#remember me love when i’m reborn are lyrics from shrike by hozier

[merthurogies]

modern merthur reunion because they deserve to be together and happy again

[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

[kitsune-rp-help]

Hozier Wasteland, Baby!

There's no plan, there's no race to be run The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun Starter sentences taken from the lyrics from the album Wasteland, Baby! (2019) by Hozier. Feel free to modify as needed to better suit pronouns/setting ect.

Nina Cried Power

It's not the wakin', it's the risin'

It's not the shade we should be casting

It's the fire it ignites

And I could cry power

It's not the wall, but what's behind it

Almost (Sweet Music)

She likes to roll here in my ashes anyway

The same kind of music haunts her bedroom

I'm almost me again, she's almost you

Be still my foolish heart

The very thought of you and am I blue

Movement

I still watch you when you're groovin'

You're movin' without movin' and when you move, I'm moved

So move me, baby like you've nothin' left to lose and nothin' to prove

No Plan

What a waste to say the heart could feel apart

Why would you offer her name to the same old tired pain?

My heart is thrilled by the still of your hand

There's no plan, there's no race to be run

The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun

And if secrets were like seeds when I'm lying under marble marvel at flowers you'll have made

Nobody

It's gin o'clock where I wake up

But I've had no love like your love

I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint

To Noise Making (Sing)

Remember when you'd sing, just for the fuck of it

Honey, the look of it was as sweet as the sound

Was it that or just the act of making noise that brought you joy?

You put your emptiness to melody, Your awful heart to song

You don't have to sing it nice, but honey sing it strong

At best, you find a little remedy, at worst the world will sing along

As It Was

There is a roadway, muddy and foxgloved

How long you would wait for me?

Shrike

I couldn't utter my love when it counted

I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted

All of that goodness is goin' with you now

Remember me, love when I'm reborn

I was housed by your warmth thus transformed

Talk

I'd be the choiceless hope in grief

In Eurydice imagine being loved by me!

I won't deny I've got in my mind now all the things we'd do

I'd be the last shred of truth

Be

Be as you've always been

Be like the love that discovered the sin

Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost

Which side of the wall really suffers that cost?

Oh, lover, be good to me

Dinner & Diatribes

Honey, this club here is stuck up

Your friends are a fate that befell me

Honey, I laugh when it sinks in

A pillar I am of pride

Honey, it's easier knowing what you'd do to me tonight

That's the kind of love I've been dreaming of

Would That I

True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree

True that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me

I fretted fire but that was long ago

Oh, but you're good to me

With the roar of the fire, my heart rose to its feet

I fell in love with the fire long ago

With each love I cut loose, I was never the same

Sunlight

I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet

Who would trade that hum of night?

But whose heart would not take flight?

Oh, your love is sunlight

All the tales the same told before and told again

Oh, and these colors fade for you only

Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight

Know that I would gladly be the Icarus to your certainty

Strap the wing to me death trap clad happily with wax melted, I'd meet the sea

Wasteland, Baby!

All the fear and the fire ff the end of the world

All the things yet to come are the things that have passed

And the day that we'll watch the death of the sun

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

Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do

[saintbleeding]

[ID: An 11-panel digital TMA comic focused on Jon, a thin, dark brown skinned person with greying curly black hair to his shoulders and dark brown eyes, and Martin, a fat, light-skinned person with freckles, red hair, and medium brown eyes. Both habitually wear glasses. The comic is overlaid with lyrics from Hozier’s Shrike.

Panel one: Martin stands by a bookcase, a statement in one hand, worriedly watching Jon, who is walking away with a suitcase in one hand and a boarding pass in the other. Text reads: “I couldn’t utter my love when it counted/Ah, but I’m singing like a bird about it now”.

Panel two: Jon, one hand reaching out, follows Martin into a darkened passageway. Martin is dressed in a three-piece suit with a tie pin in the shape of an anchor and coloured in a more washed-out palette. Jon’s hair is longer, he has more scars, and there are faint green eyes floating around him. Text reads: “I couldn’t whisper when you needed it shouted/Ah, but I’m singing like a bird about it now.”

