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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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The global death rate did decline dramatically after Omicron.
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Wow so history really does just run on a 100-year cycle huh. We humans are doomed to make the same mistakes for the rest of time
#first the pandemic#now the titanic#now a coup in Russia????#can history just chill for like a year or two?#how did I forget about all the economic turmoil lol#russia#titanic#oceangate#stock market
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"An honest-to-goodness dollbaby."
(source: The Miami Daily Record-Herald, December 20, 1918.)
#'My Fried Santa Claus'#dear santa#history#kids#1910s#wwi#influenza pandemic#oklahoma#christmas#dang kids
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sure it was a perfect storm of a pressure cooker but i promise destiel was about destiel
#like 2020 was all building towards something. the isolation the pandemic the general uncertainty of day to day life#toss in the heated election and counting process. sure it *couldve* been anything else. but it *wasnt*.#it was destiel. that night there were even other rumours circulating about other shows. another show even had a huge reveal!#but the most widespread and known was destiel because of course it was! because thats what everyone was losing their mind over!#look at the statistics chart of a history of destiel interest over time! i promise the destiel interest is about destiel!#were people all equally invested? no! were some people memeing? yes! but by and large nov 5th became a juggernaut bc of destiel#as someone who literally was refreshing for election news and developed mania from seeing destiel go canon. it was about destiel#sure the intersection of destiel and election results was fun. but i posted way more destiel than election stuff. cause it was about destie#anyway. idk why im on a soapbox#char speaks#destielputinelection#destiel
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THE HISTORY OF PLANDEMICS ‼️‼️‼️
👨🏼🔬🧑🏽⚕️👩🏻⚕️
#history#hidden truths#dirty politics#depopulation agenda#crimes against humanity#mind control#organised crimes#fear mongering#population control#pandemics#truth#please share#wwg1wga
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One thing that's starting to really get to me with the James Somerton stuff is a real strong undercurrent of disdain toward his fans. And yeah, I was one of them. A good scam artist isn't as easy to spot as y'all seem to think. You forget that you have all the information right now. Two days ago most of you had never heard of him and it would have kept going. Anyone can fall for a scam, nobody is immune. I would love to have had whatever resources you guys think we all should magically know about so I could have kept my sad $5 a month I really needed but thought was going to something worthwhile. Some of us can only devote so much energy into things and when you have no idea whatsoever that something is amiss of course you're not going to go digging for sources, why would you when everything is fine as far as you know? I really wish I could have seen the dissenting opinions on him but for many, many reasons that aren't just that the dissenting voices weren't widely circulating at the time all I had was the thought every now and again that "huh that doesn't seem right" and then go on with my day. And I think that happened to a lot of us. So yeah. Say what you gotta say about Somerton, he has more than earned it with the damage he's caused, but maybe don't shit so hard on his former fans because that is going to be you someday with something, it happens to everyone sooner or later.
#james somerton#hbomberguy#todd in the shadows#I really am greatful for Harris and Todd's hard work in exposing all of this#and I am glad I get to see the real voices I did like that james was stealing#I'm just tired of all these people jumping on the drama train taking a dump on folks who are also victims of these crimes#razz rambles#this whole situation is upsetting me in the weirdest ways#I'm distraught but I'm not at the same time#and yet it's 6am and I can't stop reading through the tags and seeing the takes I missed#vaspider's essay and remarks from an AIDS pandemic survivor are especially good#I lived through that shit too but had no idea I was living through it#cuz that's what being blind and impoverished in rural community was like#queer wasn't even something I knew I could be until like 2010#so it's nice to see my own history#it's not just the young queers who have little to no knowledge of our history
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[ID: A set of four gifs from the video, "The Defenestrations of Prague • Puppet History". The first gif is a shot of The Professor overlaid with a vintage computer screen. The screen display has a colorful pixel logo on top that reads, "ALGO-MATIC!" and the center of the screen shows a stylized pixel display of an algorithm, which shows pixel art of Ryan Bergara (labeled "Beef Boy", to the left) and Brian David Gilbert (labeled "B.D.G.", to the right), each floating in front of a trophy. "Scoring" is represented by a jelly bean floating across the screen and landing on each competitors corresponding pixel trophy, to show that they won the category. In the gif, Ryan wins in "Sass" and "Bad Jokes", and Brian wins in "Good Jokes". The second gif is a different shot of the same algorithm computer, which now reads "ANALYSIS COMPLETE / PRINTING" with a celebratory confetti display. A ticket starts printing from a grey box to the right, and on top of the box sits a Puppet History trophy. The third gif is a zoomed-in shot of the ticket printing, where the ticket reads, "WINNER: BRIAN DAVID GILBERT". The fourth and final gif is a shot of The Professor appearing to glitch in and out of reality, looking up to something off-screen, and the gif captions him saying, "Föök". End ID]
#I had to make content about this ep bdg and watcher have been like. my pandemic coping mechanisms#I put on let's make a music while making these lmao#puppet history#puppet history spoilers#ryan bergara#brian david gilbert#watcher entertainment#bdg#watcher#tracking tag#my gifs
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#fossils#covidー19#covid#quarantine#self isolation#archeology#history#pandemic#coronovirus#health#wrong hands#john atkinson#webcomic#humor#funny
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When I watched Todd in the Shadow's 90 minute plus video on James Somerton I didn't expect that I would want to rip Somerton's throat out. I had heard that he'd said stuff about the "boring gays", but when I heard the way he actually said it, I saw red and wanted him dead.
