👏 time #haha yeah anyway i'm completely obsessed with this song and have been since i first heard it #the way they sing “i name you my enemy” makes me go absolutely feral every time #clouds #cloudscape #cloud painting #knud baade #ivan aivazovsky #isaac levitan #dear wormwood #dear wormwood song #dear wormwood album #dear wormwood the oh hellos #the oh hellos #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

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messiergalaxy31 · 8 months

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dear sister,

#falsesymmetry #empires smp s2 #falsesymmetry fanart #spreading my efalse the oh hellos propaganda #efalse youre sooooooo dear wormwood coded #<- thats where the lyrics are from btw. dear wormwood by the oh hellos!!!!!#art #mcyt #messiersart #empires s2

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mosswoodmc · 10 months

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this is what my ass looks like when I show off my taste in music to my friends.

#the crane wives #the oh hellos #here I am the crane wives #dear wormwood #eurus

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asoftepiloguemylove · 11 months

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Is there any chance you could make a web weaving of wanting to be a better parent than one’s own? Like a protective individual wanting to spite a bloodline of pain to foster love and care to their own child? To be better that one’s own parents? I think a web weaving of this would be gorgeous!

Ethel Cain Family Tree (Intro) / The Oh Hellos Dear Wormwood / Emily Brontë Healthcliff / Caitlin Conlon (@/cgcpoems on instagram) / Lia Marie Johnson DNA / Nicola Yoon The Sun Is Also a Star / Daniel Jamie Williams Dear Mother... / Marina & The Diamonds The Family Jewels

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somehowmags · 1 year

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man it makes me really sad when people ignore the religious theming of soldier poet king to be like “well its about my blorbo/dnd character now” bc like...dear wormwood is such a deeply religious album religion and god are so central to the whole thing that it feels really like...disingenuous to try to erase the religious themes of any of the songs. like you are looking at this beautiful piece of art about love and heartbreak and the apocalypse and god and intentionally discarding a central theme so it can be more easily consumed. why did you listen to the christian indie folk rock band if you didn’t want to hear christian indie folk rock. im not even christian but it bothers me

#dear wormwood is one of my favorite albums of all time so i have very strong feelings on it #like i am fully muslim but like the oh hellos get it #the oh hellos #chatters #edit: hey sorry turning reblogs off on this for a bit

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lauriemarch · 7 months

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i owe The Oh Hellos at least 14% of my whimsical spirit

#dear wormwood is a formative album in terms of me wanting to live in the trunk of a tree #the oh hellos #dear wormwood #soldier poet king #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #booklr #studying #light acadamia aesthetic #study notes #book blog #poetry #whimsical #whimsy

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soapcan18 · 7 months

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EVERYONE I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING REALLY COOL

So these are the Anemoi album covers, right? Do you notice a similarity between all of them?

Yes, they all have animals surrounded by a gold ring on them. Obviously there is a lot of symbolism involved with these specific animals and their respective albums, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Right now I want to point out the gold ring— more importantly, how is it changing as the albums progress?

In Notos, the thicker portion of the ring is in the bottom right corner.

In Eurus, that portion is in the top right corner.

In Boreas, it’s in the top left corner.

And in Zephyrus, it’s in the bottom left corner.

THE RING IS GOING IN A CIRCUIT!!!

The thick portion of the ring is moving counterclockwise with each album! And if you go back to Notos after Zephyrus, it’ll be right back at where it started!

This is yet another symbol of the Anemoi albums’ themes of change, cycles, etc. AND IT’S HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!

How COOL is that??? I just noticed!!

This is even crazier when you add on the fact that the final song you listen to, after going through all the albums, is Rounds.

And what is the ring doing? MAKING ROUNDS!! Going around and around as you keep replaying the albums, repeating the cycle of summer to fall to winter to spring to summer over and over again just as The Oh Hellos intended to convey :)

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theohhelloslyrics · 2 months

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now I am not the fool I was when I was younger

crocodile eyes, I have seen how you hunger

fluttering your lashes like ashes and embers

warm and bright as fire devouring timber

no, I cannot trust what you say when you're grieving

so my love, I'm sorry, but still I am leaving

- Exeunt, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #dear wormwood #exeunt

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stoat-party · 4 months

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If they don’t play Thus Always To Tyrants at my funeral I’m not going.

#the oh hellos #oh hellos #thus always to tyrants #dear wormwood

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khruschevshoe · 5 months

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Izzy Hands and Ed Teach

You have always been there in my mind

But now I understand you

And I will not be part of your designs

I know who you are now

And I name you my enemy

I know who I am now

I know who I want to be

I want to be more than

This devil inside of me

-The Oh Hellos, Dear Wormwood

Izzy knows that if he cannot kill his god, his god will not want him around. Izzy takes the gun, wraps weak fingers around it, and tries to do his god proud.

