Red Hands & Flower Crowns

YOUR DRAGON NAME

last two letters of your first name

middle two letters of your last name

first two letters of your mother’s name

last letter of your father’s name

mine would be Urlelan. Reblog and tag this with yours!

my robo miku design! (m1-ku if you would)

classic-to-classic communication

typical neurodivergent conversation.

I am keeping this wednesday so gosh darn wholesome 🤺❤️

i was reading about the oh hellos and EXCUSE ME? OVER THE GARDEN WALL AND STUDIO GHIBLI?? AAAAAA

Still haven’t scraped together an artstyle but we’re getting there

WE’RE GETTING THERE

i think I’m overdoing the grey hair but it looks so fluffy it’s fun to scribble orz

I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT THE EYES MEAN I just vaguely remember fanart with them and absentmindedly added them + does it have to do anything w the reoccurring eye themes in the podcast idk I’m on uhhh I’m currently listening to 76 rn

Made the mistake of looking up the Oh Hellos on TikTok.

It's all basically...

Imaginary person: “Aren't the Oh Hellos just some Christian Band? Why do you listen to them?”

Response: The person singing along to song with enthusiasm. (As if to say, it doesn't matter because they make actual good music or sometimes “It doesn't matter, music is what you make of it!”

And like listen, generally that's not really a problem, I think. The thing rubbing me the wrong is that... The Oh Hellos are not a "Christian Band". They are christian, they do use religious allegory, but like it is more multifaceted than that. On the religious side they often explore faith and deconstruct ideas they learned in church.

But also their use of Christianity is often for framing and comparison. Bitter Water is a song about a toxic relationship using wormwood (a healing, but potentially deadly herb) from the bible as a comparison. Constellations uses the Tower of Babylon as a metaphor for being stuck in your ways and causing damage because of it. Like it's so multifaceted.

(Not to mention that Christianity isn't all they reference at least in their most recent albums. They also reference greek mythology quite a bit. But that might be because they're using the four winds.)

Anyway, just they're so good at writing lyrics that bring together so many ideas and I just want the take on them to be less “Who cares if they make Christian Music, they're still good lol” and more about like how the lyrics become more and more meaningful as you listen to and pick them apart.

Best kitty.

And oh my gOD THE FIGHT SCENES-

Okay, okay, I had a mega brainwave in the last 10 minutes and I figured this blog would be the most efficient way for the most people to hear it as possible.

So most people desire a romantic relationship, right? That's what all the books and TV shows and goodness knows what else say. You know this and I know this.

And when a couple break up, people tend to take that literally, i.e. their hearts become broken. You can see in media of all types that relationships equal a whole heart, and breaking up leaves that heart split in two halves, ripped up through the middle.

So, what does that mean? My mega brainwave is that it implies people don't contain a whole heart by themselves. People walk around with a ripped open half-heart in their chests, which is why they're always looking for a relationship - they can feel the rough edge of their heart and they desperately want to smooth it over, to make it whole.

And the difference for Aro people - and Ace people, to a lesser extent - is that while they do still only have half a heart, it's not ripped open through the middle. It's a raindrop. There's no other half that could even theoretically make it "complete" because it's perfect they way it is. They have no edges to smooth out in the first place.

And if, for whatever reason, an Aro person feels compelled to enter a romantic relationship, they only end up getting hurt because the jagged edge of the other person's heart is rubbing against them. Maybe the poor Aro person can't understand why they don't feel complete. They try harder to make their heart match the other person's, give up more of themselves, but it never works. It was doomed from the start. They only end up cutting their own heart open.

As an Aroace person myself, there's this one lyric from the song "Killer" (artist: The Ready Set) that always stuck with me. It goes: 'this heart ain't built for two'.

And that's what I think makes us so cool.

Next time it rains where you are, and you're feeling alone in the world (we've all been there), pause and think about all your cool Aro and Ace raindrop-heart friends out in the world, living their best lives.

And, most importantly, have a nice day. Signed, your friend.

Submitted April 16, 2023