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[eisartdesing]

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[das-wil]

A page from my comic for illustration class :)

Image is described using alt-text.

[vaspider]

What do you think about the reclamation of the pink triangle (and the black triangle which isn't even fully or mainly ours) and the way it's handled. Because I honestly kind of hate it. I'm German. Those were the deaths of people who may have lived in my house before me. But Americans decided they could "reclaim" (as if it had ever been ours/theirs) it as a fun pop symbol. And instead of respecting the dead (like it is done with aids) it's for celebration. And I feel that's wrong.

You are always entitled to your feelings, however, I think that you’re missing some pieces of the puzzle and attributing some meaning to it (”fun pop symbol”) that it simply doesn’t have in the United States – at least, not any part of the communities I’ve been a part of. 

Let’s walk through some of the pieces that I think you’re missing, and how those things expressly make it clear that it is not a ‘fun pop symbol’, and never has been, not to us.

I’m going to put this all behind a cut, because this is going to delve into some painful history. Content warnings have been tagged.

The reclaiming of the pink triangle began as a direct response to the first widely-published accounts of gay men during the Holocaust, not long after Stonewall. The intersection of the LGBTQ movement - and specifically gay men - being able to come out into the light of the public eye in the US, and the 1972 publication of The Men with the Pink Triangle, a book written from a series of interviews with a man named Josef Kohout, led to a desire for people to grapple with history that, for them, was still extremely recent. 

Since you’re German, you’ll be aware already that many gay men were simply returned to imprisonment after WWII and some of them were imprisoned for 20 years after the end of the war. So we’re looking at a community just being able to truly come out into public discourse, and grappling with both current events and also the knowledge that people who had been imprisoned for simply being like them had only been released seven years earlier. This wasn’t a ‘fun pop symbol,’ this was a very intense symbol. The reasons why it bothers you are exactly the same reasons why the symbol was important to the community. 

Here’s a great example of the manner in which the pink triangle was treated by the community in the 1970s – please note these quotes are from a first-hand account written by a person present for the events, and all terms are his:

On this date in 1976, speakers at a public program in Hartford, Conn., told the history and paid homage to the homosexuals exterminated in the Nazi concentration and labor camps.

A West Hartford resident in the 1970s, I noticed that local Jewish and human rights activists were planning to build a Holocaust memorial, a “Mandala,” in the city. As an activist, I saw an opportunity for inclusion of the homosexuals, about whom testimony and scholarship had begun to emerge.

… We were outsiders to history…

My partner at the time, Michael Jospe, designed the poster for our program, which depicted a swastika emitting flames that were consuming a pink triangle. Michael was a Jewish South African whose parents had fled from Germany in the 1930s, as Michael himself had left his own native country in the 1960s out of disgust with apartheid.

That day remains one of my proudest: This was the first public recognition anywhere in the world of the experience of homosexual repression and extermination in the Holocaust.

Nowhere in there do I see a ‘fun pop symbol.’ I see an intersectional group, including a Jewish gay man whose family had fled Germany in the 1930s, attempting to grapple with community history, and the symbols which are deeply intertwined with that history.

Remember that date: 1976. 

You see, if you go in to donate blood in the United States, you will be asked whether you have ever had sex with a man who has ever had sex with a man – even once – since 1977. Even now, in the United States, a man who has ever had sex with men cannot have had sex with a man within the last year and donate blood. Yes, even if that man has been in a monogamous relationship with the same man since, say, the 1960s. Yes, even if both of the men in question have only ever had sexual contact with each other, and both are HIV-negative. 

Many blood-donation and plasma-donation places still maintain much stricter standards than Federal standards require, so someone like me – AFAB non-binary, partnered with a cis man who has had male partners since 1977 since, you know, we’re both in our early 40s – still can’t donate plasma or blood if those institutions choose to keep to the older standards. 

Why does this matter? Because the pink triangle, so fresh in everyone’s mind as the community grappled with these revelations, became an important part of the imagery around the AIDS crisis, and because that crisis is still ongoing. Serophobia is still not only very active in the LGBTQ community, but literally institutionalized in the United States, far beyond what any medical or practical necessity would dictate. 

