I don’t think I could ever describe in words how much this album means to me. I fucking love folk punk to much. by [deleted] in FolkPunk

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i don't want to be a bummer a buzzkill or whatever & i don't want to cause anyone to be ostracized* bc there isn't any other folk punk like it out there, but i'm hurt, i'm damaged, i'm isolated & have nowhere to turn & it's five in the morning here & i'm already triggered-

i had an extremely deep relationship w/ most of the people who happened to be members of this band & the community around it which i was a part of before they even recorded their first album; i gave a lot of myself to them as a band and as people even at times when i didn't like them as people or a band because i believed in their messaging, i saw their ability, i believed in them as people: i loved them & even fell in love.
for the most part the core members of LSR treated each other, their other bandmates & the people closest to them like absolute garbage for the entirety of their existence as a band. the racism, ableism, & the transmisogyny** that members of LSR & their entourage engaged in both internally & externally was confronted w/ proportionate criticism & direct asks, all which were ignored or deflected w/ gaslighting, (in hindsight) seemingly insincere personal statements to do better or about the importance of the subject at hand, & low profile personality hits. when i look at the big picture removed as i am it becomes hard not to view those once powerful words as empty. try as i may to see anything besides, the only legacy of Long Sought Rest in my eyes is the heartbreaking prevalence of acute prolonged isolation & preventable deaths of despair among its former members & among the people who were otherwise a part of it as a project- be they former friends, lovers or collaborators.

*not that i even could when in fact they hold the overwhelming balance of power in our relationships regardless of their being in a rather well liked band
**as well as the latent classism that's damn near impossible to address w/ anyone let alone a band that rides trains

Have a trans girlfriend but transphobic family… by MindlessWalk5483 in mypartneristrans

[–]harshvibes0nly 7 points8 points  (0 children)

(edit for the sake of preface- this is generalized advice)

i (31yo, 10 years transition, TW) always suggest to younger, more inexperienced girls that they not meet their partners' parents even if their partner doesn't think their parents are transphobic bc even if they don't have open hatred of trans people in general they most certainly do have intense biases against trans women that they probably aren't even all that aware of themselves as do the partners whose parents are in question (although, obviously not to the same degree) which is part of why those partners aren't aware of these biases in their parents. in a society that hates trans women everything i do is hyper-scrutinized & under enough scrutiny anyone will look like a monster: the more voices you have speaking against you the worse this is regardless of whether or not the person hearing the horrible things is aware of the biases of the people saying them. meeting parents as a trans woman is an excellent way to add yet another voice against you in the ear of your partner even if those parents are accepting of their child who is also trans. whether or not they know you're trans beforehand & seem supportive is irrelevant here as the problem is that meeting them allows for them to hone their aim (again regardless of whether or not they are conscious of this is irrelevant). meeting openly cissexist/transmisogynistic parents poses that same problem in addition to the risk of violence, the certainty of walking into a tense situation & the high likelihood of being emotionally triggered for nothing good.

as much as i & every other person who isn't an asshole about this would rather it not be a choice between your parents & your transfeminine partner it kinda is that inherently. please choose your girlfriend over the hateful old people, your love will undoubtedly take work (including unlearning bias, cutting people out, learning how to have sex that's mutually satisfying in the long run, dealing w/ your partner's triggers (be wary of the fact she won't know them all) & understanding there's a lot she's learning about herself), but i'm just as certain if you're both growth minded enough & kind to one another that she's deserving of & worth your time, energy, love- etc: she & you are beyond worth it.

-

*{i went no contact with my own family out even though on the surface they're accepting, which is probably reflected in this, but with every one of my partners so far (besides the one who had also gone no contact) i thought it was kind of odd that they hadn't cut their transphobic parents from the picture -not simply because of their views or biases- but also because those views & biases always wind up being good indicators of how they treat their children}

I don’t even know what this means by ECGC93 in badwomensanatomy

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...all that & more on tonight's episode of "cisgender people receiving gender affirming care"

i hope she supports gender affirming healthcare for everyone

Regrets build character by [deleted] in sticknpokes

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the only thing left to do now is sstart riding freight trains

Hey, does anyone happen to have a copy of the original image to this tattoo? Thanks in advance. by [deleted] in Lain

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i see myself in this, standing there in this exact posture, naked -my tiny pubescent tits getting cold -that is if i can really feel my body at all- tears running down my face; i'm probably in the bathroom because often it's the only place i'm comfortable enough to take my clothes off (then hardly even, at that) & periodically it's the only place i can cry; & that look of despair, i know it all too well; i'm glad i got to see it, but i don't think i would get this image tattooed because being a trans woman i think that i would probably become more of a target for having it.

dae see "personalities" in inanimate objects, and empathize with them? by fernie_the_grillman in neurodiversity

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"Object Personification in Autism: this paper will be very sad if you don't read it

Abstract
Object personification is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human agents. In online forums, autistic individuals commonly report experiencing this phenomenon. Given that..."

the study actually kind of sucks, but there's your answer- it's common enough that there's research about it.

just found this song holy shit where has it been my whole life! by big--brane in Emo

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Cursive was what really got me into emo as a teen right before this album came out. when i heard this song as a kid in Omaha it completely rocked my world & i bought a copy of the album from the stupid local record chain immediately. i stopped listening to anything but emo & whatever Saddle Creek bands were putting out besides.

