#to include 'camouflage' when some of its lyrics are trans specific

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[Additional Image Description: Fanmix cover for "and we've been runnin' here for years," a fanmix for Arkady Patel from The Strange Case of Starship Iris. A collage of photos and blocks of color in various rectangular dimensions, all framed by pale grey lilac blue borders between them. The image across the top half of the cover is the sky near dusk; the sky itself is that same pale blue, while the clouds that reach across it vary between the bright pink-orange of the sun's final rays and dark purple of night. Below the sky, the title is in a darker pink-orange block across the center. Beneath that are the subtitles in dark and medium blue and photos of a handgun and a seedling growing up from a sidewalk crack. End Additional Image Description.]

The Strange Case of Starship Iris fanmixes - 5/? The Crew of the Rumor - 2/5

ARKADY PATEL, FIRST MATE OF THE STARSHIP RUMOR

The Pretender - Tessa Rose Jackson (cover) // Metaphor (Live from the Listening Room) - The Crane Wives // Loyalty - Lizzie No // Alpha Shallows - Laura Marling // Poor Fake - Kelsey Lu // One Hundred Rooms - Devil and the Deep Blue Sea // Portrait - Josephine Oniyama // Stolen Roses - Karen Elson // Soldier - Fleurie, Tommee Profitt // Camouflage - Two Steps on the Water // Stop the Stars - Tiny Deaths // Strangers Things Have Happened - Amelia Curran // Easy Silence - The Chicks // The Mountain - Calamity Jane

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#arkady patel #tscosi #starship iris #the strange case of starship iris #free use images #described #id in alt text #ironic that the cover (which i'm really happy with) ended up being kind of bi pride colors #arkady is showing her support for violet #this is one where a LOT of lyrics are so painfully arkady that it was hard to narrow down a title #funny story i added 'stolen roses' relatively late because it showed up randomly in my spotify recommendations #but it is the most 'how did they get all the references to blorbo from my shows right' song ever #speaking of lyrics (and also of intra queer community overlap) i did waffle over whether it was cool #to include 'camouflage' when some of its lyrics are trans specific #but while blithely seeing marginalized experiences as interchangeable is not good #i think the silo mentality of walling off creative work (especially indie!) for fear that #ANY overlap would be appropriative does more harm than good #anyhow if i've done my job right this will inflict shrimp emotions about everyone's favorite security officer so good luck with that :) #music #fanmix