But it does not work. The gun goes off, sending pain ricocheting through Izzy's skull, and his head does fall back on the pillow behind him. His god gives a soft sigh, says that he loved Izzy, best he knew how, and exits from Izzy's prison, this ninth circle of hell.

Blackbeard leaves. Izzy Hands remains, pain pounding excruciating through his forehead. He has lost his leg. He came seconds, a mere hairsbreadth difference in the placement of the gun barrel, from losing his life.

It is in this moment, as he tries to breathe through the pain, the weight of his god's condemnation, that Izzy finally understands that if a god demands that a man die but that man wishes to cling to life, he must learn how to outlive his god.

If Blackbeard condemned him to the ninth circle, then it is time for Izzy to earn his sentence.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, bury me as it pleases you (but these bones never rested while living)

Well, @aletterinthenameofsanity just posted a writing update and mentioned that the Dear Wormwood album was extremely Edizzy-coded so I started relistening to it (especially the songs I've never heard before, such as Dear Wormwood itself) and yep, she's really not wrong! I listened to this song and COULD NOT unsee the Edizzy of it all. As I eagerly wait for the Izzy amnesia fic, I wanted to put out another Edizzy moodboard because their toxic, religiously devoted dynamic scratches such an itch in my brain!

@possumsmushroom @yuenity @lady-of-the-spirit @bricksbloggyplace @polikate

#edizzy #tw sui ideation #izzy hands #ed teach #izzy hands x ed teach #ofmd #aletterinthenameofsanity #fanfic #ao3 #lyrics #moodboard #fic rec #dear wormwood #oh hellos

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equinquinox · 2 years

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me

#the oh hellos #dear wormwood

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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 1 month

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Description of an astrological event from 1009 CE – Augsburg Book of Miracles // Bitter Water – The Oh Hellos

#augsburg book of miracles #sun #moon #bitter water #bitter water song #bitter water the oh hellos #dear wormwood #dear wormwood album #dear wormwood the oh hellos #the oh hellos #the oh hellos lyrics #art history #art #lyrics #lyric art

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koravelliumavast · 1 year

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when an album tells a story that weaves throughout the songs but the songs can also stand alone just as beautifully as they are together.

#ok so i actually only know of one album like this off the top of my head.#dear wormwood #the oh hellos #but STILL #whats the name for it. i know there is one.#music

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beef-unknwn · 2 years

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October boutta be lit!

also pls ignore any errors or the lack of shading or literally anything im tired and not gonna finish this ever. im leaving it here okay bye

#dead end paranormal park #de:pp #dead end netflix #toh #the owl house #btw go listen to dear wormwood by the oh hellos (the song not the album)#it has major hunter vibes that's all im sayin #could also be norma vibes but hmm nah

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whoops-im-obsessed · 7 months

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I think what i love about the oh hellos is that they aren't focussed on perfection in their music. Don't get me wrong- everything they do is masterful and shows SO much skill and thought and sheer understanding but if you look at any of their live performances they are just feeling. Just look at them, and at the band, they aren't focusing on technique or professionalism or the 'proper' way to play the instrument or breath support or anything - they are focused on telling a story through atmosphere alone , and the way what they're playing makes them feel, which often seems to be unbridled joy.

#theyre so good #just insane #honestly some of the best music ever composed #its all just so FULL #oh hellos #the oh hellos #dear wormwood #through the deep dark valley #notos #eurus #boreas #zephyrus

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activatebutterflyshield · 4 months

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More of me running my mouth about music as inspiration except this time its just Dear Wormwood

Prelude. Prelude. PRELUDE. This is probably just a music nerd thing but its so perfect. Despite my horrible understanding of music theory, a prelude is usually the first piece of music that is meant to represent the succeeding and usually longer movements in a single work, but they could also stand alone. The Prelude to Dear Wormwood works as both. It starts out quiet before building up with just absolutely amazing wordless vocals and its just so great folks. Its a summary of the whole album in a minute and nine seconds its amazing folks

Okay Bitter Water. The first time I heard this one I thought oh, its a metaphor for alcoholism. Yes, it can be a metaphor for alcoholism, but it is also so much more. In the broader context of Dear Wormwood its an acknowledgement of how bad a relationship is and that the singer, the victim, feels like they can never escape it, but it can be so much more folks. It can be a about a love lost, with the one who lost the love pining and wasting away without their soulmate. Said soulmate could be a part of the griever themself. It can be so much. Its also a banger but thats a given for the whole album. “terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue” is also eternally amazing this whole thing is poetry mates

