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[omensblogspost]

[ebechnasheim]

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO THIS BANGER

[deluluonmyback]

“Blinded by a fear of feeling, these are the kings we chose

Lost and looking for the meaning, I've been searching high and low

When we fade into nothing, when we go up in the smoke

We'll beg God for a mercy that He knows we'd never show”

Mercy - Bad Omens (Unplugged)

[sorrowsofsilence]

thought id share my newest tattoo because I sat through four and a half hours of pain and im proud i did it, and i adore how it turned out! lol (the moon was also a cover up!)

ft the lil bad omens easter egg! :)

[likeavilain]

5 years ago bad omens released the album of their career!

(my favorite).

Happy birthday FGBGFM.

[mcrinmyhead]

Tw: suic!de

It's 1 AM and I'm crying. Damn it.

[hurricanesfollowyou]

There are scars that never ever show themselves

You get when you're left alone too long in Hell

They tried to keep in the secrets that you wouldn't tell

But they just stripped you for parts you had to sell

[infinifi]

Me: :(

Noah in THIO: 🎶The Devil sold his soul to ME.

Me: 😈😈😈🥵🥵🥵🫠🫠🫠

[kitty-argyle]

Don't wait for the dust to settle, don't wait 'til it's not enough

Don't wait for the world to let go of the both of us

Don't wait for the dust to settle, don't wait 'til you've had enough

Don't wait for the world to let go or to give you up

[sitkowski]

3 years of Burning Out (Unplugged) Fun fact: this is the Bad Omens song that got my attention and then I went and devoured their discography. The FGBGFM Unplugged songs own my soul

[sprokat]

FGBGFM Unplugged getting me through my 147 unread work emails

[starsofreya]

Yesterday was FGBGFM's birthday, so I made this drawing! It kinda flopped on Twitter so I'm hoping it gets more attention here :)

[miradragoncat]

Lee Sur Pallor Song

!WARNING, SPOILERS FOR ALL OF THE AURELIAN CYCLE!

I just realized what song sums up Lee sur Pallor's character from The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda (It's my favorite book series, be sure to check it out when you can, it's amazing). I was just vibing to Bad Omens as I do, and when Never Know came on it clicked. I'm rereading the series now, so it makes sense why it would click now and not when I first heard the song. Every lyric in Never Know is perfect for him, and some are very good for Antigone sur Aela as well, but I'm going into Lee's character with this song.

The very first words are, "Show me you're better off without me" . With Lee's conflicting sides with his family in New Pythos and, in Flamefall, the Passi. So he has to leave Annie on her own, although he has in the past like in Albans when they fought, and in the future where he risked his life and ended Pallor's so that she could escape and win.

The second line in the first verse is "Choking on every word you said". The silence between him and Annie of knowing too much about the other and their past, and when they just talked at Annie's old house, where she was choking on her words as it played out. And how they fight a lot, and have to keep their distance and silence to stay focused on their goals. Every time one leaves the other right after they swore to do this together, the other is choking on that promise that has been broken.

The repeating phrase throughout the entire song, "we'll see", is the way nobody knows how things will play out. How conflicted Lee is throughout the books, with his aching for his family, having to just see what Julia is like before choosing his side. With the Passi, how the riots will play out and how him and Annie will do. How many chances he has to get back his old life, with Ixion sur Niter coming to reign and hunting down Annie. He didn't know how it would play out when he was locked in the Big House as it was burnt down. The plan nearly failed, with Pallor's life gone. And the court plan almost failed, with Ixion's gained knowledge of her distant summoning.

"Don't breathe another word about me, I'll leave and you can finally rest in peace, we'll see" is the next two lines in Never Know. I think of how he faked his death, how the world thought that the Revolution's Son had died at the hands of his cousin. Also how he has to let go of his family and past so many times over to finally leave them behind. In Albans, killing Julia, facing Ixion. So many times he abandoned his heritage and family, only for it to catch up with him eventually until there was no family at all.

The pre-chorus is hard for me to do one line at a time, so this is the entire thing, "When I go out into the world, I just don't like what I see, You could call it Paradise, But it looks just like Hell to me" Remember this is repeating and I won't be doing this like 2-3 times. I like how it plays to his need to change the world, through becoming a Guarding, joining the Passi, and helping Annie make a new Guardian and governing system. Others like the Golds and Atreus saw a paradise, while him and the lower classes and lower born guardians only saw hell. And they fixed it, so it became more of a Paradise, though a pure paradise for everyone involved is impossible to get.

The chorus is beautiful to me, and speaks to the very core of him. The first and third lines are, "Lying in between the memories choking me, and". These beautiful words line his character of having so many memories of his past, so many desires conflicting with each other. But he isn't his past, and the present and future won't allow him to ever be that again. These desires make him act compromised by speaking with Julia and pretending to agree with Ixion for so long after he took over for that bit.

The line after that and the last line of the chorus goes, "I don't know which way to go, but I'm okay to never know". This goes with his conflictedness again, he doesn't know whether to choose his nostalgia or the world where he can have Annie, and where the world will stop burning the innocent and the weak. For so long he doesn't know which way to go, and this song represents the middle of his character arch where he is changing sides and ideals so much, breaking Annie over and over to save them both.

The second verse starts with, "Speaking in languages we can't read, No need for you to spell it out for me, for me". |t essentially means that he knows exactly the situation of the world, and doesn't need it spelled out for him to understand, even though it can't be spelled out. He knows the class Irons are starving and the Golds are having parties and feasts, he has lived both of those lives. He knows the class Irons are burning in the flamefalls, he sees it on Cor's face and the ashes of so many people. He knows he has to pick a side, because he can't have his old life and his new one. He can't have his family and Annie.

The third and fourth lines' lyrics are, "Swallowed up and I spit you out, Like a drug that just wouldn't stay down, stay down". This line to me speaks of how many times he had to abandon or hurt Annie and how she felt, like he was spitting her back out. Also how even with his desires, he betrays his family and chooses the side that tried to kill him more than once.

The chorus is all that's left of the song after this, so that's all of my analysis of Never Know by Bad Omens as a Lee sur Pallor theme song. If you haven't yet, you should check out the song and the band, along with the book series. I love all three of them so much, and I'm glad I could make this connection. I know it's a giant word vomit above, but I enjoy writing and I hope you can understand my connection to Lee and Never Know. Have a wonderful day, and know that you are loved and valid!

[deluluonmyback]

How are they this fucking good. They just make me cry at this point like wtf 😭😭

(Apologies if it’s pixelated, tumblrs doing me dirty)

[dontaskwhybutarsonsoundsokay]

Bad Omens is officially banned from my car.

Reasoning? Horny.

[swiss-army-fangirl-art]

aster: new beginnings, hope, take care of yourself for me

forget-me-not: long-lasting connections, healing, cherished memories

“burning out” & “careful what you wish for” ||| ‘finding god before god finds me’ ||| bad omens