Made a thing to focus on the immeasurable joy these two bring each other.
And the utter joy they give to us. (I refuse to call it a divorce. We all know they belong together. Besides, divorce, like marriage, isn’t final. Can always get remarried.)
im so normal and then "i was born a man so that's who i became, trading death for money, fearing only change" and "you must understand that my life, it is cursed, i have lived all my dreams, i grew gold from the dirt and yet still there's an emptiness inside my chest" and "i hope you fucking know you treat your daughters like shit and then they come to me and cry cause they have to live with it" and "we are the promises that we didn't keep" and "i don't text, i don't call and i certainly don't write, masochistically watching people burn out like stars in the night" and "a smile bigger than andromeda" and "you are a lithograph, sketching my history, under the floodlights you look more like god to me" and "but oh, it's not so simple, is it? when the fog comes rolling in, please know i didn't desert you i saved you from seeing the pain of the blinded" and "the sistene chapel of your collarbone, the david of your eyes, it has all been lost to history and why am i surprised?" and "it's time to grow old away from the people who tried to care for me, i'll die in bed alone" and "these sterilised walls make me wanna give up and the beds are all full of people who need them more than me and more than you, and we've still got dreams to live and lose so come on, let's go, get out of your bed, for once, i will not accept an end" and "there was a wanderer who found his way to god or maybe it was lucifer under some false facade" and "so leave me my liver and leave me my skin, leave me the way all those other homes did but leave me a soul, only by definition, i don't want to feel anything" and "if i can't have justice i might as well join the unjust" and "turns out that the god he found was just a little girl, sitting on a swingset, just a little girl, she said mister, you look tired, i will let you go, but first i think that what you're asking for it just might make things worse" and "oh, why'd they all have to go and leave us? is hope our cross? but if this is the cross that we have to carry let's finish the job" and "doomsday sirens will be the vows at our wedding"
So I just binged the Everybody's Worried About Owen discography in one sitting.
He's an independent artist whose genre is a mix of emo and folk punk with emotionally charged and metaphorical lyrics... so it's pretty much AK crack. I highly recommend. If you're a mentally ill folk punk and haven't checked him out already it's basically a requirement. I'd recommend a specific track, but I can't even pick one. They're all amazing.
forever thinking about nunemakers swingset and the meaning and symbolism and implications!!! you don't understand i am so so so autistic about this album i have so much information!!! PLEASE ask me about it!!!!!
Maybe this is propaganda so you listen to everybodys worried about owen and idek what genre of music you listen too but he's so good
"The grave digger and the nightengale" has the same pjo vibes as that one song from years ago that was like "let's see how far we've come" idk what it's called
Also he has a song called Sally's interlude. If it wasn't percy coded enough. It's a reprise (kinda) of "to sad strange little men" which is basically a vent song about a ton of different people
Also, "soccer journals", "sleepwalking" and "screwing in a lightbulb" are very percy to me. "There are leeches in Denton lake" is very annabeth. "Solitary Confinement" is very nico
Idk if owen read percy jackson even but his music has so many of the vibes. Anyways, you don't have to listen to him but I think you should
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the duality of "when will I have time to mourn what I've become" in introducing jonah to the whale and "I am mourning" in nunemaker's parable has me feeling so many things
I feel like I don't talk nearly enough about how "I feel guilty being hurt, 'cause there are other people hurting, and those people really need support right now" and "These sterilised walls make me wanna give up and the beds are all full of people who need them more than me and more than you" and "I started toppling down the hillside, muddy bruises follow me. But you kept playing in the blade of grass, so verdant, so pristine" have spoken to me and made me open with myself about my own emotions in ways that years of therapy wouldn't.
anyway my everybody's worried about owen hyperfixation is coming back so im going to talk about Nunemakers Swingset. Mostly The Gravedigger And The Nightingale
so, in the tracklist of the album, TGATN comes last, right? and while me and my mate were doing our analysis of the whole thing we realised that on first listen it seems out of place. nunemakers parable is an almost perfect ending to the story, it's the parable of sally nunemaker. its a perfect place to close the story. at least, that's what you'd think.
TGATN is, at its core, a retelling of jesus' crucifixion. the whole album takes inspiration and imagery from different parts of the bible, with the first song literally being called "Introducing Jonah To The Whale". TGATN takes the story of jesus' crucifixion and takes its theme of hope and rebirth to apply it to the album as a whole. throughout the album, there's a theme of despair, hopelessness, loss. until you get to the end. the nightingale is famously a symbol of rebirth, resurrection, the coming of spring. it tells us how even though there is so much despair in the world, There Is Still Hope. it closes the album on a positive note, rather than ending on nunemakers parable and leaving us feeling completely helpless. the contrast between the two songs is fierce and it works So Well.
additionally, the album has two narratives to it. one being the story of sally nunemaker and the stories she's collected from weary travellers, the other being owen's personal experience with their old summer/church camp, gender identity, and mental health. it's a beautifully crafted, two edged sword. you can take each song and apply it to either. specifically with IJTTW and FSSLM, you can take to be two sides of the same story told to sally nunemaker, or owen's experience with his gender identity.
everything from the lyricism to the actual instrumental is beautifully done to aid the story, moving forward the themes and ideals. the album itself IS a parable. it's a story that carries so much emotion and experience. it's a chilling presentation Of the human experience, highlighting everything bad that can and will happen, but ending with a message of HOPE. and it's absolutely breathtaking.
Also i wrote a whole essay about the themes and meaning of the entire album (with help from a friend) so. if you wanna see that.
And I'm sorry if I'm being too pushy
I'm sorry if I'm coming off insane
I just need someone to turn to when all my friends figure out I'm not worth their time of Day
So if you could just respond once that would be great