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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

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boygenius were in custom thom browne suits for the grammys! [via thombrowne on IG]

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BOYGENIUS Best Rock Song | 2024 Grammys

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I need a julien love song so bad!

Julien Baker + Love

#julien baker #love

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I don't want to be me anymore, lord, help me be better

1 Fydoror Dostoevsky "the insulted and humiliated" // 2 Rainer Maria Rilke Rilke's book of hours:love poems to God // 3 Ethel Cain strangers // 4 Jihyun Yun some are always hungry // 5 icon for hire happy hurts // 6 Alice Notley from in the pine: poems; "in the pines" // 7 Edward Hopper interior, model reading (1925) // 8 Julien Baker Guthrie // 9 Clementine Von Radics dream girl "sweet the sound" // 10 Bao Phi Thousand star hotel "vocabulary" // 11 unknown // 12 Phoebe Bridgers funeral // 13 Yves Olade belovéd // 14 unknown // 15 Julien Baker everybody does // 16 Anne Sexton a self-portrait in letters // 17 pat the bunny I'm not a good person // 18 unknown // 19 Julien Baker sour breath

#julien baker #boygenius #poem #poetry #text #web weave #web weaving #on self #on pain #phoebe bridgers #ethel cain

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So cool!!!

Many have seen the picture (included for context) of boygenius dressed as the Trinity, with Julien – dressed as Jesus Christ – revealing she is wearing underwear emblazoned with “GOD’S EYES ONLY”, while Lucy – dressed as The Father – smirks and points at the article of clothing and Phoebe – as The Holy Ghost – covers her eyes.

This has raised a big question for some fans, namely: “Are Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus in a sexually intimate relationship?” This is truly no one's business. However, this photo also prompts a different and possibly more interesting question – what can we glean of the band’s theology of the Trinity based on the picture?

Phoebe – dressed as the Holy Ghost – averting her eyes in the picture has profound implications on the nature of the godhead. The most straightforward interpretation points to the boygenius picture depicting an understanding of the trinity that predates the 381 revision of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Constantinople, which added the following lines to the Creed:

“And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spake by the prophets.”

These lines were clarification on the nature of the Holy Ghost, who was mentioned in the original version of the creed established in 325, but not expressly stated to be worshipped or co-substantial with the Father and Son. The addition of these lines solidifies the council’s view of the Holy Ghost as an equal part of the Triune God. This view does not appear to be shared by the band members of boygenius, given that the Holy Ghost’s pose in the photo communicates a lack of authority to look beneath the underwear, implying that the Holy Ghost is not God.

The photo could also feasibly be interpreted from an Arian theology of Christ – that is to say that photo does not decisively communicate that Christ himself is God. Julien – as Christ - is looking away from the underwear, towards Lucy – as the Father. One could reasonably interpret the look as a one of deference. Perhaps only the Father is authorized to remove the underwear and gaze beneath. Whether Christ himself is able to look beneath the underwear is left inconclusive within the bounds of the photo. If Christ is also not considered to be equal and co-substantial with the Father as God, the picture may be Arian in nature. This, however, is less certain.

In conclusion, the picture depicts a view of the Trinity that is – at the very least – not in congruence with the Nicene Creed after its revision at the First Council of Constantinople, and could further be interpreted in an Arian view with some assumptions. However, for this viewer, one thing remains clear: seeing Julien Baker has me muttering “Jesus Christ”, even when it isn’t Halloween.

#boygenius #phoebe bridgers #julien baker #lucy dacus #theology

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JULIEN BAKER by Mark Delaney (2018)

#julien baker

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Why Have I Forsaken Thee: On Relative Fiction and Faith

I.                Midnight

Midnight, you could see me dangling / Glow like a cherry falling

They say God died in the mid-afternoon. They say that when Jesus gave up, dangling over Jerusalem, the sky fell into darkness, the whole world pitched into mourning. My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? They say it was always going to end this way. You were always going to die like this.

