Originally, I was going to make one about “strange” music, but then I realized I can do whatever I want so I’m just going to plug some music I like or find funny. Unfortunately, I’m still a normie ahh scrub who gets all my music from youtube. Though, as a good girl, I’m going to use alternative front-ends to protect your privacy.
I might keep adding more stuff through the week.
Jim E. Brown
The “19-year old alcoholic” from Britain is renowned for his smash hits like I’m quitting prozac to continue drinking and I FIND SEX ABHORENT.
Carlos Ivan
Self proclaimed bard who occasionally does unhinged ASMR. Examples of his work would be his song Slutty Pumpkin or his ASMR Hostage flirts with you during bank robbery (Good lord he has such a sexy voice in that one).
Opeth
Listening to this Band is the closest thing I have to being a “metal fan”. All I really know about them is that some of their fans are salty because they stopped being metal like many years ago. Idk about the drama though. Their Blackwater park seems to be the one that fans think is their masterpiece (???). But I like stuff such as Face of Melinda, Harlequin Forest and April Ethereal.
Microtonal Music
They make microtonal and macrotonal music. Such music is characterized by the use of a tonal scale different from the European 12 tones. Long story short, the frequency spectrum can be divided into octaves. By definition, an octave is a factor of 2 difference (so 100 hz is 1 octave below 200 hz). In the European scale, each octave of sound is divided into 12 tones. But you can use more, or less. The most extreme examples I’ve seen are Fuschiamarine which uses only 7 tone divisions to Desert Island Rain which has 313 divisions! Other stuff from them is Who knows and Zero Nothings, the latter of which is polyrhythmic ((meaning it has multiple rhythms at once) and microtonal (22 tones), thereby causing professional musicians pain and suffering.
There’s more musicians out there that do microtonal music (and also the entirety of Africa, Middle East, India, etc).
Maybe I’ll put some stuff in the coming days.
Classical Latin covers of Modern songs
Yes, this is a thing. It doesn’t need to exist but I’m glad it does. My favs are the cover of Gas Gas Gas and Everyone wants to rule the world. The channel is called the_miracle_aligner and they do other languages as well.
Mushroom plays keyboard
Mushrooms plays keyboard. Pretty baller, don’t you think?
I wonder what it’s thinking about
Post-rock
You can tell I’m getting eepy cause I won’t even explain what post-rock is. Here’s a playlist someone else made. Sorry for my laziness.
Miku covers
We all know what Hatsune Miku is. Funny story, at one point I purchased a miku poster and my Mom really liked it for some reason. It’s hanging in her bedroom thousands of kilometers away from my house right now.
Anyway, I like the miku covers of After Dark and Little Dark age. They’re both made by astrophysics
Manbo-p
Japanese Songwriter that uses vocaloids for singing. Their songs are always centered around some absurd story and video, but usually contain some sort of interesting message in there. They have so many songs that I like that I’m just going to make a big list. The song titles should give you an idea of the insanity. Be sure to turn on english subtitles!
- A kappa is boiling slugs in my kitchen. A song that can be interpreted to be about loneliness in a “modern” lifestyle.
- Clownish Linda and the sinking planet. I’m not going to explain every song. Go watch it.
- Hey zombie, eat me rather than that meat.
- Proof Geometric Construction Can Solve All Love Affairs. A song about how math nerds are unhinged and insane.
- Sweet float apartment. This is just your average low income housing complex. Also, the songwriter’s sister made a cover
- A classy, tactful Fire Extinguisher. Love song between a girl and fire extinguisher.
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i’ve transcended gender
:waow-based:
A lot of my medical shit says “sex: unknown” lol
Every once in a while Ill catch myself in my peripheral vision in the mirror and always be a little shocked when the hot tall chick is me. Also my butt got big, the squats and deadlifts are paying off
if you negatively comment on peoples appearances, use fat as an insult, misgender people, or be ableist towards people just becauss “oh theyre fascist so its okay” you should rethink your choices
most of this website needs to hear this, btw
What if people is myself
Self hate is different category I think but very much still worth working against.
Ah but have you considered that I don’t have any principles?
:very-smart:
The thing with AOC telling people to laugh at Stephen Miller because he’s short really sticks in my craw, and I’m not even short! Or a guy!
What’s even worse is when people say it’s okay that good people get caught in the crossfire because “they know we’re just attacking the evil in the bad ones, so it shouldn’t bother the good ones at all!” damn homie I didn’t know self-esteem was that easy
I played a show recently and the opening group was a riot grrl punk band all 14, the drummer had a shirt with the trans flag with an AK saying “trans rights by any means necessary”. Their parents were there to support them, it was heartwarming. Some of the youth is alright, it does make me really sad though with the world they have been forced into.
wrrauuff :3
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people using agab language should consider not doing that
my doctor used the term AMAB/AFAB this week when talking about results for a test, since there are different expecged “normal” ranges based on that. Of course she then proceeded to say that they are using the female range for me because tons of research is now showing that for this particular test hormonal makeup is a better predictor of what’s healthy.
