#obviously take me to church

[marstyler42]

All Hozier songs fit on a triangle graph. One point is "I am so full of existential dread". One point is "I am so horny for you". The last one is "I need to do drugs as soon as possible".

#hozier #existential dread: son of nyx #through me the flood #drugs: angel of small death and the codeine scene #horny: work song #obviously take me to church #on the existential-horny line: #in a week #on the horny-drugs line: #dinner and diatribes #on the drugs-existential line: oddly it will come back #i might make this graph with every single hozier song #but what about- yes. its on here. #drugs is also sometimes based on vibes or descriptions #and sex kind of counts as a drug here #thanks for coming to my ted talk

[icewindandboringhorror]

Obligatory fancier outfit that must be present anytime I post outfits 

#self #fantasy costume #If I had the money for a custom tailored fantasy-ish victorian-ish suit instead of piecing together random thrift store items with like walm #rt halloween costume type jackets and stuff.. #unstoppable..... #I would actually lean more straight up historical with my wardrobe it's just that everything I own basically is thrifted aside from a very #small portion of things (like usually socks for example I get from ebay. wigs from ebay. things that it's hard to find in thrift stores. etc #) and I rarely ever find stuff like that at the bins. Your closest bet is like. hopeing that the week you come in just so happens to also be #a week that a church costume department recently donated a bunch of old stuff. but I just haven't really had much luck finding like fancy ve #sts and suit coats and cloaks or like tunics and etc. etc. #Styles like mori kei or cult party kei are pretty accessible and easy for places like the bins (where youre usually digging through piles of #curtains and fabric scraps and doilies anyway). but finding like.. a straight up tudor england costume or something is . VERY rare #Sometimes you do find halloween costumes. Or like. stuff that's clearly like cheap 'Goth' stuff from shein or aliexpress that someone has do #nated and they can be a LITTLE okay in terms of usable for costumes. But you rarely find actual good quality stuff. obviously because like #real very good quality historical costumes are expensive and most people aren't just like 'yeah dump it off to goodwill' lol #In an ideal world though I would have fancy top hats and neck ruffles and stuff .. know this ghhjbhj #Lack of that will not stop me from taking picturesin basically the same outfit 6000 times though. My one single silky black vest and #one of the two solitary ruffly neck shirts I have every been able to find. #Pointy-ish little boots that I put with everything even thogugh they look terrible up close because they're literally like over 10 yrs old #I bought them so long ago and the black fake leather lining is like peeling off of the outside #ANYWAY #he's back again... the same little generic like elf vampire ruffle shirt with vest look.. might as well be the same guy #I support him and his dumbass disintegrating shoes anyway

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why can't the churches with choirs and pipe organs and stained glass windows have a bit more theological rigor??

#i am constantly forced to reject churches with beautiful music and sanctuaries I can see myself getting married in #in favor of rigorous theology #and like. i will every time #but how it that fair?? #i maintain that truly beautiful churches and stained glass windows and pipe organs should belong by right #to Christians committed to taking the Bible seriously #it makes me so sad every time I live near a church with gorgeous carillon bells and know I'll never even consider membership there #bc i see the titles of their sermons on the signpost out front every week and *yikes dudes I'm praying for you* #or like that time i was invited to come sing in the choir at a church where both my voice teacher and my choir director were involved #like. a church regionally famous for having a truly fantastic choir #and obviously had to turn them down because I've read their what we believe page and they only mention 2/3 of the trinity #why can't a girl have it all????? #honestly this is the most compelling reason imo to move back to southern California #lots of beautiful Presbyterian churches with sound theology AND choirs and organs and beautiful sanctuaries #but alas #i am here #and so i suffer #(I'm being dramatic. I'm sure whatever church God has for me will be great) #but also #just #sigh #can't a reformed girlie want a pipe organ? as a treat? #pontifications and creations #new adventures #sunday school kid

[dov6doll]

