Okay dorks, I’m gonna try making a pinned post on here that does an actual introduction and either that’ll go somewhere or I’ll go back to doing it my way but let no one say I never tried to assimilate to Tumblr culture after a mere decade of being here in some form or other
I’m Stuffy Doll, which is a band. I play all the instruments (or sometimes play a keyboard that’s made to sound like them), I write and sing all the words (when there are words), I do all the production work (for better or worse). And it’s all available on all music platforms.
Some of my favorite Stuffy Doll songs I’ve made are:
Copper Ridge | Disaster Taxon | February | Buckhorn | Radium::Opium | Fields Like Blank Canvas | Magic Is For Everyone | Ziziphus | Bury Your Name | On The Dance Floor of The Castle
But if, like me, you’re an album person, I highly recommend starting with Ganymede Gives Up The Ghost or my new ballet, Le Ballet qui Saigne
Also I have a pair of songs that my fans have dubbed “The Blowjob Song” and “The Pussy Eating Song”, respectively. They are Diamondback Rattlesnake Venom and Alafia River Song. You can weigh in on whether that feels like a fair characterization of those songs lol
Some folks have compared my music to the following artists, to greater or lesser degrees of accuracy: My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Neon Trees, Childish Gambino, “Ed Sheeran mixed with a Rhino”, Bon Iver, Amanda Palmer, The Mountain Goats, Neil Diamond, Hole, Nirvana, La Dispute, clipping
The band, as a whole, is a lot of different genres, from indie rock to hiphop to metal to jazz to classical to experimental edm, all done with a punk sensibility. To shorten that, I generally just say “weird stories via weird music” or “A New Kind of Americana”. Think of it as music for people with ADHD, because it’s made by one. I’m also autistic, got a buttload of truly horrific childhood and adult trauma, and have had more concussions than a professional American football player. All of those inform why I’m grumpy and probably mean to you, but my love for my fellow trans folks, for my fellow disabled folks, goes far beyond whether I find any individuals amongst you annoying.
I’ve also got a side project called MxDmG, which is a more focused metal/screamo/punk operation that is also, get this, just me doing everything! It’s a fictional band that I made up for a Dungeons and Dragons game that I DM, and I couldn’t resist making a few real world songs for them. They’re an orc guitarist, a Tabaxi bassist, a centaur drummer, a Lizardfolk on horns and keys, and BB Flay on vocals. BB is a feisty little goblin woman who I based loosely on Otep Shamaya. This band is exclusively available on Bandcamp and currently has three songs that are all very good. They are:
Unnatural One | Undead Fortitude | Hunter’s Mark
My husband @ghostcashewart is responsible for most of the illustrations on my album art. His commissions are open and you should jump on that, he’s a master of his craft and great to work with.
Feel free to jump into my asks or whatever but be advised that I might be mean to you in either a funny or just normal way depending on what you say.
Let’s see um…
Oh yeah, basic housekeeping:
She/they
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Florida/Washington/Illinois/California/Appalachia
You can also find me on Bluesky stuffydollband.bsky.social
Open borders, abortion forever, trans rights, fuck fascists, end poverty, fuck the “AI” plagiarism machine, abolish ICE, abolish prisons, abolish the death penalty, fuck 12, real reparations for my black and native homies, if you aren’t willing to wage full-on war in the streets against oppressors then you shouldn’t own a gun.
Also shout out to the homies: Kris Henriksen | Apistat Commander | Teddy Hold On | Zhalarina | Jordan Eller | The Ringer | Aleshea Harris | Paige Beller | Eclectic Revival
Oh, and sometimes I post pictures of my dog cuz I have a dog now. Look at her, she’s great. Her name is Bingsu, she’s a German shepherd/husky mix
It’s Pride. We will take back every inch of lost ground. We will salt their fields. We will burn their crops. We will win and we will build a better, queerer world in the rubble of their hollow empire.
