#‘remember me love when im reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn’ SHUT UP

[exystyx]

i listen to shrike by hozier. i think about griddlehark. i throw up.

[s-o-m-n-u-s]

thought about shrike and ibayuzu again i need to self contain i'm going weirdo mode

[birrdies]

I actually really want to hear about it so I’m here to ask about Grian and shrikes…

(Also fun fact there’s a type of shrike in Australia we call a butcherbird because they’re known for taking their prey and, uh, making use of rose thorns)

rubs hands together ohh boy. I am So glad you asked (:

we actually also call them butcherbirds!! and this is exactly what makes me so insane about it when applying it to grian, ESPECIALLY third life grian. the shrike is a passerine (song-bird), but deceptively so. it’s ferocious, it spikes their prey on thorns. something about it being a songbird and a bird of prey at the same time are what gets me. im gonna bullet point some stuff out bc i can’t find a way to organize this coherently

grian, on the surface, is not necessarily formidable. he’s a bit goofy, plays pranks, doesn’t exactly know what he’s getting into at the start of 3L. he’s the songbird

plus they have a shrill cry which… lets be honest… that’s So grian, he’s very shrill

but we all know how 3L ends. grian kills scar. and while scar let him win, I don’t think grian ever fully forgives either of them for it. his hand was forced, but he also killed the one person in the series he trusted and cares for. the shrike.

HOWEVER. if you consider it in a more metaphorical sense, I like to apply the lyrics of hozier’s song “shrike” to 3L desert duo. ‘remember me, love, when i’m reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”. 3L desert duo are the villains from so many perspectives. scar is just as willing to kill and cause mayhem as grian— if not more so. but grian is his lackey. scar is the thorn, grian is the shrike. together they are deadly

shrikes NEED the thorns. shrikes don’t have the talons of a bird of prey, they need a tool to help them kill and hunt. grian NEEDS scar. he doesn’t have the bloodlust at first, but as the series goes on grian is more and more willing to attack, trap, kill, and since he’s green most of the time he NEEDS scar to do it for him.

and maybe that’s why grian always ends up in scar’s orbit, one way or another, in these series.

bonus… thinking about… cactus thorns…

they’re also very territorial which I think fits very nicely with grian. especially in 3L.

tldr: if you haven’t cried thinking about desert duo while listening to ‘shrike’ by hozier I highly highly suggest it

[losing-track]

remember me love when im reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn. btw. if you even care

[johnmalevolent]

for spotify wrapped drawing game: my best friend homura akemi + song 66 or 44, your choice

66- Shrike / Hozier

[ID: Pencil-on-paper fanart of Homura and Madoka from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. A part of Homura's face is overlaid by a clock, showing an expressionless eye, entirely detached from the rest of the crying face she's making as she holds Madoka's lifeless body close to her chest. There are digital, hand-written styled texts that say "remember me love, when im reborn, as the shrike to your sharp, and glorious thorn." End ID]

my best friend also 👍 i hope nothing bad happens to her and she has a fun time defeating evil in cute mahou shoujo clothes

[hozier-self-titled]

remember me love when im reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn 😭🔫

[tragedykery]

AND I'D NO IDEA ON WHAT GROUND I WAS FOUNDED ALL THAT GOODNESS IS GOING WITH YOU NOW THEN WHEN I MET YOU MY VIRTUES UNCOUNTED ALL THAT GOODNESS IS GOING WITH YOU NOW

DRAGGING ALONG FOLLOWING YOUR FORM HUNG LIKE THE PELT OF SOME PREY YOU HAD WORN REMEMBER ME LOVE WHEN IM REBORN AS A SHRIKE TO YOUR SHARP AND GLORIOUS THORN

[persephoneflouwers]

I honestly don’t fucking know who allowed him to write REMEMBER ME, LOVE, WHEN IM REBORN AS A SHRIKE TO YOUR SHARP AND GLORIOUS THORN.

Jail.

[fatherramiro]

initial thoughts (will explain why i picked these songs if asked)

shrike by hozier (for “I couldn’t utter my love when it counted / ah, but im singing like a bird about it now” and “remember me, love / when im reborn / a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”)

after the bombs by the decemberists (for “won't we go dancing / yes we'll go dancing / 'till it all / starts over again)

daylight by taylor swift (for “I once believed love would be burning red / but it’s golden” and “I don’t wanna look at anything else / now that i saw you”)

dust to dust by the civil wars (for “let me in the walls / you’ve built around”)

skinny love by bon iver (for “and now all your love is wasted / so who the hell was i?”)

honestly im gonna get REAL self indulgent and say king and lionhearted by of monsters and men (bc “you’re a king / and im a lionheart”)

there will be more of these but for now I rest

what if i made a goddamn danmiles playlist right the fuck now

ill even do this old school and like. explain all the damn tracks’ meanings

[piratemadi]

literally regressing to summer 2020 just listening to the black sails playlist and ruminating.

[cursedcrest-a]

verse tags.

post timeskip — i am out with lanterns / looking for myself .

pre timeskip — remember me‚ love‚ when i’m reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn .

azure moon — it wasn’t a war story . it was a love story . it was a ghost story .

crimson flower — i will face the goddess and walk backwards into hell .

verdant wind — it feels better biting down .

[sanclementes]

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[dogsmouth]

shrike by hozier will never fail to make me cry like a fucking baby

[cliveguy]

i fled to the city with so much discounted ah but im flying like a bird to you now back to the hedgerows where bodies are mounted ah but im flying like a bird to you now i was housed by your warmth thus transformed by your grounded and giving and darkening scorn remember me love when im reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

[sluttyhozier]

rawest fucking hozier lyrics in no particular order:

i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight

heat of her breath in my mouth; im alive

i’d be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground

idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on his sword

and when the earth is trembling on some new beginning with the same sweet shock of when adam first came

every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside

the stench of the sea and the absence of green are the death of all things that are seen and unseen

if I was born as a blackthorn tree i’d wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies

some like to imagine the dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do

before the wave hits, marveling at god; before he feels alone one final time and marries the sea

betray the moon as acolyte on first and fierce affirming sight

i have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me, I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me

screaming the name of a foreigner’s god; the purest expression of grief

sweet and right and merciful, i’m all but washed in the tide of her breathing

but you don’t know the hell you put me through; to have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you

so i try to talk refined for fear that you find out how i’m imagining you

my head was war, my skin was soaked, I called your name ‘til the fever broke

be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking

remember me, love, when i’m reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

[tiredloserr]

∞ love this idea

love that the first song i had shuffle was literally just instrumental lol, but the next one was Shrike by Hozier :)

"dragging along, following your form. hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn. remember me, love, when im reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn"