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women are CONSTANTLY remembering the promise they made on "that day"

The combination of looking up TMBG oddities and rarities and Bocchi the Rock content has managed to get the youtube algorithm to recommend me something with absolutely perfectly coalesced "dudes rock" energy. This guy who has this incomprehensibly regular upload schedule of translated songs into Japanese including several by TMBG.

Kiss Me, Son of God is the first one that I encountered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBEqtI2iOhI

but there's also Ana Ng:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov684lA4kR0

and I found The Statue Got Me High way down there, but there's so much here I might have overlooked others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK_JQiQplts

EDIT TO ADD Puppet Head. Because I love Puppet Head, and so should everyone else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfv3cHGccLw

Bonus Yeh Yeh, which I include both because I quite enjoy the song and, hey, TMBG covered it too on Mink Car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbOmySWm5w

me, describing what's been coming out of my speakers for the past while: "i'm in awe. this guy, he's been so consistent about making these, for so long -- this channel goes back for years and years, there's nearly a thousand of these!"

her: "he's really the tom scott of japanese translation ukulele/kazoo covers of english language popular music"

(but then like. each of these only has double digit views, he's got like 500 subscribers and he's still kept at it for 6+ years. phenomenal dedication!!)

there is something so powerful about a trans girl leaning into a dominant side

a girl so beaten down by the world around her, traumatized into a shape formed around the supposed 'danger' she is to everyone around, cast into a quiet little object that dare not speak too loudly lest it be seen as a worthless aggressor

to see that girl take all the scars the world cast upon her, the vile words of evil parroted as her image and take them for herself.

she's the predator they were scared of now. she's in control, and she has the will to take it. a girl taking pride in the brand seared into her flesh calling her a danger, and telling the world that did it that they ain't seen nothing yet~

a trans girl, ascendant in the power of reclaiming the horror cast to her, taking that will and turning it to a willing participant's subjugation.

it's a beautiful thing, isn't it~