#queer archive work

[juleshroom]

My new zine, ZINEFEST BOYFRIEND is now available online!

Order your physical riso printed copy at justrightzines.com or a digital pdf version @ justright.itch.io/zinefest-boyfriend! You will receive a 16 page zine & a companion paper doll.

ZFBF will also be featured in the Binch Press x Queer.Archive.Work print CSA fall share, you can subscribe today here! CSA subscribers will directly support our cooperative studio and receive bundles of zines & prints every season!

Z.F.B.F. (Zine Fest Boyfriend) is a dating adventure zine starring a cute anthro wolfboy and you, the reader! Z.F.B.F. is told through a combination of comics and pages inspired by dating sims, JRPGs, and other eclectic digital interfaces. You will have several prompts to draw yourself & other imagery throughout the story if you feel so inclined!

💙💙💙

[oldtvandcomics]

Frankly, if you like classic literature and/or fairy tales (and speak well enough French), then this book is a Must. It collects four stories written by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau de Murat, one of the 17th century noble ladies who were writing fairy tales in France. They used those stories to engage with their lived realities, for example, speaking up against arrange marriages was a recurring theme.

Anyway, one of them was a lesbian. That is Madame de Murat. The stories in this book are not explicitly queer, for the obvious reason of being written in the 17TH CENTURY, but the subtext is definitely there, plus you get a biography of the author.

It is a short book, interesting read, and I love it SO MUCH to see one of the conteuses get some recognition. It is beyond time that we start reprinting the stories of these women.

[fiotrethewey]

So...

@georgiacooked and I are working on an audio drama together, a queer/trans gothic horror road trip, inspired by Dracula and the Magnus Archives, told over found footage and collected evidence as our main characters deal with the true aftermath of what happened to the Crew of Light in Transylvania over a hundred years ago.

It's a story that will span over three series, roughly 7 episodes per series - at 30-35 mins long per episode.

We want to ask you guys, the wonderful people of Tumblr, what sort of rewards you would be looking for to help fund our audio drama as we want to make sure our cast and crew are paid fairly. Current Reward Ideas include (in order of expense): A pin / merch related to the story Postcards of certain scenes Shooting Scripts (Transcripts will be made available) Named after a character A small cameo Associate Producer Credit

Firstly, would this interest you? Secondly, what sort of rewards do YOU want to see? Any feedback or support would be amazing!

[astriiformes]

Satisfying/entertaining day to be a Minnesotan

[ironyscleverer]

Hey. Shout out to all the aro/ace/demi fanfic writers. Y’all are fkn carrying. Your characters have complicated interpersonal relationships that aren’t merely defined by their romantic or platonic labels. You get it.

[muppet-rabies]

First time posting art on here being so brave rn. This is a wip, but I’m very happy with it so far and I wanted to share :]

[juleshroom]

HEY!! my studio is raising funds for improving our space for accessibility needs. we're raffling off a bunch of cool things, including 2 pet portrait slots by me!

☆ 10$ per raffle entry

☆ goes on until 7/28

☆ more info on our instagram post over here!

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

The villain of my first book seems really clever and calculating at first. But I know the rest of the series. And it immediately becomes obvious once you know the plot of like books two and three that this woman has ONE move. And somehow it ALWAYS FUCKING WORKS.

[onepeaceman]

been searching for a soul mate my whole life.

been destroying and recreating my self .. my whole life.

I just want to be physically, mentally, and spiritually attracted to someone 100% and for them to feel the same about me.

my experiences with humanity has been.. very so so.

I became aware of the darkest shit too young, from experience and research.

the mundane and the otherworldly.

..

most women I've found myself attracted to physically were self absorbed, inconsiderate, emotionally unavailable or abusive. even physically abusive.

I haven't been with many women. thankfully.

even so. I listen to the experiences others have. I look at the history...

people are sick - physically, mentally, and spiritually - for many reasons.

some of those things are completely outside of their control and there is little to no help for it. only mitigation.

some of those things are within our control. but it is still so hard, depending upon circumstances and constitution we must fight (of ourselves or others')

to be a better or healthier person is something everyone, I think, strives for. many of us have some inkling of what we could be

but so often, our differences and similarities are held against us. are compared unfairly. are warped by a culture that would see us dead.

...

...

it is hard to love, to trust, or to communicate in this world.

I am neurodivergent. I have always been odd. weird. an outsider (even among other outsiders)

but if I told people I am audhd, cptsd, have anxiety? that I am disabled?

no. that simply cannot be. it must be some character flaw. something that is my fault.

...

I've taken more responsibility than is my due.

I've been more understanding than I should be.

yet many would not give me that same consideration.

...

I am tired.

[lilbittymonster]

Hi!! For the author ask game:

4- What are some words or phrases you feel like you overuse?

17- What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?

26- Do you ever "prep" your fics with outlines or warmups before you start writing, or do you just dive right in?

What are some words or phrases you feel like you overuse?

I don't know that there's any one word used more than others, but I definitely have a habit of starting a sentence with [Adverb], [clause] a lot. "Distantly" and "vaguely" are two I find myself using a lot and so I try to either sub them out for something else or rewrite the sentence entirely to put it somewhere else.

What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?

