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A little mini heart of "I'd Rather Be A Ghost" by Semler as I see it because of synesthesia!

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More Semler art! This is "I'd Show Up" as I see it because of synesthesia!

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GREAT NEWS

the queer/affirming switchfoot fan community has been approved! if you're interested in joining, send me a message!

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ok, so i am working on the tumblr community part of this HOWEVER i did make a discord server for queer/questioning/ally switchfoot fans! if you'd like the link, shoot me a message.

for now i am trying to keep the link out of the official switchfoot discord/the big fanpages, to minimize the risk of trolls, but people are welcome to send server invites to others that they think would like to join!

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hi yes i know i haven't posted here in a hot minute. since switchfoot launched their discord server a bit back i've been much more active on there since i use discord all the time anyway.

but one thing that i've wanted for a bit is a fandom space focused on queer switchfoot fans. a space by and for us. the discord server is lovely, the rules explicitly state homophobia/transphobia is not allowed, but there's also something like 2k people in there, and while there's like. 20-30 of us who talk regularly, that's still an intimidating number of people.

i toyed with the idea of a discord server, because it's a chat space and somewhat ideal for casual conversations, but i haven't pulled the trigger on making one. i guess i'm here to gauge fan interest, would y'all be interested in a queer switchfoot fan discord server/tumblr community?

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the “accidentally really queer switchfoot/jon foreman” playlist can be found here on spotify! i will probably add to this when interrobang comes out and i can listen to all the songs. requests are also accepted!

a short explanation of my song choices under the cut.

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switchfoot as a band and the beautiful letdown as an album mean. so much to me. the love for this band is a significant part of my relationship with my older brother, the beautiful letdown itself got me through the worst period of my life, and wrestling with and thinking about these lyrics within the context of my own life and who i want to be is inextricable from who i am as a queer person. TBL is a queer album, to me (you cannot convince me that On Fire isn't about your first queer crush).

i cant put it all into words to describe how much switchfoot music means to me. my drive for true community, my drive to understand others and to connect with them, to find common ground while celebrating differences, to uplift those that have been downtrodden, that's all been formed in equal measure by growing up roman catholic, by listening to switchfoot my entire life, and by the embrace of the queer community.

to paraphrase several things jon has said over the years, if you're brave enough to jump into the dialogue, well, i need you, you need me, and we are beloved 💜🏳️‍🌈

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This was fun! This is “Sometimes” by Semler as I see it because of synesthesia!

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@lgbtqcreators creator bingo → [¾] lgbtq+ people in music: Jesus from Texas, SEMLER

my best friend found God, so we lost touch / I guess a Savior beats a friend who thinks you’re good enough

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This mini was fun! This is “Panic Attack At A Party” by Semler as I see it because of synesthesia!    

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Switchfoot Aesthetic of the Day: Chad’s Birthday

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love spudnik 💜

2 years ago today

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This was fun! This is “Golden” by Switchfoot as I see it because of synesthesia!

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This came out nice! This is “The Hard Way” by Switchfoot as I see it because of synesthesia!

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I find the thematic interplay between Enough To Let Me Go, I Won’t Let You Go, and The Strength To Let Go fascinating so I’m subjecting everyone else to it. Like I know we joke about it but there is a fascinating interplay between what we’re letting go of and who’s supposed to be letting go. First is breaking the songs down individually though, we have to know what each song is talking about to be able to see the interplay.

Enough To Let Me Go, to me, is about asking someone else to let go of their preconceived notions about you so you can grow and change. “I’m still walking the line that leads me home… I’ve still got mountains to climb on my own”. It’s frustrating to be trapped in a circumstance where it feels like you can’t grow and change, or feeling like people are always going to view you as you were at a specific point in time. It denies both that you have changed since the last time you interacted with that person, and that you still have the capacity to change. Enough To Let Me Go, in its own way, is about growth, and asking the people around you to allow you the space and time to grow. It’s not a physical letting go, it’s more like asking someone to take a step back.

I Won't Let You Go is a promise made to someone else, that you won’t leave them hanging when things get hard for them. “I’ll always be by your side/I won’t let you go”. People go through hard times, and when they do, they rely on the people around them. I Won’t Let You Go is the narrator promising to support and be there for the recipient no matter what. It’s a reflection of (ideally) marriage vows, parents relationships to their kids, committed relationships of all kinds. It’s not a suffocating way of holding onto someone, it’s more like scaffolding, holding someone up when they’re down.

The Strength To Let Go is our (in)ability to let go of the things that pull us down. “With the stumbling beat/of my heart and my feet/and the faults of my failure and pain/to think all of this time/I had wings that were ready to soar”. We can stifle our own growth if we don’t let go of our fear, our guilt, our darkness. They become weights, dragging us into the depths. It’s not easy to let go of their hold over us, often it’s a lifetime struggle. We get inside our own heads and lose perspective on ourselves, and can no longer see outside of our own darkness.

Everything becomes a balancing act, then. Sometimes we can only get through the darkness that we struggle with in The Strength To Let Go with the help of our loved ones, and the favor comes back around, where we won’t give up on relationships because the other person is having a hard time. We can hold tight to our loved ones, and they hold tight to us, but we need to give and receive the space to grow and change. One of the ways to grow and change is through letting go of our darkness, of the things that hold us down, and that darkness can prevent us from growth. The three songs all feed into each other in our relationships with ourselves and others, in how we should act and sometimes expect others to act. There’s a thread that runs through these songs, outlining where and when and why and what to let go of, because there are times when we need to hold fast and others when we need to let go. There’s freedom in both, freedom in knowing you have a safe place to land and freedom in knowing you can fly.