I know that for a lot of things this is true, but surely this isn’t the case for everything though in a medical context. What terms would be appropriate instead, then, for those cases where years of the wrong hormones does matter?
Tbh this image was kinda just a reaction to societal norms; when someone uses the term amab for me in normal conversation, its a silencer placed on tim to make it more pallatable. But i do think medical areas are ones where there is grey area and wiggleroom. Ultimately, your comfort and health is the priority.
For medical terms tho, i do think that amab and afab fail to represent the divergent nature of trans bodies. Amab refers to cis men and trans women. However our bodies are very very different, and as your doctor recognizes. The issue with amab afab is that it is totalizing and obscures these differences. Its not effective to talk about amab or afab bodies when the majority of features of these bodies diverge with the cis norm. To me, i would rather the doctor speak about specific parts and functions. But even then, we run into issues. For example the cowpers glands begin to behave much more like the bartholins glands when on estrogen, so to talk about the cowpers gland is both correct and incorrect: it is positioned as a cowpers gland would be, but functionally it is closer to a bartholins gland.
So i guess my answer is that i dont know. For me i would like my doctor to talk about specific body structures and functions. Calling me amab ignores the changes that have occured to my body. Calling me amab implies that my body can be treated like a cis male body when it cannot.
Yeah that’s kinda where I was landing. Outside of contexts which are medically relevant it seems like it’s used just to other trans people entirely.
At least no one says “biological X” anymore that I have to deal with, ha. Because I’d have some words with even a doctor who did, for the reasons you described. Really these terms in medicine are not addressing the core issue imo: how I was assigned at birth isn’t an indicator of X or Y, the (incorrect) hormones my body naturally produced and the anatomy that those hormones grew are the differences, right? Kind of a mouthful, though.
These assignment terms break down for intersex folks as well, because you can’t assume hormonal makeup based on how someone was assigned, since a doctor can just make it the heck up or the external anatomy can just not match pubescent development as well.
Anyway sorry it’s been something I was wondering about after hearing it yesterday and the thread here made me curious again.
Anyway sorry it’s been something I was wondering about after hearing it yesterday and the thread here made me curious again.
Theres no need to apologize
biological X
Ugh that term kept me from understanding myself for so fucking long, fuck those people.
And yeah, male/female/intersex are also socially constructed categories based on how well one conforms to the bimodal distribution of traits, with the acceptable areas being socially defined. Like, see the women in sports who win and then do the testing and find “oop youve got an xy chromosome so even tho youre a cis woman you arent (ferengi voice) feeemale”. Really, were all just a collection of physical characteristics and thats what doctors should be looking at and engaging with, not this male/female shorthand that at best doesnt represent the estimated 2% of the population that is intersex in some way and at worst actively harms patients.
Not counting jokes based on, quotes including, or simple mentions of the AGAB terms, I have apparently only ever used them with their actual meanings once since joining Hexbear, in a comment that I wrote about a year and a half ago:
[…] I’m sure that a lot of other enbies can attest to how cis people always seem to […] immediately disregard any enby whom they can clock as AMAB, […]
I still stand by my prescriptions I wrote about nine months ago that “AMAB” and “AFAB” should be used exactly the same as the full phrases spelled out (so no talk of “AMABs” or “AMAB people”, only “persons AMAB”), and that when talking about biological sex we should have a pona mindset about it: focusing on the exact biological and physiological features salient in context, instead of making up the umpteenth euphemism for a false dichotomy.
Yeah I only ever ever use it first person past tense, e.g. “when I was assigned male at birth”. Like that was a past event for me that unfortunately has had complications for me a woman.
But never as an adjective or for another person who I don’t know their deal and whether they’d use it.
Okay two transgenderisms
I cleaned my room last few days, it looks much better now :)
I can’t wait to get my next shot, I was looking at the graphs and first shot barely gets you anywhere… I just wanna feel estrogen already…
omg you had your first shot?! I’m so happy for you holy shit
Yes, Friday! ty
There’s lots of reasons injections are superior but what I love about pills is feeling the tablets dissolve every morning and that it’s fine to have a sneaky extra one now and then for a snack.
Letting a pill dissolve like that is very ritualistic, I take melotonin the same way and its a very nice vibe, I imagine taking estrogen that way is even better
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Australia produces something good once in awhile.