Panels three and four: Panel three is a close-up of Jon accepting a plain white mug from Martin. Panel four is Martin and Jon sitting at a cafeteria table by a window on a clear day. Martin is gazing at Jon who is laughing, fiddling with a straw in one hand. Text reads: “The words hung above”

Panel five: Martin and Jon stand facing each other, both wearing sad expressions. Jon wears a duffel bag over one shoulder, the strap of which he is clasping with one hand. Behind them, Basira, Daisy, and Tim walk into a raging fire. Text reads: “But never would form”

Panel six: Jon and Martin lie dead in a field of grass. Jon’s regular scars are joined by extra bloodshot green eyeballs, but his expression is serene. Martin’s eyes are fixed vacantly ahead, and his shattered glasses stick into his head. There is a knife in Jon’s back and Martin’s right leg is bent at an odd angle, with bone and muscle exposed. Text reads: “Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn.”

Panel seven: Jon glares at Tim and Sasha who are leaning on a counter with their faces in their hands, looking admiringly at Martin who is sitting oblivious at a cafe table reading a book with a latte in front of him. A sign on the wall says The Serapeum Cafe. Text reads: “Remember me, love,”

Panels eight and nine: In panel eight, Martin, with longer hair, sits against a wall, one hand over his face, a tear rolling down his cheek. In panel nine, Jon leans over a balcony, smoking a cigarette. There is a cat sitting next to him.

Panel ten: Martin and Tim stand with beer bottles in their hands, Martin laughing and Tim singing. They have their arms around each other, and Tim’s other arm is around the shoulders of an unimpressed looking Jon. Behind them, a door bears a placard reading “Sasha James, Head Archivist”. Text reads: “When I’m reborn”

Panel eleven: Two images overlaid in alternating sections. One image is Jon and Martin’s kiss at the end of MAG 200, and the other is the two of them kissing in a field. Jon wears a deep red sherwani and Martin wears a blue three piece suit, a wedding ring visible on the fourth finger of his left hand. Text reads: “As a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.” End ID.]

y’all i am once again being very very normal and well-adjusted about them

[lesbianjunimo]

OM Brothers as Hozier songs

I am a cottagecore lesbian, therefore this post was inevitable. Anyway here are the Hozier songs I think resonate most with the boys and their relationships to MC! Each will have a little explanation blurb (tho I am writing this before I start so I’ll probably get carried away asjdgkdj)

this is very different from my usual style so feedback would be greatly appreciated!! thanks :D

Lucifer -  As It Was

You are the home Lucifer comes to after losing his first one. He can never go back to the Celestial Realm, the place he was born and raised. But he doesn’t even want to when you are with him. 

You, and all that you are, are home. Being with you makes Lucifer feel a joy like he did before the otherness, the War, came. He never thought he could feel that way again. You are as bright as the lights of the Celestial Realm; a light he thought he would never see again. A light he thought he had dragged both himself and his entire family away from forever. But here you are, in front of him, shining with a light he had almost forgotten despite his best efforts to remember. 

And your love for him is unmoving. You know his past, you know his present, you know the worst sides of him. Hell, he tried to kill you before! And yet...your heart remains unmoved. He will never be able to express his gratitude for the way you waited for him, waited for his pride to subside, waited for him to realize the depth of his feelings for you. You welcomed him with open arms when he finally came home.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

Just as it was, baby Before the otherness came And I knew its name The drug, the dark, The light, the flame The highs hit the heights of my baby And its hold had the fight of my baby And the lights were as bright as my baby But your love was unmoved

Tell me if somehow Some of it remains How long you would wait for me How long I've been away The shape that I'm in now Your shape in the doorway Make your good love known to me Or just tell me about your day

Mammon - Sunlight

Your love is sunlight. Pure and simple. Your love is sunlight to Mammon, who has not known a soul like yours since the Celestial Realm. He loves his brothers, and he knows they love him, too, but their love feels conditional. Your love for him is unconditional, and you tell him so every day through the way you look at him.