#image I took with my camcorder I thought Tumblr might appreciate although I am not tagging it (yet?) bc I can't be bothered #Context: invited a close friend over to give her some books and makeup & my shopping addicted ass immediately started showing off new shoes #I got these in January apparently. Anyways the moment I brought these into the room she said she started feeling ill and said that she #felt a really negative energy so naturally I got out my giant bag of candles and incense and tried to code word: tried to cleanse them #it didn't work obviously so we wanted to take them to a priest to bless them so we went to church but alas we were too late since all #of the priests had already gone home so we left. Previously to that and still we also want to take them to a - now bare with me I forgot the #exact English word for this but it's бајачка something akin to a fortune teller - to cleanse them however we don't know any in our country #Also another thing is apparently right before coming over she had a strong feeling an urgency even to bring her tarot deck with her to my #place although she had no idea why since none of the plans we made involved a tarot deck or anything similar #and when she saw the boots she said something along the lines of “this must've been why (I felt the urge to bring my tarot deck)”

[dickggansey]

i should have learnt ukrainian as a child i rlly should have it would have been cool languages are so cool

#grandma took me to ukrainian orthodox catholic church as a child but i never understood anything bc i don't speak the language #and mass was in Ukrainian of course #im not religious tho but it would be cool to understand what the fuck goes on #gotta go for easter again and I don't understand anything akdnskskks #i only understood when grandpa told me to sit down #and cyka obviously. i have cyka tattooed on my arm #and pryvit #but i don't remember the phrase for sit down #it was. not the one on google #my ukrainian family was quite rude. im sure they were telling me like “sit the fuck down bitch ass brat” but i didn't understand lmaooooo #still nostalgic tho #ANYWAYS what im saying is: you should always take the chance lo learn any language #and i had the chance and didn't take it #and now they're all dead wjdkksks #well grandma's alive and well but she's italian actually #she just had to learn some ukrainian bc of grandpa #and she came to Argentina when she was 10 and she's like 78 now so she doesnt remember much Italian either #so i only know insults 👍

[distort-opia]

I saw a lot of song recs so I'm gonna join in. Do you think take me to church by hozier suits batjokes? I see it as a duet between the two of them. Like the intro is bruce talking about joker

My lover's got humor

She's the giggle at a funeral

Knows everybody's disapproval

I should've worshiped her sooner

If the Heavens ever did speak

She's the last true mouthpiece

Every Sunday's getting more bleak

A fresh poison each week

"We were born sick", you heard them say it

My church offers no absolutes

She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"

And then joker's part

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

A-, Amen, Amen, Amen

what do you think? I am not very familiar with tumblr so my formatting is maybe off.

Mm, you could spin the song as a Batjokes-y duet... although to be honest, for me Take Me To Church is much more of a Hannigram song, and I can't really apply it to a different ship. 'I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies' and 'I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knives' is just... so Will and Hannibal. Not to mention the church imagery and religious motif that's so poignant in season 3 of the show, and that applies here so well.

From Hozier's songs, It Will Come Back kills me with the Batjokes implications:

"Don't let me in with no intention to keep me Jesus Christ, don't be kind to me Honey, don't feed me, I will come back"

The whole song is very Joker in DotF to me :) Because Bruce did let him in (as shown in that flashback), and the whole story is pretty much Joker... coming back.

#but obviously the lyrics can be interpreted however you want. what's important is what vibes YOU get #Take Me To Church is an essential enemies-to-lovers song #thanks for the ask! #asks #batjokes

