Okay So

okay so

to me songs 1-8 are a solid narrative of a shitty relationship, with knitting song and as good a reason both serving as different types of cap-offs to it. knitting song is about a warm love. as good a reason is about using your spite to poison men.

then we go on a little adventure through some songs with narratives of their own: triassic love song is about the two fossils of different species discovered entangled in a burrow together. escape pod is about being sent off earth as it ends, and survivor's guilt.

last woman on earth returns to previous themes of feminine rage and pain, but this time it feels to be directed at the public at large. it is also an entreaty to a specific person to dispose of her body in the way she wishes. bones on the beach follows on to this by exploring themes of longing for rest and peace, wondering if even in death a creature (a woman) can be left alone.

hunter is empathy with the hunting, starving beast. there's a lot of metaphor going on here. we'll get into that later

warmth feels like after this jaunt through stories (playing with how close we get to the previous themes and messages), the narrator is in a better place, trying to ground herself in the safety she's now found

and then yeti is the end. it's over. "we're nothing but myths now that neither of us believe in" this is the letting go, the release.

I actually think the songs are even more entangled than I wrote out in this but I need to relisten with more brainpower than I have right now at 2:30am to cohere my thoughts. so have these for now because I NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THIS

it’s cherik chewsday innit (it’s monday)

Cherik | The Ballad of Lucy Grey Baird

NOT the one i promised but this one is currently my highest performing edit ever (40k views on tiktok) and so i had to share

I haven’t actually posted on this site in a hot minute. I saw a video on Instagram where the prompt was to “pick a movie, keep one actor, and everyone else is a muppet.”

So I chose First Class.

And Charles is the muppet.

"It's a very beautiful memory, Erik. Thank you. There's so much more to you than you know. Not just pain and anger. There's good too, I felt it."

Ily tumblr user @tap-dancing-fool

Thank you for putting this into words

Thank you for reposting my post and MAKING IT BETTER