FAWM: yam655 (@yam655)

yam655

@yam655

Songs

Joined

2011

Indiana US
beta.yam655.com

Pronouns: he/they. The gender binary is like Newtonian color theory: two scientifically unsound ideas that just won't go away.

At this point, I am more agender than male, but presenting as male is convenient and I just don't care enough to make a fuss about it.

In 2023 I did my last NaNoWriMo. If you're curious, look up why NaNoWriMo closed their forums in 2023. The stuff needs content-warnings.

My health hasn't been super great over the past year. I plan to take it pretty easy this year and just focus on lyrics. I don't have any particular song count goals.

Also: There are 672 hours in February. Just, you know, FYI.

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Interested in doing a collaboration? Have I earwormed you enough you want to cover one of them? Feel free.

Pretty much all of my stuff is released Creative Commons Attribution, which is similar to Public Domain in nearly every aspect except that you need to credit me.

You can make derivatives. You can use traditional copyright on your stuff. You make all the money, etc. You _just_ need to credit me.

I'm also giving explicit permission to feel free to post without waiting for me to approve it. You already have permission.

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After FAWM, how do you want to attribute me?

My bandname is "yam655".
My website is https://yam655.com
My legal (and anonymous) name is: Steven Black

I don't care how you attribute me, as long as you attribute me. When in doubt, "Steven Black (https://yam655.com/)" is always good.

Soundboard

@alyxanderjames 6h

Indeed! A friend and I recently mused that animism may be the most autistic spirituality, considering our tendency to personify everything. Either way, it's the most comfortable and accurate spiritual label I've ever found for myself. :)

@odilongreen 16h

Guess I'll have to write another of my own then. The world needs more competitive eating albums! 😄

@odilongreen 16h

As you probably remember, I'm a bit obsessed with competitive eating too (and typically do a couple of related songs each FAWM or 50/90). I saw your forum reference to there being several competitive eating concept albums; other than Badlands Booker (and my own 2018 release, The King of July 4th by Burger Stuffer Supreme), what others are there? I'm definitely interested in checking them out!

@gardeningangel 1d

Enjoying your various comments in the forums, as usual... so orange is the new gender? Fabulous! 🧡
Glad you're here, hope your health improves!

@cairobraga 1d

Ste-ste-ste-ste-steveeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!! Amazing to see you back and to be back, let's make sounds of a queer nature, yeah, babes?

@odilongreen 1d

Thanks for the encouragement -- it's always nice to know that someone is rooting for you!

@odilongreen 2d

Yep, I know I've been talking about a musical for years. And the only thing stopping me is... my own laziness and lack of focus/follow through. But maybe this is the month I (start to) overcome that and get serious? I guess we'll see!

@odilongreen 2d

I was never a very successful NaNo'er. I enjoyed the community and the meet-ups, but in eight or so years, I only "won" once and only broke 30K words a handful of additional times. I kind of faded out a couple years before the implosion, as I got more into songwriting. But my dream is still to write a theatrical / movie musical (as opposed to a novel) to combine my storytelling and musical interests into one project.

@alyxanderjames 2d

Oh, good question! I don't have any beard songs yet, but considering the care I've put into getting it long enough to braid in the past year, I'm probably about due for one! haha

@alyxanderjames 2d

Glad to see you back again this year!

@odilongreen 2d

Hello! I've had a great time putting some of your lyrics to music in the past; maybe we'll get to do that again this year!

(Also, as an aside, that whole NaNoWriMo meltdown (or should I say meltdowns, plural) was mindboggling and fundamentally just sad to see an organization that once meant so much to me collapse so completely in a blaze of self-inflicted ridiculousness.)

@max 2d

It’s FAWM time! Welcome back! Happy songwriting.

@katestantonsings 2d

Waving to you from the other side of the cornfield boundary :) Enjoy!!

@rinwolf 2d

Welcome back! Happy FAWM!

@wondertruly 2d

Happy FAWM! Thanks for speaking out in the forums re: “political posting”

@fuzzy 2d

Great to see you back here!
You know I always love your work!

@katestantonsings 2d

Happy FAWM!!

@torsten 2d

Hello to Indiana and welcome back, Steven! I tried to follow you on Mastodon months ago but your account doesn't seem to answer my follow request there. It also seems like your last post there is from 14. Okt. 2022. - Sorry to bother you with that, just thought, you'd be interested as we already conversed about the fediverse in that other thread =)