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azuremist · 10 months

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“Unfinished Painting” — Keith Haring

This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.

“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple

This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created in recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

This pile of candy weighs the same amount as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, did. Ross Laycock had died due to AIDS-related complications earlier that same year. Visitors who see this piece are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less, like how AIDS had deteriorated the body of Ross Laycock.

The SF Gay Men's Chorus

This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.

“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich

After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.

“Blue” — Derek Jarman

This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.

“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.

In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”

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#aids #aids pandemic #aids crisis #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer history #lgbt history #art tag #azure does a thing #(i cried while putting this post together.)#(something about art about those lost to aids makes me want to fall to my knees.)#(happy pride month)#long post #death tw

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onionninjasstuff · 2 months

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#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #no real context lmao #just found an ancient sketch of this and got out of nowhere motivation to finish it #thinking abt the way i used to treat myself in the past is very bittersweet #cuz i lost sm time worrying abt my skills and presentation and restricting myself a lot and demanding so much out of myself all the time #i still struggle with it #but at the same time looking back fills me w pride and love for both my current and past selves #theres a lot of growth and progress there #and past me wasnt half as bad as they thought either #never be hard on urselves gamers #go out there embrace the world embrace urselves

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noizchild · 1 year

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What This Week Looks Like:

Monday-Wednesday:

Just Another Day (Original, Chapters 62-66)

Summary: Ten years after the Great Exile, Soon has been wandering around in Japan. He’s been living with his loneliness until he came to Tokyo. After escaping from the rain in a ramen shop, Soon runs into his old flame from the Exile, Mai-Pai. The two reconnect over a few days. But can a love be rekindled after trauma and being away from each other for so long?

Monday:

Tea Leaves and Pink Stockings (Wasteland 2011, Hetalia, Durarara, and D.Gray-Man, Match Thirty-One)

Summary: Vol. 11 is up. Ju has finally graduated from college. Still, she feels like there is something that is left unfinished. Meanwhile, Dr. Faust is on the move to collect followers for his group. The screws get tighter as more 2P counterparts come into the living world. Mam and Vozrozhdeniye are on the move as the game gets more serious. It just takes one little push…

Wednesday:

Dark Alice in a Dark Wonderland (Wasteland 2011, Hetalia, Durarara, and D.Gray-Man, Halo Twenty-Six)

Summary: Vol. 11 is up. Core story of the Wasteland Project. Women can be scary. In this case, they are the ones driving Ikebukuro further into the Wasteland. Chisa has taken over the Asahara and rebranded it. Meanwhile, Tandeki takes the game to a higher level. The tadpoles and the players are struggling to stop the Woman in Red from getting free. However, things aren’t so simple now.

Thursday:

Pride Lost (Original, End)

Summary: Lucifer reflects on his past, relationships with women (demons and angels alike), children, fall, and conformations with Bayu and Irani.

Friday-Sunday:

Posting City Lounge Blog

Friday:

Death and All of His Friends (Wasteland 2011, Hetalia, Durarara, and D.Gray-Man, Key Twenty-Thre)

Summary: Vol. 11 is up. This is the third and final part of the Wasteland project. Allen is really losing his mind as the world crumbles around him. Road keeps pushing him over the edge. The angel keeps sinking deeper into himself. It’s going to take something really big to snap him out of it. Even so, would he want to come back to sanity and escape back to Heaven?

#just another day #original works #wasteland 2011 #tea leaves and pink stockings #hetalia #dark alice in a dark wonderland #durarara #durarara x2 #durarara!!#pride lost #city lounge #death and all his friends #d.gray man #d.grayman hallow

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wild-neko · 7 months

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disabled people: we are still dying, can you please just wear a mask to the grocery store and doctor’s offices so we can live

conservatives: no, die or stay inside all day, no one cares

leftists: no 🏳️‍🌈✨💖

#wear a mask #covid #sars cov 2 #disability rights #eugenics #disability pride month #lgbt #it really is like this :')#queer #pandemic #ableism #disabled queer #auspol #me not ever being able to share the same air with anyone ever really does something to your mental health #trying not to die in the ongoing pandemic #wear a fucking mask #we would actually like to access third spaces too #we just lost 100 years of disease prevention bc govt propaganda worked a little too well and gave every single medical person brain rot #they went from 'do no harm' to 'actually i think you should quit complaining and allow me to kill you with airborn aids'#which is happening EVERYWHERE BTW and it made it to the media that an aust hospital COVERED IT UP like this is what we're dealing with #this is what modern day eugenics looks like and no one gives a shit #Ableism #HAPPY NEW YEAR #pride #LGBTQIA #activism #acab

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ruporas · 10 months

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#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #sorry for the amount of kiss drawings im wailing on everyone #one night i was like “i dont draw vw kissing enough :( i need to draw them kiss for pride” and then i lost myself #but this was solely to comfort myself after rereading vol 10-12 #this is also technically spoilers but only if u squint :']#ruporas art

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unipacas · 11 months

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happy spider-verse week!!!! 🕸🕷🖤♥

#across the spiderverse #miles morales #gwen stacy #miguel o'hara #peter b parker #spider-man #fanart #my draws #i am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#sorry for the person i will become after this weekend #this movie coming out at the beginning of pride month is not lost on me btw. just so u know

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delehosies · 11 months

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i think we need to launch an investigation into slutty men and their slutty white shirts

#THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS #like…#why does it make them 100x more attractive please answer me that #i know that i basically only like fictional men but Still #there’s just something about that shirt…#anthony bridgerton #king george #queen charlotte #pride and prejudice 2005 #pride and prejudice 1995 #mr darcy #benedict bridgerton #lost in austen #♡grace speaks!

