#queer archive work

[juleszuckerberg]

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

[onepeaceman]

Venmo: @torchport

Cashapp: $onepeaceman

Gofundme: https://gofund.me/3daa990b

@sundemonlord -- my OG account, has been UNshadowbanned.

Haven't gone back yet to check.

But I'll be using both of these blogs.

That one will probably have a wider range of stuff on it.

This will be the more personalized one.

For all those who have reblogged and donated:

Thank you.

Your help has meant the world to me.

You've helped me and I am grateful from the bottom of my heart.

For you. For existing and not shying away from a person in need -- a stranger at that.

For your parents, ancestors, and whatever deities you may believe in. For surely they had a hand in bringing you to this point. In maturing you.

For you, again. I hope that your journey is much easier and that everything that you need and want comes to you. I pray that whatever happens, your life is more filled with peace and satisfaction.

May you find who you are, where you belong, and what you're meant to do.

If you have everything you need.. I pray that you have a wonderful surprise of another blessing.

Thank you.

For those of you who have turned me away, whether out of ignorance, apathy, or some other vice?

I pray that the darkness may be lifted from your life, your love, your body, mind and soul. I pray that you too get what you need and want -- and that those things do not harm you or others.

Everyone's kindness or lack thereof has helped me grow and confront my own darkness. And I have found more light for it.

(PS been reading more of the Quran lately too. Seems to be having a calming effect. Tho that may be my audhd being pleased with my special interest being appeased as well)(special interest is spirituality, psychology, and philosophy -- there is much to learn from the belief and mind of man)

[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 :]

[sundemonlord]

Demi Human/God

If it were up to me, I wouldn't rely on people like I have to now.

I wouldn't be dependent upon others for my necessities. To live my life.

But nothing in nature exists alone. Everything has a counterpart, a compliment, a reflection.

I'm mixed Black and Greek. I was the only brown person in my immediate biological family. I was a stud lesbian -- there's a marked difference between being a masc brown lesbian than there is being white. Now I'm a trans man who is queer and weird af.

I'm gold colored. Light enough to gain privilege due to colorism. Dark enough to be seen as a nigger anyway.

I'm conventionally attractive. Except now I have a horrible skin condition caused by my anxiety meds.

I prefer my face looking like raw meat, tbh. It's more comfortable than only being perceived as a pretty face and people getting the wrong idea in that direction.

I'm always tired. Always angry. Always full of fear.

Because this world and its people have been mostly unkind to me. Though there have been enough rays of sunshine for me to keep a torch lit for humanity and its potential.

I can write. I can draw. I can sing. I can dance(?) I have a natural athlete's aptitude for most physical activities, including but not limited to:

martial arts

soccer

lacrosse

basketball

longboarding

archery (new!)

swimming (hella strong swimmer actually)

climbing (been a while since I climbed anything tbh)

Weightlifting

I've saved my own life a half dozen times just by virtue of having the mental, physical, and spiritual strength, reflexes, and resolve to do so.

I've done a bunch of different work in my short -- but also very very long -- time on this planet. From retail and restaurants to warehouse and manufacturing. I learned by dealing (poorly) with my disabilities and circumstances that I was highly capable of adapting and learning.

I learned how to deal with people, despite not being a people person.

I learned how to deal with machines, despite not being mechanically inclined.

I'm learning how to live in this world, even now, despite not being suited towards it.

Obviously, I am not suited towards it. Otherwise I'd have more to show for it than .. experience which has left me wise and exhausted. Wise enough to know how much I don't know and exhausted enough that I don't want to continue.

Yet I am compelled to continue. By forces within and outside of me which I cannot deny or ignore.

My entire existence has been colored by the spiritual and supernatural nature of reality. It has also always been subject to the mundane bullshit minorities like me have to put up with. Have been putting up with for hundreds of years now.

If it was up to me, this world wouldn't exist.

If it was up to me, this world would be infinitely better than it is currently.

If it was up to me, I wouldn't be asking strangers for help.

Especially considering the past, present, and possible future of all these things.. how it's looking, as of now?

Yeah, if I had the power/money, I would be an avenger level threat. If I had the resources so much would be different.. it would be like a fantasy more than anything.

But I have to ask people for help and for money.

Because people cannot be normal about my existence or of those like mine.

Because people won't hire someone like me.

Because this world sucks more than I ever could. And many of the people in it do, too.

So, if you've made it this fucking far, I'd really appreciate a hand.

It would be nice to never have to ask for help again.

But. Well. What did God make creation for anyway? What sort of life would we have if nothing was so interrelated and dependent on one another? Without beautiful diversity such as this?

It would be no Life at all.

venmo: @torchport

cashapp: $onepeaceman

Edit: if you think I'm NOT disabled bc of what I've wrote here CONGRATS you're wrong!

I've got a lot of shit wrong with me and my mind/body has been beaten into the ground by me/others denying the fact I'm disabled

Continuing into the present day!

Edit II: there's a lot of shit I haven't written here about what I know and what I'm capable of. What I've experienced and what I've learned.. Tbh at this point I don't see much use sharing what I've created or more of myself than this bc most people have shown me they don't accept me BC OF THEIR OWN HANGUPS

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

[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.

[juleszuckerberg]

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!

[sualne]

"was looking for old one piece videos i watched as a kid. op alice human sacrifice. op bad apple & popipo & carameldansen ect." EXCUSE ME WHAT. i am pretty new to the fandom (~2 years),please share the ancient texts

i doubt any of these are the og videos and are more likely nico nico douga repost on youtube but there you go, some one piece ancient texts:

alice human sacrifice, idk how old you are but back in early 10s ppl would redo the og ahs video/song with any fandom, i remember seeing one for bleach too back then, i loooved that song!

caramelldansen, a classic.

bad apple, i remember watching it before i even had seen the sabaody arc i was confused as to whom was supposed to be who!

popipo, there are multiple old ones! there are also all very low quality.

brook yohohoho [freak-techno], i loved it sm, thought it had been lost to the ages but someone found it back for me!!

one piece in 6 minutes amv, first saw it on dailymotion 12 or so years ago, i finally found it again! and i understand english now too so thats double cool, i remember thinking it was the most epic video i'd ever seen as a kid!

that's the most surface level stuff ive got for now, hopefully that'll do it! edit: those are video ive seen about 12years ago cause that's when i got into one piece! but there are plenty that are older yet!

bonus this one: the 11 supernova

[my-deer-friend]

No nonfiction book has ever quite so profoundly laser-targeted me with grief as Remigiusz Ryziński's Foucault in Warsaw. Phenomenal and absolutely devastating book.

If you are interested in 20th century queer culture and history, I can't possibly recommend it enough. But beware.

[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 😭

[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.

[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)