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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes I think I'm Red, but let's be honest, everyone knows I'm Mokey.

Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think there are actually some people who think calling a woman a man isn't offensive if they say "biological" first. Those people are scarier than the ones who say it as an insult.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New single from Hyperestis: hyperestis.bandcamp.com/track/rememb... 🤘thank you 🩷

hyperestis.bandcamp.com

Remember The Night, by Hyperestis

track by Hyperestis

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My theory is this: The videos for "Smooth Criminal" and "Word Up" occur at different points of the same timeline in a shared cinematic universe. I have a similar theory about "Wild Boys" and "This Corrosion".

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I knew Gabi back before she was famous." "Wow, when was that?" "Ongoing."

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Normalize using your -16 LUFS CDs from the 90s for mix references.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's all anyone can ask of you. Though, obviously, most people will ask for MORE.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I keep trying to make Ampwall happen. You can buy (and stream) my new single there as well. Tell your friends! Tell me! ampwall.com/a/hyperestis...

ampwall.com

Remember The Night · Hyperestis

Have you ever tried to explain the before times to someone who only has seen the after times?

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Magical Mail: The Spell of the Month ✨🐌💌 Snail mail coming Oct 12 to Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tho... Would you click the “Notify Me” button? It helps boost visibility!

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been sitting on this single all month and decided I'd let it go. Conversations about the past with people who weren't there to remember better times. Now with twice the shakuhachi samples. So much more to talk about, but first, lets get reacquainted. hyperestis.bandcamp.com/track/rememb...

hyperestis.bandcamp.com

Remember The Night, by Hyperestis

track by Hyperestis

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alt text says Getman instead of German because phone keyboards suck.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do blame myself for everything, and that's on me. It's my fault that I blame myself for everything, and that is just bad and wrong of me. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #6 nib is the right call for this one I think. I got the #8 and for me it's a bit unwieldy.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some of you have never engaged in the simulated annealing problem that is making a perfect Pandora station, and it shows.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"If you're God, why that face?" - the Cat, "Red Dwarf"

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For a couple of birthdays I had her do a tarot reading for me. They were really long and detailed, very special.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It always makes me lowkey sad when the SM57 I bought in the late nineties beats all of my other microphones.

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🐈‍⬛Cate o’ Nine Tails 🐈‍⬛ @kallaipdx.com · 02/10/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday and I am sick of promoting last year’s record. So all digital releases are PWYW and I’ve knocked $5 off of all merch. Buy stuff. If you want. 🤷‍♀️

kallai.bandcamp.com

Kallai

Kallai is a Portland-based Darkgaze artist. They debuted their distinct alt/shoegaze sound, with the single “Always/Never” in 2024. While playing across the PNW, they coofounded the DreamgazePDX festi...

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Radu Vladislas, a vampire from the Subspecies films. A leather jacketed, pale, craggy faced man with wild hair and very long clawed fingers in a Romanian castle

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

$5 to the first guy standing behind him to go "Are you even LISTENING to me? Oh? Then repeat what I just said."

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Digimon World your monster can mutate into a farting, poop flinging blob called a numemon if you don't clean up after it. It gets worse.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I put my genre as pop music do I get 10x the downloads? Is it popular because I said so or does it have to be popular and then I can say so? So many rules.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One reason to outsource mastering to a mastering engineer is the good tools cost more than hiring them would. There's nothing under $200 that isn't going to mess your mix up, and mastering engineers often use specialized DAWs and decent monitoring tools. Of course, we do what we can afford.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have to check in on my prices. It's too easy to set and forget.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They catch the people who wouldn't pay the full price but would pay a dollar. Though, if they found that acceptable you'd think they'd be pay what you want.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was given a copy of Free To Be You And Me found in the neighborhood free library. Oh, what a different future we had envisioned.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wrote lyrics and sang over this song I've been stuck on a while. I finally decided to just let myself do all the things I think are lazy or outdated or dumb. - lyrics that belong on a trapper keeper in 1989 - shakuhachi solo - ARP preset sequence lines

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The thing is you'll grow into any DAW you use. There is so much support out there for Reaper users you can get through the initial frustrations and start making music fairly quickly.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still enjoying learning to use Reaper. So far, I haven't run into anything it can't do that Studio Pro can, though sometimes it's a little frustrating figuring out the workflow. Comping still feels clunky, but like most things it's probably because of flexibility to do something I don't need.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I got a new tube mic - an Avantone CV12-BLA. It sounds like all of my other mics except different. I am noticing a pattern.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So much singing instruction directly contradicts transgender feminizing voice training, or relies on one-size fits all instructions like "don't raise your larynx" that is just frustrating to someone with a resonance-first technique. Luckily there are techniques that meet you where you are.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People tell me "the Tamale Lady" but I do not know where she is found or if she has vegan tamales.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fillo's Walking Tamales are good for shelf stable, but I really miss Tamale Addiction. It's hard to find good vegan tamales in Portland. I've tried making them but need a lot more practice to make them all the same.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just started physical therapy for this in August. Like WTF.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had a scone. It has nothing to do with autumn except it had cranberries in it. But when in doubt for a sabbat I just get food.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is a wonderful holiday for Pagans. Sometimes. We don't agree on what to call it. But we'll probably get something nice to eat

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My name is, well, my name is Gabi, but most guys call me Shawna.

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Love Luna, it's like Jem + Galaxie 500

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

While I liked Pong and Yar's Revenge on the Atari 2600, it was Infocom games that really inspired me and made me get into programming and computer gaming.

Zork for Atari ST pictured. Reads "your greatest challenge lies ahead - and downwards" with stylized brick and wooden door font reading Zork I. Infocom. Interactive fiction. Fantasy. Standard level.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...I saw a writer whose work I generally appreciate state Assumption #6 last week & I was flabbergasted. it's like ppl expect trans ppl to react in a completely different way (read: "keep quiet") than they would expect of other politically affected groups... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

screenshot from linked-to essay that reads:
Assumption #6: Trans people should wait until after these Democratic candidates are elected before putting pressure on them to change their positions
Are you fucking kidding me? That is not how politics works at all.
Imagine for a moment that Talarico or Turek or some other Democrat conceded a different (non-trans-related) issue to their Republican opponent. For instance, what if they said that, if elected to the Senate, they would vote for a nation-wide ban on mifepristone. Would you expect women and other pro-choice voters to “keep quiet” until after the election before speaking out against that position? Of course you wouldn’t!
If that doesn’t persuade you, just think for a moment about a political issue that is most important to you personally. Do you have it in mind? Now imagine how you would react if a Democratic Senate candidate conceded that issue to Republicans. Wouldn’t you immediately and loudly protest their position change? To let the candidate know that they made the wrong decision, in the hope that they might eventually reverse course?

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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't think there are even shows about cis people doing normie shit.

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