Does anyone remember that post about that album consisting of endangered Australian bird calls, well those guys got frog calls now with 43 unique frogs like the Eastern banjo frog, the motorbike frog and the magnificent tree frog
just thinking about cowboy ghost and their big chunky baby with little leg rolls and he’s so gentle and pregnant goose and them going round the farm and ahhh i’m so feral for that man i’d have his babies any day
I think about the cowboy babies all the time. The biggest chunkiest babies. Ghost holds the 141 record for biggest babies. He's so careful with his babies, so worried he's going to hurt them on accident. They're so loved. He's constantly holding one of his little girls, sitting with them for tea parties, braiding their hair. He loves all the softness that comes with being a father, and it hurts a little. Ghost remembers his own childhood, the horrors of it, the hatred he still feels for his old man, and he vows that his little girls will never experience that. And it's so strange to him to think about his father, to feel his own joy with his kids- he can't conceptualize ever treating them with the malice his father did. How could anyone hurt a child?
He sits on the couch watching a footie game and Frog comes to cuddle under his big arm. Asks him to explain the rules, who's winning, who is that, why did the man in the stripes give him a card, is that player hurt? Just a mountain of questions. The same ones Simon remembers Tommy asking his dad, earning a beating for disturbing the game. But Simon doesn't feel that annoyance, that rage, God he's never wanted to hurt his daughter but especially not now. He's excited to share his favorite sport with her, explains the rules a million times just to watch her bounce excitedly when Manchester scores a goal. It's perfect, it's a shared joy.
It's the same when his middle girl asks him to teach her to shoot. When his youngest chatters away about her upcoming dance recital as he helps slick her hair back into a bun. He thinks about his mom when he sees you, when you laugh and scoop your daughter into your arms, when you kiss him quick before dinner. God, he doesn't know how that man could hate something like this, could hate the overabundance of love that Simon has. His family is his whole world, of course he's gentle with them. The world is already hard enough, why would he make it harder when he can be a source of comfort instead?