June Henry @luckyjunehenry - Tumblr Blog

hello!

I am working on migrating away from other platforms and haven't been on Tumblr since the worst of my teenage years. I feel it is time for my triumphant return ! huzzah!

#june henry

First off I wanna say: your experience with detrans/retransitioning resonates with me a lot, and your music makes me feel less alone in my complexity and less scared to go through this again so thank you so much for writing about it (you're also an amazing lyricist and you're so cool!)

I have a question! What inspired you to write barefoot at the house show? What did you feel writing it? It's so underrated and my favorite song you've made ever and probably one of my favorite songs in general. The cover art is also really beautiful and the whole song makes me ache but it also feels like a warm blanket. I'd love to hear more about it!

Thank you for making music and thank you for being so swag, I hope you're blessed with a great day and that you find nothing but love and comfort through your life <3

hiii thank u so much!! always happy to hear that my words make other ppl feel better about going gender crazy :D

barefoot@thehouseshow was written the day after one of the last shows at Lawrence, KS house venue the Toilet Bowl (RIP). I was there with my then-girlfriend (counting time girl) and an old friend (void-adjacent guy actually lol) and we had a really sweet and wonderful time. I felt so connected to my town and the music scene in a way that I really haven't felt since, and also felt really empowered in my sobriety. I have a complicated relationship with substances and at the time was trying my best to totally abstain from them, and it was hard to do this at shows!! I was really proud of myself for how I managed to do it at this particular show.

Growing Fonder is all about a really brief yet beautiful time in what had previously been a really tumultuous relationship. The summer of 2023! I'm really glad that I have that time capsule. I really thought that was as good as things could ever get for me, and I was so incredibly wrong. Realizing I don't have to suffer with somebody to get to that point of joy has been really really awesome. Here are some pictures from the sweet parts of the summer of 2023

teaching preschool, going out, playing shows (that was the summer I met April and dan from Apes of the State heheh)

Hello!

Hiii guys I wanna post more on here again !! I've been super active on my patreon (patreon.com/junehenry) and just started doing a Minecraft letsplay :O but I wanna be writing more personal essays and answering more of your questions on this site. Yes!

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what is the ‘Chasing’ cover art??

it's a picture of Clinton lake frozen over!! me and a pal went to the lake in the winter and it was soooo frozen that we could walk several feet out onto the water. I have a UK tour promo post that's me standing on the ice, that pic was taken the same day :-)

Which summoningsalt video is summoning salt 14m 46s 480ms referring to in the title

mike tyson punch out world record (the record held by summoningsalt himself!)

Meaning behind the title n lyrics of “thats actually the doctors name”

“thats actually the doctors name” is a song that likens my detrans/retrans experience to being Frankenstein's monster !

"there's no 'goin back to' - there's no place that I have been"

I have no conscious memory of a time before I was trans. There is no "normalcy" for me to return to, I do not recall life before being this thing that I made myself. (which is really awesome most of the time)

"saying you don't see the seams is sayin' that you're not seeing me, what else is there?"

I feel as though I am nothing but the process of becoming. so if someone denies taking my transness into consideration while interacting with me, they aren't really interacting with me at all!

those are some of the main points :-)

Hi! Am i allowed to ask if your song “daylight” is about your girlfriend

Daylight wasn't initially about my girlfriend!! it was about someone I was seeing pretty briefly, and I had that blind hopefulness that comes with like. going on one good first date after some really tumultuous dating experiences . BUT it has become a song that is about my girlfriend because she listened to it a bunch while we were still just crushing on each other from afar, and now she requests that I play it live sometimes :3 I am so lucky to be with this lady!

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happy June Henry Thursday and happy two weeks since my right of way tattoo @luckyjunehenry

I love your songwriting SO MUCH. I love to write lyrics, and I try to channel you when I write. I adore your metaphors.

Especially in the song size nine. Particularly the part about someone breaking the dirty window, instead of cleaning it to see through. Saying something shattered in you too, which I personally interpret as you wondering why someone would hurt/break you, instead of taking the time to understand you or care for you.

