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Does anybody following me/who sees this post have any songs that remind them of Iron Lung/Bloodymary/Project Hail Mary? I’m tryna cobble together a playlist.
I’ll start:
Keeping Score by SUM SUN (Bloodymary)
Evergreen by Young the Giant (Iron Lung, specifically Simon himself)
My Iron Lung by Radiohead (self explanatory)
Okay, I’ve gotten a LOT of excellent suggestions on this post!! Below is a working playlist that I’ll come back and add onto if I get more recommendations or I find anything myself.
Intro to the Snow by Miracle Musical (I recommend this first + the next song together, they blend together p well I think) (both movies)
Evergreen by Young the Giant (Iron Lung)
Keeping Score by SUM SUN (Bloodymary)
NOMU by Good Kid (Project Hail Mary)
Iron Lung by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Iron Lung)
Into the Unknown from Over the Garden Wall (Iron Lung)
Give Us This Day II* by David Maslanka (Iron Lung)
Russian Lullaby by Dirty Rotten Vipers (Iron Lung)
Starlight by STARSET (Bloodymary)
Carry You (ft. Fleurie) by Ruelle (Bloodymary)
My Iron Lung by Radiohead (Iron Lung)
Love Don’t Die by The Fray (Bloodymary)
Pompeii MMXXIII by Bastille & Hans Zimmer (Bloodymary)
Fix What You Didn’t Break by Nate Smith (Bloodymary)
You Don’t Wanna Know by Aranda (Bloodymary)
Sink Away by Blixemi & Loganne Digma (Bloodymary)
Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token (Iron Lung)
Minor Holiday by Sparkbird & Stephan Nance (Bloodymary)
From Eden by Hozier (Bloodymary)
Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine (Bloodymary)
Lost in the Cosmos by The Mechanisms (Project Hail Mary)
Music for a Nurse by Oceansize (Bloodymary)
Rite of Spring II: the Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls* by Igor Stravinsky (Iron Lung)
The Planets, Op. 32: I Mars l, the Bringer of War* by Gustav Holst (Iron Lung)
Thanks to @iateyourburrito, @starburstsobsessions, @the-lyf-incident, @mistfox34, @mcskullmun, @fistfuloflightning, and @lexie-crow for the wonderful suggestions! I didn’t pick everything they recommended (nothing personal, just not my cuppa tea), so check the notes for additional songs!
(Also if anyone wants me to untag them PLEASE let me know!!)
*Classical music
“Ugh this prominent women in the Lesbian movement turned out to be a bisexual” “ugh this famous lesbian transitioned into a man” “ugh this queer romance writer turns out to be ace” “ugh this cis feminist author ended up being nonbinary” “ugh this writer on masculinity transitioned into a woman”
Oh no! We might have to recognize liberation as an interconnected intersectional struggle! Ahhh!!! >.<
"ugh this intersex person turned to be perisex trans" GOOD FOR THEM TBH
like can we celebrate people figuring out who they are? If we make intersex this super hard to identify with label that needs Absolute Proof of Intersexuality then we're putting up barriers for people to find the community they deserve.
me explaining goncharov to my mother: so tumblr made up this scorsese crime film and they're arguing about its themes and-
my mother, completely deadpan: well are they reviewing the theatrical release or director's cut.
me:
my mother: what does frances ford coppola think of it
Your mother is the only one who understands me
it is crazy how people will be like well we just can never know why joan of arc crossdressed, we just can't be sure it wasn't entirely about protecting herself from rape or just the practical necessity of being at war. as if that is not an argument that was literally invented at her rehabilitation trial decades after her death to justify her sainthood. as if we don't have the original french minutes of her trial, where she was very active and aware in the note-taking and what was being written down and, when given opportunities to explain her crossdressing, never once mentioned sexual violence or practical concerns about wearing women's clothing while at war, and instead directly stated several times that she wore men's clothing because it was God's will and she would only stop if God commanded her to.
like actually i don't think its that big of mystery. there's mysterious elements, because we don't have all the details, but its not like we have no clue what she said on the subject.. i think it has just historically made a lot of cishet people extremely uncomfortable that jeanne la pucelle went to her death refusing to ever admit fault for saying God told her to wear men's clothing for the sake of being a virgin waging war in men's clothing. i think it historically made a lot of people uncomfortable that at her trial they told her "Deuteronomy says crossdressing is a sin" and jeanne's response was "I know what God told me and I do not believe I have done anything wrong." but that is a problem for people because you can't have her sainthood and her admirable (to a Catholic) devotion to God without her devotion to her genderqueerness in God's name.
jeanne la pucelle did not try to imitate other historical or mythological warrior-women or holy heterosexual virgins. she carved out an identity that was truly unique to her and deeply grounded in her Catholic faith. she looked the men who killed her in the eye and answered their questions and knew what she was doing. this was not a woman who seemed unsure of herself much at all. she said she'd die before she went against God's will and wore women's clothing, and then she did. i think we can all maybe show her the respect of acknowledging that she wore men's clothing because it was personally spiritually meaningful to her that she did, and not for the secretly entirely practical cisgender reasons people came up with later to make her story easier to swallow.

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yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.
the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.
just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.
This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.
I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.
I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.
It's a lot, for books aimed at eleven year olds who want to read about kids turning into fun animals.