What an utter piece of shit
#james somerton#todd in the shadows#queer rights#those who survived the aids crisis/pandemic aren't boring you fucking shithead#James Somerton shits on queer history#James Somerton is wrong about everything
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From Ancient Rome to the Modern Era, deadly pandemics have threatened multiple civilizations. History teaches us no one is safe, and precautions must be made.
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1000 days of covid.... a reflection... what do you remember?
If I asked many of the memory of covid, it would be toilet paper shortages, the media call to treat nurses and doctors as heroes, lockdowns and social isolation. But there's more, though....
The picture above is of a near bare row of supermarket shelves, with only a few rolls of toilet paper.
My own memories, in general terms, would be:
The curious spread of this flu variant through China and its neighbouring countries. (Via media reports. Plus its rapid rise up the priority reading list for the broadcast reader/ reporter/ news team)
The slow response of most governments to the emerging cases (easy with hindsight)
The tourist ship Ruby Princess docking with (eventually a total of) 22 cases on board, docking in Sydney. No quarantine controls enforced effectively at that point in time. (And Covid had been a thing well reported)
The toilet paper shortages, followed by shortages of pasta, rice, disinfectant and other staple foods from shelves. Never seen so many bare shelves before, except in news reports where people cleaned out stores in the face of cyclones or snow storms.
The growing weirdness of still going to work when others were getting government pay to stay at home. Apart from the driver, there'd be 2 other people on the bus in.
Add in the loneliness and the ghost town feeling of walking through an empty city. Except for the essential food services, so kids could still get you your order of coffee and mcbreakfast.... odd contrast, you'd agree.
Oh, the anger and entitlement of the covid deniers and anti-maskers.
My father in law complained about mask wearing on a flight down from Queensland to visit us. While my wife, a nurse, is donning full personal protective equipment (PPE) to help with patients. He's not entitled, just an oblivious, selfish idiot.
A bit of resentment at those who got the payments to not work, while I was an essential worker, in the finance sector had to work through. Discussing insurance with customers. All of them wanting discounts for (multitude of self justified reasons). That was tiring...
On the 'others staying home' a lot of people were making bread, trying new hobbies, going back to old hobbies, riding bikes to get fit... that only seemed to last 2 months, then it was easier to watch digitally streamed shows...
Oh, the growing gap between those who could afford the digital upgrade to work and/or study from home. And those that couldn't... that gap is bigger, and will show up in a decade or so...
Travel? Yeah, we'd travel from the couch to the kitchen table, work, then we'd travel to the letterbox and then to the couch again. On weekends, some of us would travel to the shed, to mow the lawns as part of the outside world travel.
Then the acceptance, as we waited for the vaccine to be made. Too late for too many in China, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom....
The USA being the most vocal of the anti-maskers and covid deniers. Because of Trump and his idiot approach to the crisis and his vanity.
A few covid conspiracy people I have spoken to, and seen the marches. I don't have time for dealing with these kind of people. Got used to being able to distance myself pretty quickly.
Overall though, I've become a bit more self directed towards entertaining myself (books and going back to the scale hobby of modelling) and fed up with a big insurance company making lots of profit while increasing the consumers insurance bill by about 20% average per year...
And remote studying has become a lonely grind. I am succeeding in my course so far.
Overall, post vaccine roll-out, we've adapted.
It's gone from being "the Chinese flu" (a pejorative term) to the "spicy cough".
So far, I have remained covid free.
And I have science, medicine and society to thank for that.
23 December 2022.
1000 days of covid.