He still doesn’t know how you put up with his waffling for so long. With the way he ran away from your affections, the way he put up walls between you to protect his aching heart. If your love was like his brothers’, if it required him to change...he didn’t think he ‘d be able to bear it. 

But you were stubborn. Almost as stubborn as him! And when you finally reached a stalemate you confessed. The moment “I love you,” left your lips, Mammon knew he was lost to you. He was lost in this foreign feeling and the only way out was in your arms. And from that moment he knew he would never leave your embrace, never leave your wonderful heart. 

He would sooner die before he let his sunlight be taken away.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

Oh, the tale is the same Told before and told again A soul that's born in cold and rain Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight At last can grant a name To a buried and a burning flame As love and its decisive pain Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight All that was shown to me, sunlight Was something foreknown to me, sunlight Oh your love is sunlight Oh your love is sunlight But it is sunlight Oh your love is sunlight Oh your love is sunlight But it is sunlight Sunlight

and

Each day you rise with me Know that I would gladly be The Icarus to your certainty Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight Strap the wing to me Death trap clad, happily With wax melted I'd meet the sea Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

Leviathan - Like Real People Do

Levi has never cared for the company of others who are real, who are not figments of some grand author’s imagination. All they do is hurt him. He has had too many heartbreaks in his life to let anyone else into his story. He is a lone side character.

But then you came bounding into his book and tore apart every page with self-loathing words written on it. He fought you tooth and nail, but you just kept digging, straight to his heart. You dug yourself in deep, so deep he couldn’t move you even if he wanted to. Which, of course, he can’t even imagine doing now.

You’re real. And so is the love you have given him. With each kiss you prove to him that he is not some side story. He is the protagonist of his own adventure. You are his love interest, written to fit perfectly against his side when snuggling on dark nights. 

It took your arrival for him to realize just how much he longed for the company of real people, for the affection of real people. And I don’t mean in the literal sense of real- I mean people who are real with him. People who are truthful, who won’t hurt him with stinging words, barbs aims right at his psyche. You use your words to guide him without crippling him, and he is so thankful for that.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

I will not ask you where you came from I will not ask and neither should you Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips We should just kiss like real people do

Satan - Shrike

Satan had no idea there was any goodness in him. No idea he was capable of anything with a shred of goodness in it. That was, until you came along and showed him just how long his stone heart had only been lying dormant. It was never useless, as he had suspected. It just needed a skilled stonesmith to chip away at it carefully, which is exactly what you did.

Even as he felt you cracking away at his walls, he would not tell you how he felt. He knew from the first tap of your gentle hand on the rough rock of his heart that he was yours. That he always would be. But he could not utter his love. How was he to know if you did this to everyone you met? Was he as special to you as you were to him? Or was he just another sculpted heart in your collection?

He couldn’t hold out for long, though. Not when you were housing him in your heart’s warmth with no mention of reciprocation required. What was your scheme? Why were you showing such goodness to him, and at the same time revealing he was capable of the same? 

But when you whispered words of love to him, it all fell apart. The last chip of stone covering his heart shattered, as did his resolve to hide his love from you. He knows that you two will always be together, even after this lifetime ends. Perhaps the two of you will return, him as a thorn and you as his shrike.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

I had no idea on what ground I was founded All of that goodness is going with you now Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted All of my goodness is going with you now

and 

I was housed by your warmth Thus transformed By your grounded and giving And darkening scorn Remember me love when I'm reborn As the shrike to your sharp And glorious thorn

Asmodeus - Nobody

Asmodeus, unlike his brothers, has known love. He has bathed in love, breathed in love, slept in love. He knows love. And yet, in all his years, he has known no love like your love. 

Your love is a wholly new phenomenon to Asmo. So pure, unfiltered, unconditional. Surprise picnic dates you spent all weekend planning, bouquets of flowers waiting for him on his bedspread, hugging him when you’re all sweaty after a jog because you know it bothers him. There is a fondness in your every action, even when you simply pick a nail polish shade for him to use for the week. It is an unfamiliar sensation for Asmo to feel such love through an accidental brush of the fingertips.