[shivasdarknight]

well this is gonna make me bawl like a little bitch

#original #playlist #wol playlist #oc playlist #yeah it's surkie #it's in chronological order too #francesca already really gets to me as a song but in the context of shb it just rips my damn heart out #surkie #surkukteni #mixture of character songs or storybeat stuff or ship songs #fun thing: while there's obviously a LOT of stuff about ysayle in here Despite What You've Been Told is actually the fling w cylva #the summoning. shrike. no light no light. misguided ghosts (to a degree). sick of losing soulmates (about half of it). pearl's dream. #the haunting. the apparition. francesca. hello my old heart (a bit) and choreomania are literally all about ysayle #drumming song. sick of losing soulmates. as it was - that's all estinien #as it was (somewhat) + shelter is aymeric #take me to church is venat #exeunt and granite are about misaki #hello my old heart applies to p much every partner but specifically it's like...surkie to herself wrt estinien and aymeric because #this is before she finds out ysayle is alive so she's resolving to try and work on that damage and actually move on #and then obvs ysayle's fine so you get choreomania #''i'll be your demon daddy'' is entirely why it's them because surkie. is uh. hm. #im gonna stop typing now lmAO

[pastel-odette]

My favorite thing about edelstans is when characters from Faerghus and Leicester say that what Edelgard is trying to do won't benefit their nation and edelstans say they're brainwashed.

#don't agree with this new system? brainwashed obviously #don't want your nation to be attacked and conquered? brainwashed #<- that's something i've actually seen someone say #like edelgard's system is good. for adrestia. and that's a decision edelgard can make. as adrestia's leader. #like let's just call it what it is. conquering. and the other nations do it too in their routes. #even though you can argue it's out of character it's still bad #and don't even get me started on how forcefully taking away someone's religion is bad #you guys gotta stop associating the church of seiros with real life christianity because it is just rotting your brain #fe3h #edit #edelgard discourse #edelgard negative #i'm sorry for not tagging those things earlier i just never make posts like this #and i know not all edelstans think characters from other nations are brainwashed #there's just standards that a lot of people including non-edelstans hold the characters to that we really shouldn't #the characters just don't have the information we have and we need to stop acting like they somehow do #edelgard doesn't know a lot of things about faerghus and leicester #dimitri and claude don't know a lot of things about adrestia #this applies to all media literacy #it's all about perspective

[stackthedeck]

Since we've been talking about MattFoggy this week I was thinking about them and remembered that for some reason Last Kiss by Taylor swift is the one song I associate with them the most 🤔 Like, it's sweet, it describes a warm, loving relationships that the singer never thought would end and it fits the broken-up but pining vibe MattFoggy gives off that I looove 🥰 Do you have a song that's theirs in your head?

You’ve given a gift well and truly because I love associating ships and characters with songs!! So first off I have a Matt Murdock playlist and it’s my pride and joy

Living room floor by Sammy Rae and the friends (mostly for the title but also the line about blood in the carpet)

The night shift by Lucy dacus and big house by squalloscope (sorry these are the sad ones)

From eden by Hozier (I feel like this one is obvious)

Take care of yourself by the childlike empress (this is the foggy crying overnight Matt but also kinda giving up on him)

Stubborn love by The Lumineers, all I wanted by paramore, and why did it have to be me by abba (some love songs finally lmao)

#asks #obviously take me to church but that’s all Matt ships

[bookwormonastring]

played my dad some songs from wasteland, baby! and he decided he needs to get that album but not the first one… wait til i play him angel of small death and the codeine scene, or to be alone, or it will come back

#he likes the blues influence in the songs i played him #obviously these aren’t the only songs i need to play him but #they’re some examples #he doesn’t like take me to church #he does like like real people do but obviously that’s a very different vibe #so he was thinking the first album wasn’t v bluesy #oh boy #he will learn #he told me he recommended hozier to someone the other day though #i’m very proud #he’s a taxi driver and told me he picked up some guy a similar age to him #they got talking about music and this guy liked blues too #told him about me playing him hozier😌 #srsly though pleasing my dad with music is a pretty tough job so it’s very satisfying when he does really like something #hozier

[liesyousoldme]

have tickets for a hozier concert next weekend that was supposed to be a date when we bought them but now we’re just friends. trying so hard to like hozier music. trying so hard. being so brave about it

#i like take me to church. obviously. but my friend made me a playlist to prepare me #and i have only listened to it once. have no desire to listen again 😫 #this is the biggest first world problem im sorry

[dawningfairytale]