Judas Iscariot hung himself over Jerusalem. No one mourned for Judas, no one wept as he fell headlong, racing to a doom preordained. My God, My God, why have I forsaken thee? It was always going to end this way.

This is far from the first time we have witnessed Julien Baker singing about her own death; the very first line many of us heard from her was the horribly self-aware opening line of Sprained Ankle, “Wish I could write songs about anything other than death.” The constant strain is inescapability, that every choice you make was predetermined.

Cause if I didn’t have a mean bone in my body / I’d find some other way to cause you pain

And it is one thing to accept this fate for ourselves, it is another to look someone who loves in the eye and say “I was always going to hurt you this way. My love, I am going to hurt you again.”  

I suspect that if you are reading this you have thought far too much about endings, about subway tunnels and overpasses and rain-slicked pavement. And if you are reading this, I would hope that it is because you could not bear to hurt someone who loved you. Friend, it is a dire thought indeed to make them helplessly watch you fall, but there are days when such an landing feels inevitable, that no matter what you did, you were always going to end up suspended between heaven and earth, falling headlong towards…

When Judas kissed God in the garden, they had both known for some time how it would end. They had shared a particularly poignant exchange just a few hours before, where Jesus had again proclaimed that one of his own would betray him. Distressed, each of the Twelve asked “Surely not I, Lord?” I wonder what Judas saw when he looked his Teacher in the eye and, in full knowledge of what he was about to do, asked “Surely not I?” I hope for his sake he found compassion there. I hope there is compassion waiting for us.

this is the first portion of my essay about Relative Fiction and faith (or the lack of it). it’s a beautiful coincidence that i can post it today, on Good Friday. the other two portions will be coming when i’m in the mental space for it - finals are coming up so we’ll see. i hope you enjoy (?) this, i’m quite proud

Image: The Taking of Christ, Caravaggio

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“I believe in God sometimes, but I believe in God the most when I imagine a God who has my mother’s laugh. I believe in a God who doesn’t want to get out of bed some mornings. A God who holds the old leather jackets of her dead friends and sits in a pile of old records on the floor of whatever heaven looks like. I believe in a God who comes home after a long night of being less than holy and sprawls out in a bed wearing the same clothes he went out in, and I believe in a God who is jarred awake by the floor rumbling with the weight of people praising his name. A wall of many hands clapping because of what his presence moved them to do.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, ‘Claws in Your Back’ - Julien Baker / The Deep Consolation of a Song About What It Would Feel Like to Die

#julien baker #hanif abdurraqib

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everybody does // tattoo by cece.pokes // ringside

#jb #julien baker #this fucked me so bad

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"you better not be a succession compilation of all the times stewy says kendall's name when I get there"

my devious ass:

#succession

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Daniel, honey, if only you knew what people have said about this picture specifically

#daniel ricciardo #f1

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hi bia i love you enjoy these gifs i found!!

I LOVE YOU

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isn't life about friendship?

Lorde ribs // Ross Gay catalog of unabashed gratitude // boygenius true blue // Anne Carson Euripides // Hanya Yanagihara a little life // unknown // @billypotts // Julie Baker hurt less // Trista mateer // Phoebe Bridgers Funeral // Hanya Yanagihara a little life // @slugspoon (Alivia Horsley) // Jean Little oranges // Sally Rooney beautiful world, where are you // unknown // Lorde world alone // boygenius we're in love // Margaret Atwood // Phoebe Bridgers punisher // Ryan O'connell the people you will fall in love with in your 20s // Lucy Dacus yours & mine // Arnold Label frog and toad are friends // Anne Carson Euripides // unknown // boygenius Leonard Cohen

#boygenius #julien baker #lucy dacus #poem #poetry #text #web weave #web weaving #boygenius web weave #on love #on friendship #parallels #lyric parallels #lyrics #lorde #fragments #poetry fragments

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for the people who are just too far away