Because of this, Asmo never wants you or your relationship to change. Damn everything he has known before, damn the opinions of anyone he knows, damn what he knows of love! Your love is the only love he cares to know, now. Your love and everything that comes with it. 

Asmo has had many adventures and love affairs in his time, and yet you are the only one he never wants to end.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

And I think about you though everywhere I go And I've done everything and I've been everywhere, you know I've been fed gold By sweet fools in Abu Dhabi And I danced real slow With Rockettes on dodgy Molly But I've had no love like your love Ooh from nobody I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint I wouldn't fall for someone I thought couldn't misbehave But I want you to know that I've had no love like your love

Beelzebub - NFWMB

You are part of Beelzebub’s family. You have been ever since you slept beside him, holding his hand to keep his nightmares at bay. You are his family, and nothing fucks with his family.

Beelzebub’s family is his heart and soul. You are his heart and soul. He would do anything for you. Your little finger is stronger than any arsenal in the Devildom, because you have Beel wrapped around it. But part of the reason you have him in the first place is because he knows you would never use that to your advantage. You do not see Beel as a weapon, or a hungry beast, or a danger, nor even as an annoyance who empties the fridge every two days. No, you see him as Beel. And that’s all he can ask for. That’s all he wants.

Your affection for both him and his brothers is something he cherishes more than anything else. Nothing will harm you as long as he can help it. He has lost his family before, and he will not lose any ever again. The second your fingers interlocked with yours the night you slept at his side, he knew no harm would ever come to you from that moment on. 

Lucifer started a war for the ones he loved once long ago, and now Beelzebub knows that he would do the same.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

Nothing fucks with my baby Nothing can get a look in on my baby Nothing fucks with my baby Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing If I was born as a black thorn tree I'd wanna be felled by you, held by you Fuel the pyre of your enemies Ain't it warming you, the world goin' up in flames? Ain't it the life where you you're lighting off the blaze? Ain't it a waste it watch the throwing of the shade?

Belphegor - Would That I

Ever since the death of Lilith, Belphegor feared the fires of love, the fires of feeling, of emotion. He stomped on the embers of his heart and vowed never to light them again. It was easier to feel nothing than it was to feel her loss.

And then you...you and your blinding light, arrived. He hated you at first. He killed you, tried to put out your fire the same way he put out his own. But even death couldn’t douse your flame. You were a wildfire, one that had already spread to all his brothers and rapidly came to set him ablaze too.

It didn’t take you long to light him up. He knew it wouldn’t, but he still tried to fight it at first. The first word you spoke to him in the attic told him that if he were to ever burn bright again, it would be by your hand.

And that’s exactly what you did. Even after he had killed you, you fought to ignite the long-dead pyre of his heart. Your persistence wore him down until his lazy nature decided it would be easier to give in and let you burn him. He expected pain, expected scars, but instead he simply felt warmth. Your warmth. All the years he spent in the cold without even realizing it were suddenly over. He was warm in your arms, and he never wanted to leave again.

The lyrics I think resonate most with him:

With the roar of the fire my heart rose to its feet Like the ashes of ash I saw rise in the heat Settle soft and as pure as snow I fell in love with the fire long ago With each love I cut loose I was never the same Watching still living roots be consumed by the flame I was fixed on your hand of gold Laying waste to my loving long ago But that's not tonight  Where I'm set alight  And I blink in sight  Of your blinding light  And it's not tonight  Where you hold me tight  And the fire bright  Oh, let it blaze, alright, honey 

[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

[butchdaydreams]

🎶🎶🌸

“I was housed by your warmth and thus transformed,

By your grounded and giving and darkening scorn.

