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trytogethappy

the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel

colorized by me

tigerleggies-deactivated2019121

Never forget 🏳️‍🌈😔

toddreu-deactivated20191220

OP you did a beautiful job colourising these shots

prismatic-bell

Notice how OP says “colorized?”

I want to remind you this was the eighties. THE EIGHTIES. Color cameras existed. Color VIDEO CAMERAS existed.

Someone put these in black and white to make them seem long ago and far away.

OP is returning them to their proper place in history: ONLY TWO GENERATIONS AGO.

zeldahime

that’s not fair to gideon mendel, the photographer who took those photos in 1993. he took them in black-and-white even though color cameras were available, yes, but not to “make them seem long ago and far away”. he was photographing in black-and-white so they would be taken seriously.

mendel is still documenting and lifting up the voices of people who live with hiv/aids in the project “through positive eyes”.

if mendel hadn’t taken these photographs, we wouldn’t have a record of these patients and the ends of their lives at all. it was extremely unusual for aids wards to let photographers in, and the patients took a risk in letting mendel photograph them and their loved ones.

rest in peace, andré, steven, and john.

heedra

i’ve mixed cranberry mikes harder and cucumber lime gatorade into a drink i like to call “the flavor” because like. you drink this shit and your tongue is like “there’s a taste here. you are experiencing a flavor” but when you go to open the door there’s no flavor there. it comes back with an undefined error in the flavor column. it’s the missingno of flavors. it so absolutely and definitely tastes like something and that thing is nothing.

xgutter-glitterx

im going to make this brb

xgutter-glitterx

okay so i found a gas station that had the stuff so i made it

diagnosis: it tastes?

tenorgender

this post reminds me of that one time a coldstone employee i knew by the name of jacob fucked up the ratios or something on a watermelon yogurt sorbet and produced an ice cream that genuinely tasted like nothing. not bland not water but nothing - like, the texture was perfect, your mouth reacted as if it was slightly tangy like most sorbets, but you actually tasted nothing at all. and if you mixed it with something it didn’t taste like 100% the other flavor either, it tasted like 50% that flavor and 50% nothing. like a distinct and identifiable lack of taste. my brain trying to comprehend the total absence of flavor became so overwhelming that i quit ¾ of the way into one scoop. we called it the jacob’s special and every day i long for its return

aanakin

Henderson told me you were a badass. Insisted on the matter, in fact.

mephostophilis

they call me cultured

mephostophilis

on account of all the bacteria

eye-of-yelough

Just got my top surgery done at Anders’ Clinic ✨😍

theoreocat

Random acts of Pudding.

detectivehole

walking up to random doors and tugging on them and saying "i can't. it's locked" out loud to no one to fulfill my dreams of being an adventure game protagonist

randynewmansjungle

lake-erie

samimarkart

redrew and painted this today based off a drawing I recently found that i made when i was little. I’ve always loved bugs!

beardedmrbean

perennial-lee

Anti-revenge narrative this, anti-revenge narrative that, I personally think that Inigo Montoya had the right idea when he stabbed Count Rugen in the gut and said "I want my father back, you son of a bitch"

galwednesday

A lot of revenge arcs end with the hero saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so me seeking revenge is pointless." The Princess Bride's revenge arc ends with Inigo Montoya saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you."

Finally did a full readthrough of Octopus Pie for the first time in mannny years and I’m both satisfied and a little emotional.