you can’t really place all the blame for bad female character design on artists because a lot of that comes from higher up the chain of command, which is something I learned the hard way when a client had me draw breasts and eyelashes on a wasp so that it was obvious she’s a girl wasp
Op I’m so sorry but I had to immortalise the vision this post gave me
I can’t post the actual art here but it’s actually uncanny how close the second image is to what it looked like
discovering the queer country scene has honestly been so healing because most queer musicians i’ve seen recommended for years i just couldn’t really connect with because it wasn’t the sort of music i listened to or had investment in and with queer country it’s like. yes. this is the language i speak in. this is Fuck You, I Belong Here Too, not just as a queer person in the country but as a rural person among (sub)urban queers, and saying it with a laugh. when will my hometown take pride in me, goddamn it
Drop the list!!
FIRST: rachel holst does the adobe & teardrops blog as well as the rainbow rodeo newsletter & zine. look into the black opry also, there are plenty of black queer country/folk/americana artists & there is a lot of collaboration between them and other queer country/folk/americana musicians
my personal list:
adeem the artist (especially the new album, white trash revelry)
paisley fields (stay away from my man is a good old fashioned honky tonk jam about gay on gay violence)
jake blount (the new faith is an afrofuturist album using roots music to explore life after climate collapse, HIGHLY recommend)
sarah shook & the disarmers (especially the album sidelong, ESPECIALLY the songs fuck up & dwight yoakam)
lavender country (everything but especially cryin’ these cocksucking tears. patrick haggerty sadly passed in 2022 and we lost a real one. he self-described as a screaming marxist bitch)
flamy grant (okay so. bible belt baby is Technically a christian album that i was tricked into listening to. but listen. what did you drag me into is an instant classic)
mercy bell (especially who said we were friends. i can’t hear the lyric “mea culpa/here’s a gulpa/my drink in your face” and NOT recommend it)
amythyst kiah (if you haven’t heard black myself by now what even are you doing. go listen to it)
do you want to speedrun a depressive episode as a queer woman who fears you may have too much in common with your father? listen to i drink by mary gauthier now
karen & the sorrows (there is a lot to recommend karen pittelman and the work she has done for queer country artists but i’m a useless lesbian so i’m submitting for consideration a photo of the red dress from the mv for guaranteed broken heart that i think about a normal amount:
I would have been such a faggy lil caveboy, they’d be like “grug come learn hunt and throw spear now” and id be like waaaa no let me pick berry with old gran. I’m the best berrypicker and all the elders love me and are soso sad seeing me cry getting dragged off to do hunting.
At dark around the fire, uup the wise would say some shit like “different flower bloom different way, let grug bloom” and everyone would be like “aaaaaa thog see now, thank you uup the wise.” so next day im allowed to pick berry and seed with old gran again and she lets me eat the juiciest ones (o^－^o)
rb if you, like me, are the rare breed of internet user who always closes browser tabs that you dont need. like sorry your computer runs like shit maybe its because you have 50 fucking tabs open, cant relate