Remember me, love, when I’m reborn,

As a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”

https://open.spotify.com/track/083PU4XnYAOMAGVruma3vb?si=ml3xzsqnS6q916AWGaX2AA

Send me a 🎵 and I’ll put my music on shuffle and send you my favorite lyric from the song

[thetypologymodel-archived]

MBTI Types as Hozier’s Lyrics

ENTJ: “All you have is your fire and the place you need to reach. Don't ever tame your demons, but always keep 'em on a leash.”

INTJ: “Like fire weeping from a cedar tree, know that my love would burn with me, we'll live eternally.”

ENTP: “There's an art to life's distractions, to somehow escape the burning weight. The art of scraping through.”

INTP: “We tried the world, good God, it wasn't for us.”

ESTJ: “The stench of the sea and the absence of green are the death of all things that are seen and unseen.”

ISTJ: “Honey you're familiar like my mirror years ago. Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on it's sword.”

ESTP: “Ain't it warming you the world going up in flames? Ain't it the life you, your lighting of the blaze?”

ISTP: “But my peace has always depended on all the ashes in my wake.”

ENFJ: “If I was born as a blackthorn tree, I'd wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies.”

INFJ: “And I'd be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice. Imagine being loved by me.”

ENFP: “I fall in love just a little ol' little bit, every day with someone new.”

INFP: “We'll lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand, so still and discreet, so long we’d become the flowers.”

ESFJ: “Give your heart and soul to charity 'cause the rest of you, the best of you, honey, belongs to me.”

ISFJ: “Remember me, love, when I’m reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.”

ESFP: “There's no plan, there's no race to be run. The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.”

ISFP: “I’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight.”

[themackenziemachine]

A Locked Tomb Trilogy playlist for our favorite ninth house disaster pair! Tracklist (w/ favorite lyrics and a few bonus thoughts) under the cut.

Shrike     Hozier

Remember me, love/ when I’m reborn/ as a shrike to your sharp/ and glorious thorn

Between Two Lungs     Florence + The Machine

I have this breath/ and I hold it tight/ and I keep it in my chest/ with all my might/ I pray to God this breath will last

No Children     The Mountain Goats

I am drowning/ There is no sign of land/ You are coming down with me/ Hand in unlovable hand

(Is it my favorite lyric in the song for Gideon & Harrow or just one of my favorite lyrics ever? The world may never know)

Sick of Losing Soulmates     dodie

Yeah, I'm sick of losing soulmates/ Won't be alone again/ I can finally see you're as fucked up as me/ So how do we win?

(With “ Watch how a cold broken teen will desperately lean/ Upon a superglued human of proof” as a very close second)

Kiss with a Fist     Florence + The Machine

My black eye casts no shadow/ Your red eye sees nothing/ Your slap don't stick/ Your kicks don't hit/ So we remain the same/ Love sticks/ Sweat drips/ Break the lock if it don't fit

(Yes, yes, I know. It’s more F+tM but I couldn’t have a GriddleHark playlist without it)

Raise Hell     Dorothy

Young blood, run like a river/ Young blood, never get chained/ Young blood, heaven need a sinner/ You can't raise hell with a saint/ Young blood, came to start a riot

(THEY DO BONES, MOTHERFUCKER!)

Saint Bernard     Lincoln

Hung pictures of patron saints up on my wall/ To remind me that I am a fool/ Tell me where I came from, what I will always be/ Just a spoiled little kid who went to Catholic school

(A song mostly for Harrow that doesn’t fit quite as well as I might like but I thought was worth  including)

Planetary (GO!)     My Chemical Romance

You're unbelievable/ Ah, so unbelievable/ Ah, you ruin everything/ Oh, you better go home/ I'm unbelievable/ Yeah, I'm undefeatable/ Yeah, let's ruin everything

(These are the most GriddleHark lyrics in the song but lbr it’s mostly a song for Gideon)

We All Become     Darrin Korb & Ashley Barrett

Oh, we all, we all become one

(From the videogame Transistor where, more or less, the main character’s boyfriend is trapped in a sword. It’s a beautiful song and it does fit, but mostly I put this on because it made me laugh)

The Sword & The Pen     Regina Spektor 

What if the sword kills the pen/ What if the god kills the man/ And if he does it with love/ Well then it's death from above/ And death from above is still a death/ I don't want to live without you

King and Lionheart     Of Monsters and Men

And as the world comes to an end/ I'll be here to hold your hand/ ‘Cause you're my king and I'm your lionheart

Taking over this town, they should worry/ But these problems aside I think I taught you well/ That we won't run, and we won't run, and we won't run

(What do you mean I can’t just quote the whole song?)     

