#our mother has been absent / ever since we founded rome

[sepiamestus]

this sucks i'm gonna [remembers suicide jokes bad] bribe the officials. i'm gonna kill all the judges. it's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage

[pbpsbff]

the walking dead has most definitely shaped my music taste a lot and introduced me to a lot of different artists and songs but nothing will ever stop me from getting emotional hearing my favorite songs play throughout the series even if it's my 50th rewatch

[alltheyoungmoons]

There's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet

No matter where you live

There'll all ways be a few things, maybe several things

That you're gonna find really difficult to forgive

[humanmorph]

there's gonna come a day when you'll feel better you'll rise up free and easy on that day and float from branch to branch, lighter than the air just when that day is coming, who can say? who can say?

[bonyassfish]

I’M GONNA BRIBE THE OFFICIALS, I’M GONNA KILL ALL THE JUDGES, IT’S GONNA TAKE YOU PEOPLE YEARS TO RECOVER FROM ALL OF THE DAMAGE

[godlessbody]

i remember listening to the sunset tree in the months before my grandfather died and being aware of this year as A mental illness song and thinking that would be The mental illness song and then something about up the wolves took permanent residence in my brain like a burr in the base of my brain stem. i think it was my top song that year. “i am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” is an excellent entry point hook but ”there’s bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet/ no matter where you live” and “there’s gonna come a day when you feel better/ you’ll rise up free and easy on that day” is the thing i actually needed/need. it’s always going to live with you but that will be okay someday

[ioannemos]

been listening to up the wolves by the mountain goats lately...

there'll always be a few things, maybe several things that you're gonna find really difficult to forgive

hnnng. i need to go back to therapy

[neighbourhoodtwo]

hm. up the wolves by the mountain goats

[lesbianshepard]

I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim Scope out every angle of unfair advantage I'm gonna bribe the officals, I'm gonna kill all the judges It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage

Our mother has been absent Ever since we founded Rome But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Our mother has been absent ever since we founded Rome But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home!

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: a digital drawing of characters from the owl house based on the song "up the wolves" by the mountain goats. At the top of the drawing there's a rectangular panel showing Camila and Eda. Camila looks out at the boiling isles at night with her bat. Eda mirrors her pose, with her arm covered in feathers. Shadows form to look like the collectors face, covering Eda's eyes and parts of Camila. Beneath this panel is a star with King and the Collector inside of it, holding hands and spinning midair. Beneath this is the archway portal from thanks to them, which is glowing, and at the bottom of the image is the hexsquad lined up in their designs from for the future, lit by the portal light and looking determinedly into the distance. The lyrics that span the image are "our mother has been absent/ever since we founded Rome/but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home". The background is black. End ID]

I knew I couldn't say goodbye to this show without redrawing one of my favorite old pieces, this lyric comic based on Up The Wolves by the mountain goats. I made it pre-ttt and was honestly really vindicated by all the wolf imagery that ep, lmao

[manydaves]

There's gonna come a day when you'll feel better You'll rise up free and easy on that day And float from branch to branch, lighter than the air Just when that day is coming, who can say? Who can say?

Our mother has been absent Ever since we founded Rome But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

[punkbarbarian]

a family reunion, from fistfight to cigarette

up the wolves, the mountain goats // the elektra complex, joan tierney // all about love, bell hooks // on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong // the wee free men, terry pratchett // you're gonna go far, noah kahan // brother of mine, jun miresa // wild geese, mary oliver // lost in my mind, the head and the heart

[image id: 9 screenshots of text on white backgrounds. 1: "[chorus] our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome / but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home" 2: "ORESTES: how could you recognize me after all these years? / ELEKTRA: what a stupid question. i was born knowing you." 3: "we can never go back. i know that now. we can go forward. we can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart's longing." 4: "you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing, that all you had to do was wait until the storm passes over you and you find that--yes--your name is still attached to a living thing." 5: "he said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there." 6: "we ain't angry at you, love / you're the greatest thing we've lost / the birds will still sing / your folks will still fight / the boards will still creak / the leaves will still die" 7: "oh brother of mine, we're no longer alike / though you're still the same dear brother of mine" 8: "you do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles in the desert repenting. / you only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves. / tell me about despair, yours, and i will tell you mine. / meanwhile the world goes on." 9: "won't you tell me, my brother? / 'cause there are stars up above / we can start moving forward." /end ID]

[stedesparasol]

our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome, but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

[elq-uackity]

our mother has been absent ever since we founded Rome but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

based on an au i had where the niijimas and akechi are all akimitsu's kids and shido's involvement is a lot more complex (date: may 2020)

[dipperscavern]

okay but when i say robb is up the wolves by the mountain goats flavored? what then!!!!

"there's bound to be a ghost in the back of your closet no matter where you live"

"they will shake their heads and wag their bony fingers in all the wrong directions and by daybreak we'll be gone"

"im gonna kill all the judges, it's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage"

"our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome, but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home"

ill start eating glass right here right now chomp crunch gulp

YOURE LITERALLY LYING TO ME IM DONE.

there’s bound to be a ghost in the back of your closet no matter where you live

a ghost = ned stark. i’m done.

they will shake their heads and wag their bony fingers in all the wrong directions and by daybreak we’ll be gone

ROBBS WAR COUNCIL !!!!!! by daybreak we’ll be gone — THE RED WEDDING !!!!

i’m gonna kill all the judges, it’s gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage

roose bolton — him killing all the judges by helping organize the red wedding — and it’s gonna take the people of the north (& the stark family as well) years to recover from all of the damage

^^ and can i just point out that in the bible, judges were — people chosen by god to lead the israelites and fight their enemies. they were temporary and special, and their authority was limited to certain parts of the country

do i even need to mention the religiousness of him & greywind (all the direwolves really) & the old gods…. oh i dont? great <3 AND “they were temporary and special” TEMPORARY. AND SPECIAL. + “their authority was limited to certain parts of the country” + THE ‘there must always be a stark in winterfell’ THEORY!!!!

our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome, but there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

catelyn :( being absent metaphorically since ned’s death + actually absent since the red wedding in BOTH the show & books. she’s absent in the show because she’s dead, and in the books she’s lady stonehart, not catelyn. catelyn is absent.

there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home — there must always be a stark at winterfell.

i’m done. give me somenfucking glass or i’m gonna shit in my hands and clap