“does Jesus have a political agenda” i see the sexist theobros are going to be insufferable this week

#maybe it’s just one guy i’m sorta friends with but he and i. have some theological differences. #he doesn’t know i’m queer and i think if he did he’d dismiss everything i say #this is an arts thing and he has a friend in science who i have a crush on #who like. i don’t know if they agree on certain issues because sure they’re friends but also we’re friends and i believe women should preac #actually #these are the dynamics of uni christian groups #guess i have to be vocal about being an egalitarian and learn more about it #which like yeah i should but it’s annoying and my brain never functions #it’s just. if you’re taking the Bible as true (which both of us are) and you thus believe the Spirit gives different spiritual gifts - #all are needed they’re given by God none is worthless etc #- and women are given gifts of preaching. then SURELY women should preach using the spiritual gifts given to them #there’s also in-home complementarianism vs egalitarianism (‘Biblical womanhood’ BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD IS KILLING A WARRIOR WITH A TENT PEG BC #GOD TOLD YOU TO HAROLD) #but we (mercifully) haven’t gotten that far #obviously this is biased by me being a woman. and also me being queer. #and today i said ‘i honestly don’t think anyone can interpret ALL OF THE BIBLE correctly it’s just too infinite’ #and he disagreed and. idk. i think assuming that you can fully interpret the Bible correctly can easily lead to arrogance especially since #there is so much debate (eg creation). and like. if you *can* be right what’s stopping you from saying you *arent* #like the Bible is BIG. also God is infinite so shouldn’t it track that His Word is also infinite?? #and yeah i know i’m wrong about things but to act as though one church (eg denomination) has it All Right is dangerous #us conservatism hello #(we aren’t in the us but anyway) #and like i know i’m wrong about things. i just don’t know what. and that doesn’t mean i shouldn’t *try* to be right - of course i should!! #it just means that i can’t learn it all on earth. in 21st century australia.

[moe-broey]

Layibg flat on my back in my epic new green as fuck flannel (soft) heavily modified hoodie (LARGE) beat up stompy boots on the couch singung LOUDLY to the entirety of Black Parade has fixed me. Btw.

#sorry for being an angsty teenager in my fvukingb twenties. as if it's my fault 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 #once i have the energy i really wanna share some of my punky custom/diy shit i loev them so much #i love my family. andbyestery went way better than i ever coufl have expected. #today was okay too tbh i kust got a bit of whiplash ibthjnk. #like i did not expect my mom to like seeing me in a suit. she told me i looked gorgeous (eh i'll take it lmao) #and like i had my mullrt pulled back too. not to make it about me but i looked fucking NICE #got one million cautious side eyes from my ol church goers though. you'f think i was the first transvestite they ever did see #in fheir house of god HAHAHAHAHA #there's a reason peoprl like me don't tend to stick around though. #only a hater about my own church btw. and the breeds of christianity that want peole dead. #on the whole i've gotten a lot more chill about spirituality after some growing pains about it. #infact a lot of perspectives informed by people's spirituality can be really cool to hear about #that bit aside. it's just wild to go from that to brunch w my mom and stepdad and having like #experienced such a shockingly positive reaction from my mom in the first place yesertday #to today where i'm dressed my 'normal' now ehic tends to consist of black band tee pink shorts black tights #stompy boots abf saif flannel (NEW!) and hoodie i eas really excited to show off (CUSTOMIZED BY HAND!) #and kinda getting the usual 'that's nice 😐' from mom. #and tbh like maybe it's not even that big of a deal obviously other things are going on. #at least at this point i've learned to be less sensitive about it. laugh it off and stand my ground. #it's just a bit of a bummer i guess. like. DAD was more impressed w my handiwork than her it seemef LMFAOO #well it's not ny fault i'm super cool andb creative and queer. not ny fault i'm fully of whimsey. ehatever. #all that matters though us taht yersteday went well. 👍