#2! He did not, in fact recommend that I do acid. He DID recommend that I take psylocibin mushrooms though. He did give me a clean bill of health in regard to my heart, which is what I was there for of course, but the other thing he said about the fact that I’ve had over 12 concussions and likely have CTE! It just came up in conversation 🤷🏻♀️
Game 2, the lie was… 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
#3! You all guessed correctly on this one! He did actually sprint out of the room almost immediately upon entering the room, but it wasn’t for a medical emergency, it was to confer with a nurse about something. He did really sprint though, he was mobile af for a guy his age. Included below is the book
There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.
it’s funny how we’re getting to the point in the AI lifespan where you can feel the desperation from tech companies to have you use their AI features. instagram has moved their AI effects to the top of the menu when you’re creating a post for your story, exactly where the draw/edit button used to be. gmail is creating one-click AI-generated replies right before you open up the text box. spotify put a beta AI playlist generator on the front page that looks just like a search bar so all of their users accidentally click on it when they go to search for a song.
tech companies are shaking in their boots trying to prove to shareholders that their investment in AI is worth it, to the point where they’re tricking their users into using the AI features even for a split second in order to fudge the numbers. like awww is your little environment-destroying toy not wielding the results you hoped for? so sad!
Any time you think literally any aspect of life is ubiquitous, I want you to remember that I just spent 5min explaining “indie rock” to a guy in this, the year of our Lord and Savior Max Bemis 2026
this is a post about censorship and setting your own media boundaries
my mom is a professional film critic. when i was a kid, she'd often take me with her to film festivals and let me see whichever films i was interested in with her. now, the thing you've gotta understand about film festivals is that pretty much all the films being shown there have not seen any kind of wide release yet; maybe they've played at a few other festivals, maybe this is the first-ever public showing. iirc many of the films didn't even have official ratings yet
which is all to say: my mom took little ~10 year old me to watch films that she knew basically nothing about. she had a 1-2 sentence description of the film from the festival guide. sometimes she'd have a press kit with more info. so she may know that a film is about, say, a serial killer, but be unsure how explicit the violence would be
so when we were walking into movies together and she wasn't sure how heavy/dark/violent/sexual it was gonna be, she'd tell me beforehand "hey, this film might end up having stuff in it that makes you uncomfortable. i need to stay through the whole film because it's my job, so if you get scared, your job is to decide if you can keep watching and go out to the lobby if you can't. get some popcorn and i'll find you after the movie is over."
out of all the countless screenings i watched with her, i only remember walking out of one (a movie about a school shooting). i hit a point where i realized "oh, i'm not feeling fun-scared anymore, i'm feeling Real Scared", so i quietly left. one of my mom's friends saw me in the lobby and asked where my mom was, and i explained what happened, and she chatted with me for a while. i got some popcorn. i checked out the arcade games in the corner. by the time the movie was over, i was feeling fine, and now as an adult i don't even remember what the exact moment was that freaked me out so bad i had to leave
similarly, starting several years before that, i remember a few nights where i was having trouble falling asleep and feeling pretty restless, so i'd go out to the living room and ask my parents if i could watch whatever tv show/movie they were watching with them. and they'd say "yep, you can, but this our time to pick what's on the tv, so if you don't like what we're watching you can go back to your bedroom and read until you're sleepy". there were a handful of times when i decided that the thing they were watching was too scary, so i left. the rest of the time, i stayed, and it ended up being an interesting exposure to tv shows and movies i wouldn't have otherwise seen
the points i'm drawing to here are:
exposing kids to media that's "too mature" for them is Good For Them, Actually. adults have a tendency to way underestimate how much kids can handle! i watched mulholland drive when i was like 9! my favorite cartoon in elementary school was futurama!
teaching kids how to judge for themselves when they need to stop engaging with a media experience does a much better job at setting them up to have a healthy relationship with media than just banning them from anything deemed Too Mature For Kids
the ability to recognize "this media is upsetting me, so it's my responsibility to walk away from it and stop engaging" is a critical skill that is actually not that hard to develop, but for some reason a lot of young adults on the internet have apparently decided that they're permababies who are physically incapable of doing something i learned how to do in first grade
You’ve gotta understand that, as a natural born Floridian, I have to comment on Pam Bondi having cancer. The following is my personal statement on the news as well as the official position of the band Stuffy Doll:
