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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
spoiler 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.
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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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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.
Theres no need to apologize
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.