[sharkinlovewithadolphin]

tag 9 people to learn more about their interests!

tagged by @sofiawylics - thank you! <3

MUSIC

fave genre? i don’t have any, but i usually do prefer pop

fave artist? Hayley Kiyoko, Hozier, Bleachers, the 1975s, Måneskin, Lil Nas X, Years & Years, Greyson Chance, and many, many more. fave song? none

most listened song recently? uhhh idk

song currently stuck in your head? “i ate you up the day we first spoke/love bites so deep, we got tiger teeth” (Walk The Moon - Tiger Teeth)

5 fave lyrics? The first that came to mind were: 1) “Like context in a modern debate, I just took it out.“ + “And I was 25 and afraid to go outside; A millennial that baby-boomers like.“ (The 1975 - Give Yourself A Try) 2) “We didn't start the fire; No, we didn't light it; But we tried to fight it.” (Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start The Fire) 3) “When my time comes; Forget the wrong that I've done; Help me leave behind some; Reasons to be missed.” (Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest) 4) “Because you cut me wide open; Left teardrops on all my white roses.” (Greyson Chance - White Roses) 5) “Remember me, love, when I'm reborn; As a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.“ (Hozier - Shrike) + “[...] So you know good things are happening; When the jackboot needs to jump.” (Hozier - Jackboot Jump)

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS 

fav book genre? YA, apocalypse vibes and fantasy

fav writer? Benjamin Alire Saenz 

fav book? Ari and Dante, TPOBAW, Dead Poets Society

fav book series? Simonverse (Simon vs + Leah on The Offbeat)

comfort book? Ari and Dante

perfect book to read on a rainy day? hmmmm. idk

fave characters? hmmm... *suddenly forgets every character* let’s go  with: Seth and Alice (Twilight), Dante (Ari and Dante), Nile (TOG comics)

5 quotes from your fave book that you know by heart? 1) “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.” (Ari and Dante) + "I love swimming and you." [...] “Swimming and you, Ari. Those are the things I love the most.” (Ari and Dante) ((gives me mad RH vibes)) 2) “We accept the love we think we deserve.” (TPOBAW) 3) “[...] That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” (Dead Poets Society)   4) “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” (The Song of Achilles)   5) “Someone will remember us I say; Even in another time.” (If Not, Winter)

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES (I won’t be counting anime and general animation into this, otherwise it would be far too long)

fave tv/movie genre? none

fave movie? The Old Guard, Deadpool 2, Love Simon, Venom, The Way He Looks, Fear Street, etc.

comfort movie? The Old Guard, Twilight, The Half Of It, DP 2, MIB, Detective Pikachu, etc.

movie you watch every year? Twilight, DP2, Venom, Mean Girls, The Grinch, Home Alone, etc.

fave tv show? uuuuuhhh right now it’s Andi Mack, Hannibal, Killing Eve, JATP, Gentleman Jack, Haunting of Bly Manor, Young Royals, etc.

comfort tv show? Andi Mack, JATP, Atypical

most rewatched tv show? I have no idea, but the quickest show I ever rewatched was JATP, which I rewatched the next day after finishing the last EP lol, and the recent one I rewatched was Young Royals  

ultimate otp? Tyrus and Joe x Nicky of these, i think

5 fave characters? Deadpool/Wade Wilson, Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Bella Swan, Cyrus Goodman, Casey Gardner

tv shows or movie | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online Tagging: @dandelionmeadow @nenufair @hamykia @alona-marinelli @died-by-the-scimitar @elena-of-time @mehawiyu @milkymickeyway @spacewitchqueen