I'm slowly getting less and less trepidatious about posting explicit works. The current big project is going to contain a fair bit, and I'm still not quite happy with what I've written so far, but dipping my toes in and practising with little oneshots is getting easier each time.

Do you ever "prep" your fics with outlines or warmups before you start writing, or do you just dive right in?

Not usually, no. I will have a general idea of where I want to go with the fic and what specific plot beats I want to hit, but everything else is very much fluid in between. The phrase "no plan survives contact with the enemy" comes to mind often while writing lmao. I have only ever written out a start-to-finish outline one (1) time and that fic is still languishing in forever-wip-land.

I also lowered my daily word count goal from 500 to 200, which is about what I was hitting when I was doing the September writing challenge, and that's what I can comfortably do in about half an hour or so. There's a lot less pressure of "gotta make the word count", which I can then use to actually think about what I want to be writing. Or at least some scene I can pick at a few dozen words at a time, if I'm not feeling particularly inspired by anything at the time.

Thank you so much for the asks @queer-omens-in-the-archives

Author Asks

[astriiformes]

Happy Pride specifially to the incredibly sweet older gay man who started chatting with me at the history pavilion, saying it was so good to see a young person interested in studying our history and then started telling me stories for a good half hour about the queer scene in the Twin Cities in the 70s and a dear friend of his who died from AIDs who he sewed a memorial quilt square for 😭

[longtallglasses]

Artist Jackie Kirk with the subjects of her one-woman show, The Face of AIDS, that showed at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco in 1991.

Virtually unknown at the time, she was among the first to artistically address the AIDS crisis, specifically in the Bay Area.

“What made the series unique is that Kirk painted a self-portrait after each time she painted a dying AIDS victim. They hung side by side in the gallery to reflect what she felt while staring into the eyes of a dying man.” 

“Perhaps some people may approach this show with fear,” she wrote in her artist’s statement for the historic show. “They may think it is about death. It is not. I am painting courage and strength. It is, above all, about life.” 

Jackie painted and created prolifically throughout her life; she passed away on June 25, 2021. (credit) (credit)

[casimirt]

Dear Viewers,

Here is an angel I drew a few years ago in a Book of Shadows I wrote. This is how I think Aziraphale and Crowley's raw angel form might look.

I have more jounal art, and it has low-key Magnus Archive vibes, which is cool because at the point of writing/illustrating it I didn't know about TMA at the time.

[fmth3rd]

*Holds you at gunpoint* Who are your OCs NOW!

/inhale

Okay I have a lot, here are a few of my favorites

Here is my AO3, minors please dni

Emery (20) is a cyber stalker who sells home security footage as p#rn to stalkers. He is 100% a douche bag character that I wrote to hate on traumatized dudebros who make everything wrong with their life some poor woman's problem. Emery gets what's coming to him in this story.

Bonus picture of Emery bc he deserves to suffer

Elias (18) is a young human-alien hybrid known as an Arkling who recently had his memory wiped in favor of the Foundation taking advantage of his Gifts. It's not finished but it's so close, and I plan to pick up on it soon.

Elias is my sweet baby boy and he deserves good things but I torture him bc he represents my struggle as an autistic person with the USA school and employment systems, as well as the crushing pressure to add up to my father's expectations 💁🏻

Shane (27) is a recovering drug addict whose life spirals out of control after his insurance cuts him off. A dead god watching him coerces him to take his life back into his own hands. This sends Shane down a path for revenge which causes his troubled past to come back to haunt him.

I haven't written the story all the way out but it's been in progress for like a decade so. He's a consistent character.

Close up of an old picture bc I haven't drawn him in forever, and cropped to exclude triggers

The Perfume Lady is a Dead God who entraps victims by promising them people and things they desire painfully. She is canonically transfeminine. She perpetuates her mortality by stealing the body parts and souls of others which she is able to trick or victimize. Her story is not available yet either.

That's all for now. I want to draw again soon, the muse just hasn't been right °^°!!

Thank you for inquiring about some of my babies 😩🫶🏻

[genuflecting]

Something I haven't seen discussed in queer theory or gender studies is the direct overlap between "passing" and respectability politics.

The concept of passing shattered for me when I realized that my cis friends of color, size, and disability were also struggling to be gendered correctly, and pressured to make changes to try to conform to an ideal construct in order to gain this privilege.

Our current Western concept of gender is built around these axes in such an inextricable way that any marker of deviation from this is seen as an outing, and anyone who was not born into the random circumstances of whiteness, thinness, and able bodiedness is forced to either attempt to change themselves, or accept a level of marginalization as if it is their own fault and choice and not that of the larger system.

The advice to trans men to respond to someone asking their pronouns by reacting like an ignorant cis man with "uh, I'm a guy" is the perfect example of an attempt to earn cis acceptance by throwing trans peers under the bus.

When I did trans voice therapy with a gay speech therapist and found ways to bring out a more masculine voice and started sounding more "manly" than him, and then started seeing my gay therapist and realized that when I unmasked our voices sounded the same, would my advice to him experiencing marginalization be to lower his voice in a revival of mid-century gay respectability politics? If not, then why would I do that to myself?

As much as I would love to wake up and go through a single day where everyone sees and understands me for who I am, I am ultimately not in control of that, and paradoxically would be sacrificing who I actually am in a self destructive attempt to chase that impossibility.