On the internet, no one knows you're a human.
Can you sing along?
I don't hold you to the best, but can't you
See the lines and dots?
Don't you feel as if you're missing something?
I don't hold you to the best, but can't you
See the lines and dots?
Don't you feel as if you're missing something?
—"With My Tail to the World"
Patricia Taxxon is an American musician, media analyst, and game modder. Her YouTube channel features analyses of various media, response videos, modding videos, and videos for her songs and albums—of which there are many.
You can find her YouTube channel here
, alongside her second channel, and her Bandcamp can be found here. Fair warning that her content is intended for mature audiences.
Fix that old piano and the tropes will fall apart!
- Ambient: Task, Crocus, The Good Night, Photo 4, Astral, Telecommunications, Cicada, Summer Drones, My Lady, Sky Simplified, TECHDOG...
- Author Avatar: Uses a painting of a girl holding a paintbrush in her mouth to represent herself. Partway through her Marble Blast Gold video, she changes to her "puppy rantsona" (which Taxxon now refers to as her true self), a Pomeranian wearing a tiara.
- Concept Album: Many of her albums have an underlying story to them, including The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe.
- The Tradische Ballet series (Gelb, Rosa and Schwarz) is based upon an avant garde ballet of the same name.
- TECHDOG 1-7 is an examination of Innocence Lost through the lens of Taxxon being a queer trans therian, and how each of those descriptors carries with it its own second puberty and a sense of loss for the child that was left behind or even buried due to social pressures to conform to the heteronormative, patriarchal standards in which we currently live.
- Cover Version: Covers Shawn Mendes' "Señorita" on Foley Artist.
- Epic Rocking: Many of her songs are over 10 minutes long, and some (for example Dance Odyssey) constitute the entire album.
- TECHDOG 1-7 features 2-minute songs on 1, 4-minute songs on 2 etc. up until 12-minute songs on 6. TECHDOG 7 engages even harder in Sequel Escalation by starting with a 14-minute song and ending with a 42-minute one. When listened to in one go, TECHDOG 1-7 is twelve-and-a-half hours long.
- Every Episode Ending: On her "Puppyhelic Triangle" second channel, each video ends with a cut-off "Thanks for watching," which is cut off at a random point of the sentence.
- Genre-Busting: Her primary genre takes inspiration from Electronic Dance Music, Alternative Rock, Noise Pop and Hyperpop, but isn't exactly describable as any one of those in particular.
- Last Note Nightmare: The second half of "Safe Skin" is essentially Patricia shouting the title of the song over frantic distorted instrumentals that slowly start to degrade—by the end, she sounds demonic.
- New Sound Album: Just about every one of her albums sounds significantly different from the last one.
- Non Sequitur: In her video about the 3D Platform Game series Marble Blast Gold, placed between Patricia's thoughts about Platinum and Platinum Quest, there is a segment gushing about Echo and her love for its use of psychological horror.
- Original Flavor: While she views most of The 2020 Celeste Spring Community Collab through the lens of being a fanfiction for video games, she shouts out certain levels for reasonably looking as if they could be in the base game, such as with Azurite Ascent.
- Queer Colors: The Cover of the album "Pix and Bit" features a pink mammal and an orange reptile with white flower patterns on their chests, reminiscent of the lesbian flag. Both characters are stated to be female and in love with each other.
- Running the Asylum: Invoked and discussed during the Marble Blast Gold video, in which she elaborates that Marble Blast Platinum is "all the best and worst things that happen when you let your core playerbase design a game without any supervision". At its worst, the fannish elements can be seen as intrusive and poorly-thought through (for example, the multiple redundant surface types, or the game tutorializing the Diagonal Speed Boost and implicitly requiring that you intentionally invoke Camera Screw), and the game doesn't feel like it's been designed to play in a way that best utilizes its engine, such as with the multiple "janitor" levels where you do nothing but run around a bare play area and pick up all the gems with little challenge in the way of the terrain. At its best, it teaches and makes use of Advanced Movement Techniques that are actually fun to use (Patricia cites the wallbounce as an example, as players will intuitively understand how their marble's spin makes it bounce off of surfaces because that mechanic is present every single time the marble lands, and a Wall Jump is a natural conclusion), and levels such as Phil's display an amazing understanding of the physics engine and how his dedication has led to hard, but amazingly crafted level design.
- Scrappy Mechanic: Believes Marble Blast Platinum Quest fails to work because of the new gimmick objects scattered throughout it:
- Areas that have different physics to the rest of the game, such as low gravity or no jumping. She believes the game works a lot better when its using the standard physics system to its potential, letting players learn and master it.
- The cannons that make the player aim and shoot their marble, for the same reason of the physics modifiers in that they briefly take you out of the game to do something else.
- The singleplayer levels that are just the multiplayer levels, but with no competition, so you just end up collecting a bunch of gems as they slowly spawn into a mostly-empty play area.
- Sampling: Uses samples often in her music: for instance, "Springtime is Here" samples The Rite of Spring and "[mapplethorpe]" samples the Philips CD-i opening sound.
- Shout-Out: The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe is named after a notorious Philips CD-i title that consists solely of an interactive slideshow of the eponymous photographer's flower pictures. Fitting this, the opening track samples the CD-i's startup jingle. The album cover is a furry version of Mapplethorpe's 1977 piece ''Jim, Sausalito'' (Link NSFW).
- So Bad, It's Good: In the 2020 Celeste Spring Community Collab, she highlights Crumbling Castle as an interestingly bad level.It's almost unplayably bad. I love it dearly.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Played for Laughs in "The Autistic Horror of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared", where Patricia sarcastically riffs on herself for being an example of the common stereotype that furries are autistic:I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but that's me. I'm autistic.
[Her Author Avatar fursona glances down at herself]
I'm sure this is incredibly shocking news for you. - Word Salad Lyrics: "EEEAAAOOO" contains a simple repeating stanza with lyrics that are barely decipherable without a lyrics sheet due to extreme vocal processing.
