no mourners. no funerals

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

Truth emerging from the dirt to shame mankind

Aaaand now scheduled for 2017

And again for 2018

this is a total normal thing for ANOTHER COUNTRY'S foreign intelligence agency front to say to American university students who are peacefully demonstrating against the genocide and oppression of Palestinians

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reminder that Gregor Samsa’s first thought to his kafkaesque metamorphosis was “aw shit I still have to go to work”

I’m sorry did you just refer to the metamorphosis in the book Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka as “Kafkaesque”

summer is coming up lads..

fight fight kiss kiss fight fight

@arengnera for the best explanation of the conundrum

we say “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity!” so often in Georgia, it should be the state motto.

just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

Eclipse

Obsessed with that 13.9% YTA vote. Some of us never got over this lil asshole and his rude ass dialogue did we

i found the tenth circle of hell: it's where your fave blows up on tiktok

Okay, I know nothing about Hozier, so I’ve no idea if this is something he’d do, but that pair of lines:

“You treat your mouth as if it’s Heaven’s gate, the rest of you like you’re the TSA.”

Is that a direct reference to the Heaven’s Gate cult? The one that believed you had to give up all vestiges of human life, sex, food, etc, to live on pure sunlight, in order to elevate your consciousness to a new state of being and enable yourself to leave the planet? The one that committed mass suicide in 1997?

Because, um. That does change the tone a bit, yeah.

The TSA too. Because, yes, initially it scans just as gate guardians, a security organisation to protect the ‘gateway to heaven’ that is the partner’s mouth. Their body is a temple, and that temple is guarded to prevent the wrong things from getting in. But, well. The TSA was formed as a direct response to 9.11. So there’s definitely an implication of fanatical self-protection in there too, the aggressive refusal to admit dangerous elements, the fear of allowing attack.

Combined, if it is a direct reference to Heaven’s Gate, then the imagery here is very much of a very regimented individual who is pursuing an inhuman, self-destructive purity, at least partly out of fear of the world outside their boundaries. Not a pursuit of happiness, but an attempt to escape and stave off attack, to be good enough and pure enough to escape the world and be taken somewhere better.

“You keep telling me to live right, to go to bed before the daylight. But then you wake up for the sunrise, you know you don’t gotta pretend.”

“I aim low, I aim true, and the ground is where I go. I work late where I’m free from the phone, and the job gets done. But you worry some, I know, but who wants to live forever babe? You treat your mouth as if it’s heaven’s gate, the rest of you like you’re the TSA. I wish I could go along, babe don’t get me wrong. You know you’re bright as the morning, as soft as the rain, pretty as a vine, as sweet as a grape. If you can sit in a barrel, maybe I’ll wait.”

If it is a Heaven’s Gate reference, a suicide cult, then ‘I aim low, I aim true, and the ground is where I go’ is possibly a bit a refutation of the ‘heaven’ promised if they live right. The ground is good enough, and death is real, not just a step towards promised heaven. The ground is where we go. Who wants to live forever, babe? And “If you can sit in a barrel, maybe I’ll wait”, could just be, yeah, if you grow up a bit, maybe I’ll wait until then, but in this context, a suicide cult, it could also be: if you survive, maybe I’ll wait.

“You keep telling me to live right […] you know you don’t gotta pretend.” “I wish I could go along, babe, don’t get me wrong.”

There is some implication that the narrator thinks it’s a cult. He thinks they’re pretending to their purity out of fear, and he doesn’t want to be dragged in. Partly because he’s already embraced some of the ‘threats’ they see even in tiny things, like coffee and whiskey and bad sleep cycles, and it hasn’t had the consequences they seem to be afraid of.

“I work late where I’m free from the phone, and the job gets done. But you worry some”.

The job gets done. But they worry anyway.

Yeah. I think I would read this song, not necessarily as a straight exaltation of a bad lifestyle, whiskey and coffee and shitty sleep, but more as just a warning of going too far in the other direction, a life of purity based on fear and worry about other people’s rules. Rules that he thinks the partner does know are false. ‘You don’t gotta pretend’, vs ‘I aim low, I aim true’. Plus ‘you treat your mouth as if it’s heaven’s gate’. Heaven’s Gate was also built on a false prophecy, and their belief system had to change several times when elements of that prophecy were proven untrue. The rules change because the rules aren’t real. They’re externally imposed, and they build off your fear. So relax a little bit, embrace some of the small evils, live as a human some instead of attempting to be a higher life form, and see if it’s really everything you were afraid of.

I read those two lines differently, because the thing is... the TSA is infamously ineffective as security. It's theatre. It looks impressive, it really annoys everyone that has to use it, it takes a lot of resources to make sure only the right people get in... and it is, in fact, very very bad at actually screening out harm. And you went and built your whole life around it, as long as the things you're saying aren't sinful, and it looks like you're doing the right thing... does it matter the actual effect?

@prismatic-bell

I’ve been summoned!

So @honourablejester, @math-is-magic, here’s the thing:

You’re both right.

Andrew has said before that he believes “the listener finishes the song.” That was in response to some of the wildly varying interpretations of Take Me To Church, but it’s a philosophy he’s quoted more than once. Basically: everyone brings their own individual perspectives and experiences to hearing a song, and the result is multiple possible interpretations (within reason; apparently some Christian youth group heard the title of TMTC and invited him to perform having heard none of it. He politely declined).

I’d also suggest your two interpretations aren’t as far apart as you might think. “Heaven’s gate” could indeed be a reference to the cult, especially since this song was originally intended for an album commenting on and inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno; goodness knows he sneaks in references and layers and double meanings all over the place, and the irony of such a cult name going with their intense restrictions, in a song about gluttony, would absolutely not be lost on him. That’s the way his mind WORKS. And while the TSA is indeed known for being mostly show….wouldn’t that tie back into the theme of false promises? They claim to keep us safe, but they’re as full of shit as Heaven’s Gate was. It’s all a sham. And like Heaven’s Gate, and modern influencers, and infomercial salespeople, they promise that if you just make this arbitrary set of sacrifices, you’ll have a better flight. Speaking for myself, I’d have a better flight if I could bring my craft scissors instead of having to have a this-pair-is-for-yarn set of nail clippers.

And finally: @honourablejester, I won’t do the entire fanifesto or anything, but this man is easily one of the most remarkable, compassionate, and thoughtful artists I have ever heard. Please allow me to share with you the song of his that was on this album and is going to be my “oh, you don’t know Hozier? I recommend this one” for a very, VERY long time:

Our blessed "(m/w/d)", their barbarous "(gender neutral)"

Sometimes a guitar riff is to sound what a garlic hitting hot oil is to smell. You know what I mean?