scream at the void enough and it will scream back

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

- O. Children: really amazing goth music, Black lead singer, they aren’t making music anymore but what they’ve put out is amazing

- Overthrust: a death metal band from Botswana (Botswana has a real cool metal and rock culture, just real fun to look into outside of listening to it)

- Jhariah: an amazing Black alternative artist, I love all of their music, I grew up listening to them to be honest

- Sepultura: Brazilian heavy metal band, one of the main singers is Black, their music is epic

- Filth: another amazing metal band, I believe from somewhere in America, one of the singers is Black, and they’ve got a real cool album called “Southern Hostility”

- Loathe: yet another metal band, but they’re actually metalcore band I’m pretty sure, one of the main singers is Black and their music is less headbangy and more smooth and sad

- Zulu: an all Black metal band, their music very cool, I personally like their song “Protest Song ‘68”

- Move BHC: really epic metal, main singer is Black and their music is very political (in a good way) it really helps when the world feels like it sucks to put them on and just feel the anger

- Living Colour: of course! We have to include them, my favorite band of all time, I got to see them live recently actually :D their music is funk metal- just so amazing

- Public Enemy: for people who aren’t as into metal but still are into political and well worded music, their music is great (I’m sure everyone knows since they’re so popular lol but I felt like I needed to include them)

- Mon Rovia: really great folk music that still has a political undertone, I especially like his song “Heavyfoot” it addresses a lot of current issues in a tactful and beautiful way

- This isn’t a specific artist but “Dinner Party: Dessert” is an amazing album that has so many talented Black artists on it, my favorite song is “From My Heart and My Soul”

- Also not a specific artist but the whole Sinners album (both theatrical soundtrack and score)

- Also not an artist but the “Summer of Soul” documentary’s album, just chefs kiss

- Meshell Ndegeochello: AMAZING MUSIC, my favorite album is “The Omnichord Real Book”

- Burna Boy: need I say more? I will, his music is absolutely beautiful and I’d recommend it to anyone who asked

- 24-7 Spyz: funky heavy metal, their music is amazing, I so recommend!!!

- Tyler, the Creator: just an amazing artist! Recommend his music lots!!!!

- Stevie Wonder: obviously! He got so popular for a reason! His music is amazing

- Vieux Farka Touré: Amazing music, my favorite song of his is “Diaraby Magni”

- Soul Glo: an all Black hardcore band from Philadelphia!! My favorite song of theirs is “Gold Chain Punk”

Ok so I may have written way too much I apologize

Hope this helps anyone trying to diversify their music tastes, ESPECIALLY metal fans, there are always Black people in all music forms, stop saying “oh there’s no Black people in metal” YES there is!!! And their music is amazing!

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

Shoutout to everyone who’s been valiantly escaping the AI-riddled hellworlds of Google Docs and Microsoft Word, hauling hundreds of thousands of docs over to Ellipsus with Markdown import (or good ol’ copypaste).

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@germybois - follows and shit im going to want to find twice

@killjoyordietryin random stuff

@geewaysthirdleg mcr

@queenfreakhudsonwilliams - heated rivalry

just so yall know, they are all me, separated so i dont annoy the shit outta people (although youre on tumblr, so you should be used to it)

The body my soul resides in

Came to myself secondhand

From my mother and my mothers mother

I carry what they carried

I fear what they fear.

The young girl that took care of this body first full of fire and compassion

She did not know the world and what it wants from her. she knew only herself. 

The tomboy they grew into piloted it like it was strong, fast, and belonged to them alone.

The body was taken. The body became like a stranger. The body changed forms.

 It became a foreign language i could not easily speak

They gave me words that were not from my tongue.

The self learned to shrink. 

The body    Shrank    Sank    Drowned

The whispers of the deep waters around me grasped the body like a siren saying

I have a plan for you- daughter, sister, wife, mother. you will belong to someone.

Youll be loved this way.

 Leave him behind like secondhand clothes that have been soiled,

 I will tell you what you will be. What you will want.  you will belong to someone.

 I shapeshifted But the core remained the same

i lived in the world that wanted to shape me in the hope she would be accepted

 as she wears the figure the world likes best

But the world wants more

It always wants more

The pieces i carved from myself were not enough

The world takes what it wants

the body that was supposed to be mine/someone else takes

The autonomy/a man takes. The decisions/ a man takes. 

The strength and health/a man takes. My labour. The world takes.

Must I be a man to own my own body?

Is every woman's body secondhand? Shared property?

 Must I give my body to have someone to care for me?

Is there a body without the violence and expectations of gender?

Must this body's womb bear children to have a family?

My secondhand body has been with me since the gift of life. 

My secondhand body has lived many lives. 

I am her, the woman my body carries, she belongs to me.

I am him. The protector of the body. I will make the decisions now.

I am them, this body is their home. 

With the scuff marks and scars, the art, the secondhand furniture, the burdens and joys

This body is mine now. I am their home.

I will cherish it. I will care for it. I will decorate as I see fit.

I will open the windows and let the light reflect on the dust.