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[mindflamer]

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[alphafight]

❛ ‎ AND ‎ HER ‎ NAME ‎ WAS ‎ JOANNE; ‎ ❜ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ a ‎ web-weave ‎ by ‎ yours ‎ truly; ‎ ‎ ‎ to ‎ be ‎ slowed ‎ down ‎ by ‎ loss ‎ so ‎ that ‎ the ‎ love ‎ can ‎ reach ‎ you, ‎ ‎ ‎ to ‎ outrun ‎ the ‎ world ‎ before ‎ its ‎ cruelty ‎ can ‎ claim ‎ you.

notable credits:

an invisible enemy art by jacopo camagni (2025 panini marvel anthology card #41); bigger than the whole sky by taylor swift; amar jaan by dameer, bangla lyrics translating to 'don't get lost / my love, my life' / time doesn't seem to pass / my life, my love'; various comic panels; various panels taken from pinterest.

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[whatsbehindthefacade]

@songandflame continued from here

Dying was nowhere near as glamorous as the movies made it seem.

Angel wasn't stupid. They were dying. Maybe not this time, though they weren't holding out too much hope, but it would be sooner rather than later. It was a fact that she'd come to terms with a long time ago. And maybe there was a tiny part of her that had hoped to hide that he'd been feeling under the weather from Collins, one last hopeful bid to protect the man he loved from knowledge of the inevitable, but when things had gotten worse instead of better, that hadn't been an option anymore. As it was, Collins had barely left his side, and their other friends were constantly in and out, freshly painted blue nails a sign of Mimi's presence.

Now though even Angel was struggling to find her usual optimism, not with the way every inch seemed to tremble and ache. He was exhausted. Everything hurt. Even the gentle press of a warm washcloth to their forehead seemed to only sooth a little of it. Brown eyes cracked open at the words, so horrifically young, and when they spoke, their voice cracked a little, "H-Hurts..."

[isorottatime]

“gay people didn’t exist the the eighties” takes are like homophobic, duh, but. like. are you also… stupid? do you… not remember? the eighties?? not only did gay people exist back then, i’d say they were a… staple of the decade.

[nic-214]

On November 23rd 1991, exactly 30 years ago today, Freddie announced to the whole world that he had Aids.

For one last time Freddie showed us just how brave and unbelievably strong he was. The reason for the delayed, he was diagnosed in the 80s, was to protect his family and loved ones as much as possible but he did it because he felt that it was time to do so.

Back then AIDS was a shameful disease that only gay men were seen to get. It was even called GRID, "gay-related immunodeficiency".

Everyone was scared of it. No one wanted to touch people bare handed who had it. No one really knew how it was spread.

For Freddie to tell the world of this scary disease showed true bravery and I respect him for that.

Sadly only a day later on the 24th he passed away from AIDS and pneumonia complications. He was only 45. RIP Freddie.

[intersexelphie]

it shocks me when people don't know the aids crisis was entirely manufactured and targeted queerphobia. like how do you really sit there and think, we had no way of knowing and it spread like wildfire and was so uncontrollable umu, while also associating aids with the lgbt+ community by default?

like the irish potato famine was also manufactured but lots of people don't know because not nearly as many people associate famines with ireland, as in like "oh ireland is just prone to famines"

Yeah my understanding is none of the people that could have done something cared until it started getting to cishet folk as well :/ it also dragged gay rights back because I believe things were starting to improve prior to that - obviously we were no longer classified as mentally ill anymore from the 70s - and then AIDS hit :(

[homosandhomies]

Am I the only person in the fandom who does not want Todd’s death to be confirmed?

Like... why would you want that to happen? It’s not just because I care about a fictional character (which is valid but besides the point). AIDS isn’t fictional. It’s not some fun headcanon for a bingo game and it’s not a joke.

If you headcanon that he died from AIDS, that’s fine. With him being so heavily queer-coded, it’s possible. And there’s nothing wrong with having certain headcanons. But the fact that people want it to happen just for funsies sort of makes a mockery of a real crisis that happened only a few decades ago, and that feels so wrong to me.

[nazezdha321]

i just had an argument about this but. i still have thoughts and feelings on this topic so i’m going to post them here. 

if you don’t know, dababy is a famous rapper who made false, insulting, and frankly homophobic comments about gay men and hiv/aids during a massive music festival and was held accountable by some (and cancelled by others) for those comments. 

he stood by his comments at first, and then later apologized and said he had been educated. 

i am not advocating for cancel culture. i do not think that cancel culture is a good thing. but there’s a line between cancelling someone and holding them accountable, and dababy - regardless of his apologies - needs to be held accountable. he’s already been dropped by several music festivals and publicly called out by several artists, but professional consequences aren’t the only ones he should face. 

i’m glad that he got educated. i’m glad that he was decent enough to apologize instead of ignoring it. 

but how is he actively making reparations with queer communities? has he talked to survivors of the hiv/aids crisis? does he have any idea about the trauma that caused our community, does he have any idea about the trauma that queer kids are facing when they learn about this stuff? does he feel remorse for saying that and hurting people or does he feel remorse because the world did not find his remarks nearly as hilarious as he did? does he realize that an entire generation of queer people were systematically wiped out because of an intentional prevention of education and healthcare and a lack of compassion and kindness and widespread propaganda that told people to be afraid of their gay neighbors? does he know that men were not allowed to say goodbye to their boyfriends and does he know that legal adults who were really just kids were disowned by their families and left with no one to come and bury them once they died, alone and in pain and afraid? does he understand that when i was taught about hiv/aids in school, i was not taught about the hiv/aids crisis, and when i was taught about hiv/aids in school, my teacher nearly referred to it as the gay disease before stopping himself? does he know about people who have hiv/aids and have been subject to that harassment and trauma even though they aren’t queer? does he understand? did he listen to our stories? “educated” is a very loose term. is he sorry or is he saving face? 

so i need y’all to stop talking about cancel culture every time someone is held accountable, and start fucking talking about how they can do better. people learn from their mistakes, but it’s necessary to remind them that those mistakes still hurt people. dababy apologized. he said got educated. his comments still hurt people.

i do not want to end his career or cancel him. but i want him to use his platform to do more than apologize. i want him to become an advocate for queer people. i want him to encourage politicians to give us actual sex ed. i want him to talk about the anti-trans bills that everywhere. i want him to donate to queer charities. i want him to teach his fans and millions of followers on social media about the hiv/aids crisis. i want there to be more acknowledgement of our history and our blood by cishet people. i want there to be more acknowledgement of our memorials and our graveyards and our trauma. and i want cishet people to shut the fuck up when it comes to homophobic and transphobic comments, because those are not theirs to forgive.