There Beneath. Calm and flowy and existential kind of but I make a lot of things existential and where were we? But also the line “I saw the morning lead a cavalcade” is bloody amazing. Its such a great and poetic way to describe the breaking dawn, the rising sun, the beginning of a new day and so many other things mates its amazing. Like a veteran adventurer recalling the times when their friends got them out of hard scrapes or something idk

In the Blue Hours of the Morning. It’s a nice waypoint, a chance to catch your breath before the next song which I will go off about but this bit is really just like its title. The time before the cavalcade, when theres still enough light to see by yet its so calm and still and not quite awake yet

Exeunt, which is. It is. Well, exactly what it says on the tin, an exeunt, which is a stage direction for when an actor goes off stage, but its also the most poetry ever. Everyone loves “Fluttering your lashes like ashes and ember” and rightfully so but everything in that song is so bloody strong. “Crocodile eyes I have seen how you hunger”???? “No I cannot trust what you say when youre grieving”????? Like its such a powerful song with all the musicians going ham on the everything and then the lyrics and then the context? Its great its just great

Caesar. A calm follow-up to the headbanger that is Exeunt, but its no less amazing. Im just drowning in symbolism for this one mates. Not only is the morning back and breaking over a palisade but also historical references!?! The backlogs of random anecdotes and stories are tickled awake by the “Look to the sky where the sign will be shown” bit so much like it aint even funny. Its a reference to Constantine the Great, who saw the symbol of the Chi Rho and went on to become roman emperor with it painted on his shields and its so much potential in just three stanzas

This Will End. Fellows this one just hurts. Its so bloody sad and yet such a strangely jaunty tune like the singer has just accepted their sad life and Im always like no! It can get better! You just gotta try a bit! Mates! Im bleeding out!

Pale White Horse. Ohhhhhhhhhh I can get so deep about Pale White Horse but so much of it is about WWI and the Spanish Flu Epidemic and other stuff I do not care to dredge from the depths of my historical brain fluids but its so great as a thing about war and trauma and abuse and so much other stuff just like recognizing someone doing something terrible and that can be either interpreted as oh thats conformation that they were always terrible or oh goodness thats not possible why no why are you like this you are not like this right and there’s no in between. And both hurt!

Where Is Your Rider. Enough metaphors to fill a graveyard (hey Crane Wives fans. Hey. Did you get it? Eh? Idk I thought it was funny) and then some but also oooooh the lines just go so hard sometimes. “But these bones never rested while living / So how can they stand to languish in repose”???????? Like mate youre dead but youre still going to push on and keep on fighting mates it hurts it hurts too much there are too many characters and situations and just stray thoughts I can peg to these two lines alone help

Soldier, Poet, King. Need I say more? Yes, I need to say more. Everyone above and below knows how bloody legendary this song is but take this as a sign to listen to it again. Its just that good. Someone once tired and broken who has found support and is coming back to finish the job they couldnt finish on their own is just oooooooooooooogh mates. Also funny ha ha DND party. Two sides of the same polyhedral dice. Probably a d100 with all the nonsense I can drag out of it at this point.

Dear Wormwood. The album namer. UGH I cannot get enough of this one. Just some of the lines in this one mates. “And in my hour of weakness / You were there to see me fail”???????? “I know who I am now / I know who I wanna be / I wanna be more than / That devil inside of me”??????????????????? Its just so perfect and so amazing and it gives you a warn hug and it punches you in the gut and it helps you up and gives you hot tea and the works mates its just so great

Danse Macabre. One last instrumental. A Danse Macabre was usually a piece of art with people dancing next to skeletons, representing the inevitability of death and the equality in the grave and so many other sad and mopey things but also its just such a fun jig. It really does feel like a bunch of spooky scary skeletons jamming on their graves. And that’s a one liner I never thought Id need to write.

Thus Always to Tyrants. Bloody hell this is the perfect ending song. The singer immediately starting off with “Let me die, let me drown, leave my bones in the ground”, proclaiming themselves free of the worries and pains they started the album with, singing as the blazing sun rises that yes, they are, if not happy now, then at least better now, and that anyone who threatens that will face the new and improved them is just ooooooogh. Mates. If theres one song you need to listen to if you somehow made it to the end of this thingie without also being obsessed with the Oh Hellos, its Thus Always to Tyrants. But please listen to the whole of Dear Wormwood first. It makes the impact so much better.

#me running my mouth #the oh hellos #dear wormwood #i just needed to get out. some. not all. of my thoughts about this bloody legendary album #im gonna do more #probably #theres so much i can say about. uh. most of the songs i listen to regularly #if theres gonna be another one then itll probably be through the deep dark valley #or maybe that one about coyote stories ive already started but that thing is more specific and also sad to read since its about sad stuff #like climate change and capitalism and such #but it will be finished eventually

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