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Eris Vanserra was born in a land where magic lived. Alive under his fathers hands, shaped by a raised voice, his mothers tears, changed and shifted by the year or the day, the stars and his brothers, the sun and his bothers.
Old was Autumn, bloodied long before Eris had looked through the ancient hungry trees with a childs smoke spark eyes.
No amount of the blood that indeed followed had fully shaken wonder from him. Horror and hate held fast, won often, but Eris was not man who discounted what was wild of faery, even if it existed outside his reach.
The Courts were older still, but not eternal.
What was truly immortal, among immortals, was what Elain Archeron had in her damned garden shed.
Eris watched, still past stone, body screaming warning, as she slipped past him, light summer gown trailing flagstone, just to croon hello and rap her knuckles against the wide iron rim as though she were entering a building. Her head tipped- hearing what he could not, as though Eris could hear anything at this moment over his own heart, rendered prey by greater power- Elain smiled down into murky, glowing water, before twisting to grin over her shoulder.
“It was lonely,” Expression gentle, a little line forming between her intriguing eyes, their darkness catching otherworldly light. “They buried it again. Alone in the dirt.”
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since its spring again king of scars and rule of wolves are extra relevant again. don’t ask me why, but I’m once again losing my mind because
“then I will love her from my grave”
what in the hozier is that?
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i find it incredibly amusing how my favorite Hozier song, Work Song, fits SO MUCH with both my all-time-favorite couples for whom i would die for in a heartbeat (hualian and aziracrow) like LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THIS SHIT.
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Several seconds and several centuries later, Eris raised his head from the moonlit water.
Starker from above then head on, sharpened into something that did not strictly suggesting living to human sensibility, utterly enthralling to Elain’s eyes. All bone and brightness, a better shock of color than what the silver, massive moon gave. Those cheekbones. His mouth, softer a savage line than it had any right to be.
Eris Vanserra, who’d given her the words to tear eternity apart, quiet on his knees.
“It worked.”
Not a question. Perhaps an excuse for the look his cast up at her, that still, lurking wonder that made Elain feel twenty and a thousand at once, like fizz in her veins. Flowering. Finding- Eris, constant in the endless ocean of her life, dark under light and blinding light in this dark.
She’d find a way to say it back- to say it right.
“You remember?”
One brow, raised high, before Eris gave in entirely and smiled. “We should find them.”
The water hardly shifted. A wound and a wonder and no current at all, just fascination. Just Eris, on his feet, offering his arm like he really thought she might not take it, after all these years.
“We,” Elain repeated, agreed, unable abruptly not to laugh. “We should.”
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hozier was so real for writing work song. like what do you mean i'm so full of love i could barely eat??? what do you mean when my time comes around, lay me gently in the cold dark earth??? what do you mean no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her??? what do you mean i didn't care how long i lived but i swear i thought i dreamed her??? what do you mean she put her love down soft and sweet in the low lamplight, i was free???
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Finnick death denier all the way 😌😌😌😌
I literally cannot accept any other truth. He’s FINE. He might be a little banged up and probably doesn’t have all his limbs and probably has scars and isn’t “pretty” anymore but he doesn’t care at all and everyone is happy and FINE.
He’s not dead. Certainly not.
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Work Song is a literal work song!?
This song's POV is someone in a labor camp.
No grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her is not just "this loving is so good, I’ll resurrect to get some more" but "I am trapped in a physically bad place, and death is my best chance of going home"
Nina Simone, a noted Hozier influence, also wrote a "Work Song"
https://genius.com/Nina-simone-work-song-lyrics and this is a deliberate homage. The tempo and regular beat of Hozier's "Work Song" fit exactly as a work song (compared with To Be Alone which has a changing time signature and changing tempo).
First verse:
Boys workin' on empty
Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
I just think about my baby
I'm so full of love I could barely eat
There's nothing sweeter than my baby
I'd never want once from the cherry tree
'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
She give me toothaches just from kissin' me
Seems to be set in the American South and not Ireland. Hozier takes 4 couplets to talk about his hunger, this repetition fits the genre of work songs and also seems to be a literal need for food, not just a yearning.
Middle verse:
Boys, when my baby found me
I was three days on a drunken sin
I woke with her walls around me
Nothin' in her room but an empty crib
And I was burnin' up a fever
I didn't care much how long I lived
But I swear I thought I dreamed her
She never asked me once about the wrong I did
Our guy is in an altered state both now and at the time of this memory - drunken, fevered, probably dreaming. His baby forgave him before for the drinking and the "wrong he did", so he hopes to reunite when his current ordeal ends.
Past and present are blurring, his picture of home and safety with "walls around" and "an empty crib" has been colored by his confinement in jail.
Final Verse:
My baby never fret none
About what my hands and my body done
If the Lord don't forgive me
I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
When I was kissing on my baby
And she put her love down soft and sweet
In the lowland plot I was free
Heaven and hell were words to me
Our narrator seems to have done some real harm, a sin beyond drunkenness or lust, causing guilt and his jail sentence.
The final couplet, I often see written as "In the low lamplight I was free" which is a nice sensual moment, but the official lyrics are more powerful:
"In the lowland plot I was free"
At the moment of his unglamorous death and burial, he is ready to "crawl home to her" covering the physical distance between them, rejoicing in his freedom from jail, God, and even death itself.
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Chapter 3: “It’s peculiar,” Krell says, “that something like you would be subject to a blessing by the Force.”
Hardcase freezes, manages not to choke on his panic but only barely. Glares even harder and wishes for some explosives or a blaster or something to wipe that fucking look off of Krell’s face.
“Though,” Krell continues, “maybe it is meant to be a punishment. CT-5196 surely thinks so.”
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