While it is estimated that 10,000 pink triangle men were killed in concentration camps, approximately six thousand people died in 2016 – the last year for which we have numbers right now – in the United States from AIDS. Now. When we’ve actually got treatments and therapy  – at least theoretically, the accessibility of medicine in the US is an entire other essay – we still see that many people (again, mostly gay and bisexual men) die every two years. In the first year for which we have reliable numbers, 1987, 13K people died. In 1995, that was 41K. 

Approximately 675,000 Americans have died from AIDS since the beginning of the crisis. Just to put some numbers on the table, so we understand the scale and the scope of what the community was immediately dealing with.

So as a community, we went from ‘dealing with something that had happened twenty years earlier but to which we just now had access, information-wise, and around which we were just starting to put our arms and understand what that meant,’ to a criminal and fucking genocidal lack of attention, research, and belief. Rather than help, we got William F Buckley suggesting that men infected with HIV should be tattooed on the arm… and on the ass, so as to warn other men. Rather than help, we got fucking silence. Rather than help, we died. 

You say those could have been the people who lived in your house before you? I can go to streets in my city and point to buildings and say, ‘here, and here, and here. Here is where they died, and no one would even fucking bury them.’ Never mind that we have an ongoing crisis, particularly in the black and Latino mlm communities in cities like mine, never mind that 10K black mlm are infected in the US every year even now. 

And so the pink triangle became the symbol for the silence of our government and the medical establishment and the horrifying, seemingly-never-stoppable, painful death that followed, and most importantly, our defiance and our anger and our voices in the face of that massive bureaucratic shrug. Keith Haring used the pink triangle in his art about the crisis – at least, until he died from complications of AIDS in 1990. ACT UP used it starting in 1987 – remember, it took ten years for the government, especially under Regan, to even start recording the numbers of our dead reliably. While TIME Magazine was blaming bisexual men for infecting ‘innocent heterosexuals,’ while people we knew and loved were dying and we felt so fucking helpless, we could, at least, not be silent. 

We could take that mark that had meant death, and we could use it to scream in the face of an uncaring system and a virus that kept stealing and stealing from us. 

And it keeps stealing from us. 

I don’t know where you got this ‘fun pop symbol’ nonsense from, and you’re certainly entitled to your feelings, but in the United States that I grew up in, the pink triangle has never been cute, it’s never been fun, it’s never been a ‘pop symbol.’ It’s been the screaming defiance of a community getting murdered by neglect by its own government, it’s been our solemn remembrance of what was done in Europe, it’s been a symbol of our continuity and our strength as we reclaimed it and used it to say stop fucking killing us. 

So, like, I dunno, I guess I just have a different opinion about what it means.

[acreaturecalledgreed]

What is a summoner au?

Summoner AU is my head-playground au that started with JJBA but since my focus has shifted to FMA for the most part (again, people are still welcome to talk to me about jjba!!!! a lot of my jjba followers have stopped talking to me almost entirely : C and i think its b/c they think i dont wanna talk about it anymore)

BUT someone pointed out that i should adapt it for FMA which took some carefule thought b/c FMA is of course a series with a lot more rigid rules in how it works and handles much, much heavier topic matter, but that just makes  it a lot more fun honestly making Summoning work in this world and this au Mesh with it

anyway the brief summation of it is that Summoner AU is an original au of mine (its not based on anything else it was just weird idea that i wanted to play with) thats a sort of variant on your standard monster au though instead of “everyone is monsters” its “monsters exist in this world b/c of human beings who summon them into it, this has a variety of social, environment, political, etc etc ramifications and i ramble endlessly about how the world and the people in it are shaped by this”

it also works rly well with FMA b/c kinda like Alchemy Summoning requires Certain Rules to be followed, but UNLIKE Alchemy its more arbitrary and extremely unpredictable and (seemingly) not really equivalent; so in this au its a branch off or subset of Alchemy, one that many other alchemists find odd at best and outright frustratingly bullshit evil at worst. 

