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I just found you on Spotify today and I love your music so so so much :3 <3

thank you so much !! :D

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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.

Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.

Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉

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have you ever listened to a band called Tally Hall???? if so, fav song?????????? if not, LISTEN NOW (pls)

i love tally hall. i think my favourite song is actually from miracle musical which is the mind electric. however if u want specifically my favourite tally hall song its probably ruler of everything

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I made a shark and I named it Ewy because you give off shark vibes (in a good way) and my dog fucking sat on it and now it’s flat.

this is fucking awesome actually

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if you havent listened to pinkerton by weezer then you should and you can blame me for ur new weird, slightly freakish, emo phase

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explaining HRT to my parents and acceptance

hello everypony, if you don't know, im non binary. im gonna be really vulnerable here for a hot sec but i just wanted to share my experience because its something ive found very difficult to write about in musical form.

gender has always been super confusing for me and whilst there were signs of me being trans when i was younger, its only something thats become apparent in the last three years. i wont bore anyone explaining my experience of where i stand with my gender but i wanted to share my experiences with HRT and the process of telling my parents about it.

i started seriously considering HRT around around a year ago and decided to take the plunge around two months ago because every time i looked in the mirror, i noticed more chest hairs, thicker body hair, broader shoulders and a squarer jawline -- this all makes me extremely dysphoric and i hated it. the conclusion i came to was, this was all going to continue to intensify throughout me aging and so the main question was: do i want to age on testosterone or estrogen? once i started estrogen i felt so much better about myself, almost instantly (as in, within the first few days). my mood has drastically increased and i have 'breakdowns' way less now which is great!! one thing i was scared about was chest growth and the day before i started estrogen, i was very tired from a long day and had a breakdown because i was quite literally mourning my freedom. i never really have been more confident shirtless or anything but i mourned swimming in the sea, in lakes, in rivers and in tarns on the mountain tops -- the sense of freedom you feel when you're fresh out of an ice cold tarn on a mountain is indescribable. however, now i have responsibilities, i have a career i have to make work, i have people i need to please and for some reason i felt not being able to be shirtless was another freedom i could potentially have snatched away from me. when i told my mum about me starting HRT she said 'well, i'm sure you've made an informed decision so i'll just tell you the same thing i've said about weed: just be careful okay' which was a genuinely pleasant surprise when my dad found out, my mum called me saying 'just in case you get a call from your dad, he's really worried and he's been losing sleep over it. if he calls you, please dont argue with him, just agree with him for now for our sake' my dad did end up calling me and i explained everything and any worries that he had. he had a lot of questions but i managed to answer everything without getting too upset. towards the end of our call i thought he said 'i just needed you to understand' to which i replied 'yeah i understand, its okay to be anxious, because i definitely was' and he replied 'no, i said "i just needed to understand"' im really grateful for my parents being so accepting and its genuinely strengthened our relationship. even though they're pretty hit and miss with calling me my correct pronouns, they still love me and havent disowned me and im really grateful for that.

anyways, thanks for coming to my ted talk

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where on the a19 did you hit that bunny (want to play the song as i drive past it)

i hit it near the a19, dont wanna dox my parents but it was near a cross road

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opinion on vocaloid?

oo-ee-oo 👍👍

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🌸🌧️ finally the finished comic for my uni project!! i’m so very proud of this :] thank u to everyone that took/spread my survey for this!! mwah mwah mwah!!! love evie and love every trans woman before its too late!!

id below cut/in alt text!! bc it’s very long!

[ID: A digital comic featuring lyrics from the song fake violins by casio dad. The comic is in shades of white and purple, getting progressively more pink. The two characters are elves named evie and cosmo. evie is transfem, has medium-length curly hair, and has a freckles with some hair on her face. cosmo is a fat transmasc and has curly long hair with light streaks in it, as well as facial hair.

Panel 1: A nailpolish brush lifts out from a container reading “True Black Nail Polish,” the hand and rest of the person hidden.

Panel 2: Two hands pull on dark thigh-high socks, the rest of the person hidden.

Panel 3: A face looking into its reflection, only the lower half of the face.

Panel 4:  evie stands, wearing dark high-rise socks, a dark skirt, and a white t-shirt, and black nailpolish. She’s the person featured in the first few panels. She smiles, looking forward. A computer in the background has a search term for transfem, with the article “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.” visible. Lyrics in the background read “She never broke any windows A love like starving and waiting and fake violins Bowed their song through the air ducts fistfulls of anticonvulsants stuck in her throat.”

Panel 5: evie looks directly forward, at the viewer, looking upset. Lyrics in the background read “She gave her all that she could do picked up a hairpin and bent it to make a ring”

Panel 6: evie looks forward, in a dark sweater, while cosmo smiles at her from behind, wearing a dark t-shirt.

Panel 7: A white heart in a purple circle has the words “she her.” Lyrics in the background read “Gave her all that she had to She tried the door, it wouldn’t open”

Panel 8: cosmo, wearing a white t-shirt, stretches with his hands behind his back. evie wears a sweater and overalls, and looks nervous, sitting to the side.

Panel 9: cosmo sealing the ends of a ribbon with a lighter

Panel 10: Cosmo reaches out to evie, his hands with black nailpolish as well, and smiles softly.

Panel 11: Evie looks down, slightly surprised, noticing a tied up ribbon bow on her overalls that cosmo put there.

Panel 12: White lily of the valley flowers sit delicately in a bottle with the text reading “Estradiol Injection”.  Lyrics in the background reads “So let’s start again together I’ll run away forever You know I can’t help coming back to you Break all our friends who ever loved us and made life better” 

Panel 13: evie sits on a bed, smiling and looking at the viewer. she wears a bralette, a skirt, and light high-rise socks. Lyrics in the background read “Fuck them, they don’t have any clue!” end ID]

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Thank you for writing beautiful music. One of my dogs passed away recently. I remember when his mother ate plastic, and when his uncle did the same years later. I remember sitting outside with him on multiple stormy occasions, rubbing his head and belly and humming to him. Now, when I listen to your songs and hear “and I’ll sit with your body beside me, with your dead arms all over me, never cared they were cold. I’ll be here, when your family is all gone, my hands will be here for loan, God I wish my paws weren’t so cold.” I get to remember soothing him when the thunder scared him, and letting him rest his big paws on my lap. So thank you for reminding me of my boy.❤️

this is such a sweet anecdote thank you so much for reaching out :')) im really glad my music resonated with you im sorry about your dog, i wrote dead dogs not long after my dog Kane died and it was heartbreaking. i remember knowing he was gonna be put down and playing tug of war with him gently and bursting into tears. death is cruel but i hope you're okay <3

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wait, u leeds?!?

yes :3

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hey, same person who wants to learn how to make music because of you, i'm now learning guitar by learning (simplified) woolen mittens ^_^

yipee !! im so glad <33

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are u a spider

SHHH dont tell evereyone !!!

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et tu brute?

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hi! i just wanted to say, i found you through woolen mittens (i think i watched an animation?) and i've just now been listening to your other music

your music is extremely beautiful and poetic, i particularly like an ode to the bunny i killed near the a19 and drip drip drip fall!! your music has inspired me to attempt to create some myself, but that'll take a while haha

tl;dr: i love ur music so much !! you're probably my favorite artist atm !!! :3

gosh, i dont know how i missed this!! thank you so much !! i really wish you well on your music journey. its a long but extremely rewarding one.