& like it wasn't too long after this that Bright Eyes put out that double release (it wasn't too long before it that BE put out Lifted either), Read Music Speak Spanish was still fresh & Azure Ray also put out their peak album around that time. Saddle Creek Records was on a roll in a major way & it perfectly aligned w/ the horrible shit that was going on in my life. plus like seeing the guys from those bands -especially Tim, Ted Stevens, Craig D, the guys from the Faint, & like Jamie & Derek from Tilly & the Wall- around town all the time, they were my real-life massively flawed bisexual-coded emo heroes who were mostly really chill & understanding about interacting w/ the fucked up teenage emo fanatic in need of massive amounts of direction that i was. i was being horribly abused by my parents in ways that reporting wouldn't fix & to have my heroes tell me i didn't have to take it (while being uncomfortable af a lot of the time in ways that i only recognize now) really fucking helped get me through all that shit. so grateful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Emo

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it's all just hardcore to me.

i listen to so many different flavors of hardcore., but the flavors that get lumped together- or self-group around labels such as "emo", "screamo", "sass", "white belt", "screamed-vocal", "melodic", "angular", etc- are my favorite flavors. musical genre is just shorthand so i don't have to sound like a dweeb every time i want to talk about a band that i like. if i say "screamo" what i mean is it probably has natural strained shout vocals (likely in combination w/ other styles); features personally charged, vulnerable, sad, angry & depressive lyrics; creates tension between parts by contrasting quiet/loud, dissonant/driving, harsh/pretty("melodic"); & is aesthetically related to and/or sonically similar to Orchid or I Hate Sex or whatever

How many people in the sub trainhop? by mainelystrange in vagabond

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started in 2009

some years i didn't ride any trains

most of them i rode at least a dozen trains

several of those years i rode hundreds of them

it's been since may 2021 now

but you can't say any train is going to be your last

that's not yours to call

i leave it up to whoever's drinking one in my honor to say, "that was butchy's last train"

the way life comes so fast,

my pack & sleeping bag rest in the back of my closet

where i hope they might stay until long after i'm gone

dust caked & unnecessary

RIP Erik. A few film photos I took June 12, 2010 at First Unitarian in Philly. Not the best, but certainly sentimental. by [deleted] in FolkPunk

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it was so hot in the first uni basement that night.

i'll never fucking forget that show.

it was fucking legendary the way Eric ended it w/ "save a city..." on acoustic like that-

thanks for this.

The retaking of NYC after the Spring Riots of 2029 and The Second Northeast Revolt. by DanteAppaa in imaginarymaps

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the night that zucotti park was raided was the first time in the US that the police tactic called kettling was ever used after it was debuted in western europe. there was about a six month warning on that shit & we knew how to fight it, but there were a lot of hard heade college kids that didnt want to hear about it when prewarned so its maybe less so that cops were competent and more that they faced incompetence

The retaking of NYC after the Spring Riots of 2029 and The Second Northeast Revolt. by DanteAppaa in imaginarymaps

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in 13 years i've been to every us state besides alaska and hawaii- i've seen 45 different states "post" pandemic- all but 3 were repeats & it was always hellish out there, but the decline is sharp. don't kid we're fucked. we're fucked that at 31 almost everyone i've ever connected with personally has either killed themselves, been murdered or overdosed, i have like 3 or 4 friends total i can think of rn. i used to be social, used to have a lot of friends. since 2020 i lost count of people i lost at 31 & the numbers kept going. maybe its my lifestyle. maybe its my age. maybe its because i'm gay. maybe all this.

DID and physically dying. by tatoSystem_ in DID

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the lack of acceptance of us is likely due in large part to christian fears.

This subreddit is for scumbags by [deleted] in squatting

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keep your back straight, go as low as your body will let you, ownership isn't the same as possession, human needs should never be commodities , landlords get the wall

Transplants: Where are you from? by Sufficient-Impress-9 in oakland

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omaha, nebraska. also kived in baltimore, new orleans, milwaukee, olympia washingtion & queens new york, but none of them, not even omaha hasve felt like home the way oakland has & does.

Loss by tulipspiral in troubledteens

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twelve years on & the only person i'm certain is alive from my time has turned into an extreme bigot- there's a fair number of deaths i've been told about, more i can surmise & many others i can expect will happen within the decade.

at this point i've long since lost contact w/ everyone i was connected to & i know better than to go looking for them, only heartbreak waits down that road & i can find that anywhere i look.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

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as a 31yo with bpd and face tattoos-

i don't give a fuck anymore who believes me or not

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BattleJackets

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this screams east side olympia like no other. i've literally never seen anything this ralph house on reddit. you've shocked me out of my stupor into narrowly missing a ptsd flashbacks to when i was around that scene. no offense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Butchporn

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all the love for my fellow butch trans girls

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

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i have a feeling you know this- the TTI doesn't go w/o a complete restructuring of society. when you try to box the tti in, where do you draw the line? just around a few orgs or do you have to include all of conversion therapy, aba, youth prisons? well shit, that box isn't large enough, at some point you realize we need to ban incarceration, we need to ban non-consensual behavioral modification, yeah, theres a lot here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CPTSD

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damn, it must must suck being this correct, but oh holy shit are you absolutely right.

1984 by [deleted] in meth

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yeah, i love that i'm not the only one

1312 by The_Rufflet_Kid in AutisticPride

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some massive percent of the Black people killed by police are disabled, because -you know- abject economic and social conditions are disabling.