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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!
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I luv music NIN - Discipline
Reznor did most of the original soundtrack for Lost Highway which I loovee, some other ppl added to the soundtrack too. They also did the Quake soundtrack.
~~For a few months I was listening to this fan made compilation album which combined a few of their newer albums around the twin peaks return era and bad witch, but it has since been removed π yt always takes down all the cool fan stuff.~~
Nevermind I found it lol
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Hey just so yβall know it appears that open gate is actually closed gate until the 20th.
CW for Transphobia/Social integration
I find it really sad how I had genuine passion for physics and wanting to contribute towards developing sustainable energy, but because transitioning is locked behind a paywall it made studying unbearable due to the dysphoria and I ended up quitting. I don't even see the point of reaching out to any reachable communities because I'm sure everyone is struggling it'd just drag them down. I don't want to take valuable resources away from people when I don't have anything myself to contribute.
At least I get to distract myself with doing art while I listen to best korea pop. So it's not entirely all bad.
I would
The marxist analysis of this meme:
The atomised proletariat class increasingly lack the means to reproduce themselves as their past generations did. This has lead to the yearning amongst its more marginal members for a convenient, low cost and standardised method of finding partners.
The above meme uses the symbolism of computers and piracy to convey this yearning, while sodium replying with "I would" conveys her agreement with this yearning, knowing full well deep down that all hope is lost and she will die alone 
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.
My dream job was and still is Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain
You have a dope costume, you get to be hilarious, you get a subby sidekick, there's no expectation or pressure that you ever actually succeed, and your evil plans can be as low stakes as ruining a local pond or destroying the biosphere. Total blue sky. Plus if you stick around long enough you get to team up with the heroes to take down some super duper evil villain if you ever get bored of the evil schtick.
would be so great, you'd get to beat up cops and seduce the heroes in your civilian form only to pull the rug out from beneath them, oh the delicious drama 
Hero: Was it all lies?
Villain: Yes lmao i would never fuck a cop
::: spoiler meds update
Ok i dont like when the meds leave my system. It isnt bad, but i can feel myself get more energetic and exhausted all at once, my thoughts become more chaotic and disjointed, my ability to manage things goes back to normal, and my emotional responses get more anxiety oriented and like the anxiety gets turned up a bit.
many such cases
iβve transcended gender 
A lot of my medical shit says "sex: unknown" lol
absolute fucking goals tbh
:waow-based:
I guess I could just share this to /c/music but this 17 minute instrumental from 1988, laden with synths, samples, and bass guitars, was actually the thing that first got me into music from the late USSR way back when β which helped me reevaluate my attitudes towards the country and coooommunism in general. So I probably would've become a commie way later without this track, and it is still to this day so fucking sexy to me that I need you all to listen to it.
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Hi. I've not really engaged with the trans community on here yet.
CW: Imposter syndrome and current-event fears
I am not really "out" in my everyday life, so I feel like I don't have a lot of experiences in common with people here. I guess my fear of coming out is itself an oppression, but I haven't been beaten by cops or discriminated against in a hospital. And with the government trying to make trans folks into terrorists, I'm more and more just wanting to stay in my little closet... Am I a bad trans? I guess I'm just a bad revolutionary; I'm scared of what could happen, even if the risk to me is relatively little.
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I'm only out to family and maybe a couple friends? And I guess the creepy delivery guy who clocked me as trans. I've been here for years at this point and have been on HRT for 1.5 years. Doesn't seem worth the tradeoff for me for now given where I live and my work.
Being trans doesn't mean you have to be some revolutionary. You can just want to live your life like most people.
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Take things step by step, that's a basic tenet of dialectics. You cannot become a good revolutionary if you are unable to take care of your personal safety. So don't beat yourself up for still being in the closet.
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You can post here if you want~ youre still trans, come hang out on the trans mega
Youre the only one who can guage what is safe and isnt for you. I will only say that you will probably be happier if you were out and taking whatever other steps you want (plenty of trans women do not take hormones and plenty dont want to have any surgeries, its not a requirement to be trans to do either). But I cant say if thats worth your sense of safety, youre the only one who can make that judgement call. I know for me, the euphoria of being called a woman, having people use my name, and having people say ma'am or use she/her with me was worth the risks - and I couldnt bear to boymode anymore anyway.
Oppression and being sad and dysphoria aren't the inherent conditions of being transgender - I really believe this. Yes theyre part of our experience because society sucks. The real inherent condition of being trans is euphoria and joy, like true deep joy. Every day I get to wake up and be a woman! Its still, despite everything, a great feeling and it still hasn't been dulled. You are part of this joy and euphoria as far as you want to take it
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I'm out to a few safe people and that's it, not family and not work. Definitely is! I'm not coming out to family and work until I have to or it gets closer.
No you aren't staying safe in the closet is perfectly acceptable, if that's what you want.
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You are absolutely not a bad trans! 
Fear of coming out is so real, and like, it took me years to do so. Not having experiences in common isnt a reason to not participate here, id think its more of a reason to participate here ^join^ ^us^. This mega is for trans people to talk about basically whatever we want, not just trans specific stuff!
Good news! I added more music to the thread!
Bad news, it's all weeb flavored 
But please hear it out! It's good! I promise
Bad news, it's all weeb flavored
thats just more good news :3
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 
I've decided. I'm going to become a catgirl.
hell yeag!! 
i just tried eating soya chunks for the first time the other day and my impressions were
this shit tastes like dog food
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 
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.
pretend
Many such cases
no... 
