Mine was Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle," a song expressly addressed to a girl, which made not-yet-Tamsin feel a whole lot of Feelings™ she wasn't ready to handle. 😅

April 11, 2026 - 22:27 UTC

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yyyyyyep yep yep
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I still listen to this all the time

Still makes me feel things
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Same. But I can handle feeling those feelings now. 🥰
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When I was in college listening to a bootleg of Phoenyx's "Creature of the Wood" I had a lot of complicated inchoate feelings about how such a masc song was being sung by a woman.

About ten years later he transitioned.

About twenty years after that, so did I.
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(And then I postponed my top surgery so I could meet him because I was not getting on a fucking airplane just two weeks after the hospital.)
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I love that song. I love that whole album, in fact.

I'm still sad about losing the cassette dub-of-the-CD someone made for me, and I don't even have the ability to play cassettes anymore.
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