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@wax-bones

Art | they/them | 24 | pisces aquarius cusp | Consider how welcome this heat will be to those of cold blood, just roused from winter tomorrow.

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howdy remember when I said I was gonna make an art blog. well that day has come, it's very little right now cause I'm busy with other stuff but! This new locale is @waxworx

I'll be posting personal projects, oc art, fanart whenever it happens, and I might also answer questions and stuff about my guys. I want to be more like, verbally active in general, so it'll be there, as opposed to here where I just reblog things forever ✌️

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Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

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omegaverse

It's 2024 and i meet a guy who is kind and smart and passionate about his interests and i invite him over to hang out and when he goes into my room he sees my merch and art of all of the long haired men i fetishize and after he goes home i start texting him pics of selfies that he's never posted to any public social media profiles with various long beautiful hairstyles photoshopped over his real hair

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omegaverse

So I can't play my game?

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estrogenesis-evangelion

"why are so many trans women funny" well if you're growing up confined to the social role of "boy" but you cannot perform masculinity effectively and you don't feel attractive or confident no matter how anybody else may perceive you, your best and possibly only social tool left is humor. also god loves us more than you

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estrogenesis-evangelion

which is also why when you meet a trans girl who got funny before she realized she could ever be hot, and then got hot, she tends to have a social vibe like rock lee just took the fuckin weights off

*touches post gently* here it is... my last banger...

wait actually the fact that this was my last big post before they nuked me is genuinely hilarious

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT

some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:

Inuit artists:

Māori artists:

Indigenous australian artists:

  • tilly tjala thomas (i particularly love ngai yurlku nhiina)
  • kardajala kirridarra (srlsly check out ngajabu (Grandmother's Song))
  • i've also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven't checked out his stuff yet

Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually

(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,

For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!

i'll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.

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ladyoftheheaven-deactivated2025

I have an addition from Wallmapu! "Mawiza" is a band who makes ÜL Metal, their vocals being in the tribes language, Mapuzungún.

I was so happy to discover this band since I am in the process of learning the language of my grand family's tribe, and I also love metal of many kinds.

Here is a song I recommend from Mawiza to start

I want to share Lenin Tamayo's music. He coined the term QPop (Quechua Pop) and sings pop tunes in a mix of Quechua and Spanish with anti-colonialism themes.

Aww hell yes. This shit's my jam

Okay, so, these are all metal bands, but still, enjoy:

Asia:

Bloodywood - some fantastic, aggressive bhangra metal

The Hu - Mongolian folk metal

Nine treasures - Mongolian folk metal

Onmyo-za - Japanese metal band

Tengger Cavalry - Mongolian folk metal band

Wagakkiband - Japanese folk metal

Ningen Isu - Japannese heavy metal

Nini Music - Taiwanese folk metal

Africa:

Acyl - North African folk metal band

Arka'n Asrafokor - Central African death metal

Nawather - Tunisian metal band

Myrath - Tunisian power metal excellence

Znous - North African folk metal

Skinflint - Central African metal band

Middle East

Oceania:

Alien Weaponry - Maori thrash metal

Shepherd's Reign - Samoan metal

Americas

Cemican - mesoamerican death metal

Gyibaaw - PNW native American metal band

But yeah, I love hearing folk metal that goes beyond Celtic/Germanic/Kievan Rus' and actually gets inspiration from regional folk music

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