[memecucker]

youre a fake Catholic if you cant acknowledge the horniness. Like you can say its "different" horniness because its divinely inspired ecstasy and is the more noble and higher form of its mortal earthly counterpart sure whatever but its horniness. St Theresa of Avilla described having a moment of religious ecstasy and during it encountering with an angel

I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying

There's literally a "long spear" with "a little fire" that is being thrust into her. Bernini made a famous sculpture about this and its in a church

youre not "reading into" something unintended when you recognize whats obviously happening

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

#van helsing #van helsing 2004 #dracula #count dracula #cinderella 2015 #I'm on a film rant #masquerade ball #vampire #vampire masquerade ball #practical effects #costumes #gorgeous gorgeous set #baroque church #count vladislaus dracula #cirque du soleil #WHY IS THIS SOOO GOOD???????? #princess anna valerious #kate beckinsale #richard roxburgh #phantom of the opera 25th #very phantom of the opera-esque

[phddyke]

Hazbin Hotel is actually healing my inner ex-Christian so hard.

No joke, I nearly started cheering when Lute called Charlie and Vaggie’s love “vile and blasphemous” (and then burst out laughing when Adam immediately followed it up with “Hot as fuck though”). I know that may sound weird considering that I am, in fact, a lesbian, but here me out:

Seeing Christians being explicitly homophobic onscreen? It validates me. It makes me think “Oh yeah, I’m not crazy, Christians are that hateful!” And, call me crazy, but I think homophobia being tied in with villainy is a good thing. Neither Adam or Lute are supposed to be good people; they are very obviously the villain, and that establishes their behavior as bad. Someone on Twitter said that Lute gave them religious fanatic vibes and I couldn’t agree more.

And here’s the thing, too: it’s explicit homophobia, not some dumb metaphor. There’s no way to take it as anything else. And I really need that. I need to see Christians being explicitly homophobic onscreen in the same way that other people need and create worlds where homophobia doesn’t exist.

But me? I want my pain and suffering acknowledged. I want the harm that Christianity does acknowledged. Homophobia is real and the religious kind doubly so. I related to Vaggie so much in that episode; I felt her trepidation about going back to Heaven. Felt like a good metaphor for escaping a fundamentalist church only to be forced to visit again.

And Viv is not afraid to explicitly point this out and criticize them. Like, yes! Say it! They are hypocrites! They don’t care about people being better, they only care about punishment! They maimed one of their own and left her to die because she spared a child! They’re homophobic freaks! They would never see the good that Angel does and how he’s improved and is wonderful, they only see that he’s a drug addict and a sex worker and think he’s worthless for that even though Jesus broke bread with sex workers and people considered the dregs of society. (And of course Angel is gay on top of that.)

And another thing: not only did the Adam line make me laugh, but the second homophobic Lute line about “he blew his shot like the cocks in his mouth” cracked me up too. It reminded me of the pilot where Katie Killjoy said “I don’t touch the gays” to Charlie, which is a line that made me laugh for 4+ years straight. When I told my brother that was the funniest homophobia I’d ever heard in media, he very wisely said, “All homophobia is funny if you think about it.” And you know what? He’s right. It is funny, because it’s so fundamentally goddamn stupid, so let’s give characters ridiculous lines so everyone can laugh at how idiotic they and their beliefs sound.

#i actually have no issue if sinners go to hell for being gay #it’s not like viv is saying that’s a good thing #if anything she’s showing how utterly deranged that is and the very serious consequences #hazbin hotel #tw homophobia #hazbin hotel spoilers #lute #adam #charlie morningstar #vaggie #hazbin lute #hazbin adam #hazbin charlie #hazbin vaggie #angel dust #hazbin angel dust #hazbin hotel lute #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel charlie #hazbin hotel vaggie #hazbin hotel angel dust #hellaverse #vivziepop #thanks for seeing and rescuing my inner queer ex-Catholic kid #also i wanna get ‘vile and blasphemous’ tattooed #i may even work it into my wedding vows #like youre damn right im vile and blasphemous bitch now go fuck yourself<3 #katie killjoy