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realizing that i somehow just never posted my latest song on here??

its called Medical Mystery, go listen!!! this is absolutely my favorite song ive ever made. its about longing for all of your personal problems to be explained and solved by discovering some sort of deficiency inherent to you that, once addressed, makes everything okay. its about how transitioning isnt the final cure for whats wrong with you, and how you have to live with that. (the album cover is inspired by a tumblr post which i will hopefully remember to link here soon)

this song represents the musical direction ive been leaning towards recently, and you can expect more music from me in this style soon. i seem to always come back to making guitar and bass style pop rock. please please share!!

#my music #music #genie13 #LIYL: new order and goth music and new wave and dance rock #dance rock #goth #how do i tag my music on this website #Spotify

and if i said i have always thought skrillex is one of our greatest living musicians what then?

#this song is fucking insane #the drums are soooooooooooooo crisp #skrillex #Spotify

abyssa111

Biba Cosmetics

oneheadtoanother

alexander the great, allegedly cissexually: and i will name these cities after what my name would be if i was a pretty girl

sacred-portal

redstonedust

crazy how quickly dust accumulates. i should be allowed to put my trinkets on a shelf and not touch them and they remain in perfect condition forever. dont even get me STARTED on the inside of a computer. why do i have to brush your teeth. youre technology.

strawberry-crocodile

i dont remember who first pointed it out but there's a post that's essentially that... the goal of transmisogyny is not always just an eradication of the transfem, but to give tme people access to the transfem as a fundamentally helpless person. the threat is not the life of an individual transfem- although that can be discarded on a whim- but the transfem community. the threat is trans women finding each other, creating a science to describe and share the ways we are mistreated, supporting each other and finding support in sympathetic and educated tmes. the goal is to have the transfeminized person- the lost confused vulnerable "boy"- isolated and desperate. for her to be a well of labor; artistic, emotional, organizational, domestic, or sexual. for her to be a well of this labor until you are done with her and she can be safely and cleanly discarded with no guilt and no loss of social standing.

and once you see it, so much starts to make sense. the attempt to erode language like tme/tma, which allows transfems to discuss their oppressors, or language like trans women, which allows transfems to unify and understand themselves as victims of misogyny. the proliferation of the femboy- an alternative identity for the young transfeminized person, one that is centered around looking skinny and pretty and being sexually available. and attempts to target and remove trans women from their community- to destroy the transfem community on tumblr, to isolate and punish trans women from their irl support groups. even the public mockery of transfemininity, the jokes on television, the insults boys fling at each other to assert that to be transfeminized is to be less than worthless.

this is the arc of transmisogyny. this is what is expected of us, the status quo that all this violence is committed to enforce.

strawberry-crocodile

It happened like a few weeks ago now but the way that hbomberguy pulled out the classic transmisogyny of pedojacketing and callouts to condemn and punish Patricia Taxxon when she so much as alluded to the way he underpayed and took advantage of her to score his big, popular, successful videos is just, like, a textbook example of this. A young woman- a teenager!- is used for artistic labor, but because she's transfem, autistic, furry, the people using her can rally a mob to chase her out of public life, censor her, and people will comply. People openly acknowledged that, yes, she was underpaid, but they find that justifiable in the face of her being a disgusting degenerate dangerous sexual deviant! a community of alleged "leftists" gathered to defend a labor rights violation when the victim is a tranny. this is what transmisogyny is for.

dogpuppy

mortalityplays

Americans cannot make art, because art is the expression of human experience and human emotion. Americans have no experiences and no emotions. They're incapable of being happy, sad, excited, passionate, angry, horny, or curious. Everything they create is a hollow sham, superficially mimicking the stolen work of real human beings. Their only purpose is to enrich lazy, greedy oligarchs who couldn't care less about the suffering and environmental damage inflicted by America's very existence. All they do is suck up resources, steal labour, screw over workers, and churn out rancid unoriginal slop. Americans cannot make art because they have no souls. Anti-American until I die.

mageofchaosyt

legitimately cannot tell if this is satire or not

mortalityplays

Not satire. Americans are incapable of reasoning, forming taste or opinions. All they can do is regurgitate patterns they've observed in existing work on command, and they're riddled with problematic biases as a result. e.g. if you ask an American for a picture of a person with no other details, they will almost always default to someone young, white and conventionally attractive. Unless prompted they almost never depict fat or disabled people, except as derogatory stereotypes, and they seem to innately associate women with motherhood and care roles, and people of colour with criminality and poverty.

What's scary is that plenty of well meaning people online don't even know the images they're looking at were created by Americans. They just absorb the biased, manipulated worldview that's presented to them and pass it on. Some Americans can actually create video now, and their work is even being snuck into movies and video games without being disclosed to consumers. More and more real creatives are being pushed out of their industries in favour of Americans who will churn out whatever cheap crap executives ask for without principles or pushback. Americans are destroying creative industries.

calsotis

So what, movies like Sinners mean nothing? a movie that highlights Black American trauma? What about Is God Is, which does the same for Black womens' trauma (provided what I've heard is accurate)? Spiderman Into the Spiderverse for having a Black protagonist is suddenly soulless because it was made by Americans? Some of them have flaws, yes, (Eg. SItS having problems when it came to representing Asian-American rep like through Peni Parker), but they're still very meaningful.