I expanded a teensy bit on how Summoning is handled in the FMA world in this post about dragon!falman and mari lwyd!fuery 

and my tag for the fma summoner au so far is just “#FMA Summoner Au”

if you want to get an idea of the whole thing from its previous/jjba iteration, check out my “#summoner au” tag here where all my content for it is, and i recommend going all the way to the back and reading from the beginning for any level of coherency if you want to read anything in it

though keep in mind if you do that that A LOT of stuff works differently in the FMA version of this au

anyway its a bit strange and super self indulgent but it exists b/c i love designing/drawing monsters and b/c i fucking LOVE worldbuilding and the au is made for me to do those two things specifically in bulk

[bisexualjeanhavoc]

Aye! I know Miles is your husband,,,,, but, , what is your opinion on scar/miles

it’s not a main ship of mine/one i make content for but it’s such a good ship. scar and miles married and they’re mei’s cool dads, it’s canon arakawa told me so

[bettersafethandicks]

Your blog is such a Mood™. Also thank for leaving tags on art I am blessed.

TY IM GLAD IM JUST OUT HERE LOVIN MONSTERS

AND THANK YOU FOR DRAWING SUCH GOOD GOOD GREEDY MANS YOURE SAVING ALL OF OUR LIVES

[allucka]

8 fmask

send me an ask!

8. Most overrated and underrated character?

overrated: UHHHH roy??? yeah. roy. underrated?  m..martel..,, angel

[queeranarchism]

Hey I wanted to ask, since you are called queeranarchism what are your views and concepts of how your ideal anarchism would work exactly? I am genuenly interested and the only one person I know who says he is an anarchist really has no thought out concepts and gets really defensive when I ask questions(he is also a cisstraightwhitedude whose views on queer issues :/). So I would love to read a bit about more thought through concepts! Feel free to link me to any good blogs/posts too, obviously!

Welp, that is a big question. Where to begin? Ideal anarchist justice? Ideal group decision making? An ideal way to handle food production? Relationships? Education? Our relationship to animals and the environment? Technology? Housing? Art? Spirituality? Sex?

Oppression touches every part of our lives and to describe a society in which all of that is dismantled would take a very very very long post. Some of it on topics that I know very little about. So I would rather just recommend my favorite book. It’s online for free:

Peter Gelderloos - Anarchy Works https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

Personally I think anarchism is by nature not so much about the theory of the ideal society and much more about the practical changing the world right now. Creating non-hierarchial places and destroying hierarchial ones. An ideal is a strange distant thing to focus on when there is so much anarchism that we could create in our lives right now. 

When we squad buildings and create living spaces that are not property. When we create communities that don’t rely on trial and punishment to create justice. When we stop a deportation. When we share skills in ways that do not rely on the teacher-student hierarchy. When we keep the streets nazi-free. When we find new ways to support each other and new ways to love each other and new ways to fuck. 

In all these moments we create anarchism, messy, imperfect and so so real. 

If you want to understand anarchism, look at the best friendship you have ever experienced. The one where you always felt like you could be yourselves as equals, where taking decisions together was not about winning, where you never felt obligated to do anything you didn’t want to, where you always helped the other out without asking for a thing in return and always received help when you needed it. Where you would never hurt each other on purpose but always help each other overcome fuckups and unlearn harmful behavior because you understood that people change when they are supported, not when they are punished. Picture that friendship. Chances are, that friendship is already pretty close to an ideal anarchist space. Try to create that lack of hierarchy and lack of coercion everywhere around you, fight for strangers the way you would fight for that friend, and you have anarchism.   

[dashing-hyphen]

Tagged!

