ok do you see this Legendary Epic woman right here? this is wendy fucking carlos and i’m going to describe to you why wendy carlos is 30 thousand times better than you
- she is a 74 year old trans fucking woman. she remembers having dysphoria at age five and started hrt in 1968. you think transitioning is difficult now? try doing it in 1968. the thought scares the shit out of me.
- her first album, switched on bach, is a literal hour of her playing bach’s music on synthesizers. that’s classical edm. edm wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t brought synthesizers to prominence. the catch? synthesizers in 1968 were monophonic. that means you can only play one note at a time. wendy carlos sat there and played each instrument’s piece of bachs music at least 6 times per symphony, painstakingly overdubbing and rerecording each line, one at a time.
- oh yeah, switched on bach was the first classical album to sell more than 500k copies and she won 3 grammies and stayed on the billboard #1 pop charts for 17 weeks.
- you know tron? that really awesome movie whose sequel daft punk made the ost for? wendy is the original daft punk. tron’s soundtrack was all her; not only that, but so was a clockwork orange and the shining.
- in 1998 this piece of shit momus (aka nick currie on wired) made a song mocking wendy’s sexual orientation. $50k of currie’ money later, she forced him to remove that song from his entire collection, have the master destroyed, and his music career fucking died after that.
figured i’d post this since daft punk keep getting a lot of love. i love daft punk, but they owe their lives to this fucking badass.
the bach music she played on synthesisers was for the movie “a clockwork orange”, and without her music one of the greatest movies of all time (in my opinion) would’ve been really bad
also she was A TRANS WOMAN IN 1968 for fucks sake
she was awesome as fuck.
Wow, what da fuuck I have seen a clockwork orange so many times this is fucking incredible!!
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Native children have the same rate of PTSD as combat veterans…
Please keep reblogging this. Make our struggles known.
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Been a while. Time for another reblog?
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i really like the advice “write marginalized characters but don’t write about marginalization unless you experience it”
absolutely i think cis people should expand their horizons and write trans characters, but they shouldn’t write stories about being trans. likewise i think allistic / NT authors should write about autistic characters! but not stories about being autistic.
represent us. absolutely. but don’t tell our stories. let us do that.
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thinking about life during the few seconds your iPhone takes to restart
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The government of Colombia has announced that trans people in the country can now change their legal name and gender marker without having surgery.
Surgery was a previous requirement in Colombia for legal gender changes, but as Justice Minister Yesud Reyes told media this week, it was an unnecessary and unfair obstacle, as not all trans people can afford, have access to or even want surgery.
Reyes told the newspaper that judges have ordered “body exams to determine if people have physically changed their sex or demanded a psychiatric opinion in order to know whether the person (who is seeking to legally change their name or gender) suffered from gender dysphoria.”
“Both practices were profoundly invasive of the right to privacy and based upon an impermissible bias,” said Reyes during the interview with El Espectador that it posted onto its website on Saturday. “The construction of sexual identity and gender is a matter that does not depend on biology.”
Reyes told El Espectador the decree would allow trans Colombians to publicly record their new gender through what he described as a “simple (bureaucratic) transaction” with a notary. They would receive documents with their new gender once they contact a registrar.”
Amazing! Congratulations, Colombia!
“We were actually still setting up at one point and they just start throwing fries at each other. Loved it. Thankfully, we got it on film.“ - Marni Senofonte.
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Design ideas for Pearl back when she poofed in “Steven the Sword Fighter”. My original drawings were a little… dated, so I traced over them and added color for fun.
KAT MORRIS!!!
Why is the insect so big
Because liberalism opened the door
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