@bundibird @scrapironflotilla thanks for just engaging with this little effort (it will continue)
@tafkarfanfic @bouncinghedgehog your posts helped with hope and morale when things were tough.
I'd invite you to reblog and share your memories, no matter where in the world you are.
#journal#coronavirus#covid19#current events#observations#history happening today#personal#1000#day of covid#pandemic#diary#1000 days of covid
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Back in 2020, the Pope was probably right about Covid.
#nature#virus#covid19#pandemic#history#climate change#earth immune system#nature's responses#pandemic history#2020s decade
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I wonder about the people who claim they were better off four years ago than today. I can't think of anybody who was except maybe nihilists and doomsday religious fanatics.
This is a hospital in my neighborhood early during the pandemic emergency. They needed to put up tents to accommodate the increased number of patients.
On a different day I saw a large truck parked in front of another hospital building. The truck was apparently used to haul away bodies.
Anybody who tells you that the Trump administration was some sort of utopia is a person trying to gaslight you with revisionist history. Calling such people out is the only appropriate response to such individuals. What I saw in 2020 was more like a real life dystopia.
Republicans who endorse Trump want to bring him back so he can create additional disasters.
#donald trump#narcissism#covid-19#pandemic#trump's incompetent pandemic response#republicans#revisionist history#joy reid#election 2024#vote blue no matter who
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bestie… what’s the 600k incomplete merlin fic please drop the title
SO glad you asked and also I misspoke. It is actually 871k. THE HANDS OF A HUNDRED WINTERS by FOURLEGGEDFISH. It is in four parts and you both can and should read it despite being incomplete, I have only read 3/4 parts because I am loathe to part with the reading experience of writing this good. This is both my favourite Merlin fic I've ever read and potentially my favourite longfic I've ever read (though hard to assess when it's incomplete and I haven't read it all as yet). It's AMAZING to me that the author has managed to sustain and even increase my interest over this many words, a feat managed by no other fanfiction I've read longer than 400k words ever (and I read a lot of those!). Don't get me wrong it's not perfect, and I do have minor scruples with some things*! I also don't think it's for everyone, my dear friend didn't like it and found it too dark for her personal tastes. But for ME? SPECIFICALLY FOR ME? To quote something I said to my friends 'wells for boys, lads, wells for fucking boys.' I also think it's so immaculately beautifully written that even if it's not your personal cup of tea you should read it anyway. ALSO the sheer dazzling breadth of research that went into this fic is REMARKABLE. I am not joking when I say this author has achieved everything I want to achieve as a writer in this fic. In many ways this is Ur Merlin Fic. The Once and Future Fic. To Me!
*I have minor scruples with almost every fic I've ever read and frankly remarkable how few scruples occur with a fic on this size. There are also scruples I had with things like tone, characterisation or even sex scenes that were then resolved with plot explanations that made sense a mere half a million words later in a quite satisfying way. This fic is a masterpiece in how it threads things like that through and pays them off very handsomely. I know how much blood sweat and tears goes into creating fanfic and I am overwhelmed by the skill, love and zillions of hours that must have gone into crafting this. Nothing but respect for such an incredible piece of art.
#this is what fanfiction should aspire to be. this is the star by which we should all navigate.#merlin#fic rec#arthur x merlin#ask#anonymous#kira for ts#I cannot say enough about this fic you should see my group chat history about it.#again I do have a few scruples or Things I Would Have Done Slightly Differently but like#what is that in the face of being constantly dazzled by the writing. arrogance I'd say. I only mention it bc as I said#I know it's not for everyone and I will state that upfront#but this is literally like to me. everything I've ever ever ever wanted in a merlin fic#and more!#looking back through my chat log on this fic and to quote me#funny that some people will just come out of covid and write a 800000 word cross-era merlin epic#well we all went through things during the pandemic wish mine was half as productive
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"Public health officials urged calm. This, combined with their overconfidence in modern medicine, led them to downplay the severity of the pandemic. Publications like the British Medical Journal counseled silence and inaction: one editorial said, “When epidemics occur, deaths always happen. Would it not be better if a little more prudence were shown in publishing such reports instead of banking up as many dark clouds as possible to upset our breakfasts?” An editorial in the Manchester Guardian echoed this sentiment: “Terror is a big ally of the influenza, and if the public state of mind can be steered out of the channel of fright a long, long step will have been taken to conquer the epidemic.” Overreaction was frowned upon,"
1918.
via Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
#pandemic#pandemics a very short introduction#book#history#historical#flu#influenza#covid#same shit different century
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