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please read this essay about anglophone "cultural cringe"

https://medium.com/@damonreece/the-uncanny-valley-of-culture-9d035a3c1776

i used to think that the uk had no cultural exports because it's the insular racism island whose total “british” cultural output consists of endless comedy series about absurd class dynamics, but now i live in scandinavia i discover they do have an export market, it's just tiny

fooling everyone into thinking i'm a good musician by only releasing stuff that meets a certain self-imposed threshold of “good”

and i don't like what you've got me hanging from

the power of akemi homura is that there can only be one akemi homura. how, then, are there many akemi homura in this world? you fail to see. they are all aspects of the ur-homu. one homu, many bodies

the solution to being worried someone will see through you and discern your “true” self is to become so attached to so many different things that whatever “truth” it is you worry about being seen, it cannot be easily characterised by a single adjective

you do things first for yourself, but who do you do them for second… who are your people? do you know? maybe i do, finally

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i think i should teach myself all the absolute note pitches because i'm starting to wonder if i might have something resembling absolute pitch, and i can't really know otherwise

i keep incorrectly remembering the pitches of songs though. but when i do i'm off by a semitone… hmm

your egg does not have to hatch into a trans woman but it does have to hatch into Something goddamnit please fucking realise yourself, even if it's only for five minutes a week on an alt twitter account, you have to fucking be Someone, this is actually upsetting me