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@sharksonaplane

Sharyna Tran

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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

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sharks + planes as formerly seen on Twitter @sharksonaplane12/23/2023, 5:35 AM

Katooooooo🌲@saturns

full-quack webbed developer @Webster12/22/2023, 7:09 PM

sure is a neat that music hobbyism attracts a certain specific type of asshole so often that people get anxiety when i ask them what they like to listen to

full-quack webbed developer @Webster12/22/2023, 7:13 PM

it's not even about taste anymore, if you answer this question with some of the most revered records of the past century it might mean you're a "male manipulator" or something. it's astrology for people with superiority complexes.

full-quack webbed developer @Webster12/22/2023, 7:37 PM

"do you like mazzy star because you're traumatized?"

i like mazzy star because i took an edible 2 hours ago, my god, will you shut up if i let you pick something else?

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Sami Katz!@Samikatz12/22/2023, 7:34 PM

single most relatable post on this website actually

Moo 🌸@Moo12/23/2023, 4:37 PM

I was ashamed of my music tastes for years because of this!

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Aisling @DiscoDeerDiary12/22/2023, 7:20 PM

I love how the people dictating who you should and shouldn't interact with based on their music taste are the same people who will call other people manipulators

Coda @Codarobo12/22/2023, 7:23 PM

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 if they listen to the beatles then they're probably a cannibal with a taste for h u m a n f l e s h

Kel @Keloti12/22/2023, 7:27 PM

is this person gonna think im a phillistinic moron for not knowing the same obscure stuff they do or are they just hoping ill list a name they recognize? regardless, i will disappoint them

Video Cathunk @Exameter12/22/2023, 7:52 PM

People trying to scry the content of someone's soul by fixating on just random shit about them is the most mindnumbing thing about the internet. It's like a game, "see how tenuous of a connection I can pull."

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count swagula @clip12/22/2023, 7:54 PM

if you listen to steely dan you're objectively evil and divorced because walter white mentioned liking them once

@PhilippusAureolusTheophrastusBombastus12/23/2023, 7:39 AM

Oh man. In the past 5 years or so, I've been drifting more and more into the goth scene in my city. And the music is great and the people are mostly great, but damn if this particular mental hangup hasn't infected basically everybody in the goth subculture.

It is a music based subculture, so some of it makes sense. But so many times I've entered a conversation about music with someone, and thought we were talking about our personal music tastes, the music itself--things I enjoy talking about--Only to realize that the other person thought we were taking about "who you and I are as people."

Namedropping of major goth bands has secret language-of-flowers ass meanings to people. Mentioning Joy Division means you're a sub. Mentioning Bauhaus means "smart" or "please think I'm smart".

When I say Molchat Doma and Clan of Xymox were my favorite sets at this music festival, I meant that I liked their sets. I'm not saying "I want you to know I'm an ethereal doomer who's into tiktok" or whatever, but that's what people seem to hear.

Its weird to be hanging out in a music subculture, going to concerts and clubs with people and listening lots of different music I like and care about--and yet I find myself avoiding talking about music with these people unless I know them really well already.

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