On the podcast, the two (American) hosts happened to get onto the topic of the post-9/11 Iraq War and their reactions to it. They were both children at the time and as such could not be expected to have particularly nuanced views of US military policy. The person who hadn't read Animorphs was unsurprised by the declaration of war; that's what you did. Someone attacks America, America goes to war. That's how a country protects itself, through military revenge. The Animorphs fan, about the same age, had been devastated and against the war from the start. War was a Big Deal and, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort; a lot of people were going to die, and a lot more were going to get hurt, and no matter how the war shook out it was still going to be horrible. They attributed this perspective, of course, to the series that had taught them about the horrors endemic to war in an engaging way at such a young age -- to Animorphs.
That's what kid fiction is for.
I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.
It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.
Three yaks dance in Lhasa city (cr 情满拉萨,吉吉)(If you do not reside long-term in a high-altitude environment, please avoid intense physical activity at high altitudes, as it may trigger altitude sickness.)
[Three musicians in astonishingly good chubby yak fursuits dance to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat it"]
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isn't it insane though how schizophrenic people are viewed as violent and dangerous by the majority of society when in reality schizophrenic people are nearly 14 times more likely to be on the receiving end of violence than to be the perpetrators...
schizophrenic person: makes a post trying to raise awareness about the disproportionate abuse and harmful stereotypes schizophrenic people face
yall: "yeah im not gonna reblog this they used the word ins*ne which is so problematic ://"
What the fuck happens that changes these stats to such a massive degree?
1) schizophrenia hardly ever causes people to be violent so schizophrenic people aren’t more likely to be violent than anyone else
2) schizophrenic people’s autonomy is often taken away from them because of their schizophrenia. because the authorities and mental healthcare providers often automatically assume schizophrenic people to be violent, they’re more likely to immediately react to schizophrenic people's symptoms with violence, without even knowing for sure said schizophrenic person was going to be violent. all of this causes schizophrenic people to be more likely of being victims of violence and abuse. schizophrenic people also have a harder time getting out of abusive households because of the risk of their autonomy being taken away. if a schizophrenic person’s relative or partner is abusive, often the schizophrenic person has no way out of the situation, both because our disconnect from reality can result in us being easier to manipulate, and because the system is built in a way that it takes away our autonomy because of our condition.
also schizophrenic people and psychotic people in general, please do a lot of research before picking a provider for your own sake, and if they try to treat your psychosis in a way that you think is harmful then don’t hesitate to switch providers. your safety and wellbeing should be a priority over everything else.
can y'all please reblog this version instead
Haha yeah eww no thanks
That’s a bug
@kittybroker how much for this tiny bug?
Fish up this tiny little baby bug right out of the free bin for the low low price of 0 dollars nothing!
So much of what is “cringe” is just… earnest.
what if you made an honest expression of genuine human emotion and someone saw it!

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Characters who are like “let’s run away together let’s get away from all this” when it’s already too late!!!!!!!
Does anybody following me/who sees this post have any songs that remind them of Iron Lung/Bloodymary/Project Hail Mary? I’m tryna cobble together a playlist.
I’ll start:
Keeping Score by SUM SUN (Bloodymary)
Evergreen by Young the Giant (Iron Lung, specifically Simon himself)
My Iron Lung by Radiohead (self explanatory)
Okay, I’ve gotten a LOT of excellent suggestions on this post!! Below is a working playlist that I’ll come back and add onto if I get more recommendations or I find anything myself.
Intro to the Snow by Miracle Musical (I recommend this first + the next song together, they blend together p well I think) (both movies)
Evergreen by Young the Giant (Iron Lung)
Keeping Score by SUM SUN (Bloodymary)
NOMU by Good Kid (Project Hail Mary)
Iron Lung by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Iron Lung)
Into the Unknown from Over the Garden Wall (Iron Lung)
Give Us This Day II* by David Maslanka (Iron Lung)
Russian Lullaby by Dirty Rotten Vipers (Iron Lung)
Starlight by STARSET (Bloodymary)
Carry You (ft. Fleurie) by Ruelle (Bloodymary)
My Iron Lung by Radiohead (Iron Lung)
Love Don’t Die by The Fray (Bloodymary)
Pompeii MMXXIII by Bastille & Hans Zimmer (Bloodymary)
Fix What You Didn’t Break by Nate Smith (Bloodymary)
You Don’t Wanna Know by Aranda (Bloodymary)
Sink Away by Blixemi & Loganne Digma (Bloodymary)
Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token (Iron Lung)
Minor Holiday by Sparkbird & Stephan Nance (Bloodymary)
From Eden by Hozier (Bloodymary)
Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine (Bloodymary)
Lost in the Cosmos by The Mechanisms (Project Hail Mary)
Music for a Nurse by Oceansize (Bloodymary)
Rite of Spring II: the Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls* by Igor Stravinsky (Iron Lung)
The Planets, Op. 32: I Mars l, the Bringer of War* by Gustav Holst (Iron Lung)
Thanks to @iateyourburrito, @starburstsobsessions, @the-lyf-incident, @mistfox34, @mcskullmun, @fistfuloflightning, and @lexie-crow for the wonderful suggestions! I didn’t pick everything they recommended (nothing personal, just not my cuppa tea), so check the notes for additional songs!
(Also if anyone wants me to untag them PLEASE let me know!!)
*Classical music