@nyx i listened to linkin park on repeat the first half of yesterday
@unmind lmao really I ended up listening to them last night for the first time in like well over a decade
@nyx someone on here a few months ago was complaining about kids these days only use linkin park as a meme and i've been listening to them a lot since then. i don't have quite the same association between them and my ex-best friend that i have with NIN even though I think I like NIN better
@unmind they've always been used as a meme lol. a lot of the earliest videos I remember on youtube and newgrounds used their music. they were the first band I ever liked when I was a preteen so there's some permanent nostalgia associated with them

@nyx @unmind i remember being like 13 or 14 and realizing that Linkin Park was cringe but also I listened to Queen and classical music and it took me until I was almost 15 to resolve that conflict by just becoming extremely emo and deciding that Linkin Park was cringe because it was for posers who weren’t really in the scene.

I still secretly liked Linkin Park the whole time.

@unmind @nyx imagine not clinging extremely hard to an excuse to wear makeup and grow out your hair and wear women’s clothing and also shave your body hair(yes mom that’s definitely part of it too I don’t make the rules)

@destroy @unmind for me it was wanting to grow my hair long like a thrash metalhead lmao. because I hadn't gotten into goth yet (which is where I really got the gateway into experimenting with gender presentation with makeup and whatnot) and was like very deeply neurotically repressed, but there was still a part of me that was like aha but what if I grew my hair out really long in a totally normal cis way aha (she didn't know)

@nyx @unmind tbh you give deeply neurotically repressed vibes still which is funny considering how much of an epicurian libertine you actually are

@dangerdyke @destroy @unmind real as fuck honestly. I am not one to extrapolate my own experiences but the combination of guilty-by-default transmisogyny and all wlw relationships being seen as either completely chaste and pure or the pornographic hetero gaze version while also having no other alternatives even pretransition besides thinking I was asexual really did a lot on its own to make me neurotically repressed I guess
@dangerdyke @destroy @unmind and if that wasn't bad enough then there's everything that happened AFTER transitioning ahaha :xf_joker:
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@dangerdyke @unmind @nyx wait… bad things can happen AFTER transitioning!?

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