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Tag 9 people to learn more about their interests!

tagged by: @le-cat-nipp ❤️❤️ Thank you, dear 😘

i’m tagging: I am literally so awkward about this lol if you’re reading this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged

MUSIC

fave genre? I’m a folk, alt rock, indie rock and classic rock gal. There’s a few modern/pop folks I’m hugely fond of as well. I’m not anti-any type of music tbh.

fave artist? Fleet Foxes, Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron, Florence + the Machine, Hozier, Lorde, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Hozier, Janelle Monáe, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Billie Eilish, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lil Nas X, Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, David Bowie

fave song? Oh man of all time? Fugg. I am very partial to “Shake It Off” by F+TM but this answer could change daily lol.

most listened song recently? Long Lost - Lord Huron

5 fave lyrics? I am not sure if this means “songs with the best lyrics” or “favorite lines” …. I’m gonna go with the latter

“And it echoes when I breathe/Until all you'll see is my ghost/Empty vessel, crooked teeth/Wish you could see” I of the Storm, OMAM

“Words hung above, but never would form/Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn/Remember me, love, when I'm reborn/As a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn” - Shrike, Hozier

“Oh, you fool, there are rules I am coming for you/Darkness brings evil things, oh, the reckoning begins/I tried to warn you when you were a child/I told you not to get lost in the wild” - The Yawning Grave, Lord Huron

“The fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress/Until I wrap myself inside your arms, I cannot rest/The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound/I hunt for you with bloodied feet across the hallowed ground” - Howl, F+TM

“Though I liked summer light on you/If we ride a winter-long wind/Well time's not what I belong to/And you're not the season you're in” - I’m Not My Season, Fleet Foxes

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS

fav book genre? Sci-fi, fantasy, horror

fav writer? VE Schwab, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K Le Guin, Haruki Murakami, Patrick Rothfuss, Samantha Shannon, JRR Tolkien

fav book? “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman. I have a lot of favorites but that one wins every time.

fav book series? I really love The Lord of the Rings. It’s a classic but it’s so special to me.

comfort book? “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng. It’s set very close to where I grew up!

perfect book to read on a rainy day? “The Slow Regard of Silent Things” by Patrick Rothfuss

fave characters? Sandor Clegane, Addie LaRue, Lila Bard, Gimli, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Thorin Oakenshield

5 quotes from your fave book that you know by heart?

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”

“There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.”

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

“‘Hey,’ said Shadow. ‘Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are.’

The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.

‘Say 'Nevermore,'’ said Shadow.

‘Fuck you,’ said the raven.”

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES

fave tv/movie genre? Similar to books, I love sci-fi, fantasy and horror - I also love documentaries.

fave movie? Spirited Away. Hands down.

comfort movie? Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. First hyperfixation 🥴

movie you watch every year? I traditionally watch “A Christmas Story” at least five times every holiday season lol. Fuck yeah Cleveland!

fave tv show? Black Sails

comfort tv show? Mystery Science Theater 3000

most rewatched tv show? Oh geeze. Either MST3K, Cowboy Bebop, Game of Thrones, Parks & Rec, Frasier, King of the Hill or X-Files

5 fave characters? Fox Mulder, Crow T. Robot, Captain James Flint, Dale Gribble and Catra

tv shows or movie | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online

[sunlit-mlm]

My favorite lyrics by Hozier from my favorite Hozier songs. In order they are from: Work song, Arsonist’s Lullaby, Wasteland, baby, Take me to Church, Sunlight, Shrike, Someone New, NFWMB, Jackie and Wilson, Like Real People do

[Image id. Images show black text on a white background, the text is highlighted by a light gray. In order they read, “In the low lamp light, I was free. Heaven and hell were words to me.” 

“All you have is your fire and the place you need to reach.”

“Wasteland, baby. I’m in love, I’m in love with you.”

“The only heaven I’ll be sent to is when I’m alone with you. I was born sick, but I love it, command me to be well.”

