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I've noticed that you use a lot of negative allusions to religious-ish things (specifically in 'big houses' with the prayer references and in 'being a person' when you mention the holy spirit) and I was wondering: what was the inspiration for the references? in any case, I love how it's done and how it adds another layer to the (already very cool!!) song.

i am going to copy&paste what i answered to a similar question a while ago on a different internet platform because it’s still true for “big houses”. regarding “being a person”, i just really enjoy taking imagery from fairytales/folklore/the bible and giving it a twist…i see “big houses” as a loving song from the perspective of an atheist growing up in a religious household. it is about the balancing act between their everyday life and life with their family on visits back home. because of their love for family, the person in this song still participates in certain religious traditions and rituals, partly to comfort family members, and partly because certain rituals are such an integral part of their upbringing. the reverb of organ music in a church is an intimately familiar thing. traditional prayers, even though unspoken for years, are still etched into their memory. i come from austria, where you are automatically part of the catholic church after your parents had you baptized, which also means that as soon as you turn 18, you receive mail that urges you to pay church taxes. if you want to not be a catholic anymore (for example because you do not actually believe in god and don’t want to support catholicism with your money), you have to officially secede from the catholic church by signing paperwork. they ask you why you don’t want to be a catholic anymore, and depending on your parish, sometimes you even get a letter which is trying to make you feel guilty for not wanting to be a part of the church. my personal view on the catholic church is shaped by the old-fashioned conservative catholicism i grew up around in rural austria. after the a series of big scandals involving sexual abuse of minors by catholic priests, there was a big wave of secessions from the catholic church in germany and austria. “big houses” was written shortly after that.thank you!

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“because you need me to run the ship, and i need him.”

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I'm re-listening to WTNV...

I'm pretty sure Cecil had beef with someone in his apartment complex and that's why Night Vale Community Radio featured the bit on apartment building etiquette in Episode 4 PTA Meeting.

Cecil wrote the segment himself and used it to put one of his neighbors on blast.

"Let's talk for a moment about apartment building etiquette. Now, I myself live in an apartment building, and there is a compassion and acceptance you have to have for a certain level of annoyance. It's people in close proximity to each other, and so there will be some things that you don't like, and still, have to let go. But, other things are absolutely unacceptable! For instance, a certain level of strange radiating light or heat on shared walls is expected, but any oozings or visible membranes are rude and thoughtless to all of your neighbors. Gibbering, howling, and chants in long-dead languages are the kind of thing that is fine at 1 pm, but absolutely not fine at 1 am. We are all in this together. Put your trash in the cans! Not in the hallway leading to the cans. Put on some clothes when standing in front of your windows, and keep any rituals or crazed experiments to hours in which no one is trying to sleep. It doesn't have to be hard."

Honestly, I aspire to have that level of hypothetical petty in my one day.

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when eminem said, "fuck you with the freest of speech this divided states of embarrassment will allow me to have, fuck you" at the end of his 2002 song White America, i felt that

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Does Inside by Bo Burnham still have anyone else in a chokehold or am I alone out here?

I just...it was so relevant when it dropped in 2021 and it's only gotten more relevant as time has passed. The points that Bo was making with that special, they didn't magically get better in the past 4 years. And as we're headed back into Trump America... zoinks Scoob.

I don't know. I guess I just am curious if anyone else still watched it or listens to the album with any regularity? I would hate to see it just...disappear (like a lot of people think COVID has 👀)

Who even knows what I'm trying to say at this point. Anyone who DOES watch Inside with any regularity - I hope you're okay. I know I'm struggling when I've turned it on. I hope it is not the same for you.

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They really gave us everything though: old gay dads, cool straight (?) couple, badass lesbians, gay (temporary) rivals

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bonus: jayvik together for eternity

I would be beaming from ear to ear if I wasn't so depressed about arcane being over for good

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🏳️‍🌈?

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i've said this in the tags of a few posts but jayce and viktor mean so much to me. as a physically disabled person who uses a crutch, getting to watch viktor heal himself and be able to run is something i hold so so dear to me. but then jayce telling him and convincing him that he's beautiful as he is - imperfections and all, he just wants viktor... just... hearing that kind of love and devotion for someone who has a similar disability to me healed something inside me that i didn't know needed healing. god they mean so much to me

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE SMILED AND RUBBED JAYCE'S ARM WHAT DO YOU MEAN

thought i was recovered but nope. 10am and im still crying over them

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“in all timelines, in all possibilities, only you”

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When people graffiti on buildings: Yes! Ha ha! Fuck yes!

When people graffiti on rockfaces and cliffsides on hiking trails: What the absolute fuck.

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probably but what's the old adage? "fuck em"

I mean I know a certain level of projection on fictional characters and situations is inevitable and even healthy, but sometimes you got to step back into the real world to remind yourself that Character X is not your shitty parent/abusive ex/asshole boss/bully from high school, and that people who like Character X are not personally victimizing you.

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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listen. aging into your thirties rocks. yes your joints get a little creaky. yes you can’t sleep in a pretzel on the floor anymore after a concert or a convention. and you lose some friends. but the thing is that you sort out who your real friends are and you sort out who you really are. and you get to see your friends settling into careers they like, and adopt new dogs and cats, and you find a job you can stand, and get really good at arts and crafts, and maybe that book you loved as a kid gets a movie deal and it doesn’t suck, and you learn to like new food and bake your own bread, and you realize that the great portfolio of self harm scars you all used to curate are going white with age and not updated, and half your friends are a different gender now and so much happier and maybe you are too, and you know who you are, and that it’s a journey and not a revelation. it’s a direction you’re headed, and you’re enjoying the trip.

reaching your 30′s rocks. and i’m hearing good things about what comes next, too.

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I'm fucxking crying

everyone knows that space is very very cold, and the sun is very very hot. so i assume there's a bit of space kind of near the sun which is just right. balmy space

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