#mpb

[soulren]

Go spend some time on male pattern baldness or male(AMAB) balding forums/subreddits and such. I did after realizing it is happening to me and the ammount of people who truly don't realize how BRUTALLY it tanks people's confidence and mental health is insane.

There's no cure to baldness by the way, and it can start at any time and there's no way to predict how fast or slow it will go. The only real working option is a daily pill that usually just halts it, but it can stop working or just slow it down or cause major side effects. To regrow you have to use a daily topical solution, or use a roller to wound your scalp. None of these are surefire by the way, and if you stop them you'll just lose your hair and whatever you regained. It's a daily involved thing that might not work and often at best just retains. The best drug, the one that occasionaly gives regrowth, also causes shedding at the start, and can have side effects from growing breasts to brain fog to EDsyfunction(sorry, censoring cause tumblr). Now, those are INCREDIBLY rare and almost never happen but it weighs heavily on the mind of those already spiraling.

But that's just background. What I'm here to talk about is the pure woe you'll see on those forums. People speak as though their lives are over, as though they've lost every chance of finding a woman(predominantly, there's a running idea in such places that women don't like bald men or like them less) or doing anything. You can read countless stories of people who describe that they no longer go outside, are now filled with anxiety and self-hate, have gone from extroverted to never showing their face. And some of these people are kids who lost their hair in high school or even before, or are holding as best they can to a very receded hairline and feel like there is nothing they can do.

And then there's something touched upon far less in those communities, but is important to bring up here; baldness and masculinity. There's the horror of knowing so much of society sees a bald guy as a very masculine guy, at seeing that the best advice for being hot and bald is "grow and beard and big muscles bro". Imagine now you're AMAB balding and nonbinary, or a trans woman who doesn't want to be on hormones.

Just genuinely take the time to look at those forums no matter who you are. Understand what these people go through, what I am currently going through. It is soul-crushing, spiraling, brutal. I have the dream of one day being like Brennan Lee Mulligan or Matt Mercer and starting to lose my hair made me feel like I could never. I felt like and still feel like I would have to be masculine, have to be a bro-y dude, have to look older than I was(I'm fuckin 22). It was the feeling that I could never dress feminine again, never present as a woman when I wanted to again, that I'd always be viewed as a bald guy before anything else.

This is an incredibly vulnerable post for me, and I hope it reaches you all as well in a kind and understanding mood. There's a tendency online for people to joke about baldness, to make fun of it, to treat it as a playfull silly thing but it fucking ruins lives, and it shouldn't. It happens to half the population's sort of bodies and very often. It should just be a neutral thing. You don't need long hair to be feminine, you don't need hair to be feminine. You don't need hair for anything. I guess I'm just saying in general that everyone should be kinder about balding, more understanding, and view it with as much import as they'd view the pixels between this sentence and the next. None at all, I mean.

And for those like me, very feminine guys who wanna keep that and don't want a beard and are terrified of balding, here's some names and I do hope others that see this will add more; Mr. Bruce (also in The Correspondents(band) Alex Ward in LA By Night Jason Carl in LA By Night Cecil Baldwin of Welcome To Night Vale Bob The Drag Queen RuPaul(in looks alone, I know about the whole fracking stuff but this post is about looks) tananasho on instagram Also your mannerisms and style of dress will convey femininity far more than your hair. Yea sure a front-on neutral shot of you may not and maybe you need makeup and stuff, and hell maybe a lot of people might reject you more but it'll just filter down to the people for you.

And to all you artists and writers and creatives; make more bald characters. Try it out. Feminine ones, masculine ones, all sorts. None of the copout nonhuman sort, just dudes and girls and mates and individuals who are all sorts of things and also bald. It might make a few of the people going through the various vortexes of pain that balding causes feel a bit better.

And to those noticing I did not adress female hair loss much here, that was intentional. I am AMAB and currently a nonbinary guy who goes by any pronouns but often likes to present as fem. I learned I was possibly losing my hair and lost two months of my life, no work or going or anything, to male hair loss forums and research and spiraling. Checking my hair twenty times a day, unable to sleep, unable to eat, unable to think. And my situation was NOT unique, but it also did not give me any experience or understanding of female hair loss and what AFAB people may go through with that, so I don't feel knowledgeable enough to speak on it. Also living with baldness WILL get easier and you will find something that works for it, by virtue of simply living with it. Things get easier with time.

