#androgynos

[yridenergyridenergy]

Ultra high quality scans of Toshiya's pages in the ANDROGYNOS -The Final War- Day 1 pamphlet

Please do not repost these scans anywhere and consider simply linking to this post instead.

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[strongbabe2907]

Next is our fearless leader, Kaoru :) I got the bromide cards with him which are the two extra horizontal pictures. Feel free to use the scans, credit would be nice :)

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[npd-vriska]

input needed from queer jews

i'm trying to make a new tumtum flag since the current one doesn't seem right to me, here's my proof of concept

symbolism behind it: the blue and white stripes on the side obviously represent judaism, and reference tzitzit specifically. i chose to reference tzitzit because i wear my grandfather's, and see it as a representation of tradition and our ancestors. the broad white stripe in the middle is to make it look more like traditional jewish embroidery.

the broad grey stripes represent tumtum identity, as grey is an "ambiguous lack of colour" the same way tumtum people ambiguously lack identifiable male or female characteristics.

my idea for this would be that the grey in my tumtum flag could be substituted for other colours to represent the other classical jewish sexes/gender falling outside the current western binary (ideas: pink for saris, blue for ay'lonit, purple for androgynos?)

i would like any input y'all might have on this!

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2024/05/26 Androgynos talk notes

Toshiya has a long history with Aiji, living very close to each other as kids. 

Toshiya approached Pierrot to ask if he could be their roadie, and helped them out a lot, sometimes stayed at their hangout/Pierrot house(?) 

Toshiya remembers telling Aiji how he was apparently sleeping with Aiji's girlfriend. He actually wasn't, it was a rumour fans had made up due to the crazy fan rivalry. 

Kaoru remembers going to see Pierrot at Namba Rockets, it was a Pierrot/Lareine taiban. Aiji was suprised to hear Kaoru actually bought a ticket and went, instead of being invited. Kaoru says its just cause he was really curious to check out new bands whenever he could, to find out for himself what was up. 

Kaoru remembers meeting Aiji and not liking him at first, because he had responded indifferently when Kaoru tried to greet him.

The first Androgynos was suggested by Dynamite Tommy after he had heard that 'unnamed third parties were trying to do something similar with Pierrot'(?), but Kaoru and Aiji had talked about doing something like this hypothetically a number of times in the past.  

Toshiya was skeptical that Pierrot would want to do it when he first heard the idea. 

Toshiya remembers trying to go and say hi to Kirito on the day of the first Androgynos, but Pierrot's manager wouldn't let him see him (Kirito swears its only because he was asleep at the time)

Joe asks what songs of each others the members want to hear in October. Kirito says Zan, and Aiji says The Devil in Me. Kaoru says there is a high chance they will play new material. Toshiya says he wants to hear Dracula or Mangetsu. Kirito replies that they have recently said on twitter that they won't play Dracula anymore. The others laugh at the coldness of this response. Kaoru is adamant that he wants to hear Sepia, simply because he likes that song. Kirito is surprised that a member of Dir en grey would like such a song. 

They then talk about the sub-title 'Censors kill the word. Hypocrites spread morphine from the stage'. Kaoru says he never considers censorship when he makes anything, if it gets censored, so be it. He gives an example of how a severed head got censored from one of their cd covers once. 

Kirito thinks censorship is actually important so artists can challenge themselves more as they try to counter/get around it. 

Kirito mentioned throughout the broadcast that his butt was hurting (I guess cause the chair was too hard), so Kaoru later tweeted about having Androgynos cushions.

[alienorchids]

DIR EN GREY x PIERROT in MIND-V Vol. 04, 2017

[yridenergyridenergy]

HD scans of Dir en grey's snippets in the ANDROGYNOS -The Final War- schedule notebook, featuring their looks from the first edition of ANDROGYNOS.