The HIRS Collective We're Still Here
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normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
May 27th 2023


4379 Comments


Fair enough have a good weekend ✌️

alamo
June 12th 2023


5764 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"You can’t just link idiotic transphobic sput comments to the statistical likelihood of violent victimization of trans people."



you literally can

alamo
June 12th 2023


5764 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

do you know how high the suicide rate amongst trans people is



every shitty comment is directly responsible for how trans people are treated and perceived ESPECIALLY in a niche community and that directly affects how much shittier the mental health of our trans users going to be since they already get crap for just existing anywhere

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


ive always found the trans suicide rate to be unwieldy. ive heard astronomical numbers as high as 50%. excuse my ignorance on any of this, but ive wondered if this is due to external or internal factors. like is having a predisposition to being trans alone related to higher amounts of mental health issues or is it entirely a factor of the response and rejection from society at large? i cant imagine that those with agoraphobia or other forms of issues that cause social isolation have the same suicide rate so it must be a causal relationship where discrimination leads to the loss of self worth combined with the already fragile state that a trans person would be in due to gender dissociation. and this snowballs into the major mental health issues.

while i am disgusted with people's lack of openness and understanding towards all discriminated parties, i also dont like this concept of blaming everying on those with negative predispositions towards certain groups. we live in a shitty world with shitty people and the only thing you have control over is yourself. i know it is drastically easier said than done, and it is almost akin to telling a depressed person to just be happy, but people need to find a foundation of stability and some sort of immunity from what others think of them. i just dont like the concept of putting all of the blame on these mental health issues on discrimination or mandating what people should or shouldnt say or express. but i appreciate any efforts to safeguard such vulnerable people

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

some of the fat here really takes away from what could be an easy 4.5

heck
June 12th 2023


7197 Comments


fatphobic

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


the fat is everything besides opener and xoxo? i could listen to that ending of xoxo all day

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

@heck: i mean filler, genius.

the tracks I love here:

we're still here

sweet like candy

waste not want not

trust the process (ESPECIALLY !!!)

apoptosis and proliferation

so, anyway...

a different kind of bed death

neila forever

last king meets last priest

unicorn tapestry woven in fire

bringing light and replenishments



its v backloaded. xoxoxoxo really doesn't do much for me and you are not alone absolutely annoys the crap out of me.

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


i was like "damn whats the fat then?" but then realized there are prob like 30 songs on this album lol

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


yeah listening to trust the process it's pretty baller. i think the albums problem for me is that it melds into one so i wouldnt even be able to distinguish this song on a first pass and dont have the mental energy for a second pass

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah the samey-ness ig. i was really really into it at first but it didnt end up being as much my thing as i wanted it to be. there's a lot here and i feel like despite my preferences not being particularly tailored to this style it's still an important album for us as LGBTQ+ people. it's kinda like how i didn't really like SYSC much till they tightened up the instrumentation and changed direction.

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


yeah definitely a nice sentiment

whats sysc?

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

seeyouspacecowboy. didnt really like the early sass stuff but I like the two full albums, esp the romance of affliction

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


and you dont dig that feedback driven outro of xoxo? reminds me of converge last light outro. i live for that shit

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


i think sysc are emmure fans

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

the outro's cool but some of the vocals before then i think are eh.

anode
June 12th 2023


2590 Comments


haha dont listen to meltbanana

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

ya i think my main gripe w some of this is im not as into some of the vocal features. meanwhile others like frank iero in trust the process RULE.

Ryus
June 12th 2023


37886 Comments


sysc early stuff rules hard

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i wanted to like the early stuff but it really sounded so. idk. it sounded out-of-time/off-beat a lot and sloppy. they really tightened up around the first full length or so. meanwhile firing squad felt like they produced a demo take of everything and called it good.



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