Darkoshi

I bought a FireTV stick and set it up today. Installed many apps. Mostly wanted it for some German news and shows, but also installed other apps to try out.

One app is iQIYI, and on it I watched the first episode of I Don't Want to Be Friends With You. It's a 2020 Chinese series, free to watch, with English subtitles. The first episode was cute, funny and entertaining. I don't want to spoil it for anyone by describing the plot, as I had no idea when I started watching it. But this page has some details if you want, and lists its genres as: Comedy, Romance, School, Youth, Fantasy.

I admit, one thing that appeals to me about the show is the androgynous appearance of the lead character, a teenage girl.

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Recently I installed the Audials Android app on my phone. It's got radio stations from all over the world. Unlike some apps, the radio links all seem to be up to date, no hunting just to find stations that will play ok. It also lets you record songs/shows to your phone. (This feels like taping songs from the radio to cassettes like in the old days, except it's to your phone instead.) That can be useful for stations that don't list which song is playing. If I hear a good song, I can save a clip to help in figuring out what song it was so I can later buy it and support the artists.

The "record songs" option didn't work for me when I tried it. With that, the software looks for distinct gaps between songs before it will record or save them. But the "record show" option worked fine - you can select that and then click to stop the recording whenever you want.

Now I find myself listening to our local college radio station WUSC more often again, as I can simply tap on my phone to start playing it.

I'm also getting to listen to college radio station WUML again. I used to listen to it in Massachusetts during my high school years, when it was called WJUL.

Leave It On the Floor - a touching ball-scene musical with several catchy tunes. From 2011. Available streaming on Netflix.

The Carter character looks very attractive to me. Very androgynous. How I wouldn't mind looking. Photos of the same actor without the dreadlocks don't look nearly as special though. Funny how a hairstyle can make such a difference.

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Youtube channel: streetstar - lots of good dancing/voguing.

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Androgyne Dreams: "Artist Margo Selski celebrates her preteen son’s androgyny in an empowering new series of paintings that bring him one step closer to his idol, Lady Gaga."

That Glass Garage Gallery website has a lot of interesting work by other artists too.

I don't only have mental templates for "man" and "woman", but also for other categories and/or subcategories such as "transsexual man", "transsexual woman", "lesbian", "butch lesbian", "femme lesbian", "gay man", "male androgyne", "female androgyne", etc. I think these must not be as deeply ingrained in me as the basic "man"/"woman" templates, as they must have been formed much later in my life, but they exist too. An exception might be the "androgyne" categories... in a lot of children's stories and shows I read and watched when I was a kid, I think I perceived many of the characters to be androgynous or masculine/androgynous. For example, animal and other non-human characters and children protagonists. Even girl characters in books were often rather non-girlish or at least non-womanish to me. And that is how I perceive my own gender most of the time, as androgyne... default... not-otherwise-specified.

For people I come across online, if their online name is non-gendered and if they haven't given any clues as to their sex and gender, I tend to perceive them as neutral-masculine until I get other clues, or if I consciously think about it, I try thinking of them as a male/man and then as a woman/female or maybe even some of the other above categories, wondering which way is "right" until my curiosity is answered.

But for people I meet in real life, I generally perceive them based on my "man"/"woman" mental templates.. the other ones listed above I can only apply once I've found out the person is actually in one of those categories. I don't ever look at someone and think they are gay or transgendered; at most I may curiously wonder whether they are or not, and in what way.