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omg soldier, poet, king is NOT a Christian worship song

folks on tiktok being like YALL DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ABOUT JESUS??? and "better take it off my dnd playlist now!!!"

it's not about jesus holy fuck, i mean, it is, but it isn't.

Dear Wormwood is a concept album that uses biblical symbolism to talk about an abusive relationship. The Oh Hellos have a whole ass THING about retelling stories (biblical, mythological etc) to use to deal with your own story which is like...a whole thing in storytelling anyway (the new testament is a monomyth yall, Hero's Journey 1.0, in that regard everything is biblical)

Dear Wormwood is put in the context of someone writing letters (inspired by The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis) to their abuser. "Soldier, Poet, King" is from the perspective of the protagonist, on the receiving end of the abuse, who (after the song "Exeunt") is escaping from the abuse and attempting to continue their life outside of it. The person who is the soldier, poet, king, is the protagonist. "your city" is the abusive relationship. "Wormwood" is the devil of this person's life.

If you look on Genius, yeah the story is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In context? It's about the Second Coming of the protagonist. The rebirth they get after escaping.

The ending song of the album, "Thus Always to Tyrants", the last line of the album is

Where I go, will you still follow? Will you leave your shaded hollow? Will you greet the daylight looming? Learn to love without consuming?

The protagonist is attempting to mentally escape from the abuse, worried about carrying the trauma into the next relationship.

Soldier Poet King is not about Jesus. It's about fighting. It's about escaping the cycle of abuse. It's about the power that resides in stories, about people who have experienced this before and succeeded. It's about using those stories and learning from them.

Keep the shit on your dnd playlist, it's sort of the whole point.

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Solstice shenanigans with a few of the sonas/ocs some of y’all have so kindly lended me for my project :)

Characters (aside from mine) in order belong to:

@mr-laveau @penncilkid @star-sheeps

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“Really?”

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Heyyyyy NeXus players!

How'd you enjoy your breakfast with Oscar?🪷🍳

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i’m sure you see me going insane in the tags BUT i had to pop into the inbox to tell you that i am so in love with your angel and davey designs, they mean the absolute world to me. it’s like you plucked their little faces right out of my brain and it brings me so much joy to see them!! thank you for sharing your insane talent with the world <3<3<3 sending you all the best vibes <3<3<3

Hey, sweetpea! Thank u so so much, im also so in love with them :))

and yes! i have seen u in the tags and it makes me smile so much aaaaa.. in response to ur comments on that one sketch i did of these two a few weeks back, there is a lot of love i put into drawing “non-standard” body types, cause they simply don’t get enough love, or attention or representation. Especially as someone living in a fat body, it means a lot to see bodies similar to mine represented as beautiful and even desirable. So yknow (without getting too into body politics and whatever for now) in putting out that content, id hope to help other people develop healthier relationships with their own bodies 💙

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IT'S FINALLY OUT‼️ Y'ALL BETTER BACK ME UP IN THE COMMENTS 💀💀 (+ i'd love to hear your thoughts in general !!)

tags: @plutobutartsy @redactedbloop @s0lairee @6-atlas-6 @romeo-the-homeo @deviantaj @tanky-baby @wib-was-here @0605018redactedasmr @slushiepizza @free-boundsoul @heartsofhounds @mrsmiagreer @tunacatfishes @no-perceivey @anexistingexistence

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O K A Y LISTENNNN 💙 How else was I gonna get all the juicy details? Ain't nothing I love more than hearing people talk about their blorbos

@heartsofhounds made the mistake of giving me access to his Discord, the walls of text grew so fast /lh

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Oh we're bringing in sonas to Tumblr? Siiick so here's mine, I've been using to play in the space with my friends! Y'all can meet Elio, the Rowdy Jaguar Shifter

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Hey there! Are you a Redacted fan with a shifter oc/sona? I'd like to maybe draw them!

Something I love doing with story-based media is putting my own twists or ideas on the canon worldbuilding + ✨️lore✨️. I was listening recently to one of Milo's audios and he mentions them traveling "up north" for the Solstice celebration, so naturally I went "hrmmm..".

My funny lil sona (Fen Warren) is part of a large shifter pack up in northern Canada, who I imagine host massive social gatherings for friends and allied packs (+ friends and partners ofc). So, I wanna draw one of these big Solstice parties! But I need some shifters (and pooossibly just moonbound/FL) ocs to fill the crowd! If you'd like me to possibly include them, please rb with some kinda ref or shoot me a dm!

(Fun fact: their property becomes basically a 'summer camp' for young shifters during the summer months >:) thank u, frank, for seeing my vision)

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Like any good artist who hyperfixates on media way too easily, I just gotta shove my own self insert into a fictional universe 💙 Fen Warren! Updated colours for my Redactedsona

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me working on my graphic novel

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bite 2. bite 3. bite

the black and white version :) before applying adjustment layers

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AFTERIMAGE

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*knocks* Hi yeah, sorry, just needed to drop off a package so— *slides this over*

The final installment of the DAMN Crew, I present the beloved incubus, Gavin. Not gonna lie, there's so many things about this I love and adore. I'm especially proud of his horns, designed based on his icon.

Do I plan on drawing Kody and Lasko's Listsner at some point? Yes. Will they both be Black as well? Also yes. I said I'd be making an All-Black DAMN Crew and I meant it /lh

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Lil change of pace today- Here’s some Spiderpunk studies I did a couple months back! So so so fun to paint

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