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sequestered-song-skirmish · 9 months

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Round 3 Poll 13

Use My Fkn Pronouns：　「I first met Allegra on the bus in 8th grade. I thought they were cool, but I didn't approach them for a couple months because I couldn't figure out if they were a boy or a girl. When I finally did talk to them, they told me they were nonbinary and explained what that meant. They asked me why knowing their gender was so important to me that I was afraid to talk to them, and that question spurred a series of epiphanies that lead me to who I am today.

The conversation moved on. We giggled about how mad their mom was that an *allergy medication* of all things used the same name just a couple years after she had her baby. They told me that they were a guitarist and that someday they were gonna be a rockstar. I said that when it happens, people will finally think of the musician first and not the medication, and we cheered.

Being openly gay and trans in a red state is fucking daunting now, but it was even moreso a decade ago. Allegra was *the* out queer kid in our class. Having the grit to withstand that kind of social abuse while remaining a goofy and deeply kind person speaks to their character. They used their music to carve out a precedent for the classes below us: showing them a queer person can be out and well-liked and successful while still having personal boundaries. Even here.

Next month they'll be onstage performing at the biggest music festival in the state. The song I submitted is the flagship single from their second album. It's about how tiring it gets to have to ask for simple respect all day every day. It's at about 3,600 some streams on spotify now, which puts it above the stream limit. (I submitted Windmill, a personal favorite of mine off the same album, as a backup.)

I think Use My Fkn Pronouns should be included in this bracket because it represents my friend standing on a stage and singing out to thousands of people, in the face of a government that is actively trying to erase them, that their life and experiences have value. They're gonna stand up there and BE the role model we needed when we were kids, and they're gonna fucking rock while they do it.

Even if it doesn't win, I want everyone to know that I am so, so proud to be their friend.」

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Fang into Vein：　「okay listen.

Not only is this a chilling and beautiful song about vampires (the way he sings "it means nothing to me" the first time?! HOLY SHIT) it also is by someone so fantastic I don't have words for it.

So he is a Trans Elder TM, he is iconic for many reasons but most of all because he transitioned publicly in his mid 40s after having an established career and EXPLAINED THAT HE IS A CHANGELING, that a faerie had lived his life for him under a glamour while he the real boy had been kept in faerieland! It's the best metaphor of all time and he has stuck to it for 15 years no matter how much it baffles cis people. Also he is kind and thoughtful and if he were a spiritual leader I would follow him. Might be too popular for this bracket but this song only has 1.7k plays on youtube (I can't check spotify because I don't have a computer)... so, thank you for your consideration!」

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#good luck on this one everyone #poll #allegra hernandez #alexander james adams #underground music #lgbtq #Youtube

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space-unicorn-dot · 5 years

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SSO Sideblogs

I suddenly remembered this theme has a link function, so, to make it easier, I’m going to make this a single post linking to my SSO character sideblogs to link in my header, so it’s easier to find where I put my content for my chillren.

@sso-bluejay is the blog for Jaime “Jay” Ravenshield, your resident lost puppy Pandorian who’s an utter ray of sunshine, and hopelessly in love with Willow Northbook.

@d-izzy-pointed-soulrider is the blog for Isabella “Izzy” Burnett, my very first SSO OC. The events of the story have left her a little beat up, but she’s managing alright, and she’s got plenty of friends to help her along the way. Trusted friend of the Soul Steed Clydesdale x Jorvik Warmblood cross Copperflame.

@sso-chaoticeldergay is the blog for everyone’s favorite gay tea uncle TM, Astor Caulfield. Literal chaotic elder god figure, bisexual, but very gay, a living meme, but also just a big softie.

@ssohollyglade is the blog of my newest child, Hollis! She’s a bit new kid on the block as far as Druid activities go, but she’s independent, adventurous, and ready to kick some ass because she doesn’t care that she’s tiny! Her Soul Steed is a bay roan Connemara mare named Willy who is just as wild as she is. <3

#sso #star stable online #my sideblogs #sso sideblogs

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