I interpret it as somebody not seeing the value of the window, due to all of the muck on it. Kind of like how we worry people cannot see value in us, because they might not see through our flaws. It makes me think about how people deem certain traits of their’s as unlovable or difficult, and personifying the window’s dirt as these traits or emotional baggage. A reckless person breaking you or the window is just inconsequential to them because they still get what they want. In this metaphor, a person seeing the window’s view through breaking it, and the love interest not seeing your value and ultimately hurting you by using you for their benefit. Empathizing with the window because you feel like you’ve been in the same position.

I honestly can interpret it so many different ways, and I’m curious about your process with metaphors? If you have anything else to say about this song’s lore and creation? Did you get new carpenter boots yet? Are your ideas always coming from memories and real feelings? Is anything ever purely fictional? Was there really a window??? Do you have the picture you took????? I know you aren’t active on tumblr rn but whenever you return, PLEASE I NEED ANSWERSSS!!!!

this interpretation is awesome, and very much what I had in mind when writing that line!! <3

as for my approach to writing metaphors in general, making connections like this is just how my brain works. I have a tendency to go a little crazy with pattern recognition and giving things symbolic significance.

the picture of the window was real, although wasn't taken from the third floor. The idea of the song is like. We're traveling through this building together, ascending it, as we spend more time it gets more shaky and dangerous. The end of the song takes place in a different building - the same one talked about in The Stonehouse.

here's the roof of the stonehouse! I'd found the coordinates for it on reddit and went there a few times in the spring and summer of 2023. a very strange and magical summer...its consequences ripple to this day

Have you ever been recognised out in public

this ask is from a while ago but omg. for the longest time nobody in my town gave a fuck abt June Henry and now I can't go anywhere without someone being very sweet to me and recognizing me as June Henry. In line for ice cream with my family??? at food not bombs?? at the gun range??? it's wild, my only issue with it is when people think they shouldn't approach me or that im like. not a normal person who just exists in my community u know. I love talking to strangers !!

Do you have any good book recommendations?

NIGHTBITCH BY RACHEL YODER !!! I also have a few book reviews on my personal blog which is @luckybiter !!

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More silly billy stuff.....

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this is so sweet omg 😭 <3

Ms Henry... Pretty plz.. What are the lyrics to 'to love you'..

I love the ep by the way.. one of my favorite releases from you....

thank uuuu thank u!!! I need someone to put these on genius for me I am lazy and ppl have been asking hehe here are the lyrics:

seeking solace, salvation

materialize what’s only representation

i thought myself sick over symbols of you

petrified on the north side searching for clues

i keep having dreams that you forgive me

and we lay, i try to keep you from dissapearing

and i hear your laugh so clearly

i feel your hands tangibly

draw me into quarters, one fourth of the truth,

claw machine, my softness not enough to evade you

i know that you were going through hell, i was

strung along, unconscious, you weren’t by yourself

and then there were three but i knew it this time

i found myself outvoted, four versus two eyes

when you moved my hand i felt my world fall apart

when i spit it out you screamed and cried in my arms

"maybe we’re both victims of an unseen hand

that kept pushing us back together again"

and i’d bite and bite hard while it was feeding me filth

and you just watched in silence, i succumbed to the guilt

i just wanted to love you

leekalo

@luckyjunehenry t-shirt i made :3

this is absolutely my favorite shirt, im so normal about june henry rn

luckyjunehenry

this is so sweet I LOVE

i need the secret minecraft reference in ‘forged in fire’ cant find it for the life of me

ok here we go. please keep in mind that this song is a product of its time. it was written in 2021.

"we started laughing so hard we had to look away, the names of the materials, the sharpness of the blades"

In Forged In Fire, the sword making competition show, a material often worked with is Damascus.

Da - masc - us

The - Mask - Is

that's what the point of the mask is.

it was a Dream reference all along. I hope this is a satisfying answer

I hope you're still on Tumblr because I can't do meta anymore. I just wanted to say thanks for Chasing. I really needed it this morning. I know this isn't a question.

still lurking around from time to time, I wanna get more active on here again and be on my phone less <3 thank you for listening to Chasing!! I don't have the mental or physical energy to do any promo for it right now so I really appreciate hearing that people are enjoying it regardless!!

acoustic post-show jam on a pebble beach in Brighton, England

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