NotjustanyAnnie

Graceful Black-throated Trogon (Trogon tenellus), male, family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes, Costa Rica

I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT

some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:

Inuit artists:

the jerry cans (esp their album Inuusiq)

beatrice deer

twin flames

Māori artists:

jordyn with a why

Indigenous australian artists:

tilly tjala thomas (i particularly love ngai yurlku nhiina)

kardajala kirridarra (srlsly check out ngajabu (Grandmother's Song))

And one of her own:

Oh and of course there's also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:

Darkaside is a Papuan metal band

Shepherds Reign is a Samoan metal band

Lenin Tamayo, Quechua pop singer.

And of course I can't not add Mari Boine (Sámi) to a post like this:

And Arvvas, who I think have moved on to other things but did mashups of Sámi traditional singing and jazz:

a Bn size is the mean between An and An-1

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

SHEILA ATIM as Akasha

Sabrina, 29

“I’m really inspired by the 70s. Colors in general are such an inspiration: Colorful interior design, colorful architecture, anything colorful really. My pants are Celia B, sneakers Caval, glasses Nathalie Blanc, and the rest is vintage.”

I'm ashamed to say this

I grew up isolated by my family- no friends, homeschooled, no other family than the one i lived with no communities total isolation. They kicked me out the moment I came out as transgender (MyF) at 18 and since there were no jobs around and i don't have any of my documents or a driving licence I can't find one anyway. My town has no communities or food banks because it's a tiny ass place and because of the isolation i have no friends or further family to help me either. I'm taking showers at the truck parking lots because there are showers for the drivers and charge my phone at the library or any other spot before i get shooed away. I'm writing this from the library computer because I have my mom's old phone that only allows me to text or call which is kinda useless with no phone plan or anything. I sleep anywhere and got kicked out from a church because of this once and after my tiny stash of food (granola bars) and my birthday money ran out i ended up broke and have to dig through the trash and yeaaaah people aren't the happiest about it, they don't really help either they just don't want to look at my pitiful ass. I feel quite ashamed for doing this that's why I'm asking the poll question because all of the looks people give me make me question everything

Also wanted to ask for some advice but as i said i'm currently on the library pc so there's a chance I'll see it in a few days (coming here rarely so I don't look suspicious) if ever. To make things easier for the advice I live in the norther part of Maine thanks

Also how to look less masc because currently I look like a guy wearing feminine clothes which is also getting me a lot of negative attention and at some points even puts me in danger. Sorry for kinda venting at a random poll blog but I've seen people posting their issues on here so decided to give it a try without giving my identity out?