#preacher's kid semler

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

St. Teresa's Church, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. (between 1909 and 1940) - National Photo Company Collection // Youth Group - Semler

#just a little reminder for anyone who needs it :) #don't let the religious trauma get you down! #church #youth group #youth group semler #preacher's kid #preacher's kid ep #preacher's kid semler #semler #historical photography #lyrics #lyric art #religious trauma #tw religious trauma mention

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

So God bless the ghosts inside your house / But I stripped the sheets and I'm livin' now

#semler #chicken #preacher's kid #audio #♡ #Spotify

[calvins-dad]

On faith and finding answers

Chinese Satellite; Phoebe Bridgers // Fleabag // Bethlehem; Semler

#chinese satellite #phoebe bridgers #fleabag #hot priest #bethlehem #semler #punisher #preacher's kid #chinese satellite lyrics #web weaving #semler lyrics #phoebe waller bridge #mine #i made this

[georgeeliotbrainrot]

okay spotify’s discover weekly recommended me this song.

umm do i need to comment on that?? anyways i think fellow ethel stains will enjoy. it’s called jesus from texas by semler, from an ep released in 2021

#semler #religious trauma #ethel cain #catholic to gay pipeline #church #songs #preachers kid

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Bethlehem • Jesus From Texas • Queer Content for Your Consideration From Ariane • Chicken • Youth Group • Posture (Interlude) • A Good Man • Promised Land (Outro)

Spotify ♪ YouTube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: semler #language: english #decade: 2020s #Singer-Songwriter #Indie Folk #Alt-Country

[discourseposter]

preacher's kid by semler. that's the post

#ron.mp3

[ragefear]

Alright y'all I have been tagged by @radioactivecatboy to talk about music. Five songs, ten mutuals. So it's his fault that you're about to hear about a bunch of weird music and you can blame them and not my strange tastes.

1. Watermelon by Dan Paladin - The disadvantage of sharing this particular song is that I don't have that much to say about its lyrics. The lyrics are literally just "watermelon watermelon". It's a bright little chiptune song that absolutely destroyed my Spotify played songs in I think 2019. My brother tells me it's a song in battleblock theatre. I infected my dad with this song and now sometimes he just randomly says "watermelon watermelon". It's great!

2. This is Love by Air Traffic Controller - hey have you ever been in love but like, evil about it? This is the song for you! I pulled it off of a Hannibal kinnie playlist and it's such a perfect fit I sometimes wonder if it was written about Hannibal. The opener is "You're no good, you're no good / You could kill me and you should" and it makes me want to eat drywall. Violence!!!!!!

3. Have A Seat, Misery by Shafer James - a short little two-verse ditty about perpetual suffering. I've got an imaginary animatic in my head about a couple of my blorbos that just makes my heart crumple in the most delicious kind of way. I use this as an intro to one of my character playlists and it's such a good way to start it off. Big time "doomed by the narrative" energy which I enjoy greatly. "So have a seat, misery / And don't ever mistake me / Of all of my friends you know you are the one I like best."

4. Ultraviolet by big dog little dog - Rejoice, obscure Canadian artists be upon ye! I heard this song on CBC Radio's new classical music hour. It's a cello duo that does some really good kinda abstract stuff. This song has a kind of wavelike pattern to it, it's low and unsettling. I used this on a playlist for when my pirate party entered a mirror dream dimension where their captain (who they are currently trying to save) doesn't exist. I also genuinely love the song, I love its cadence. It feels sad and lonely and wanting and just a little bit creepy.

5. Promised Land by Semler - look, every queer exvangelical has heard of Semler at this point. While I did enjoy their album (Preacher's Kid) overall, it didn't catch me like it caught a lot of us. But this one did. There's something in this little outro that carries the grit and the anger and the defiance and the iron spirit of self-determination that you need if you're gonna survive as a queer person in hostile territory. And it's a rejection of the evangelical idea of what a queer person is. "I don't know who you think I am / but I belong in the promised land." It's a prophecy and a fuck you and a prayer all at once.

Okay uhhh ten mutuals to talk about music! @pyrogaynia @rogha @thornhasalife @piizunn @agengingeer @sapi-o-phobia @gnomebud @revans-rubber-duckie @wolfkat @godtiermeme

#look i started writing this post #got distracted #saved it to my drafts #forgot about it #and then remembered it #and in the process finding a draft of a personal rant post i wrote in 2018 #about my brother's grad #wild experiences #anyways! #music #mutual tag game #i have gotten so much more casual about talking to my mutuals lately

[always-andromeda]

Hi! Sorry to just pop in and ramble about Religious Trauma™️ but I saw your previous couple of posts and wanted to say that I've had such similar experiences!! I was raised Catholic (I am no longer Catholic tho) and at Youth Ministry (so like, middle school mostly), they did a thing where they passed a chocolate bar around to all the boys and had them break off a piece so that when it came back to the leader it was all gone. And of course that was meant to represent a woman when she has premarital sex with too many men: "there's nothing left for her husband." I've also had friends who were raised religious say that they've seen similar things (I think they have a name actually, like "purity exercises" or something???) with the boys chewing gum, spitting in a glass of water, or plucking the petals off a rose. And now that I'm older I am just so completely horrified. Like WHAT??? That is so beyond not okay.

Anyway, sorry to jump in with negative stuff, but I think it's so important that we have these conversations since many of these types of religions try to shame people into silence or intentionally isolate them from the community if they choose to leave.

But to end on a slightly nicer note, Maddie Zahm has an incredible song called "If It's Not God" which is all about her coming to terms with her own beliefs and fighting through her religious trauma. Would highly recommend to anyone who hasn't heard it who's struggling with similar issues!