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chrissy-kaos · 7 months

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One would think I'd know how to handle this.. but I don't..

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lost-in-the-shadows · 11 months

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happy pride month lost boys fans

#the lost boys #the lost boys 1987 #tlb #vampire #horror #vampires #kiefer sutherland #80s horror #lost boys #tlb 1987 #alex winter #billy wirth #brooke mccarter #pride month #meme

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jay-birds-fly · 2 years

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Graphic design is my passion and 80’s movies are my vice

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mercifullymad · 9 months

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i feel passionately about the need to enfold people experiencing (or diagnosed) with "just" depression or anxiety into the mad pride project. the more people who view themselves as mad, the better. much as the rhetorical move from "neurotypical" to "neuroconforming" emphasizes the artifice & social construction of "neurotypicality," so too will expanding identification as "mad" expose the sane/mad dichotomy as a false one.

it's true that (some) people with "just" depression and/or anxiety have an easier time navigating the psych system than people who have more stigmatized diagnoses. but this is not to say that they necessarily have an easy time — the carceral psych system is hostile to everyone subsumed by it, even the most "privileged" patients. we should of course critique & examine how our experiences are shaped by various intersections of privilege, but we cannot forget or ignore how someone with "just" a depression/anxiety diagnosis can still experience the full force of the carceral psych system brought down upon them (including but not limited to involuntary institutionalization, police intervention, & forced medication or other forced treatment).

we must encourage, if not insist, that those with the least-stigmatized diagnoses view their difficult experiences navigating the psych system as bound up with the liberation of people who have more stigmatized diagnoses &, often, a more violent experience of the psych system. we need more people to drop the "i have anxiety/depression but i'm not crazy" line and say loudly, "i have anxiety/depression & i am crazy. my access to just treatment is linked to the conditions of all other crazy people, who are my allies, peers, & friends. we are united in our cause & we all deserve a more liberating system of care."

#mad pride #mad liberation #disability justice #the way that one IG influencer who called depression & anxiety “vanilla” diagnoses has lived rent-free in my mind for the past five years..#i was soooo upset by that for like three years & now i'm like. okay. it is a little funny.#but also i do think that somewhere in the 'destigmatization'/commodification of anxiety/depression (treatment)#we have lost the plot & forgotten that 'just' these experiences on their own can still be deeply distressing & chronic & endangering #& can make people (be viewed as) just as 'crazy' as someone with a more stigmatized diagnosis #& for me personally my experiences of anxiety & depression have been far more disabling than anything else #sorry i keep editing this post to correct typos...story of my life

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gargloyl · 11 months

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yeha,,, happy pride guys!!! i wouldve colored this but i dont know how to color 😁 happy pride!!!

#postal #postal 2 #postal fanart #postal dude #postal 3 #postal paradise lost #postal game #pride month

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noizchild · 1 year

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What This Week Looks Like:

Monday:

Just Another Day (Original, Chapters 57-61)

Summary: Ten years after the Great Exile, Soon has been wandering around in Japan. He’s been living with his loneliness until he came to Tokyo. After escaping from the rain in a ramen shop, Soon runs into his old flame from the Exile, Mai-Pai. The two reconnect over a few days. But can a love be rekindled after trauma and being away from each other for so long?

Tea Leaves and Pink Stockings (Wasteland 2011, Hetalia, Durarara, and D.Gray-Man, Match Twenty-Three)

Summary: Vol. 11 is up. Ju has finally graduated from college. Still, she feels like there is something that is left unfinished. Meanwhile, Dr. Faust is on the move to collect followers for his group. The screws get tighter as more 2P counterparts come into the living world. Mam and Vozrozhdeniye are on the move as the game gets more serious. It just takes one little push…

Tuesday-Thursday:

Pride Lost (Original, Chapters 97-99)

Summary: Lucifer reflects on his past, relationships with women (demons and angels alike), children, fall, and conformations with Bayu and Irani.

Wednesday:

Dark Alice in a Dark Wonderland (Wasteland 2011, Hetalia, Durarara, and D.Gray-Man, Halo Eighteen)

Summary: Vol. 11 is up. Core story of the Wasteland Project. Women can be scary. In this case, they are the ones driving Ikebukuro further into the Wasteland. Chisa has taken over the Asahara and rebranded it. Meanwhile, Tandeki takes the game to a higher level. The tadpoles and the players are struggling to stop the Woman in Red from getting free. However, things aren’t so simple now.

Friday-Sunday:

Posting City Lounge Blog

Friday:

Death and All of His Friends (Wasteland 2011, Hetalia, Durarara, and D.Gray-Man, Key Fifteen)

Summary: Vol. 11 is up. This is the third and final part of the Wasteland project. Allen is really losing his mind as the world crumbles around him. Road keeps pushing him over the edge. The angel keeps sinking deeper into himself. It’s going to take something really big to snap him out of it. Even so, would he want to come back to sanity and escape back to Heaven?

#just another day #original works #wasteland 2011 #tea leaves and pink stockings #hetalia #pride lost #city lounge #dark alice in a dark wonderland #durarara #durarara x2 #durarara!!#death and all his friends #d.gray man #d.grayman hallow

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hazycorvus · 10 months

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