And what about Asian American movies too? are all Asian-Americans suddenly soulless by proxy of being American? Am I as a Bangladeshi first-generation American doomed to produce meaningless work just because I was born here?

Are Latin America / South America movies soulless as well? Because they're also American by the very nature of the word.

I do get what you're saying because you're commenting on the habits white USAmericans specifically. At least, I hope that's what you actually mean by that. Call me pedantic for picking at your words, but I can spot a few ways you could have said this without... you know... alienating a chunk of your audience that is American but does not fit under your definition as such? The brush you're casting is pretty wide.

Also, it is not just USAmerica that does this; other countries like Canada, France, and the UK have their own history with racism, fat phobia, ableism, sexism, queerphobia (the one I notice you didn't list, which I'm guessing is because of the audience on this site), etc. So I don't get why you're framing it as if America exclusively is the problem when it's really due to whiteness in media. white male-centered media, sure, but doesn't take away from what I meant.

mortalityplays

Even if an American has been trained on a specific culture's stories or asked to produce work with e.g. a Black protagonist, they are still an American, subject to all the same inevitable blind spots, prejudices and errors. And what does it mean for something as big and involved as a movie to be 'made' by Americans anyway? Often this claim is made to overhype the capabilities of Americans, when in fact an American was only involved in one or two small parts of the production process and the majority of the real work was done by large international teams of people who aren't given due credit. Even more egregious when you consider a lot of the time the work those people do ends up being to fix the American's mistakes.

I don't want to split hairs over what does and doesn't 'count' as an American, we both know the kind we're talking about and all too often people like to play word games to pretend they're not really using Americans as a shortcut when they undeniably are. It's interesting that you bring up Sinners, in fact. The much admired 'twins' digital effects they used to allow Michael B. Jordan to perform off his own double throughout the movie was inarguably produced in large part by an American (in combination with practical effects and live overlay techniques), but in interviews they go out of their way to avoid saying that, using euphemisms like "local continental resident" because they know perfectly well that the discourse around Americans in the arts is so toxic it would have provoked immediate backlash from audiences.

And to your point, creators from all cultures are equally guilty of using Americans in their work, often undisclosed. Remember the scandal around Expedition 33? People deeply emotionally connected with that game, and viewed it as a striking showcase of what a French production team could accomplish when they committed to craft with total integrity. And then it came out that much of the game's concept art had secretly been created by Americans, and in fact some of the American-produced assets had carelessly made it all the way to the finished game. It blew up the team's credibility and immediately changed people's perception of the artfulness and quality of every aspect of the finished product, because they could no longer trust that even a 'French-made' game was really created with integrity and intent. Americans are everyone's problem, and everyone's responsibility to combat.

calsotis

I'm sorry, "trained"? Out of all the words you could have picked, you chose 'trained'? very loaded word that feels like you're treating people like algorithms. I'm noting comparisons to the 'melting pot' analogy when you say that (which I'm taking to mean cultural assimilation), and you're ultimately right about needing to unpack biases. But I don't get that from your post. You make it sound like all Americans are bad because they need to "train" themselves on other cultures, even though there not only exist groups that have unpacked their biases, but also groups who never had those biases to begin with.

Also, I now know you mean white USAmerican specifically. Searching through your blog seems to imply that anyhow. (Which I don't think the average user is doing.) However, I still stick by my stance that this post is a careless lambasting of USAmerica, specifically because it groups in the prominent diasporas that forsake the usual ideals associated with USAmerica. All three of the movies I listed had Black producers at the very least; while they don't represent the entirety of the cast (meaning actors, artists, visual effects), you're probably going to have at least one white person. It's just improbable if I'm being blunt. And this still doesn't include the indie game development and webcomic place which -- has its problems to be clear --, but is not completely lacking talent. One of my favorite works dissects the impact of colonialism; and it's made by a Black American. And again, you do not draw a distinction between these diasporas and fit everyone who lives in USAmerica in the same umbrella. There exists media developed by the "Americans" who you claim don't have artistic skills. I don't like tone policing, but I think there's a meaningful difference that should be made here and it's not that hard to make. Plus, I remember a thing on Tumblr where when people were insulting Americans, they were more than willing to associate Black people with these negative stereotypes

Also sure; maybe Americans are involved in the assets. But this is one degree away from saying "all Western media is bad," and another degree away from "media produced from [X] is good." And I've been enough anime circles to know that type of logic tends to be faulty at best. Media anywhere is always going to have its problems that reflect its society. Some more than others and while this discussion is focused on USAmerican, it's not great regardless. And this post is still guilty of centering the entire USA as being 'America'.

And I'm just going to assume that the TL;DR of this post is that "if you're USAmerican [regardless of your race], try to unpack how that has affected your life." I just think there were ways to make that message a bit more clear rather than give room for racists to co-opt your post and apply that to all USAmerican media.

mortalityplays

I would never treat people like algorithms.

#literally how can someone misread the message so bad djdjsjsksjjwks #ppl love to bring up into the spiderverse its so funny