A lot of people here have been talking about music this week, so I want to add my two cents in a way that's almost completely unrelated!

I like a certain type of music, as it becomes a sort of "special interest" for me before the ADHD in me decides it's done playing with my Autism and it needs something new. Right now, I love Djent, a sub-genre of Progressive Metal, although to a greater extent Metal as a whole could be labeled as my "special interest". However, metal is extremely dominated by men, and Djent even more so. I think one of the reasons I fell in love with Djent specifically was the high-pitched vocals, as well as the tendency for the vocalists (like Periphery's) to cite inspiration from female vocalists. It wasn't quite the same though, so I began a search for bands that could fit my criteria (I also wanted to be able to sing along, in a more feminine rather than the masculine tone that dominates the space). Well, I found a couple of bands. Both of them no longer release the same type of music (one moved on to pop-rock, and the vocalist just left the other one ).

TL;DR, for those of you who like Djent, Progressive Metal, Metalcore, or even Metal at all, I have a couple of suggestions! You may have even seen them buried in the music comm, if you look!

https://hexbear.net/post/2982922 - The Ralph's Delimiter EP is great! It's short, and the mixing could use a little work, but it was an EP, and I loved it, so I'm not complaining!

https://hexbear.net/post/2876061 - Destiny Potato's LUN album is also amazing. It's a bit more proggy, while also being more Djenty. It takes it to the extreme, and the vocals really make the album work! This song in particular fits that description, but the album really takes you on a ride in terms of how it feels!

Anyway, that's my music recommendation post, as well as what I am listening to. There are others (listen to TesseracT's Altered State, an atmospheric ambient masterpiece) but if I went into everything than what relevance this post had would quickly disappear (there's too many bands with cis men). So, enjoy, or don't if this isn't your type of music, either way I just wanted to share some smaller bands that I had to do quite a bit of digging to actually find.

Also, I was hoping for some sort of trans representation in the Djent (or even metal scene), but if women are rare, than trans people are myths and legends. I do not know of a single one .