we still have our fingernails

"Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, once gave a reading at the library where my mother worked; when it came time for questions, the children all asked variants of the same question. Is Pippi real? Is Tommy real? Is Annika real? Is Villa Villekulla real? "Oh, yes," Lindgren replied to each question with grandmotherly patience. "Pippi is real, Tommy and Annika are real." In the spirit of that legendary villa, so are the black pumps, and the long-sleeved Oxford, and above all the need for some money to keep the information emgine humming on its way to where it's headed."

1- catilinas' tumblr tags, saying: I don't listen to The Moutain Goats but "Kid you fell into the milk???" As in, "You have become a god instead of a mortal. A kid you fell into the milk." from the orphic gold tablets?? Like the orphic ritual texts for the afterlife?? Actually, yeah, that tracks with everything I know about TMG.

2- ID in alt

3- Tumblr replies from daniwitchoflight, saying: I think what's being missed here is the phrase "falling into milk" back in the old days was like coming into milk, the kid here is a baby goat, a kid falling into milk was a young baby goat suddenly becoming full of milk and miraculously able to provide, not like, a human child falling into a bucket of milk literally lmao. That's why it's paired with become divine instead of mortal, the word of falling into milk implies it happened suddenly rather than gently coming into. Also why it's paired with the idea of coming into sufferings you haven't experienced before, a transformation that's sudden and possibly painful, a mortal becoming divine, a baby goat suddenly pregnant and producing milk.

[Image ID: A pale yellow design bleached onto black fabric. The words "some moments last forever, but some flare out with love, love, love." are written an old timey font. A painting of an explosion in space is in the background, with stars around the edge and a black circle in the centre. It is bordered by a box with embellished corners.]