Tagged by @eisart. Thank you fren! 1)Name: Em
2) Nickname: Emmy (only my twin calls me that!), that one cryptid that hangs out at the library constantly while stimming, Robin because one of my college friends is a super nerd and so am I and he calls me the Robin to his Batman). 
3) Zodiac Sign: Gemini! 
4) Height: 5'2'' (I am smoll)
5) Ethnicity: American, unfortunately (pls get me out of this hole) 
6) Orientation: hhhhngh. Queer and nonbinary would probs be the best fit, but I also ID as lesbian? It's complicated...
7) Favourite Fruit: APPLES!!! Also plums!
8) Favourite Season: Spring
9) Favourite Book: SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM TOO HARD NEXT QUESTION
11) Favourite Scent: Woodsmoke, like from a fireplace. 
12) Favourite Colour: Red!
13) Favourite Animal(s): Doggos and wolves! 
14) Favourite Beverage: French vanilla black tea by Bigelow's for hot, iced tea or green tea or juice for cold.
15) Hours to Sleep: 11 pm-11 am. My meds put me right out. I also nap wayyyyy too much.
16) Favourite Characters: The Doctor from Doctor Who, the Master from Doctor Who, Dirk Gently from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (like ALL THE CHARACTERS FFROM DIRK GENTLY, HONESTLY), Holly Short, Sherlock from Elementary
17) Blanket Number: 1-3, one is my weighted TARDIS-print blanket made by @chinchillinfloof
19) Follower Number: 182, last I checked! 
20) Blog Created At: No clue, but it's been at least two years. I'm gonna go unorthodox and tag an anon, Shy Guy. Also @natalunasans, @aloof-introvert if you wanna do it, and any people that see this and feel like doing it! Just say I tagged you, I'm low on spoons rn and don't wanna go through the rouge of calling up all you lovely people

[wilnebula]

Umm. How is afrofuturism literally the the coolest thing? And whyyy did I only just learn about it because of Zebra Katz (I love him so much goddd)?!

Anyone post afrofuturism, or Zebra Katz? Also anyone want to recommend books/music/TV shows to me or smth? (I'm not huge on movies)

[eisartdesing]

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[das-wil]

(if you aren't in dark mode, click!)

So I love pixel art lately!

[Image Description :

two pictures of the same pixel art of a Raven Skull with the beak and eye sockets being night themed and the skull being day themed.

In the first image a text scroll wraps around it reading "the only way out is through"

The second one has, instead of the text scroll, a few clouds and a little half moon/sun in the upper left corner that layers rays of sunshine over the skull.]

[vaspider]

I feel I have something valuable to submit to queer discourse. is this still about umbrella terms? I've been doing a lot of reading on queer/LGBT symbols and one article called the community the lavender community and it struck me as very powerful because lavender/purple has been associated with al lot of identities and just not fitting the (western) norms of gender sex and relationships in general and its inoffensive, no one is prioritized and I love it? Can we just be the lavender community?

Unfortunately, lavender has been coopted as a dogwhistle. I wish it hadn’t been, but it has, at least on Tumblr. Every time you see a blog called ‘lavender’ as an indicator for queerness? Tread carefully. It’s probably TERFy in the extreme. 

Sorry. :( 

[acreaturecalledgreed]

7to10?

7: Have tattoos?

none yet!

8: Want any tattoos?

gonna get greed’s ouroburus, also thinking about various characters i love from various series, a shitton of the last unicorn quotes…..

9: Got any piercings?

i have a septum piercing and a daith!

10: Want any piercings?

im going to get my lobes repierced in a few months, and ive thought about a bridge piercing but it might be a hassle with my glasses

honestly i might just keep getting weird holes poked in my ears until i get bored b/c its FUN

[bisexualjeanhavoc]

I follow you because of that one cursed post :) (that's just how I found u I'm sorry, I follow u because u have v good art and good posts and u love Greed and you're very nice 💕)

ssdklls that post made a bunch of people unfollow me, and then there’s you who’s like “ah. yes. this is the content i would like to see on my dash”

send me “i follow you because:”

[d0rbee]

10 and 1 for the ask meme!

It took me a while to find it again 😅 

Side-to-side rocking or back-and-forth rocking?

I almost exclusively rock back-and-forth. It’s one of my favorite stims! 

How does stimming make you feel?

Stimming almost always makes me feel “better.” If I’m happy, it makes me more happy. If I’m upset, it makes me less upset. It’s a pretty nice lil feeling! :D

Thank’s for asking me these cool questions! The stimming ask meme is super cool :D