Medical Journal of Australia: Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people
However, trans people are not a moral, philosophical or social issue. They are people. The statement “some people are transgender” is a demographic fact, not an ideological position.
The scientists think their enemy is arguing from a shared underlying comprehension of the world
The article is good for peers that haven’t lost the plot, but you’re not going to defeat people who want to eradicate trans people by telling them tautologically that trans people are people. For them, they’re obviously not. And like, it is a response to these people, and scientists tend to think they can defeat right-wingers with facts and logic, so I think they actually are trying to do this?
I don’t think they’re necessarily trying to do that.
The MJA is a magazine for doctors, average people don’t read (even the average doctor doesn’t read it).
I don’t think they’re trying to convince entrenched transphobes or the public.
What it does do is make it (fractionally) harder for Australian politicians to do transphobia, because the Australian medical establishment has rejected the Cass report.
It’s also clever because Australians love thinking we’re better than the UK and the USA. We can dust our hands if active transphobia and just let social murder sort us out.
Edit like Bourgeois institutions are a flimsy shield but it’s still a good thing that Australia’s supreme court has recently in two separate cases affirmed trans people have the same rights as Cis people of the gender they identify as.
One of the things that makes me most misanthropic tbh, most people dgaf about facts or evidence.
Not that it’ll change the minds of transphobes. The Cass review is on the level of that “vaccines cause autism” study and we’ll still have people referencing it decades from now.
Definitely, as I mentioned in another post its more useful as a sign that there hasn’t been institutional capture by transphobes. Reactionaries don’t need data or studies.
My mother talking about my great-uncle (who everyone had assumed was gay but actually was bisexual and had something gender going on): so yeah he was a drama teacher and would dress as a woman in every play they performed, my dad, your grandfather would affectionately says he was a [t-slur]
Me: wait why is this the first I’m hearing about this?
Her: anyway I have a bunch of his vinyl records from the 50s
Me: GIVE THEM TO ME
CW I guess societal transphobia
I feel kind of fucked up by this, like there’s an alternative timeline where things were a bit more progressive in the latter half 20th century and my great aunt could have lived openly as a trans woman (or non-binary) and I having known her all my life got to see her as a normal role model and transitioned in my teens/20s while she was still alive.
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this whole story is tragic and beautiful. We all need more trans role models. And idk but for me being able to recontextualize one of my family members as trans would be a blessing; im so glad you finally got to learn about this aspect of her existence!Side note, how were the records?
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Yeah it’s kind of bittersweet the whole thing. My mum literally told me this a few hours ago I haven’t seen them yet. I’m curious if there’s any insights there to my aunt.
I think a some people in our family assume something is up with our great-uncle. Mostly because he’s a bit more effeminate in a way similar to lots of gay men, so people suspect he’s gay/bi. But nothing confirmed.
Had the meeting today, it went pretty well. Only two other people there and both in very different situations then me. But hopefully there will be more people next week. Its nice to introduce myself as myself instead of coming out later.
Also I work literally all day tomorrow
more money to keep saving though… but fuck I didn’t realize I was signing up for 14 hoursCongrats! Its so much easier when you can just be yourself! Cant wait until you get some of the nice HRT changes too~
It is! I can’t either
just worried abt family… explaining my situation got me all worried again.
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Yeah, hexbear absolutely has its blindspots on bodyshaming, it gets called out sometimes, but i still see it now and then.
I’ve decided. I’m going to become a catgirl.
Puppygirls support catgirlification
objectively true
i just tried eating soya chunks for the first time the other day and my impressions were
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this shit tastes like dog food
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this stuff is fucking good
i think this might mean i might be a dog girl now come to think of it
so what ur sayin is u kno what dog food tastes like
no… 
Admit it, its disgustingly delicious isnt it? (Or maybe just delicious…)
This feels like an appropriate time to admit that I tried cat food when I was younger and had cats in the house.
Was it good? I never tried our cats food.
It wasn’t really bad but bland. It smelled great to me but the smell really didn’t match the lack of flavor.
Edit: accidentally said it was bad not bland
Aww, needed some more flavor for ya? I never liked the smell of cat food, seemed unappetizing. Guess thats why im a puppygirl and not a catgirl
Yeah, I understood then why they would always get excited for canned tuna.
Fun fact: I would always “pretend” to be a cat as a child. Well, the adults thought I was pretending.
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I’m so hot (it’s the fever)
one of us!
Welcome to the clowder!
hell yeag!!
i think i might just have found a place i would be a shoe in for if i went and got a job there that would get my t girl surgeries covered
it’s a bit of a stretch but i might be able to get my surgeries covered after all
Yay I hope it works out!
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