Okay um yeah anyway, sorry! I hope you have a fantastic day/night that is as free of religious trauma as possible! 💙

Hey, here on spicedchaiandromeda welcome rambling with open arms because ya girl is a massive rambler herself, so don’t you worry!! And don't apologize for the "negative" subject matter because I really value these conversations as well!! Putting a read more tab under this so I don't clog up my mutuals dashboards lmao <3

That being said, it truly is kind of horrifying the amount of times I've heard afab friends of mine recount these kinds of experiences? I've seen these kinds of ideas come from Mormons, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. I just tend to say "Christians" and "Christianity" because that's what I and nearly everyone around me was raised with. These ideas aren't just confined to the teachings of different religions, but I will say that the echo chambers that many religious groups put themselves in allow these ideas to thrive.

Thank you so much for the music recommendation! I absolutely love the song and I feel like I'd love to listen to more by her!! On the note of music, I'd also love to recommend the EP Preacher's Kid by Semler. They're a queer Christian artist and they're everything that I ever wanted from a Christian artist when I was a little queer teenagers.

While I myself am kind of loose on what I believe, I'd like to think that there's a higher power out there that doesn't stand for this level of shame and guilt that organized religions can oftentimes breed. And I want anyone who reads this to know that if you have religious trauma, this will always be a safe place to express your feelings and frustrations. Those safe and warm communities that religious groups love to preach about can also exist for us. No matter where you are on your religious/spiritual journey, please know that you are loved and valid and I send you all of the well wishes and support that I possibly can. Take care of yourselves, friends. 💞✨

#askmeda✨ #tw religious trauma

[cruelsummer-ficfest]

swiftie asks for andieeee:

come back be here

sparks fly

superstar

Come Back Be Here: what city would you like to travel to the most?

I constantly miss London, guys. I just...am always missing London. But if I had to choose someplace I hadn't been, I'd either say my family's hometown in Italy OR Dublin.

Sparks Fly:  if you had to create an ep with ten of taylor’s songs, which would you chose?

According to my ranking (quiz here if you want to take it), it should look something like this (although I feel like I should reserve the right to adjust this because it's like...all fucking ballads and False God only didn't make it by ONE vote):

ivy

marjorie

evermore (feat. Bon Iver)

King Of My Heart

Dancing With Our Hands Tied

Dress

All Too Well (10 minute version)

The Archer

Cornelia Street

Death By a Thousand Cuts

Superstar: which artists do you stan besides taylor?

The ones that I feel like aren't surprising at all? Maisie Peters, Phoebe Bridgers, dodie, Orla Gartland, Lizzy McAlpine.

Ones that are a little less obvious? Regina Spektor, love of my life and the reason I made my foray into becoming the Piano Girl™ that I am. I had a few thoughts on who else would be on this list, but the best one is SEMLER because they just...get it. They're an incredible queer preacher's kid who sings what was classified as "worship" music when they released their first album (and they fucking topped the contemporary christian charts when their EP came out last year???), but it's raw and beautiful and so wonderfully representative of the overlap in the venn diagram of queerness and religiosity and I love it.

Less taylor swift obvious, but more HP/marauders era obvious? Genesis, David Bowie, Kansas, Queen, etc etc etc

send us taylor swift asks from this game!

#asks! #andie answers! #taylor swift ask game

[niche-pastiche]

Since Easter and Trans Day of Visibility are the same day this year, I thought I'd use the opportunity to share one of my favorite musicians. Semler is a queer nonbinary christian musician who makes music specifically about the queer Christian experience. I've been listening to them since Preacher's Kid.

#Semler #Trans Day of Visibility #Easter #Music #Spotify

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Gathering of the Gods in the Clouds - Cornelius van Poelenburgh // The Combat of Mars and Minerva - Jacques-Louis David (detail) // Bethlehem - Semler

#greek mythology #greek gods #greek pantheon #twelve olympians #athena #minerva #jacques louis david #bethlehem #bethlehem semler #preacher's kid #preacher's kid ep #preacher's kid semler #semler #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[incidentalblr]

*shakes u guys* PLS LISTEN TO “PREACHER’S KID” EP BY GRACE SEMLER BALDRIDGE IM GOING INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

Top 5 albums?

hiii ♡♡

Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

Lungs - Florence + The Machine

A Southern Gothic - Adia Victoria

Preacher's Kid - Semler

Cover Your Ears - The Gretchens

honorable mention all Mitski albums

#ask #top 5...? #♡

[conjectureand-gloom]

and these days i believe in bigfoot more than God

‘cause who’s he hurting?

i grew up a preachers kid cleaning up after communion

i know that a church is not a way to live

#Spotify

[euro-journal-english-news]

Best Christian Music of 2022

Best Christian Music of 2022

As a subject, Christianity is everywhere in pop music today. Whether in Kendrick Lamar’s new album, Eminem’s rapping about Jesus, Gang of Youth’s expletive-heavy faith reflections, or the growing number of LGBT+ folk singers who grew up in the church and now critique it through music (e.g., Julien Baker, Semler’s Preacher’s Kid, or Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter), the world’s largest religion…

View On WordPress

[don-lichterman]

Queer artists are reclaiming religion for the kids they used to be—and the ones still left

Queer artists are reclaiming religion for the kids they used to be—and the ones still left

At 31 years old, Grace Semler Baldridge is still a preacher’s kid.  The musician, who spent her childhood growing up in a rectory, didn’t ever think she would write an entire album about her religious upbringing. But when the pandemic left her with nothing but time to focus on her music, the end result was an album Baldridge couldn’t have predicted.  “Preacher’s Kid” is a musical exploration…

View On WordPress

#LGBTQ+