oh to have a silly little house like this...
Made the mistake of looking up the Oh Hellos on TikTok.
It's all basically...
Imaginary person: “Aren't the Oh Hellos just some Christian Band? Why do you listen to them?”
Response: The person singing along to song with enthusiasm. (As if to say, it doesn't matter because they make actual good music or sometimes “It doesn't matter, music is what you make of it!”
And like listen, generally that's not really a problem, I think. The thing rubbing me the wrong is that... The Oh Hellos are not a "Christian Band". They are christian, they do use religious allegory, but like it is more multifaceted than that. On the religious side they often explore faith and deconstruct ideas they learned in church.
But also their use of Christianity is often for framing and comparison. Bitter Water is a song about a toxic relationship using wormwood (a healing, but potentially deadly herb) from the bible as a comparison. Constellations uses the Tower of Babylon as a metaphor for being stuck in your ways and causing damage because of it. Like it's so multifaceted.
(Not to mention that Christianity isn't all they reference at least in their most recent albums. They also reference greek mythology quite a bit. But that might be because they're using the four winds.)
Anyway, just they're so good at writing lyrics that bring together so many ideas and I just want the take on them to be less “Who cares if they make Christian Music, they're still good lol” and more about like how the lyrics become more and more meaningful as you listen to and pick them apart.
My thoughts will follow you into your NINTENDO 64.
You meet god and she's mostly dead fish. You ask her why and she says most of the world is dead fish, and she's made herself to appeal to the most common denominator, the everyman funnyman comedy show that runs for eleven seasons but with the entire universe in mind. You ask her how much of the dead fish is your fault, she says it's far less than you'd think, in the grand scheme of things. You ask her if you matter at all. If you can do anything. She shrugs her rotting shoulders and says mattering is a made-up concept, like life, but sure, you can matter if you want to, on some scale. She has many scales. She doesn't know what you mean by 'anything', but you can do everything you can. You ask her if it's enough. She says there's no base requirement for deserving to exist. She's smoking a joint and the smoke filtering out of her gills gathers and forms gas giants and red dwarfs. You ask her if there's any hidden secrets of the universe you should know and she says it's not a secret if she tells, plus it's fun to let you figure it out yourself. You ask her if any of your questions were right questions and she says you worry about being right so much it might keep you from fucking around, which is as close to meaning of life as she ever bothered to make. You don't ask but she says she loves your hair, also your whole being, also your planet. She says she figured out what love is yesterday and is trying it out, which explains the ten thousand rainbows and sudden influx in rains of fish. She offers you a drag of her joint and you wake up half past midnight behind a chain restaurant clutching a smoked salmon. The new stars are winking like they're in on some joke and you're sure if you try hard enough you'll remember what it is.
it's literally sooooo unfair that humans don't get to have these little tails they're so cute
from that goofy spiderverse gif going around I present MAG 179
little freakboy commits containment breach more at 11
My dash is feeling a bit stale and i would like to make some witchy mutuals so please like and repost this if you are
-kitchen witch
-hearth witch
-cottage witch
-floral witch
-garden witch
-love witch
-sea witch
-water witch
-moon witch
-cosmic witch
-stellar witch
-glamour witch
-beauty witch
-pop culture witch
-venusian witch
-aphrodite witch/devotee
-seasonal witch
-spirit witch
-faerie witch
- hellenistic witch
DNI TERFS SWERFS RADFEM TRANSMED TRUSCUM TRUMP SUPPORTERS PORN NSFW KINK NAZI ALT-RIGHT WHITE SUPREMACIST HOMOPHOBIC RACIST CGL (RE) DDLG YANDERE NYMPHET FAUNLET ABDL
Brother Needs a Hug Edition.
I was reading a post from @tornado1992 that inspired me to make this. Thank you for all the good sibling content!
i reblog things to save them for later…too nervous to post anything:/ pretend i’m not here
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