#bald #balding #hair loss #hair #hair care #minoxidil #dermaroller #baldness #bald and feminine #bald fem #using a lot of tags due to this being triggering for many and cause I want it to be seen #and because I want those who went through what I did to be able to find it #mpb #androgen alopecia #also I know this post is long but I'm not sorry cause it's important. If even one person has a bit less stress then that's good. #feminine bald man

[drivemix]

Gal Costa in a photo shoot for the album "India"

#70s #gal costa #brazilian #brazil #mpb #mpbbrasil #culture

[brasil-br]

#brasil #brasil core #brasilidades #cultura brasileira #brasil aesthetic #brazil #br #mpb #racionais #sabotage #seu jorge #music #musica brasileira #musica #nostalgia #tim maia #cazuza #charlie brown jr #legião urbana #mamonas assassinas

[adnnnnnnn]

doodles

#fanarts #adventure time #marceline #princess bubblegum #bubbline #mpb

[tabbyjella]

I've been thinking

#adventure time #mpb #marceline #princess bubblegum #fiona and cake #bubbline

[vymarcos]

Djavan por Olivio Lamas, 1992.

#djavan #retrato #mpb #my post

[shinychromedome]

#mpb #male pattern baldness #bald and bearded #bald by choice

[plastiqueflower]

Eliana Pittman album covers

#brasil #musica brasileira #mpb #70's #musica popular brasileira #eliana pittman

[antropofagis]

Rita Lee por Bob Wolfenson, 1976. 

🤍🕊️

#rita lee #rita lee jones #lee jones #rita #rainha do rock #os mutantes #fruto proibido #ovelha negra #tropicalismo #tropicalista #tropicalia #anos 70 #70's #panis et circencis #mpb #musica popular brasileira #rock brasileiro #rock br #brasil #brazil #brasilidade #cultura brasileira

[avadorie]

࣪ 𝄞 ࣪ . ࿙͝࿚ 𓈒 ࣪ 𝄞 ࣪ . ࿙͝࿚ 𓈒

#mpb #brasil #alternative icons #aesthetic icons #rock icons #90s aesthetic #80s aesthetic #music #vintage #dark #b&w #messy moodboard #grunge moodboard #cassia eller #elis regina #djavan #gal costa #gilberto gil #rita lee

[viniciusgrcia]

“Quando eu morrer, posso imaginar as palavras de carinho de quem me detesta. Algumas rádios tocarão minhas músicas sem cobrar jabá, colegas dirão que farei falta no mundo da música, quem sabe até deem meu nome para uma rua sem saída. Os fãs, esses sinceros, empunharão capas dos meus discos e entoarão "Ovelha negra", as tvs já devem ter na manga um resumo da minha trajetória para exibir no telejornal do dia e uma notinha no obituário de algumas revistas há de sair. Nas redes virtuais, alguns dirão: "Ué, pensei que a véia já tivesse morrido, kkk". Nenhum político se atreverá a comparecer ao meu velório, uma vez que nunca compareci ao palanque de nenhum deles e me levantaria do caixão para vaiá-los. Enquanto isso, estarei eu de alma presente no céu tocando minha autoharp e cantando para Deus: "Thank you Lord, finally sedated".

Epitáfio: Ela nunca foi um bom exemplo, mas era gente boa.”

Profecia (Rita Lee)

#rita lee #mpbbrasil #mpb #rip

[nacionalissimas]

Meu bem, você pra mim é privilégio. Sorte grande de uma vez na vida minha chance de ter alegria.

Seja como for - Banda do mar

#mpb #musica brasileira #mpb contempôranea #nova mpb #trechos musicais #projetoalmaflorida #buscandonovosares #julietario #carteldapoesia #novospoetas #mardeescritos #meuprojetoautoral #autorias #trechos de musicas

[drivemix]

Clube da esquina

#milton nascimento #clube da esquina #Lo borges #mpb #brazil #brazilian #60s 70s 80s 90s

[esponsal]

Mas quando você me amar Me abrace e me beije bem devagar.

Belchior.

#esponsal #poecitas #arquivopoetico #belchior #mpb #quandoelasorriu

[yuritestikov]

⚡ R.I.P. ⚡

#Gal Costa #MPB #Musica Popular Brasileira #musica #music

[qingyudeadfish]

💥

#illustration #adventure time #mpb #bubbline #princess bubblegum #marceline #adventure time fanart #at fanart #adventure time fionna and cake #fionna and cake