Stan Rogers songs come in a few, occasionally overlapping flavors:
this boat is a heavy-handed metaphor for my personal struggles (Mary Ellen Carter, Last Watch, Barrett’s Privateers, etc)
I am being ground beneath the heel of Capital (Fisherman’s Wharf, Tiny Fish for Japan, The Idiot, most of them really)
Weeeheehee we’re shitfaced and having a great time! I recommend it!! (The Wreck of the Athens Queen, Giant, etc)
my romance is pure and true and yours is mere lust, you barbarian (You Can’t Stay Here, Lock-Keeper, Half of a Heart, etc)
an ode to something incredibly Canadian (Bluenose, MacDonnell on the Heights, Northwest Passage, etc)
some of you need to romanticise the fucking paragraph break
Ah, so when Circe wants to send them to the underworld, she is amazing and helpful, but when I, POSEIDON-
everybody loves stabbing as a sign of homoerotic longing. but when I, Brutus,
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is the only acceptable portrayal of white Jesus
the city watch series
People who insist on changing the pronouns in songs while they’re singing along are so weak. “But I’m not gay!” Okay?? And I’m not a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s Privateers, but for the length of this song I can be.
Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!
My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things
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