Traditionally it would be called facial feminization surgery but I'm not able to get my jaw done and I don't want to get anything changed about my nose, so I'm calling it facial theminization surgery and taking the opportunity to go she/they on the pronouns, but I feel like if I say that it'll raise so many questions, like there's not even a single result on google for the term and so I feel like people would be really confused and go "tap what the fuck are you talking about" and I'd go "you know, like she ๐โโ๏ธ / they ๐ฝ" and then people would go "that doesn't help at all and just raises more questions!!", so I've also been calling it skeleton change surgery to bypass all that. I guess it'd be clearer if I said skull change surgery but skeleton is just such a cooler word. But yeah that'll have me out of it for a bit while I heal.
Oh also I should note I feel like this is the big one for wider audiences
Oh cool! Thanks for explaining. It makes sense to me! But, I have kids who "try" to keep me current. ๐ Good luck & be gentle with yourself during the recovery period!
That Dntel Enya remix album sounds interesting! ๐ค
It ain't easy fasting all day for Ramadan. You can't even drink water so I've heard! Mashallah, Altin Gรผn has released their latest Turkish-Folk-Psych opus - Garip - just in time to motivate you if you're choosing to fast for this month of Ramadan. Garip in Arabic means "strange" or "weird", but honestly despite borrowing heavily from Turkish Folk Music, Altin Gun would assimilate fairly well into pretty much any '70s Psychedelic bordering-on-Prog Rock playlist. Alhamdulillah!
What FEBRUARY 20TH, 2026 release do YOU have your ears & heart set on when midnight strikes?! ๐ญ๐
I mean, I thought the week of Feb. 6 was bad, but this is even worse. Even the Jim Noir album is just a compilation of tracks from fan-club EPs, it's not new material. U2 put out a new 6-song EP on Wednesday, and my immediate reaction was yyyaaaawwwwnnnn, but it was actually better โย strictly in terms of the kind of thing I normally listen to โ than, like, 93% of the other releases this week.
So it looks like this is a week for experimental avant-garde leftfield neo-classical compositional-weirdness material. Which is fine, really. And to that end, the best new thing I've heard this week is this neo-classical-with-electronics album:
I will say that almost everything I've heard by Ms. Hirano is brilliant, but she's not the recording artist you turn to for massively-reverberating fuzzed-out guitars or angelic harmonies over galactic dreamscapes. For that, unless there's a surprise drop tomorrow (there usually is), we're just gonna have to wait until next week when we've at least got new stuff from Nothing, Mitski, and The Julies (not to be confused with The Juliets or The Julie Ruin, both of whom I believe are defunct... I actually thought The Julies were defunct too, as they were a sort of American Britpop band back in the 90s, but I guess they're making a comeback now).
Traditionally it would be called facial feminization surgery but I'm not able to get my jaw done and I don't want to get anything changed about my nose, so I'm calling it facial theminization surgery and taking the opportunity to go she/they on the pronouns, but I feel like if I say that it'll raise so many questions, like there's not even a single result on google for the term and so I feel like people would be really confused and go "tap what the fuck are you talking about" and I'd go "you know, like she ๐โโ๏ธ / they ๐ฝ" and then people would go "that doesn't help at all and just raises more questions!!", so I've also been calling it skeleton change surgery to bypass all that. I guess it'd be clearer if I said skull change surgery but skeleton is just such a cooler word. But yeah that'll have me out of it for a bit while I heal.
Please get well soon, and be careful โย they don't call it "FFS" for nothing! And it's a smart move to not mess with your jawbones too, especially the lower one (obviously) โย infections down there can be lethal. (Or worse! Death actually isn't so bad compared to a lifetime of osteonecrosis of the mandible.)
Of course, I wouldn't know any of this if I hadn't been "looksmaxxing" since the mid-1990s. I'm almost at the point now where I compare favorably to the "Bitter Beer Face" guy from the old Keystone Light commercials.
The only reason I'm not getting my jaw done rn is because I need orthodontic surgery on it and insurance is less helpful for dental stuff. The unsafe decision was already made for me when the world decided it hated trans people, and insisted that testosterone-influenced development had to happen for me, when actually no, it didn't. It would be most unsafe to make me continue to live with the dysphoria for the rest of my life, so I will be removing the influence (while also avoiding the pursuit of unrealistic and frankly undesirable beauty standards). If you care about safety, make sure to support trans youth autonomy! All those girls losing care are going to have to do what I'm doing, and they really should not have to.
That Altin Gรผn album seems cool though! Got that added on my list.
Oh and another one that seems worth mentioning here is the return of Mirah! It's been like 8 years since her last one? Cold Cold Water is such a classic tune, I'm curious to hear what she'll have in store for today's world.
Of course, I wouldn't know any of this if I hadn't been "looksmaxxing" since the mid-1990s. I'm almost at the point now where I compare favorably to the "Bitter Beer Face" guy from the old Keystone Light commercials.
OMG! That commercial is hysterical. Never saw it before. ๐
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