“Know that I would gladly be the Icarus to your certainty. Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight. Strap the wing to me, death trap clad happily. With wax melted I’d meet the sea, under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight.”

“Remember me, love, when I’m reborn, as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.”

“I wake at the first cringe of morning and my heart’s already sinned.”

“If I was born as a blackthorn tree, I’d wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies.”

“Lord, it’d be great to find a place we could escape sometime. Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine. Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside, we’d sit back and watch the world go by.”

“Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips, we should just kiss like real people do.” end id]

[xshayarsha]

Remember me, love, when I'm reborn / as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

Hozier, from the lyrics to Shrike.

[lou162]

Hozier lyrics from the 'Wasteland, baby!' album as Zodiac signs

Aries

Nina cried power - "It's not the wall but what's behind it. Lord, the fear of foul men is mere assignment"

Would that I - "With the war of the fire, my heart moves to its feet. Like the ashes of ash, I saw eyes in the heat. Feel it soft and as pure as snow. Fell in love with the fire long ago"

Taurus

Talk - "I won't deny I've got in my mind now. All things I would do. So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out. How I'm imaginin' you"

Gemini

Almost (sweet music) - "The same kind of music haunts her bedroom. I'm almost me again she's almost you"

Movement - "When you move I can recall somethin' that's gone from me. When you move honey I'm put in awe of somethin' so flawed and free"

Cancer

Almost (sweet music) - "I wouldn't know where to start sweet music playing in the dark, be still my foolish heart don't ruin this on me"

Leo

Wasteland, baby! - "And that day that we watch the death of the sun. That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on. And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins"

Virgo

Shrike - "Remember me love, when I'm reborn. As a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn"

Wasteland, baby! - "And the stench of the sea and the absence of green are the death of all things that are seen and unseen. Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do. Wasteland baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you"

Libra

Nobody - "I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint. I wouldn't fall for someone I thought couldn't misbehave"

Scorpio

To noise making (sing) - "You don't have to sing it right. Who could call you wrong? You put your emptiness to melody, your awful heart to song"

To noise making (sing) - "Who could ask to be unbroken or be brave again. Or honey, hope even on this side of the grave again?"

Sagittarius

Nobody - "And I think about you, lo, everywhere I go and I've done everything and I've been everywhere you know"

Be - "Be like the love that discovered the sin. That freed the first man, would do so again. And, lover, be good to me"

Capricorn

No plan - "The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun"

Movement - "You are the rite of movement. It's reasonin' made lucid and cool. I know it's no improvement"

Aquarius

To noise making (sing) - "You don't have to sing it nice, but honey sing it strong. At best you'll find a little remedy. At worst the world will sing along"

Pisces

Talk - "I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus when her body was found. I'd be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground. I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around. And I'd be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice. Imagine being loved by me"

Sunlight- "Each day, you rise with me. Know that I would gladly be the Icarus to your certainty. Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight. You strap the weight of me. A death trap clad happily. With wax melted, I need to see. Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight"

[grandschemed]

HOZIER LYRIC SENTENCE / DRABBLE MEMES.

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

heat of her breath in my mouth; i’m 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.

and the nights were as dark as my baby, and half as beautiful too.

true that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me, that the sound of the saw must be known by the tree.

if secrets were like seeds, then i’m lying on the marble marvel of the flowers you have made.

why would you make out in words a cage for your own bird, when it sings so sweet the screaming, heaving fuckery of the world?

my peace has always been dependent, on all the ashes in my wake.

i’m somewhere outside my life, babe, i keep scratching but somehow i can’t get in.

my heart is thrilled by the still of your hand, it's how i know now that you understand.

[bringmoreknives]

∞ i love talking lyrics, woo!

💖💕😌☺️🥰

“like a cry at the final breath that is drawn. remember me, love, when i’m reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.”

shrike / hozier

//send me an infinity symbol and i’ll shuffle my spotify and give you my favorite lyric from the song that comes up!